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This may be long, but it's necessary you know. So grab your King James Version of the Bible so as to look up the verses which may not be quoted here in order to reduce the length of this post as much as possible.
There are controversies going on about some Christian doctrines today, due to misunderstanding of the Bible about the use of precious stones and jewelries

We all know that GOD in Heaven knows all things, both in the spiritual realm, physical realm and every other realms. He alone knows the past, present and future. That's why on this topic, we will be using the Bible.

(Read Genesis 1 & 2, Proverbs 8:22-30,John 1:1-3 for details)
Firstly, no one should ever ascribe precious stones to properties of Satan because Satan was never around when the Word was creating everything according to the will and directive of the FATHER.

GOD created all precious stones. Be it gold, silver, diamond, amethyst, sardius, topaz and every other precious stones you may ever hear of or come across. GOD never said these stones are Satanic nor properties of Satan. GOD created them all in His Wisdom and power.

Genesis 2:11-12 The name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;
And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone.

Now, come to think of this, will GOD ever by His own mouth direct His chosen people to go and do whatever He knows is a sin? Will GOD mislead His chosen people or make a mistake in misdirecting them on the possession and use of jewelries?

Remember this, Abraham walked with GOD and GOD called him His friend because of his obedience to, and reverence of GOD. GOD in turn blessed Abraham abundantly. Abraham was blessed exceedingly.

Genesis 13:2 And Abram was very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold.

Abraham was very rich in cattle, silver and gold, and GOD never said his gold and silver must be disposed of because they're properties of Satan or offensive or abomination unto GOD. But GOD blessed him more with them.

(Read Exodus 3 for full details)
Fast forward to when GOD remembered the Israelites and was going to bring them out of Egypt, GOD appeared to Moses and gave Moses a direct commandment to the children of Israel. GOD would never have made a mistake in this:

Exodus 3:21-22 And I will give this people favour in the sight of the Egyptians: and it shall come to pass, that, when ye go, ye shall not go empty:
But every woman shall borrow of her neighbour, and of her that sojourneth in her house, jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment: and ye shall put them upon your sons, and upon your daughters; and ye shall spoil the Egyptians.

And when the time came, GOD commanded Moses, in remembrance of His promise to Moses concerning the Israelites about STRIPPING the Egyptians of their BEAUTIFYING ORNAMENTS of ADORNMENT before they leave:

Exodus 11:2 Speak now in the ears of the people, and let every man borrow of his neighbor, and every woman of her neighbor, jewels of silver and jewels of gold.

Moses obeyed GOD'S commandment and instructed the Israelites to do what GOD has commanded them concerning the JEWELRIES:

GOD called it JEWELRIES, because GOD knows it's human beings that makes use of it. GOD never called it PROPERTIES OF SATAN, INSTRUMENT OF SIN, ABOMINATION, SIN, IDOLATERY nor any other.

Exodus 12:35 And the children of Israel did according to the word of Moses; and they borrowed of the Egyptians jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment:

Thus GOD STRIPPED the Egyptians off their ORNAMENTS of GOLD and SILVER and handed them over to the Israelites as a possession before their final exit from the land of their captivity, Egypt.

(Read Exodus chapters 19 and 20 for full details)
Fast forward to when the children of Israel got to the wilderness, when GOD descended upon mount Sinai, while Moses went up the mount unto GOD, the people despised his absence, despite seeing the smoke and fire of GOD afar off.


ON MALE PIERCING OF THE EAR, BUT NOT INSERTING OF EARRING

Now these are the judgments which thou shalt set before them. If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing. If he came in by himself, he shall go out by himself: if he were married, then his wife shall go out with him. If his master have given him a wife, and she have born him sons or daughters; the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he shall go out by himself. And if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free: Then his master shall bring him unto the judges; he shall also bring him to the door, or unto the door post; and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl; and he shall serve him for ever.
Exodus:21:1-6

Ear bore (not earring and it's not written that he should fix earring in the hole) there is for a man who is a servant, given a wife by his master but do not want to leave the wife and children and go away.


