NUMBER SEVEN (7-3)
(Message by Tanny Keng)
0. Introduction
a) Number 7 is a great number of spiritual perfection. A number which, therefore, occupies so large a place in the works, and especially in the Word of God as being inspired by the Holy Spirit. As a number the actual word and number "Seven" is used as no other number is. Seven and its compounds occur in multiples of seven in the Old Testament.
i) Seven occurs 287 times, or 7 x 41.
ii) "Seventh," the fractional part, occurs 98 times, or 7 x 14.
iii) "Seven-fold," occurs 7 times.
b) It is interesting to note what other mention(s) for 7 can be found in the Bible.
1. What was God's 7 part Covenant with Israel?
a) God's seven-fold covenant with Israel in Exodus 6:6-8. 7 times does the expression, "I will" occur in these few verses, stamping the whole with spiritual perfection. These are preceded by "I have" three times repeated (verses 4,5), giving the Divine basis on which the blessing was based.
d) But Hebron, which means fellowship, was a place in Canaan, the city of Abraham, "the friend of God," still called today the city of El Khulil, "of the Friend." In its valley, Eschol, grew the finest fruit of Emmanuel's land.
i) "Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt."
e) This phrase, thrown in parenthetically, at the moment when His people first discovered the existence of Hebron, contains the intimation of a deep spiritual truth, as shown by the significance of the number 7.
f) It shows that the sphere of Divine friendship and fellowship and of heavenly delights was established in eternity, seven years marking the spiritual perfection of time, before the wisdom of this world had any existence or place. (See Psalm 90:2, 103:17; Proverbs 8:22-31; Micah 5:2; John 17:5-24; 1 Corinthians 2:7; Ephesians 1:4-3:11; 2 & 1 Timothy 1:9: Titus 1:2; 1 Peter 1:19,20).
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0. Introductiona) Number 7 is a great number of spiritual perfection. A number which, therefore, occupies so large a place in the works, and especially in the Word of God as being inspired by the Holy Spirit. As a number the actual word and number "Seven" is used as no other number is. Seven and its compounds occur in multiples of seven in the Old Testament.
i) Seven occurs 287 times, or 7 x 41.
ii) "Seventh," the fractional part, occurs 98 times, or 7 x 14.
iii) "Seven-fold," occurs 7 times.
b) It is interesting to note what other mention(s) for 7 can be found in the Bible.
1. What was God's 7 part Covenant with Israel?
a) God's seven-fold covenant with Israel in Exodus 6:6-8. 7 times does the expression, "I will" occur in these few verses, stamping the whole with spiritual perfection. These are preceded by "I have" three times repeated (verses 4,5), giving the Divine basis on which the blessing was based.
I have established My covenant with them, etc.b) Then follows the seven-fold blessing: -
I have also heard their groaning, etc.
I have remembered My covenant.
I will bring you out from Egypt.c) Egypt was "the house of bondage." Zoan was that city in it where its wise men were shown to be fools (Isaiah 19:11-13). It was also the place where God's miracles were performed which brought out the folly of that human wisdom (Psalm 78:12,43).
I will rid you of their bondage.
I will redeem you.
I will take you to Me for a people.
I will be to you a God.
I will bring you in unto the land.
I will give it you.
" . . . Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt." - Numbers 13:22
d) But Hebron, which means fellowship, was a place in Canaan, the city of Abraham, "the friend of God," still called today the city of El Khulil, "of the Friend." In its valley, Eschol, grew the finest fruit of Emmanuel's land.
i) "Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt."
e) This phrase, thrown in parenthetically, at the moment when His people first discovered the existence of Hebron, contains the intimation of a deep spiritual truth, as shown by the significance of the number 7.
f) It shows that the sphere of Divine friendship and fellowship and of heavenly delights was established in eternity, seven years marking the spiritual perfection of time, before the wisdom of this world had any existence or place. (See Psalm 90:2, 103:17; Proverbs 8:22-31; Micah 5:2; John 17:5-24; 1 Corinthians 2:7; Ephesians 1:4-3:11; 2 & 1 Timothy 1:9: Titus 1:2; 1 Peter 1:19,20).
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