791. NOTE

After the completion of this book, the Lord called together His twelve disciples, who had followed Him in the world; and a day later He sent them all forth throughout the spiritual world to preach the Gospel, that the Lord God Jesus Christ is king, and His kingdom shall be for ever and ever, as foretold by Daniel (Daniel 7:13-14) and in Revelation (Revelation 11:15):

Blessed are they who come to the wedding supper of the Lamb, Revelation 19:9.

This happened on the nineteenth of June in the year 1770. This was meant by the Lord's saying:

He will send his angels, and they will gather together His chosen people from the bounds of the heavens on one side as far as the bounds of the heavens on the other, Matthew 24:31.

We tend to speak somewhat casually of "truth from the Lord," but in actual fact the Lord's truth -- the immediate expression of His infinite love -- is of such brightness and blinding power that it actually is light itself, the light of heaven, bright beyond human imagination, and must be filtered down through multiple levels to a state where we can form it into mental concepts and express it in language. Indeed, this is why the Bible is written with an internal sense; only through such indirect expression can it serve as a container for the real truth that lies hidden within. That brilliance, that overwhelming light from the Lord contained in the Bible, is what "glory" means in the Bible's natural language. That's why it is seen so often in passing, or imagined, or seen within a cloud: We cannot look at it directly.