was shining when he carried the tablets of the covenant down from
Mount Sinai [Exodus 34 : 29 – 30 ].
[ 3 ] In addition, there are many other amazing things that happen in
the spiritual world because of the Word. For example, if people who have
false beliefs look at the Word as it lies in its holy place, thick darkness
overwhelms their eyesight, making the Word look black to them, some-
times as if it were coated with soot. If those same people touch the Word,
there is an explosion with a loud bang, and they are thrown to the corner
of the room and lie there as if dead for quite a while.
If people who have false beliefs write something from the Word on a
piece of paper and toss it up toward heaven, when it is in the air between
their eye and heaven a similar explosion takes place. The piece of paper is
blown to bits and disappears. The same thing happens if the piece of paper
is thrown toward an angel who is standing nearby. I have often seen this.
[ 4 ] This has made it clear to me that people who have a body of false
teaching have no communication with heaven by means of the Word.
On the way to heaven, their reading of it blows apart and comes to an
end like a firecracker lit and thrown in the air. The opposite happens to
people who have a true perspective from the Lord through the Word.
Their reading of the Word penetrates all the way into heaven and forms a
connection with angels who are there.
When angels come down from heaven to carry out some task below,
they look as if they are covered in little stars, especially around their
heads. This is an indication that there are divine truths from the Word
inside these angels.
[ 5 ] The same things that exist on earth exist in the spiritual world,
except that there they have a spiritual origin. So gold and silver and all
kinds of precious stones exist there. Their spiritual origin is the literal
meaning of the Word. This is why the Book of Revelation describes the
foundations of the New Jerusalem’s wall as being twelve precious stones.
The foundations of its wall stand for the beliefs of the new church that
are based on the Word’s literal meaning. This is also why there were
twelve precious stones called the Urim and the Thummim on Aaron’s
ephod. Answers from heaven came through these stones.
Many other amazing things happen with the Word in the spiritual
world. They relate to the power of truth there, which is so immense that
if I described it, it would exceed belief. The Word has so much power
that it overturns mountains and hills there, moves them far away, throws
them into the sea, and more. Briefly put, the power of the Lord that
comes through the Word is infinite.
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