> > In reply to
your 2/03 post at http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/feb2012/paulw23-1.htm you ask a very
interesting question as to whether the 144
cubits refer to the height or thickness of New
Jerusalem's walls. I never thought about it
being the thickness of the walls until you
brought up the subject. I don't know what the
real answer to your question is but the link at
this website would agree with the 144 cubits
referring to the thickness of the walls at http://www.heraldmag.org/2006/06ja_9.htm They also state that not only are there 4
walls around New Jerusalem but a wall on top of
it and at the bottom of it because it is shaped like a
cube with 12 edges.
I think New
Jerusalem is a globe, whose length, width and
height are equal. In the Temple, the Holy of
Holies represented Heaven, a globe that will fit
inside a cube of the same dimensions. When New
Jerusalem comes down to orbit Earth, it will be
like the Moon, and people on Earth will walk in
the light of it.
The Moon is a globe.
It is made up of rocks from our Pacific Basin.
After being blasted off of Earth by a
colliding heavenly body, they formed a
globe-shaped body. Orbiting bodies formed by
accretion end up being globe-shaped, because each
little rock tries to get as close to the center of
gravity as possible.
The Holy Place in
the Temple is made up of two cubes. I think those
cubes also represent globes, Mars and Jupiter, our
first two heavens. The Holy of Holies represents
the third heaven, the globe we call Saturn. Our
planet is 70% ocean. I think it was mainly
represented by the Brazen Sea that stood before
the Temple.
Josephus, a Pharisee
priest, said that the candlestick represented the
planets with the Sun included, i.e., Sun (the
western lamp that was to be kept burning),
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn,
the last naked-eye planet.
Jesus’ throne is on
Saturn. Eze saw a vision of a God-Man, i.e.,
Jesus, sitting on his throne on Saturn that had
brightness all around. This brightness represented
the ring system.
In Eze 1:1, Ezekiel
said “the heavens were opened, and I saw
visions of God.” In verse 15, we find that the Earth
is one of the four terrestrial planets, whose orbits
form concentric circles, rings within rings.
In Eze 1:26-28, we see
Jesus, the only God/man sitting on his throne. It
says, “26 And above the firmament
(expanse of space) that was over their heads (i.e.,
farther out in space than the four terrestrial
planets) was the likeness of a throne, as the
appearance of a SAPPHIRE stone: and upon the
likeness of the throne was the likeness as the
appearance of a man (i.e., the only God/man) above
upon it. 27 And I saw as the colour of amber,
as the appearance of fire round about within it,
from the appearance of his loins (from the equator)
even upward, and from the appearance of his loins
(from the equator) even downward, I saw as it were
the appearance of fire, and it had brightness round
about (i.e., Saturn’s ring system). 28 As the
appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the
day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness
round about. This was the appearance of the likeness
of the glory of the LORD.”
Sapphire means dear to the
planet Saturn, from the Sanskrit priya, dear, and
Sani , Saturn.
Agape,
Marilyn
mjagee@verizon.net