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Išėjimas第18章

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1 Jetras, Midjano kunigas, Mozės uošvis, išgirdo visa, ką Dievas padarė Mozei ir savo tautai Izraeliui, ir kad Viešpats išvedė Izraelį iš Egipto.

2 Tai sužinojęs, Jetras, Mozės uošvis, paėmė Ciporą, Mozės žmoną, kurią Mozė buvo parsiuntęs atgal,

3 ir jos abu sūnus, kurių vieno vardas buvo Geršomas, nes jis sakė: “Buvau ateivis svetimoje šalyje”,

4 o kito Eliezeras, nes sakė: “Mano tėvo Dievas buvo mano pagalba ir mane išgelbėjo nuo faraono kardo”.

5 Ir Jetras, Mozės uošvis, atėjo su jo sūnumis ir žmona pas Mozę į dykumą, kur jis stovyklavo prie Dievo kalno.

6 Jetras pranešė Mozei: “Štai aš, tavo uošvis Jetras, su tavo žmona ir abiem sūnumis einame pas tave!”

7 Tada Mozė, išėjęs pasitikti uošvio, nusilenkė jam ir jį pabučiavo. Paklausę vienas kito, kaip sekasi, įėjo į palapinę.

8 Mozė papasakojo savo uošviui visa, ką Viešpats padarė faraonui ir egiptiečiams dėl Izraelio, ir visą vargą kelyje, ir kaip Viešpats juos išgelbėjo.

9 Jetras džiaugėsi visu tuo, ką Viešpats padarė Izraeliui išgelbėdamas jį iš egiptiečių,

10 ir tarė: “Tebūna palaimintas Viešpats, kuris jus išgelbėjo iš egiptiečių ir faraono, kuris išgelbėjo tautą iš Egipto vergovės.

11 Dabar žinau, kad Viešpats yra aukščiau visų kitų dievų, nes pranoko juos tuo, kuo jie didžiavosi”.

12 Po to Jetras, Mozės uošvis, aukojo Dievui deginamąją auką ir atnašas. Tada Aaronas ir visi Izraelio vyresnieji drauge su Mozės uošviu valgė Dievo akivaizdoje.

13 Kitą dieną Mozė atsisėdo žmonių teisti, ir žmonės stovėjo prie jo nuo ryto iki vakaro.

14 Mozės uošvis, pamatęs visa, ką jis darė žmonėms, klausė: “Ką tu čia darai? Kodėl tu sėdi vienas, o visi žmonės stovi nuo ryto iki vakaro?”

15 Mozė atsakė: “Žmonės ateina pas mane pasiklausti Dievo patarimų.

16 Kai jie nesutaria, ateina pas mane, kad būčiau jų teisėju ir paskelbčiau Dievo nuostatus ir įstatymus”.

17 Mozės uošvis atsakė: “Negerai darai!

18 Tu pats ir šitie žmonės, kurie yra su tavimi, visiškai nuvargsite, nes tau tai per sunku; tu negali vienas atlikti to darbo.

19 Dabar paklausyk mano balso. Aš tau patarsiu, ir Dievas bus su tavimi! Būk tarpininkas tarp tautos ir Dievo ir pranešk jų reikalus Dievui.

20 Mokyk juos įstatymų bei nuostatų, parodyk jiems kelią, kuriuo jie turi eiti, ir darbus, kuriuos turi daryti.

21 Be to, išsirink iš tautos sumanius, Dievo bijančius, patikimus, negodžius vyrus, paskirk juos tūkstantininkais, šimtininkais, penkiasdešimtininkais ir dešimtininkais,

22 ir tegu jie teisia žmones. Kiekvieną didelę bylą jie perduos tau, o mažas bylas spręs patys. Tau bus lengviau, ir jie pasidalins naštą su tavimi.

23 Jeigu taip darysi ir Dievas įsakys tau, pats ištversi ir visi žmonės grįš į savo namus ramybėje”.

24 Mozė paklausė savo uošvio patarimo.

25 Jis išsirinko sumanius vyrus iš viso Izraelio ir paskyrė juos vyresniaisiais: tūkstantininkais, šimtininkais, penkiasdešimtininkais ir dešimtininkais.

26 Ir jie teisė žmones visą laiką. Sunkias bylas jie perduodavo Mozei, bet mažas sprendė patys.

27 Po to Mozės uošvis iškeliavo į savo šalį.

   

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Apocalypse Revealed#749

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749. 17:17 "For God has put it into their hearts to carry out His purpose, and to be of one mind and give their kingdom to the beast." This symbolizes a judgment among Protestants from the Lord that they should utterly repudiate and renounce the Roman Catholic religion and expunge and eradicate it in themselves, and a unanimous judgment that they should acknowledge the Word and found the church on it.

Since the harlot symbolizes the Roman Catholic religion, and the ten horns that will hate the harlot symbolize Protestants, as in nos. 746-748 above, it is apparent that carrying out God's purpose means symbolically that they judged and concluded that they should utterly repudiated and renounce the Roman Catholic religion and expunge and eradicate it in themselves, as in no. 748 above. And it is apparent as well that to be of one mind and give their kingdom to the beast means, symbolically, to unanimously judge and conclude that they should acknowledge the Word and found the church on it. The beast symbolizes the Word, as it has everywhere before (see no. 723), and their kingdom symbolizes the church and government over it, about which we will say more here below. That God put it into their hearts means symbolically that their judgments came from the Lord.

