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Title: "...light like unto a stone..."
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Date: Feb 15, 1999
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'...light like unto a stone...'
Revelation 4:3
And he that sat was to look upon like a jasper and a sardine stone...
Revelation 21:10-11
And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and showed me that
great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God, Having the glory of
God: and her light was like unto a stone most precious, even like a jasper stone,
clear as crystal;
Revelation 21:23
And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of
God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.
"Those that dwell in paradise, they shine like the shining of the firmament, like the sun, like the moon, like the firmament, like the stars, like lightning, like the lilies, like burning lamps." (Midras Tillian, fol. 11. 3.)
(A Commentary on the New Testament from the Talmud and Hebraica, John Lightfoot)
Luke 23:43
And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, To day shalt thou be with me in paradise.
2 Corinthians 12:4
How that he was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is
not lawful for a man to utter.
Revelation 2:7
He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that
overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise
of God.
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Numbers 6:25
The LORD make his face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee:
Job 11:17
And [thine] age shall be clearer than the noonday; thou shalt shine
forth, thou shalt be as the morning.
Job 22:28
Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee: and the light shall
shine upon thy ways.
Job 36:32
With clouds he covereth the light; and commandeth it [not to shine] by
[the cloud] that cometh betwixt.
Job 37:15
Dost thou know when God disposed them, and caused the light of his cloud to shine?
Psalms 31:16
Make thy face to shine upon thy servant: save me for thy mercies' sake.
Psalms 80:1
Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; thou that dwellest
[between] the cherubims, shine forth.
Psalms 104:15
And wine [that] maketh glad the heart of man, [and] oil to make [his] face to shine,
and bread [which] strengtheneth man's heart.
Ecclesiastes 8:1
Who [is] as the wise [man]? and who knoweth the interpretation of a thing? a man's wisdom
maketh his face to shine, and the boldness of his face shall be changed.
Isaiah 13:10
For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun
shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.
Isaiah 60:1
Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen
upon thee.
Daniel 12:3
And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and
they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever.
Matthew 5:16
Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works,
and glorify your Father which is in heaven.
Matthew 13:43
Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their
Father. Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.
Matthew 17:2
And was transfigured before them: and his face did shine as the sun, and
his raiment was white as the light.
2 Corinthians 4:4
In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the
light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine
unto them.
2 Corinthians 4:6
For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in
our hearts, to [give] the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus
Christ.
Philippians 2:15
That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a
crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;
Revelation 18:23
And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the
voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy
merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived.
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Genesis 1:6-8
And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and
let it divide the waters from the waters. And God made the firmament, and
divided the waters which [were] under the firmament from the waters which
[were] above the firmament: and it was so. And God called the firmament
Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.
Genesis 1:14-15
And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to
divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days,
and years: And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to
give light upon the earth: and it was so.
Genesis 1:17
And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the
earth,
Psalms 19:1
The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his
handywork.
Psalms 150:1
Praise ye the LORD. Praise God in his sanctuary: praise him in the firmament
of his power.
Ezekiel 1:22-23, 25-26
And the likeness of the firmament upon the heads of the living creature
[was] as the colour of the terrible crystal, stretched forth over their heads above. And
under the firmament [were] their wings straight, the one toward the
other: every one had two, which covered on this side, and every one had two, which covered
on that side, their bodies... And there was a voice from the firmament
that [was] over their heads, when they stood, [and] had let down their wings. And above
the firmament that [was] over their heads [was] the likeness of a throne,
as the appearance of a sapphire stone: and upon the likeness of the throne [was] the
likeness as the appearance of a man above upon it.
Ezekiel 10:1
Then I looked, and, behold, in the firmament that was above the head of
the cherubims there appeared over them as it were a sapphire stone, as the appearance of
the likeness of a throne.
Daniel 12:3
And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and
they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever.
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Genesis 15:12
And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo,
an horror of great darkness fell upon him.
Genesis 15:17
And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and it was dark,
behold a smoking furnace, and a burning lamp that passed between those pieces.
Genesis 37:9
And he dreamed yet another dream, and told it his brethren, and said, Behold, I have
dreamed a dream more; and, behold, the sun and the moon and the eleven
stars made obeisance to me.
Numbers 2:3
And on the east side toward the rising of the sun shall they of the
standard of the camp of Judah pitch throughout their armies: and Nahshon the son of
Amminadab [shall be] captain of the children of Judah.
Deuteronomy 4:19
And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun,
and the moon, and the stars, [even] all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship
them, and serve them, which the LORD thy God hath divided unto all nations under the whole
heaven.
Deuteronomy 33:14
And for the precious fruits [brought forth] by the sun, and for the
precious things put forth by the moon,
Joshua 10:12
Then spake Joshua to the LORD in the day when the LORD delivered up the Amorites before
the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand
thou still upon Gibeon; and thou, Moon, in the valley of Ajalon. Joshua 10:27
Judges 5:31
So let all thine enemies perish, O LORD: but [let] them that love him [be] as the sun
when he goeth forth in his might. And the land had rest forty years.
2 Samuel 12:11-12
Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will raise up evil against thee out of thine own house, and
I will take thy wives before thine eyes, and give [them] unto thy neighbour, and he shall
lie with thy wives in the sight of this sun. For thou didst [it]
secretly: but I will do this thing before all Israel, and before the sun.
Psalms 84:11
For the LORD God [is] a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and
glory: no good [thing] will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.
Psalms 89:36
His seed shall endure for ever, and his throne as the sun before me.
Psalms 104:19
He appointed the moon for seasons: the sun knoweth his going down.
