3556. 'And he said, Because Jehovah your God caused it to come before my face' means provision. This too becomes clear without explanation. The provision referred to here is that in which good and truths from that good are re-arranged into proper order in a person while he is being regenerated. That is to say, they are re-ordered so that they appear outwardly, or manifest themselves on the surface, as though they were genuine good and genuine truths from that good. In actual fact they are not such but, as stated above, are homeborn good and truths from this good, which serve solely to aid a person's regeneration, and so to bring in goods and truths of a grosser nature because such are conducive to his regeneration.

Leading" people in the Bible is about leading people in spiritual things, not natural ones. When the Bible talks about the Lord leading the people, it stands for that way He cares for us, from the most outward aspect of life down to the deepest recesses. All His leading intends to bring us to heaven, if we choose to follow.

(Odkazy: Apocalypse Revealed 600; Arcana Coelestia 6865, 7235, 8093, 8107, 10507)