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Ezequiel第11章

¹ Então me levantou o Espírito, e me levou à porta oriental da casa do Senhor, a qual olha para o oriente; e eis que estavam à entrada da porta vinte e cinco homens, e no meio deles vi a Jaazanias, filho de Azur, e a Pelatias, filho de Benaías, príncipes do povo.

² E disse-me: Filho do homem, estes são os homens que maquinam a iniqüidade, e dão ímpio conselho nesta cidade;

³ os quais dizem: Não está próximo o tempo de edificar casas; esta cidade é a caldeira, e nós somos a carne.

⁴ Portanto, profetiza contra eles; profetiza, ó filho do homem.

⁵ E caiu sobre mim o Espírito do Senhor, e disse-me: Fala: Assim diz o Senhor: Assim tendes dito, ó casa de Israel; pois eu conheço as coisas que vos entram na mente.

⁶ Multiplicastes os vossos mortos nesta cidade, e enchestes as suas ruas de mortos.

⁷ Portanto, assim diz o Senhor Deus: Vossos mortos que deitastes no meio dela, esses são a carne, e ela é a caldeira; a vós, porém, vos tirarei do meio dela.

⁸ Temestes a espada, e a espada eu a trarei sobre vós, diz o Senhor Deus.

⁹ E vos farei sair do meio dela, e vos entregarei na mão de estrangeiros, e exercerei juizos entre vós.

¹⁰ Caireis à espada; nos confins de Israel vos julgarei; e sabereis que eu sou o Senhor.

¹¹ Esta cidade não vos servirá de caldeira, nem vós servirei de carne no meio dela; nos confins de Israel vos julgarei;

¹² e sabereis que eu sou o Senhor; pois não tendes andado nos meus estatutos, nem executado as minhas ordenanças; antes tendes procedido conforme as ordenanças das nações que estão em redor de vós.

¹³ E aconteceu que, profetizando eu, morreu Pelatias, filho de Benaías. Então caí com o resto em terra, e clamei com grande voz, e disse: Ah Senhor Deus! darás fim cabal ao remanescente de Israel?

¹⁴ Então veio a mim a palavra do Senhor, dizendo:

¹⁵ Filho do homem, teus irmãos, os teus próprios irmãos, os homens de teu parentesco, e toda a casa de Israel, todos eles, são aqueles a quem os habitantes de Jerusalém disseram: Apartai-vos para longe do Senhor; a nós se nos deu esta terra em possessão.

¹⁶ Portanto, dize: Assim diz o Senhor Deus: Ainda que os mandei para longe entre as nações, e ainda que os espalhei pelas terras, todavia lhes servirei de santuário por um pouco de tempo, nas terras para onde foram.

¹⁷ Portanto, dize: Assim diz o senhor Deus: Hei de ajuntar-vos do meio dos povos, e vos recolherei do meio das terras para onde fostes espalhados, e vos darei a terra de Israel.

¹⁸ E virão ali, e tirarão dela todas as suas coisas detestáveis e todas as suas abominações.

¹⁹ E lhes darei um só coração, e porei dentro deles um novo espírito; e tirarei da sua carne o coração de pedra, e lhes darei um coração de carne,

²⁰ para que andem nos meus estatutos, e guardem as minhas ordenanças e as cumpram; e eles serão o meu povo, e eu serei o seu Deus.

²¹ Mas, quanto àqueles cujo coração andar após as suas coisas detestáveis, e das suas abominações, eu farei recair nas suas cabeças o seu caminho, diz o Senhor Deus.

²² Então os querubins elevaram as suas asas, estando as rodas ao lado deles; e a glória do Deus de Israel estava em cima sobre eles.

²³ E a glória do Senhor se alçou desde o meio da cidade, e se pôs sobre o monte que está ao oriente da cidade.

²⁴ Então o Espírito me levantou, e me levou na visão pelo Espírito de Deus para a Caldéia, para os exilados. Assim se foi de mim a visão que eu tinha visto.

²⁵ E falei aos do cativeiro todas as coisas que o Senhor me tinha mostrado.

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945. 22:8 Now I, John, saw and heard these things. And when I heard and saw, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel who showed me these things. This means that John supposed that the angel sent to him by the Lord to keep him in a state of the spirit was the God who revealed these things, when in fact that was not the case, as the angel only showed him what the Lord presented.

