Either Dr. Nick Levy's here with scripture and tradition.com. Thank you so much for watching. What I want to talk about in this little short video, this Bible by is biblical numerology.
Numerology is so much fun in scripture. You always hear of different preachers talking about how our teachers talking about how this number means this thing. And there's a reason for it, right? Because there's a certain lesson that's coming to us off the page teaching us about God, our relationship with God.
So what I wanted to do was talk about a few of the big numbers that always come up in studying scripture, clarify the biblical background with what they mean, what they don't mean, because you might be surprised to hear there's some confusion out there. So let's just start with the number six. Six, everybody talks about this number of evil students ask all the time, why is six the number of evil? Why is six the number of the beast?
Because you get, you know, six, six, six, and you get the heebie-jeebies and you go, show down your spine, you're like, oh my gosh, this is a pit of me evil. And there's a reason for that. So let's go back to the creation account and understand why. On the sixth day, God created man and animals, man and beasts.
Okay. But he created both of them together in the sixth day, but the humanity, mankind was created for the seventh day. So in order to stand six, there's the number of evil that's first quickly look at seven. Seven is the number of the covenants.
A lot of people say it's the number of perfection, completion, totality, and that's actually incorrect. Ten is the number of perfection, completion and totality. We'll talk about that in just a moment. But seven is the number of covenants.
A lot of Hebrew scripture scholars talk about how, you know, when you swear a covenant oath of somebody, the Hebrew is you seven yourself. It's kind of really weird to think about that. But to swear a covenant with someone and whereby you become their family, you seven yourself, right? So Abraham and Abimalept, they have a covenant and they sacrifice seven lambs, for example.
This is all very covenantal. It's perfection and completion if it's related to the covenants. So God creates man on the sixth day with the animals, but he creates mankind for the seventh day to have covenants intimacy with God, to be God's children, okay, to have that Sabbath rest. He can choose to accept this invitation to have this intimacy, this relationship with God, symbolized by the seventh day, or he can reject it.
So if he accepts his vocation to be God's children, he dwells with God with intimacy on the seventh day, but if he rejects it, he's no better off than the beast. He's just like an animal, okay, like a brute beast who's rejected his call. So six becomes kind of like a rejection of the seventh day, thereby becoming a symbol of evil because you're rejecting God's love, you're rejecting God's covenant. So you can understand six and seven together, they're kind of like mirror opposites in a certain extent, or two opposites, two opposites at the same point, whatever.
But seven is covenant, six is rejection of the covenant and thereby becomes it the symbol of evil. So six, six, six, the big scary number is really like a threefold six, three often is a completion of totality and scripture perfection because it's a pearly to write, God is holy, holy, holy, he is holding this itself. So three kind of becomes perfection in that sense. So six, six, six is the epitome or a superlative you could say of evil.
So Solomon, for example, in the Old Testament, he multiplied for himself 666 talents of gold, which was a major sin against God and there's a whole other time we'll talk about why that is. But basically it's saying he's completely totally turned his heart around or from God in pursuing wealth, which he should not have done. So that's why six is the number of evil and that also explains why seven is the number of the covenants. Whenever you're reading scripture, you come across a number seven or a multiple of seven, there's always the covenant in the background.
That's what the lesson is going on. So then the other thing we're going to talk about was 10. I said that 10 is the number of completion, perfection and totality, not seven. Why is that?
I'll give you some examples. Yes, we've got 10 fingers and 10 toes, absolutely. But in scripture, two examples for you, let's look at the plagues. When Moses delivers Israel from Egypt, there are 10 plagues, not 11, not nine, not six, not seven, but 10 because 10 is perfection, completion, totality.
So the 10 plagues symbolize and demonstrate the complete total perfect destruction and defeat the Egypt, the Pharaoh on all the Egyptians. They're completely powerless before Yahweh and so they're utterly destroyed and perfectly completely destroyed. All right, so 10 symbolizes that victory over Egypt. Perfect total victory.
Also you've got the 10 commandments, not 11 commandments, not eight commandments. Okay, it's 10 commandments because these commandments are the perfect complete total embodiment of the natural and moral law that we're all created with. In our souls, we know it's wrong to steal and submerge. We must worship our one God who must honor our parents and all the commandments.
So what has been inscribed in our heart is now inscribed on the tablets of stone there. So 10 symbolizes the perfect total complete moral law, the natural law that we're all born with. And you've got multiples of 10 as well, for example, 10 times 10 times 10, right, 10 cubed, the threefold 10, which comes out to be a thousand is like the total perfect complete number of perfection, right? You've got a thousand mentioned here and there in scripture as well, it's a multiple of 10.
And that's the reason why. I'll also mention here really quickly the number eight is a really interesting number eight symbolizes new creation, restoration, a new life really. So if you go back to the Old Testament on the eighth day, a Hebrew boy was circumcised. And it's on that day that he is incorporated into the family of Israel.
He's not circumcised. He is cut off the divine pun, right? He's cut off from the family of Israel, the people of God. So on the eighth day, he's brought into God's family, he's brought into the nation of Israel, and he's kind of really a new life, he's a new creation.
And that is symbolizing or pointing forward to typologically to baptism. On the eighth day, Jesus rose from the dead. Yes, he rose on the third day from Friday to Sunday. But a lot of scholars and church fathers point out that Jesus also rose on the eighth day, the first day of a new creation.
Okay. So you've got your first seven days of the first week. But on the first day of a new week, which would be chronologically number eight, hopefully that makes sense. Jesus rises from the dead because there's a new creation that's taking place through the resurrection.
And then so in baptism, often in Catholic churches and often some other mainline Protestant denominations, you have baptismal fonts that are designed with eight sides because we know that through baptism, we're made new creations. And baptism is the perfection or should say it's the fulfillment of circumcision in the Old Covenant, right? So eight is new creation, eight is a restorer or renewal of life. Okay.
So let's really quickly get number four. It's another number I wanted to share. It is a multiple of 10 times four. Four is an earthly number.
So for example, you've got the four corners of the globe of the compass never eat shredded wheat. I learned that right now. So northeast southwest, we've also got the four elements that people mention earth and water, air and fire for is very earthly. So four times 10, 10 being perfection and completion pretty much is this period of purification of trial and temptation and tribulation from our earthly attachments from our earthly loves.
So in 40, you have so many examples of 40 in scripture. All right, most is up on the mountain for 40 days. Israel is in the wilderness for 40 years. The spies where spying on the land for 40 days, Jesus is in the wilderness for 40 days, etcetera, etcetera.
And so 40 teachers, so it comes into our period of length, 40 days of length, because we're supposed to be perfectly, completely, totally purified of our earthly loves, right? So purification, trial, tribulation exists during this time. So that way we love God more than we love anything else. All right, that's why 40 is so significant, purifies us from earthly attachments and loves.
Okay. So I think that covers pretty much all the major ones that I wanted to quickly go over. Three, six, seven, what do we do? Eight, 10, multiple to that.
So 40, a thousand, etcetera. I really hope this helps. Now this always comes up in classes all the time. And so I just wanted to put the little video together sharing you, sharing with you the big ones.
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