ON PERFUME

Many preachers today likewise say this is a sin.
Well, checking from the Bible, here is what was found:

Exodus 30:34-38 And the LORD said unto Moses, Take unto thee sweet spices, stacte, and onycha, and galbanum; these sweet spices with pure frankincense: of each shall there be a like weight:
And thou shalt make it a perfume, a confection after the art of the apothecary, tempered together, pure and holy:
And thou shalt beat some of it very small, and put of it before the testimony in the tabernacle of the congregation, where I will meet with thee: it shall be unto you most holy.
And as for the perfume which thou shalt make, ye shall not make to yourselves according to the composition thereof: it shall be unto thee holy for the LORD.
Whosoever shall make like unto that, to smell thereto, shall even be cut off from his people.

GOD never said here that they should never use perfume, BUT THAT THEY SHOULD NEVER MAKE ANY FOR THEMSELVES WITH THE DESCRIPTION AND INGREDIENTS HE GOD HAS GIVEN.

I hope this is understood though.


ON THE MISUSE OF THEIR JEWELRIES OF GOLD AND SILVER

(Read Exodus 32 for full details)
They forgot the GOD of their fathers and made a very strange decision which CORRUPTED them, their FOUL WORSHIP of the JEWELRIES fashioned into a molten calf, which they proclaimed to be their new god.


THE STRIPPING DUE TO THEIR FOUL WORSHIP OF THE MOLTEN CALF

(Read Exodus 33 for full details)
Exodus 33:5-6 For the LORD had said unto Moses, Say unto the children of Israel, Ye are a stiffnecked people: I will come up into the midst of thee in a moment, and consume thee: therefore now put off thy ornaments from thee, that I may know what to do unto thee.
And the children of Israel stripped themselves of their ornaments by the mount Horeb.

GOD asked them to put off their ornaments from off them. GOD never told them to throw these ornaments away nor dispose of them. But to make them feel EMPTY and UNADORNED. They still carried them along, but not worn.

(Read Exodus 35 for full details)
Now, fast forward to when the tabernacle, the ark and others were to be constructed, GOD commanded Moses to tell the children of Israel to bring the same things unto Him as offering for the constructions:

Exodus 35:4-5 And Moses spake unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, saying, This is the thing which the LORD commanded, saying,
Take ye from among you an offering unto the LORD: whosoever is of a willing heart, let him bring it, an offering of the LORD; gold, and silver, and brass,

If these precious stones were of Satan, abominable, properties of sin, instruments of the mermaids, properties of the underworld, will GOD had requested they bring them as offering unto Him to build the tabernacle, ark and others?

Exodus 35:21-22 And they came, every one whose heart stirred him up, and every one whom his spirit made willing, and they brought the LORD'S offering to the work of the tabernacle of the congregation, and for all his service, and for the holy garments.
And they came, both men and women, as many as were willing hearted, and brought bracelets, and earrings, and rings, and tablets, all jewels of gold: and every man that offered offered an offering of gold unto the LORD.

GOD knows these precious stones were for beautification. And beautification is not a sin before GOD. For if it were to be sin, GOD would not have INTRODUCED it to the children of Israel even by a direct command.


THE MISQUOTED PORTIONS OF ISAIAH 3

The stripping foretold due to their bad behaviour:

(Read Isaiah 3 for full details)
Isaiah 3:16-24 Moreover the LORD saith, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet:
Therefore the LORD will smite with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will discover their secret parts.
In that day the Lord will take away the bravery of their tinkling ornaments about their feet, and their cauls, and their round tires like the moon,
The chains, and the bracelets, and the mufflers,
The bonnets, and the ornaments of the legs, and the headbands, and the tablets, and the earrings,
The rings, and nose jewels,
The changeable suits of apparel, and the mantles, and the wimples, and the crisping pins,
The glasses, and the fine linen, and the hoods, and the vails.
And it shall come to pass, that instead of sweet smell there shall be stink; and instead of a girdle a rent; and instead of well set hair baldness; and instead of a stomacher a girding of sackcloth; and burning instead of beauty.

Observe v24 properly and understand.


MISQUOTED PORTIONS OF I PETER 3

Below is what many today picked out without understanding what the Bible was actually saying there was on wives' humility and submission before their husbands, not for wives to just beautify their outward appearance while their inward characters are despicable. But to respect and be submissive to their husbands.

1 Peter 3:2-3 While they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear.
Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel;

But here is the full details:

1 Peter 3:1-6 Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives;
While they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear.
Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel;
But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.
For after this manner in the old time the holy women also, who trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection unto their own husbands:
Even as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose daughters ye are, as long as ye do well, and are not afraid with any amazement.


