ONE: In sacred Scripture "one," ehad, in Hebrew, represents unity and is the quintessential number of monotheism, the worship of one God.

• This concept of one as a unity of one God is expressed in the opening lines of the first profession of faith found in Scripture, the Shema: Hear O Israel, Yahweh our God, Yahweh is One [Deuteronomy 6:4].

• One as a cardinal number symbolizes Unity. The number One is indivisible and not made up of any other number representing the unity of the One true God in which there is no division.

• One as an ordinal number denotes primacy, sovereignty, divine completeness or perfection.

• Christians recognized the number "one" in Scripture as symbolic of the First Person of the Most Holy Trinity, God the Father.

TWO: This number can mean difference, division or double portion.

• In the Creation event, God separated light and darkness [Genesis 1:3-4].

• The Ten Commandments were inscribed on two tablets of stone [Exodus 31:18; 32:15; 34:1, 4, 29].

• The children of Israel were forbidden to collect manna on the Sabbath and therefore were permitted to collect a double portion of manna on Friday [Exodus 16:5].

• On the 6^th day of Creation God created two—male and female—of every species in order that fertility might be a blessing to the earth [Genesis 1:24-31].

• In the New Testament, Christians also saw this number as a symbol of the second person of the Trinity, the Incarnation of God the Son in the perfection of His humanity and divinity.

THREE: In sacred Scripture the number three represents that which is solid, real, substantial, and something in its completeness. This number usually indicates something of importance or significance in God's plan of salvation by identifying an important event in Salvation History. This number operates as a "sign-post" in Scripture study for the reader to "pay attention" to the significance of the next event.

In the Old Testament:

• It is the first of the 4 perfect numbers which are 3 (divine perfection); 7 (spiritual perfection); 10 (ordinal perfection); and 12 (governmental perfection).

• The earth was separated from the waters on the 3^rd day and life began [Genesis 1:9-13].

• There were three Patriarchs of the children of Israel: Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob/Israel.

• There are three verses in the Priestly Blessing in which the Tetragrammaton, YHWH, God's holy covenant name, appears three times [Numbers 6:24-26].

• Three times the angelic Seraphim cry "Holy, Holy, Holy" [Isaiah 6:3 and Revelation 4:8].

• After the Great Flood mankind descended from the three sons of Noah: Shem, Ham, and Japheth [Genesis 10:1-32].

• Three "men" announced to Abraham that his barren wife would bear a son [Genesis 18:14].

• Abraham was commanded to sacrifice his son after a three-day journey to Mt. Moriah [Genesis 22:1-4].

• Baby Moses was hidden by his mother for three months [Exodus 2:1] and the adult Moses requests of Pharaoh that he let Moses take his people on a three-day journey into the wilderness to offer sacrifice to their God [Exodus 3:18].

• There were three divisions of the desert Tabernacle and later the Temple in Jerusalem: the Outer Court, the Holy Place, and the Holy of Holies [Exodus 27:9; 26:1-30, 35-37; 31-34; 38:9-20; 21-31; 40:1-33; 1 Kings 6:1-37].

• God is mentioned three times in the Shema, the Old Covenant profession of faith [Deuteronomy 6:4] and three times in the priestly blessing [Numbers 6:24-26].

• The three attributes of God mentioned in Exodus 33:18-19 are hen, rachum, and hesed (gracious, compassionate /merciful, and loving kindness).

• Of the seven annual Holy Feasts of the Sinai Covenant, three are "pilgrim feasts" in which every man 13 years or older must present himself before God at His Sanctuary and later at the Temple in Jerusalem. This command is repeated three time in scripture [Exodus 23:14-17; 34:18-23; Deuteronomy 16:16].

• Jonah spent three days in the belly of the great fish [Jonah 2:1]; Jonah took three days to journey across the city of Nineveh [Jonah 3:3].

In the New Testament:

• Jesus' ministry lasted three years, covering three Passovers [John 2:13; 6:4; 11:55-12:1].

• Mary stayed with Elizabeth about three months [Luke 1:56].

• Jesus was missing for three days when He was 12 years old [Luke 2:46].

• Jesus took Peter, James, and John up on the Mt. of Transfiguration [Matthew 17:1-8; Mark 9:2; Luke 9:28-36].

