366. * be told as to what he is like, and how he is still continually rebelling in the other life, however much he knows and sees the Kingdom of God the Messiah, because such particulars have been portrayed to me. But I am not allowed to set forth any more of them, except for the fact that the same attitude remains in him. Meanwhile, he is the head of those who give in in temptations, or who worship the Law in its outward form. What the inner person is, he does not want to understand, although he does understand, but the love of self strives against it. See Deut. Ch. 2, verses 48 to the end, where these points are very clearly expressed. For Moses was their Head, because the people had been given to Moses, as it is said here and there, just as the Levites had been given to Aaron. Therefore, while these two portrayed the heads, the people portrayed the body; so the body could not be separated from the Head, for together they portray all who yield in temptations. [Law; Moses; Temptation] [See also WE 7428-30, concluding the explanation of Num. 27.]
7504. [Deut. 32:] verse 43. These words are likewise congruent with those that John said in Revelation Ch. 12, verses 10, 11, 12. The entire song now builds up to this climax, namely, that because the people of Jacob and his posterity has become worse from generation to generation, and because it has become the devil's gang, it will be cast down, and then the gentiles, the people of God the Messiah, shall sing. Thus "He will provide atonement for His land,"* that is, for heaven, in the lower part of which that gang now is, having been admitted there. About the state of that nation in that lower heaven so-called, much could be said, as that they are to be disbanded, and that those people are * Thus NKJV, while KJV has "will be merciful unto His land."
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