5991. What their gods are like [verse 23] has also, by the Divine Mercy of God the Messiah, been shown to me: boastful - especially those who want to become righteousness, and thus strive to possess that which is in God the Messiah: but these matters must not yet be disclosed; perhaps. [Gods; Righteousness; Kingdom] [See also the remainder of WE 5991.]

5999. [Judg. 1:] verse 8. "Jerusalem," the city of God, etc., is also, in the higher sense, the innermost Kingdom of God the Messiah. Because the wicked have striven to take this city, and wanted to establish their own kingdom there, now therefore, in order that this might be atoned for, Jerusalem was "set on fire," and the men were "smitten with the edge of the sword." But with which edge of the sword, may be evident