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Joel 3:15

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15 The sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars withdraw their shining.

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Sit, stand, and walk before Jehovah

  

In Genesis 18:22, this signifies the Lord's thought from His Human conjoined and adjoined with His Divine. (Arcana Coelestia 2245, 2247)

In Genesis 24:13, this signifies the state of conjunction of truth divine in the Human. (Arcana Coelestia 3065)

In Genesis 24:30, this signifies the presence of truth in general external knowledge of the natural man. (Arcana Coelestia 3135)

In Exodus 18:13, this signifies obedience from truth divine. (Arcana Coelestia 8686)

In Revelation 7:9, this signifies hearing the Lord and doing His Commandments. (Apocalypse Revealed 366)

In Psalm 1:1, to walk expresses life of thought from intention; to stand expresses the life of the intention from the will; and to sit, the life of the will. (Apocalypse Explained 687)

'To sit before Jehovah' is to be with Him, and so, it also means willing and acting from Him. 'To stand before Him,' is to look to and understand His will, and 'to walk before Him,' is to live according to His precepts, so from Him.

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Arcana Coelestia #2245

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2245. 'The men looked from there' means the Lord's thought from the Divine. This is clear from the meaning of 'looking from' as thinking, for 'seeing' in the internal sense, as in everyday speech, is understanding, since the understanding is internal sight, and thus 'looking from' means thinking, which is the activity of the internal sight or the understanding; and also from the meaning of 'the men' as the Divine. In various places in this chapter 'the men' are mentioned, and in various other places 'Jehovah' instead of 'the men'. When 'the men' is used the Trinity is meant, that is, the Divine itself, the Divine Human, and the [Holy] proceeding. The Lord's thought from this Divine is meant by the words 'the men looked from there'. That thought came from the Human joined to the Divine, which conjunction was dealt with at the start of this chapter; but the perception from which the thought stemmed came from the Divine, which explains why immediately afterwards in this same verse reference is made to Jehovah in the words 'he stood before Jehovah'. And when the Human had been joined to the Divine, the [Holy] proceeding was together with them as well.

  
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