Seven Is The Perfect Number

 

Seven is an important number in the Bible. It’s the “perfect” number. It represents the perfect design of God. Beginning with creation, and throughout the Old Testament, then again in the Book of Revelation, God uses the number seven.

Consider the many occurrences of the number seven. God’s incredible acts of creation took place over the course of seven days, as recorded in Genesis. The Sabbath was instituted by God to be observed on the seventh day of the week. The blood of the sacrificial animal was to be sprinkled on the altar seven times. Several Old Testament Feasts were observed for seven days, and three of the seven holy observances were in the seventh month. Daniel’s vision in chapter nine was a vision of seventy “weeks” of seven. The Jews were in Babylonian captivity for seventy years. This list is by no means complete, but we get the picture.

Now for a list of sevens found in Revelation. There were seven churches addressed by Jesus. There are seven blessings spoken throughout the entire book of Revelation. There are seven seals, seven trumpet warnings, and seven bowl judgments. There are seven heads on the beast of Revelation 13, representing seven world-ruling, oppressive nations through the course of history. This number, seven, is conspicuously woven into the prophecies of the Church age and the events of the end times. It represents
the perfect design of God in all that would come to pass, from the first century on, until the return of Christ.

But then we get to Revelation 17, and the perfect number seven has an addendum added to it. There is an eighth beast that is the centerpiece of the very last “hour” of the end of the age. Now the number eight is not a special number in the Bible. Nevertheless, the eighth beast is really significant, regardless of its imperfect number. The eighth beast is an Arab-Islam alliance of ten nations, represented by the ten horns on the seven-headed beast. This alliance will bring the prostitute, America, to ruin. Then, with nothing to restrain them, they will have a green light to cross the Euphrates and invade the holy land. They are the enemy of God and of His chosen people. That has been true for several millennia, and Armageddon will be the climax of their hatred for Abraham’s chosen descendants. But Jesus Christ will come back to earth and defeat the 8^th beast and establish His earthly millennial kingdom.

And there you have it, a summary of chapter 4 in my book, Right At The Door. And a teaser to dig deeper into the understanding of Revelation 17. The eighth best is on the rise, and Armageddon will erupt very, very soon.