“DO BIBLE NUMBERS HAVE
A PARTICULAR MEANING?”
“DO BIBLE NUMBERS HAVE
A
PARTICULAR MEANING?”
The following looks at the Bible numbers of 1, 2, 3, 4,
5, 6, 7, 8, 11,
12, 13, 14, 15.
THE NUMBER 1
This is God’s number - “…I am
the first, and I am the last; and beside me there is no God.” (Is
44:6).
Of course, Jesus Christ is God with “…being the
brightness of his (God’s) glory, and the express
image of his (God’s) person …” (Heb
1:1-3) and the Holy
Ghost is God.
God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Ghost are
the three persons
of the Godhead.
THE NUMBER 2
This is the number of Jesus Christ “…Jesus Christ,
the Son of
God…” (Mark 1:1) with Jesus being
the 2nd person of the
Godhead. Jesus is “…the only begotten
Son, which is in the bosom of the
Father…” (John 1:18)
THE NUMBER 3
The number of the Godhead (Father,
Son, Holy Ghost and loosely called the trinity) mentioned three
times in the Bible (Acts17:29, Rom1:20, Col 2:9), is three.
Creation abounds with ‘threes’
eg height, length and breadth; past, present and future; steam, water
and ice;
man, woman and child etc.
Specifically, this is the number of holy
Spirit and in particular, the indwelling Holy Ghost.
“But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto
you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth,
which proceedeth from the Father …” (John 15:26)
THE NUMBER 4
This is the number of the physical
Jesus being from the 4th tribe
of Judah “…that our Lord sprang out of Juda…”
(Heb 7:14).
Furthermore,
“In
the beginning God…” (Gen 1:1) proves that Jesus is God.
How? God is
the 4th word in the verse and Jesus is from
the 4th
tribe of Judah.
THE NUMBER 5
This stands for death. Man
with five fingers and five toes is physical and dies. Furthermore, “…
spear
smote him under the fifth rib…”
(2Sam 2:23,2Sa 3:27
2 Samuel 20:10)
THE NUMBER 6
The number of man. “So God created man...the
sixth
day” (Gen 1:27, 31).
The number of the antichrist is “the name of the
beast …for it is the
number of a man; and his number is Six
hundred threescore and six. (Rev 13:17-18)
THE NUMBER 7
This is God’s perfect number and is listed 54 times in the Book of Revelation with 54 = 2 x 27 = 2 x 3 x 3 x 3 = JC x triple Godhead
A Representation of the Perfect Numbers of 3 and 7 which
form the Godhead
From the above diagram, we see that the number 7 is made
up of ‘two
Godheads’ of F, S, HG on either side of the Son JC, which all together
make up
a Godhead of three.
THE NUMBER 8
* This the number of new beginning and physical resurrection. 8 = 2 x 4 (2 = JC and 4th
= tribe
of Judah). This is the number of the Son of man being Jesus.
* Young males under “…eight days old
shall be circumcised…”
(Gen 17:12) however the true
circumcision is that “…of the heart, in the spirit…” (Rom 2:29)
* Jesus rose physically on the 8th
day,
* Christians worship “…upon
the first day (8th day)
of the week, when the disciples came together…” (Acts 20:7)
* In addition, Noah, a type of Jesus, was
“…the eighth person, a preacher of
righteousness…” (2Pet 2:5).
* Plus, Paul (his gospel) is from the
tribe of Benjamin (Ex 1:3) having 8
letters.
THE NUMBERS 12 and 14
#12 = complete but physical
#14 = complete and spiritual
* Both #12 and #14 are
the numbers of Jesus with 12 = 2
(JC) x 6 (JC is man as the Son of man) and 14
= 2 (JC) x 7 (the Son of God).
* With Paul having the
authority of the physical 12th
tribe of Benjamin (Ex 1:3,
Phil 3:5), he is the spiritual 14th
apostle with the spiritual gospel. Indeed 14 (spiritual) = 12
(physical) +
2 (JC Son of God).
* The #12 = 4 x3 is physical
completeness as
Jesus #4 = 4th tribe of
Judah with the Godhead number = 3
(Father, Son, Holy Ghost) being listed three
times in the Bible (Acts 17:29, Rom 1:20, Col 2:9).
