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Genesis 1

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1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

4 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.

5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first Day.

6 And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.

7 And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.

8 And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.

9 And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.

10 And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.

11 And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.

12 And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

13 And the evening and the morning were the third day.

14 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:

15 And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.

16 And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.

17 And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,

18 And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.

19 And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.

20 And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.

21 And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

22 And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.

23 And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.

24 And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.

25 And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

29 And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.

30 And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.

31 And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

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258 - The Heaven Project

Durch Jonathan S. Rose

Title: The Heaven Project

Topic: Salvation

Summary: Heaven is the ultimate purpose behind creation. It is an infinite and eternal project involving ever increasing numbers, variety, and connections, to embody God with greater and greater resolution. Yet it also gives us more and more peace.

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

References:
2 Corinthians 5:1-10
Psalms 126
Matthew 10:29-30; 13:23, 47
Mark 10:29
Genesis 1:27-28; 13:16; 22:17
Isaiah 9:6-7
Job 8:7; 15:15
1 Kings 8:27
Luke 16:13-16
John 14:2-3; 12:24
Romans 12:1-5
1 Corinthians 12:12, 27
Psalms 132:8-14

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Spirit and Life Bible Study broadcast from 4/13/2016. The complete series is available at: www.spiritandlifebiblestudy.com

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The New Jerusalem and its Heavenly Teachings #122

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122. The Lord's twelve disciples represented all the various forms of faith and caring that together constitute the church, as did the twelve tribes of Israel: 2129, 3354, 3488, 3858, 6397. Peter, James, and John represented faith, caring, and good actions that come from caring, respectively: preface to Genesis 18. Peter represented faith: preface to Genesis 22, §§4738, 6000, 6073, 6344, 10087. John represented good actions that come from caring: preface to Genesis 18. The fact that in the last times of the church there would be no faith in the Lord because there would be no caring is represented by Peter's denying the Lord three times before the rooster crowed for the third time; 1 in a symbolic sense, Peter in that passage means faith: 6000, 6073. Both "the crowing of the rooster" and "twilight" in the Word mean the last times of the church (10134); and "three" or "three times" means what is completed (2788, 4495, 5159, 9198, 10127). Much the same is meant by the Lord's saying to Peter, when Peter saw John following the Lord, "What is that to you, Peter? Follow me, John," 2 because Peter had said of John, "What about him?" (John 21:21, 22): 10087. Since John represented good actions that come from caring, he leaned on the Lord's chest [John 13:23-25; 21:20]: 3934, 10087. Likewise, what the Lord said to John from the cross meant that good actions from a caring heart are what constitute the church: "When Jesus saw his mother, and the disciple whom he loved standing by her, he said to his mother, ‘Woman, behold your son!' And he said to the disciple, ‘Behold your mother!' And from that hour the disciple accepted her into his household" (John 19:26, 27). John means good actions that come from a caring heart, and "the woman" and "mother" mean the church; therefore the whole statement means that wherever good actions are being done from a caring heart is where the true church will be found. "Woman" in the Word means the church: 252, 253, 749, 770, 3160, 6014, 7337, 8994. The same holds true for "mother": 289, 2691, 2717, 3703, 4257, 5581, 8897, 10490. All the names of individuals and places in the Word symbolize qualities in the abstract: 768, 1888, 4310, 4442, 10329.

Fußnoten:

1. See Matthew 26:34, 69-75; Mark 14:30, 66-72; Luke 22:34, 54-62; and John 13:38; 18:25-27. The accounts in Matthew, Luke, and John suggest that Peter's three denials will occur before the rooster crows even once, though the language there is sometimes understood to refer generally to "cockcrow," or the series of calls the rooster makes at dawn; the account in Mark specifies two crowings by the rooster. [GFD, SS]

2. See John 21:20-22. The name "John" does not occur in the Greek text of this biblical passage, and there the command to follow seems clearly to be addressed to Peter. It should be noted that quotation standards were not as strict in Swedenborg's day as they are today. The line between direct quotation and paraphrase in Swedenborg's Latin is often unclear, and Swedenborg may have intended "John" to be a gloss on the biblical text rather than a direct quotation of it. In three other places ( Last Judgment 39[7]; Revelation Explained [= Swedenborg 1994-1997a] §§250:7, 785:5) Swedenborg also adds "John" to this verse. However, in several other places ( Secrets of Heaven 6073[3], 10087; Revelation Explained 9[3-5], 820:6-7, 821:8) he quotes the passage without adding "John," indicating that he was aware that "John" does not appear in the original Greek. In two places he states contrariwise that the words "follow me" in either John 21:19 or John 21:22 are addressed to Peter ( Revelation Explained 9[5], 821:8). The interpretation that the words "follow me" were addressed to John, and the general interpretation that John, not Peter, followed Jesus, seems to stem from John 21:20, in which John (called in that verse "the disciple whom Jesus loved") is said to be following Jesus. This is further supported by statements in Revelation Unveiled 17[5] and Revelation Explained 229[3], 443:4 that John rather than Peter followed Jesus. [LSW, GFD]

  
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