NUMBERS – Page 2 – Bible Truth 4u

Forty – Part 2

The number 40 generally symbolizes a period of testing, trial, probation or judgement appearing 145 times in Scripture.

Here are some more interesting references to FORTY:

After the flood waters had receded, and the tops of the mountains were visible, Noah waited another 40 days to open the window of the Ark (Genesis 8:6).
Isaac was 40 years old when he took Rebekah as his wife (Genesis 25:20).
Esau, Isaac’s son, also got married when he was 40 (Genesis 26:34).
Embalming took 40 days in early Bible times (Genesis 50:3).
Moses was on Mt. Sinai for 40 days and 40 nights (twice!) (Exodus 24:18)
(Exodus 34:28)( Deuteronomy 9:9,11,18,25)( Deuteronomy 10:10).
The spies that Moses sent to spy out the Promised Land were there for 40 days (Numbers 13:25)(Numbers 14:34).
One of those spies was Joshua, and he was forty years old when he went
(Joshua 14:7).
Moses died when he was 120 years old (Deuteronomy 34:7). His life can be divided into 3 sections of 40 years: (first 40) being born and growing up in Pharaoh’s house in Egypt (Acts 7:20-23), (middle 40) fleeing to Midian after killing the Egyptian, and living there for 40 years (Acts 7:29-30), (last 40) returning to Egypt, the exodus, and the events that followed
(Acts 7:36)(Exodus 7:7).
Aaron died 40 years after the Israelites had left Egypt (Numbers 33:38).
Three different times in Judges, the land had rest for 40 years
(Judges 3:11)(Judges 5:31)(Judges 8:28).
Eli judged Israel for 40 years (1 Samuel 4:18).
Ishbosheth became king over Israel when he was 40 years old (2 Samuel 2:10).
Three kings reigned for 40 years: David (1 Kings 2:11)(2 Samuel 5:4-5), Solomon (1 Kings 11:42), and Joash (2 Chronicles 24:1)(2 Kings 12:1).
(Saul may also be a part of this group [Acts 13:21], but this is controversial
[1 Samuel 13:1].)
The 10 lavers in the Temple each held “40 baths” (about 230 gal.) of water
(1 Kings 7:38).
The time period between Jesus’ resurrection and ascension was 40 days
(Acts 1:3).
The book of Exodus has 40 chapters.
The average length of a woman’s pregnancy is 40 weeks.
Lent is the 40 days before Easter (not counting Sundays).

Forty

What is the significance of the number 40 in the Christian Bible ...

Trial, Testing, Or Judgment:

Forty appears 145 times in Scripture. The number 40 generally symbolizes a period of testing, trial, probation or judgement. This certainly seems to be borne out in a number of places in the Bible, however, it also is used for more than that. Let’s first look at the ways it could be taken as a number signifying trial, testing, or judgment, then we will look some other significant uses.

Here are some interesting references to FORTY:

When God destroyed every living thing on the Earth by flood, it rained 40 days and 40 nights (Genesis 7:4,12,17).
Three men in the Bible fasted 40 days and 40 nights: Moses (Exodus 34:28)(Deuteronomy 9:9,18,25)(Deuteronomy 10:10), Elijah (1 Kings 19:8), and Jesus (Matthew 4:2)(Luke 4:2)(Mark 1:13).
Because Israel refused to enter the Promised Land, God condemned them to wander in the “wilderness” for 40 years (Numbers 14:33-34)(Numbers 32:11-13)( Deuteronomy 8:2)(Joshua 5:6).
God also kept their clothing and sandals from wearing out for the whole 40 years: (Deuteronomy 29:5, Deuteronomy 8:4.)
The Israelites were given manna in the desert for 40 years to “test” and “humble” them (Exodus 16:35)( Deuteronomy 8:3,16)
When scourging someone, they could not receive more than 40 lashes
(Deuteronomy 25:3)(2 Corinthians 11:24).
The Israelites were in captivity to the Philistines for 40 years for doing evil
(Judges 13:1).
Goliath taunted Israel for 40 days and nights (1 Samuel 17:16), until David defeated him.
Ezekiel laid on his right side for 40 days to “bear the iniquity” of Judah’s sins
(Ezekiel 4:6).
God proclaimed judgment against Egypt, saying it would be desolate for 40 years (Ezekiel 29:10-12).
God gave Nineveh 40 days to repent or be overthrown (Jonah 3:4).

⇛ continue reading Forty – Part 2
⇛ checkout List of Topics ⇛

Thousand

Appears 394 times (352 Old Testament) in the KJV and most of the time it refers to amount of Money, men in army, people who died, people in a tribe, animals, cubits, chariots, number of angles for example.
The New Testament has 42 occurrences of thousand.
Two unique occurrences are found in the Book of Psalm:
Psalm 84:10 For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.
Psalm 90:4 For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.
Peter, in his 2nd epistle, to Jewish believers, he reminds them of Psalm 90:4.
2 Peter 3:8 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

John has 20 references in Revelation:
These verses are only where “thousand” is mentioned. The first reference: he tells of the number of angels in heaven:
Revelation 5:11 And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne and the beasts and the elders: and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands;
The remainder of the references occur during the Tribulation (7 years) and into the millilumen (1000 years). He reports on the number of Jewish young men who will preach the kingdom of God during the Tribulation:
Revelation 7:4-8 And I heard the number of them which were sealed:
He then names each tribe and 12,000 from each one = 144,000.
Then the size of an army released during the 6th trumpet:
Revelation 9:16 And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand: and I heard the number of them.
He then gives the number of days the two witnesses who will have power to on earth (3 1/2 years):
Revelation 11:3 And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.
Continuing with the destruction and tragedy during Tribulation.
Revelation 11:13 And the same hour was there a great earthquake, and the tenth part of the city fell, and in the earthquake were slain of men seven thousand: and the remnant were affrighted, and gave glory to the God of heaven.
Another mention of time, 3.5 years. The length of time Israel will hide from the Antichrist, while God protects her:
Revelation 12:6 And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days.
Another reference to the young Jewish men who will Preach the Gospel of the Kingdom during the Tribulation:
Revelation 14:1 And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion, and with him an hundred forty and four thousand, having his Father’s name written …
Revelation 14:3 And they sung as it were a new song before the throne, and before the four beasts, and the elders: and no man could learn that song but the hundred and forty and four thousand, which were redeemed from the earth.
Just think, blood 4-5 feet deep (in the valley of Megiddo:
Revelation 14:20 And the winepress was trodden without the city, and blood came out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs.
Events at the end of Tribulation and the tart of millilumen (God’s kingdom reign on earth) Revelation 20:2-7 And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years, And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season. …. And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison,
And the last reference is to the size of the new Jerusalem.
Revelation 21:16 And the city lieth foursquare, and the length is as large as the breadth: and he measured the city with the reed, twelve thousand furlongs…

⇛ checkout List of Topics

Three Days

found 60 x in scripture OT 41 / NT 19

How long is THREE DAY and THREE NIGHTS? Is it Friday thru Sunday? Or is it Thursday thru Saturday? Note: the Jewish Day begins at Evening 6 pm and Day at 6 am (Genesis 1:5) a 24 hour day. Three Days is mentioned 61 times in the Bible the most known is Christ’s time in the tomb and Jonah’s time in the belly of the great fish.

Matthew 12:40 For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale’s belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
Mark 8:31 And he began to teach them, that the Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected of the elders, and of the chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again.
Jonah 1:17 Now the LORD had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.

⇛ continue reading Three Days Part 2
⇛ checkout List of Topics ⇛