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Secrets of Heaven #903

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903. Genesis 8:15-16. And God spoke to Noah, saying, "Go out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and your sons' wives with you."

God spoke to Noah symbolizes the Lord's presence with the people of this church. Going out of the ark symbolizes liberty. You and your wife symbolizes the church. Your sons and your sons' wives with you symbolizes truth and a goodness bound up with truth in those people.

  
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Genesis 8:15-16

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15 And God spake unto Noah, saying,

16 Go forth of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons' wives with thee.