From Swedenborg's description of the meaning of Psalm 74:
PP 324. Psalm 74 title, 1-9 (H.B. 1-9) The church with all things appertaining to it has been utterly destroyed, and its holy things profaned, they saying in their heart that religion is not anything. 3 2, 10, 11 Prayer to the Lord to bring help. 11 12-15 Before this He has overthrown the hells, 8 16, 17 and before this, being protected, He has established a church; 11 18-21 let there therefore be compassion, that the church perish not 11 22, 23 through the uprising of evil. 3
And a recent inspirational reading:
More on the Dragon & Heavenly Doctrine
SD 5428 - 5429
When the dragons
looked upon those who were in heavenly doctrine,
they fell into fearful agonies,
and were tortured and tormented; inasmuch
as they cannot endure Divine Truth.
Michael, in the Apocalypse,
(Revelation 12:7)
are those who are in heavenly doctrine:
the blood of the Lamb,
(Revelation 12:117)
by which they conquered,
is the Divine Truth of that doctrine.
SD 5451
Those who are in any doctrine,
although not entirely true,
and are nevertheless in the good of life,
are in heaven;
for falsity of doctrine is not falsity
when there is good in it.
All in heaven differ as to truths;
but those who are not in any doctrine
cannot be in heaven.
Defiling a bible study?????? For starters your 'church' rejects half of that same bible as scripture. Then you add the writings of an occultist as "scripture". That my FRiend is defilement.
This isn't a Bible study. It's a Swedenborg study.
It's blasphemy to consider it a Bible study when he rejects the Bible and his followers reject the Bible.
It's merely smoke and mirrors to deceive and lead astray the naive by calling it a Bible study when it's not.