772. VI. This, which is the Lord's second coming, is taking place in order that the wicked should be separated from the good, and those should be saved who believe in Him and have done so; and so that a new heaven of angels and a new church on earth should be formed from them. Without this no flesh could be saved (Matthew 24:22).
I showed in the preceding section that this, the Lord's second coming, is not taking place in order to wipe out the sky we see and the earth we live on. In fact it is not so as to destroy anything, but to build something; and so not to condemn, but to save those who from His first coming have believed in Him and who after this will believe in Him. This is established from these of the Lord's words:
God did not send His Son into the world to judge the world, but so that the world should be saved through Him. He who believes in Him is not judged; but he who does not believe is already judged, because he has not believed in the name of the only-begotten Son of God, John 3:17-18.
Elsewhere:
If anyone has heard my words, yet has not believed, I do not judge him. For I did not come to judge the world, but to save the world. He who despises me and does not receive my words, has that which judges him. The word which I have spoken will judge him, John 12:47-48.
The Last Judgment took place in the spiritual world in 1757, as I revealed in my short book on THE LAST JUDGMENT (published at London in 1758), and further in the CONTINUATION CONCERNING THE LAST JUDGMENT (Amsterdam, 1763). I can bear witness to this, because I saw it with my own eyes while fully awake.
