A: First off, let me start by saying that I think we should be cautious about hunting down concealed messages, implications, or codes in certain noteworthy numbers in the Bible. On the off chance that you put "Numerology" in a Google seek, what you get for a definition is: "The branch of learning that arrangements with the mysterious importance of numbers." Hence, "numerology" is related with so much things as the mysterious, the paranormal, crystal gazing, agnosticism, divination, and wiccans." But, in the event that we place "Scriptural" before "numerology" ("Biblical Numerology"), this is then expected to make hunting down the hugeness of number implications in the Bible worthy.
Presently, I am not saying that there isn't some essentialness to specific numbers in the Bible, all I am stating is that we ought to be watchful about attempting to translate what these implications are. Eventually, I trust God had purposes behind utilizing certain numbers again and again in the Bible, yet just He may know the genuine reasons. Having said this, I do think it is captivating to perceive how frequently certain key numbers are utilized again and again in the Bible. In six investigations, we will take a gander at how six of what I accept are the most key numbers in the Bible are utilized: 3, 6, 7, 10, 12, 40.
The last number we will take a gander at is the number "40." This number is utilized 159 times in the Bible. The individuals who relegate importance to this number are by and large concurred that it is a number symbolizing trial, testing, or judgment. This unquestionably is by all accounts borne out in various places in the Bible, nonetheless, it likewise is utilized for more than that. Allows first take a gander at the ways it could be taken as a number meaning trial, testing, or judgment, at that point we will look some other noteworthy employments.
Trial, Testing, Or Judgment:
At the point when God decimated each living thing on the Earth by surge, it drizzled 40 days and 40 evenings (Gen 7:4,12,17).
Three men in the Bible fasted 40 days and 40 evenings: Moses (Ex 34:28)(Deut 9:9,18,25)(Deut 10:10), Elijah (1 Kin 19:8), and Jesus (Mt 4:2)(Lk 4:2)(Mk 1:13).
Since Israel declined to enter the Promised Land, God sentenced them to meander in the "wild" for a long time (Num 14:33-34)(Num 32:11-13)(Deut 8:2)(Josh 5:6).
(God likewise shielded their garments and shoes from wearing out for the entire 40 years: Deut 29:5, Deut 8:4.)
The Israelites were given nourishment in the betray for a long time to "test" and "humble" them (Ex 16:35)(Deut 8:3,16)
While scourging somebody, they couldn't get more than 40 lashes (Deut 25:3)(2 Cor 11:24).
The Israelites were in imprisonment to the Philistines for a long time for doing fiendish (Judg 13:1).
Goliath insulted Israel for 40 days and evenings (1 Sam 17:16), until the point that David crushed him.
Ezekiel laid on his correct side for 40 days to "tolerate the wrongdoing" of Judah's transgressions (Ezek 4:6).
God announced judgment against Egypt, saying it would be destroy for a long time (Ezek 29:10-12).
God gave Nineveh 40 days to atone or be ousted (Jonah 3:4).
Different Uses:
After the surge waters had retreated, and the highest points of the mountains were obvious, Noah held up an additional 40 days to open the window of the Ark (Gen 8:6).
Isaac was 40 years of age when he took Rebekah as his significant other (Gen 25:20).
Esau, Isaac's child, additionally got hitched when he was 40 (Gen 26:34).
Treating took 40 days in early Bible circumstances (Gen 50:3).
Moses was on Mt. Sinai for 40 days and 40 evenings (twice!) (Ex 24:18)(Ex 34:28)(Deut 9:9,11,18,25)(Deut 10:10).
The government operatives that Moses sent to spy out the Promised Land were there for 40 days (Num 13:25)(Num 14:34).
One of those government operatives was Joshua, and he was forty years of age when he went (Josh 14:7).
Moses kicked the bucket when he was 120 years of age (Deut 34:7). His life can be separated into 3 areas of 40 years: (initial 40) being conceived and experiencing childhood in Pharaoh's home in Egypt (Acts 7:20-23), (center 40) escaping to Midian subsequent to slaughtering the Egyptian, and living there for a long time (Acts 7:29-30), (last 40) coming back to Egypt EX,7:7,act,7:38.
