According to the Bible, the top of the holy walls of New Jerusalem, or heaven, contain 4,780 bricks encrusted with 1,327 hand-cut, polished red jasper stones. Jasper is mentioned throughout the Bible, particularly as a protective stone in the breastplates of the priests of Aaron. Evidently, the ancients considered it to be an extremely powerful stone. Even God is referred to metaphorically as a red jasper stone in one interpretation of Revelation chapter 4, verse 3, which states, “And He who sat there was like a jasper and a sardius stone in appearance; and there was a rainbow around the throne, in appearance like and emerald.” (NKJV, www.Biblelight.org)
The ancients also favored jasper for curing snakebites, repelling evil spirits, and controlling the weather by bringing rain. “Lithica,” a fourth-century epic poem, praises this stone: “The gods propitious hearken to his prayers, who’ever the polished glass-green Jasper wears: His parsed glebe they’ll saturate with rain, and send for shower to soak the thirsty plain.”
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