The Last Judgment; and the Babylon Destroyed So That All the Predictions in the Apocalypse Are at This Day Fulfilled. from Things Heard and Seen

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1840 edition. Excerpt: ... only given to those who are affected with truth for the sake of truth, and are thus in spiritual light, n. 8521. That the light of confirmation is natural light, communicable even to the wicked, n. 8780. That all dogmas, even false ones, may be confirmed, until they appear like truths, n. 2482, 2490, 5033, 6865, 7950. THAT ALL THE THINGS, WHICH ARE PREDICTED IN THE APOCALYPSE, ARE AT THIS DAY FULFILLED. 40. No one can know what all the things which are contained in the Apocalypse signify and involve, unless he knows the internal or spiritual sense of the Word; for every thing there is written in a style similar to that of the prophecies of the Old Testament, in which each word signifies some spiritual thing, which is not apparent in the sense of the letter. Besides, the contents of the Apocalypse cannot be explained as to their spiritual sense, except by one, who also knows how it went with the church even down to its end, which can only be known in heaven, and is the thing contained in the Apocalypse: for the spiritual sense of the Word treats every where of the spiritual world, that is of the state of the church in the heavens, as well as in the countries of the earth; hence the Word is Spiritual and Divine. It is this state which is there expounded in its own order. Hence it may appear, that the things contained in the Apocalypse can never be explained by any one but him, to whom a revelation has been made concerning the successive states of the church in the heavens: for there is a church in the heavens as well as on the earth, of which something shall be said in the following articles. 41. The quality of the Lord's church in the countries of the earth, cannot be seen by any man, so long as he lives in the world, –still less how the..