A New Understanding

Old Testament

For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth;
And the former shall not be remembered or come to mind.
But be glad and rejoice forever in what I create;
For behold, I create Jerusalem as a rejoicing...

"Call to Me, and I will answer you,
and show you great and mighty things..."  

The New Testament

"And He will send His angels with a great sound of trumpet, and they will gather together His elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other." 

"See, I have set before you an open door, and no one can shut it."

"Behold I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him..."

And I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away…. Then I, John, saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God…. Then He who sat on the throne said, “Behold, I make all things new.” And He said to me, “Write, for these words are true and faithful.”

Blessed are those who do His commandments, that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter into the city.

The Heavenly Doctrines

The Birth of the New Church

The New Christian Church is not being established through miracles such as the Lord's birth on earth, but through revelation of the spiritual sense of the Word and teachings about life after death, and these surpass all miracles.

The Lord's second coming, is not in person, but in the Word, which is from Him and which He is.

After the completion of the book [True Christian Religion], the Lord called together His twelve disciples, who had followed Him in the world; and a day later He sent them all forth throughout the spiritual world to preach the Gospel, that the Lord God Jesus Christ is king, and His kingdom shall be for ever and ever... This happened on the nineteenth of June in the year 1770.