The prophet's dictionary guide to the supernatural

sacred significance to early peoples. They were used to obtain information from the invisible world. Stones were presented as tokens of consecration and contained powers of creation, illumination, and revelation. They were held to protect and produce life, and altars were built of them to signify endurance, immutability, and solidarity. The stone also gave a sign of fellowship with a divine authority and denoted a high spiritual existence. Moreover, stones were possessed and sought for their oracular powers and were constantly worn by prophets, seers, and agents of the supernatural. Their glitter and resonance to the light are what gave them their reputation for prophetic communications. For this reason, stones were believed to give their wearers special powers of perception, insight into people’s thoughts, and revelations of a judicial and punitive nature. The word psephos in the New Testament is used twice in the Bible. Here the stone is used to give voice and vote to one in authority. Its use as a ballot counter gave the stone the power of vote, judgment, and verdicts; revelation and prediction are ascribed to it, as studying shows. Other sources indicate that the stone was important as a verifier, a search tool, and handling in spiritual contexts was similar to that of divine worship on an instrument. See Acts 26:10 where Paul the apostle used the word. The Lord Jesus Christ used the same word in Revelation 2:17 to describe the type of gift He will give to those from the church of Pergamos who overcome until the end. The reward is to be a stone with a name written on it. The stone with the name written on it was not a mere ornament or a treasure. The stone the Lord had in mind served revelatory, judicial, and rulership purposes. Such a stone identified the character, rank, and authority of its owner. As an eternal object, the stone Christ bestows conferred His knowledge, awareness, insight, and perception. It reflected the wearer’s power of command and the privileges associated with the perpetual divine call granted by the Savior through the reward. Also inscribed on the stone in living ink, so to speak, are the deeds, the possessors of the stone that it is fit for and their nature, and the extent of the relationship with the Lord. Along with being an implement of profitability, the psephos stone likewise gives its owner unusual advantage in the Lion-Lamb’s powerful sphere of existence. The stone constitutes the owner’s employment in His kingdom and unique occupation assigned as a result of his or her mastery. The inherent power of the eternal stones awarded by the Savior when