# 18~ FIFTEEN & SIXTEEN~ BIBLE NUMBER MEANINGS 2-18-12
FIFTEEN is the number for REST, The number FIFTEEN is found 24 times in our KJ Bible. REST is the result of DELIVERANCE, or SALVATION. (#14)
FIVE if you’ll recall carries a two fold meaning, "death & grace" and THREE is the number of divine perfection, The Trinity and also the Resurrection as well.
Fifteen being 8 + 7 {"7" completion- "8" new beginning} as well as 3 x 5, pointing {3} DIVINE {5} GRACE as at the RESSURRECTION {3} we will receive NEW {8} bodies.
As we will then be in a continuous day of REST
Fifteen, therefore, specially refers to acts wrought by DIVINE GRACE.
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Three times in the year Israel RESTED on the FIFTEENTH day of the month.
The Passover was the first festival and began on the evening of the fourteenth day (which Israel counted as the beginning of the fifteenth) of Nisan the first month of the Jewish year.
The Passover commemorated Israel’s deliverance {14th day} from the slavery of Egypt, and as such it prefigured deliverance by Christ from the bondage of sin.
Just as the Passover celebrated God’s great redemptive act of the O.T., the Lord’s Supper celebrates God’s great redemptive act of the N.T.
Leviticus 23:6-7 On the FIFTEENTH day of the same month (the first month) (Nissan-our mar & April) is the feast of the un-leavened bread unto the Lord: seven days ye must eat unleavened bread. In the first day (15th) ye shall have an holy convocation:*( called out, i.e. a public meeting) ye shall do no servile work therein. (Rest)
The second time the people rested was the FIFTEENTH day of the Seven Month.
Leviticus 23:34-35 The FIFTEENTH day of this SEVENTH month (Tishri-our Sept. & Oct.) shall be the feast of the tabernacles for seven days unto the Lord. On the first day shall be an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein. (Rest)
On these two occasions they RESTED from their work on the FIFTEENTH day.
The third time the people rested is found in the book of Esther.
Esther 9:20-22 And Mordecai wrote these things, and sent letters unto all the Jews that were in the provinces of King Ahasuerus, both nigh and far, to establish this among them that they should keep the fourteenth day of the month Adar, (12th mo. ~ our Feb. & Mar.) and the FIFTEENTH day of the same, yearly, as the days wherein the Jews RESTED from their enemies, ---
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The fifteenth time Naomi is found is when she said to Ruth
Ruth 3:1 Then Naomi her mother in law said unto her, My daughter, shall I not seek rest for thee, that it may be well with thee?
The rest came through Boaz their kinsman redeemer that we read about in chapter 4:
Boaz, was of the tribe of Judah like Jesus, Boaz bought all that Naomi possessed including Ruth, Naomi a type of Israel, Ruth a type of the gentile church as she was a Moabite, a gentile. Boaz is a picture and type of the Lord Jesus Christ who said in;
Matthew 11:28 Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
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The Ark was borne by the Flood fifteen cubits upwards.
Genesis 7:20 Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered.
Hezekiah’s reprieve from death was fifteen years.
2 Kings 20:6 And I will add unto thy days fifteen years; and I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria; and I will defend this city for mine own sake, and for my servant David’s sake.
The Jews were delivered from death under Esther on the fifteenth day of the month Esther 9:18 But the Jews that were at Shushan assembled together on the thirteenth day thereof, and on the fourteenth thereof; and on the fifteenth day of the same they rested, and made it a day of feasting and gladness.
This is especially significant, as their sentence to death was connected with the number thirteen. "The number of wickedness and evil"
Bethany, where Lazarus was raised was fifteen furlongs from Jerusalem.
John 11:18 Now Bethany was nigh unto Jerusalem, about fifteen furlongs off:
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Paul’s ship anchored safely in fifteen fathoms on the 14th day, {deliverance} after thirteen days of toil and trial.
Acts 27:21 But after long abstinence Paul stood forth in the midst of them, and said, Sirs, ye should have hearkened unto me, and not have loosed from Crete, and to have gained this harm and loss.--- 28 b- and when they had gone a little further, they sounded again, and found it fifteen fathoms -- == about 90 feet deep.
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The number SIXTEEN
SIXTEEN is the number that represents LOVE.
This number SIXTEEN is found 23 times in our KJ Bible, only one time in the N.T. --Acts 27:37
John is often referred to as the disciple that Jesus LOVED. ~ "LOVE" is found 45 times in John’s epistles. In John’s gospel 21 times in the Revelation 2 times.
