2290. Meanwhile, I was inspired with the thought that the Lord grants them such portrayals for the sake of their reformation, meaning that some yearn and long for displays of this kind just like little children, and that then an innocent state of mind is imparted to them, along with thoughts about heaven, symbolized by the land into which they were crossing over, all of which I also experienced. So through delightful play, they were not only being inspired with deeper knowledge of what the Jordan, the ark, the land of Canaan symbolize, but He was actually implanting those qualities in them under the mantle of that innocent, childish joy. Therefore, those who were laughing at them, and would not stop doing so, were never able to achieve anything at all. To them it is being imparted that there are childish games like this that are useful, because they have the true purpose in them, the Lord, Who is the Innocent One Himself, and furthermore, that no earthly human's or any spirit's fantasies are like these, but are so evil that there can be no comparison. 1748, 11 June.