679. Verses 14, 15. The second woe is past; behold the third woe cometh quickly. And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of the world are become our Lord's and His Christ's, and He shall reign unto the ages of the ages.

14. "The second woe is past; behold the third woe cometh quickly," signifies a lamentation over the final vastation of the church now certainly at hand (n. 680).

15. "And the seventh angel sounded," signifies the influx of Divine truth through the heavens from the Lord, and the consequent final changes (n. 681); "and there were great voices in heaven" signifies enlightenment and joy in the higher heavens n. 682; "saying, The kingdoms of the world are become our Lord's and His Christ's," signifies all things in the heavens and on earth subject to the Lord, when the evil have been separated from the good, and the Divine good and the Divine truth proceeding from the Lord are clearly received (n. 683, 684); "and He shall reign unto the ages of the ages," signifies His dominion by means of the Divine truth to eternity n. 685.