Study
1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
'An image' or 'images' signify falsities from self-derived intelligence.
(References: Apocalypse Explained 304)
2 For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city will be taken, the houses rifled, and the women ravished. Half of the city will go out into captivity, and the rest of the people will not be cut off from the city.