Bullinger Brings It Home For Us

The beauty of E.W. Bullinger's classic work Number in Scripture: Its Supernatural Design and Spiritual Significance is that it proves beyond a shadow of a doubt the fact that God's Word as contained in the Holy Bible is divinely inspired by his research into God's presentation of endless numerical occurrences that defy the odds using the so-called 'universal language' of Mathmatics and Numerology.

We explored some of those examples in the last piece on the subject of the recent tragedy involving those four Police Officers who were brutally murdered in Tacoma, WA.

We highlighted the potential prophetic significance of the details associated with that tragedy as well as the number 4 as it appeared front-and-center throughout that story. Here's what I just found out:

> The fourth book of the Psalms is the Book of the Wilderness. The first Psalm is the 'Prayer of Moses, the man of God,' -- the man of the wilderness. All the illustrations and metaphors, etc., are drawn from the earth, and this fourth book sets forth Jehovah's counsels and purposes in relation to the earth. (See Psalms 90-106.)

Ok, so now I'm wondering (after combining the conclusions in the previous column with this new discovery) if we might expect to see some kind of catastrophic natural disaster of some sort to impact millions. PURE SPECULATION on my part indeed. Anyway, just a thought.

As incredible as that 4-related discovery was, that's nothing compared to this next item:

> We may note also the fourth Psalms of the other Books of the Psalms, viz:—Psalm 45 (the fourth of the second book), Psalm 76 (the fourth of the third book), Psalm 93 (the fourth of the fourth book), and Psalm 110 (the fourth of the fifth book). All these tell of Dominion in the earth, and they speak of the coming reign of earth's rightful King and Lord.

This after that lengthy commentary on Psalm 109 (the one about the 'bumper sticker controversy') just a day or two earlier! I love it when the Holy Spirit does stuff like that! How exciting!

Quickly, I want to also point out some of the other unusual numbers associated with this story as found in this report: Lakewood Police Department Created Just 5 Years Ago.

Here's a list of most of the numbers that appear there (in the order they appear):

5
The number of GRACE.

60,000
Very interesting that this is EXACTLY DOUBLE what we saw in the last piece about the story that's told in Joshua 8. Also, read 1 Samuel 14:31. While no number is given, Josephus reports that the number of Philistines slain was in the tens of thousands (Ant. 6.120), and later gives the number of those killed as 60,000 (Ant. 6.129).

Shishak Attacks Jerusalem:
2 Chronicles 12:3 (KJV) With twelve hundred chariots, and threescore thousand horsemen: and the people were without number that came with him out of Egypt; the Lubims, the Sukkiims, and the Ethiopians.

Shishak's campaign against Judah was the basis for the film Raiders of the Lost Ark which speculated that Shishak had stolen the Ark of the Covenant, during his route through Jerusalem, and had brought the Ark back to the city of Tanis in 980 BC.

120
Applied to time therefore it signifies a divinely appointed period of probation, Genesis 6:3. Applied to persons it points to a divinely appointed number during a period of waiting, Acts 1:15. It is a factor also in the number of those who returned from Babylon, 42,360, being 120 x 353. It is also a factor of the number of the men who went up out of Egypt, 600,000, being 120 x 5000. It is a factor also of the 144,000 who will be sealed from the Twelve Tribes of Israel to go unscathed through the great tribulation, 144,000, being 120 x 1200.

8
Bi itself, it is the number specially associated with Resurrection and Regeneration, and the beginning of a new era or order. When the whole earth was covered with the flood, it was Noah "the eighth person" (2 Peter 2:5) who stepped out on to a new earth to commence a new order of things. "Eight souls" (1 Peter 3:20) passed through it with him to the new or regenerated world. Hence, too, circumcision was to be performed on the eighth day (Genesis 17:12), because it was the foreshadowing of the true circumcision of the heart, that which was to be "made without hands," even "the putting off of the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ" (Colossians 2:11). This is connected with the new creation.

2
The number 2 affirms that there is a difference -- there is another; while the number 1 affirms that there is not another! This difference may be for good or for evil. A thing may differ from evil, and be good; or it may differ from good, and be evil. Hence, the number 2 takes a two-fold colouring, according to the context. It is the first number by which we can divide another, and therefore in all its uses we may trace this fundamental idea of division or difference. Where man is concerned, this number testifies of his fall, for it more often denotes that difference which implies opposition, enmity, and oppression.

11
If ten is the number which marks the perfection of Divine order, then eleven is an addition to it, subversive of and undoing that order. If twelve is the number which marks the perfection of Divine government, then eleven falls short of it. So that whether we regard it as being 10 + 1, or 12 - 1, it is the number which marks, disorder, disorganization, imperfection, and disintegration.

14
Being a multiple of seven, partakes of its significance; and, being double that number, implies a double measure of spiritual perfection. The number two with which it is combined (2x7) may, however, bring its own significance into its meaning, as in Matthew 1, where the genealogy of Jesus Christ is divided up and given in sets of 14 (2x7) generations, two being the number associated with incarnation.

Anyway, those were just a few additional observations I made after seeing the latest news and after spending some time reading Bullinger's work.

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