AE 397 - "consummation of the age"

AE 397 [2, 3]

"The consummation of the age"
is the last time when judgment takes place . . ..
The Last Judgment then comes,
for the further reason
that the human race is the basis or foundation
of the angelic heaven,
for the conjunction of the angelic heaven
with the human race is perpetual,
the one subsisting by means of the other;
when therefore the basis does not correspond
the angelic heaven totters;
consequently there must then be a judgment
upon those who are in the spiritual world,
that all things in the heavens
as well as in the hells,
may be reduced to order.

From this it can be known
that "consummation" means the last state of the church,
when there is no longer any faith
because there is no charity.
This state of the church is also called in the Word
"vastation" and "desolation,"
and by the Lord, "consummation of the age."