[ 3 ] Because the Lord conquered the hells alone with no help from
any angel he is called Hero and a Man of Wars (Isaiah 42 : 13 ; 9 : 6 ), the
King of Glory, Jehovah the Mighty, a Hero of war (Psalms 14 : 8 , 10 ), the
Mighty One of Jacob (Psalms 132 : 2 ), and in many passages “Jehovah
Sabaoth,” that is, “Jehovah of Armies.” For the same reason his coming is
called the terrible day of Jehovah; a cruel day; a day of indignation, rage,
anger, revenge, destruction, and war; a day of the trumpet, of the call to
arms, of uproar;and so on.
In the Gospel writers we read the following:
Now is the judgment of the world; the Prince of This World is cast to
the outside. (John 12 : 31 )
The Prince of This World has been judged. (John 16 : 11 )
Have confidence; I have overcome the world. (John 16 : 33 )
I saw Satan falling like a thunderbolt out of heaven. (Luke 10 : 18 )
In these passages “the world,” “the Prince of This World,” “Satan,” and
“the Devil” mean hell.
[ 4 ] In addition, the Book of Revelation from beginning to end de -
scribes the condition of the Christian church today and the fact that the
Lord is going to come again, take control of the hells, make a new angelic
heaven, and then establish a new church on earth. All this is foretold there
but it has not been disclosed before today. The reason is that the Book of
Revelation, like all the prophetic portions of the Word, was written in pure
correspondences. If the correspondences had not been disclosed by the
Lord, hardly anyone could have correctly understood a single verse there.
Now, for the sake of the new church, everything in the Book of Rev-
elation has been disclosed in Revelation Unveiled,published in Amster-
dam, 1766. Some will see those things—those who believe the Word of
the Lord in Matthew 24 about the state of the church today and about
his coming. In fact, the only people who are still ambivalent are those
who have planted two of the modern-day church’s beliefs so deeply in
their own hearts that those beliefs cannot be uprooted: the belief in three
divine Persons from eternity; and the belief that the suffering on the
cross was the actual redemption. As noted in the memorable occurrence
above at § 113 [: 2 ], these people are like beakers full of iron filings and
powdered sulfur. If water is poured in the beakers, first there is increas-
ing heat and then there is fire, which breaks the beakers. Likewise, when
these people hear some living water, which is the genuine truth in the