BIBLE NUMERICS
The Number ONE THOUSAND
Now the number One Thousand is very easy to locate. The word "Thousand"
occurs six times in the book of Revelation indicating that there is a 6,000-
year span of time before the seventh day Millennial Sabbath rest of the Lord
Jesus Christ when He returns to the earth to set up His kingdom. So that
much is plain.
The word "Thousand," where it occurs, is the division that divides off the
ages. The ages are divided off into periods of one thousand years each, and
these periods are roughly, as found in your Bible: the first period coming
from the time of Adam down about the year 3,000 B.C.; the next period would
come down about the year 2,000 B.C. which would be right after the flood
around 2,300 B.C. You could date the time of Abraham right on the Millennial
mark at 2,000 B.C., and the founding of the temple by Solomon right on the
Millennial mark at 1,000 B.C.--and the middle of the Dark Ages and the
Crusades at 1,000 A.D. and the Second Advent in the fall (September or
October) at the Feast of Tabernacles when the Lord Jesus is coming to set up
His Millennial kingdom on this earth in the year 2000. I realize that this
comes under the heading of date setting to some people so I'll not go on any
further, but there is definitely something to it. "One day with the Lord is
as a thousand years and a thousand years as one day." And as the Bible
scholars at the turn of the Millennial period, 1000 A.D., began to talk more
about the Second Coming of Christ, so we begin to talk about it now at the
beginning of the next Millennial period, except the first time is always the
faux pas--the false or feinted movement--the second time is always the real
thing. "The law was given by Moses, but grace and truth by Jesus Christ." It
isn't Cain; it's Abel. It's not Esau; it's Jacob. It isn't Ishmael; it's
Isaac. It's not 1000 A.D.; it's 2000 A.D. (if our calendar is correct).
All right, that is all that I can do with numbers and I confess ignorance
for the rest of them. Perhaps they can be figured. Sixty is certainly six,
the number of man, times ten, the number of the Gentiles. Fifty is plainly
the Gentile number multiplied by the number of death, five. Seventy is
plainly a Gentile number with a seven slapped onto it that indicates
completion, and the seventy elders of Israel are set up as the seventy, and
there is the LXX--Gentiles trying to imitate them with a Greek translation
down in Alexandria, Egypt, which undoubtedly they never made. Also, as the
nations will be ruled by the numbered division bounds of Israel (Deut. 32:7-
8), I have no doubt that the seventy elders of Israel have something to do
with judicial divisions of the Gentile nations at a future date. The number
100 is plainly a century number or century mark. The number seventy is not
only a Gentile times seven but the completion of a Gentile's life--the days
of our years are threescore and ten. I don't profess to know the meaning of
15 or 20 or 25 or 30 or 35 or 45, or the 1,100 pieces of silver mentioned so
frequently in the word of God. It will take more prayer and more study than
I have been able to put out yet to get the answers, but I trust God will
give them to the person who diligently applies himself.
No prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation. What I don't
know, God hasn't shown me. What He hasn't shown me, He can show somebody
else. He did not show everything to the Scofield Board of Editors nor to the
New Scofield Board of Editors.
Don't ever stop with Scofield or DeHaan. They didn't stop with Calvin and
Luther.
Go with the Book. It is an eternal Book. It has much more to reveal that no
one has seen yet.
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