DLord 4 - "In that Day"

DLord 4

. . . in the Word where we find references to
"that day," "in that day," or "at that time,"
where "day" and "time" mean the Lord's advent.

(Many examples are shown.)
https://newchristianbiblestudy.org/exposition/translation/doctrine-of-the-lord-rogers/contents/40

~ There Will Be a New Temple ~

In the twenty-fifth year of our exile,
at the beginning of the year,
on the tenth of the month,
in the fourteenth year after the fall of the city -
on that very day the hand of the Lord was upon me
and He took me there.
In visions of God
He took me to the land of Israel
and set me on a very high mountain,
on whose south side were some buildings
that looked like a city.
He took me there,
and I saw a man whose appearance was like bronze;
he was standing in the gateway
with a linen cord and a measuring rod in his hand.
The man said to me,
"Son of man, look with your eyes
and hear with your ears
and pay attention to everything I am going to show you,
for that is why you have been brought here.
Tell the house of Israel everything you see."

(Ezekiel 40:1-4)
 

DLord 2-3 - The Lord in the Word

DLord (Doctrine of the Lord) 2-3

Since each and every thing in the Word
has to do with the Lord,
and the Word is the Lord
because it embodies Divine truth,
it is clear why we are told,
"And the Word. . . became flesh and dwelt among us,
and we beheld His glory."
Also why we are told,
"While you have the light,
believe in the light,
that you may be children of light . . ..
I have come as a light into the world;
whoever believes in Me
does not abide in darkness."
The light is Divine truth, thus the Word.

As a result, everyone, even at this day,
who turns to the Lord alone when he reads the Word,
and prays to Him,
is enlightened as regards it.

We must briefly say here, too,
that themes concerning the Lord
are found in general and in particular throughout
the Prophets of the Old testament, from Isaiah to Malachi:

1.  The Lord came into the world in the fullness of time,
which is to say,
when the Jews no longer knew Him,
and when for that reason nothing of the church remained.
And if the Lord had not then
come into the world and revealed Himself,
mankind would have perished in eternal death.
He Himself says in John,
"If you do not belief that I am [who I am],
you will die in your sins."
(John 8:24)

2.  The Lord came into the world
to execute a last judgment,
and by doing so
conquer the hells that were reigning at the time.
This He did by combats,
that is, by temptations or trials,
which He permitted His human
from His mother to undergo,
and by continual victories in them then.
If the hells had not be conquered,
no one could have been saved.

3.  The Lord came into the world to glorify His human,
that is, to unite it to the Divinity
that He had in Him from conception.

4.  The Lord came into the world
to establish a new church
which would acknowledge Him
as its Redeemer and Savior,
so as to be redeemed and saved
through love for and faith in Him.

5.  At the same time He did so
in order to set heaven in order,
in order for it to be in harmony with the church.

6.  His suffering of the cross was the last combat,
or temptation or trial,
by which He thoroughly conquered the hells
and fully glorified His human.

~ My Holy Name ~

"'I will make known
My holy name among My people Israel.
I will no longer let My holy name be profaned,
and the nations will know
that I the Lord am the Holy One in Israel.
It is coming!
It will surely take place,
declares the Sovereign Lord.
This is the day I have spoke of.'"

(Ezekiel 39:7-8)

 

EU 174 - Dominion

EU 174
. . . there are two kinds of dominion,
one of love towards the neighbor,
and the other of self-love;
and that the dominion of love towards the neighbor
is among those who dwell separated
into houses, families, and nations;
whereas the dominion of self-love
is among those who dwell together in society.
Among those who live separated
into houses, families, and nations,
he has dominion who is the father of the nation,
and under him the father of families,
and under these the father of each house.
He is called the father of the nation
from whom the families originate,
from which families the houses are derived;
but all these exercise dominion from love,
like that of a father towards his children,
who teaches them how they ought to live,
does good to them,
and as far as he can, gives them of his own.
It never enters into his mind to subject them to himself,
as subjects or as servants,
but he loves that they should obey him
as sons obey their father.
And because this love increases in descending,
as is known, therefore the father of the nation
acts from a more interior love
than the father himself
from whom the sons are next descended.
Such also is the dominion in the heavens,
inasmuch as such is the Lord's dominion;
for His dominion is from the Divine love
towards the whole human race.
But the dominion of self-love,
which is opposite
to the dominion of love towards the neighbor,
began when man alienated himself from the Lord;
for in proportion
as man does not love and worship the Lord,
in the same proportion he loves and worships himself,
and so far also he loves the world. 

