Apocalypse Revealed #382
382. "Neither shall the sun strike them, nor any heat." This symbolically means that hereafter they will not possess lusts for evil, nor for the falsity accompanying evil.
That the sun will not strike them means, symbolically, that they will not have lusts for evil; and that no heat will strike them means, symbolically, that they will not have lusts for falsity. To be shown that the sun symbolizes Divine love and therefore affections for goodness, and in an opposite sense, diabolical love and therefore lusts for evil, see no. 53 above.
That heat, on the other hand, symbolizes lusts for the falsity accompanying evil - the reason is that evil produces falsity, as the sun does heat; for when the will loves evil, the intellect loves falsity, and it burns with a lust to justify the evil, and evil justified in the intellect is the falsity of evil. The falsity accompanying evil is therefore evil in its true expression.
Heat and burning have like symbolic meanings in the following passages:
Blessed is the man who trusts in Jehovah... He will not see when heat comes. (Jeremiah 17:7-8)
...you have been... a refuge for the needy... from flood, a shade from the heat... He will temper... heat by the shadow of a cloud... (Isaiah 25:4-5)
When they are inflamed, I will... make them drunk, until they... sleep a perpetual sleep... (Jeremiah 51:39)
They are all as hot as an oven... None among them calls upon Me. (Hosea 7:7)
They regard not the way of the vineyards. Drought and heat snatch away the snow's waters... (Job 24:18-19)
...the fourth angel poured out his bowl on the sun, and it was given to him to scorch men... with great heat, and they blasphemed the name of God... (Revelation 16:8-9)
To say to the prisoners, "Go forth."... They shall neither hunger nor thirst, neither shall heat... strike them. (Isaiah 49:9-10)
Isaiah 50
1
Thus says Yahweh, "Where is the bill of your mother's divorce, with which I have put her away? or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities were you sold, and for your transgressions was your mother put away.
2
Why, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it can't redeem? or have I no power to deliver? Behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stink, because there is no water, and die for thirst.
3
I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering."
4
The Lord Yahweh has given me the tongue of those who are taught, that I may know how to sustain with words him who is weary: he wakens morning by morning, he wakens my ear to hear as those who are taught.
5
The Lord Yahweh has opened my ear, and I was not rebellious, neither turned away backward.
6
I gave my back to the strikers, and my cheeks to those who plucked off the hair; I didn't hide my face from shame and spitting.
7
For the Lord Yahweh will help me; therefore I have not been confounded: therefore have I set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be disappointed.
8
He is near who justifies me; who will bring charges against me? Let us stand up together: who is my adversary? Let him come near to me.
9
Behold, the Lord Yahweh will help me; who is he who shall condemn me? Behold, all they shall wax old as a garment, the moth shall eat them up.
10
Who is among you who fears Yahweh, who obeys the voice of his servant? He who walks in darkness, and has no light, let him trust in the name of Yahweh, and rely on his God.
11
Behold, all you who kindle a fire, who adorn yourselves with torches around yourselves; walk in the flame of your fire, and among the brands that you have kindled. You shall have this of my hand; you shall lie down in sorrow.
