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Ezechiël第12章

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1 Verder geschiedde des HEEREN woord tot mij, zeggende:

2 Mensenkind! gij woont in het midden van een wederspannig huis, dewelke ogen hebben om te zien, en niet zien, oren hebben om te horen, en niet horen, want zij zijn een wederspannig huis.

3 Daarom gij, mensenkind, maak u gereedschap van vertrekking; en vertrek bij dag voor hun ogen; en gij zult vertrekken van uw plaats tot een andere plaats voor hun ogen; misschien zullen zij het merken, hoewel zij een wederspannig huis zijn.

4 Gij zult dan uw gereedschap bij dag voor hun ogen uitbrengen, als het gereedschap dergenen, die vertrekken; daarna zult gij in den avond uitgaan voor hun ogen, gelijk zij uitgaan, die vertrekken.

5 Doorgraaf u den wand voor hun ogen, en breng daardoor uw gereedschap uit.

6 Voor hun ogen zult gij het op de schouders dragen, in donker zult gij het uitbrengen; uw aangezicht zult gij bedekken, dat gij het land niet ziet; want Ik heb u den huize Israels tot een wonderteken gegeven.

7 En ik deed alzo, gelijk als mij bevolen was; ik bracht mijn gereedschap uit bij dag, als het gereedschap dergenen, die vertrekken; daarna in den avond doorgroef ik mij den wand met de hand; ik bracht het uit in donker, en ik droeg het op den schouder voor hun ogen.

8 En des morgens geschiedde het woord des HEEREN tot mij, zeggende:

9 Mensenkind, heeft niet het huis Israels, het wederspannig huis, tot u gezegd: Wat doet gij?

10 Zeg tot hen: Alzo zegt de Heere Heere: Deze last is tegen den vorst te Jeruzalem, en het ganse huis Israels, dat in het midden van hen is.

11 Zeg: Ik ben ulieder wonderteken; gelijk als ik gedaan heb, alzo zal hun gedaan worden; zij zullen door wegvoering in de gevangenis heengaan.

12 En de vorst, die in het midden van hen is, zal het gereedschap op den schouder dragen in donker, en hij zal uitgaan; zij zullen door den wand graven, om hem daardoor uit te brengen; hij zal zijn aangezicht bedekken, opdat hij met het oog de aarde niet zie.

13 Ik zal ook Mijn net over hem uitspreiden, dat hij in Mijn jachtgaren gegrepen worde; en Ik zal hem brengen in Babylonie, het land der Chaldeen; ook zal hij dat niet zien, hoewel hij daar sterven zal.

14 En allen, die rondom hem zijn tot zijn hulp, en al zijn benden zal Ik in alle winden verstrooien; en Ik zal het zwaard achter hen uittrekken.

15 Alzo zullen zij weten, dat Ik de HEERE ben, wanneer Ik hen onder de heidenen verspreiden en hen in de landen verstrooien zal.

16 Doch Ik zal van hen weinige lieden doen overblijven van het zwaard, van den honger en van de pestilentie; opdat zij al hun gruwelen vertellen onder de heidenen, waarhenen zij komen zullen, en zij zullen weten, dat Ik de HEERE ben.

17 Daarna geschiedde het woord des HEEREN tot mij, zeggende:

18 Mensenkind, gij zult uw brood eten met beven, en uw water zult gij met beroerte en met kommer drinken.

19 En gij zult tot het volk des lands zeggen: Alzo zegt de Heere Heere, van de inwoners van Jeruzalem, in het land Israels: Zij zullen hun brood met kommer eten, en hun water zullen zij met verbaasdheid drinken, omdat hun land woest zal worden van zijn volheid, vanwege het geweld van al degenen, die daarin wonen;

20 En de bewoonde steden zullen woest worden, en het land zal een wildernis zijn; en gij zult weten, dat Ik de HEERE ben.

21 Wederom geschiedde het woord des HEEREN tot mij, zeggende:

22 Mensenkind, wat is dit voor een spreekwoord, dat gijlieden hebt in het land Israels, zeggende: de dagen zullen verlengd worden, en al het gezicht zal vergaan?

