Now the second number that I want to talk about is seven which as I mentioned
is the number of perfection or completion. Now why does it signify
completion? Well let me read to you from Genesis 2 verse 1. It says thus the
heavens and the earth were finished and all the host of them and on the seventh
day God ended his work which he had made and he rested on the seventh day from
all his work which he had made and God blessed the seventh day and sanctified
it because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.
So obviously this can signify completion right when the creation was complete
after man was made he rested on the seventh day the Bible says God rested on
the seventh day and it pictures the completion and a lot of the times in the
Bible you will have a count of seven before something has been completed. Let
me give you an example of this how about the seven seals right seven seals in the
book of Revelation are completed before what the wrath of God is poured out unto
this wicked world okay you have seven seals but even thereafter what do you
have seven trumpets seven vials and those are thoroughly carried out and
completed you know before the millennial reign of Christ the third coming of
Jesus Christ where he comes to this world and he sets up his millennial reign
okay you have the priest that sprinkled the blood seven times before the Lord
before the veil of the sanctuary in Leviticus chapter 4 verse number 6
signifying completion or perfection how about this Joshua 6 4 says and seven
priests shall bear before the ark seven trumpets of rams horns and the seventh
day he should come past the city seven times you think God is trying to teach
us something there and the priest shall blow with the trumpets how about this
when Elisha tells the king to go wash in the river right in order to heal him of
his leprosy the Bible says in 2nd Kings 5 10 and Elisha sent a messenger unto
him saying go and wash in Jordan seven times and thy flesh shall come again to
thee and thou shalt be clean so again it pictures completion it pictures
perfection you say I don't know how does it picture perfection well how about
this Psalms 12 verse 6 says the words of the Lord are pure words as silver trine
and a furnace of earth purified what seven times and you're not going to
argue that the Bible is not perfect so obviously that's a great number to
represent perfection at its at its apex right here the Word of God being
purified seven times to make it perfect the Bible says in Psalm 119 verse 164
seven times a day do I praise thee because of thy righteous judgments or
how about this remember when Nebuchadnezzar was given the heart of a
beast right and seven times passed over him and then a heart of a man was given
to him until those seven years were complete at that point when God humbled
him he tried him he punished him he chastised him when those seven years are
complete at that point he was able to restore him back to his kingdom hey the
end times is known as what Daniel's 70th week not the seven year tribulation just
seven 70th week composed of three and a half years of tribulation three and a
half years of wrath and when that is complete then you have the millennial
taking place so you see how the number seven can often represent perfection or
even completion