AR 490 - Two Witnesses

AR 490 [1, 2, 3]

"And I will give power to my two witnesses."
(Revelation 11:3)

This symbolizes those people
who confess and acknowledge from the heart
that the Lord is God of heaven and earth,
whose humanity is Divine,
and who are conjoined with Him by a life
in accordance with the Ten Commandments.

These are the people meant here
by the two witnesses
because these two characteristics
are the two essential elements of the New Church.

Regarding the first essential,
that the Lord is God of heaven and earth,
whose humanity is Divine -
that this is a testimony,
and therefore that those people are witnesses
who confess and acknowledge this from the heart.

Regarding the second essential of the New Church,
namely conjunction with the Lord by a life
in accordance with the Ten Commandments -
that this is a testimony is apparent from the fact
that the Ten Commandments
are called a testimony . . ..

We will say something here
regarding conjunction with the Lord
by a life in accordance with the Ten Commandments:

There are two tables
on which these commandments were written,
one for the Lord and one for mankind.
The contents of the first table declare
that several gods are not to be worshiped,
but only one.
The contents of the second table declare
that evils are not to be done.
When one God is worshiped
and people do not do evils,
conjunction takes place.
For in the measure
that a person desists from evils,
that is, in the measure that he repents,
he is in the same measure
accepted by God
and does good from God.

But who, now, is the one God?
A trinal or triune God is not one God
when the trine or trinity exists in three persons.
But a God who has a trine or trinity
in one person
is one God,
and that God is the Lord.