The prophet's dictionary guide to the supernatural

their scheduled events. Relating it to leadership and eldership, it all goes back to Adam in the Garden of Eden. He lived nine hundred thirty years after his fall and banishment. The question arises, what did he do during the first seventy years of his life? The answer is, he reigned. It seems that it took the serpent a mere seventy years to dethrone Adam, making that number representative of divine rule. Israel had seventy elders, and Isaiah 23:15 says that seventy years is the number of one king. There are twelve thirty-day (moon) periods in a complete cycle as the sun makes its circuit. Calendars can change, clocks can be reset, but if they are to coincide with creation’s pulse they will comply with God’s solar and lunar orbits assigned to the earth realm. The number twelve times itself equals one hundred forty-four, a number prominently used in John’s Apocalypse for the handpicked evangelical Jews God ordained to carry on the church’s work after its departure. See Revelation 7. Adding one thousand to the number connotes that their season is according to the day of the Lord. In addition, there is the number two. Every human being was created to have two arms and two hands on which there are ten fingers total. Hosea 12:10 establishes that hand and ministry to God are synonymous. Job 37:7 adds that the work of a person is sealed in their hand by God. Other support Scriptures are Leviticus 10:11 and Numbers 4:37, 45. The concept even applies to the hand (ministry) of angels. See Acts 7:35 and Galatians 3:19. One finger indicates the acts of God. See Exodus 8:19 and 31:18; Deuteronomy 9:10; Luke 11:20. The same is true with the feet that carry one to and through their labors and their ten toes. They point to the reason why the tithe, the produce of human labor and increase, correlates with the number ten. The number two further speaks to covenant, partnership, and balance. Two eyes enable balanced vision and so equable spiritual sight. Two ears equalize hearing and two nostrils evenly filter scent. One mouth translates to singleness of communication and so it goes. As you can see, the human body is prophetic of divine numbering. The number twenty equates to the sum of the digits of the hand and feet, and thirty corresponds to the days in a lunar month. Thirty is the number of eligibility of Levitical priestly service. It neatly connects it to the regular appearance of God’s blessings at the new moon and other covenantal events in the life of His people. The Lord Jesus was about thirty years old when He began His earthly ministry. See Numbers 4:3 and Luke 3:23. Jesus’ ministry lasted three and one-half years. His human predecessor, King David, began his reign at age thirty and sovereignly ruled Israel seven years and Judah thirty-three years,