Title: A Way Forward, Part 2
Topic: Second Coming
Summary: An important first stage in moving from hell to heaven, whether individually or as a cultrure, is to cry out to the Lord, even if we seemingly get no response. That is actually the Lord planting and building a desire in our hearts for something better than our current situation. This desire is a gift-much needed fuel for out journey.
References:
Exodus 2:23-25
2 Samuel 22:4-7
Psalms 30:1-3; 34:4-7; 107:17-22; 120:1-2; 130; 142
Lamentations 2:18-19
Jonah 2:1-2
Matthew 20:29-34
Luke 11:5-11
Revelation 1:7
Matthew 24:30
Zechariah 12:10
Daniel 7:13-15, 28
Isaiah 6:1-5
Genesis 42:6-7; 1:1-3
Hebrews 4:12-13
Matthew 5:26
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.
323 - A Way Forward, Part 2 of 7
Door Jonathan S. Rose
Arcana Coelestia #860
860. From these considerations it also becomes clear that all regeneration advances from evening to morning, as is mentioned six times in Genesis 1 where the regeneration of man is the subject. Here the evening is described in verses 2-3, the morning in verses 4-5. The present verse describes the first ray of light or the morning of this state as 'the tops of the mountains appearing'.
Psalms 130
1
Out of the depths I have cried to you, Yahweh.
2
Lord, hear my voice. Let your ears be attentive to the voice of my petitions.
3
If you, Yah, kept a record of sins, Lord, who could stand?
4
But there is forgiveness with you, therefore you are feared.
5
I wait for Yahweh. My soul waits. I hope in his word.
6
My soul longs for the Lord more than watchmen long for the morning; more than watchmen for the morning.
7
Israel, hope in Yahweh, for with Yahweh there is loving kindness. With him is abundant redemption.
8
He will redeem Israel from all their sins. A Song of Ascents. By David.
