in the bible why does it keep repeating 7, 40, 12, and 4?

Question

like 7 candles, churchs, stars, angels, trumpets, scrolls, horns, eyes, lamps, and spirits and it took God to make earth in 7 days or 4 beasts, horsemen, angels at each corner of the earth and then theres 1 throne with 12 thrones on each side... and the rest of the bible says 40 like 40 days for jesus, years for moses, days for noah, and the period from Jesus' resurrection till his ascension into heaven, spent three consecutive periods of "forty days and forty nights" on Mount Sinai, and Lent consists of the 40 days preceding Easter... theres more than meets the eye

and the beast had 7 heads 7 horns with 10 crowns... what does that mean too?

Answer 1

Many of the numbers in the Bible have deeper significance:

1 – Represents absolute singleness and unity (Ephesians 4:4–6; John 17:21, 22.)

2 – Represents the truth of God’s Word, for example, the law and prophets (John 1:45), two or three witnesses (2 Corinthians 13:1), and a sword with two edges (Hebrews 4:12). See Mark 6:7 and Revelation 11:3. It is also used 21 times in the books of Daniel and Revelation.

3 – Represents the Godhead / Trinity. The angels cry “Holy” three times to the triune God (Isaiah 6:3). See also Matthew 28:19 and 1 John 5:7, 8.

4 – Represents universal truth, as in the four directions (north, south, east, west) and the four winds (Matthew 24:31; Revelation 7:1; Revelation 20:8). In acts 10:11, a sheet with four corners symbolizes the gospel going to all the gentiles.

5 – Represents teaching. First, there are the five books of Moses. Second, Jesus taught about the five wise virgins and used five barley loaves used to feed the 5,000.

6 – Represents the worship of man, and is the number of man, signifying his rebellion, imperfection, works, and disobedience. It is used 273 times in the Bible, including its derivatives (e.g., sixth) and another 91 times as “threescore” or “60.” Man was created on the sixth day (Genesis 1:26, 31). See also Exodus 31:15 and Daniel 3:1.

The number is especially significant in the book Revelation, as “666” identifies the beast. “Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six” (Revelation 13:18).

7 – Represents perfection, and is the sign of God, divine worship, completions, obedience, and rest. The “prince” of Bible numbers, it is used 562 times, including its derivatives (e.g., seventh, sevens). (See Genesis 2:1–4, Psalm 119:164, and Exodus 20:8–11 for just a few of the examples.)

The number seven is also the most common in biblical prophecy, occurring 42 times in Daniel and Revelation alone. In Revelation there are seven churches, seven spirits, seven golden candlesticks, seven stars, seven lamps, seven seals, seven horns, seven eyes, seven angels, seven trumpets, seven thunders, seven thousand slain in a great earthquake, seven heads, seven crowns, seven last plagues, seven golden vials, seven mountains, and seven kings.

10 – represents law and restoration. Of course, this includes the Ten Commandments found in Exodus 20. See also Matthew 25:1 (ten virgins); Luke 17:17 (ten lepers); Luke 15:8 (healing, ten silver coins).

12 – Represents the church and God’s authority. Jesus had 12 disciples, and there were 12 tribes of Israel. In Revelation 12:1, the 24 elders and 144,000 are multiples of 12. The New Jerusalem city has12 foundations, 12 gates 12 thousand furlongs, a tree with 12 kinds of fruit 12 times a year eaten by 12 times 12,000 or the 144,000. (See Revelation 21.)

40 – Represents a generation and times of testing. It rained for 40 days during the flood. Moses spent 40 years in the desert, as did the children of Israel. Jesus fasted for 40 days.

50 – represents power and celebration. The Jubilee came after the 49th year (Leviticus 25:10), and Pentecost occurred 50 days after Christ’s resurrection (Acts 2).

70 – Represents human leadership and judgment. Moses appointed 70 elders (Exodus 24:1); The Sanhedrin was made up of 70 men. Jesus chose 70 disciples (Luke 10:1). Jesus told Peter to forgive 70 times 7.

With love in Christ.

Answer 2

bible repeating 7 40 12 4

Answer 3

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Answer 4

It`s not easy to understand this Josh as it is not always clear, but the Jews were very much into numerology and believed that some numbers were very mystical, while some of these numbers are in fact accurate such as the number 3 representing the Godhead others like 40 are meant to represent an acceptable amount of timeThe Jewish Cabbala is very heavy into numerology and it can be said that it goes too far into the realm of superstition about numbers.

Answer 5

The people who composed the chapters of the bible lived in a time of great ignorance about the natural world. So they clung to a plethora of belief doctrines aside from their "religion". One of those doctrines was numerology.

7 and 4 and their multiples were "magic" numbers (as was 3).

6 and 13 were "bad" numbers generally

Numerology even influenced early scientific thinkers like Newton. When Newton described the visible light spectrum he chose 7 colors to distinguish (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, INDIGO, and violet) because 7 was a perfect number and Newton could not conceive of God making only 6 colors.

whacky, whacky, whacky...

Answer 6

numerology
numbers were used figuratively (pun)
to express concepts
like 40 being a time of waiting or a test
its an interesting topic
7 being perfection
6 the number of man because hes flawed
3, 7, and 12 seem to be important numbers
that are balanced
i never really dug far into it
but i think it would be interesting
i keep seeing 11:38 on clocks

Answer 7

All magic numbers. They each have special meanings. You will notice that the bible also avoids certain numbers or specifically notes them as evil.

Here is a christian piece of work on it, enjoy.
http://www.teachinghearts.org/dre17httnumber.html

The mysticism of numbers goes back a long way and appears in truly ancient writings that predate the bible by almost a thousand years. Number magic also appears in India and China.

Answer 8

Short and sweet............
Why must humans make things so difficult?

If a human comes to the realization of who he really is. and the relationship between who he really is and God, then ones life is a success in the eyes of God.

Is it possible for man to keep things simple?

Numbers will always be a matter of interpretation, nothing more and nothing less.

*Of special note.........If translated properly the words
(organized religion) through Aramaic, Greek and Hebrew are numerically equivalent to...666............

May Gods Grace lead you to the "Truth" in all things

Answer 9

It are symbolic numbers, that at that time meant a lot to the Jews.
We don't give much importance (unluckily) to those numbers anymore (though we 'should' know what it meant), but we indeed notice that they are often used.

Answer 10

I don' know, but now that you have pointed that out, I'm gonna go out and play those numbers in the lottery......with the Bible on my side I can't lose ! Thanx !