Consider the beautiful but cryptic statements of John 1:1:

"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God."

God's love has always been and will always be infinite and perfect. That means the expression of God's love -- His truth -- has also always been and will always be infinite and perfect.

The Lord has shared this truth with us in various ways since the beginning of humanity. The earliest people received truth directly, flowing into the inner parts of their minds from heaven. Later, people understood it through nature seeing the Lord's love expressed in mountains, trees, rivers, and the sun, moon and stars. By using natural language as a container for spiritual language, the Lord expressed truth within the Bible inside its stories, laws and prophecies. When humanity reached its lowest point, God took on a human form and walked among us as Jesus. In this way, the Lord brought us Divine truths in an accessible and tangible way. By accepting and loving the Lord as Jesus we can open ourselves to His love.

Finally, the Heavenly Doctrine received through the pen of Emanuel Swedenborg are themselves a container for Divine Truth, both in speaking plainly about heaven and by unlocking the truth as it is contained in the Bible.

The Word itself is Divine Truth; the Lord's expression of love has and never will change.

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That the Lord Jehovih would pour out His anger against them to consume them (Ezekiel 20:8-13).

That Jehovah will execute great vengeance, and take vengeance in wrath (Ezekiel 25:12, 14-15, 17).

I will make thee a desolate city, and I will cause thee to go down into the pit, to the people of old time, and cause thee to dwell in the land of the lower places, in the desolation of old, with them that go down to the pit, that thou mayest not dwell; then will I set glory in the land of the living (Ezekiel 26:19-20) Concerning Tyre.

The day of its fall (Ezekiel 26:18). Concerning Tyre.

Howl ye, alas the day! for the day is near, the day of Jehovah is near, a day of cloud (Ezekiel 30:2-3). Concerning Egypt.

In the day when Pharaoh shall go down into hell, I will cover the deep upon him; when I shall cause him to go down into hell with them that go down into the pit, and into the lower earth (Ezekiel 31:15-18; 32:18, 27, 29).

Hell in this place is called a grave where they lie (32:22-23, 25-26), and a pit.

That they will cause terror in the land of the living (Ezekiel 32:24-25).

After many days thou shalt be visited, and in the latter years thou shalt come upon the land (Ezekiel 38:8, 16). In that day there shall be a great earthquake in the land of Israel (Ezekiel 38:19).