1. THE PRECEPTS OF THE DECALOGUE ¹

After the The Last Judgment had been completed, a New Church meant by the New Jerusalem in the Revelation was promised.

1. Explain the whole of chapter 21. Then chapter 22:1-5.

2. Elsewhere in the Word, Jerusalem means the Church, as in the following places: ²

Isaiah 1:1, 4:4, 9:1.

2:2, 3:8, 5:3, 7:1, 10:10-12, 32, 22:10, 31:5, 33:20, 36:2, 7, 20, 37:10, 32, 40:2, 41:27, 44:26, 28, 52:1-2, 9, 62:1, 7, 64:10, 65:18, 66:10, 20.

27:13, 30:19.

2:3, 3:1.

4:3, 24:23, 28:14, 31:9, 65:19, 66:13.

5:3, 7:14, 22:21.

11:9, 51:17, 52:1-2, 62:6.

Daughter of Jerusalem: Lamentations 2:13, 15, Micah 4:8, Zephaniah 3:14, Zechariah 9:9.

Jeremiah 1:3, 15, 2:2, 3:17, 4:3, 10-11, 5:1, 6:1, 7:17, 34, 8:5, 9:11, 11:6, 13, 13:9, 14:2, 16, 17:19, 21, 26, 27, 19:7, 13, 22:19, 23:14, 15, 25:18, 26:18, 27:3, 20, 21, 31:2, 32:2, 44, 33:10, 13, 16, 34:19, 35:11, 36:9, 37:5, 12, 38:28, 39:8, 40:1, 44:2, 6, 9, 13, 17, 21, 51:50, 52:12, 13, 14.

4:16, 6:6, 34:1, 7, 19, 3:4.

27:18, 29:25, 34:8, 35:11.

24:1, 27:20, 29:1, 2, 4, 20.

4:5, 15:4, 34:6, 3:1, 3.

4:4, 8:1, 11:2, 9, 12-13, 13:13, 17:20, 25, 18:11, 19:3, 25:2, 32:32, 35:13, 17, 42:18.

4:14, 6:8, 13:27, 15:5, 52:29.

Lamentations 1:7, 8, 17, 2:10, 4:12.

Ezekiel 4:1, 7, 5:5, 8:3, 9:4, 8, 13:16, 14:22, 16:2-3, 17:12, 21:2, 20, 22, 22:19, 23:4, 33:21, 36:38.

24:2, 26:2.

4:16, 12:10.

11:15, 12:19, 15:6.

Daniel 1:1, 6:10, 9:2, 12, 16, 25.

5:2, 3, 9:7.Joel 3:1, 6, 16-17, 20.

Amos 2:5.

Obadiah 1:11, 20.

Micah 1:1, 5, 9, 12, 3:10, 12, 4:2.

Zechariah 1:12, 14, 16-17, 19, 2:2, 4, 12, 3:2, 7:7, 8:3-4, 8, 15, 12:2-3, 6, 14:4, 10-11, 17.

12:2, 9, 14:2, 12, 16.

14:8, 14, 9:10.

8:20, 12:6, 11, 14:21, 12:5, 7-8, 10, 13:1.

Malachi 3:4, 2:11.

Zephaniah 1:4, 12, 3:16.

Psalms 51:18, 79:1, 3, 122:3, 6, 125:2, 128:5, 137:6, 7, 147:12.

68:29, 135:21.

102:21, 116:19, 122:2, 137:5, 147:12.

3. Something about those matters which come before this in the Revelation - such as the dragon, the scarlet beast, and the destruction of them.

4. About the The Last Judgment. Already described, it is to be described further.

5. Why a New Church is established when the The Last Judgment has been completed.

6. Not before, to prevent holy things from being profaned.

7. It was promised at that time that the spiritual sense of the Word was to be disclosed; the The Doctrine of the New Jerusalem Regarding the Lord alone is the Word.

8. About His Coming at that time.

9. Therefore heaven has been opened to me.

II. It is now the end of the Church, and at the present time there are few that have any religion.

1. That the The Doctrine of the New Jerusalem Regarding the Lord is the only God Who rules heaven and earth, and therefore that God is One as to His person and essence, in Whom is the Trinity, is unknown; yet all religion is based upon knowledge of God, and upon the adoration and worship of Him.

