Title: How to Conquer Evil

Topic: Salvation

Summary: When we find ourselves in a battle with evil. we need to fight against it with all our power, but also acknoledge that the Lord is the one doing the work.

References:
Ex 15:22-23; 17:1, 8-16
Gen 36:1, 10-12
Ex 24:12-14
Num 14:25; 24:15-20
Deut 25:17-19
Matthew 10:34-39
Romans 8:35-39
Rev 6:1-2

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.

7048. And He ceased from him. That this signifies that it was permitted that they should represent, is evident from the signification of “ceasing from him,” namely, from killing him, as being permission that they should represent; for that “Jehovah sought to kill him,” signified that a representative church could not be instituted with that nation (see n. 7043); and therefore when it is now said that “He ceased from him,” it signifies that it was permitted that they should represent, that is, that there should be instituted with that nation the representative of a church, but not a church. That it is one thing to represent a church, and another to be a church, is evident from the fact that even the evil can represent a church, but none except the good can be a church; for to represent a church is merely external (n. 3670, 4208, 4281).