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Genesis 1:21

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21 And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

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Resurrection, the first

  

'The first resurrection,' mentioned in Revelation 20:5, 6, does not mean a first resurrection, but the essence and primary part of resurrection, which is salvation and eternal life. There is only one resurrection to life. A second does not happen, and is not mentioned anywhere in the Bible.

(References: Apocalypse Explained 6; Apocalypse Revealed 851; Revelation 20:5-6)

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Apocalypse Explained #407

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407. Verses 15-17. And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every freeman, hid themselves in the caves, and in the rocks of the mountains; and said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth upon the throne, and from the anger of the Lamb. For the great day of his anger is come, and who is able to stand?

"And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men," signify all internal goods and truths, and all external goods and truths, by means of which there are wisdom and intelligence.

"And every bondman, and every freeman," signifies the natural man, and the spiritual man; "hid themselves in the caves, and in the rocks of the mountains," signifies their being destroyed by evils of life, and the falsities thence; "and said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us," signifies a covering by evils and the falsities thence; "and hide us from the face of him that sitteth upon the throne, and from the anger of the Lamb," signifies, lest they should suffer terrible things from the influx of Divine good united to Divine truth, proceeding from the Lord.

"For the great day of his anger is come," signifies the Last Judgment upon the evil; "and who is able to stand?" signifies who shall live and bear it?

  
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Translation by Isaiah Tansley. Many thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.