December17

And let him that heareth say, Come!

And◦ when they had seen◦, they made··known··abroad the saying which was spoken to them concerning this little· ·Child. And all who heard marveled at those things which were spoken to them by the shepherds. But◦ Mary kept all these sayings, pondering them in her heart. And the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all that they had heard and seen◦, as it was spoken to them. (Luke 2:17-20)

The Lord from the Divine love and thence from Divine zeal calls and calls together all who are in the spiritual affection of truth, and who think of heaven, to the New Church, and to conjunction with Himself, and thus to eternal life. (Apocalypse Revealed 831)

“Rejoice, ye heavens and ye that dwell in them,” signifies the salvation and consequent joy of those who become spiritual by the reception of Divine truth.... “The heavens” signify those who are spiritual, because all who are in the heavens are spiritual; and because men who have become spiritual are likewise in the heavens, although in respect to the body they are in the world, so “ye that dwell in the heavens” means not only angels, but also men. For every man with whom the interior mind, which is called the spiritual mind, has been opened, is in the heavens, yea, sometimes he even appears among the angels in the heavens. (Apocalypse Explained 751)

And let him that heareth say, Come; and let him that thirsteth come, and let him that willeth take the water of life freely, signifies that he who knows anything of the Lord’s coming, and of the New Heaven and New Church, thus of the Lord’s kingdom, should pray that it may come, and that he who desires truths, should pray that the Lord may come with light, and that he who loves truths, will then receive them from the Lord without his own work. (Apocalypse Revealed 956)

Evangelization is annunciation about the Lord, His coming, and the things that are from Him which belong to salvation and eternal life. (Arcana Coelestia 9925.2)

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