6593. 'And Joseph died' means that the internal ceased to exist. This is clear from the meaning of 'dying' as ceasing to be such, dealt with in 494, 6587; and from the representation of 'Joseph' as the internal, dealt with in 6499. Regarding what the Church is like when the internal has ceased to exist, see above in 6587, 6592.

6586. Verses 24-26 And Joseph said to his brothers, I am dying; and God will certainly visit you and cause you to go up out of this land to the land which He swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. And Joseph made the children of Israel swear, saying, God will certainly visit you, and you shall cause my bones to go up from here. And Joseph died, a hundred and ten years old; and they embalmed him, and he was put in an ark in Egypt.

'And Joseph said to his brothers, I am dying' means a foretelling that the internal of the Church is about to come to an end. 'And God will certainly visit you' means that the final period is about to come. 'And cause you to go up out of this land to the land which He swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob' means that they are about to come into the state of the Church that the ancients lived in. 'And Joseph made the children of Israel swear, saying' means an obligation. 'God will certainly visit you' means since that final period of the Church is about to come. 'And you shall cause my bones to go up from here' means that there will be a representative of the Church but not a representative Church which also exists on an internal level. 'And Joseph died' means that the internal of the Church ceased to exist. 'A hundred and ten years old' means the state at that time. 'And they embalmed him' means preservation still. 'And he was put in an ark in Egypt' means a concealment within the Church's factual knowledge.