Opening the Gates of Heaven Perry Stone
years; however, on earth fifty thousand years would have transpired! If the same man traveling at the speed of light traveled to the Andromeda Galaxy (earth’s nearest galaxy), the trip would take twenty-eight years on the spacecraft, but more than two million years will have passed on earth. 5 It has also been speculated that if a thirty-year-old man could remove himself to a planet thirty light-years away and then point a telescope back to earth, he could see himself being born. 6 I use this illustration to demonstrate the distances from earth to the far-flung galaxy when traveling from earth at the speed of light. However, this theory also brings up an interesting possibility as it relates to the importance of your verbal confession after you have prayed. Consider this: Angels have access to heaven and earth and can travel these astronomical distances faster than the speed of light. What could be faster than the speed of light? Answer: the speed of thought. This would indicate that angelic beings are able to think of the geographical regions they desire to travel to, and as quickly as they think of the region, they are transported from one location to another. This is the only logical explanation of spirit travel, as angels can be in heaven one moment and then manifest on earth within a moment’s time. Prayer consists of words, but the words are also a dynamic spiritual force. Jesus said, “The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life” (John 6:63). How
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