819. 'For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy' signifies that the acknowledgment that the Lord is the God of heaven and earth, and at the same time a life in accordance with His precepts, is in the universal sense everything of the Word and of the doctrine thence. By 'the testimony of Jesus' is signified the Lord's bearing witness in heaven that it is His, and thus that He is in heaven one among the angels there. And because that witness cannot be given to any others than those who are in conjunction with the Lord, and those are in conjunction with the Lord who acknowledge Hun as the God of heaven and earth as He Himself teaches in Matt. xxviii 18, and at the same time live in accordance with His precepts, especially in accordance with the precepts of the Decalogue, therefore these two things are signified by 'the testimony of Jesus', as may be seen above (n. 6, 490). By [the statement] that that testimony 'is the spirit of prophecy' is signified that it is everything of the Word and of the doctrine thence; for the Word in the universal sense treats only of the Lord and of a life in accordance with His precepts. This is why the Lord is the Word. For He is the Word because the Word is derived from Himself and treats of Himself Only and is solely concerned with teaching how He is to be acknowledged and worshipped. Also these things are the precepts of the Word that are called the Divine Truths in accordance with which one must live in order to be able to come into conjunction with the Lord. That the Word treats of the Only Lord, and that this is why the Lord is said to be the Word, may be seen in THE DOCTRINE OF THE NEW JERUSALEM CONCERNING THE LORD (n. 1-7, 8-11, 19-28, 37-44) and in THE DOCTRINE OF THE NEW JERUSALEM CONCERNING THE SACRED SCRIPTURE (n. 80-90, 98-100). This also is what the Lord says:-