23 Daarom zeg tot hen: Alzo zegt de Heere Heere: Ik zal dit spreekwoord doen ophouden, dat zij het niet meer ten spreekwoord gebruiken zullen in Israel. Maar spreek tot hen: De dagen zijn nabij gekomen, en het woord van ieder gezicht.

24 Want geen ijdel gezicht zal er meer wezen, noch vleiende waarzegging, in het midden van het huis Israels.

25 Want Ik ben de HEERE, Ik zal spreken; het woord, de tijd zal niet meer uitgesteld worden; want in uw dagen, o wederspannig huis, zal Ik een woord spreken, en hetzelve doen, spreekt de HEERE HEERE.

26 Verder geschiedde het woord des HEEREN tot mij, zeggende:

27 Mensenkind, zie, die van het huis Israels zeggen: Het gezicht dat hij ziet, is voor vele dagen, en hij profeteert van tijden, die verre zijn.

28 Daarom zeg tot hen: Alzo zegt de Heere Heere: Geen Mijner woorden zullen meer uitgesteld worden; het woord, hetwelk Ik gesproken heb, dat zal gedaan worden, spreekt de Heere Heere.

   

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Apocalypse Revealed#880

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880. Jerusalem in the Word means the church because the Temple and altar were there in the land of Canaan and nowhere else, and sacrifices were made there. Thus it was the focus of Divine worship. The three annual feasts were accordingly also celebrated there, and every male throughout the land was commanded to attend them. For that reason Jerusalem symbolizes the church with respect to worship, and so also the church with respect to doctrine, inasmuch as worship is prescribed by doctrine and is conducted in accordance with it.

Jerusalem means the church, too, because the Lord was there and taught in its temple, and later glorified His humanity there.

That Jerusalem means the church with respect to its doctrine and consequent worship is apparent from many passages in the Word. As for example, from these verses in Isaiah:

For Zion's sake I will not keep silent, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest, until her righteousness goes forth as a radiance, and her salvation as a burning lamp. Then gentiles shall see your righteousness, and all kings your glory. You shall also be called by a new name, which the mouth of the Lord will proclaim. And you shall be a crown of glory in the hand of Jehovah, and a royal jewel 1 in the hand of your God... ...Jehovah will delight in you, and your land shall be married.

Behold, your salvation is coming; behold, His reward is with Him... And they shall call them a holy people, the redeemed of Jehovah; and you shall be called a city sought out, not forsaken. (Isaiah 62:1-4, 11-12)

[2] The subject in that chapter is the Lord's advent and a new church to be established by Him. This new church is the church meant by Jerusalem, which shall be called by a new name that the mouth of Jehovah will proclaim; which will be a crown of glory in the hand of Jehovah and a royal jewel 1 in the hand of God; in which Jehovah will delight; and which shall be called a city sought out and not forsaken. This does not mean the Jerusalem inhabited by Jews when the Lord came into the world, for that Jerusalem was of a totally opposite character. It was rather to be called Sodom, as it also is called in Revelation 11:8, Isaiah 3:9, Jeremiah 23:14, and Ezekiel 16:46, 48.

[3] Elsewhere in Isaiah:

...behold, I am creating a new heaven and a new earth; the former shall not be remembered... Be glad and rejoice forever in what I am creating. ...behold, I am creating Jerusalem to be an exultation, and her people a joy, that I may exult over Jerusalem and rejoice over My people... Then the wolf and the lamb shall feed together... They shall not do evil... in all My holy mountain... (Isaiah 65:17-19, 25)

In this chapter, too, the subject is the Lord's advent and a church to be established by Him, one that was not established among the people in Jerusalem but among people elsewhere. Consequently that church is the one meant here by Jerusalem, which will be an exultation to the Lord and whose people will be a joy to Him, where the wolf and lamb will feed together, and the people will not do evil.

As in the book of Revelation, we are told here also that the Lord will create a new heaven and a new earth, and that He will create Jerusalem, which have similar symbolic meanings.

