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Exodus 34:9

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9 And he said, If now I have found favor in thy sight, O Lord, let the Lord, I pray thee, go in the midst of us; for it is a stiffnecked people; and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for thine inheritance.

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Inherit

  
This is a wall-painting at the Elston Chapel in Nottinghamshire, England. The photograph is part of the Geograph Project, created to collect images of historic sites in the U.K. and Ireland.

The Lord created us to be separate from Himself, so that He could love us. He thus allows us to act contrary to His will -- to want what is evil and to believe what is false. When we accept the Lord, though -- by learning what's true and determining to live according to it -- we can let Him place inside us a love for what is good. That is our "inheritance.

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Feast of the Passover

  

This signifies acknowledgment and glorification of the Lord because liberation from damnation. It also signifies the principal state from which would arise all following states to eternity. (Arcana Coelestia 7824, 8020, Apocalypse Explained 911[18])

(références: Arcana Coelestia 3994)