Friday's Devo - Numbers 5-7

I don't know if I've ever said this but Genesis is my favorite chapter in the Bible. It has the whole story of the world from beginning to end. Let's get back to the numbers:
Five - Gen 1: 20-23 - "life" I know you've heard it means "grace" and you do have to have grace to be alive in the spirit. This was the day that God made living creatures that move on their own. Everything else was planted or stationed. On the 5th day he set creatures free to move. Life produced life. Everything God created reveals to us something about himself. On this day he made the birds that fly in the heavens which represents spirits that fly (good and bad) and he made fish that move around under the earth. This is to give us a look into what is happening in the "underworld". (If this is hard to understand just put it on the shelf.) The number 5 was used all throughout the tabernacle to show that it was surrounded by life. The boy in Matt. 14:17 had 5 loaves, and 2 fishes. Those 5 loaves represented the bread of life.
Six - Gen 1: 24-31 "living creature; man" The anti-christ's number will be 666 because he will be a man, a snake, and a beast. He will be the culmination of what God created on the 6th day only in an evil sense. Noah was 600 years old when God destroyed all men and creatures except for a remnant. He will do it again after 6,000 years. In John 2:6 Jesus was at the wedding in Cana. They ran out of wine and there were 6 waterpots of stone that the Jews used in a purification act of washing their hands. Jesus told them to fill them with water and when they poured it out it was wine. These 6 waterpots were a picture of man's way of cleansing himself. They were nothing more than stone pots like their stone hearts. But when Jesus added spirit to the pots they brought forth joy.
Seven - Gen 2: 1-3 - "complete; rest" On the 7th day God had completed all his work and could rest. God actually blessed and sanctified that day. This 7th day stands for millennial reign that God will bless and sanctify in the year 7,000. God planned everything around this week of 7 days. In Matt. 18: 21 Peter asked Jesus how often he should forgive his brother who sins against him - 7 times? And Jesus replied, Not 7 times, but 70 times 7. He was not telling him to count them and once he got to 490 he would know that was enough. He was telling him HOW to forgive....completely until you have rest in your heart.
In Psa. 147:4- 5 it says that you number the stars and call them all by their names, how much more do you number us and call us all by our names. " Great is our Lord, and of great power: his understanding is infinite."