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And the Spirit and the bride say, "Come!" And let him who hears say, "Come!" And let him who thirsts come. Whoever desires, let him take the water of life freely. Revelation 22:17

"Let him who hears say, 'Come'" symbolizes that he who hears and consequently knows anything of the Lord's coming, and of the New Heaven and the New Church, thus of the Lord's kingdom, let him pray that it may come. "Let him who thirsts come" symbolizes that he who longs for the Lord's kingdom, and truths then, let him pray that the Lord may come with light. By 'let him take the water of life freely' is signified he who out of love wants to learn truths and appropriate them to himself, let him look forward to accepting them from the Lord without any exertion of his own. Apocalypse Revealed 956

But when He saw the multitudes, He was moved with compassion for them, because they were weary and scattered, like sheep having no shepherd. Then He said to His disciples, "The harvest truly is plentiful, but the laborers are few. Therefore pray the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into His harvest." Matthew 9:36-38; Luke 10:1-2

The harvest means "all with whom the church was to be established by the Lord, thus also the church in general" Apocalypse Explained 911:15