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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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Genesis 22:17

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17 That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies;