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.

706. Verse 1 And Jehovah said to Noah, Enter, you and all your house, into the ark, for I have seen you to be a righteous man before Me in this generation.

'Jehovah said to Noah' means that it was so accomplished. The name 'Jehovah' is used because now the subject is charity. 'Enter, you and all your house, into the ark' means the things that constitute the will, which is 'the house'. Here 'entering into the ark' means being made ready. 'For I have seen you to be a righteous man in this generation' means possessing good by which he could be regenerated.