Psalms 148:3
Praise ye him, sun and moon: praise him, all ye stars of light.
Song of Solomon 6:10
Who [is] she [that] looketh forth as the morning, fair as the moon, clear as the sun,
[and] terrible as [an army] with banners?
Isaiah 13:10
For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun
shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.
Isaiah 24:23
Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the LORD of
hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously.
Isaiah 30:26
Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the
light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the
day that the LORD bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth the stroke of their
wound.
Isaiah 49:10
They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor sun smite
them: for he that hath mercy on them shall lead them, even by the springs of water shall
he guide them.
Isaiah 60:19-20
The sun shall be no more thy light by day; neither for brightness shall
the moon give light unto thee: but the LORD shall be unto thee an everlasting light, and
thy God thy glory. Thy sun shall no more go down; neither shall thy moon
withdraw itself: for the LORD shall be thine everlasting light, and the days of thy
mourning shall be ended.
Joel 3:15
The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw
their shining.
Matthew 24:29
Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be
darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and
the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:
Acts 26:13
At midday, O king, I saw in the way a light from heaven, above the brightness of the sun,
shining round about me and them which journeyed with me.
1 Corinthians 15:41
[There is] one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and
another glory of the stars: for [one] star differeth from [another] star in glory.
Revelation 1:16
And he had in his right hand seven stars: and out of his mouth went a sharp twoedged
sword: and his countenance [was] as the sun shineth in his strength.
Revelation 8:12
And the fourth angel sounded, and the third part of the sun was smitten,
and the third part of the moon, and the third part of the stars; so as the third part of
them was darkened, and the day shone not for a third part of it, and the night likewise.
Revelation 9:2
And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of
a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the
smoke of the pit.
Revelation 10:1
And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow
[was] upon his head, and his face [was] as it were the sun, and his feet
as pillars of fire:
Revelation 12:1
And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun,
and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars:
Revelation 16:8
And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun; and power was
given unto him to scorch men with fire.
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Numbers 24:17
I shall see him, but not now: I shall behold him, but not nigh: there shall come a Star
out of Jacob, and a Sceptre shall rise out of Israel, and shall smite the corners of Moab,
and destroy all the children of Sheth.
Matthew 2:2
Saying, Where is he that is born King of the Jews? for we have seen his star
in the east, and are come to worship him.
Acts 7:43
Yea, ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your god
Remphan, figures which ye made to worship them: and I will carry you away beyond Babylon.
2 Peter 1:19
We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto
a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star
arise in your hearts:
Revelation 2:28
And I will give him the morning star.
Revelation 8:10-11
And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven,
burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the
fountains of waters; And the name of the star is called Wormwood: and the
third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they
were made bitter.
Revelation 9:1
And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the
earth: and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit.
Revelation 22:16
I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the
root and the offspring of David, [and] the bright and morning star.
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Judges 5:20
They fought from heaven; the stars in their courses fought against
Sisera.
Job 25:5
Behold even to the moon, and it shineth not; yea, the stars are not pure
in his sight.
Job 38:7
When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for
joy?
Psalms 147:4
He telleth the number of the stars; he calleth them all by [their] names.
Daniel 8:10
And it waxed great, [even] to the host of heaven; and it cast down [some] of the host and
of the stars to the ground, and stamped upon them.
Jude 1:13
Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to
whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.
Revelation 1:20
The mystery of the seven stars which thou sawest in my right hand, and
the seven golden candlesticks. The seven stars are the angels of the
seven churches: and the seven candlesticks which thou sawest are the seven churches.
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Ezekiel 1:13-14
As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance [was] like burning coals of
fire, [and] like the appearance of lamps: it went up and down among the living creatures;
and the fire was bright, and out of the fire went forth lightning. And
the living creatures ran and returned as the appearance of a flash of lightning.
Daniel 10:6
His body also [was] like the beryl, and his face as the appearance of lightning,
and his eyes as lamps of fire, and his arms and his feet like in colour to polished brass,
and the voice of his words like the voice of a multitude.
Matthew 24:27
For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the
west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
Matthew 28:3
His countenance was like lightning, and his raiment white as snow:
Luke 10:18
And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven.
Luke 17:24
For as the lightning, that lighteneth out of the one [part] under heaven,
shineth unto the other [part] under heaven; so shall also the Son of man be in his day.
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Exodus 19:16
And it came to pass on the third day in the morning, that there were thunders and
lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of the trumpet
exceeding loud; so that all the people that [was] in the camp trembled.
Exodus 20:18
And all the people saw the thunderings, and the lightnings, and the noise
of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking: and when the people saw [it], they removed, and
stood afar off.
Nahum 2:4
The chariots shall rage in the streets, they shall justle one against another in the broad
ways: they shall seem like torches, they shall run like the lightnings.
Revelation 4:5
And out of the throne proceeded lightnings and thunderings and voices:
and [there were] seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are the seven
Spirits of God.
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Song of Solomon 2:1-2
I [am] the rose of Sharon, [and] the lily of the valleys. As the lily
among thorns, so [is] my love among the daughters.
Hosea 14:5
I will be as the dew unto Israel: he shall grow as the lily, and cast
forth his roots as Lebanon.
Song of Solomon 5:13
His cheeks [are] as a bed of spices, [as] sweet flowers: his lips [like] lilies,
dropping sweet smelling myrrh.
Song of Solomon 6:2-3
My beloved is gone down into his garden, to the beds of spices, to feed in the gardens,
and to gather lilies. I [am] my beloved's, and my beloved [is] mine: he
feedeth among the lilies.
Matthew 6:28
And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field,
how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: Job 41:19