Numbers in the Bible

Some numbers in the Bible

Seem particularly special,

That they contain secrets

Are believed by some people.

Some people use them

To try to tell the future,

This is biblical numerology:

A dangerous endeavour.

Some use them to predict

The coming of the Lord

But no man knows this

As is stated in God’s Word.

Come and walk with me

As some numbers we explore:

Take the significance given

And try to predict no more.

Let’s start at the beginning

In the beginning God…

Created heaven and earth

Spread that abroad.

The Lord God is one

Besides Him, there’s no other,

Read Deuteronomy 6 verse 4

And clear up that matter.

Recorded in Genesis 1 verse 16

God made two great lights:

The greater to rule the day

And the lesser to rule the night.

There are three in the Trinity

The Father, the Word and the Spirit,

Read Genesis 1 and John 1

And there you will see it.

Four heads to the river

Than extended out of Eden,

Genesis chapter 2 shows this

In describing the Garden.

Five virgins were wise

And the other five were not,

Read about it in Matthew 25

And then choose your lot.

Six is the number of days

Allotted to God’s creative acts,

Study Exodus 20 verse 11

To avoid the evolution trap.

On day seven God rested

His work was complete

Genesis 2 verse 2 asserts this

Hence I need not repeat.

Eight days were given

For the circumcising of a child,

Such was the case of Jesus

As Luke chapter 2:21 describes.

Of ten lepers Jesus cleansed

Just one had returned,

Nine of them did not say thanks

In Luke 17 of this we learn.

There are Ten Commandments

Which Jesus précis into two

Look up Exodus chapter 20

And get the ten within view.

When Jesus ascended

Eleven disciples were left,

Matthew 27 tells about Judas:

His betrayal and his death.

Twelve tribes, twelve disciples

There’s so much more of twelve,

In the Old Testament and the New

Check it out if you care to delve.

Four and twenty or twenty-four

Are the elders in Revelation:

Read chapters 4 through 19

And you will get the explanation.

  

Thirty pieces of silver

To effect the betrayal of Christ

Matthew chapter 26 and verse 15

Tells about Judas and his vice.

Let me now jump to forty

A very significant number indeed

Re: the temptations of Jesus Christ

Which Matthew and Luke reveal.

Fifty is about Pentecost

A shifting from the Old to the New,

The birth of the church is now in view

Read about it in Acts chapter 2.

Seventy years of captivity

Israel was banished to Babylon,

Read Jeremiah chapter 25

Of Israel’s pending desolation.

One hundred is symbolic

Of the abundance of fruit produced,

From a reading of Mark chapter 4

This we can deduce.

In Genesis 5 verse 27

Is nine hundred and sixty-nine:

That is the age of Methuselah

The oldest man of any time.

One thousand is my final number

It speaks of the coming millennium

Go to Revelation 20 and read

About Jesus’ millennium kingdom.

But note the unknown number

In Revelation 7 verse 9:

A multitude that no man can number

That number is mine.

Stewart Russell © October 2018