David in NJ
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Matthew 4:8-9Rather, it's a density-buoyancy relationship.
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It's not "describing the geometry" or even "a square."
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Here are the 19 verses where the phrase "four corners" is used. Check it out.
The habitable world is bound in four directions - just like the sheet in the vision. Some would refer to the cardinal points of a compass i.e. north, south, east, west.
To restate, Acts chapter 10, Peter had a vision of a vessel ("a certain vessel descending upon him, as it had been a great sheet knit at the four corners") full of animals being lowered from heaven (v. 11).
as it had been = like/as, a comparison - IOW, not a literal bed sheet BUT the "four corners" aspect is in view.
Then the vessel ("sheet") was taken back to heaven (v. 16). It speaks of mankind and not of dietary restrictions. The “great sheet” mentioned was the closest pure idea that God could use to get through to Peter that all men were valid and worthy of the shed blood of Christ Jesus.
What is very important to notice is that we do not see any floating animals outside the sheet (or "celestial bodies/objects"). Let’s look again... How many floating animals were there outside the sheet? None. Or rather, were there many sheets? No. All sentient men were represented on only one sheet, representing only one land. All sentient, intelligent, cognitive animalkind is on earth, and only earth.
Jesus spells it out in Matthew 24:31 and again in Mark 13:27: “And he will send his angels with a trumpet of great voice, and they shall gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.” But I digress from Biblical cosmology to delve into eschatology to speak of this. The two are related, and to show correlation, only behooves us to become better students of the Word, does it not?
We see something interesting after Satan is released: 'and [Satan] will come out to deceive the nations which are in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together for the war; the number of them is like the sand of the seashore. And they came up on the broad plain of the earth and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city, and fire came down from heaven and devoured them.' The nations come from the four corners of the earth onto the broad plain of the earth.
I submit that hidden within the revelation of our dear friend, John, lies a deep mystery of an earth unlike what we find from our governmental agencies today.
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8Again, the devil took Him up on an exceedingly high mountain, and showed Him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory.
9And he said to Him, “All these things I will give You if You will fall down and worship me.”



