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The Four Corners Of Earth & The Four Winds Of Heaven What is the difference between the four corners of the land and the four winds of heaven?
And to understand this, we will give some examples mentioned in the bible: Ho! Ho! Flee from the land of the north, says the Lord; for I have spread you abroad as the four winds of the heavens, says the Lord. And in: Then I said to the angel who talked with me, "What are these, my Lord?" 5 And the angel answered me, "These are going forth to the four winds of heaven, after presenting themselves before the Lord of all the earth. 6 The chariot with the black horses goes toward the north country, the white ones go toward the west country, and the dappled ones go toward the south country." 7 When the steeds came out, they were impatient to get off and patrol the earth. And he said, "Go, patrol the earth." So they patrolled the earth. And in: Daniel (7 2):Daniel said, "I saw in my vision by night, and behold, the four winds of heaven were stirring up the great sea. And in: Daniel (8 8):Then the he-goat magnified himself exceedingly; but when he was strong, the great horn was broken, and instead of it, there came up four conspicuous horns toward the four winds of heaven. And in: Daniel (11 4):And when he has risen, his kingdom shall be broken and divided toward the four winds of heaven, but not to his posterity, nor according to the dominion with which he ruled; for his kingdom shall be plucked up and go to others besides these. And in: Ezekiel (37 9):Then he said to me, "Prophesy to the breath (spirit), prophesy, son of man, and say to the breath (Spirit), "Thus says the Lord God: Come from the four winds, O breath (spirit), and breathe upon (go into) these slain, that they may live." And in: Jeremiah (49 36):And I will bring upon Elam the four winds from the four quarters of heaven; and I will scatter them to all those winds, and there shall be no nation to which those driven out of Elam shall not come. And in: Matthew (24 31):And he will send out his angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other. And in: Mark (13 27):And then he will send out the angels, and gather his elect from the four winds, from the ends of the earth to the ends of heaven. And in: Ezekiel (7 2):"And you, O son of man, thus says the Lord God to the land of Israel: An end! The end has come upon the four corners of the land. And in: Isaiah (11 12):He will raise an ensign for the nations, and will assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth. And in: Isaiah (24 16):From the ends of the earth we hear songs of praise, of glory to the Righteous One. And in: The Revelations (7 1):After this I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding back the four winds of the earth, that no wind might blow on earth or sea or against any tree. And in: The Revelation (20 8):And will come out to deceive the nations which are at the four corners of the earth, that is, Gog and Magog, to gather them for battle; their number is like the sand of the sea. From above we see that two sorts of terms were used in the bible: "The four winds of heaven" or "The four winds" and "the four corners of earth" or "The (four) ends of the earth". The four corners of earth, or the (four) ends of earth are used in the bible to pin point places and the four corners of earth are the known north, south, east and west.
So if we want to pin point anything in the world, we use the three dimensions that indicate its position (distances) from a reference point and these are (X, Y,& Z). So in order to pin point a point "A" specifically, we would have to specify not only its place but its "Time" also, for the point "A" is in its place now but it may not be there after a while or tomorrow or after tomorrow. Now I am present in my place but after a while I shall move and be in another place. That is why, when the Spirit talks about the gathering of the elect of God, he specifies the time and space, for there are those elect of the time of Adam and that of Enoch and those of Abrahams or Moses time or that of Jesus Christ and till the end of the world. So when Christ sends his angels to collect his elect when the last trumpet sounds, they will collect and gather all the elect from all times that have passed on the world and from all places and spaces. This is why the term "Winds" is used here, that is, as if Christ would say, "I will make time travel backward from the time of the end and till the time of Adam and the angels will gather all my elect, each from his place and the time where he died". Had Jesus used another word in stead of "The Winds," then those who listened to him would have not understood a thing and further they would have thought he was absolutely crazy if he had told them, "I will make time go backward and the angels will gather the elect from the past and the present, and we will travel in time from the present to the past or the future". The term "Winds" gave a wage meaning to those standing around Christ, but it gives a better and more precise meaning as time goes by. So if you tell anyone today about the possibility of traveling through time, he will accept it, even though no one has traveled through time up to now. And now let us see the meaning of the four winds, and how the resurrection takes place, 1 The hand of the Lord was upon me, and he brought me by the Spirit of the Lord, and set me down in the midst of the valley, it was full of bones. 2 And he led me round among them, and behold, they were very dry and too many. 3 and he said to me, "Son of man, can these bones live?" And I answered, "O Lord God, you know." 4 Again he said to me, "prophesy to these bones, and say to them, O, dry bones, hear the word of the Lord, 5 Thus says the Lord God to these bones, behold, I will cause breath to enter you, and you shall live. 6 and I will lay sinews upon you, and will cause flesh to come upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and you shall live, and you shall know that I am the Lord." 7 So I prophesied as I was commanded, and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold, a shaking (an earthquake), and the bones came together, every bone to its bones. 8 and as I looked, sinews and flesh had come upon them, and skin had covered them, but there was no breath in them, (No souls in them). We see a lot of dry bones of different bodies mixed together and spread over the ground. The prophet is led round them as if he was flying over them. When he says to the bones, "Hear the word of the Lord," as he was commanded. At this point we reach the point when Christ says: And: "Truly, truly. I say to you, the hour is coming, and it is now, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live." (John 5 - 25). That is when the dead and their bones hear the word of the Lord saying, "Rise", they shall rise. Here there shall be a great resurrection earthquake, which stops the time and sets it in a backward motion towards the past. The disintegration process is reversed and becomes the building process, so the bones of every one body come close together, then sinews and flesh are laid on them, and then they are covered with skin. The bodies are now complete but they are still dead, they have no souls. Then God commands the prophet to prophesy towards the souls to come from the four winds, that is the souls are ordered to enter their bodies and to come back from the time and space, from where and when they have left their bodies. John (11 - 11): Thus he spoke, and said to them, "Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I go to awake him out of sleep."And in: Matthew (9 - 24): He said, "Depart; for the girl is not dead but asleep!" And they laughed at him.Yes, the ignorants laughed, because they did not know the true reality, they did not know that death for God is nothing but a deep sleep. So when the time motion is set backwards, the body comes back to life, from the dust it had become. We have thought of resurrection in this way to understand how it happens, but the Lord says, "Rise" and the dead will rise. He says be and it is done. The time is the past and the present and the future, but it counts for us, and not for God the creator. 
Abid Al-Ahad Dauod
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