6942. THE INTERNAL SENSE

Verses 1-4 And Moses answered and said, And behold, they will not believe me, and will not hear my voice; for they will say, Jehovah has not appeared to you. And Jehovah said to him, What is that in your hand? And he said, A rod. And He said, Throw it to the earth. And he threw it to the earth, and it was made into a serpent; and Moses fled from before it. And Jehovah said to Moses, Put out your hand and take hold of its tail. And he put out his hand and took hold of it, and it was made into a rod in the palm of his hand.

'And Moses answered and said' means thought coming from the law of God. 'And behold, they will not believe me, and will not hear my voice means that those who belonged to the spiritual Church would not be in possession of faith and so would be unreceptive. 'For they will say, Jehovah has not appeared to you' means the Lord's Divine within His Human. 'And Jehovah said to him' means foresight of what they were going to be like if they did not possess faith. 'What is that in your hand? And he said, A rod' means the power of the Lord's Divine Human. 'And He said, Throw it to the earth. And he threw it to the earth' means an influx of the power of the Lord's Divine Natural into the sensory level. 'And it was made into a serpent' means the sensory and bodily level of a person's mind separated from the internal as a result. 'And Moses fled from before it' means a feeling of horror caused by the separated sensory level. 'And Jehovah said to Moses' means providence on the part of the Divine. 'Put out your hand and take hold of the tail' means the power of raising something from the last part of the sensory level. 'And he put out his hand and took hold of it' means raising it towards more internal levels. 'And it was made into a rod in the palm of his hand' means that at this point the power from the Divine was imparted.