LOVE is found 610 times in our KJ Bible.
* A verse all of us know well is found in the gospel of John;
John 3:16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only Begotten Son that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.
* Also we read about the Fathers great love for us in another 3:16, in that He allowed His Son to die for us;
1st John 3:16 Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us--
The SIXTEENTH word in 1 John 4:16 is LOVE;
1 John 4:16 And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love;-
The SIXTEENTH time the word "love" is used in John’s epistles is in;
I John 4:8 He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.--
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Jehovah God has sixteen NAMES that are mentioned in the O.T.
The name JEHOVAH is combined with other words, which form what we know as the JEHOVAH TITLES.
1. Jehovah - Elohim -- the Eternal One or Creator. (Genesis 2:4-25)
2. Adonai-Jehovah - the Lord our Sovereign; Master Jehovah. (Genesis 15:2, 8)
3. Jehovah - Jireh -- the Lord will see or provide. (Genesis 22:8-14)
4. Jehovah - Nissi -- the Lord our banner. (Exodus 17:15)
5. Jehovah -- Ro-phe-ka -- the Lord our healer. (Exodus 15:26)
6. Jehovah - Shalom -- the Lord our peace, (Judges 6:24)
7. Jehovah -- Tsid-kee-nu -- the Lord our righteousness. (Jeremiah 23:6)
8. Jehovah -- Mek-add-ish-kem -- the Lord our sanctifier. (Exodus 31:13; Leviticus 20:8; 21:8)
9. Jehovah - Saboath -- the Lord of hosts. (I Samuel 1:3. Used 281 times) *
10. Jehovah -- Sham-mah -- the Lord is present. (Ezekiel 48:35)
11. Jehovah -- E-lyon -- the Lord most high. (Psalm 7:17; 47:2; 97:9)
12. Jehovah -- Ro-hi -- the Lord my shepherd. (Psalm 23:1)
13. Jehovah -- Hosee-nu -- the Lord our Maker. (Psalm 95:6)
14. Jehovah -- Elo-hee-nu -- the Lord our God. (Psalm 99:5; 8, 9)
15. Jehovah -- Elo-heka -- the Lord thy God (Exodus 20:2; 5, 7)
16. Jehovah -- Elo-hay - the Lord my God. (Zechariah 14:5)
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In 1st. Cor.13:4-8 there are SIXTEEN attributes of LOVE.
Listen; when we add 1-3-4-8- together we have SIXTEEN.
The SIXTEENTH time Paul’s name occurs away from Saul is where he is called "BELOVED"
Acts 15:25 It seemed good unto us, being assembled with one accord, to send chosen men unto you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul,-
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There were EIGHT boards and SIXTEEN sockets in the west side (back side) of the TABERNACLE. (Exodus 26:25) -- The back side because it always faced East.
* Every thing to do with the Tabernacle was a type of Christ.
MATT. 24:27 For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
Listen; Many older cemeteries face the EAST, it’s a good and kind thought, but their doctrine is not right, because when He come for the church at the rapture we will go up to meet Him, {not westward} when He returns with the church at the end of the seven year Tribulation, He splits the eastern sky, we’ve heard that many times.
That is what Jesus said in Matt.24:27 For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
* That is, His returning to set His feet down on the earth, in
Zechariah 14:4 And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south.
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In the eight boards is given the number for the NEW BIRTH. - New beginning.
In the SIXTEEN sockets under those EIGHT boards is the number for LOVE.--love is what holds it all together.
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1ST Cor.13: is properly called the love chapter of the Bible. The word agape is the highest word for love in the New Testament and means "divine love."
Love is one of the dynamic terms Paul uses to speak of the holy life enabled by the fullness of the Holy Spirit. It includes motive and deed. Love is characteristic of the mature believer.
* In 1st. Cor.13: 4-8 the apostle Paul mentions SIXTEEN things about the quality of love: - as I paraphrase:
1. Love suffers long
2. Love is kind
3. Love does not envy
4. Love does not parade itself
5. Love is not puffed up
6. Love does not behave rudely
7. Love does not seek its own
8. Love is not provoked
9. Love thinks no evil
10. Love does not rejoice in iniquity
11. Love rejoices in the truth
12. Love bears all things
13. Love believes all things
14. Love hopes all things
15. Love endures all things
16. LOVE NEVER FAILS
Without any doubt SIXTEEN, is the number that points to LOVE.
