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Ezekiel第39章

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1 At ikaw, anak ng tao, manghula ka laban kay Gog, at iyong sabihin, Ganito ang sabi ng Panginoong Dios: Narito, ako'y laban sa iyo, Oh Gog, na prinsipe sa Ros, sa Mesech, at sa Tubal:

2 At aking ipipihit ka sa palibot, at ihahatid kita, at pasasampahin kita mula sa mga pinakahuling bahagi ng hilagaan; at aking dadalhin ka sa mga bundok ng Israel;

3 At aking sisirain ang iyong busog sa iyong kaliwa, at aking ihuhulog ang iyong pana sa iyong kanan.

4 Ikaw ay mabubuwal sa mga bundok ng Israel, ikaw, at ang lahat mong mga pulutong, at ang mga bayan na kasama mo: aking ibibigay ka sa mga mangdadagit na ibong sarisari, at sa mga hayop sa parang upang lamunin ka.

5 Ikaw ay mabubuwal sa luwal na parang: sapagka't aking sinalita, sabi ng Panginoong Dios.

6 At ako'y magpapasapit ng apoy sa Magog, at sa kanilang nagsisitahang tiwasay sa mga pulo; at kanilang malalaman na ako ang Panginoon.

7 At ang aking banal na pangalan ay ipakikilala ko sa gitna ng aking bayang Israel; at hindi ko man titiising malapastangan pa ang aking banal na pangalan: at malalaman ng mga bansa na ako ang Panginoon, ang banal sa Israel.

8 Narito, dumarating, at mangyayari, sabi ng Panginoong Dios; ito ang araw na aking sinalita.

9 At silang nagsisitahan sa mga bayan ng Israel ay magsisilabas, at sisilaban ng mga apoy ang mga almas, at susunugin ang mga kalasag at gayon din ang mga longki, ang mga busog at ang mga pana, at ang mga tungkod, at ang mga sibat, at mga sisilaban nilang pitong taon;

10 Na anopa't sila'y hindi magsisikuha ng kahoy sa parang, o magsisiputol man ng anoman sa mga gubat; sapagka't kanilang sisilaban ang mga almas; at kanilang sasamsaman yaong nagsisamsam sa kanila, at nanakawan yaong nangagnakaw sa kanila, sabi ng Panginoong Dios.

11 At mangyayari sa araw na yaon, na ako'y magbibigay kay Gog ng dakong pinakalibangan sa Israel, ang libis nila na nagsisidaang patungo sa silanganan ng dagat: at paglilikatan nilang daanan; at doon nila ililibing si Gog at ang buo niyang karamihan; at kanilang tatawagin ito: Ang libis ng Hamon-gog.

12 At pitong buwan na mangaglilibing ang sangbahayan ni Israel, upang kanilang linisin ang lupain.

13 Oo, sila'y mangaglilibing ng buong bayan ng lupain; at magiging sa kanila'y kabantugan, sa araw na ako'y luluwalhati, sabi ng Panginoong Dios.

14 At sila'y mangaghahalal ng mga lalaking magkakatungkulang palagi, na mangagdaraan sa lupain at, kasama nilang nangagdaraan, silang nangaglilibing ng nalabi sa ibabaw ng lupain, upang linisin: pagkatapos ng pitong buwan ay mangagsisihanap sila.

15 At silang nangagdaraan sa lupain ay mangagdaraan; at pagka ang sinoman ay nakakita ng buto ng tao, lalagyan nga niya ng tanda, hanggang sa mailibing ng mga manglilibing sa libis ng Hamon-gog.

16 At Hamonah ang magiging pangalan ng bayan. Ganito nila lilinisin ang lupain.

17 At ikaw, anak ng tao, ganito ang sabi ng Panginoong Dios: Salitain mo sa sarisaring ibon, at sa lahat na hayop sa parang, Magpupulong kayo, at kayo'y magsiparito; magpipisan kayo sa lahat ng dako sa aking hain na aking inihahain sa inyo, sa malaking hain sa ibabaw ng mga bundok ng Israel, upang kayo'y mangakakain ng laman at mangakainom ng dugo.

18 Kayo'y magsisikain ng laman ng makapangyarihan, at magsisiinom ng dugo ng mga prinsipe sa lupa, ng mga lalaking tupa, ng mga batang tupa, at ng mga kambing, ng mga toro, na pawang patabain sa Basan.

19 At kayo'y magsisikain ng taba hanggang sa kayo'y mangabusog, at magsisiinom ng dugo hanggang sa kayo'y mangalango, sa aking hain na aking inihain sa inyo.

20 At kayo'y mangabubusog sa aking dulang ng mga kabayo at mga karo, ng mga makapangyarihang lalake, at ng lahat na lalaking mangdidigma, sabi ng Panginoong Dios.

21 At aking pararatingin ang aking kaluwalhatian sa mga bansa; at makikita ng lahat ng bansa ang aking kahatulan na aking inilapat, at ang aking kamay na aking binuhat sa kanila.

