7183. It is similar now, at the last time. For now this earthly-minded people and those like it - trusting in their own works, and thinking that heaven has been promised to them, while formerly they had believed only that the land was promised to them - now they maintain, now that they are in the lower heaven, that heaven has been promised to them. For the situation they are in governs them and directs their strivings toward any opportunity that situation has to offer. Yet during their life, they had not wanted to understand anything at all about the Heaven of God the Messiah. That this people is now going up into the mountain, [Jews]