When the Bible refers to where someone or something came from, it's internally talking about their spiritual origins, or the spiritual states that led them to their current state.

Time and space are physical realities which don't exist in the same way on a spiritual plane. Instead, people in the spiritual world experience differences in spiritual state. Someone in a different spiritual state appears distant, while someone in a similar spiritual state appears close. We get some glimpses of this; we can feel "close" to someone we love even if we are halfway around the world, based on the affection we have for them (affection being a spiritual state, even in this life).

(Odkazy: Apocalypse Explained 105, 472; Apocalypse Revealed 376; Arcana Coelestia 278, 3031, 3776)

3776. 'My brothers, where are you from?' means, What is the origin of the charity there? This is clear from the meaning of 'brothers' as people governed by good, and consequently as good itself and therefore as charity, dealt with in 367, 2360, 3303, 3459, and from the meaning of 'Where are you from?' as, What is the origin? From these considerations it is also evident that the matters which in the sense of the letter are expressed as a question and have reference to persons fall in the internal sense into a mental image which has no reference to any person. For when the historical descriptions that belong to the letter leave man and pass into heaven they cease to be anything among the angels in heaven. From this it is clear that Jacob's question addressed to the men of Haran, 'My brothers, where are you from?' means, What is the origin of the charity there? The implications of this are that charity which looks like charity in outward appearance is not always charity inwardly. It is from the end in view that one recognizes which kind of charity it is and where it originates. Charity which springs from a selfish or a worldly end in view is not charity inwardly. Nor indeed ought it to be called charity. But charity which springs from the neighbour, the common good, heaven, and so the Lord, as the end in view is charity itself and contains the affection for doing good from the heart, and therefore contains the delight of life, which in the next life becomes a blessed delight. It is highly important for a person to know this if he is to know what the Lord's kingdom is within himself. Inquiry concerning this charity, or what amounts to the same, concerning this good, is the subject in the present verses. And the question is first put here, What is the origin of the charity there? meant by the question, 'My brothers, where are you from?'