Title: Waiting in the Grave for Jesus

Topic: Second Coming

Summary: We explore passages in Ecclesiastes and the rebellion of Korah in Numbers, and reflect on mortality and immortality, the Second Coming and life after death, and the spiritual and holographic nature of Scripture.

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References:
Ecclesiastes 9:4; 1:1-2; 2:11; 12:8-14; 3:17; 11:9, 1-3; 7:19-20
James 4:13-16
John 9:4
Genesis 1:1
Jeremiah 4:22-23
Job 10:18-22; 14:1-end
Numbers 16
Isaiah 30:26
Hosea 6:1-2
Psalms 17

7. Things which must shortly come to pass. That this signifies, which will certainly take place, is evident from the signification of things which must come to pass, as being what will necessarily take place; and from the signification of shortly, as denoting what is certain and full (concerning which see Arcana Coelestia 5284, 6783). Those who view all things in the Word according to the sense of the letter, have no other idea than that shortly signifies shortly; that is, in the present case, that the things predicted in the Apocalypse were to take place shortly. Consequently they also wonder why so long a time should have elapsed before the accomplishment of the Last Judgment. But those who have a knowledge of the internal sense of the Word do not understand shortly as meaning shortly, but certainly. The reason why instead of shortly they understand certainly, is, because shortly implies time, and time is proper to nature; that is, shortly is a natural and not a spiritual expression, and all natural expressions, in the Word, signify spiritual things which correspond to them; for the Word internally is spiritual, but in the letter natural; this is why shortly signifies certainly. (That time is proper to nature, and, in the spiritual world, corresponds to state of life, may be seen in the work, Heaven and Hell, in the article concerning Time in Heaven, n. 162-169.)