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Ezekiel第13章

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1 Có lời Ðức Giê-hô-va phán cho ta như vầy:

2 Hỡi con người, hãy nói tiên tri nghịch cùng các tiên tri của Y-sơ-ra-ên, là những kẻ đương nói tiên tri, và hãy bảo cho những kẻ nói tiên tri bởi lòng riêng mình rằng: Hãy nghe lời của Ðức Giê-hô-va.

3 Chúa Giê-hô-va phán như vầy: Khốn cho những tiên tri dại dột, theo thần riêng minh, mà chưa từng thấy gì cả.

4 Hỡi Y-sơ-ra-ên, các tiên tri ngươi cũng như những con cáo trong chốn hoang vu!

5 Các ngươi chưa lên nơi phá tan, và không xây tường cho nhà Y-sơ-ra-ên, đặng đứng vững trong cơn chiến trận nơi ngày Ðức Giê-hô-va.

6 Chúng nó đã thấy sự phỉnh phờ, và sự bói khoa giả dối. Chúng nó nói rằng: Ðức Giê-hô-va phán, (song Ðức Giê-hô-va đã không sai chúng nó), và chúng nó khiến người ta mong cho lời mình được ứng nghiệm.

7 Khi ta chưa từng phán, mà các ngươi nói rằng: Ðức Giê-hô-va có phán, vậy các ngươi há chẳng thấy sự hiện thấy phỉnh phờ và nói sự bói khoa giả dối, hay sao?

8 Vậy nên, Chúa Giê-hô-va có phán như vầy: Vì các ngươi nói những lời giả dối, thấy những sự phỉnh phờ, nầy, ta nghịch cùng các ngươi, Chúa Giê-hô-va phán vậy.

9 Tay ta sẽ nghịch cùng những tiên tri thấy sự hiện thấy phỉnh phờ, bói những sự giả dối. Chúng nó sẽ không dự vào hội bàn dân ta nữa, không được ghi vào sổ nhà Y-sơ-ra-ên nữa, và không vào trong đất của Y-sơ-ra-ên; các ngươi sẽ biết ta là Chúa Giê-hô-va.

10 Thật vậy, bởi chúng nó lừa dối dân ta mà rằng: Bình an; mà chẳng có bình an chi hết. Khi có ai xây tường, nầy, chúng nó trét vôi chưa sùi bọt lên!

11 Hãy nói cùng những kẻ trét vôi chưa sùi bọt rằng tường ấy sẽ xiêu đổ. Mưa to sẽ xảy đến. Hỡi mưa đá lớn, bay sẽ sa xuống; và gió bão sẽ xé rách nó.

12 Nầy, khi tường sụp xuống, người ta há chẳng nói cùng các ngươi rằng: Chớ nào vội mà các ngươi đã trét trên tường ở đâu?

13 Vậy nên, Chúa Giê-hô-va phán như vầy: Ta sẽ nhơn giận khiến gió bão xé rách nó; ta sẽ nhơn cơn thạnh nộ sai mưa dầm đến, và nhơn sự tức giận sai mưa đá lớn phá diệt nó.

14 Cũng vậy, ta sẽ dỡ cái tường mà các ngươi đã trét vôi chưa sùi bọt, xô nó suốt đất, đến nỗi chơn nền bày ra. tường sẽ đổ, các ngươi sẽ bị diệt giữa nó, và biết rằng ta là Ðức Giê-hô-va.

15 Ta sẽ làm trọn cơn giận nghịch cùng tường và kẻ trét vôi chưa sùi bọt như vầy: và ta sẽ nói cùng các ngươi rằng: tường chẳng còn nữa, kẻ trét vôi cũng vậy;

16 tức là các tiên tri của Y-sơ-ra-ên nói tiên tri về Giê-ru-sa-lem, xem sự hiện thấy bình an cho thành ấy, mà không có bình an, Chúa Giê-hô-va phán vậy.

17 Hỡi con người, ngươi khá xây mặt nghịch cùng các con gái của dân ngươi, là những kẻ nói tiên tri bởi lòng riêng mình; và ngươi khá nói tiên tri nghịch cùng chúng nó.

18 Bảo chúng nó rằng: Chúa Giê-hô-va phán như vầy: Khốn cho những đờn bà vì mọi cùi tay may gối, và y theo tầm thước mà làm khăn cho đầu, để săn linh hồn. Uûa, kìa! các ngươi muốn săn linh hồn dân ta, và giữ linh hồn nó để làm lợi cho mình hay sao?

19 Các ngươi vì mấy nhắm mạch nha, mấy miếng bánh mà làm nhục ta giữa dân ta, các ngươi nói dối dân ta, là kẻ nghe lời dối trá các ngươi, để mà giết những kẻ không đáng chết, cho sống những kẻ không đáng sống.

