248. * I could not help judging this to be the meaning of these words because of what happened today in heaven, when one person from that house, who represented the whole house, was cast out. But this took place as if above me, in a remarkable way. The 20th day of July, 1746 (old calendar). 5659. The judgment, of course, does not now follow at this point in the text, but still the same judgment continues as before, Chap. 32: verse 34. But now a new covenant is being contracted, as was the first one, the main point of which is that they should not worship any other God. But because they had even broken this covenant, they were sentenced to die in the desert, for they still wished to have other gods, as is seen in Num. Chapter 14: verse 4 and then the following verses. * For God the Messiah now also prayed to Jehovah His Father [see John 17], as follows from verses 6 to 9 inclusive.