A church cannot serve two masters. It cannot peacefully coexist with truths and falsities. To want to live with both and to seek a compromise will cause the church to be laid to waste. The church will perish, and the goods and truths of the Word will be taken away from it.

In Genesis 8:22, this signifies, with winter, the state of the regenerate man in his new will, the alternations of which are like Summer and Winter. (Arcana Coelestia 930)

In Matthew 24:32, this signifies the full state of the church. (Divine Love and Wisdom 73)