Heaven and its Wonders and Hell eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 590 pages of information about Heaven and its Wonders and Hell.

Heaven and its Wonders and Hell eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 590 pages of information about Heaven and its Wonders and Hell.
{Footnote 1} Those in the spiritual kingdom are in truths, and those in the celestial kingdom are in good (n. 863, 875, 927, 1023, 1043, 1044, 1555, 2256, 4328, 4493, 5113, 9596).  The good of the spiritual kingdom is the good of charity towards the neighbor and this good in its essence is truth (n. 8042, 10296).
{Footnote 2} In the Word “righteousness” is predicated of good, and “Judgment” of truth therefore “to do righteousness and judgment” means good and truth (n. 2235, 9857).  “Great judgments” means the law of Divine order, thus Divine truths (n. 7206).

216.  As government from good, which is the kind of government that exists in the Lord’s celestial kingdom, is called righteousness; and government from truth, which is the kind of government that exists in the Lord’s spiritual kingdom, is called judgment, so the terms “righteousness and judgment” are used in the Word when heaven and the church are treated of, “righteousness” signifying celestial good, and “judgment” spiritual good, which good, as has been said above, is in its essence truth, as in the following passages: 

Of peace there shall be no end upon the throne of David and upon His kingdom, to establish it and to uphold it in judgment and in righteousness from henceforth and even to eternity (Isaiah 9:7).

By “David” here the Lord is meant;{1} and by “His kingdom” heaven, as is evident from the following passage: 

I will raise unto David a righteous Branch, and He shall reign as King, and shall deal intelligently and shall execute judgment and righteousness in the land (Jer. 23:5).

     Jehovah is exalted, for He dwelleth on high; He hath
     filled Zion with judgment and righteousness (Isaiah 33:5). 
     “Zion” also means heaven and the church.{2}

     I, Jehovah, doing judgment and righteousness on the earth,
     for in these things I delight (Jer. 9:24).

     I will betroth thee unto Me forever, and I will betroth
     thee unto Me in righteousness and judgment (Hosea 2:19).

     O Jehovah, in the heavens Thy righteousness is like the
     mountains of God, and Thy judgments are like the great
     deep (Psalm 36:5, 6).

     They ask of Me the judgments of righteousness, they long
     for an approach unto God (Isaiah 58:2).  So in other
     places.

  {Footnote 1} By “David” in the prophetic parts of the Word, the
  Lord is meant (n. 1888, 9954).

  {Footnote 2} In the Word “Zion” means the church, and
  specifically the celestial church (n. 2362, 9055).

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