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Secrets of Heaven #1611

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1611. Genesis 13:17. "Get up; walk through the land along its length and along its breadth, because to you I will give it."

Get up; walk through the land, means in order to see the whole kingdom of heaven. Along its length and along its breadth symbolizes its heavenly aspect and its spiritual aspect. Because to you I will give it means that it would be his.

  
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The Bible

 

Exodus 32:13

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13 Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, thy servants, to whom thou swarest by thine own self, and saidst unto them, I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken of will I give unto your seed, and they shall inherit it for ever.