A company might have executives setting policy and strategy, engineers designing products, managers handling personnel and others handling various functions. They all do different things -- but if they're doing them with a shared underlying purpose, the company -- and the individuals in it -- will likely be successful. The Lord wants all human society to function in a similar way. We have different skills and individual loves, but if we all share a mutual love -- a love of serving others -- then society will function as one, will be a reflection of heaven and will be a good receptacle for the Lord's love. This can also happen within each of us, as we unify our talents and ideas around a central love. And in an abstract sense, it illustrates how a wide collection of varying ideas can be unified around a shared good intention. That is the kind of love pictured when “one” is used in the Bible, either as a specific number or in the sense of several people or objects “being one.” In more casual references -- when used to identify a specific person or object -- the meaning is relatively literal, and is connected to that person or object.

73. 2. From the Prophets

The day of Jehovah of Hosts shall be upon everyone that is proud and haughty. In that day shall a man cast away his idols; when He arises to terrify the earth (Isaiah 2:12-21). Concerning the Last Judgment.

Jehovah of Hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and God that is holy shall be sanctified in justice (Isaiah 5:16-17). In the first part desolation is treated of (verses 3-15), afterwards the curse upon the evil (verses 18-30).

When thou shalt be visited of Jehovah God with thunder and with earthquake, and a great voice, with storm and tempest, and the flame of devouring fire (Isaiah 29:6).

It is called a day of vengeance (Isaiah 61:2).

Of the Lord's battle with the hells and of their subjugation, and thus of the redemption of the faithful (Isaiah 63:1-14).

As an east wind will I scatter them; I will regard them from the back and not from the face in the day of their calamity (Jeremiah 18:17).

They have been driven before thee; in the time of thine anger deal with them (Jeremiah 18:23).

Concerning the day of judgment, which is called the day of revenge, of vengeance, of ruin, of anger. See many places in the section on Redemption.