Title: Repentance: The Verbs

Topic: Salvation

Summary: We look at the process of self-examination, acknowledgment and confession (whether internally to the Lord or also to another human being), praying for strength, and turning to live a new life.

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

References:
Proverbs 4:23
Lamentations 3:40-41
1 Corinthians 11:27-28
2 Corinthians 13:5
Galatians 6:4
Proverbs 20:27
Psalms 139
Ezekiel 18:14, 27-28
Romans 7:14, 23
Leviticus 5:4-5; 26:40
Numbers 5:5-7
Nehemiah 1:4; 9:1-2
Psalms 32:1; 51
Proverbs 28:13
Jeremiah 3:12
Hosea 5:15
Matthew 3:2
Acts of the Apostles 19:18
James 5:16
1 John 1:7
Judges 16:28
2 Chronicles 7:14
Ezekiel 18:30; 33:11, 19

'Waters' particularly signify the spiritual parts of a person, or the intellectual aspects of faith, and also their opposites.

'The waters above the firmament,' as in Genesis 1:7, signify the knowledges in the internal self, and 'the waters beneath the firmament' signify the knowledges of the external self.

'Waters,' as in Ezekiel 47:9, refer to the New Jerusalem, and they signify spiritual things from a celestial origin.

'Many waters,' as in Revelation 17:1, signify truths of the Word adulterated. 'Waters' or 'rivers' signify spiritual, rational, or scientific things pertaining to truth.

'Waters … that go softly,' as in Isaiah 8:6-7, signify spiritual things, and 'waters … strong and many,' signify falsities.

'Waters,' as in Psalms 104:3, signify divine truths.

'Waters' signify truths in the natural self, and in the opposite sense, falsities.

'The waters were dried up from off the earth,' as in Genesis 8:7, signifies the apparent dissipation of falsities.

(références: Apocalypse Explained 17; Apocalypse Revealed 50; Genesis 8)