According to Swedenborg, when someone is pressed or pressured in the Bible, it simply indicates that there is a sense of urgency in a conflict between spiritual states.
Passages from Swedenborg
Arcana Coelestia (Elliott) n. 2374
‘They pressed on the men’ means that they wished to resort to violence against truth. This is clear from the meaning of ‘the man’ (vir) as that which is intellectual and rational with a person (homo) – truth therefore, 158, 1007. Resorting to violence against truth is perverting the things which are matters of faith; and they are perverted when they are separated from charity and when people deny that they lead to goodness of life.
Arcana Coelestia (Elliott) n. 2406
‘The angels pressed Lot to hurry’ means that the Lord withheld them from evil and maintained them in good. This is clear from the meaning of ‘hurrying and pressing’ as urging. That these words mean being withheld from evil is clear both from the internal sense of the words themselves and from what follows. The internal sense is that when the Church starts to fall away from good that flows from charity the Lord withholds its members from evil more forcefully than when the good of charity is present with them. What follows here makes the same point, which is that although the angels werepressing Lot to leave the city he still lingered, and so, grasping him, his wife, and his daughters by the hand, they led them away and placed them outside the city.
Arcana Coelestia (Elliott) n. 7964
‘And Egypt pressed the people, in a hurry to send them away from the land’ means that because of their loathing and fear of them they were urging them to depart. This is clear from the meaning of ‘pressing the people, in a hurry to send them away’ as urging them to depart. The fact that loathing and fear caused them to do so is self-evident, for those steeped in nothing but falsity arising from evil so loathe those guided by truth from good that they cannot stand even their presence. This is why those governed by evil cast themselves down into hell, to a depth determined by the nature and amount of that evil, to get far away from good. Not only loathing but also fear makes them do it, for in the presence of good they suffer torment.