Title: A Way Forward, Part 1

Topic: Second Coming

Summary: The events depicted in the biblical exodus are a picture of how we as individuals and as a world culture can move forward spiritually.

References:
Genesis 37:36; 42:1-3; 47:27
Exodus 1:1-14; 3:1-8; 14:26-31; 19:1
Numbers 9:1-5; 10:11-12; 13; 14:1-4, 34
Deuteronomy 34:1-5, 9-10
Judges 1:1; 2:7-11

This video is a part of the Spirit and Life Bible Study series, whose purpose is to look at the Bible, the whole Bible, and nothing but the Bible through a Swedenborgian lens.

5430. 'And Joseph remembered the dreams which he had dreamed involving them' means that the celestial of the spiritual foresaw what was to happen to the general truths known to the Church in the natural. This is clear from the meaning of 'remembering' as what exists at present, for whenever one calls something to remembrance it is brought into the present ('remembering' is used in references to foresight, see 3966); from the representation of 'Joseph' as the celestial of the spiritual, often dealt with already; and from the meaning of 'dreams' as foresight, foretelling, and outcome, dealt with in 3698, 5091, 5091, 5104, here therefore a foresight of what was to happen to the general truths known to the Church in the natural, these truths being meant by 'the sons of Jacob', 5409, 5419. This explains the addition of the phrase 'which he had dreamed'.