Numbers

W.E.B Du Bois said, "When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books. You will be reading meanings."

In the scriptures we see a lot of repeated numbers. This year, I finally started paying attention, and I've learned some meanings along the way :) 

Three is usually associated with heaven. For instance, the Godhead has three members. There are three degrees of heaven. There are three degrees within the Celestial kingdom. Three is also superlative, meaning, if something is repeated three times, you better dang pay attention because it's important. Superlative is the highest degree of something. 

Four is associated with earth, creation, and nature. There are four corners of the earth, four seasons, four directions, four elements... all these amazingly powerful essences wrapped up in the nice square package of four. 

Six is just short of perfection (next paragraph). Because six isn't whole, it is considered to be evil and bad. Make the number 666 (superlative!) and it's the ultimate evil... thus Satan's number.  

Seven is considered to be perfection. Seven is complete and whole. What makes up seven? Three (heaven) and four (earth). Isn't that neat? Where three and four meet is considered completion. For example there are 7 days of the week, 7 dispensations...

Eight is a symbol for new beginnings. Eight follows after the number seven (which was complete) and thus is starting anew. Ironic that eight is the age for accountability and when we are to get baptized? 

12 is considered God's power and authority. It is also a sign of completion. For example, we have 12 months in a year, the 12 tribes of Israel, 12 apostles...

 

Aren't number patterns cool? There are so many more! 

Numbers are especially prominent in Revelations, and knowing the basic meanings of numbers is especially helpful. 

For example is Ch. 4...

Verse 4, it talks about 24 seats (two sets of 12) 

Verse 5 talks about seven lamps (or Spirits of God)

Verse 6 talks about four beasts

Verse 8 says that these beasts have six wings and were saying "holy, holy, holy" (superlative!)

You get the idea.

I encourage you to invest a little time in numbers. It's really helpful how they are used and what they mean. 

Don't forget to be awesome! 

How old are you?

The concept of time has always been one of interest to me. 

It is so abstract. 

To help understand it, we’ve constructed a system of minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, and years to help us keep track of time passing. 

But is time something of age?

Possibly. 

However, time doesn’t tick at the same rate everywhere in the universe. 

For instance, if you were traveling into a black hole, time to you would remain constant. 

However, time to others outside of the black hole would speed up. If you were to look back and be able to see people further away from the black hole, everyone would be moving at an accelerated rate and aging much quicker than you. 

However, for the people outside of the black hole looking into it, time would appear to have slowed down, everything would be in slow motion. 

Interesting. 

This concept of time really doesn’t make much sense when you think about it. 

In 2 Peter 3:8 it says, “But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand year, and a thousand years as one day.” 

So one day in heaven equals a thousand years on earth. 

1000yrs (earth) = 1 day (heaven)

So recalculated you could find … 

1.44 x the number of years you are = heavenly minutes you’ve been gone. 

Calculating my age 

1.44 x 20yrs = 28.8 heavenly minutes 

In regards to heaven I haven’t even been gone 30 minutes. 

That’s like no time at all.

And we constantly beat ourselves up so much for the sins we’ve made over such a short time. 

Don’t let the sins you’ve committed define you. 

You’ve lived so much longer than however old you are on earth. 

We all accomplished many great things before even coming to this life. 

Don’t forget about all the good you did to get here. 

And don’t forget to be awesome!