~ Dwelling Place ~

"'My dwelling place will be with them;
I will be their God,
and they will be My people.
Then the nations will know
that I the Lord make Israel holy,
when My sanctuary is among them forever.'"

(Ezekiel 37:27-28)

["Israel" generally represents the spiritual church.]

EU 159 - A Trine and One Together

EU 159

. . . an idea of a Trine and a One together
agrees with the angelic idea of the Lord;
and that it is from
the Lord's own teaching concerning Himself;
for He teaches that the Father and He are one;
that the Father is in Him, and He in the Father;
that who see Him so, see the Father;
and that He who believes in Him,
believes in the Father and knows Him;
also that the Comforter,
by whom is meant the proceeding Divine,
and whom He calls the Spirit of truth,
as also the Holy Spirit,
proceeds from Him,
and speaks not from Himself, but from Him.
Moreover, that the idea of
a Trine and of One at the same time
agrees with the esse and existere of the Lord's life,
when He was in the world.
The esse of His life was the Divine Itself,
for He was conceived of Jehovah,
and the esse of any one's life
is that from which he is conceived;
the existere of life from that esse
is the Human in form.
The esse of every person's life
which he has from his father, is called the soul;
and the existere of life therefrom is called the body.
The soul and the body constitute one person.
The likeness between both
is like that between that which is in effort
and that which is in the act thence,
for the act is the effort acting,
and so the two are one.
Effort in a person is called the will,
and effort acting is called action.
The body is the instrument,
by which the will, which is the principal, acts;
and the instrument and the principal in acting are one;
thus the soul and the body are one.
The angels in heaven have such an idea
concerning the soul and the body;
and thus they know that the Lord
made His Human Divine from the Divine in Himself,
which He had as His soul from the Father.
The faith also received everywhere
in the Christian world does not dissent from this,
for it teaches:
"Although Christ is God and Man,
yet He is not two, but one Christ;
yea, He is altogether a one and only Person;
for as the body and the soul are one man,
so also God and Man is one Christ."
(from the Athanasian Creed)
Because there was such a union,
or such a One in the Lord,
He therefore, otherwise than any man,
rose not only as to the soul,
but also as to the body,
which He glorified in the world;
concerning which
He also instructed His disciples, saying:

Handle Me and see;
for a spirit has not flesh and bones,
as you see Me have.
(Luke 24:39)

~ A Promise of a Covenant of Peace ~

"'I will make a covenant of peace with them
and rid the land of wild beasts
so that they may live in the desert
and sleep in the forests in safety.
I will bless them
and the places surrounding My hill.
I will send down showers in season;
there will be showers of blessing.
The trees of the field will yield their fruit
and the ground will yield its crops;
the people will be secure in their land.
They will know that I am the Lord,
when I break the bars of their yoke
and rescue them
from the hands of those who enslaved them.
They will no longer be blundered by the nations,
nor will wild animals devour them.
They will live in safety,
and no one will make them afraid.
I will provide for them a land renowned for its crops,
and they will no longer be victims of famine in the land
or bear the scorn of the nations.
Then they will know that I,
the Lord their God,
am with them
and that they,
the house of Israel,
are My people,
declares the Sovereign Lord.
You My sheep,
the sheep of My pasture,
are people,
and I am your god,
declares the Sovereign Lord.'"

(Ezekiel 34:25-31)

EU 151-152 - Wonderful Sanctuaries

EU 151 - 152
. . . their sanctuaries . . .
are constructed of trees, not cut down,
but growing in their native soil.
They said that on their earth there were trees
of wonderful growth and height.
These from their beginnings they arrange in order,
so that they serve for porticos and walks,
and by cutting and pruning the branches
when they are tender,
they fit and prepare them 
so that while they are growing
they may intertwine and unite
to make the base and floor of the sanctuary,
and rise on the sides for the walls,
and bend above into arches for the roof.
By these means
they construct the sanctuary with admirable art,
elevated high above the earth,
and they also prepare an ascent into it
by successive branches of the trees extending out
and firmly connected.
Moreover they adorn the sanctuary
without and within in various ways,
by bending the leafy bows into various forms.
Thus they build entire groves.
But what these sanctuaries are within,
I was not permitted to see.
It was only told me that the light of their sun
is let into them through apertures between the branches,
and is here and there transmitted through crystals,
by which the light falling on the walls
is variegated into colors like the rainbow,
especially the colors blue and orange,
which they love more than the rest.
Such is their architecture,
which they prefer
to the most magnificent palaces of our earth.

