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Džeimss 1:11

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11 Jo saule uzlēca savā karstumā un izkaltēja zāli, un tās zieds nokrita, un tās vaiga skaistums gāja bojā. Tāpat bagātais nonīks savās gaitās.

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Temptation

  

'Hour of temptation,' as in Revelation 3:10, signifies the time of the last judgment.

(References: Apocalypse Revealed 186)

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Apocalypse Revealed #186

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186. "'I also will keep you from the hour of trial which shall come upon the whole world, to put to the test those who dwell on the earth.'" This symbolically means that they will be protected and preserved on the day of the Last Judgment.

That these words mean the protection and preservation of these people on the day of the Last Judgment may be seen from what we wrote and related concerning the Last Judgment in a small work on that very subject, 1 and later in a continuation concerning it. 2 These make clear that people who underwent the Last Judgment were conveyed into a state of temptation or trial and examined to discover their character, and those who were inwardly evil were rejected, while those who were inwardly good were saved. The inwardly good were people governed by truths springing from goodness derived from the Lord.

Footnotes:

1. The Last Judgment, London, 1758.

2. A Continuation Concerning the Last Judgment and the Spiritual World, Amsterdam, 1763.

  
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Many thanks to the General Church of the New Jerusalem, and to Rev. N.B. Rogers, translator, for the permission to use this translation.