Opening the Gates of Heaven Perry Stone

This may seem more of a tradition. However, I have a man on my ministry board of directors who is a specialist in laser research and development. Years ago he shared with me how it would be theoretically possible for the original stones of the Ten Commandments to actually be sapphire. He explained how a percentage of the earth’s crust contains aluminum oxide, and sapphires can form in rocks poor in silica and rich in aluminum. When aluminum oxide is heated to a high temperature, it forms sapphire crystals. Thus, when God wrote with the fiery finger of His hand (Exod. 31:18; Deut. 33:2), the fire from God’s finger could have caused the stone tablets to form some type of sapphire crystals. 6 In Ezekiel’s vision, the prophet continued describing the interior of God’s throne as the color of amber, with fire moving inside the throne (Ezek. 1:27). Later Ezekiel described the one on the throne with the appearance of fire from the waist up and fire from the waist downward (Ezek. 8:2). This may have been what the writer to the Hebrews alluded to when he wrote, “Our God is a consuming fire” (Heb. 12:29). The Hebrew word for “amber” is chashmal , and it probably means, “a bronze- type color.” This is likely, since in John’s vision the feet of Christ appeared as brass that had been polished through a fire (Rev. 1:15). T HE L IGHTNING, T HUNDER, AND V OICES