[4] Elsewhere in Isaiah:

Awake, awake! Put on your strength, O Zion; put on your beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city! For the uncircumcised and the unclean shall no longer come to you. Shake yourself from the dust, arise; sit down, O Jerusalem! ...Therefore My people shall know My name... in that day; for it is I who speaks: behold, it is I. ...Jehovah has comforted His people, He has redeemed Jerusalem. (Isaiah 52:1-2, 6, 9)

The subject in this chapter is also the Lord's advent and the church to be established by Him. Therefore the Jerusalem into which the uncircumcised and the unclean shall no longer come, and which the Lord will redeem, means the church, and Jerusalem, the holy city, means the church with respect to doctrine from the Lord and concerning the Lord.

[5] In Zephaniah:

Shout, O daughter of Zion! Be glad... with all your heart, O daughter of Jerusalem! ...The King of Israel... is in your midst; fear evil no longer! ...He will rejoice over you with gladness, He will rest in your love, He will exult over you with exultation... ...I will give you a name and praise among all the peoples of the earth... (Zephaniah 3:14-17, 20)

Here likewise the subject is the Lord and a church established by Him, over which the King of Israel, namely the Lord, will rejoice with gladness and exult with exultation, and in whose love He will rest, who will give them a name and praise among all the peoples of the earth.

[6] In Isaiah:

Thus said Jehovah, your Redeemer and your Former..., who says to Jerusalem, "You shall be inhabited," and to the cities of Judah, "You shall be rebuilt."... (Isaiah 44:24, 26)

And in Daniel:

Know and perceive: from the going forth of the command to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until Messiah the Prince, there shall be seven weeks... (Daniel 9:25)

It is apparent that Jerusalem here also means the church, since it was the church that the Lord restored and rebuilt, and not Jerusalem, the Jewish capital.

[7] Jerusalem means a church established by the Lord also in the following passages. In Zechariah:

Thus said Jehovah, "I will return to Zion and dwell in the midst of Jerusalem. Jerusalem shall be called a city of truth, and the mountain of Jehovah Zebaoth a holy mountain." (Zechariah 8:3, cf. 8:20-23)

In Joel:

Then you shall know that I am Jehovah your God, dwelling in Zion, My holy mountain. Then Jerusalem shall be holy... And it will come to pass in that day that the mountains shall drip with new wine, and the hills shall flow with milk..., and Jerusalem (shall abide) from generation to generation. (Joel 3:17-21)

In Isaiah:

In that day the offshoot of Jehovah shall be beautiful and glorious... And it shall come to pass that he who is left in Zion and remains in Jerusalem will be called holy - everyone recorded among the living in Jerusalem. (Isaiah 4:2-3)

In Micah:

...in the latter days the mountain of Jehovah's house shall be established on top of the mountains... For out of Zion doctrine shall go forth, and the Word of Jehovah from Jerusalem... ...to you... the former kingdom shall come, the kingdom of the daughter of Jerusalem. (Micah 4:1-2, 8)

In Jeremiah:

At that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of Jehovah, and all the nations shall be gathered..., because of the name of Jehovah, to Jerusalem. No more shall they go after the justification of their evil hearts. (Jeremiah 3:17)

In Isaiah:

Look upon Zion, the city of our appointed feasts; let your eyes see Jerusalem, a tranquil habitation, a tabernacle that will not vanish; its stakes will never be removed, nor any of its cords be broken. (Isaiah 33:20)

And so on elsewhere, as in Isaiah 24:23; 37:32; 66:10-14; Zechariah 12:3, 6, 8-10; 14:8, 11-12, 21; Malachi 3:2, 4; Psalms 122:1-7; 137:4-6.

[8] Jerusalem in these places means a church which the Lord would establish, and not Jerusalem in the land of Canaan inhabited by Jews. This can be seen from passages in the Word which say that Jerusalem was completely ruined and would be destroyed, as in Jeremiah 5:1; 6:6-7; 7:17-18; Luke 19:41-44; 21:20-22; 23:28-30; and in many other places.

