A church cannot serve two masters. It cannot peacefully coexist with truths and falsities. To want to live with both and to seek a compromise will cause the church to be laid to waste. The church will perish, and the goods and truths of the Word will be taken away from it.

8354. 'And Jehovah showed him [some] wood' means that the Lord instilled good. This is clear from the meaning of 'showing' - when done by 'Jehovah', that is, the Lord - as imparting perception, which because it takes place through influx means instilling it; and from the meaning of 'wood' as good, dealt with in 643, 2784, 2812, 3720.