In Revelation 1:3, this signifies a teaching concerning life according to the doctrines of heaven. (Apocalypse Explained 14)

In Revelation 22:10, this signifies that the Book of Revelation is not to be kept closed. (Apocalypse Revealed 947)

See also Daniel 9:24. (Arcana Coelestia 9954[13])

5192. 'Pharaoh' is the natural in general which has now become inactive, leaving everything to the celestial of the spiritual, which is 'Joseph'. The seven years of the abundance of corn in the land of Egypt are the factual knowledge to which good from the celestial of the spiritual can be attached, while the seven years of famine are subsequent states when no good is present within factual knowledge except that coming from the Divine celestial of the spiritual, which is received from the Lord's Divine Human. A detailed explanation of this is given in what follows below.