20 Vậy nên, Chúa Giê-hô-va phán như vầy: Nầy, ta ghét những cái gối của các ngươi, vì bởi đó các ngươi săn linh hồn như đánh bẫy chim; ta sẽ xé ra khỏi cánh tay các ngươi, và thả linh hồn mà các ngươi đã săn, như chim bay đi.

21 Ta cũng sẽ khăn các ngươi, cứu dân ta ra khỏi tay các ngươi, chúng nó sẽ không ở trong tay các ngươi để bị săn nữa; bấy giờ các ngươi sẽ biết ta là Ðức Giê-hô-va.

22 Vì các ngươi lấy sự dối trá làm buồn lòng kẻ công bình mà ta chưa từng làm cho lo phiền, và các ngươi làm mạnh tay kẻ dữ đặng nó không xây bỏ đường xấu mình để được sống,

23 vì cớ đó, các ngươi sẽ không thấy sự hiện thấy thỉnh phờ, và không bói khoa nữa. Ta sẽ cứu dân ta thoát khỏi tay các ngươi, và các ngươi sẽ biết ta là Ðức Giê-hô-va.

   

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Apocalypse Revealed#704

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704. That perform signs to go away to the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty. This symbolizes assertions that their falsities are true, and efforts to stir up all those throughout the church who are caught up in the same falsities to attack the truths of the New Church.

To perform signs is to testify and also to assert that something is true, as may be seen in nos. 598, 599 above, here that their falsities are true. Kings of the earth and of the whole world symbolize people who are caught up primarily in falsities springing from evil, here all who are caught up in the same falsities throughout the church. For kings symbolize people impelled by truths that spring from goodness, and in an opposite sense people impelled by falsities springing from evil (no. 483). The earth symbolizes the church (no. 285), and so likewise does the world (no. 551). To go away to gather them to battle means, symbolically, to stir those people to fight or attack; for war symbolizes a spiritual war, which is one of falsity against truth and of truth against falsity (nos. 500, 586). It is to attack the truths of the New Church because it is called the battle of that great day of God Almighty, and that day symbolizes the Lord's advent and a new church then. That this is the symbolic meaning of the great day there will be seen below.

We are told that the spirits of demons would do this, because the spirits of demons symbolize lusts to falsify truths and to reason on the basis of falsities, as just said in no. 703 above.

It is apparent from this that spirits of demons performing signs to go away to the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty, symbolize assertions by the people meant by the dragon, the beast and the false prophet, as described in nos. 701, 702 above, that their falsities are true, and efforts to stir up all those throughout the church who are caught up in the same falsities to attack the truths of the New Church.

[2] That the great day of God Almighty symbolizes the Lord's advent and a new church then, is clear from many passages in the Word, as from the following:

Jehovah alone shall be exalted in that day. (Isaiah 2:11)

...in that day... Israel... will depend on Jehovah, the Holy One of Israel, in truth. (Isaiah 10:20)

In that day a Root of Jesse... shall the Gentiles seek, and His resting place shall be glorious. (Isaiah 11:10-11)

In that day... eyes will look to the Holy One of Israel. (Isaiah 17:7, 9)

They will say in that day: "Behold, this is our God; we have waited for Him, to set us free." (Isaiah 25:9)

...My people shall know My name...(and) in that day, I am He who speaks: "Behold, it is I." (Isaiah 52:6)

Alas! ...great is (the day of Jehovah, and) there is none like it. (Jeremiah 30:7)

Behold, the days are coming... when I will make a new covenant... and the city shall be built for Jehovah... (Jeremiah 31:27, 31, 38)

In those days... I will cause to grow up to David a righteous Branch... (Jeremiah 33:15)

(They will not) stand in battle on the day of Jehovah. (Ezekiel 13:5)

In that day Michael shall stand up, the great prince who stands watch over the children of your people... In that day... shall be delivered everyone who is found written in the book. (Daniel 12:1)

...in that day... you will call Me "My Husband."... In that day I will make a covenant for them... ...in that day I will hear... (Hosea 2:16, 18, 21).

Behold, I am sending you Elijah... before the coming of the great... day of Jehovah. (Malachi 4:5)

Jehovah... will save them in that day, as the flock of His people. (Zechariah 9:16)

In that day Jehovah will protect the inhabitants of Jerusalem. (Zechariah 12:8)

Behold, the day of Jehovah is coming... It shall be one day which is known to Jehovah... In that day Jehovah shall be one and His name one... In that day there shall be a great tumult... In that day "Holiness to the Lord" shall be engraved on the bells of the horses. (Zechariah 14:1, 4, 6-9, 13, 20-21)

There are many other passages in addition to these in which "the day of Jehovah" means the Lord's advent and a new church from Him then, as in the following: Isaiah 4:2; 19:16, 18, 21, 24; 22:20; 28:5; 29:18; 30:25-26; 31:7; and elsewhere.

