LJ 67, 73 - The Change With the Last Judgment

LJ 67

. . . a Last Judgment has been effected
upon the inhabitants of this planet twice before,
and now for the third time;
thus also a heaven and an earth
have twice passed away before,
and a new heaven and a new earth have been created;
for the heaven and the earth
are the church in either world . . ..

LJ 73

The state of the world hereafter
will be altogether similar to what it has been heretofore,
for the great change
which has taken place in the spiritual world,
does not induce any change in the natural world
as to the external form;
so that after this there will be civil affairs as before,
there will be peace, treaties, and wars as before,
with all other things
which belong to societies in general and in particular . . ..
. . .  for the Word in its prophecies does not treat
of the kingdoms on earth, nor of the nations there,
thus neither concerning their wars, nor of famines,
pestilences, and earthquakes there,
but of such things as correspond to them
in the spiritual world . . ..
As to the external appearance
divided churches will exist as heretofore,
their doctrines will be taught as heretofore;
and the same religions as now
will exist among the Gentiles.
But henceforth a person of the church will be in
a more free state of thinking on matters of faith,
thus on the spiritual things which relate to heaven,
because spiritual freedom has been restored to him.
For all things in the heavens and in the hells
are now reduced into order,
and all thought concerning Divine things
and against the Divine
inflows from there;
from the heavens all thought
which is in harmony with Divine things,
and from the hells all which is against Divine things.
But a person does not observe
this change of state in himself,
because he does not reflect upon it,
and because he knows nothing
of spiritual freedom and of influx;
nevertheless it is perceived in heaven,
and also by the person himself after his death.
Because spiritual freedom has been restored to man,
therefore the spiritual sense of the Word
has now been disclosed,
and by it interior Divine truths have been revealed;
for man in his former state
would not have understood them,
and he who would have understood them,
would have profaned them.