6873. Verses 13-15 And Moses said to God, Behold, I am coming to the children of Israel and saying to them, The God of your fathers has sent me to your and they may say to me, What is His name? What am I to say to them? And God said to Moses, I Am Who I Am. And He said, Thus you shall say to the children of Israel: I Am has sent me to you. And God said further still to Moses, Thus you are to say to the children of Israel: Jehovah, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham. the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you; this is My name forever, ¹ and this is My memorial from one generation to another. ²

'And Moses said to God' means perception from the Divine. 'Behold, I am coming to the children of Israel' means regarding those belonging to the spiritual Church. 'And saying to them, The God of your fathers has sent me to you' means that He who was the God of the Ancient Church will be with those belonging to the spiritual Church. 'And they may say to me, What is His name?' means, What is His essential nature? 'What am I to say to them?' means, What is the reply to be? 'And God said to Moses' means the instruction that is provided first. 'I Am Who I Am' means the Being and the Coming-into-Being of all things throughout creation. 'And He said, Thus shall you say to the children of Israel' means the instruction that is provided second. 'I Am has sent me to you' means that the Divine Coming-into-Being will be in that Church. 'And God said further still to Moses, Thus you are to say to the children of Israel' means the instruction that is provided third. 'The God of your fathers' means Him who was the God of the Ancient Church. 'The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob' means the Divine itself and the Divine Human, thus the Lord. 'Has sent me to you' means that He will be in their Church. 'This is My name forever' means that the Divine Human has the essential nature of the Divine itself. 'And this is My memorial from one generation to another' means that It is to be worshipped perpetually.

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311. Heaven and Hell Come from the Human Race

People in the Christian world are totally unaware that heaven and hell come from the human race. They actually believe that angels were created in the beginning and constitute heaven, and that the devil or Satan was an angel of light who became rebellious and was cast out together with his faction, and that this gave rise to hell.

Angels are utterly amazed that there can be this kind of belief in the Christian world, and even more so that people know absolutely nothing about heaven, even though this is a primary doctrine of the church. Knowing that this kind of ignorance is prevalent, they are profoundly delighted that it has now pleased the Lord to reveal to us so much about heaven - and about hell as well - and so as much as possible to dispel the darkness that is rising daily because this church is drawing to a close.

[2] So they want me to testify on their behalf that in all heaven there is not a single angel who was created as such in the beginning, nor is there in all hell a devil who was created as an angel of light and cast out. Rather, all the people in heaven and in hell are from the human race - in heaven the ones who have lived in heavenly love and faith, and in hell the ones who have lived in hellish love and faith. Hell as a whole is what is called the devil and Satan. The hell at the back, where the people called evil demons live, is the devil, and the hell that is in front, where the people live who are called evil spirits, is Satan. ¹ We will describe later what each hell is like.

[3] They insisted that the reason the Christian world has adopted this kind of belief about people in heaven and people in hell is that they have taken a few passages of the Word, understanding them only in their literal meaning, with no enlightenment or instruction based on genuine doctrine from the Word. Yet the literal meaning of the Word, without the light of genuine doctrine, leads the mind astray in all directions, giving rise to ignorance, heresy, and error. ²

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