Is it perhaps an emerald green like the color of the rainbow around our Heavenly Fathers Throne?
Or could it be blue
like the firmament of the heavens..?
the same as the color of a sapphire?
Here is a very curious find…
“Skystone” or “Stone of Heaven” is an odd type of blue stone and was discovered during archeological excavations in Sierra Leone, West Africa.
Angelo Pitoni, the archeologist who found the stone,
was puzzled by its appearance, so he sent it to be investigated by laboratories of the University of Geneva and according to analysis.
A piece of Sky Stone being prepared for cutting.
An amazing ,77.17% of the stone, is somehow made of pure OXYGEN, yet harder than diamond, unnatural to earth and has strong carbon and silica (glass) in it! The remaining percentage was divided between carbon, silicon, calcium and sodium.
Sky-Stone-Analysis
The composition makes the “Sky Stone” similar to a kind of concrete or stucco, and seems to have been artificially colored.
The natives living in the area where the stone was found, already knew about its existence because this stone-like artifact used to pop out during the digging in the area.
Another mystery related to the stone of heaven is that this artifact is always found in soil layers dating to at least 12000 BC.
Could the sky stone be part of the firmament ?
Or is this like that which Moses, Aaron, Nadab, Abihu and the 70 elders saw in Ex. 24:9-10 (NASB)?
Or is the color of
maybe gold
like the sea of glass – the purest transparent gold that the streets of heaven are made of?
God is love (1 John 4:8), the very nature of the Creator is under scrutiny when love is considered…
We are used to hearing the definition of Love in Greek which has many different words to describe various types of love. Some say 3, some 6 and others 8.
In ancient Greek, the three words for love with which we are more familiar: eros, philia, and agape.
Eros: The first kind of love was named after the Greek god of fertility, it represented the idea of, a physical love, passion and desire between husband and wife. the root word is found in erotic. The Modern Greek word ” erotas ” means “(romantic) love.
Philia/Philos, as in ‘brotherly’ love, The love between two members of the family, love of Mankind, broader human relationships, or deep friendship; the root word is found in ‘ Philadelphia’.
Agape, a really high relationship with the Godhead, the love of God for Man; or love for everyone. As a verb Agapo means “I love”; Agapetos means “beloved.”
the next 3 are:
Ludus, or playful love.
Philautia, or love of the self.
Pragma, or longstanding love.
The other 2 are:
Storge, Affection, as in love for babies children, pets.
Mania, a combination of Eros and Ludus: Obsessive, troubled, intense, madness.
In English we have a number of words for love: fondness, adoration, cherishing, etc.
Ahava (Ah-ha-vah) is the Hebrew word for love.
Hebrew was not just created by God, but it is the language through which He spoke in creating the world.
Much wisdom is attributed to the words and letters in the Hebrew language and understanding the concepts that are incorporated in words can help us in our own lives.
Hebrew is a living language, a language of the heart/lev and it is a power-filled force that helps us better know the Bible and it’s author. Each Hebrew letter is a sign, a symbol, a sound, and a number; and maybe even a color? By digging into the depths of the original language of the Bible we can better grasp its message.
The word “love” which is thrown about so freely in English that everyone uses for everything has a special meaning in Hebrew.
Love or “ahavah” in the Hebraic mind is very different in today’s culture. In the Hebrew, love is connected directly with action and obedience.
Strong’s Exhaustive Dictionary defines ahavah as “to have affection, sexually or otherwise, love, like, to befriend, to be intimate.”
Hebraically ahavah is a verb and a noun, it is an act of doing. Ahava is not just a feeling.
It brings to mind the idea of longing for or breathing for another.
To get a clear understanding of ahavah, let’s examine the Hebrew word itself and learn what it means to love Hebraically.
Most Hebrew words can be broken down to a three-consonant root word that contains the essence of the word’s meaning.
Love in Hebrew is “Ahavah” , which is made up of three basic Hebrew letters,
These three letters actually are broken down into two parts: a two letter base or root,
and the first letter,
which is a modifier.
The root word of ahavah is “ahav.”
The term ahav in Hebrew means, “to give.”
The Hebrew word “ahavah” is spelled
“aleph, hei, bet, hei.”
The root word ahav is spelled “aleph, hei, bet.”
These Hebrew letters reveal a secret of love hidden for thousands of years. This secret is exposed through the meaning behind each Hebrew letter in “ahav.”
Hebrew is read from right to right to left. The first letter of the Hebrew alphabet is also the first letter in “ahav.”
This is the aleph.
The first letter of the Hebrew alphabet is also the first letter in “ahav.” This is the aleph this letter has the numerical value of one. Aleph symbolizes the one and only Eternal God. In Revelation 22:13, Jesus/Yeshua called Himself the Aleph and the Tav. Aleph is a picture of God our Father and His creation. There is one Father Creator.
