Gems of New Jerusalem

David W. Roche · 2020-01-23T15:58:57Z

I asked the Lord to give me something fresh and interesting to post about. Literally moments later, I had the thought to investigate the foundation stones of the New Jerusalem. I learned something I never heard before, and I hope you will also find it fascinating.In the past century, it has been discovered that gems can be classified as either anisotropic or isotropic, and only recently have scientists discovered cross polarized light, which can be used to identify whether a gem is anisotropic or isotropic. When viewed in crossed-polarised light (similar to “pure” light), anisotropic stones produce a colourful array- reflecting all the colours of the rainbow, whereas isotropic stones lose all of their colour and appear black. It's interesting that, in Revelation chapter 21, there are 12 gems mentioned to be inlaid for decoration of the New Jerusalem, and ALL of these 12 gems are anisotropic gems, i.e., gems that can show colourful patterns under pure light... ... Could it be possible that God, in choosing the stones for the foundation of the new temple, deliberately avoided stones that would lose their colour and instead chose stones that disperse light to produce brilliant rainbow effects? I used to wonder why we were given the names of the stones when the colors of them are greatly subject to variations. It seems that the information we are told is much richer than simply being told a specific color; the gems are chosen because they are beautiful in polarized or pure light.Anisotropic or Doubly Refracting (D.R.): A ray of light which enters an anisotropic substance is not only bent or refracted, but it is also broken or split into two rays, each of which travels with a different velocity and hence has a different Refractive Index. ... In addition, every [ ] ray of light is differently refracted for different colours of light. What I did not expect to find is mathematical evidence supporting the Divine authorship of Revelation, as the concept of anisotropic gems was unknown until recently, and all 12 stones listed are such. A further analysis of probability of the 12 chosen gems in the Book of Revelation suggested only anisotropic gems (show colorful pattern under pure light). There are around 4000 naturally available gems and a very large portion of these gems are too rare to be used. For the usual ones, there are 143 gems, 109 gems are anisotropic and 34 are isotropic. So, the probability of Book of Revelation mentioning all the 12 gems be only anisotropic gems are 109/143 x 108 / 142 x 107 / 141... x 98 / 132 or 3.3% chance which is very very low. The above analysis assumes all gems have same probability be included. However, in fact, this is not the case, diamond, ruby, garnet group of gems (these are isotropic gems which do not show colorful pattern under pure light) are very very common gems. As a result, the actual probability is much much lower than 3.3% for naming all the 12 gems are all anisotropic gems in the Book of Revelation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tRYoWGw3Rw

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Forget the marketing strategies behind the diamond industry. The color, shape and uniqueness of everything the Lord has created sells itself, IMHO.

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