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.

143. Internal Meaning of Ezekiel, Chapter 20 (11)

Successive states of the Jewish church. (2, 11)

1-3 Those who are of the Jewish church worship the Lord with the mouth and not with the heart. (2, 11)

4 The first of them, that is, their fathers. (2)

4-9 They worshipped other gods, and did not depart from them, however much admonished, because they were natural external; this concerning them when in Egypt. (2)

10-12 They were let into temptations, and then instructed. Also, respecting conjunction of the Lord with the church. (2)

13 And they cannot even thus be brought to the worship of the Lord. (2)

14-17 Although they were of such a character, yet they were not cast off. (2)

18-20 Their offspring were instructed in like manner. (2, 6)

21-24 They in like manner reprobated all things of the church. (2)

25-26 In consequence they had representatives different from the former good ones, because they had profaned them; this concerning them in the wilderness. (2)

27-29 When they had been introduced into the land of Canaan, they worshipped other gods in every way. (2)

30-31 They profaned things holy. (2)

32-36 They are to be cast out of the church, because they have been such from the beginning. (2, 3)

37-39 They will not return to the church, but will be among the profaners of the holy things of the church. (3)

40-42 A new church will be instituted, which will worship the Lord, (11)

43-44 and they will acknowledge their evils, and at the same time the Lord's mercy. (11)

The church has perished by reason of falsities. (3)

45-46 An external or natural church, which is able to be in the light of truth. (3)

47-48 It is destroyed by evil love. (3)

49, 1-3 It is the Jewish nation, which is here further treated of. (3)