Clearly John supposed that the angel sent to him was the Lord Himself, for we are told that he fell down to worship before the angel's feet. But that it was not as he supposed is apparent from the next verse, in which the angel tells him that he is his fellow servant: "Worship God." That the angel was sent to John by the Lord is apparent from verse 16, which says, "I, Jesus, have sent My angel to testify to you these things in the churches."

But behind this lies the following secret: The Lord sent the angel to John in order to keep him in a state of the spirit and to show him in that state the visions he saw. For whatever John saw, he saw not with the eyes of his body, but with the eyes of his spirit, as can be seen from the passages in which he says that he was in the spirit and seeing a vision (Revelation 1:10; 9:17; 17:3; 21:10), thus everywhere that he says "he saw." And a person can enter that state and be kept in it only by angels who are closely attached to the person, who induce their own spiritual state on the interiors of his mind. For this raises the person into the light of heaven, and in that light he sees sights in heaven and not in the world.

[2] Ezekiel, Zechariah, Daniel, and other prophets were at times in the same state, but not when they spoke the Word. When they spoke the Word they were not in the spirit, but conscious in the body, and the words they wrote they heard from Jehovah Himself, that is, from the Lord.

These two states experienced by the prophets must be properly distinguished. The prophets themselves also properly distinguished them, for they everywhere say when they wrote the Word from Jehovah that Jehovah spoke with them and to them, and most often, "Thus says Jehovah," or "the word of Jehovah." However, when they were in the other state, they say that they were in the spirit or seeing in a vision, as can be seen from the following: (Ezekiel said,) "The spirit lifted me up and brought me in a vision... of God into Chaldea, to those in captivity. So the vision that I saw went up upon me." (Ezekiel 11:1, 24)

Ezekiel says that the spirit lifted him up and that he heard behind him an earthquake, among other things (Ezekiel 3:12, 14). Also that the spirit lifted him up between earth and heaven, and brought him in visions of God to Jerusalem, where he saw abominations (Ezekiel 8:3ff.). Therefore he was also seeing in a vision of God or in the spirit when he saw four living creatures, which were cherubim (Ezekiel 1 and 10). And when he saw a new temple and a new land, and an angel measuring them (Ezekiel 40; 41; 42; 43; 44; 45; 46; 47; 48). He says that he was then seeing in the visions of God (Ezekiel 40:2), and that the spirit lifted him up (Ezekiel 43:5).

[3] It was the same with Zechariah, who had an angel with him at the time when he saw a man riding among the myrtle trees (Zechariah 1:8ff.). When he saw the four horns, and then the man with a measuring line in his hand (Zechariah 1:18; 2:1ff.). When he saw Joshua, the high priest (Zechariah 3:1ff.). When he saw the lampstand and two olive trees (Zechariah 4:1ff.). When he saw the flying scroll and the ephah (Zechariah 5:1, 6). And when he saw the four chariots and their horses coming from between two mountains (Zechariah 6:1ff.).

Daniel was in the same state when he saw four beasts coming up from the sea (Daniel 7:1ff.), and when he saw the combat of the ram and the male goat (Daniel 8:1ff.). That he saw these sights in visions is said in Daniel 7:1-2, 7, 13; 8:2; 10:1, 7-8. Moreover, that he saw the angel Gabriel and spoke with him in a vision (Daniel 9:21).

It was the same with John when he saw the sights he described, as when he saw the Son of Man in the midst of the seven lampstands; when he saw the tabernacle, ¹ the temple, ² the ark, ³ and the altar ⁴ in heaven; the dragon and its combat with Michael; ⁵ the beasts; ⁶ the woman sitting on the scarlet beast; ⁷ the new heaven and new earth, and the holy Jerusalem with its wall, gates, and foundations; ⁸ and more.

These sights were revealed by the Lord, but shown by an angel.

脚注:

1. Revelation 15:5.

2. Revelation 11:1-2, 19; 14:15, 17; 15:5-6, 8; 16:1, 17.

3. Revelation 11:19.

4. Revelation 6:9; 8:3, 5; 9:13; 11:1; 14:18; 16:7.

5. Revelation 12:7.

6. Revelation 13.

7. Revelation 17:3-6.

8. Revelation 21,22