46 : 1 , 23 , 25 , 28 ; 47 : 2 ; 48 : 1 , 8 , 12 , 30 , 35 , 38 , 40 , 43 , 44 , 47 ; 49 : 2 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 12 ,
13 , 16 , 18 , 26 , 28 , 30 , 32 , 35 , 37 , 38 , 39 ; 50 : 1 , 4 , 10 , 18 , 20 , 21 , 30 , 31 , 33 , 35 ,
40 ; 51 : 25 , 33 , 36 , 39 , 52 , 58.
These are just the passages in Jeremiah. It says the same thing in all
the other prophets. It does not say that the Holy Spirit spoke; and it does
not say that Jehovah spoke to them through the Holy Spirit.159 To these points I will add the following memorable occurrences.
The first memorable occurrence.Once when I was spending some time
with angels in heaven, in the distance below I saw a huge cloud of smoke
with flames shooting out of it periodically. I said to the angels who were
talking with me at that moment, “Although few up here know it, the ori-
gin of the smoke that one sees in hell is the hellish spirits’ use of reason-
ing to support things that aren’t true; and the origin of the fire seen in
hell is their blowing up at others who speak against them.
“It is equally unknown in this spiritual world as it is in the world
where I am physically alive that flame is nothing but smoke that is on
fire,” I added. “I have often observed this myself. I have watched the
plumes of smoke rising from the logs in the fireplace. When I set fire to
them with a match, I have seen that the plumes of smoke become
flames. The flames have the same shape as the plumes of smoke had.
The individual particles of smoke become little sparks that burn
together. (The same thing happens when you set fire to gunpowder.)
The situation is similar in the case of the smoke that we are seeing down
below us now. It consists of a great number of things that aren’t true.
The flame shooting out of it is the intense passion the hellish spirits have
to defend the things that aren’t true.”
[ 2 ] The angels said to me, “Let’s pray to the Lord to be allowed to go
down and get near them in order to learn what their false beliefs are that
are smoking and burning like that.”
It was granted. A column of light appeared around us that went all
the way down to that place.
Once down there, we saw four sets of spirits in ranks. They were
adamantly defending the idea that one must turn to God the Father and
worship him, because he cannot be seen; one must not turn to his Son
born in the world and worship him, because he is human and can be seen.