• Jesus arose from the dead on the third day. [Matthew 16:21, 17:23, 20:19; Mark 9:31, 10:34; Luke9:22, 18:33, 24:7, 46; Acts 10:40].

• Saul was blinded for three days [Acts 9:9].

• The theological virtues are faith, hope and charity {1 Corinthians 13:13].

• The heavenly Jerusalem has three gates on each of its four sides [Revelation 21:13].

• Christians saw three as symbolic of the Trinity, the triune nature of God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit and the number of the Holy Spirit who is the third person of the Most Holy Trinity [Matthew 28:19].

In Addition:

• There are three divisions of time: past, present, and future.

• There are three persons represented in grammar.

• Thought, word, and deed complete the sum of human capacity.

FOUR: The number four represents God's creative works, especially works associated with the earth:

• Four cardinal directions N, S, E, W. with four Angels keeping watch at the four corners of the earth, holding back the four winds of the world [Revelation 7:1].

• The Covenant People of God had four divisions of the day associated with the daily liturgical sacrifice of the Tamid (Dawn - 9AM; 9AM-Noon; Noon - 3PM; 3PM - Sunset).

• Four lunar phases

• Four seasons

• Four rivers flowed out of Eden [Genesis 2:10].

• Four consonants formed God's Divine Name YHWH.

• Four cherubim [Genesis 3:22-24; Ezekiel 1:10].

• In Ezekiel's vision of the heavenly throne/chariot the cherubim each had four faces and bodies with four wheels [Ezekiel 1:10-12].

• Four women gave birth to the fathers of the 12 Tribes of Israel.

• The tallit/outer cloak covenant men were required to wear had four corners with four tassels [Numbers 15:38-39].

• Four heavenly creatures surround God's heavenly throne. [Revelation 4:6-8].

• The Israelite camp was divided into four parts when camping around the Tabernacle [Numbers 2:1-34].

• The fourth book of the Bible is Numbers, in Hebrew B'Midbar = gematria 248 or 4 x 62.

• The ancients considered there to be four elements: earth, fire, air and water.

• Bible has four-fold division of mankind: lands, tongues, families and nations [Revelation 13:7].

• Four cups of wine are used in the ritual of the Passover Seder.

FIVE: This is the number of power and Divine grace.

• Five kinds of animals were sacrificed under the Old Covenant Law of sacrifice: goats, sheep, cattle, pigeons and doves [Genesis 15:9; Exodus 29:38; Leviticus 1:1-17; 3:1; 4:3, 14, 23, 28; 5:6-7].

• God changed Abram's name to Abraham by adding the letter/number five to his name [Genesis 17:5]. He changed Sarai's name by adding the same letter/number with the value of "grace" to form the name Sarah [Genesis 17:15]. Abraham and Sarah were transformed by grace to become the parents of a family from which the Messiah would be born.

• The Tabernacle was measured in multiples of five [Exodus 25 - 27].

• There are five books of the Torah (first 5 books of the Old Testament).

• Matthew's Gospel is divided into five "books" composed of five narratives and five discourses.

• Jesus bled from five wounds on the altar of the Cross: His two hands, his two feet and His head.

• Daniel proclaimed the Fifth Kingdom to be an Everlasting Kingdom [Daniel 2:37-44].

SIX: Both man and the serpent were created on the sixth day, therefore, the number six represents both man and rebellion. In the Greek alphabet the number six is not represented by an alphabetic letter but is instead represented by a symbol called the "stigma." In Revelation 13:18 the number of the Beast is written not as 666 but is instead is written with the Greek symbols for 600 and 60 and 6. In his book Numbers in Scripture, E.W. Bullinger observes that these three symbols correspond to first and last letters of the Greek word for Christ = CHRISTOS, with the symbol of the serpent in between the two other numbers of 666 [see Numbers in Scripture page 49]. Perhaps this arrangement can be seen to be Christ the Messiah crushing the serpent as God told the serpent in Genesis 3:15: I shall put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed; he will crush your head and you will strike its heel.

• 666 is the number of the Beast: There is need for shrewdness here: anyone clever may interpret the number of the beast; it is the number of a human being, the number is 666 [Revelation 13:18].