Since the end of an age or final period of a former church is the time when the Lord's advent takes place and a new church begins, therefore the day of Jehovah in many places symbolizes the end of a previous church, and we are told that then there will be rumors, tumult, and wars. 1 See the passages collected in The Doctrine of the New Jerusalem Regarding the Lord, nos. 4, 5.

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1. E.g., Matthew 24:6

  
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Apocalypse Revealed#586

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586. 13:7 It was granted it to make war with the saints and overcome them. This symbolically means that they attacked the Word's Divine truths and overturned them.

War symbolizes spiritual war, which is a war of falsity against truth, and of truth against falsity (no. 500). To make war, therefore, symbolically means to attack. Saints mean people who are governed by Divine truths from the Lord through the Word, and thus, abstractly from persons, Divine truths themselves (no. 173). Consequently, to overcome the saints means, symbolically, to cause truths not to prevail, thus to overturn them.

The following declaration in Daniel has a similar symbolic meaning, that the fourth beast to come up from the sea, which had a mouth speaking great words, "made war with the saints and prevailed" (Daniel 7:7-8, 21). To be shown that the male goat means faith divorced from charity, see The Doctrine of the New Jerusalem Regarding Faith, nos. 61-68.

The following has a similar meaning:

...a king shall arise, having fierce features, who understands intrigues... He shall destroy the mighty, and also the holy people... He shall even rise against the Prince of princes... He shall cause deceit to prosper under his hand. (Daniel 8:23-25)

The king is the male goat, as said in verse 21.

Very similar is symbolism found in the statement that "the beast that ascends out of the bottomless pit will make war against (the two witnesses), overcome them, and kill them" (Revelation 11:7, and no. 500). They will overcome them because the laity do not see through the clergy's sophistries, which they call mysteries, for the clergy wrap them up in appearances and fallacious reasonings. That is why the people said, "Who is like the beast? Who can fight against it?" (verse 4, and nos. 579-581).

[2] That saints (or holy ones) mean people governed by truths from the Lord through the Word can be seen from the passages cited in no. 173 above, and also from the following:

(Jesus said, "Father,) sanctify them in Your truth. Your Word is truth... ...I sanctify Myself, that they also may be sanctified in the truth... I in them, and You in Me. (John 17:17, 19, 23)

Jehovah came from Sinai..., He came from the ten thousands of the holy; from His right hand came a fiery law for them... All His saints are in Your hand...; each shall receive Your words. (Deuteronomy 33:2-3)

It is apparent from this that those people are called saints who are governed by Divine truths from the Lord through the Word. Moreover, those who live according to the commandments, that is, to the Word's truths, are called the saints or holy people of Jehovah (Leviticus 19:2, Deuteronomy 26:18-19). The Decalogue is the covenant they were to keep (see no. 529 above, and The Doctrine of Life for the New Jerusalem60).

It was for this reason that the place in the Tabernacle where the Ark was, containing the Decalogue, was called the holy of holies or the most holy place (Exodus 26:33-34).

[3] Those people who live according to the Word's truths are called saints, not because they are holy, but because the truths in them are holy; and truths are holy when they come from the Lord in them, and they have the Lord in them when they have His truths in them (John 15:7).

Because of their truths from the Lord, angels are called holy (Matthew 25:31, Luke 9:26). So, too, are prophets, (Luke 1:70, Revelation 18:20; 22:6). And also apostles (Revelation 18:20).

It is because of this that the Temple is called a holy temple (Psalms 5:7; 65:4). That Zion is called a holy mountain (Isaiah 65:11, Jeremiah 31:23, Ezekiel 20:40, Psalms 2:6; 3:4; 15:1). That Jerusalem is called a holy city (Isaiah 48:2; 64:10, Revelation 21:2, 10, Matthew 27:53). That the church is called a holy people (Isaiah 62:12; 63:18, Psalms 149:1), and also a kingdom of saints (Daniel 7:18, 22, 27).

They are called saints because in an abstract sense angels symbolize Divine truths from the Lord; prophets symbolizes doctrinal truths; apostles symbolize the church's truths; and the Temple symbolizes heaven and the church in respect to Divine truth, as do also Zion, Jerusalem, the people, and the kingdom of God.

That no one is holy in himself, not even angels, may be seen in Job 15:14-16. But they are holy from the Lord, because the Lord alone is holy (Revelation 15:4, no.173).

  
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