41. 13.. Behold, Jehovah making the earth void, and making it empty. In the city is left wasteness and the gate will be crushed even to devastation (Isaiah 24:1-13). Of the full vastation of truth in the church, and in all its doctrine. A "city" is doctrine. Then follows the appearance of Jehovah, that is the coming of the Lord (verses 14-15). Concerning a second vastation which will be that of the Christian Church (verses 16-20). After many days, however, Jehovah of Hosts shall reign in mount Zion and in Jerusalem (verses 21-23). This is the second coming of the Lord, "mount Zion" is there the church as to the good of love, and "Jerusalem" is the church as to the truth of doctrine, as also in Revelation.

Jehovah of Hosts will make in this mountain unto all people a feast of fat things, a feast of wine on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined: and He will swallow up the face of the covering, the covering over all the peoples, and the veil that is spread over all the nations. He will swallow up death for ever (Isaiah 25:6-8). Concerning the New Church, and its purity after the desolation. The coming of the Lord is described (verse 9).

In that day shall this song be sung, salvation will He appoint for walls and bulwarks. Open ye the gates, that the just nation which keepeth faithfulness may enter in (Isaiah 26:1-2). The coming of the Lord to the New Church.

Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers and shut the door after thee; hide thyself as for a little moment until the anger be overpast. For, behold Jehovah cometh forth out of His place to visit the iniquity of the inhabitant of the earth; then the earths shall reveal her bloods and shall no more cover her slain (verses 20-21). Concerning the coming of the Lord for the Last Judgment, after the desolation.