My Sunday School class was discussing this today and we couldn't figure it out. I know there are tons of things in the Bible using 7, 12, and 40, but we couldn't figure out why. Any sugestions or ideas? Guesses?
Thanks for your help!!
2007-06-03 06:10:41 · 3 answers · asked by Katie 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
7) The most common of all symbolic numbers, it represents fullness, completion, wholeness, spiritual perfect, and totality. In Egypt it symbolized eternal life.
12) Representative of priesthood, including its power and right to govern.
40) Suggests a period of trial, testing, probation, or mourning.
2007-06-03 06:18:13 · answer #1 · answered by Bryan Kingsford 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
40: The age you start to really think about what your going to do with the remaining years of your life.
7: The absolute best year of my life.
12: The age you really start to notice the opposite sex.
Forget crunching numbers and live in the present...your only given one life.
-Vinny
2007-06-03 06:59:39 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Seven is perfection or completion and 3 is divine perfection.
Twelve is authority, witnesses, justice.
Forty is a generation or a completed course of action or a trial period.
2007-06-03 06:21:23 · answer #3 · answered by Jeancommunicates 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