1020. That these things are meant becomes clear from the fact that everything put together as history from Genesis 1 down to Eber in Chapter 11 means something different from what appears in the letter, and from the consideration that the historical narratives there are purely made-up history customary among the most ancient people. When attesting the truth of some matter they would say that 'Jehovah said it'. Here however 'God' is used because the subject is the spiritual Church. And they did the same when anything true was being, or had been, put into effect.

Title: A Christmas/Winter Solstice Poem (Noah, Total Damnation)

Topic: First Coming

Summary: An exploration of what it would have been like if Jesus had not come into the world: failure of heaven, end of the world of spirits, extinction of the human race, and finally dissolution and scattering of hell.

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.

References:
Genesis 6:5-18; 7:15-23; 8:15-22
Luke 13:31-33
John 16:33; 17:1-4