Topic: Bible symbols and numbers

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What did the fig leaves in the garden of Eden represent?

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Man has always wanted to make his own way. In the garden of Eden, God made a man so he didn’t have to shift for nothing. God made him perfect, but man wanted his own way. He wanted to tamper. He wanted to find out. And then as soon as he fell…We’ve went through that this week, in the studies of the...

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Matthew 24:28: (The person’s coming right down. They never signed it; yes they did. I beg your pardon. I won’t call these names, because it’s not necessary. See?) Matthew 24:28: “For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together.” Who is the carcase and who are the eagles?

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Now, that’s a good question, nothing wrong with that! What is the carcase? The carcase is what the eagles feed on. Now, a eagle is considered in the Bible, a prophet. A prophet is a eagle. God—God calls Himself a Eagle, and we’re “eaglets” then, the—the believers. You see? And what is the carcase th...

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What did Jesus mean in Saint Matthew 16:9 and 10? What do the twelve baskets and the seven baskets represent? Question for Sunday morning.

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Let’s see—let’s see, Matthew 16:10. I’m not too sure just now. Let me get where it’s at, Matthew 16:9 and 10—16:9 and 10. Here we are. Do you not…understand, neither remember the five loaves or the five thousand, and how many baskets you took up? Neither the seven loaves or the four thousand, and ho...

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What do the stones in the…represent in Revelation 21:19 and 20?

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If you wish to take the time to open your Bibles, which we haven’t too much time now, but I’ll try to answer them quickly. Revelation twenty-…I believe it’s 21:19 and 20. Yes. All right, in there you’ll find out that he was talking of the stones that was in the building. And the stones were foundat...

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What did the scarlet thread in Genesis 38 represent?

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The scarlet thread, if you’ll notice, it was Judah. And he had sons, and one of his sons married a Canaanite woman. And this Canaanite woman didn’t have any children, and his son died. Then, the law then was to take…the next son had to take the brother’s wife, and raise up seed to the dead. And the...

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What was the Tree of Life, and who guarded it?

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Now, the Tree of Life, I believe, was Jesus Christ. “He that eats My flesh and drinks My Blood has Everlasting Life.” He is the Tree of Life. God was guarding It with a Cherubim, an Angel with a flaming sword.

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What does brass stand for in the Bible?

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Now, God showing in the—the type: Now the first thing, the pole represented “the cross,” the wood. The serpent itself, being a serpent, spoke of “sin already judged,” for God had judged the serpent in the garden of Eden. But brass spoke of “Divine judgment,” which was, like the brazen laver. In the...

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What does the moon reflecting the light of the sun picture about the Church?

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Oh, I think of that. I think of it in Genesis when the—when God made the sun and made the moon. Now, the moon is the wife of the sun. Now, when the sun goes away, the moon reflects the light of the sun (Is that right?) on the earth. And now, when Jesus was taken away, we are the Bride which is the m...

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In the parable of the net cast into the sea, what comes up besides fish?

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Here’s a Gospel preacher of…As like unto the Kingdom of heaven, a man went forth and cast the net into the sea, and when he drawed the net in, that’s the Gospel. And when he drawed it in, he had some fish in there. He had some crawfish in there. And he had some turtles in there. And he had some snak...

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What does brass stand for in the Bible?

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Oh, I wished I had time to go into that right now, what brass means. Brass speaks of “Divine judgment.” The laver at the altar, where the sacrifice was offered, it was a brazen altar, where the lambs were throwed, the sacrifice, judgment, Divine judgment. Look back there…Moses, when he lifted up the...

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What do the crow and the dove on the ark illustrate?

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Even put it back in the ark, in the destruction of the world. There was the crow and the dove setting on the same roost. One was just as much bird as the other one was. Is that right? But what was it? One was a crow by nature, and the other was a dove by nature. One could fly just like the other one...

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What does the wedding garment represent?

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Brethren, there’s no big me and little you then, when you come by the way of the Door. And then He found a man back there that didn’t have a wedding garment on. He come in some other way besides of the door. And Jesus said, “Friend, what are you doing here?” And he was speechless. And you try to cli...

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What did the brass serpent Moses put on a pole represent?

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Notice, then right in that crucial moment, serpents had come in among the people and were biting them. And Moses was taught in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and they were boasting positions, far beyond in many things, than what we are today. Had our doctors skinned by hundreds of miles. But Dr. M...

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What are the 'three Bibles' God wrote?

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God’s wrote three Bibles: one, the Zodiac, one in the pyramids, one on paper. Now, He’s writing His first, the Zodiac. It starts off with a virgin, ends up with Leo the lion: Jesus’ first coming and His second coming. If we had time to run down through it, you’d see it. But He writes that because He...

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What did David's five stones and five fingers spell out?

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Little David starts. When he gets about in the sling throw, he had…Watch, he had five stones, J-e-s-u-s, wrapped up in five fingers, f-a-i-t-h. Brother, he got the thing to working right, around and around and around.

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What was the first Bible ever written?

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What’s He doing? He is writing His first Bible. The first Bible was ever written, was written in the skies, the Zodiac. It starts out with the virgin, that’s how He come first. It ends up with Leo the lion, the second Coming. And He is writing His first Bible.

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What does brass symbolize in Scripture?

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The children of Israel had come up out of Egypt. They got into the wilderness, begin to murmur. God sent fiery serpents among them and bit them, they were dying, by the thousands. And then He made an atonement, a brass serpent. Oh, how beautiful! That brass serpent, speaking of judgment, “Divine jud...

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In the brass serpent, what did the serpent and the brass each represent?

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Brass, the serpent being made out of brass, meant “Divine judgment.” Now, the serpent was “sin already judged,” and the brass meant “Divine judgment.”