2. That faith is nothing else but truth is unknown, nor is it known whether that which men call faith is the truth or not; take certain things from the small work ³ concerning the The Doctrine of the New Jerusalem Regarding the Lord.

Say what the faith of the present day is... then the degrees of justification; whether they are truths can be determined from what follows.

If this is indeed faith, there is no need of truths, nor of charity, nor even of any knowledge of them.

What charity is, is unknown.

Neither are evil and good known.

III. After death every man is still a man; he is then what his love is; and his love is that life which awaits everyone for ever.

1. Everybody is examined after death to reveal the nature of his love.

2. Every spirit is what his affection is.

3. The whole of heaven is divided into societies according to the variety in affections found there, and the whole of hell according to the variety in lusts.

4. The nature of man's affection and that of his thought are alike.

IV. The devil dwells with man in the evil, and the The Doctrine of the New Jerusalem Regarding the Lord in the good, things of his life.

V. Shunning evils is doing good, and this is religion itself.

1. Some things about combats and temptations.

2. Shunning evils involves nothing less than putting the devil to flight; in as much as a man does this, he is conjoined to the The Doctrine of the New Jerusalem Regarding the Lord and heaven is opened, and that for so long as he is not in hell.

VI. The man who is shunning evils because they are sins has faith; and the limits he reaches in shunning evils determines the amount of faith he has.

Some truths have to do with faith, others with life; in so far as the truths that have to do with life become part of one's life, truths that have to do with faith become part of one's faith, no more and no less.

Enumerate the truths that have to do with faith, which are otherwise matters of knowledge and are not faith.

About the Anglican Exhortation ⁴ before the Holy Supper, and also that of the Swedes: then from 'Impediments or Stumbling blocks of the Impenitent'. ⁵

Therefore there are two tables, and they are called a Covenant; in so far as one is done by man the second is laid open.

VII. The Ten Commandments of the Decalogue sum up all things of religion.

1. Further matters about the holiness of the Decalogue.

RECAPITULATION

A recapitulation on the seven articles; nobody can deny that they are religion itself.

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773. The Lord's coming is for the formation of a new heaven from those who have believed in Him, and to inaugurate a new church from those who believe in Him from now on; these are the two purposes in His coming. The purpose of the actual creation of the universe was none other than the formation of a heaven of angels from human beings, one where all who believe in God might live in everlasting blessedness. For the Divine love, which is in God and in essence is God, could have no other aim; nor could the Divine wisdom, which is also in God and is God, produce any other result. It is because the creation of the universe had as its purpose a heaven of angels formed from the human race, and at the same time a church on earth, as the means by which a person may pass into heaven, and because the salvation of people, which depends upon people being born in the world, is thus a continuation of creation, that the Word in many passages speaks of creating, by which is meant forming for heaven; for example, in the following:

Create for me, God, a clean heart, and make new a steadfast spirit within me, Psalms 51:10.

You open your hand, and they are filled with good; you send forth your spirit, and they are created, Psalms 104:28, 30.

The people who are going to be created will praise Jah, Psalms 102:18.

Thus spoke Jehovah your Creator, Jacob, who formed you, Israel. I have redeemed you, I have called you by your ¹ name, you are mine. Everyone who is called by my name, I have created him to my glory, Isaiah 43:1, 7.

They were prepared on the day you were created. You were perfect in your ways from the day you were created, until perversity was found in you, Ezekiel 28:13, 15.

This is said of the king of Tyre.

So that they may see, know, attend and understand, that the hand of Jehovah has done this, and the Holy One of Israel has created this, Isaiah 41:20.

From these passages it can be clear what create means in the following:

Jehovah creating the heavens and spreading out the earth, giving breath to the people upon it, and spirit to those that walk upon it, Isaiah 42:5; 45:12, 18.

Behold, I create a new heaven and a new earth. Rejoice for ever, what I am creating. Behold, I shall make Jerusalem an exultation, Isaiah 65:17-18.

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