AE 503 - hail & fire

AE 503 [7]
At the brightness before Him His clouds passed,
with hail and coals of fire.
Jehovah thundered in the heavens,
and the Most High uttered His voice,
hail and coals of fire.
And He sent forth His arrows and scattered them,
and many lightnings and discomfited them.
(Psalm 18:12-14)

Here "hail and fire" have a similar signification
as the "hail and fire" in this passage in Revelation (chap 8:7),
namely, falsities and evils destroying the truths and goods of the church.
It is said that such things are from Jehovah,
because Divine truth coming down out of heaven
is changed with the evil into infernal falsities. . .
and from this change there spring forth many appearances
such as the fall of hail and fire;
and yet these things are not out of heaven from the Lord,
but from those who are in the falsities of evil,
who turn the influx of Divine truth and good into the falsity of evil.
. . . there is nothing from Jehovah but what is good;
and when Jehovah, that is, the Lord, renders the influx powerful,
it is not that He may destroy the evil
but that He may rescue and protect the good,
for He thus conjoins the good to Himself more closely and interiorly,
and thus they are separated from the evil, and the evil perish;
for if the evil were not separated
the good would perish and the angelic heaven would fall to ruin.