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For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:
2 Peter 3:5
An Invitation to the New Church #33
33. Title: THE CONSUMMATION OF THE AGE, AND THE ABOMINATION OF THE DESOLATION THEN.
There is to be adduced what the Lord says,
1. Concerning the "abomination of desolation;"
2. What He says [concerning vastation];
3. What the Lord says concerning the "affliction;"
4. That "no flesh can be saved;"
5. Concerning the "darkening of the sun and of the moon;"
6. The things which are declared in the (Apocalypse 1:18),
Behold, I am He that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am He that liveth unto the ages of the ages (see, also, Revelation 2:8, 5:6).
And again, the Lord says:
The night cometh when no man can work (John 9:4);
In that night, there shall be two men in one bed (Luke 17:34).
Further, what the Lord says concerning Peter in John 21:18; also, what Paul says concerning the last times, in 1 Timothy 4:1-3; 2 Timothy 3:1-7; 4:3-4.
(What the Lord says in Matthew 24:27, that this should take place in the day of the Last Judgment, must be explained; also, what He says in Matthew 24:30-31. That this actually has thus taken place, see THE TRUE CHRISTIAN RELIGION 791.)
