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"Until the words of God shall be consummated"
(Revelation 17:17)
By "being consummated" is signified to be fulfilled;
and by "the words of God" are signified the things
which are foretold in the Word.
Because it is here said, "until the words of God are consummated,"
it shall also be told
what is signified by the Lord's last words to the disciples,
which are these:
Go ye and make disciples of all nations,
teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you;
and behold, I am with you all the days,
even until the consummation of the age. Amen.
(Matt. 28:19-20)
"Until the consummation of the age" is until the end of the church;
and then, if they do not go to the Lord Himself,
and live according to His commandments,
they are left by the Lord;
and being left by the Lord they become like pagans,
who have no religion;
and then the Lord is with those only, who will be of His New Church.
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"Until the consummation of the age" is until the end of the church;
and then, if they do not go to the Lord Himself,
and live according to His commandments,
they are left by the Lord;
and being left by the Lord they become like pagans, who have no religion;
and then the Lord is with those only, who will be of His New Church.
Extracts from a letter to Beyer, April 12, 1770:
Only two days ago I received your letter of March 21, and in reading it I was astounded by the reports which I understand have arrived in Goteborg from Stockholm, to the effect that you and also Doctor Rosen were to be deposed and exiled...
In the printed Minutes I find no evidence that they have gone into the matter itself, but they have only adopted the means of attacking by intolerable words of abuse; when yet the real matter and the case in question is this: whether it be permitted to go directly to our Redeemer and Saviour Jesus Christ, or whether one is bound to go the roundabout way, namely to God the Father, in order that He may impute the merit and righteousness of His Son and send the Holy Spirit.
But that one may also go the other way, which is the short way, namely to our Saviour Jesus Christ, is according to both the Augsburg Confession and the Formula Concordiae, and also according to our prayers and hymns, and is in entire agreement with the Word of God.
In the Augsburg Confession...
In the Formula Concordiae...
In our Hymnbook...
In addition to all this there are in my two letters, which are inserted in the Goteborg Minutes and printed, very many proofs adduced from the whole of the Formula Concordiae, showing that our Saviour is equally God as to His Human Nature, which both Luther and the Formula Concordiae confirm with all their might, and which is in agreement with the whole of the Word of God. As proof only Col. ii 9 and 1 John v 20, 21, may now be referred to.
More passages of the same content are adduced from one of my books, extracts of which are to be found in the printed Minutes of the Goteborg Consistory.
All this they there call Swedenborgianism, but I for my part call it true Christianity.
This is the state of the question now in dispute...
With reference to the Son of God from eternity which also has become a subject of dispute, it has also been proved by me that in the Apostles' Creed, which is received in the whole of Christendom, and which contains the doctrine of the Apostles themselves, no other Son of God is mentioned than the Son of God born in time, who is our Redeemer Himself, to whom every man can go, and to whom also, as confirmed in the Augsburg Confession or Formula Concordiae, he is permitted to go, and thus to seek his salvation...
Therefore, should you be deposed and exiled, what else would the present and coming generations say than that it was because he went directly to our Lord the Saviour, and yet did not deny the Trinity. What astonishment and commotion would not this cause in every individual!...
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