15. You will receive proof that the consummation of the age is the end of the Church not only from reason but also from sight. You must know that the end of the Church will pass quite unrecognised on earth, though it will be fully recognised in the heavens. Heaven and the Church are together like one single house. The Church is the foundation and substructure, heaven is its superstructure and roof, and the inhabitants are associated like related persons with their servants. When therefore the Church as the result of its evils and falsities slips from underneath, that house does not hold together, except for its walls, and inside communication with the angels of heaven is cut off, and the stairs by which one goes up and down are removed. So that the house should not then totally collapse, the Lord returns to the world and inaugurates a new Church, and through that he repairs the house, and props up heaven. But this will appear more clearly to Your sight, if we pray to the Lord, go out from here and walk around.