Building on the Foundation

  If you perform a search on BlueLetterBible.org, you’ll find that God’s Word mentions the words “seven” or “seventh” nearly 600 times! Naturally, we don’t have time or space to cover each of those mentions today. Nevertheless, the number 7 remains one of the most important and most fascinating numbers in Scripture. As we’ve observed several times before, there’s no filler in God’s Word. “All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness” (2 Tim. 3:16). If God tells us a number, He has good reasons for doing so. Whoever neglects numbers is missing out on an amazing part of Scripture. So what is God telling us through the number 7? It actually portrays several things in Scripture, and we find them at the very beginning, at Creation. The number 7 pictures completeness, for God completed His creation in seven days: “Thus the heavens and the earth, and all the host of them, were finished. And on t...

  Having previously studied the first five numbers, it’s time now to cover the number 6. It’s commonly accepted that, in God’s Word, the number 6 represents man. Humanity. The question is, Why? How do we know that the number 6 in Scripture represents mankind? Let’s take a look! To start with, God created Adam and Eve on the sixth day of Creation, last of all His creatures. And when He created them, He gave them dominion over all other creatures which He’d made: “Then God said, ‘Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth’” (Gen. 1:26). Though God made other creatures on the sixth day also — “the beast of the earth according to its kind, cattle according to its kind, and everything that creeps on the earth according to its kind” (Gen. 1:25) — He gave dominion only to man. The creation of man was the cu...

  Look down at your right hand. Now your left. What do you see? Now look at your right foot. And your left. What do you see? For most people, the answer will be five fingers on each hand, five toes on each foot. Of course, some folks may not have five digits, for reasons ranging from accidents to genetics, but most people on Planet Earth have five fingers on each hand and five toes on each foot. Why? Remember, God made man in His image: “Then God said, ‘Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.’ So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them’” (Gen. 1:26-27). If humans have two hands with five fingers each and two feet with five toes each, and if humans are also made in the image of God, then it stands to reason that God also has two hands w...