hell merely sense that it might be present they run away, throw themselves
down into deep places, and squeeze into underground shelters to hide.
This phenomenon is the same thing described by Isaiah: “They will go
into caverns in the rocks and into crevices in the dust, dreading Jehovah,
when he rises to terrify the earth” (Isaiah 2 : 19 ); and in the Book of Revela-
tion: “They will all hide themselves in caves in the rocks and in the rocks
on the mountains, and they will say to the mountains and the rocks, ‘Fall
on us and hide us from the face of the One sitting on the throne and from
the anger of the Lamb’” (Revelation 6 : 15 , 16 , 17 ).
[ 3 ] How much power the Lord exercised from divine goodness when
he carried out the Last Judgment in 1757 is clear from the descriptions in
the little work Last Judgment.For example, in the world of spirits there
were mountains and hills occupied by hellish spirits that the Lord ripped
from their moorings and moved far away; some he flattened. He flooded
their cities, villages, and fields, and turned their land upside down. He
threw those mountains and hills and their inhabitants into quagmires,
ponds, and swamps; and more. The Lord alone accomplished all this
using the power of divine truth connected with divine goodness.
125 Jehovah God could not have taken these actions and made them
effective without a human manifestation, as various comparisons can
illustrate.
An invisible person cannot shake hands or talk with a visible one. In
fact, angels and spirits cannot shake hands or talk with us even when they
are standing right next to our bodies or in front of our faces. No one’s
soul can talk, or do things, with anyone else except through its own body.
The sun cannot convey its light and heat into any human, animal, or
tree, unless it first enters the air and acts through that. It cannot convey
its light and heat to any fish unless it passes through the water. It has to
act through the element the entity is in. None of us could scale a fish
with a knife or pluck a raven’s feathers if we had no fingers. We cannot go
to the bottom of a deep lake without a diving bell. In a word, one thing
needs to be adapted to another before the two can communicate and
work with or against each other.126 6. Suffering on the cross was the final trial the Lord underwent as the
greatest prophet. It was a means of glorifying his human nature, that is, of
uniting that nature to his Father’s divine nature. It was not redemption.
There are two things for which the Lord came into the world and through
which he saved people and angels: redemption, and the glorification of