Oct 29 2024 70 mins
In this week’s study, I continue in Chapter 21 with verses 13 to 17. Before I get into the study, I talk about Kamala Harris parents. Donald J. Harris is a post-Keynesian economist who has written on Marxist theory. His research focused on economic inequality, uneven development & how the growth rate of an economy is fundamentally dependent on the class structure of society. Meanwhile her mother, Shyamala Gopalan has a very interesting twist. According to Jeff Rense in his article “Kamala’s mother ran ‘Planet of the apes’ for the MK-ULTRA Assassin Project”, Jeff states that Shyamala was very much involved with MK-ULTRA. Candance Owens in an You-Tube video also discussed the possibility of Shyamal Gopalan working within the MK-ULTRA Program
Listen to me, these people are very evil. They do not have your best interested at heart. They work for the devil and will continue to work for the devil until our Lord and Saviour returns
Beginning with the ninth verse we have a marvelous description of the new Jerusalem. Note that this comes at the conclusion of the prophetic outline. It is a kind of supplementary description. Just as one of the seven angels that had the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues gave to John a vision of Babylon the great (17-18), so here one of the same angels now bids him to come and view the bride, the Lamb’s wife. Carrying him away in the Spirit to a great and high mountain, the angel shows him that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of Heaven from Yahweh. Babylon was both a city and a woman-both a great system and a company of people professing to be in bridal relation with the Lamb. So here the holy Jerusalem is both a city and a woman.
13. On the east three gates = The city was square as stated in verse 16, and the same number of gates is assigned to each quarter. There does not appear to be any special significancy in this fact, unless it be to denote that there is access to this city from all quarters of the world, and that they who dwell there will have come from each of the great divisions of the earth - that is, from every land,
Three = Indicated completeness. Therefore, three is significant of Divine perfection and completeness.
14. And the wall of the city had twelve foundations = It is not said whether these foundations were twelve rows of stones placed one above another under the city, and extending round it, or whether they were twelve stones placed at intervals.
And in them = In the foundation of stones. That is, the names of the apostles were cut or carved in them so as to be conspicuous
The names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb = Of the Lamb of Yahweh; the Messiah.
15. And he that talked with me = The angel, verse 9.
Had a golden reed to measure the city = See Rev. 11:1. The reed, or measuring rod, here, is of gold, because all about the city is of the most rich and costly materials. The rod is thus suited to the personage who uses it, and to the occasion.
16 And the city lieth four-square = It was an exact square.
And he measured the city with the reed, twelve thousand furlongs = According to the Appendix in the Companion Bible, 1furlong equals 202 yards. So as we multiply 12,000 x 202 we get 2,424,000 yards. Now there are 1760 yards in a mile, therefore we divide 2,424,000 by 1760 and we get 1,377.27273 miles.
17. And he measured the wall thereof = In respect to its “height.” Of course, its length corresponded with the extent of the city.
An hundred and forty and four cubits = Once again I refer back to the Companion bible where in Appendix 51 it reads a cubit between 21-25 inches. Using 21” multiply by 144 which equals 3,024. Divide that by 12” and you get 252 feet.
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