The prophet's dictionary guide to the supernatural
the celestial bodies and their circuits throughout the heavens. Therefore, certain numbers, times, and months of the year, twelve months or moons in all, either prevented or enabled their travel. Those times were marked numerically, with the settings and rites (physical preparations) to receive the deity prescribed in minute detail. Since God’s numbers are permanently etched in creation, the Lord assigns His multitudinous human and earthly events to their cycles. The Bible does not ignore this as Scripture says that God put lights in the heavens to mark the timing of His and the earth’s seasons. That means the Lord’s schedules are not based on earthly calendars that are subject to change because of time zone differences or human manipulation, but on His own calendar embedded in creation. It is this schedule that His invisible agents follow. Conception (especially animal conception) has its designated time of year. Births are scheduled by the passing months, moons. Seeds are planted at specific times and harvests are expected according to the earth’s built-in produce schedule. To further explain, the Godhead is revealed in Scripture as three in one in number, saying that anything pertaining to it is indivisible and its numbers symbolic of unified cohesive action. Moreover the number seven, prevalent in all religious numbering systems endures because like it or not, there are seven nights (darknesses) and days (daylights) in a period called a week. Every month has them and no year passes without its weeks expiring in interludes of seven. What makes the number seven important is its spiritual origin. In eternity, the Bible says that God has seven spirits before His throne. These seven are said to be the powerful governance over the earth dispatched at the Holy Ghost outpouring of Pentecost to the earth into the New Creation church. Revelation 1:4, 3:1, 4:5, and 5:6. Sacred numbering carries over to the year. When the number ten, for the tithe —the fruit of human hands—multiplies the number seven, the product seventy speaks to something entirely different. The number seventy speaks to earthly leadership, in particular that of God’s people. Its premise is taken from the Bible’s teaching that “a day with the Lord is as a thousand years and a thousand years but a day” (Psalm 90:4; 2 Peter 3:8). It is best understood in the context of what the Bible calls “the day of the Lord.” See Isaiah 2:12 and 13:6, 9; Jeremiah 46:10; Malachi 4:5; in relation to Jesus, 1 Corinthians 5:5; 2 Corinthians 1:14; 2 Peter 3:10. Conclude your study with Revelation 20:2. The thousand-year day of the Lord applied to earth means that God marks His doings in the earth in terms of His day, not humans. At least He does so when it comes to His seasons and
Made with FlippingBook Ebook Creator