Apocalypse Revealed # 528
528. "And to destroy those who are destroying the earth." This symbolizes the casting down into hell of the people who destroyed the church.
To destroy those who are destroying the earth symbolizes the casting down into hell of people who destroyed the church, because the earth symbolizes the church (no. 285), and because this statement follows the declaration that the time has come to judge the dead, which symbolizes the last judgment on people who were without any spiritual life (no. 525). Thus the statement here, that the time has come to destroy those who are destroying the earth, symbolizes the casting down into hell of the people who destroyed the church.
Something similar is said of Lucifer, meaning Babylon, in Isaiah:
...you have destroyed your land and slain your people. (Isaiah 14:20)
Deuteronomy 5:22-26
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These words Yahweh spoke to all your assembly on the mountain out of the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, with a great voice: and he added no more. He wrote them on two tables of stone, and gave them to me.
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It happened, when you heard the voice out of the midst of the darkness, while the mountain was burning with fire, that you came near to me, even all the heads of your tribes, and your elders;
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and you said, "Behold, Yahweh our God has shown us his glory and his greatness, and we have heard his voice out of the midst of the fire: we have seen this day that God does speak with man, and he lives.
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Now therefore why should we die? For this great fire will consume us: if we hear the voice of Yahweh our God any more, then we shall die.
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For who is there of all flesh, that has heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as we have, and lived?
