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Creation - Dead Sea

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Aa

GRM 80.7

The Gospel as revealed to me

Quotation

The plain is more and more barren and depressing. Little scales sparkle in small crevices and holes in the ground. They look like dirty scales of diamond chips. John bends down to look at them.

«It is the salt of the subsoil which is saturated with them. It comes to the surface with the spring waters and then dries up. That is why life is impossible here. The Eastern Sea spreads its death for many miles around, through deep veins in the ground. Only where fresh spring waters counteract its effects, is it possible to find plants and comfort» explains Jesus.

Detail

Maria describes the area near the site of Christ's Temptation. The apostles stayed there for a while and then left. After they had walked for hours, she writes: