Arcana Coelestia #63
63. Meanwhile the Lord is constantly fighting on his behalf against evils and falsities and by these conflicts is confirming him in truth and good. The hour of conflict is the hour when the Lord is at work, which is why in the Prophets a regenerate person is called 'the work of God's fingers'. Nor does He rest until love is playing the leading part, at which point conflict ceases. When that work has reached the point where faith has been joined to love, it is then called 'very good', for the Lord then moves him to be a likeness of Himself. At the end of the sixth day evil spirits go away and good ones take their place; then the person is led into heaven, or the heavenly paradise, which is the subject of the next chapter.
Psalms 83:2-8
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For, behold, your enemies are stirred up. Those who hate you have lifted up their heads.
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They conspire with cunning against your people. They plot against your cherished ones.
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"Come," they say, "and let's destroy them as a nation, that the name of Israel may be remembered no more."
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For they have conspired together with one mind. They form an alliance against you.
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The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites; Moab, and the Hagrites;
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Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek; Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre;
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Assyria also is joined with them. They have helped the children of Lot. Selah.
