#17~FOURTEEN BIBLE NUMBER MEANINGS 2-14-12
FOURTEEN is the number that represents DELIVERANCE or SALVATION.
It is used 26 times in our KJ Bible. FOURTEEN, is 2 x 7 which implies a double measure of spiritual perfection and completion.
1. Jesus’ ministry in the flesh was completed.
2. Jesus’ sacrifice ended or completed the need for animal sacrifices.
It was the FOURTEENTH day of the first month of the Jewish year when the children of Israel were DELIVERED from Egyptian bondage, and from the stroke of judgment, which fell upon the firstborn of the Egyptians.
Exodus 12:6 And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening.
Also Exodus 12:12-13; Leviticus 23:4-5)
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The number FOURTEEN is found THREE times in connection with Christ’s coming into the world, and His primary purpose was to SAVE, or DELIVER His people from their sins.
THREE** (God is in it)
Matthew 1:17 So all the generations from Abraham to David are FOURTEEN generations; and from David until the carrying away into Babylon are FOURTEEN generations, and from the carrying away into Babylon unto Christ are FOURTEEN generations.
When He came the first time, He come to die for every ones sins, He did not come to heal the sick or raise the dead, or work all the other miracles that He did, all of these were signs to the Jews that He was truly their promised Messiah, these were Messianic signs.
1 Corinthians 1:22 For the Jews require a sign--
Luke 19:10 points out His mission; "For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost."
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The SALVATION of the soul takes place when a person believes in the Lord Jesus Christ and Him alone, at which time; he comes under the blood of Christ, "Our Passover".
But the body will not be delivered from the bondage of corruption until the resurrection of the believer or the rapture of the saints, and then the redemption of our body takes place.
Let mind remind us that FOUR is the number that denotes CREATION; In Romans 8:19-23 we find the word CREATURE OR CREATION FOUR times.
(Romans 8:19-23) 19For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.
20For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope,
21Because the creature** (creation) itself also shall be DILIVERED from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.
22For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. 23And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.
This explains why the numbers FOURTEEN and THREE would go together here. FOURTEEN is for DELIVERANCE and THREE is for the RESURRECTION. -- To do with the redemption of our body. At the resurrection we will be in glorified bodies.
1 Corinthians 15:52-- for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed --
Philippians 3:21 Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body
1 John 2:2-- but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.
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Israel was DELIVERED from the plague in Egypt on the FOURTEENTH day. THREE days later they passed through the Red Sea, which is a figure of the RESURRECTION.
Then they sang a song unto the Lord. In that song, they said, "The Lord is my strength and song, and He is become my SALVATION." (Exodus 15:1-2)
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Jacob worked fourteen years for his uncle Laban in order to be able to marry his daughter Rachel. The first period of seven years Laban allowed him to take Leah for wife, the older sister of Rachel, and after the second period of seven years, he could finally marry Rachel. And Jacob had of Rachel fourteen son and grandsons.
Genesis 46:19-22 The sons of Rachel Jacob’s wife; Joseph, and Benjamin. 20And unto Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim, which Asenath the daughter of Potipherah priest of On bare unto him.
21And the sons of Benjamin were Belah, and Becher, and Ashbel, Gera, and Naaman, Ehi, and Rosh, Muppim, and Huppim, and Ard.
22These are the sons of Rachel, which were born to Jacob: all the souls were fourteen.
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There were FOURTEEN sons and THREE daughters of Heman who were singers in the house of the Lord.
1 Chronicles 25:5 And God gave to Heman FOURTEEN sons and THREE daughters. 6All these were under the hands of their father for song in the house of the LORD,
We see in the FOURTEEN sons, that the children of God rejoice in the SALVATION of their souls, and sing for joy.
We see in the THREE daughters, they rejoice in the hope of their RESURRECTION.
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In PS.34:7 the FOURTEENTH word is DELIVERETH
The angel of the LORD encampeth round about them that fear him, and delivereth them.
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On his voyage to Rome, Paul and his company were caught in a violent storm. (Acts 27:14-44)
When the men had despaired of any being saved God sent His angel and told Paul that they would all escape alive.
Upon the authority of God’s Word Paul told them none would die. (Vs. 22-25)
And now I exhort you to be of good cheer: for there shall be no loss of any man’s life among you, but of the ship. 23For there stood by me this night the angel of God, whose I am, and whom I serve, 24Saying, Fear not, Paul; thou must be brought before Caesar: and, lo, God hath given thee all them that sail with thee.