THE DESCRIPTION OF THE NEW JERUSALEM

(Read Revelation 21 for full details)
Now, above all, the Bible says the following about the New Jerusalem, the holy city of our GOD:

Revelation 21:1-2 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.
And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.

The Bible used the term, "PREPARED AS A BRIDE ADORNED FOR HER HUSBAND".

Have you ever seen a bride today adorned for her husband? (I'm not talking of the miserable modern semi-nude or even full nude wedding gowns you see today)

In terms of adorning a bride for her husband, I commend Indians for that. (I know them too well with their culture about this because I am well close to them.)
That is what it means to adorn a bride for her husband.

If adorning a wife for her husband had been a sin, I believe the Bible would have used another term to describe the New Jerusalem's beautification by the very hands of our GOD.

Now, preachers today cry that these precious stones are demonic, satanic, oceanic and so on. But lo, here is what the Bible says about the New Jerusalem:

Revelation 21:10-12, 18-21 And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and shewed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God,
Having the glory of God: and her light was like unto a stone most precious, even like a jasper stone, clear as crystal;
And had a wall great and high, and had twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and names written thereon, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel:
And the building of the wall of it was of jasper: and the city was pure gold, like unto clear glass.
And the foundations of the wall of the city were garnished with all manner of precious stones. The first foundation was jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, a chalcedony; the fourth, an emerald;
The fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolite; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, a topaz; the tenth, a chrysoprasus; the eleventh, a jacinth; the twelfth, an amethyst.
And the twelve gates were twelve pearls; every several gate was of one pearl: and the street of the city was pure gold, as it were transparent glass.

Therefore, I want you reading this to know that GOD created all these things. The devil, satanists, ocean dwellers only make use of it too because of the beauty of them.

They indeed try to seduce humans with them by connecting with demons in human flesh, making these precious stones come in finished goods of seductive shapes and fashions, appearances, types and models all in order to bring the heart of men away from GOD.

If you know you cannot handle them in your possession; if you know they will make you sin against GOD when you make them become possessions you worship till you begin to lose interest in GOD, dispose of them.

But never call what GOD created and confirmed it to be good an instrument of Satan because Satan did not create these things.

GOD created them.
So never call the handiworks of GOD, even the handiworks of Him that is perfect in knowledge as abomination, instruments of sin, satanic or other terms which gave no glory to GOD but brings attention to Satan.

It is we humans that misused them for wrong reasons due to greed and other selfish reasons.
If gold and silver have been sin because we humans misused them, then we must likewise call iron, wood, stones and ceramic sins because they are also abused and misused.


ON SINS WHICH MOST PREACHERS TEND TO SKIP/IGNORE TO ADDRESS WHILE IT KEEPS RAVAGING THE CHURCH BUT KEPT BEING IGNORED

No man on earth can stand before GOD and say they have no sin. For we all still sin against GOD even after we have been converted. And for this, many of us choose to claim holiness which is not even in our hands.

I John 1:8-10 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.

For this is why it is written:

Proverbs 28:13 He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy.

Our LORD JESUS CHRIST made us know what sin is, as things that comes out of the heart, and are what defiles us:

Matthew 15:17-20 Do not ye yet understand, that whatsoever entereth in at the mouth goeth into the belly, and is cast out into the draught?
But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man.
For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:
These are the things which defile a man: but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man.

Also, read the following Bible portions to know more about the sins we all commit against ourselves, against men and against GOD:

Romans 1:18-32
Galatians 5:19-21
I Timothy 1:9-10
Revelation 21:8
Revelation 22:15

Above are the sins stated in the Bible.
At no point there will you find that the use of precious stones or jewelries or perfume listed as sin.

For these gem stones are in several electronic gadgets today.

Anything can become sin on man when ABUSED or MISUSED.
Your phones, laptops, TVs, houses, beds, clothes, possessions, money, power, wealth, riches, freedom and many more can become sin when misused or abused.

So, let's say the truth, supported by the Word of GOD that we all may know at what point of our lives, both openly and secretly we need to work on and keep our spiritual garment clean and spotless while we walk with our LORD JESUS CHRIST, and not focus only on outward appearance and conclude it as holiness by measurement.

May our LORD JESUS CHRIST in His infinite mercies uphold us, keep us, wash us and have compassion on us all, and make us worthy of His return in JESUS name.

Amen.