Wednesday, August 27, 2014

Many occurrences of the number seven in the Bible E - 501 - 2 - 7

“The Heptadic Structure

The recurrence of the number seven - or an exact multiple of seven - is found throughout the Bible and is widely recognized. The Sabbath on the seventh day; the seven years of plenty and the seven years of famine in Egypt; the seven priests and seven trumpets marching around Jericho; the Sabbath Year of the land are well-known examples.”

Extracted from the February 1995 Personal Update News Journal. Link to the complete article.

http://www.khouse.org/articles/1995/102/

From Genesis through Revelation the number seven is often found. 

Seven days cited a number of times concerning the Flood:
Genesis 7:4, 10; 8:10,12

Seven lambs:
Genesis 21:28, 29, 30

Jacob serve seven years plus seven years for Rachel. His father-in-law pursued him and his family for seven days.

Pharaoh's dream of seven fat and seven lean kine in Genesis Chapter 41 as well as seven ears of good corn and seven ears of thin corn.

Several occurrences of seven days and leaven/ unleavened bread in the Book of Exodus.

Many occurrences of seven in the Book of Leviticus dealing with days, as a multiple and Sabbaths.

Fast forward to the Book of Revelation:

Before the Rapture of the Church:

Seven letters

Seven Churches

Seven Spirits of God

Seven golden candlesticks

Seven stars

Seven angels

After Jesus comes for the Church:

Seven sealed scroll – Seven seals

Seven trumpet judgments

Seven bowls of wrath

Red Dragon has:

Seven eyes

Seven horns

Seven heads

Seven crowns

Seven kings

Ten horns but three are pulled out

Seven hills/ mountains on while the woman sits

Seven plagues

Seven thunders

Seven thousand killed in the earthquake

Week of days – seven years

Great Tribulation or the time of Jacob’s Trouble is half of the Seventieth Week of 
Daniel, 1,260 days or 180 weeks.

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