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The 144,000 (Rev. 7:4; 14:1, 3) are the multiples of 12 x 12 x 10 x 10 x 10, a symbolic number that signifies the total number (tens) of the people of God (twelves). The 12,000 stadia (12 x 10 x 10 x 10) of the walls of the New Jerusalem in Rev. 21:16 represent an immense city that can house the total number (tens) of God's people (twelves).
Most commentators divide Numbers into three sections based on locale (Mount Sinai, Kadesh-Barnea and the plains of Moab), linked by two travel sections; [7] an alternative is to see it as structured around the two generations of those condemned to die in the wilderness and the new generation who will enter Canaan, making a theological distinction between the disobedience of the first ...
In most manuscripts of the New Testament and in English translations of the Bible, the number of the beast is "six hundred sixty-six" or χξϛ (in Greek numerals, χ represents 600, ξ represents 60 and ϛ represents 6). [14]
Fire, especially in the form of a candle flame, represents both the Holy Spirit and light. These symbols derive from the Bible; for example from the tongues of fire [27] that symbolized the Holy Spirit at Pentecost, and from Jesus' description of his followers as the light of the world; [28] or God is a consuming fire found in Hebrews 12. [29]
Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is 666." In several editions of the Greek Bible , the number is represented by the final three words, ἑξακόσιοι ἑξήκοντα ἕξ , hexakósioi hexēkonta héx , meaning "six hundred [and] sixty-six": [ 12 ] [ 13 ]
Rabbinic literature used gematria to interpret passages in the Hebrew Bible. The practice of using alphabetic letters to represent numbers developed in the Greek city of Miletus, and is thus known as the Milesian system. [7] Early examples include vase graffiti dating to the 6th century BCE. [8]
Three members of a military helicopter crew. ... A man holds a Bible during a prayer vigil in Wichita, Kan., Thursday, Jan. 30, 2025. ... whose son, Anton, now represents the U.S. in ice dance ...
It was these three gifts, it is thought, which were the chief cause for the number of the Magi becoming fixed eventually at three. [ 68 ] This episode can be linked to Isaiah 60 and to Psalm 72 , which report gifts being given by kings, and this has played a central role in the perception of the Magi as kings, rather than as astronomer-priests.