Number 7

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Number Seven

  *7 is the great number of spiritual perfection. 

• Main Meanings
  • Complete
  • All
  • Finished
  • Flesh
  • Rest
• Other Meanings
  • Idol
  • Form
  • Completion of God\'s Creation
• Bible References
  • Genesis 2:1,3
• Authors Quoted
  • Tony Silveira
  • Russ Moyer
  • E.W. Bullinger

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Notes: THE DAYS OF CREATION AND REST In the Creation we have the six days and the seven. The six of labour and the seventh of rest.

As a number the actual word and number "SEVEN" is used as no other number is. Seven and its compounds occur in multiples of seven in the Old Testament.

Seven occurs 287 times, or 7 x 41.

"Seventh," the fractional part, occurs 98 times, or 7 x 14.

"Seven-fold," occurs 7 times.

The above three numbers together are of course a multiple of seven, but a very remarkable one, 287 + 98 + 7 = 392, and 392 is 72 + 73, or 8 times the square of seven (72x8).

Then again seven, in combination with other numbers, is remarkable, such as fifty and seven, a hundred and seven, etc. There are 112 of these combinations, or 7 x 16.

"Seventy" occurs 56 times, or 7 x 8.

"Seventy," in combination with other numbers, occurs 35 times, or 7 x 5.

It is, however, when we come to consider its significance that the true glories of its spiritual perfection are revealed.

in the genealogy of Luke 3 exactly 77 names, with GOD at the one end, and JESUS at the other. This is indeed stamping it with the number of spiritual perfection.

On the other hand, although the genealogy in Matthew is artificially constructed (according to a recognised custom amongst the Jews, instances of which we have in the Old Testament), it is so arranged that it contains 42 generations, or SIX sevens (6x7).

Jesus is the 77th name in the line which comes through Nathan, it is the 66th name in the line which comes through Solomon.

When we remember that six is the human number, and seven the Divine, can we doubt that we are thus pointed to the fact that Jesus was both Son of God and Son of Man?

His two names have the same significant stamp and seal: for 'IhsouV, JESUS, the birth name of His humiliation as Man, is composed of six letters; while CristoV, Christ, His Divine title as the Anointed of God, is composed of seven letters.

THE SONS OF GOD

Beni-ha-Elohim, "sons of God," occurs six times:—

  1. Genesis 6:2
  2. Job 2:6
  3. Job 38:7
  4. Psalm 29:1
  5. Psalm 89:6
  6. Daniel 3:25 

Beni-El-hai, "sons of the living God," once:—

  7. Hosea 1:10 

Seven times in all, but not seven exactly alike. There are six in one form (used of angels), and one in another (used of men), to mark the fact that the sons of God, whether angels or men, fell from the spiritual perfection of their original position.

THE SEVEN SPIRITS

Isaiah 11:2: Six here marking that Christ would be perfect man, and seven that He was perfect God; the first statement being marked off from the rest by its form:

• The Spirit of the LORD shall rest upon Him, 7
• the Spirit of wisdom 6
• and understanding, 5
• the Spirit of counsel 4
• and might, 3
• the Spirit of knowledge 2
• and of the fear of the LORD. 1

THE SEVEN-FOLD SPRINKLING

implies that it was perfectly and spiritually efficacious.

On the great Day of Atonement the blood was sprinkled "ON the mercy-seat eastward." This was Godward, and therefore it was once done and on the mercy-seat. But "BEFORE the mercy-seat" it was to be sprinkled seven times. Before* the mercy-seat seven times, because this was the perfect testimony for the people that the atonement for their sins was accomplished.

It was "directly before the Tabernacle" that the blood of the red heifer was sprinkled seven times, Numbers 19:4. The leper also was cleansed in the same place with a seven-fold sprinkling of the blood of the killed bird (Lev 14:7,11).

The directions for the Day of Atonement are given in Leviticus 16; but from other Scriptures we learn that there were seven sprinklings on that great day, to mark the perfection of accomplished atonement:—

  1. On the mercy-seat (Lev 16:14).
  2. Before the mercy-seat (Lev 16:14).
  3. Before the veil (Lev 4:17).
  4. On the horns of the golden altar (Exo 30:10).
  5. On the horns of the brazen altar (Lev 16:18).
  6. Round about upon the altar (Lev 16:19).
  7. The blood that was left poured out at the foot of the brazen altar (Lev 4:18). 

"The last day" mentioned seven times in John's Gospel:—John 6:39, 40, 44, 54, 7:37, 11:24, 12:48.