708. 'Jehovah said to Noah' means that it was so accomplished. This is clear from the fact that with Jehovah there is nothing other than Being (Esse). That which He 'says' denotes that which takes place and is accomplished, as also in verse 13 of the previous chapter, and elsewhere where 'Jehovah's saying' denotes taking place and accomplishment.

890. 21:7 "He who overcomes shall inherit all things, and I will be his God and he shall be My son." This symbolically means that people who overcome the evils, that is, the Devil, in themselves, and do not succumb when tempted by adherents of Babylon or followers of the dragon, shall enter into heaven and dwell there in the Lord and have the Lord in them.

To overcome here means to overcome evils, that is, the Devil, in oneself, and not to succumb when tempted by adherents of Babylon or followers of the dragon. To overcome evils in oneself is also to overcome the Devil, because the Devil means all evil. To inherit all things means, symbolically, to enter heaven and to possess then the goods that are in it from the Lord, thus to possess, as a son and heir, goods received from the Lord which are the Lord's. Heaven is therefore called an inheritance in Matthew 19:29 and 25:34.

"I will be his God and he shall be My son" means, symbolically, that in heaven these people will be in the Lord and have the Lord in them, as in no. 883 above where a similar statement is found, only there it says that they shall be His people, and He Himself will be with them their God.

People who turn directly to the Lord are His children because they are born anew from Him, that is to say, regenerated or reborn. Therefore the Lord called His disciples children (John 12:36; 13:33; 21:5).