476. 'That time shall not be any more' signifies that there shall not be any state of the Church, or any Church, unless the one God is acknowledged, and that the Lord is He. By 'time' is signified state, and because it treats here of the Church it signifies the state of the Church. Consequently by 'time shall not be any more' is signified that there shall not be any state of the Church. That it is also understood that there shall not be any Church unless the one God is acknowledged, follows. But what is the case at this day? That God is one is not denied; but that the Lord is He, is denied. Nevertheless there cannot be one God in Whom at the same time there is the Trinity, unless it is the Lord. That the Church exists from Him Who is the Saviour and Redeemer is not denied; but that He as Saviour and Redeemer must be approached directly, is denied. Consequently it is plain that the Church is going to expire unless the New one comes into existence, which acknowledges the Lord Only as the God of heaven and earth, and on that account approaches Him directly. Let Matt. xxviii 18 be seen. This statement, therefore, that 'time shall not be any more', that is, that there shall be no Church, has reference to the things that follow in this chapter (verse 7), and they refer to those that are in chap. xi (verse 15), where it is said that there is going to be a Church which shall be the Only Lord's. [2] State is signified by 'time' because in the spiritual world times are not measured by days, weeks, months, and years, but by the states that are the progressions of the life of those [who are there], by virtue of which there is a remembering of things gone by. On this subject the work concerning HEAVEN AND HELL, published at London in the year 1758, may be seen (n. 162-169), where it treats of time in heaven. The state of the Church is understood here by 'time', because day and night, morning and evening, summer and winter, make time in the world, and when understood in a spiritual sense they make the state of the Church. When, therefore, these states no longer exist, there is not any Church; and there is none at the precise time when there no longer is good and truth, thus when the light of truth is darkness, and the heat of good is cold. These are the things that are understood by the statement 'that time shall not be any more'. Similar things are understood by these passages in the Word:-