960. [verse 20] 'The One testifying these things says, Indeed I am coming quickly, Amen. Come indeed, Lord Jesus' signifies the Lord Who has revealed the Apocalypse, and has now opened it, testifying the glad tidings that in His Own Divine Human, which He took upon Himself in the world and glorified, He is coming as the Bridegroom and Husband, and that the Church as the Bride and Wife will long for Him. Above at verse 16 of this chapter the Lord said 'I, Jesus, have sent My angel to testify unto you these things in the Churches', by which is signified, as may be seen above (n. 953), a testification by the Lord before the whole of Christendom that it is true that the Only Lord has made manifest the things that have been written in this book, and which have now been opened. From this it is plain that by 'the One testifying these things says' is understood the Lord, Who has revealed the Apocalypse and now opened it, testifying. The reason why He is testifying the glad tidings is because here He announces His coming, His kingdom, and His spiritual marriage with the Church, for He says 'Indeed I am coming quickly, Amen. Come indeed, Lord Jesus', and by 'glad tidings' is signified the Lord's coming to His kingdom, as may be seen (n. 478, 553, 626, 664). The reason why this coming is to a spiritual marriage with the Church is because this New Church is called the Bride and Wife, and the Lord her Bridegroom and Husband (chaps. xix 7-9; xxi 2, 9, 10; xxii 17; above). Also here at the end of the book the Lord speaks and the Church speaks, as a bridegroom and a bride. The Lord speaks these words, 'Indeed I am coming quickly, Amen'; and the Church speaks these, 'Come indeed, Lord Jesus', which are the words of a betrothal for a spiritual marriage. That the Lord is going to come in the Divine Human that He took upon Himself in the world and glorified, is established from this, that He names Himself 'Jesus' and says that He is 'the Root and the Offspring of David' (verse 16), and that the Church says, 'Come, Lord Jesus', as may be seen above (n. 953, 954).