NUMBER ELEVEN (11-6)

(Message by Tanny Keng)

0. Introduction

a) The importance of the number eleven is that it signifies disorder and judgment and is used 24 times in Scripture. The designation "11th" is used 19 times in scripture. Coming after 10 (law and responsibility), the number 11 represents the opposite - the irresponsibility of breaking the Law, which brings disorder and judgment. It is interesting to note what other mention(s) for 11 can be found in the Bible.

1. How is the number 11 found in Jesus' life?

a) The life of our Lord on earth was about 33 years (a multiple of eleven), and then He was "cut off," and "we see not yet all things put under Him" (Daniel 9:26; Hebrews 2:8).

i) ²⁶ “And after the sixty-two weeks
Messiah shall be cut off, but not for Himself;
And the people of the prince who is to come
Shall destroy the city and the sanctuary.
The end of it shall be with a flood,
And till the end of the war desolations are determined. (Daniel 9:26 NKJV)

ii) ⁸ You have put all things in subjection under his feet.” For in that He put all in subjection under him, He left nothing that is not put under him. But now we do not yet see all things put under him. (Hebrews 2:8 NKJV) 

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