22 Sa gayo'y malalaman ng sangbahayan ni Israel na ako ang Panginoon na kanilang Dios, mula sa araw na yaon hanggang sa haharapin.

23 At malalaman ng mga bansa na ang sangbahayan ni Israel ay pumasok sa pagkabihag dahil sa kanilang kasamaan; sapagka't sila'y nagsisalangsang laban sa akin, at ikinubli ko ang aking mukha sa kanila: sa gayo'y ibinigay ko sila sa kamay ng kanilang mga kaaway, at silang lahat ay nangabuwal sa pamamagitan ng tabak.

24 Ayon sa kanilang karumihan at ayon sa kanilang mga pagsalangsang ay gumawa ako sa kanila; at ikinubli ko ang aking mukha sa kanila.

25 Kaya't ganito ang sabi ng Panginoong Dios: Ngayo'y aking ibabalik ang Jacob na mula sa pagkabihag, at maaawa ako sa buong sangbahayan ni Israel; at ako'y magiging mapanibughuin dahil sa aking banal na pangalan.

26 At sila'y mangagtataglay ng kanilang kahihiyan, at ng kanilang lahat na pagsalangsang na kanilang isinalangsang laban sa akin, pagka sila'y magsisitahang tiwasay sa kanilang lupain, at walang tatakot sa kanila;

27 Pagka sila'y aking nadala uli na mula sa mga bayan, at nangapisan na mula sa mga lupain ng kanilang mga kaaway, at ako'y inaaring banal sa kanila sa paningin ng maraming bansa.

28 At kanilang malalaman na ako ang Panginoon nilang Dios, sa pagpapapasok ko sa kanila sa pagkabihag sa gitna ng mga bansa, at sa pagpipisan ko sa kanila sa kanilang sariling lupain; at hindi ako magiiwan sa kanila ng sino pa man doon;

29 Ni hindi ko na naman ikukubli pa ang aking mukha sa kanila; sapagka't binuhusan ko ng aking Espiritu ang sangbahayan ni Israel, sabi ng Panginoong Dios.

   

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Apocalypse Revealed#379

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379. "And made their robes white in the blood of the Lamb." This symbolically means, and by truths have purified those religious beliefs from the falsities accompanying evil, and so have been reformed by the Lord.

Some evils are evils that accompany falsity, and some falsities are falsities that accompany evil. Evils that accompany falsity are found among people who, in accord with their religion, believe that evils do not condemn, provided they orally confess that they are sinners. And falsities that accompany evil are found among people who justify the evils they harbor.

As in no. 378 above, robes here symbolize general truths drawn from the Word, which constitute the people's religious beliefs. They are said to have made their robes white in the blood of the Lamb because the color white is predicated of truths (nos. 167, 231, 232), meaning therefore that they used truths to purify their falsities.

This symbolically means also that thus they were reformed by the Lord, because all who have fought against evils in the world and have believed in the Lord are, after their departure from the world, taught by the Lord and led by truths away from the falsities of their religion. And so they are reformed. That is because people who refrain from evils as being sins possess goodness of life, and goodness of life desires truths, and acknowledges and accepts them. But this is never the case with evil of life.

People believe that the blood of the Lamb here and elsewhere in the Word symbolizes the Lord's suffering of the cross. But the suffering of the cross was the final temptation or trial by which the Lord completely overcame the hells and fully glorified His humanity. By these two means He saved mankind (see The Doctrine of the New Jerusalem Regarding the Lord, nos. 12-14, 15-17, and also no. 67 above). Moreover, because by His suffering of the cross the Lord fully glorified His humanity, which is to say, made it Divine, therefore nothing else can be meant by His flesh and blood but the Divinity in Him and emanating from Him - His flesh meaning the Divine goodness of His Divine love, and His blood meaning the Divine truth emanating from that goodness.

[2] Blood is mentioned many times in the Word, and everywhere it symbolizes, in the spiritual sense, either the Lord's Divine truth, which is the same as the Divine truth of the Word, or in an opposite sense, the Divine truth of the Word falsified or profaned, as can be seen from the following passages.

First, that blood symbolizes the Lord's Divine truth or the Divine truth of the Word can be seen from these passages:

Blood was called the blood of the covenant, and a covenant conjoins, a conjunction that the Lord accomplishes by His Divine truth. So, for example, in Zechariah:

By the blood of your covenant, I will set your prisoners free from the pit... (Zechariah 9:11)

After Moses read the Book of the Law in the hearing of the people, he sprinkled half the blood on the people and said,

This is the blood of the covenant which Jehovah has made with you in accordance with all these words. (Exodus 24:3-8)

Moreover,

(Jesus) took the cup..., and gave it to them, saying, "Drink from it, all of you. ...this is My blood, the blood of the new covenant... (Matthew 26:27-28, cf. Mark 14:24, Luke 22:20)

The blood of the new covenant or testament symbolizes nothing else than the Word, which is called a covenant or testament - the Old Covenant or Testament, and the New Covenant or Testament - thus symbolizing the Divine truth in it.

