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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

 

Genesis 32:12

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12 And thou saidst, I will surely do thee good, and make thy seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.