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Ezekiel 7:18

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18 They shall also gird themselves with sackcloth, and horror shall cover them; and shame shall be upon all faces, and baldness upon all their heads.

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Ezekiel 16:43

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43 Because thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, but hast provoked me in all these things; behold therefore, I also will recompense thy way upon thy head, saith the Lord GOD: and thou shalt not commit this lewdness above all thy abominations.

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Apocalypse Revealed #852

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852. 20:6 Blessed and holy is he who shares in the first resurrection. This symbolically means that through conjunction with the Lord those who enter heaven enjoy the felicity of eternal life and enlightenment.

That person is called blessed who has the felicity of eternal life (no. 639). And that person is called holy (or a saint) who has enlightenment in Divine truths through conjunction with the Lord. For the Lord alone is holy, and the Divinity emanating from Him which produces enlightenment is what is called the Holy Spirit (nos. 173, 586, 666). The first resurrection symbolizes the Lord's raising a person into heaven and thus salvation, as in no. 851 above.

It is apparent from this that "blessed and holy is he who shares in the first resurrection" symbolically means that through conjunction with the Lord, those who enter heaven enjoy the felicity of eternal life and enlightenment.

  
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Many thanks to the General Church of the New Jerusalem, and to Rev. N.B. Rogers, translator, for the permission to use this translation.