Number 12

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Number Twelve

  *12 is a perfect number, signifying perfection of government. 

• Main Meanings
  • Perfect Government
  • Joined, United
  • Oversight
• Other Meanings
  • People together with common purpose
• Apostolic fullness
  • Discipleship
• Bible References
  • Luke 9:1,2
  • Luke 22:30
  • 1 Corinthians 1:10
• Authors Quoted
  • Tony Silveira
  • Russ Moyer
  • E.W. Bullinger

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Notes:

The sun which "rules" the day, and the moon and stars which "govern" the night, do so by their passage through the twelve signs of the Zodiac which completes the great circle of the heavens of 360 (12 x 30) degrees or divisions, and thus govern the year.

THERE WERE TWELVE PATRIARCHS from Seth to Noah and his family, and twelve from Shem to Jacob

THE TWELVE SONS OF ISRAEL - though actually thirteen in number, there are never more than twelve names in any one list. There are about 18 enumerations altogether, but in each list one or other is omitted. Generally it is Levi, but not always. In Revelation 7 both Dan and Ephraim are omitted, but the enumeration is still twelve, Levi and Joseph being introduced for this special sealing of the remnant which shall go unscathed through the great tribulation.

THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON has the number twelve as the predominating factor, in contrast with the Tabernacle, which had the number five.

When we come to the New Testament we find the same great principle pervading the Apostolic government as we see in the Patriarchal and National, for we have:

   * The twelve Apostles.
   * The twelve foundations in the heavenly Jerusalem.
   * The twelve gates.
   * The twelve pearls.
   * The twelve angels. 

TWELVE YEARS of age was Jesus when He first appears in public (Luke 2:42) and utters His first-recorded words

TWELVE LEGIONS of angels mark the perfection of angelic powers (Matt 26:53).