AC 1839, 1843, 1486 - in the last times

AC 1839 [2-3]
The sun shall be darkened,
and the moon shall not give her light,
and the stars shall fall from heaven,
and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken.
(Matthew 24:29)
This does not mean that the sun of the world will be darkened,
but the celestial which is of love and charity;
nor the moon,
but the spiritual which is of faith;
nor that the stars will fall from heaven,
but that the knowledges of good and truth
with a person of the church will do so,
for these are "the powers of the heavens;"
nor will these things take place in heaven,
but on earth; for heaven is never darkened.

That "a terror of great darkness fell upon him,"
means that the Lord was horrified at so great a vastation.
So far as anyone is in the celestial things of love,
so far does he feel horror
when he perceives a consummation (closure, ending).
So it was with the Lord, above all others;
for He was in love itself, both celestial and Divine.

AC 1843 [3]
. . . by the faith that will perish in the last times
there is meant nothing but charity,
for there cannot possibly be any faith but the faith of charity.
He who has no charity cannot have any faith at all,
for charity is the very soil in which faith is implanted;
it is its heart, from which it exists and lives.
The ancients for this reason compared love and charity to the heart,
and faith to the lungs, both of which are in the breast.
This comparison involves a real likeness,
seeing that if a person should pretend to a life of faith without charity,
it would be like having life from the lungs alone without the heart . . ..
From this came the ancient forms of speech concerning good and truth;
that they must go forth from the heart.

AC 1846 [3-4]
He was despised, a man of sorrows,
on account of which as it were
men hid their faces from Him.
He was despised,
and we esteemed Him not.
Surely He has borne our sicknesses and carried our sorrows,
yet we esteemed Him stricken,
smitten of God, and afflicted.
(Isaiah 53:3, 4)

These words mean the Lord's temptations.
The words 'He has borne our sicknesses and carried our sorrows'
are not used to mean that believers will not undergo any temptation,
nor that He transferred their sins on to Himself and so bore them Himself.
Rather, they mean
that He who overcame the hells through the conflicts
brought about by temptations and through victories
would in the same manner
- all by Himself, even as to His Human Essence -
endure the temptations experienced by believers.

Temptations are also called by the Lord "afflictions" . . .