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lone-traveler
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 Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2005 4:55 pm Post subject: Precious stones |
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I was looking up some of the meanings of these stones and came across this website.
Thought you might like it.
Rv:21:19: And the foundations of the wall of the city were garnished with all manner of precious stones. The first foundation was jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, a chalcedony; the fourth, an emerald;
Rv:21:20: The fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolite; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, a topaz; the tenth, a chrysoprasus; the eleventh, a jacinth; the twelfth, an amethyst.
http://www.melchizedekstreasure.com/GenstoneFoundations.htm
Lone
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lowers
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| Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2005 6:25 am Post subject: WOW |
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I just read the Rev. ch.21 - the whole chapter.
 I've heard of the pearly gates before but not this:
12 Gates = 12 Pearls 1,500 miles HIGH
 AWESOME 
(I couldn't get this to go vertical - was supposed to be like wall layers.)
Learning Sister In Christ,
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lone-traveler
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| Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2005 6:50 am Post subject: |
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WOW!!!
Thats like from the top of North Dakota to the southern tip of texas.
Or California to Missouri. New York to Wyoming. Maine to Florida.
Washington to Mexico.
I can't even imagaine a wall that tall.
Saudi Arabia Northeast to south west.
1/3 of Brazil.
That's quite a wall.
Lone
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lowers
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| Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2005 6:57 am Post subject: WOW |
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I can't imagine a WALL that high, much less a SINGLE PEARL
And 12 PEARLS that size is behond wildest dreams
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lowers
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| Posted: Sun Oct 09, 2005 6:10 am Post subject: PEARLS |
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ck-out "The Parable Of The Pearl Of Great Price" - Matthew 13:45-46 & read below.
| Quote: | from: chapter 23, pages 269-271 of: ... Matched Pearls By: Grace LIVINGSTON HILL
LIVING BOOKS 07 3895-0 Library of Congress Catalog Card # 92-60034
I found a story in the Testament you gave me, a story about a man who found a pearl of great price and went and sold all that he had and bought it. ...
"Ah!" said Seagrave with his eyes alight, "but don’t you know what that pearl is, and what the story means? That pearl is the Church, the precious bride of Christ, the church for which He gave His life. It is a beautiful story when one understands it all. But speaking of pearls, you know how they are formed, don’t you?"
"In oysters," said Constance wondering.
"Yes, but they are made by wounds. An injury done to the animal itself is what makes it, a grain of sand perhaps, that gets inside the shell and presses against the soft body of the animal. And then the mother of pearl or nacre as it is called, which is really the lining of the shell, is deposited layer upon layer about the grain of sand till a pearl is formed. The pearl is thus, as some one has said, an answer to an injury. The offending object itself becomes, through the work of the injured one, a precious and beauteous gem. It is the picture of God’s divine grace. And the pearls are of different degrees of value and beauty, dependent not upon the grain of sand that gets into the oyster, but upon the number of layers of nacre that are wrapped about it. This answers to the greatness of the grace that God has bestowed upon us."
"How wonderful!" said Constance softly, her eyes alight as she watched his face.
"And it is not the things you have done," went on Seagrave, "the depth of your own sinfulness, the measure of your own unworthiness, that makes you fit or unfit for belonging to the church of Christ, His heavenly bride. It is the beauty and glory of Him we crucified by our sin, that is put upon us as a robe to clothe us. It is not any righteousness that we could have that would make us fit for such a wonderous calling. It is Christ’s righteousness, put upon us and enfolding us, that makes us as a Church a worthy bride for Him. He took the sin wherewith we wounded Him, and made of it a pearl to adorn His glory."
Constance’s eyes were upon him, her mind drinking in all that he said.
"How marvelous you make it!" she exclaimed. "And you think He could take me and make me fit to belong to His wonderful church?"
"He certainly can!" he answered in a ringing voice.
"Have you accepted Him as your Saviour?"
"Yes," said Constance softly ...
And you say you have accepted that offer of grace yourself? He has become your Saviour too. Then you too are justified by the blood of Christ which was shed to cleanse your sin, and you are covered by the righteousness of Christ Himself. You are now a member of His precious church, His pearl of great price. You are no longer unworthy." (said Seagrave)
"That seems too beautiful to be true," said Constance thoughtfully.
"But it is gloriously true nevertheless. |
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I know that you can do all things;
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lone-traveler
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| Posted: Sun Oct 30, 2005 8:15 am Post subject: |
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precious stones range in all shapes and sizes...
Can you find the similarities? There's lots of numbers here LOL
9, 40, 42, 7, lots of numbers and mantles, belts...
how many similarities can you find?
http://www.solarviews.com/eng/homepage.htm
http://www.visembryo.com/baby/hp.html
from the least to the greatest and everything inbetween...
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