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1 και εσται μετα ταυτα και εκχεω απο του πνευματος μου επι πασαν σαρκα και προφητευσουσιν οι υιοι υμων και αι θυγατερες υμων και οι πρεσβυτεροι υμων ενυπνια ενυπνιασθησονται και οι νεανισκοι υμων ορασεις οψονται

2 και επι τους δουλους και επι τας δουλας εν ταις ημεραις εκειναις εκχεω απο του πνευματος μου

3 και δωσω τερατα εν τω ουρανω και επι της γης αιμα και πυρ και ατμιδα καπνου

4 ο ηλιος μεταστραφησεται εις σκοτος και η σεληνη εις αιμα πριν ελθειν ημεραν κυριου την μεγαλην και επιφανη

5 και εσται πας ος αν επικαλεσηται το ονομα κυριου σωθησεται οτι εν τω ορει σιων και εν ιερουσαλημ εσται ανασωζομενος καθοτι ειπεν κυριος και ευαγγελιζομενοι ους κυριος προσκεκληται

   

From Swedenborg's Works

 

Canons of the New Church #27

  
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27. CHAPTER IV. THE PROGRESSION OF A CHURCH TOWARDS ITS END, AND THE END ITSELF, ARE DESCRIBED IN VERY MANY PLACES IN THE WORD

1. A successive decreasing of good and truth and increasing of evil and falsity in a Church is termed in the Word its "being laid waste" and "becoming desolate".

2. Its final state, when there is nothing of good or truth remaining, is there termed "consummation" and "being cut off".

3. The end itself of a Church is the "fullness [of time]".

4. The same things also are meant in the Word by "evening" and "night".

5. And also by these things in the Prophets and in the Gospels: then shall the sun be darkened, the moon shall not give her light, the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken. 1

6. Then the Church exists no longer except in name; nevertheless, there is this "remnant" in it, that a man, if he wishes, can know and understand truths, and can do goods. 2

Footnotes:

1. See Isa. 13:10; Ezek. 32:7; Joel 2:10, 31; 3:15; Amos 8:9; Matt. 24:29; Mark 13:24; Luke 21:25-26; Rev. 6:12-13 8:10, 12.

2. In the margin of the Nordenskjold manuscript by another hand are the words: "But now hardly one in the whole of Christendom wishes to know."

  
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