AE 413 - His Apparent Anger and the Last Judgments; AE 414 - To Stand

For the great day of his anger is come;
and who is able to stand?
(Revelation 6:17)

AE 413 [2, 6]

The reason why the Last Judgment is called
the great day of the anger of God, is,
because it appears to the evil,
who are cast down into hell,
as if God from anger and wrath did this,
because then destruction [overtakes] them,
which comes from above, and also from the east,
where the Lord is as a Sun,
and because then they are in
terrors, grief, and also torments.
Nevertheless there is no anger at all in the Lord,
for He is love and mercy itself, and good itself,
and pure love and essential good cannot be angry,
for this is contrary to its essence.
But this appearance is from this fact:
when the last state [of the church arrives],
which is when evils on the earth
and at the same time in the spiritual world
are so much increased
that dominion inclines on their side,
and the equilibrium between heaven and hell
is thereby destroyed,
this having perished,
the heavens where the angels are begin to labor,
then the Lord from the Sun displays His strength,
that is His love for protecting the angels,
and for restoring
the state which labors and begins to grow weak;
from which strength and power,
the Divine truth united to the Divine good,
which in its essence is the Divine love,
penetrates through the heavens to the places below,
where the evil have come together;
and because they cannot bear
such an influx and presence of the Divine love,
they begin to tremble,
to be in anguish and torment;
for thereby the goods and truths are dissipated
which they had learnt to counterfeit
in their speech and actions only in externals,
and their internals are opened,
which are nothing but evils and falsities;
and because they are diametrically opposite
to the goods and truths which flow in from the interior,
and yet they have made evils and falsities their life,
hence they experience trembling, anguish, and torment,
to such a degree, that they can no longer endure them,
from which they flee away,
and cast themselves into the hells
which are under the mountains and rocks,
where they can be in their evils and in the falsity of evils.
This is specifically meant by the words explained above:

"They said to the mountains and rocks,
Fall on us,
and hide us from the face of Him that sits on the throne,
and from the anger of the Lamb."
(Revelation 6:16-17)
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"For the day of vengeance is in My heart,
and the year of My redeemed is come.
And I have trodden the people in My anger,
and made them drunk in My wrath."
(Isaiah 63:4-6)

The combats of the Lord,
by which He subjugated the hells,
are here treated of, thus the Last Judgment,
which was accomplished by Him when He was in the world;
for by the combats,
which were temptations admitted into Himself,
He subjugated them and thus effected the Last Judgment.
This is the judgment which is meant
by the day of Jehovah's anger and wrath
in the Word of the Old Testament;
but the Last Judgment
which is at this day performed by the Lord,
is meant by the day of His anger
as mentioned in the Apocalypse.

AE 414

. . . the expression, to stand,
like [the expressions] to walk and to sit,
in the Word, mean to be and to live;
and to stand, the same as to consist and subsist.