Let's Explore the Number 7!
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...