Apocalypse Explained, volume 1 - Swedenborg Foundation

APOCALYPSE EXPLAINED 141Blessed are the dead that die in the Lord: Yea, saith the spirit, thatthey may rest from their labors; their works do follow them (Rev.14:13).I will give unto each one of you according to his works (Rev. 2:23).I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the bookswere opened; and the dead were judged out of the things which werewritten in the books, according to their works. The sea gave up the deadwhich were in it; and death and hell gave up those that were in them;and they were judged everyone according to their works (Rev. 20:12,13).Behold I come, and my reward is with me, to render to each oneaccording to his works (Rev. 22:12).In Jeremiah:I will recompense them according to their work, and according tothe doing of their hands (Jer. 25:14).Jehovah, whose eyes are open upon all the ways of the sons of men,to give everyone according to his ways and according to the fruit of hisworks (Jer. 32:19).Elsewhere:I will visit upon him his ways, and will render unto him for hisworks (Hosea 4:9).According to our ways and according to our works Jehovah hathdone with us (Zech. 1:6).Where the Lord prophesies respecting the last judgment he makesmention of works only, and declares that:Those who have done good works shall enter into life eternal, andthose who have done evil works into condemnation (Matt. 25:32–46).[5] That “works” signify the things that are of love and faith theLord also shows in these words: