15. "You shall be confirmed that the consummation of the age is the end of the church, not only from reason but also from sight. Know then that the end of the church will not be at all recognized on earth, though fully recognized in the heavens. Heaven and the church are like a single containing house. The church is the foundation and substructure, and heaven is its superstructure and roof; and the inhabitants are consociated like members of a family with domestics. When therefore the church, by evils and falsities slips from under, that house does not hold together except as to its walls, and within, communication with the angels of heaven is intercepted, and the stairway, by which there is ascent and descent, is taken away. Lest the house should then fall into utter ruin the Lord returns into the world and establishes a new church, and by it restores the house, and supports heaven. But this will appear more evidently before your sight, if we pray to the Lord, and go away from here and walk about."