They were saved from death in the storm on the FOURTEENTH day. (Vs. 33-44) --
Once again showing the number FOURTEEN to be the number of their SALVATION.
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In Galatians 1:15-16, Paul tells about God revealing His Son in him that he might preach Him among the Gentiles.
15 But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother’s womb, and called me by his grace, 16To reveal his Son in me that I might preach him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood:--then we read in--
Galatians 2:1 Then FOURTEEN years after I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, and took Titus with me also.
Paul’s mission on this trip was to confer with the apostles and elders as to the question of circumcision being necessary to SALVATION.
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In Acts 13:13 when Paul is no longer called Saul, but Paul only, the FOURTEENTH time Paul’s name is found is in Acts 15:12, just after Peter had said,
vs. 11 But we believe that through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ we shall be saved, even as they. 12Then all the multitude kept silence, and gave audience to Barnabas and Paul, --- Here Paul’s name is found the FOURTEETH time in connection with the discussion about SALVATION.
And the account of Saul, later (Paul) being saved is in Acts 9: as he was at that time an unbeliever and on his way to Damascus to bind men or women that believed on Jesus and bring them to Jerusalem, there on that road he saw a great LIGHT and fell to the ground, and heard the voice of Jesus, he was struck blind for THREE days.
Paul’s calling into the ministry was he is the Apostle to the Gentiles.
Romans 11:13 For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles,-
Paul wrote FOURTEEN books of the N.T. if indeed he is the writer of Hebrews. ---- The main reason that I think he most likely is the writer of Hebrews, is because of what Peter said in
2 Peter 3:15-16 And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you; (Hebrew people)
16As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, ** (WRESTLE or STRUGGLE) as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.
„« lets be sure and notice the words (in all his epistles)
How many other Apostles {or person} wrote many epistles?
John pinned 5 books, the Gospel of John and Revelation--and 3 epistles 1st- 2nd- 3rd John
Peter pinned 3 epistles and we know that it was not Peter because he’s the one telling about Paul.
Some say’s it was a unanimous writer, if that be the case where is this unanimous writers other epistles that Peter here speaks of when he said "in all his epistles"?
I believe it was Paul that pinned "Hebrews" remember, he is the Apostle to the Gentiles, so perhaps he wrote this to the Hebrews.
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In the Book of Proverbs the expression "the fear of the Lord" occurs FOURTEEN times: Proverbs 1:7, 29, - 2:5, - 8:13, -9:10, -10:27, - 14:26, 27, -15:16, 33, -16:6, - 19:23, -22:4, -23:17.
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The FOURTEENTH day of the first month is the Passover, when God delivered the firstborn of Israel from death.
Some 430 years earlier, on the night of the FOURTEENTH day of the first month, God made two covenant promises to Abraham -- one of his physical seed, Isaac, and his descendants, and one of the spiritual seed, Jesus Christ, and the sons of God who would be SAVED through Him, who would shine like the stars of heaven.
Matthew 13:43 Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father.
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On the FOURTEENTH day of the 1st month the Passover day in 30 AD, Jesus Christ, God manifested in the flesh, the only begotten Son of God, and the Lamb of God to take away the sin of the world, was crucified as the perfect sacrifice to save mankind from sin. Jesus’ death on Passover completed His ministry in the flesh.
The day Jesus was crucified was the day of the Passover celebration and the day that the Passover lamb was to be sacrificed.
For the previous 1,200 years, the priest would blow the shophar (ram’s horn) at 3:00 p.m. - the moment the lamb was sacrificed, and all the people would pause to contemplate the sacrifice for sins on behalf of the people of Israel.
At 3:00 PM when Jesus was being crucified, He said, "It is finished" - at the moment that the Passover lamb was sacrificed and the shophar was blown from the Temple, the sacrifice of the Lamb of God was fulfilled at the hour that the symbolic animal sacrifice usually took place.
John wants to equate Jesus with the Passover Lamb. He is the only Gospel writer who calls Jesus "The Lamb of God in JN.1:29", and therefore, he has Jesus being crucified on the evening of Passover, the FOURTEENTH day of Nissan, when it was traditional to sacrifice a lamb. Jesus was therefore, the "lamb" being sacrificed at the appropriate time, making it possible for the entire human race to be SAVED if they would only believe on Him.