• Man is commanded to labor six days [Exodus 31:15]

• The sixth commandment in the Ten Commandments is the sin of murder [Exodus 20:13]

• The sixth clause in the prayer of the "Our Father/ Lord's Prayer" petitions that we not be led into sin and be delivered from evil. [Matthew 6:13]

• The world turned dark beginning at the sixth hour Hebrew time (noon) when Christ was on the cross [Matthew 27:45; Mark 15:33; Luke 23:44]. In Roman time the sixth hour is 6-7AM when Jesus was being tried by the Roman governor Pilate [John 19:14].

• Jesus suffered on the cross for six hours (as he suffered that man might be saved); from 9 AM, (see Mark 15:25) the hour of the first daily sacrifice in the Temple to 3 PM, (see Mark 15:33-34; Matthew 27:45; Luke 23:44) the hour of the last sacrifice, and gave up His life at the beginning of the 7^th hour (the number of completion and fulfillment).

• All six of the letters which represent the number system of the Roman Empire added together yield the number 666: I = 1; V= 5; X= 10; L= 50; C = 100; D= 500 [there is no letter/number M. 1000 was two Ds back to back which resembled an M].

SEVEN: Spiritual perfection and fullness or completion. It is the number of Covenant and of the Holy Spirit.

• Seven is the second perfect number.

• In Hebrew seven is shevah (shebah) from the root shava (shaba or sheba), meaning "to be full."

• God rested on the seventh day (Saturday) after Creation [Genesis 2:2]

• To swear an oath in Hebrew is "to seven oneself."

• There are seven gifts of the Holy Spirit (CCC#1831; Isaiah 11:1)

• The sacred Menorah has seven branches (six on each side of a central shaft) and seven cup shaped lamps for the olive oil

• There were seven classes of furniture in the Tabernacle: Bronze sacrificial Altar, Bronze Laver, Golden Menorah, Golden Table of the Bread of the Presence, Golden Altar of Incense, Ark of the Covenant and the Mercy-seat/Seat of Atonement.

• The Tabernacle was built in six days and dedicated on the seventh [Exodus 40:17]

• It took Solomon seven years to build the Temple in Jerusalem. [1 Kings 6:37-38]

• There are seven annual holy feast days observed under the Law of the Sinai Covenant [Leviticus 23:1-44]

• The Feast of Passover is the 1^st month of the liturgical year but the seventh month of the civil year. [Exodus 12:1-2]

• The Feast of Tabernacles completes the cycle of Holy Days in the seventh month of the liturgical year.[Leviticus 23:33-43]

• There are multiple sevens in the Book of Revelation: There are 55 sevens and 5 sevenths, 5x7 (35) phrases of sevens in the Book of Revelation. List of "sevens" in the Book of Revelation:

TEN: Perfection of divine order

• Noah was the tenth generation from Adam [Genesis 5:1-32].

• Abraham was the tenth generation from Shem, son of Noah [Genesis 11:10-26] (the ancients counted every series with the first in the series as #1 - there was no concept of 0 as a place value).

• Ten Commandments [Exodus 20:1-17; Deuteronomy 5:6-21].

• God said the Northern Kingdom was to be formed from ten tribes [1 Kings 11:31].

• A Child rests in his mother's womb for ten months [Wisdom 7:2].*

• Ten clauses in the Lord's Prayer [Matthew 6:9-13].

• Ten plagues on Egypt [Exodus 7:14-12:30].

• Ten virgins in Jesus' kingdom parable [Matthew 25:1-13].

TWELVE: Perfection of government. Twelve is the number of the Church, both the Old Covenant Church of Israel founded by twelve physical fathers (the twelve sons of Jacob-Israel) and the New Covenant Church founded by twelve spiritual fathers (the twelve Apostles). This number also has a relationship with multiples of twelve.

• Twelve signs of the zodiac (these ancient symbols are found in Jewish synagogues of the 1^st century AD.)

• The circle of the heavens = 360' (12 x 30).

• The product of the number three (perfection of divinity) x four (the number of the earth).

• Twelve months in a year.

• Twelve tribes of Israel [Genesis 49:28].

• Twelve pillars were erected at Mt. Sinai [Exodus 24:4].

• Twelve pillars were erected in the Promised Land [Joshua 4:1-9].

