It’s a number thing!

God has a thing for the numbers forty and seven. Forty is used over 100 times in the Bible and seven is used over 340 times.

Forty is used many times in dealings with man or things associated with man. And seven is often times associated with God and or things of heaven and angels. Here are just a few examples of forty being used.

Genesis 7:4 Noah was in the flood forty days and nights
Exodus 16:35 Israelites ate manna for forty years
Exodus 24:18 Moses Stayed on the mountain talking to God for forty days. (Twice: Deuteronomy 9:18)
Exodus 26:19 God wanted 40 silver bases to support the walls of the tabernacle
Exodus 34:28 Moses fasted with God for forty days and nights when he received the Ten Commandments.
Numbers 13:25 The spies were sent to spy on the land of Canaan for forty days.
Numbers 14:33 The Israelites were cursed to wander the desert for forty years. (One for each of the 40 days they explored Canaan.)
Deuteronomy 25:3 They were restricted from giving someone more than forty lashes in punishment.
Joshua 14:7 Joshua was 40 years old when he went as one of the spies to explore Canaan
Judges 13:1 Before the rise of Samson the Israelites were delivered as punishment into the hands of the Philistines for forty years.
1 Samuel 4:18 Eli led Israel for 40 years and then died.
1 Samuel 17:16 Goliath and the Philistines taunted the Israelites for 40 days before God raised up David.
Acts 13:21 Saul reigned for forty years.
2 Samuel 5:4 David reigned for forty years.
1 Kings 11:42 Solomon reigned for forty years.
2 Kings 12:1 Joash reigned forty years.
Ezekiel 29:12 God said he would make Egypt a wasteland through which no one would travel for forty years.
Jonah 3:4 God told Jonah to tell those living in Nineveh that He would destroy them in forty days.
Mark 1:13 Jesus fasted in the desert for forty days.
Acts 1:3 Jesus walked the earth after He rose from the dead for 40 days.

Seven is used so often it is a monumental undertaking to list them all. It is used over 58 times in Revelation alone. In Revelation it is used to described the seven churches, candlesticks, lamps, stars, angels, thunders, trumpets, kings, heads, crowns, hills, bowls, plagues… and on and on and on.

I wonder what kind of significance these two numbers represent. They obviously have a great deal of significance to God…

I don’t have a point to make, I am just making some interesting observations.

Oh! BTW… I am forty… seven… years old, LOL!