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Genesis 1:31

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31 And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

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323 - A Way Forward, Part 2 of 7

By Jonathan S. Rose

Title: A Way Forward, Part 2

Topic: Second Coming

Summary: An important first stage in moving from hell to heaven, whether individually or as a cultrure, is to cry out to the Lord, even if we seemingly get no response. That is actually the Lord planting and building a desire in our hearts for something better than our current situation. This desire is a gift-much needed fuel for out journey.

References:
Exodus 2:23-25
2 Samuel 22:4-7
Psalms 30:1-3; 34:4-7; 107:17-22; 120:1-2; 130; 142
Lamentations 2:18-19
Jonah 2:1-2
Matthew 20:29-34
Luke 11:5-11
Revelation 1:7
Matthew 24:30
Zechariah 12:10
Daniel 7:13-15, 28
Isaiah 6:1-5
Genesis 42:6-7; 1:1-3
Hebrews 4:12-13
Matthew 5:26

This video is a part of the Spirit and Life Bible Study series, whose purpose is to look at the Bible, the whole Bible, and nothing but the Bible through a Swedenborgian lens.

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The Inner Meaning of the Prophets and Psalms #339

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339. Internal Meaning of Psalm 89

1-2 All Divine truth is from the Lord (13, 10)

3-5 The Divine truth is from Him because there is oneness with the Divine Human (10, 16, 16)

6-9, 13 Thus the Lord has all power (10, 16)

10-14 All of heaven and the church is from Him, (10, 16)

15-18 Happy is he who trusts in the Lord (12, 16)

19-25 The Father to the Lord, or His Divine to His Human that by oneness with Him He has omnipotence over the hells (10, 16)

26-29 N. B. There will be eternal oneness with Him (10, 16)

30-37 Even if those of the church should fail there will be eternal oneness with Him. (10)

38-42 Of the Jewish nation: It has destroyed conjunction with Him, because it has destroyed the church. (4)

43-45 It has utterly repudiated Him. (4)

46-48 Prayer to the Father, that, unless He assist, no one will have eternal life. (13)

49 Unless oneness be effected, (10)

49-51 the hells will otherwise prevail. (10, 8)

52 He assists. (10, 8)

  
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