True Christian Religion 791 - NOTE
After this work was finished
the Lord called together His twelve disciples who followed Him in the world;
and the next day He sent them all forth throughout the whole spiritual world
to preach the Gospel that THE LORD GOD JESUS CHRIST reigns,
whose kingdom shall be for ages and ages,
according to the prediction in Daniel (7:13, 14), and in Revelation (11:15).
Also that blessed are those that come to the marriage supper of the Lamb.
(Revelation. 19:9)
This took place on the nineteenth day of June, 1770.
This is what is meant by these words of the Lord:
He shall send His angels
and they shall gather together His elect,
from the end of the heavens to the end thereof.
(Matthew 24:31)
Blessed day, everyone!
The Doctrine of the Sacred Scripture 1-2 -
It is in everybody's mouth that the Word is from God,
is Divinely inspired, and is therefore holy;
and yet hitherto no one has known wherein it is Divine.
For in the letter the Word appears like a common writing,
in a style that is strange,
and neither so sublime nor so brilliant
as apparently are the writings of the day.
For this reason a man who worships nature as God,
or in preference to God,
and who consequently thinks from himself and what is proper to himself,
and not from heaven from the Lord,
may easily fall into error in respect to the Word,
and into contempt for it,
and while reading it may say to himself,
What is this?
What is that?
Can this be Divine?
Could God, whose wisdom is infinite, speak in this manner?
Wherein consists its holiness, and from where comes its holiness,
except from religious feeling and its consequent persuasion?
But he who thinks in this way
does not consider that Jehovah Himself, the God of heaven and earth,
spoke the Word through Moses and the prophets,
and that it must therefore be Divine truth itself,
for what Jehovah Himself speaks can be nothing else.
Nor does he consider that the Lord,
who is the same as Jehovah,
spoke the Word that is in the Gospels,
much of it with His own mouth,
and the rest from the spirit of His mouth, which is the Holy Spirit.
This is why, as He Himself says,
there is Life in His words,
that He is the Light which enlightens,
and that He is the Truth.
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