[2] That a kingdom symbolizes the church can be seen from the following passages:

The children of the kingdom will be cast out into outer darkness. (Matthew 8:12)

...the good seeds are the sons of the kingdom... (Matthew 13:38)

Someone who hears the Word of the kingdom, and does not heed it... (Matthew 13:19)

...the kingdom of God will be taken from you and given to a nation bearing the fruits of it. (Matthew 21:43)

No one, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God. (Luke 9:62)

Your kingdom come, Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. (Matthew 6:10)

Jesus, John the Baptist, and the disciples preached that the kingdom of God was at hand (Matthew 3:2; 4:17; 10:7, Luke 10:11; 16:16), and they preached also the gospel of the kingdom (Matthew 4:23; 9:35; 24:14, Luke 8:1).

If I cast out demons by the finger of God, surely the kingdom of God has come to you. (Luke 11:20)

And so on in many other passages where the kingdom of God is mentioned.

So, too, in the following:

...if you will... obey My voice and keep My covenant... you shall be to Me a kingdom of priests... (Exodus 19:5-6)

You, O tower of the flock, the ascent of the daughter of Zion, to you shall return... the former kingdom..., the kingdom of the daughter of Jerusalem. (Micah 4:8)

The saints... shall (afterward) receive the kingdom, and establish the kingdom..., even forever... (Daniel 7:18, cf. 7:22)

The kingdom and dominion, and the majesty of the kingdoms under all the heavens, shall be given to the people of the saints...(whose) kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall worship and obey Him. (Daniel 7:27)

To (the Son of Man) was given... a kingdom (which shall not be destroyed), and all peoples, nations, and languages shall worship Him. (Daniel 7:14)

And so on elsewhere.

A kingdom symbolizes the church because the Lord's kingdom exists in heaven and on earth, and His kingdom on earth is the church. That, too, is why the Lord is called King of kings.

  
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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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Apocalypse Revealed#723

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723. And I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast which was full of names of blasphemy. This symbolizes the Roman Catholic religion resting on the Word that the people profaned.

The woman symbolizes the Roman Catholic or Babel-like religion, for we are told in a following verse that "on her forehead a name was written: Mystery, Babylon the Great, the Mother of the Whoredoms and Abominations of the Earth." That a woman symbolizes the church by virtue of its affection for truth may be seen in no. 434; here it is the Roman Catholic religion, which is impelled by the opposite affection. The scarlet beast symbolizes the Word, as will be seen presently; and its being full of names of blasphemy symbolizes the Word's being utterly profaned. For blasphemy symbolizes a denial of the Lord's Divinity in His humanity, and an adulteration of the Word (nos. 571, 582, 692, 715), thus its profanation. For someone who fails to acknowledge the Lord's Divinity in His humanity and falsifies the Word, but not intentionally, does indeed commit profanation, but lightly. But people who claim for themselves all the power of the Lord's Divine humanity, and for that reason deny His Divinity, and who apply everything in the Word to acquiring dominion for themselves over the sanctities of the church and heaven, and for that reason adulterate the Word - those people commit serious profanation.

It can be seen from this that the woman John saw sitting on a scarlet beast which was full of names of blasphemy symbolizes the aforesaid religion resting on the Word that it profaned. The color scarlet symbolize the Word's truth from a celestial origin.

[2] The idea that the scarlet beast symbolizes the Word as to celestial Divine truth appears at first as far-fetched and foreign, indeed as absurd, because it is called a beast. But that a beast in the spiritual sense symbolizes a natural affection, and that it is used to symbolize the Word, the church and mankind, may be seen in nos. 239, 405, 567 above; that the four living creatures, one of which was a lion, the second a calf, and the fourth an eagle, symbolize the Word, and in Ezekiel are also called beasts, nos. 239, 275, 286, 672; and that a horse, which is also a beast, symbolizes an understanding of the Word (no. 298).

People know that the Lamb symbolizes the Lord, that sheep symbolize the people in a church, and that a flock symbolizes the church itself.

We cite these points lest anyone be surprised that the scarlet beast symbolizes the Word.

Moreover, because the Roman Catholic religion founds its might and its grandeur on the Word, therefore John saw the woman sitting on the scarlet beast, as before she sat on many waters (verse 1), the waters symbolizing the Word's truths adulterated and profaned (no. 719 above).

That the beast here symbolizes the Word is clearly apparent from what is said about it in the verses of this chapter that follow. As in verse 8:

The beast that you saw was, and is not... And those who dwell on the earth will marvel..., when they see the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.

In verse 11:

The beast that was, and is not, is itself the eighth (king), and is of the seven, and is going to destruction.

In verses 12, 13:

The ten horns... are ten kings..., (who) will give their power and authority to the beast.

In verse 17:

...God has put it into their hearts to... give their kingdom to the beast....

Statements like these could be made only in reference to the Word.

  
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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.