1530. The truth of this could be proved to anyone from the Word, for example, when the Lord revealed Himself to Peter, James, and John, for His face at that time shone like the sun and His garments became white as the light, Matt 17:2. The sole reason why He appeared to them in this way was that their interior sight had been opened The same is also confirmed from the Prophets, as in Isaiah when reference is being made to the Lord's kingdom in heaven,
The light of the moon will be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun will be sevenfold, as the light of seven days. Isa 30:26.
And in John, where reference is being made to the Lord's kingdom which is called the New Jerusalem,
The city has no need of the sun or of the moon to shed light in it; for the glory of God gives it light, and its lamp is the Lamb. Rev 21:23.
And elsewhere in the same book,
There will be no night there, nor do they need a lamp or light of the sun, for the Lord God gives them light. Rev 22:5.
And in addition when the Lord appeared to Moses, Aaron, Nadab, Abihu, and the seventy elders, it is said that they saw the God of Israel under whose feet there was so to speak a paved work of sapphire stone, like the substance of the sky for clearness, Exod 24:10.Because the Lord's celestial and spiritual appears before the external sight of the angels as the Sun and the Moon, 'the sun' in the Word therefore means what is celestial, and 'the moon' what is spiritual.
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