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Conjugial Love #26
26. Again I swear in truth that these events and words occurred as I have related them, the first ones in the world of spirits, which is midway between heaven and hell, and the subsequent ones in a society of heaven, the society from which came the angel with the trumpet, who acted as guide.
Who in the Christian world would know anything about heaven and the joys and happiness there - knowledge of which is also knowledge of salvation - unless it pleased the Lord to open to someone the sight of his spirit and to show him and teach him?
Corroboration that things like these occur in the spiritual world appears plainly from the things seen and heard by the apostle John, as described in the book of Revelation. For example, he describes having seen the following:
The Son of Man in the midst of the seven lampstands. 1
A tabernacle, temple, ark, and altar in heaven. 2
A book sealed with seven seals. The book opened, and horses going out of it. 3
Four living creatures around a throne. 4
Twelve thousand taken from each tribe. 5
Locusts arising out of the abyss. 6
A dragon and its fight with Michael. 7
A woman giving birth to a male child and fleeing into the wilderness because of the dragon. 8
Two beasts, one rising up out of the sea, the other out of the earth. 9
A woman sitting on a scarlet beast. 10
The dragon cast into a lake of fire and brimstone. 11
A white horse, and a great supper. 12
A new heaven and a new earth, and the holy Jerusalem coming down, described as to its gates, wall, and foundations. 13
Also a river of water of life, and trees of life yielding fruits every month. 14
Besides many other things, all of which were seen by John, and seen when he was in the spirit 15 in the spiritual world and in heaven. In addition, those things which were seen by the apostles after the Lord's resurrection. 16 And which were later seen by Peter (Acts of the Apostles 11). 17 Also which were then seen and heard by Paul. 18
Moreover, there were the things seen by the prophets. For example, Ezekiel saw the following:
Four living creatures, which were cherubs. (Ezekiel 1 and 10)
A new temple and a new earth, and an angel measuring them. (Ezekiel 40-48)
Being carried off to Jerusalem, he saw the abominations there. (Ezekiel 8) And he was also carried off into Chaldea, to those in captivity. (Ezekiel 11) 19
Something similar happened with Zechariah:
He saw a man riding among myrtle trees. (Zechariah 1:8 ff.)
He saw four horns, and then a man with a measuring line in his hand. (Zechariah 1:18 ff., 2:1 ff.)
He saw a lampstand and two olive trees. (Zechariah 4:1 ff.)
He saw a flying scroll, and an ephah. (Zechariah 5:1, 6)
He saw four chariots coming from between two mountains, with horses. (Zechariah 6:1 ff.)
Likewise with Daniel:
He saw four beasts come up from the sea. (Daniel 7:1 ff.)
Also the combats of a ram and a goat. (Daniel 8:1 ff.)
He saw the angel Gabriel, who spoke at length with him. (Daniel 9) 20
Moreover, Elisha's young man saw fiery chariots and horses around Elisha, and he saw them when his eyes were opened. 21
From these and many other passages in the Word, it is evident that the things which exist in the spiritual world have appeared to many, before and after the Lord's Advent. Why should it be surprising for them to appear also now, when the Church is beginning and the New Jerusalem is coming down from the Lord out of heaven
Imibhalo yaphansi:
2. E.g., Revelation 6:9, 8:3, 9:13, 11:19, 14:17-18, 15:5-6, 15:8.
3. Revelation 5:1, 6:1-8.
4. Revelation 4:6, et al.
9. Revelation 13:1 ff., 11 ff.
10. Revelation 17:3 ff.
15. Revelation 1:10, 4:2, 17:3, 21:10.
16. See Matthew 28, Mark 16, Luke 24, John 20, 21, Acts 1:4-11.
18. See Acts 9:1-19, 22:6-21, 26:12-18.
Hebrews 10
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For the law, having a shadow of the good to come, not the very image of the things, can never with the same sacrifices year by year, which they offer continually, make perfect those who draw near.
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Or else wouldn't they have ceased to be offered, because the worshippers, having been once cleansed, would have had no more consciousness of sins?
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But in those sacrifices there is a yearly reminder of sins.
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For it is impossible that the blood of bulls and goats should take away sins.
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Therefore when he comes into the world, he says, "Sacrifice and offering you didn't desire, but you prepared a body for me;
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You had no pleasure in whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin.
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Then I said, 'Behold, I have come (in the scroll of the book it is written of me) to do your will, O God.'"
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Previously saying, "Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin you didn't desire, neither had pleasure in them" (those which are offered according to the law),
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then he has said, "Behold, I have come to do your will." He takes away the first, that he may establish the second,
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by which will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
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Every priest indeed stands day by day serving and often offering the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins,
12
but he, when he had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down on the right hand of God;
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from that time waiting until his enemies are made the footstool of his feet.
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For by one offering he has perfected forever those who are being sanctified.
15
The Holy Spirit also testifies to us, for after saying,
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"This is the covenant that I will make with them: 'After those days,' says the Lord, 'I will put my laws on their heart, I will also write them on their mind;'" then he says,
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"I will remember their sins and their iniquities no more."
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Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.
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Having therefore, brothers, boldness to enter into the holy place by the blood of Jesus,
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by the way which he dedicated for us, a new and living way, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;
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and having a great priest over the house of God,
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let's draw near with a true heart in fullness of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and having our body washed with pure water,
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let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering; for he who promised is faithful.
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Let us consider how to provoke one another to love and good works,
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not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of some is, but exhorting one another; and so much the more, as you see the Day approaching.
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For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more a sacrifice for sins,
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but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and a fierceness of fire which will devour the adversaries.
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A man who disregards Moses' law dies without compassion on the word of two or three witnesses.
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How much worse punishment, do you think, will he be judged worthy of, who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and has counted the blood of the covenant with which he was sanctified an unholy thing, and has insulted the Spirit of grace?
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For we know him who said, "Vengeance belongs to me," says the Lord, "I will repay." Again, "The Lord will judge his people."
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It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
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But remember the former days, in which, after you were enlightened, you endured a great struggle with sufferings;
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partly, being exposed to both reproaches and oppressions; and partly, becoming partakers with those who were treated so.
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For you both had compassion on me in my chains, and joyfully accepted the plundering of your possessions, knowing that you have for yourselves a better possession and an enduring one in the heavens.
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Therefore don't throw away your boldness, which has a great reward.
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For you need endurance so that, having done the will of God, you may receive the promise.
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"In a very little while, he who comes will come, and will not wait.
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But the righteous will live by faith. If he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him."
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But we are not of those who shrink back to destruction, but of those who have faith to the saving of the soul.
