Apocalypse Explained, volume 1 - Swedenborg Foundation

APOCALYPSE EXPLAINED 187Then many nations shall join themselves to Jehovah in that day;they shall be to me for a people, for I will dwell in thee; then Jehovahshall make Judah an heritage to himself, his portion upon the land ofholiness, and shall again choose Jerusalem (Zech. 2:11, 12).Jehovah Zebaoth shall visit his flock, the house of Judah, and shallmake them a horse of glory in war; I will render the house of Judahpowerful (Zech. 10:3, 6).God shall save Zion, and will build the cities of Judah; and theyshall dwell there, and inherit it; the seed also of his servants shall inheritit; and they that love the name of Jehovah shall dwell therein (Ps. 69:35,36).I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob, and out of Judah an inheritorof my mountains; that my chosen may possess it (Isa. 65:9);besides very many other places. That the Jewish nation is notmeant in the Word in these and other places, where they are called“chosen” and “heirs,” may be seen from what is cited respectingthat nation from Arcana Coelestia, in Doctrine of the New Jerusalem(n. 248). From this now can be seen what is signified by the“blasphemy of them who say that they are Jews, and they are not.”120. But are a synagogue of satan, signifies the doctrine of allfalsities with these. This is evident from the signification of“synagogue,” as being doctrine (of which presently); and from thesignification of “satan,” as being the hell from which are all falsities.There are two kinds of hells, one in which those are who are inevils, and the other in which those are who are in the falsities ofevil. The hell in which those are who are in evils is called, in oneword, devil, and that in which those are who are in the falsities ofevil is called, in one word, satan. That the hells are thus named istotally unknown to those who know nothing about the hells, buthave adopted the belief that the devil was created an angel of light,and because he rebelled was cast down with his crew, and thus hellwas made. (That the hells are called devil and satan may be seen inHeaven and Hell, n. 311, 544, 553; and in Last Judgment, in thechapter where it is shown that heaven and hell are from the humanrace, n. 14–22.)