*Bible Numerals - #12*
By Eddy Joel Silsbee
Greeting you in the name of our Father who Loves us.
From the series of Numbers in Bible, today we see about Number 12
12 represents that God (3) working (x) with Human in this world (4)
12 is dynamically used in Bible. 12 represents God’s power, God’s perfect government and God’s Church.
The work of God included destruction of the wicked and redemption of the faithful. To bring about His will, God gave Noah a period of 120 years to work with civilization in an attempt to bring man back to God. Gen 6:3.
God allowed Noah for 120 years to preach the world before the destruction. (Godhead (3) worked with world(4) completely(10) 3x4x10=120)
12 Tribes in Old Testament. Gen 49:28
12 Apostles in New Testament. Mt 10:1-4
Breastplate of High priest has 12 Stones (Exo 28:15-21)
Started with Hebrew calendar having 12 months in a year.
Day has 12 hours. John 11:9
High priest to keep 12 unleavened bread in Tabernacle table on every Sabbath day. Lev 24:5-6
Count and see the marvelous usage of 12 from Numbers 7:84-88
Num 7:84 This was the dedication of the altar (in the day when it was anointed) by the princes of Israel: *twelve* chargers of silver, *twelve* silver bowls, *twelve* spoons of gold:
Num 7:85 Each charger of silver weighing a hundred and thirty shekels, each bowl seventy: all the silver vessels weighed two thousand and four hundred shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary:
Num 7:86 The golden spoons were *twelve*, full of incense, weighing ten shekels apiece, after the shekel of the sanctuary: all the gold of the spoons was a hundred and twenty shekels.
Num 7:87 All the oxen for the burnt-offering were *twelve* bullocks, the rams *twelve*, the lambs of the first year *twelve*, with their meat-offering: and the kids of the goats for sin-offering, *twelve*.
Num 7:88 And all the oxen for the sacrifice of the peace-offerings were twenty and four bullocks, the rams sixty, the he-goats sixty, the lambs of the first year sixty. This was the dedication of the altar, after it was anointed.
God instructed Israelites to keep 12men in Jordan while crossing (Jos 3:17)
We see Jesus in Jerusalem at his age of 12 (Luk 2:41-47)
Only in the book of Revelation, we see:
12 doors, foundations, names, 12x1000 lengthxbreadthxht of city, jewels, pearls, fruits! All of 12!
*Pls note* : We aren’t seeing these numerals to follow as Biblical Numerology. God isn’t bounded to numbers!
Do we see any number in Bible without any meaning?
*Eddy Joel Silsbee*
Preacher – Kaniyakulam Church of Christ
Teacher - World Bible School
+918144776229 (India) / joelsilsbee@gmail.com
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