In addition, Jesus has 12
apostles (Matt 12:2); there are 12
tribes (Gen 49:28); there were 12
ephod stones (Ex 28:21); there will
be 12 gates in the new Jerusalem
with 12 angels (
Although Jesus’ gospel to the Jews with 12
apostles was complete, it is still not the ‘perfect’ gospel with
an inherent ‘physical corruption’ of Judas,
being the 12th physical
apostle (Matt 10:4, Luke 6:16), and is replaced by Matthias
the 13th.
But God seeks perfection with Paul
the 14th.
Jesus preaches the physical Messianic kingdom of heaven
gospel to the
Jews but God’s spiritual gospel is to have the 14th
apostle Paul “…born out of due time…” (1Cor15:8),
preaching “… my (Paul’s kingdom of
God) gospel …” listed three times
(Rom 2:16; 16:25; 2Tim 2:8).
With Paul coming from the 12th
tribe of Benjamin (Rom 11:1), Paul’s doctrine ‘supersedes’ the gospel
of the
physical Son of man (the Messiah) going further, being the 14th
apostle. It is the perfect gospel with 14
= 2 (JC) x 7 (the number 7 of the
Godhead).
Note: The phrase ‘the Son of man’ is
mentioned 88 times in the NT, with 88 = 4 x 22 (Judah x Omega the
Hebrew
alphabet’s 22nd letter)
Indeed the 14th
apostle has the absolute spiritual and perfect “… gospel of
the uncircumcision… committed unto me (Paul)”
(Gal 2:7)
If God wanted his spiritual gospel to bear the number 11,
Paul would
have been born from the tribe of Joseph. In addition, the #12
is listed 22 times
in John’s Revelation with 22 being Hebrew alphabet’s last number.
THE NUMBER 13 = 12 + 1
Satan’s number 13 = 12 (a created physical being) + 1
(covets to be
God).
Paul was never to be the 13th apostle as the
#13 is SODOMY (Gen
“All the cities … of Aaron
…were thirteen cities with their
suburbs.” (Joshua 21:19) and SELFISHNESS “But
Solomon
was building his own house thirteen
years …” (1 Kings 7:1). The word ‘thirteen’
is listed 15 times = 5 x 3 in the Old Testament = triple times the
death #5.
THE NUMBER 11
a. The # 11 = 12 - 1 =
incomplete. God ordains that Paul comes from the 12th
tribe
and not the incomplete
11th of Joseph and with Paul as
the 14th apostle – certainly not the 13th.
b. The # 11 = leaderless
“… behold, the sun and the moon and the eleven
stars made obeisance to me.” (Genesis 37:9).
The # 11 is leaderless, begs
completion and reluctantly desires to
worship the 12th.
c. The # 11 = physical, not spiritual
“…a covering upon the tabernacle: eleven
curtains shalt thou make…And thou shalt couple five
curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves
…” (Ex 26:7-9) ie 5+6 = ‘death’ plus ‘man’.
Eleven (incomplete)
curtains represent the physical tabernacle on earth till the perfect
tabernacle
made without hands comes – that is Jesus
= 4x3 ie “… a greater and more
perfect tabernacle not made with hands…” (Heb 9:11)
d. The # 11 = to do evil
“Jehoiakim was twenty and five (5 x 5) years old when he
began to reign;
and he reigned eleven years … And he did
that which was evil in the sight
of the LORD…”. (2Kings 23:36-37).
Furthermore, “Zedekiah …
reigned eleven years … he did that which was evil
in the sight
of the LORD…” (2Kings 24:18-19)
e. The # 11 = type of man
The # 11 is listed 18
times in the Old Testament with 3 x
6 = 18 and 6 = the number of man.
In addition, the # 11 is
mentioned 6 times in the New
Testament with 6 the number of man
The number ‘ELEVEN’ represents “incomplete”, “leaderless” “desiring to
worship”, “a type of the number of man”, “not perfect”, “not
spiritual”, “a
type of the physical” and “to do
evil”.
Harley Hitchcock
July 2024
