Wilderness
'Wilderness' signifies something with little life in it, as described in the internal sense in Luke 1:80 'Wilderness' signifies somewhere there is no good because there is no truth. 'Wilderness,' as in Jeremiah 23:10, signifies the Word when it is adulterated.
(Odkazy: Arcana Coelestia 1927)
The Lord asleep
In Matthew 8:24, the Lord asleep signifies His seeming absence when people of the church are still in natural states. (Apocalypse Explained 514[22])