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Secrets of Heaven #899

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899. Genesis 8:14. And in the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth dried up.

The second month symbolizes all the stages that precede rebirth. The twenty-seventh day symbolizes holiness. The earth dried up means that they were reborn. These words are the conclusion to the verses above and the beginning of all that follows.

  
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John 2:19-21

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19 Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.

20 Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days?

21 But he spake of the temple of his body.