Introduction

Prophets and Psalms 0. The things that follow [in this little work treat of]:

1.	The Lord’s advent.
2.	The successive vastation of the church.
3.	The church totally devastated, and its rejection.
4.	The rejection of the Lord by the church.
5.	The Lord’s temptations in general.
6.	Temptation even to despair.
7.	The combats of the Lord with the hells.
8.	Victory over them, or their subjugation.
9.	The passion of the cross.
10.	The glorification of the Human of the Lord, or its union with the Divine.
11.	A new church in place of the former.
12.	A new church together with a new heaven.
13.	The state of humiliation before the Father.
15.¹	A last judgment by the Lord.
16.	Celebration and worship of the Lord.
17.	Redemption and salvation by the Lord.

We are focusing on topic 1 this week.

766. The Lord is present with every man, urging and pressing to be received; and His first coming, which is called the dawn, is when man receives Him, which he does when he acknowledges Him as his God, Creator, Redeemer, and Savior. From this time man's understanding begins to be enlightened in spiritual things, and to advance into a more and more interior wisdom; and as he receives this wisdom from the Lord, he advances through morning into day, and this day lasts with him into old age, even to death; and after death he passes into heaven to the Lord Himself; and there, although he died an old man, he is restored to the morning of his life, and the rudiments of the wisdom implanted in him in the natural world grow to eternity.

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