The heart means love. A good heart means love to the Lord and to the neighbor, while a hard or stony heart means the love of self or the world -- riches and things. When the psalmist asks the Lord to search his heart, he wants the Lord to see what it is that he loves. And we are what we love. What we eat may form our earthly body, but it's only temporary, what we love forms our spiritual body, beautiful or ugly as we have chosen. It's interesting to note that the first multi-cellular motion of our embryo is the pulsating that starts in a twist of blood vessel that is to become our heart, and the last motion of our natural body is our heartbeat. It is there for all of our natural life. And of course there is a beating heart in our spiritual bodies when we come to put them on.

2117. 如今很人有人知道最后的审判是什么. 他们以为, 最后审判的进行会伴随着这个世界的毁灭. 这导致这样的猜测: 整个地球, 连同可见世界的一切事物都会被火焚毁; 那时, 死去的人首次复活, 并面临审判, 恶者被投入地狱, 善者升入天堂. 这些猜测源于圣言的预言, 其中提到要造一个新天, 新地, 以及新耶路撒冷. 殊不知, 这类预言的内义完全不同于字面上的意思. “天” 不是指天空, “地” 也不是指地球, 而是指主总体上的教会, 以及与每个人同在的个体教会.