Title: Final Gathering, Attack, and Collapse (Rev. 19-20)

Topic: Second Coming

Summary: Final Gathering, Attack, and Collapse (Rev. 19-20)

Use the reference links below to follow along in the Bible as you watch.

References:
Revelation 19; 20:1-14; 6:9
Hebrews 9:27
Exodus 15:6, 8-10
Matthew 13:24-30, 36-43
Ezekiel 38:8-13, 20-23; 39:1, 4-7, 17-29

5221. They sit at the right, which is toward the south, around a table and consider how God must be worshiped if He gives them the power of controlling things on earth for Him, and how if He does not. And they think about how they can make it appear to the common people that they give heaven to them, and many other things whose intent is to rob the Lord of all power of saving the human race and to possess this power. I have heard them talking among themselves when they heard about the life of faith and love, [saying] that they never knew that faith and love would give them any kind of life, either to their understanding of things or to what they wanted to do, but that a person possesses both of these equally without faith and love. In the world they had not at all understood that the things that pertain to faith, and so to Divine truth, make the life of the intellect spiritual, and that those that pertain to love, and so to Divine good, make the life of the will heavenly with a person, and consequently make wisdom and happiness. For them such things were then delusions, meaningless fantasies. I have heard them speaking among themselves in this way. They added that they had put the life of the intellect in devising plots well, so that they could get what they wanted. Consequently they had put it in tricks and malice. They called such things intelligence and wisdom. And they had put love's life in the love of commanding over others and of gaining the whole world.