[3] Since blood has this symbolic meaning, the Lord therefore gave His disciples wine, saying, "This is My blood" - wine symbolizing Divine truth (no. 316). Wine is also on that account called "the blood of grapes" (Genesis 49:11, Deuteronomy 32:14).

This is still further apparent from these words of the Lord:

Most assuredly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you will have no life in you... For My flesh is food indeed, and My blood is drink indeed. He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood abides in Me, and I in him. (John 6:53-56).

It is clearly apparent that blood here means Divine truth, because the text says that he who drinks has life, and abides in the Lord, and the Lord in him. This is the effect of Divine truth and a life in accordance with it, and an effect confirmed by the Holy Supper, as everyone in the church may know.

[4] Since blood symbolizes the Lord's Divine truth, which is the same as the Divine truth of the Word, and this is the essence of the Old and New Covenants or Testaments, therefore blood was the holiest representative symbol in the Israelite Church, in which every single thing corresponded to something spiritual. So, for example, the people were to take some of the blood of the paschal lamb and put it on the doorposts and lintel of their houses to keep the plague from coming upon them (Exodus 12:7, 13, 22). The blood of the burnt offering was to be sprinkled on the altar, at the base of the altar, on Aaron and his sons, and on their vestments (Exodus 29:12, 16, 20-21).

[5] The blood of the Lamb has a like symbolism in the following verses in the book of Revelation:

...war broke out in heaven: Michael and his angels fought with the dragon... And they overcame it by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony... (Revelation 12:7, 11)

For no one can think that Michael and his angels overcame the dragon with anything other than the Lord's Divine truth in the Word. Angels in heaven, indeed, cannot think of any blood, nor do they think of the Lord's suffering, but of His Divine truth and resurrection. Consequently, when a person thinks about the Lord's blood, angels perceive His Divine truth, and when a person thinks about the Lord's suffering, they perceive His glorification, and then only His resurrection. I have been granted to know the reality of this by much experience.

[6] That blood symbolizes Divine truth is apparent also from these verses in the book of Psalms:

(God) will save the souls of the needy... Precious shall be their blood in His sight. And they shall live, and He will give them the gold of Sheba. (Psalms 72:13-15)

The blood, precious in the sight of God, stands for Divine truth among those people. The gold of Sheba is the resulting wisdom.

In Ezekiel:

Gather together... to My great sacrifice... on the mountains of Israel, that you may eat flesh and drink blood. You shall... drink the blood of the princes of the earth... You shall... drink blood till you are drunk at My sacrifice which I am sacrificing for you... (Thus) I will set My glory among the nations. (Ezekiel 39:17-21)

Blood here does not mean blood, because the statement is that they will drink the blood of the princes of the earth and that they will drink blood till they are drunk. But the true meaning of the word emerges when blood is understood to mean Divine truth. The subject there, too, is the Lord's church, which He would establish among gentiles.

[7] Second, that blood symbolizes Divine truth can be clearly seen from its opposite meaning, in which it symbolizes the Divine truth of the Word falsified or profaned, as is apparent from these passages:

He who stops his ears from hearing of bloodshed, and shuts his eyes from seeing evil... (Isaiah 33:15)

You shall destroy those who speak falsehood; Jehovah abhors the bloody and deceitful man. (Psalms 5:6)

...everyone recorded for life in Jerusalem, when the Lord has... rinsed away (her) blood... from her midst, by the spirit of judgment and by the spirit of purification. (Isaiah 4:3-4)

...on the day you were born... I saw you trampled in your blood, and I said to you in your blood, "Live!" ...I washed you and rinsed away the blood upon you... (Ezekiel 16:5-6, 9, 22, 36, 38)

They wandered blind in the streets; they have defiled themselves with blood, and what they cannot touch, they touch with their garments. (Lamentations 4:13-14)

The garment is polluted with blood. (Isaiah 9:5)

Also on your skirts is found the blood of the souls of the innocent... (Jeremiah 2:34)

Your hands are full of blood. Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean; put away the evil of your doings... (Isaiah 1:15-16)

...your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken a lie... They make haste to shed innocent blood. (Isaiah 59:3, 7)

...Jehovah is coming out... to visit the iniquity... of the earth; then the earth will disclose her blood... (Isaiah 26:21)

...as many as received Him, to them He gave the ability to be children of God..., who were born, not of blood... (John 1:12-13)

In (Babylon) was found the blood of prophets and saints... (Revelation 18:24)

...the sea... became as the blood of a dead man... ...the springs of water... became blood. (Revelation 16:3-4. Cf. Isaiah 15:9, Psalms 105:29)

The like is symbolized by the rivers, ponds, and pools of water in Egypt being turned into blood (Exodus 7:15-25).

...the moon (shall be turned) into blood, before the coming of the great... day of Jehovah. (Joel 2:31)

...the moon became... blood. (Revelation 6:12)

In these places and many others, blood symbolizes the truth of the Word falsified, and also profaned. But this can be seen more clearly when these passages in the Word are read in context.

So, then, since blood in an opposite sense symbolizes the truth of the Word falsified or profaned, it is apparent that blood in a true sense symbolizes the truth of the Word not falsified.

  
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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.