• Twelve statues of oxen held up the water basin in Solomon's Temple [1 Kings 7:25].

• Twelve men were selected by God to conduct the census of the tribes [Numbers 1:2-16].

• Twelve princes of Israel brought gifts to the Sanctuary on twelve days [Numbers 7:10-83].

• Twelve spies sent to reconnoiter Canaan [Numbers 13:1-15].

• Jesus is twelve years old when He questions the scholars in the Temple [Luke 2:41].

• Twelve legions of angels [Matthew 26:53].

• Twelve Apostles [Matthew 10:2-4; Mark 3:13-19; Luke 6:13].

• 144,000 servants of God (12 times 12) [Revelation 7:4].

• Twelve gates of the New Jerusalem [Revelation 21:12].

• Twelve foundations of the New Jerusalem [Revelation 21:16, 17].

• The Trees of Life in the new creation will bear twelve kinds of fruits [Revelation 22:2]

FORTY: This number is recognized as an important number both on account of the frequency of its occurrence and with the uniformity of its association as a time of consecration and as a period of trial.

• Forty day epic periods during the great flood [Genesis 7:4, 12, 17,8:6].

• Forty years was the age of Isaac when he married Rebekah [Genesis 25:20].

• Forty years of Moses in Egypt [do the math, see Ex 7:7; Dt 34:7; Acts 7:30].

• Forty years of Moses in Midian before his return to Egypt [Acts 7:30].

• Forty years from the Exodus until Moses' death [Dt 1:3; 34:7].

• Forty years Israel ate manna [Exodus 16:35; Deuteronomy 29:5].

• Forty days Moses was on the Mountain to receive the Law of the Sinai Covenant [Exodus 24:18].

• Forty days the children of Israel were tested while Moses was on the mountain [Exodus 32:1].

• Forty days Moses was on the Mountain after the golden calf [Exodus 34:28].

• Forty days after his birth a male child of Israel was dedicatedto God at the Sanctuary [Leviticus 12:1-4].

• Forty days the Israelite spies reconnoitered the land of Canaan [Numbers 13:25].

• Forty years was Caleb's age when Moses sent him to reconnoiter Canaan [Joshua 14:7].

• Forty years that Israel spent in the wilderness before they camped by the Jordan River [Numbers 14:33; Deuteronomy 1:1-3; 8:2].

• Forty years from the giving of the Law at Sinai to the conquest of the Promised land [Joshua 5:6].

• Forty year intervals of peace in the age of the Judges (Judges 3:11; 5:31; 8:28)

• Forty years Eli judged Israel [1 Samuel 4:18].

• Forty years of war between Israel and the Philistines.

• Forty years David ruled as King of Israel [2 Samuel 5:5; 1 Chronicles 29:26-27].

• Forty years Solomon ruled Israel [2 Chronicles 9:30].

• Forty days and nights Elijah traveled to Mt. Horeb/Sinai [1 Kings 19:8].

• Forty days Jonah was in the Assyrian city of Nineveh [Jonah 3:4].

• Forty years Josiah ruled Judah [2 Kings 12:2].

• Forty days Ezekiel lay on his right side to symbolize the 40 years of Judah's transgressions [Ezekiel 4:6].

• Forty years of judgment that Ezekiel prophesied for Egypt [Exodus 29:11-13].

• Forty days Jesus fasted in the wilderness before His temptation [Matthew 4:2; Mark 1:13; Luke 4:2].

• Forty days Jesus taught His disciples after the Resurrection. On the fortieth day He ascended to the Father [Acts 1:3].

SEVENTY: is another combination of two of the perfect numbers 7 and 10, and it signifies perfect spiritual order carried out with all spiritual power and significance.

• There were seventy nations before the Tower of Babel. [Genesis 10:1-32].

• Seventy men built up the nation of Israel when the Israelites first entered Egypt. [Genesis 46:27].

• Seventy elders were chose to meet with God on Mt. Sinai and ate a sacred meal in His presence; they represented the hierarchy of the Old Covenant Church [Exodus 24:9-10]

• Seventy elders of Israel comprised the Great Sanhedrin (Israel's Supreme Court of law).

• Jesus chose seventy disciples [Luke 10:1].