Angelic Wisdom about Divine ProvidenceSwedenborg, Emanuel
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Angelic Wisdom about Divine Providence
Swedenborg, Emanuel
Providence and government of God -- Christianity
Those who have done good shall go out into the resurrection of life, but
those who have done evil into the resurrection of judgment (Jn 5:29).
[3] We know . . . that God does not hear sinners, but if a man worships
God and does His will, him He hears (Jn 9:31).
If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them (13:17).
He who has My commandments and does them, he it is who loves Me, ... and
I will love him, . . . and I will come to him, and make an abode with him
(14:15, 21-24).
You are My friends, if you do whatsoever I command you... . I have chosen
you . . . that you may bear fruit and that your fruit may remain (15:14,
16).
[4] The Lord said to John, Write to the angel of the Ephesian church, I
know your works: . . . I have against you that you have left an earlier
charity; . . . repent, and do the former works; else . . . I shall remove
your candlestick from its place (Apoc 2:1, 2, 4, 5).
To the angel of the church of the Smyrneans write, I know your works
(2:8, 9).
To the angel of the church in Pergamos write, . . . I know your works,
repent (2:12, 13, 16).
To the angel of the church in Thyatira write, . . . I know your works and
charity, . . . and your later works are more than the first (2:18, 19).
To the angel of the church in Sardis write, . . . I know your works, that
you have a name that you are alive, but you are dead; . . . I have not
found your works perfect before God; . . . repent (3:1-3).
To the angel of the church in Philadelphia write, I know your works (3:7,
8).
To the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write, I know your works;
. . . repent (3:14, 15, 19).
I heard a voice from heaven saying, Write, blessed are the dead who die
in the Lord from now on; ... their works follow them (14:13).
A book was opened, which is the book of life, and the dead were judged,
... all according to their works (20:12, 13).
Lo, I come quickly, and My reward is with Me, to give to everyone
according to his work (22:12).
These are passages in the New Testament;
[5] there are still more in the Old, from which I shall quote only this
one:
Stand in the gate . . . of Jehovah, and proclaim this word there: Thus
says Jehovah Zebaoth the God of Israel, Make your ways good, and your
works; . . . put not your trust in lying words, saying, The temple, the
temple, the temple of Jehovah is this. . . . Thieving and killing and
committing adultery and swearing falsely . . . will you then come to
stand before Me in this house which is called by My name and say, We are
delivered? When you do those abominable things? Has not this house been
made a den of robbers? Even I, lo, I have seen it, is the word of Jehovah
(Je 7:2-4, 9-11).
VII. IT IS A LAW OF DIVINE PROVIDENCE THAT MAN SHALL NOT BE COMPELLED BY
EXTERNAL MEANS TO THINK AND WILL, THUS TO BELIEVE AND LOVE WHAT PERTAINS
TO RELIGION, BUT BRING HIMSELF AND AT TIMES COMPEL HIMSELF TO DO SO
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