They said, further,
that the inhabitants do not live in high places,
but on the earth in low cottages,
for the reason that high places are for the Lord,
who is in heaven,
and low places for men, who are on earth.

~ The Righteous and the Wicked ~

"Therefore, son of man, say to your countrymen,
'The righteousness of the righteous man
will not save him when he disobeys,
and the wickedness of the wicked man
will not cause him to fall when he turns from it.
The righteous man, if he sins,
will not be allowed to live
because of his former righteousness.'
If I tell the righteous man that he will surely live,
but then he trusts in his righteousness and does evil,
none of the righteous things he has done
will be remembered;
he will die for the evil he has done.
And if I say to the wicked man,
'You will surely die,'
but he then turns away from his sin
and does what is just and right --
if he gives back what he took in pledge for a loan,
returns what he has stolen,
follows the decrees that give life,
and does not evil,
he will surely live; he will not die.
None of the sins he has committed
will be remembered against him.
He has done what is just and right;
he will surely live."

(Ezekiel 33:12-16)

EU 135 - Mankind Was So Created; EU 139 - Spirits of Every Earth

EU 135

. . . mankind was so created,
that while living in the world among men,
he might at the same time also live
in heaven among angels, and the converse;
thus that heaven and the world with a person
might be together, and act as one;
and that people might know what is in heaven,
and angels what is in the world;
and when men die,
they might thus pass out of the Lord's kingdom on earth
into the Lord's kingdom in heaven,
not as into a different kingdom,
but as into the same in which they also were
when they lived in the body.
But because man (homo) has become so corporeal,
he has closed heaven to himself.

EU 139

. . . the spirits of every earth
appear about their own earth,
by reason that they are of a genius
similar to that of the inhabitants,
for they are from them,
and in order that they may serve them.

~ The Lord Laments Pharaoh king of Egypt ~

In the twelfth year,
in the twelfth month on the first day,
the word of the Lord came to me:
"Son of man, take up a lament
concerning Pharaoh king of Egypt and say to him:

"'You are like a lion among the nations;
you are like a monster in the seas
thrashing about in your streams,
churning the water with your feet
and muddying the streams.'"

(Ezekiel 32:1-2)
 

EU 113 - The Reasons Why the Lord Was Willing to be Born on Our Earth, and Not on Another

EU 113

There are many reasons . . . why it pleased the Lord
to be born and to assume the human on our earth,
and not on another.
The PRINCIPLE REASON was because of the Word,
in that it might be written on our earth;
and when written be afterwards published
throughout the whole earth;
and when once published be preserved to all posterity;
and that thus it might be made manifest,
even to all in the other life,
that God became Man (Homo).

~ A Majestic Cedar ~

In the eleventh year,
in the third month on the first day,
the word of the Lord came to me:
"Son of man, say to Pharaoh king of Egypt and his hordes:

"'Who can be compared with you in majesty?
Consider Assyria, once a cedar in Lebanon,
with beautiful branches overshadowing the forest;
it towered on high,
its top above the thick foliage.
The waters nourished it,
deep springs made it grow tall;
their streams flowed all around its base
and sent their channels to all the trees of the field.
So it towered higher than all the trees of the field;
its boughs increased and its branches grew long,
spreading because of abundant waters.
All the birds of the air nested in its boughs,
all the beasts of the field gave birth under its branches;
all the great nations lived in its shade.
It was majestic in beauty,
with its spreading boughs,
for its roots went down to abundant waters.
The cedars in the garden of God could not rival it,
nor could the pine trees equal its boughs,
nor could the plane trees compare with its branches --
no tree in the garden of God could match its beauty.
I made it beautiful with abundant branches,
the envy of all the trees of Eden in the garden of God.'"

(Ezekiel 31:1-9)

EU 103 - They Know They Will Live

EU 103

. . . all on that earth know that they will live after death;
and that on this account also
they make light of their bodies,
only so far as regards that life,
which they say is to remain and serve the Lord.

