709. 'And there went forth a great voice out of the temple of heaven out of the throne saying, It has been done' signifies [that] thus it was made manifest by the Lord that all things of the Church have been devastated, and that now the last judgment is at hand. By 'a great voice going forth out of the temple of heaven' is signified a making manifest by the Lord out of the inmost of heaven; by 'a great voice' the making manifest, and by 'the temple of heaven' is signified the inmost of heaven, out of which the influx [came] (n. 669). 'Out of the throne' is said, because by 'the throne' is signified heaven, and also judgment. That it signifies heaven may be seen (n. 221, 222), and judgment (n. 229); and this because it has now been made manifest that all things of the Church have been devastated, thus that it is the end of it, and at the end of the Church there is a judgment. And therefore this is said when the last angel poured out the phial 'out of the temple of heaven out of the throne'. By 'it has been done' is signified that it has been consummated, that is, that all things of the Church have been devastated, as may be seen above (n. 676).