Title: To Be First Partaker of the Fruits (a purposeof the Lord's First Coming)

Topic: First Coming

Summary: One way of looking at the purpose of Jesus' Coming into the world was that he came here to go through the process we need to go through in order to change.

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

References:
2 Timothy 2:6, 3, 5-7
Galatians 5:22, 16-19
Ezekiel 34:1, 12, 23, 30-31
Matthew 23:13, 15, 23
John 10:11-15
1 Corinthians 9:7-10
Deuteronomy 25:4
1 Corinthians 9:9-10, 18
Colossians 1:9-12
Hebrews 2:14-18; 12:1-4, 10-11
1 Peter 4:12-13
2 Corinthians 12:7, 9
Jude 1:24-25

The instruction not to make clothing that mixes 'woolen and linen' threads means, in the internal sense, that people's spiritual states of good and truth should not be mixed up with one another. See the explanation of this in Arcana Coelestia 10669.

This is an interesting rule, because in many places, New Christian doctrine makes it very clear that there needs to be a marriage of good and truth in each of us. And yet, in heaven, there's a spiritual kingdom, and a celestial kingdom. Both are heavenly, but the people's loves in the spiritual kingdom are different than those of people in the celestial kingdom. They have different approaches to life, and that's by design, and the distinction is useful.

(Odkazy: Deuteronomy 22:11)