674. CONCERNING THE THOUSAND YEARS I also spoke with those in heaven concerning the thousand years mentioned in the Apocalypse [xx 2-7]. They said that a thousand years did not signify any certain or fixed number of years, thus a thousand, but a long time; and that by the "first resurrection" are meant those spoken of just above who are in the interior heaven. These are certain that they are going to remain there, and that many of them are to be admitted into the more interior heavens; so that the "first resurrection" is for those with whom the natural is joined to the spiritual. They live, and have lived, in heavenly delight.