Advent Reading - December 6

It shall come to pass in that day
that Jehovah shall hiss for the fly
that is in the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt,
and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria.
And they shall all come and rest
in the river of desolations
and in the clefts of the rocks,
and in all shrubs.
(Isaiah 7:18, 19)

The subject here treated of is the coming of the Lord,
and the state of the church at that time.
"The fly in the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt"
denotes falsity in the extremes, that is,
in a person's external sensuous;
"the bee in the land of Assyria"
denotes the falsity which perverts
the reasonings of the mind,
for "Assyria" denotes reasoning;
"the river of desolations"
denotes falsity reigning everywhere;
"the clefts of the rock"
denote the truths of faith in obscurity,
because removed from the light of heaven;
the "shrubs" denote nascent (newly developing)
truths of a similar kind.