~ The Lord Laments Tyre ~

The word of the Lord came to me:
"Son of man, take up a lament concerning the king of Tyre
and say to him:
'This is what the Sovereign Lord says:

"'You were the model of perfection,
full of wisdom and perfect in beauty.
You were in Eden, the garden of God;
every precious stone adorned you:
ruby, topaz and emerald,
chrysolite, onyx and jasper,
sapphire, turquoise and beryl.
Your settings and mountings were made of gold;
on the day you were created they were prepared.
You were anointed as a guardian cherub,
for so I ordained you.
You were on the holy mount of God;
you walked among the fiery stones.
You were blameless in your ways
from the day you were created
til wickedness was found in you.'"

(Ezekiel 28:11-15)

EU 96 - What Love Leads Us to Know

EU 96

. . . those alone have spiritual life who are in heavenly love,
and in knowledges therefrom;
and that a love contains in itself all the power
of knowing which is of that love.
For example, the animals of the earth,
and also the animals of the air, or the birds,
have the knowledge of all things that are of their loves.
These loves are, to nourish themselves,
to dwell in safety,
to propagate offspring, to bring up their young,
and with some, to provide for themselves against winter.
Consequently they have all the requisite knowledge,
for this is in those loves,
and it flows into them as into its very receptacles;
which knowledge with some animals is such,
that person cannot but be astonished.
The knowledge is innate with them, and is called instinct;
but it is of the natural love in which they are.
If a person were in his love,
which is love to God and toward the neighbor
(for this love is man's proper love,
by which he is distinguished from the beasts,
and is heavenly love),
a person would then be
not only in all requisite knowledge,
but also in all intelligence and wisdom;
for these would flow into those loves from heaven,
that is, through heaven from the Divine.
But because a person is not born into those loves,
but into the opposite ones,
namely, into the loves of self and the world,
for that reason he cannot but be born
into all ignorance and lack of knowledge.
But by Divine means he is led on
to something of intelligence and wisdom,
yet not actually into anything of it,
unless the love, of self and the world are removed,
and the way is thus opened
for love to God and the neighbor.
That love to God and love toward the neighbor
have in them all intelligence and wisdom,
may be evident from those
who in the world have been in these loves.
When after death they come into heaven,
they there come into such knowledge and wisdom
as they had never known before;
indeed, they think and speak there,
as do the rest of the angels,
such things as the ear has never heard,
nor the mind has ever known,
and which are ineffable (too great).
The reason is,
that those loves have in them
the faculty of receiving such things.
  

EU 72 - Stars; EU 74 - Angels

EU 72

Moving stars signify falsities,
but fixed stars truths.

EU 74

. . . their angels who sit at the head,
have a kind of judicial authority over the person;
since they permit, moderate, restrain, and flow in.
But it was said that they do not judge,
for the Lord alone is the Judge . . ..

 

~ The Lord Warns Ezekiel ~

The word of the Lord came to me:
"Son of man, with one blow
I am about to take away from you the delight of your eyes.
Yet do not lament or weep or shed any tears.
Groan quietly;
do not mourn for the dead.
Keep your turban fastened and your sandals on your feet;
do not cover the lower part of your face
or eat the customary food of mourners."

So I spoke to the people in the morning,
and in the evening my wife died.
The next morning I did as I had been commanded.

(Ezekiel 24:15-18)

EU 62 - The Sciences; EU 65 - He Is Called Jesus Christ

EU 62 [3-4]

. . . in this world sciences are the means
of opening up the sight of the intellect,
which depends on the light of heaven. 
But because of the dominance of matters
concerned only with natural life,
the life of the senses,
these sciences serve them rather as means to madness,
that is, proofs which favor Nature rather than God,
and the world rather than heaven.  

They were further told
that sciences are in themselves spiritual riches,
and their possessors resemble
the possessors of worldly riches;
for these are likewise the means
of performing services to oneself,
one's neighbor and one's country,
and also the means of doing evil. 
They can also be compared with clothes,
which are both useful and ornamental,
and are also a matter of pride to those
who want to be respected for them alone.

EU 65 [2]

. . . in our world He is called Christ Jesus,
and that Christ means the Anointed or King,
and Jesus Savior,
they said they do not worship Him as King,
because kingship smacks of worldly affairs,
but they do worship Him as Savior.