God our Father – Abba/Avinu
Jesus/Yeshua said that this is the number one commandment in Matt.22:37-39. The first of all commandments is, Shema O Yisra’el; the Master /God is our Father. God our Abba/Avinu is Echad: and you shall ahava (love) the Master/ God our Father with all your lev (heart), and with all your being, and with all your mind, and with all your strength: this is the first commandment. And the second is like it; You shall love your neighbor as yourself. There are no other commandments greater than these,” Mark 12:29-31.
Ahavah starts with Aleph. Real ahavah starts with loving God our Father first. Then, as a person has a relationship with God our Father, we can love our neighbor properly.
The next letter of ahav is the “hei.” The letter “hei” is the fifth letter of the aleph-bet. Five is the number of chesed/grace and highly symbolic.
There are five books of the Torah, five fingers on the hand, and King David gathered five smooth stones to kill Goliath. It is through grace or chesed that God our Abba/Avinu loves us. Mankind loves God our Father back through the fifth letter hei. How? Ahavah is shown to Abba/Avinu through hei – through the five books of the Torah. “If you love me, obey my mitzvoth / commandments. If a man loves Me, he will guard My words, and My Abba/Avinu will love him, and We will come to him, and make Our stay with Him,” said Y’shua in John 14:15, 23.
The hei is the means that a person expresses ahavah. You love and give to God our Abba/Avinu by your actions of obedience.
The form of the letter hei, the number five shows how to correctly love Abba/Avinu and man. The three lines of hei are a picture of loving Abba/Avinu with thought, deed, and words. The top horizontal line is the realm of thought. A person’s thoughts should be focused upward on Abba/Avinu and His word. The vertical line to the right is speech. From the abundance of the heart/mind/horizontal line, the mouth speaks because speech comes directly from thought.
The unattached line to the left is deed. Though actions should be connected to our intentions, they often are not. “There are many plans in a man’s heart; nevertheless the counsel of Abba/Avinu shall stand,” Mishlei / Proverbs 19:21.
Man is to unite the three lines through devotion and service. Loving Abba/Avinu with thoughts, words, and deeds is the goal of the hei.
The Beit is the second letter of the Hebrew alphabet. It is the third letter in “ahav.”
(B is also V in Hebrew.)
This letter vividly demonstrates the purpose of all creation. How? Beit is a picture of a house. Abba/Avinu created the world to be a dwelling place in this world below.
The first letter in the Torah is a beit, found in the word Beresheet, Genesis.
The tabernacle was made to create a bayit, or a house, for Abba/Avinu. “Know you not that you are the temple of Abba/Avinu, and that the Spirit of Abba/Avinu dwells in you?” 1 Corinthians 3:16.
The objective of loving Abba/Avinu is to be conformed to His image and represent Him to the world. The two are to walk together.
Beit, is also the number two.
Abba/Avinu plus His servant equals two. Yet in the beit, the two shall become one. Y’shua said, “For where two, or three will assemble together in My Name, there am I in the midst of them,” Matthew 18:20. Ahava starts with loving Abba/Avinu first and foremost through word, deed, and thought.
This type of ahavah creates a house for Abba/Avinu to inhabit. We make a dwelling place or house for Abba/Avinu when we show love by giving to others.
In review, the Hebrew root word for love is “ahav,” spelled “aleph, hei, bet.” The aleph reminds us that we are to love Abba/Avinu first. Hei shows us to express that love by conforming our thoughts, words, and deeds to the five books of the Torah. When love is directed first to Abba/Avinu, then a beit, a house, is built to sustain His presence.
The meaning of the two letter base, is “to give”. The letter “aleph” , which precedes these two letters comes to modify the meaning of the base word, “give”. The meaning of, is “I give” and also “love”.
We now see the connection between the two words, “I give” and “love”. Love is giving. Not only is love giving, but the actual process of giving develops the very connection between the giver and the receiver. The more giving that one does, the greater is the connection.
This, is hebrew thought.
The process of giving is a vehicle through which the giver through his act of giving is able to, through a physical gift give of himself to another. This act of giving something is not merely helping another but is much more than that. Giving enables us to make a connection to another. When we give to another, that which we give to him/her, could have been utilize to further our own self. Instead, we choose to take that which could have been used for our own needs and instead, use it for someone else.
True ahavah, true love, is more concerned about giving than receiving.
Giving is a condition that creates and sustains love. With out giving, there is no connection that is sustaining. Giving is the vehicle of love. God so loved the world that He GAVE His only Son.
Love may focus on receiving, but ahavah is all about giving.
Is RED the color of love – from the sacrificial death of Messiah and the Blood that was shed for us? Matt. 26:28.
