June 14

And I saw when He had opened the sixth seal, and behold, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood. And the stars of heaven fell to the earth, as a fig tree casts its unripe figs, when shaken by a great wind. And the heaven departed as a book rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places. And the kings of the earth, and the great ones, and the rich, and the commanders of a thousand, and the powerful, and every servant, and every freeman, hid themselves in the caves and in the rocks of the mountains, and said to the mountains and rocks, Fall upon us, and hide us from the face of Him who sits upon the throne, and from the anger of the Lamb, because the great day of His anger is come, and who shall be able to stand? (Revelation 6:12-17)

And, behold, there was a great earthquake, signifies the state of the church with these altogether changed, and terror. (Apocalypse Revealed 311)

The sun is red from fire, and the moon is white from the light of the sun; and fire signifies the good of love, and light, the truth from that good. It is said, “the sun became black as sackcloth of hair,” because adulterated good in itself is evil, and evil is black; and the reason why it is said “the moon became as blood,” is because “blood” signifies the Divine truth, and in the opposite sense, the Divine truth falsified…. (Apocalypse Revealed 332)

And the stars of heaven fell to the earth, signifies the dispersion of all the knowledges of good and truth. (Apocalypse Revealed 333)

Hid themselves in the caves and in the rocks of the mountains… signifies to be in evils and in the falsities of evil, because they who have pretended before the world that they were in the good of love, and yet were in evil, after death hide themselves in caves; and they who have pretended that they were in the truths of faith, and yet were in the falsities of evil, hide themselves in the rocks of the mountains. The entrances appear like holes in the earth and like clefts in the mountains, into which they betake themselves like serpents, and there hide themselves. That such are their abiding places I have frequently seen. (Apocalypse Revealed 338)

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