In today’s world we live and die by numbers.
7 lbs. 6 oz., 19” long, 10:16 am, 8/12/72
SSN 123 45 6789
Tax ID #
Amt of paycheck
Amt of grocery bill (chaching!)
Credit card #
Phone #
#’s in passwords
At the end, Death Certificate #, date and time
Scripture speaks of important numbers as well.
6 days of Creation (Genesis 1)
7 represents perfection: Genesis 1:31-2:3
40 is the number for fulfillment or completion; 40 days the spies scouted out the Promised Land (Numbers 13:1-25), 40 years the Israelites wandered in the desert as a result of the unwillingness to take the land (Numbers 14:32-35; Moses spent 40 days on Mt. Sinai and received the 10 commandments (Exodus 34:28); Jesus fasted 40 days (Matthew 4:1-11)
The story of Noah (Genesis 7) is flooded (pun intended) with numbers, 40 days and nights of rain, 2 unclean animals and 7 clean; 7’s and 40’s repeated throughout chapters 7 and 8 as well as other numbers.
3 represents the Trinity and therefore a wholeness; there are 3 angels named in scripture; Jonah was in the fish for 3 days; Jesus was set upon the cross at the 3rd hour, and rose from the dead on the 3rd day.
Lots of significant numbers in the Bible…But it comes down to only ONE important Number–“The One True and Living God who gave His One and Only Son so that you may choose to come to Him to receive the One and Only free gift of Salvation!
Have you chosen that ONE yet???????