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The Numbers of the Bible

The Numbers of the Bible: Real Patterns, and the Myths to Clear Up

Numbers matter in the Bible. Seven rings of completion, forty marks a season of testing, twelve gathers the tribes. But numbers are also where speculation runs wild, gematria, date-setting, hidden codes the text never claims. Each page below takes one number, shows the pattern Scripture itself draws, clears away the numerology, and is honest where the meaning is uncertain. Every one, in the end, points to Christ, in whom all things hold together.

SevenGenesis 2:2ThreeMatthew 12:40FortyMatthew 4:2TwelveRevelation 21:12TenExodus 34:28OneDeuteronomy 6:4TwoDeuteronomy 19:15FourRevelation 7:1SixExodus 20:9SeventyJeremiah 25:11The 153 FishJohn 21:11666, the Number of the BeastRevelation 13:18The 144,000Revelation 7:4A Thousand Years2 Peter 3:8The First and the LastRevelation 22:13
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