The Lord's love is the sun of heaven, and it is natural for us to look above ourselves to the sun of this world in thinking about the Lord. It follows, then, that to be closer to the Lord we would climb into the highest places -- and indeed, people have been worshiping on mountains for ages. In fact, even steeples on modern churches are symbolic mountains. It makes sense, then, that a mountain in the Bible represents love to the Lord, the highest, purest love we human beings can experience. Mountains can also represent the desire for good that comes from the love of the Lord. Hills, meanwhile, represent a love of other people and a caring for them, and when "mountains" is used in the plural it generally represents both loves.

Title: A Greater Freedom

Topic: Salvation

Summary: Several stories in the Bible depict a stage of life in which we have reduced freedom and a later stage in which we come into greater freedom.

Use the reference links below to follow along in the Bible as you watch.

References:
Genesis 7:1-5, 11-14, 17-24; 8:1-22; 9:1; 41:14, 39-43; 28:13-14
Joshua 13:1
Revelation 6:9-11

This video is a part of the Spirit and Life Bible Study series, whose purpose is to look at the Bible, the whole Bible, and nothing but the Bible through a Swedenborgian lens.