Title: Gathering of the Sheep

Topic: Salvation

Summary: Scripture predicts that one day the sheep (meaning good people) will be gathered. How will that happen?

Use the reference links below to follow along in the Bible as you watch.

References:
Deuteronomy 30:1
Psalms 107; 147
Isaiah 11:11; 27:12; 40:11; 54:7; 66:18
Jeremiah 3:17-18; 23:1; 29:10-12; 31:8-end
Isaiah 32:37-39
Ezekiel 11:17; 20:34, 41; 34; 36:24; 39:27
Micah 2:12-13
Zechariah 10:8
Matthew 12:30; 13:30, 40, 43, 47-48; 18:20; 24:30-31
Luke 13:34
2 Thessalonians 2:1-3

4761. 'And Reuben returned to the pit' means the Church's faith in general. This is clear from the representation of 'Reuben' as the Church's confession of faith in general, dealt with in 4731, 4734, and from the meaning of 'the pit' as falsities, dealt with in 4728. Consequently the statement that 'Reuben returned to the pit' means that the Church's faith in general came to behold the falsities that belong to faith separated from charity.