432. Verse 5. Of the tribe of Judah twelve thousand sealed; of the tribe of Reuben twelve thousand sealed; of the tribe of Gad twelve thousand sealed.

5. "Of the tribe of Judah twelve thousand sealed," signifies love to the Lord, and that all who are in that love are in heaven, and come into heaven n. 433; "of the tribe of Reuben twelve thousand sealed," signifies the light of truth from that good, and that all who are in that light are in heaven and come into heaven n. 434; "of the tribe of Gad twelve thousand sealed," signifies the consequent good of life (n. 435, 436).

7249. I have also been told that the inhabitants of that planet are for the most part giants, and that the inhabitants of our planet come up merely to their waist; also that those who appear on this side of that planet are stupid. They do not try to find out what heaven or what eternal life is; they are interested only in things that have to do with their land and their cattle.