The true relationships that our meaningful in our lives are those in which mutual giving takes place. The giving may be physical, emotional, intellectual or a combination. Without giving from ourselves, no relationship can be enduring.
That is the secret of love that is revealed to us in the Hebrew language placed within by it’s Creator.
However, love is more than just a word, rather than an emotion, it involves action, in Israel, love is also a way of life! It is not something that happens “to you” but a condition that you create when you give.
In Hebrew: דודים ,חיבוב ,רחמים ,אהבה, are some words having to do with love.
(The word דודים is sometimes a plural noun; but it also means love, as in Ezekiel 16:8.)
Because in the Hebrew language there aren’t any exact synonyms, each of the apparent synonyms for אהבה, ahava, will point to a slightly different aspect of love.
(The noun for love is ahavah.)
אהבה is the most general word for love, which is used to express all kinds of love and affection, from deep love, to just liking someone or something.
אהב aheb to love (verb) = ah-HAHV is usually translated with to love, but it rather means to be attracted to ,or to be attached to, and that in a rather mechanical way like a magnet to a nail.
It’s used to describe a parent’s attachment to a child,
“you love you” doesn’t make much sense, but it would be:
to a female = at ohevet et atsmekh
to a male = atah ohev et atsmekha
if you are male, your love = ahava shelkha
if you are female, your love = ahava shelakh
The obvious antithesis of this verb is שנא – sane – which means, to hate, and which is identical to the verb that means, to sleep. Sleeping in the Bible is often used in the sense of being inattentive or aloof (Matthew 26:40), which suggests that our verb אהב (‘aheb) primarily has to do with being attentive and intimate.
דודים is used for love such as that of newlyweds.
חיבוב is close to “cherish.”
רחמים is for a gut-feeling, such as the love of a guardian.
חסד is a verb – hasad – and is the reason why we see curious words like “loving kindness” or “faithful love” in the Bible.
It appears to have originated as a word that expressed a kind of economic and emotional loyalty among relatives or friends or neighbors, but it appears to have moved into legal jargon as the verb that describes a formal contract or covenant.
In our world the word, contract brings to mind being bound by a law, that when broken will land you in jail. The Hebrew word חסד (hasad), has primarily to do with human decency and allegiance.
רחם
The verb רחם raham – expresses a kind of devotional love that usually goes one way: from a caregiver to the receiver of this care.
It’s often used to describe a parent’s devotion to a child, and subsequently also God’s devotion to mankind.
The Fathers Love is expressed in the 1st covenant was sealed with Noah after the flood and God pointed out to him the rainbow in the heavens which was not before the flood for it had never rained.
For Noah it would serve as a reminder to Him of God’s covenant promises and salvation from the judgment on sin.
If we had never seen one, how would we know what it was – how would someone describe it to you know without tv, the internet or Hollywood to animate it?
Then suddenly came the deluge.
The whole eco system was changed forever after the windows of heaven were opened and the fountains of the deep were broken up.
Note of interest…
They apparently have found an ocean beneath the ocean!! how they know that is in itself a mystery!
https://www.iflscience.com/environment/huge-underground-ocean-discovered-towards-earths-core/
https://www.livescience.com/1312-huge-ocean-discovered-earth.html
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg23231014-700-deepest-water-found-1000km-down-a-third-of-way-to-earths-core/
The sky above the firmament may have had more of a solid structure like that of ice – frozen precipitation. It’s apparently cold out in space. Just as altitude affects temperature and there is a clear snow line on mountains, with snow on the highest peaks all year round. The higher one goes the colder it gets.
The windows of heaven opening were maybe a way of meaning, the ice is melting and its going to fall to earth.
Water always finds the lowest point flowing down. The amount of precipitation condensed moisture we call rain, is determined by the clouds that form as the earth heats up from the suns rays. The moisture rises as we know heat always rises, and it’s the same principle for how a hot air ballon functions.
The moisture evaporates and condensation, rises up and then hits the cold air in the upper atmosphere and it is transformed into what we see as clouds. The more moisture in the clouds the darker they become in color.
When they become over saturated and too heavy to float, the moisture they contain falls to earth as rain or snow. Friction within the cloud gives rise to lightning which precedes the rain falling harder and faster. Thunder is simply the sound of that electric lightning bolt of energy and we see it before we hear it, because light waves travel faster than sound waves. However this is not a science /physics lesson, although God is the perfect scientist/physics master and man is only at the tip of comprehending all He has created and understanding how His creation functions.
The point of the pre-ramble is to highlight the rainbow, which had probably never been seen prior to the flood, for according to scripture, there was no rain..
Genesis 2:5–6 states that “the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth
, and there was not a man to till the ground. But there went up a mist…
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