42. Fourteen. (We have conceived, we have been in travail, we have as it were brought forth wind; we have not wrought salvation in the earth (Isa. 26:18). Desolation, and then mere falsities.) In that day Jehovah with His hard and great and strong sword shall visit leviathan the long serpent, and leviathan the crooked serpent, and He shall slay the whales that are in the sea (Isa. 27:1). A judgment upon those who are in faith separated from charity; also those who are only in natural faith and not in spiritual. In that day Jehovah will cut off from the channel of the river unto the river of Egypt, and ye shall be gathered one by one, O ye sons of Israel. In that day ye shall sound with a great trumpet; and they shall come which were perishing in the land of Assyria, and they that were outcasts from the land of Egypt, and they shall bow themselves in the mountain of holiness at Jerusalem (verses 12, 13). Concerning the advent of the Lord to gather the faithful to the new heaven and the New Church; by "Assyria" are meant those who are rational, and by "Egypt" those who are natural; and that both would then become spiritual, because they would approach the Lord. (Jehovah hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep and hath closed your eyes, O prophets, and your heads, O seers, hath He covered. Therefore all vision is become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed, which if they give to one who knows letters, saying, Read this, I pray thee; he saith I cannot, for it is sealed; or if the book is delivered to him who knows not letters, saying, Read this, I pray thee; he saith I know not letters (Isa. 29:10-12). (Concerning the desolation of truth.) Is it yet a very little while and Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field? Then in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of thick darkness and out of darkness (verses 17, 18). After the destruction that the Lord would open the Word. In that day shall thy cattle feed in a broad meadow; there shall be upon every lofty mountain and upon every high hill, rivers and streams of waters, in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall. For the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold as the light of seven days, in the day that Jehovah shall bind up the breach of His people (Isa. 30:23, 25, 26). Concerning the church of the Lord after the completion of the Last Judgment.