脚注:

1. The word translated as "jewel" here means a diadem or crown in the original Greek and Latin, but the writer's definitions of the term elsewhere make plain that he regularly and consistently interpreted it to mean a jewel or gem.

  
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Many thanks to the General Church of the New Jerusalem, and to Rev. N.B. Rogers, translator, for the permission to use this translation.

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Luke第18章

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1 He also spoke a parable to them that they must always pray, and not give up,

2 saying, "There was a judge in a certain city who didn't fear God, and didn't respect man.

3 A widow was in that city, and she often came to him, saying, 'Defend me from my adversary!'

4 He wouldn't for a while, but afterward he said to himself, 'Though I neither fear God, nor respect man,

5 yet because this widow bothers me, I will defend her, or else she will wear me out by her continual coming.'"

6 The Lord said, "Listen to what the unrighteous judge says.

7 Won't God avenge his chosen ones, who are crying out to him day and night, and yet he exercises patience with them?

8 I tell you that he will avenge them quickly. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?"

9 He spoke also this parable to certain people who were convinced of their own righteousness, and who despised all others.

10 "Two men went up into the temple to pray; one was a Pharisee, and the other was a tax collector.

11 The Pharisee stood and prayed to himself like this: 'God, I thank you, that I am not like the rest of men, extortioners, unrighteous, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.

12 I fast twice a week. I give tithes of all that I get.'

13 But the tax collector, standing far away, wouldn't even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, 'God, be merciful to me, a sinner!'

14 I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted."

15 They were also bringing their babies to him, that he might touch them. But when the disciples saw it, they rebuked them.

16 Jesus summoned them, saying, "Allow the little children to come to me, and don't hinder them, for the Kingdom of God belongs to such as these.

17 Most certainly, I tell you, whoever doesn't receive the Kingdom of God like a little child, he will in no way enter into it."

18 A certain ruler asked him, saying, "Good Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?"

19 Jesus asked him, "Why do you call me good? No one is good, except one--God.

20 You know the commandments: 'Don't commit adultery,' 'Don't murder,' 'Don't steal,' 'Don't give false testimony,' 'Honor your father and your mother.'"

21 He said, "I have observed all these things from my youth up."

22 When Jesus heard these things, he said to him, "You still lack one thing. Sell all that you have, and distribute it to the poor. You will have treasure in heaven. Come, follow me."

23 But when he heard these things, he became very sad, for he was very rich.

24 Jesus, seeing that he became very sad, said, "How hard it is for those who have riches to enter into the Kingdom of God!

25 For it is easier for a camel to enter in through a needle's eye, than for a rich man to enter into the Kingdom of God."

26 Those who heard it said, "Then who can be saved?"

27 But he said, "The things which are impossible with men are possible with God."

28 Peter said, "Look, we have left everything, and followed you."

29 He said to them, "Most certainly I tell you, there is no one who has left house, or wife, or brothers, or parents, or children, for the Kingdom of God's sake,

30 who will not receive many times more in this time, and in the world to come, eternal life."

31 He took the twelve aside, and said to them, "Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem, and all the things that are written through the prophets concerning the Son of Man will be completed.

32 For he will be delivered up to the Gentiles, will be mocked, treated shamefully, and spit on.

33 They will scourge and kill him. On the third day, he will rise again."

34 They understood none of these things. This saying was hidden from them, and they didn't understand the things that were said.

35 It happened, as he came near Jericho, a certain blind man sat by the road, begging.

36 Hearing a multitude going by, he asked what this meant.

37 They told him that Jesus of Nazareth was passing by.

38 He cried out, "Jesus, you son of David, have mercy on me!"

39 Those who led the way rebuked him, that he should be quiet; but he cried out all the more, "You son of David, have mercy on me!"

40 Standing still, Jesus commanded him to be brought to him. When he had come near, he asked him,

41 "What do you want me to do?" He said, "Lord, that I may see again."

42 Jesus said to him, "Receive your sight. Your faith has healed you."

43 Immediately he received his sight, and followed him, glorifying God. All the people, when they saw it, praised God.