Scriptural Confirmations (Whitehead) n. 53

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53. Twenty Five. A day of cloud and thick darkness (Ezek. 34:12). (I will make Mount Seir and the cities thereof into a waste and devastation, into a waste of eternity (Ezek. 35:3, 4, 7, 9, 12, 14, 15). Then the cities shall be inhabited, and the wastes shall be built (Ezek. 36:10). When I shall sanctify Myself among you, then I will give you a new heart, and I will give a new spirit in the midst of you and I will take away the heart of stone, and will give you a heart of flesh, and I will give a new spirit in your midst, and ye shall be My people, and I will be your God (Ezek. 36:23, 26-28). In the day that I have cleansed you from all your iniquities, I will make you to dwell in cities, and the waste places shall be built; they shall say, This land that was devastated is become as the garden of Eden, and the desolate and devastated cities are fortified and inhabited (Ezek. 36:33-38). Behold I will open your graves and cause you to come up out of your graves, O my people, and I will lead you upon the land of Israel, and I will put my spirit in you that ye may live (Ezek. 37:12-14). Concerning the dry bones: by the inflowing of the breath among them, and their living again, regeneration is described. After many days thou shalt be visited, and in the latter days they shall come upon the land that was made a waste (Ezek. 38:8, 16). They shall bury Gog in the day in which I shall be glorified (Ezek. 39:11, 12, 13). Gog is one who is in external worship, but not in internal. Of the great sacrifices upon the mountains of Israel, and that thus He will set His glory among the nations that they may know that Jehovah is their God from that day, and hence-forward (Ezek. 39:17-22). Of the New Church which is described by many things in Ezek. 40-48: of the city which is the New Jerusalem, and of its gates (40): of the temple, etc. (41): of the court and of the chambers there (42): of the eastern gate where the glory of the God of Israel is seen, and of His worship (43): next of His worship and of ministration (44): of the statutes for the prince (45, 46): of waters from the house (47) of the allotment of the land according to tribes (47, 48). That the name of the city is, Jehovah there (48:35).


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