523. 'That Thou hast attained Thy great power, and taken over the kingdom' signifies the New Heaven and the New Church, where they acknowledge Him to be the Only God, as He is and as He, was. 'That Thou hast attained Thy great power' signifies the Divine Omnipotence, which He has, and which He had from eternity. 'That Thou hast taken over the kingdom' signifies that now heaven and the Church are His, as before. By 'His kingdom' here is understood the New Heaven and the New Church, which are treated of in chaps. xxi, xxii of the Apocalypse. In the Apocalypse from beginning to end it treats only of the state of the former heaven and Church and of their abolition, and afterwards of the New Heaven and the New Church, and of the setting up thereof, in which the One God will be acknowledged, in Whom is the Trinity, and that that God is the Lord. The Apocalypse teaches this from beginning to end; for it teaches that the Son of Man, Who is the Lord as to the Divine Human, is the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the Ending, the First and the Last, IS, WAS, and IS TO COME, and is the Almighty (n. 522); and lastly that the New Church, which is the New Jerusalem, is going to be the Church of the Lamb, that is, of His Divine Human, thus at the same time of the Divine from which it came (Divinum a Quo), as is quite plain from these passages:-
Let us rejoice and exult, for the time of the Lamb's wedding has come, and His wife has made herself ready Rev. xix 7.
One of the seven angels came, and said unto me, Come, I will show thee the bride the Lamb's wife, and he showed me the city, holy Jerusalem Rev. xxi 9, 10.
I Jesus am the Root and the Offspring of David, the bright and the morning Star; the Spirit and the bride are saying, Come, and he who hears, let him say, Come Rev. xxii 16, 17.
To the Son of Man has been given dominion, and glory, and the kingdom; His dominion is the dominion of an age, and His kingdom shall not perish Dan. vii 14.
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