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Deck of Cards


It was quiet that day, the guns and the mortars,
and land mines for some reason hadn't been heard.
The young soldier knew it was Sunday,
the holiest day of the week.
As he was sitting there, he got out an old deck
of card sand laid them out across his bunk.
Just then an army sergeant came in and said,
'Why aren't you with the rest of the platoon?'
The soldier replied, 'I thought I would stay behind
and spend some time with the Lord'

The sergeant said,
'Looks to me like you're going to play cards.'

The soldier said, 'No, sir.
You see, since we are not allowed
to have Bibles or other spiritual
books in this country,
I've decided to talk to the Lord
by studying this deck of cards.'

The sergeant asked in disbelief,
'How will you do that?'

'You see the Ace, Sergeant?
It reminds me that there is only one God.

The Two represents the two parts of the Bible,
Old and New Testaments

The Three represents the Father, Son,
and the Holy Ghost.

The Four stands for the Four Gospels:
Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.

The Five is for the five virgins
there were ten but only five of them were glorified.

The Six is for the six days it took God
to create the Heavens and Earth.

The Seven is for the day God rested
after making His Creation.

The Eight is for the family of Noah and his wife,
their three sons and their wives --
the eight people God spared from the flood
that destroyed the Earth.

The Nine is for the lepers
that Jesus cleansed of leprosy..
He cleansed ten, but nine never thanked Him.

The Ten represents the Ten Commandments
that God handed down to Moses
on tablets made of stone.

The Jack is a reminder of Satan,
one of God's first angels,
but he got kicked out of heaven
for his sly and wicked ways
and is now the joker of eternal hell.

The Queen stands for the Virgin Mary.

The King stands for Jesus, for he is the King of all kings.

When I count the dots on all the cards,
I come up with 365 total, one for every day of the year.

There are a total of 52 cards in a deck; each is a week -
52 weeks in a year.

The four suits represent the four seasons:
Spring, Summer, Fall and Winter.

Each suit has thirteen cards --
there are exactly thirteen weeks in a quarter .

So when I want to talk to God and thank Him,
I just pull out this old deck of cards
and they remind me of all that I have to be thankful for.'

The sergeant just stood there. After a minute,
with tears in his eyes and pain in his heart, he
said, 'Soldier, can I borrow that deck of cards?'

Please let this be a reminder
and take time to pray for all of our soldiers
who are being sent away,
putting their lives on the line fighting

Prayer for the Military.

Please keep the wheel rolling.
It will only take a few seconds of your time,
but it'll be worth it to read on....

Lord, hold our troops in your loving hands.
Protect them.
Bless them and their families.
I ask this in the name of Jesus,
our Lord and Savior.
Amen.

When you read this, please stop for a moment
and say a prayer for our servicemen
and women all around the world.

There is nothing attached,
but this can be very powerful..

Of all the gifts you could give a Soldier,
prayer is the very best one.

Do not stop the wheel, please -- just send this on.

In God We Trust!








{ threads like this always seem to invite debate....
although that is not my intention...

just a sweet message
& rememberence of Our Lord


and love for Our awesome Soldiers }

Has anyone ever seen this about a deck of cards before..

1or ace x4=4

2x4=8

3x4=12

4x4=16

5x4=20

6x4=24

7x4=28

8x 4= 32

9 x4= 36

10 x4 =40

11 x4= 44

12 x4 = 48

13x4 = 52

And 2 jokers

Total= 364


Now with 2 jokers we have 365 added for 1 joker for a year the 2nd joker makes leap year


Now there are 13 numbers counting as above and 4 suit’s this equaling 52 weeks

I forgot but there is more to this but does anyone know who invented the game of cards and was their more to it than just a game. I find this quite strange that this happens like this. And also the 4 suits can be the 4 weeks of the moon cycle and the 7 days of each week is in the very middle of the deck..Shalom…Miles

From some random site:


Historians believe playing cards were invented in China where paper was invented as well. Some version of the standard English 52-card deck was later introduced into Europe via the Islamic empire. It was after this that the human figures of the court--kings, queens and their attendants--appeared on the cards.

http://www.libraryspot.com/know/playingcards.htm

The origin of playing cards is obscure, but it is almost certain that they began in China after the invention of paper. Ancient Chinese "money cards" have four "suits": coins (or cash), strings of coins (which may have been misinterpreted as sticks from crude drawings), myriads of strings, and tens of myriads. These were represented by ideograms, with numerals of 2-9 in the first three suits and numerals 1-9 in the "tens of myriads". Wilkinson suggests in The Chinese origin of playing cards that the first cards may have been actual paper currency which were both the tools of gaming and the stakes being played for. The designs on modern Mahjong tiles and dominoes likely evolved from those earliest playing cards. The Chinese word p�i is used to describe both paper cards and gaming tiles. An Indian origin for playing cards has been suggested by the resemblance of symbols on some early European decks to the ring, sword, cup, and baton classically depicted in the four hands of Indian statues. This is an area that still needs research. The time and manner of the introduction of cards into Europe are matters of dispute. The 38th canon of the council of Worcester (1240) is often quoted as evidence of cards having been known in England in the middle of the 13th century; but the games de rege et regina there mentioned are now thought to more likely have been chess. If cards were generally known in Europe as early as 1278, it is very remarkable that Petrarch, in his dialogue that treats gaming, never once mentions them. Boccaccio, Chaucer and other writers of that time specifically refer to various games, but there is not a single passage in their works that can be fairly construed to refer to cards. Passages have been quoted from various works, of or relative to this period, but modern research leads to the supposition that the word rendered cards has often been mistranslated or interpolated.

It is likely that the ancestors of modern cards arrived in Europe from the Mamelukes of Egypt in the late 1300s, by which time they had already assumed a form very close to those in use today. In particular, the Mameluke deck contained 52 cards comprising four "suits": polo sticks, coins, swords, and cups. Each suit contained ten "spot" cards (cards identified by the number of suit symbols or "pips" they show) and three "court" cards named malik (King), nā'ib malik (Viceroy or Deputy King), and thānī nā'ib (Second or Under-Deputy). The Mameluke court cards showed abstract designs not depicting persons (at least not in any surviving specimens) though they did bear the names of military officers. A complete pack of Mameluke playing cards was discovered by L.A. Mayer in the Topkapi Sarayi Museum, Istanbul, in 1939 [1]; this particular complete pack was not made before 1400, but the complete deck allowed matching to a private fragment dated to the twelfth or thirteenth century. There is some evidence to suggest that this deck may have evolved from an earlier 48-card deck that had only two court cards per suit, and some further evidence to suggest that earlier Chinese cards brought to Europe may have travelled to Persia, which then influenced the Mameluke and other Egyptian cards of the time before their reappearance in Europe.

It is not known whether these cards influenced the design of the Indian cards used for the game of Ganjifa, or whether the Indian cards may have influenced these. Regardless, the Indian cards have many distinctive features: they are round, generally hand painted with intricate designs, and comprise more than four suits (often as many as twelve).

One of best write-ups on this subject that I have found:

http://www.thehouseofcards.com/playing-card-history.html

This is cool

I did my own write up on the Origin of Tarot Cards, and yes, it looks like history traces actual playing cards back to China.

Here is my article on my Queen of Coins site:

http://www.queenofcoins.com/tarot-history.html

cool

I need to get you to write some of my research papers JeannieBean