24
La sua potenza sarà grande, ma non sarà potenza sua; egli farà prodigiose ruine, prospererà nelle sue imprese, e distruggerà i potenti e il popolo dei santi.
Daniel 8:24
Apocalypse Revealed # 744
744. "And those who are with Him are called, chosen, and faithful." This symbolically means that people who turn to the Lord and worship Him alone are those who go to heaven, both those concerned with the external elements of the church and those concerned with its internal and inmost elements.
Those who are with Him symbolize people who turn to the Lord, for they are the people with Him. Those who are called, chosen, and faithful symbolize people who are concerned with the external, internal and inmost elements of the church, who, being in the Lord, go to heaven.
The called, indeed, mean all people, because all have been called, but the called who are with the Lord mean people who are in heaven with the Lord, as all those are called who are present at the wedding with the bridegroom. 1 The chosen do not mean that some are chosen by predestination, but people who are with the Lord are so called. The faithful mean people who have faith in the Lord.
[2] These are people who are concerned with the external, internal, and inmost elements of the church, because the Lord's church is, like heaven, distinguished into three degrees. In the lowest degree are people concerned with its external elements; in the second degree are people concerned with its internal ones; and in the third degree are people concerned with its inmost ones. People with the Lord who are concerned with the external elements of the church are said to be called. Those who are concerned with its internal elements are said to be chosen. And those who are concerned with its inmost elements are said to be faithful. For that is how they are termed in the Word, in which Jacob is said to be called, and Israel chosen, since Jacob there means people concerned with the external elements of the church, and Israel people concerned with its internal ones.
Because it is preceded by the statement that they will do battle with the Lamb, but that the Lamb will overcome them, we are told here that "those who are with Him are called, chosen, and faithful," in order that people may know that those whom the Lord overcomes, that is to say, whom He convinces by means of the Word, are with Him in heaven - some in the lowest heaven, some in the second heaven, and some in the third heaven - each according to his reception.
Poznámky pod čarou:
Rivelazione 17:14
14
Costoro guerreggeranno contro l’Agnello, e l’Agnello li vincerà, perché egli è il Signor dei signori e il Re dei re; e vinceranno anche quelli che sono con lui, i chiamati, gli eletti e fedeli.
