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The number and the fact they are virgins I guess is more important.
Four is something like "knowing the way" or "direction sense", something that consumes a large amount of time for 4 legged creatures. We drive on 4 wheels and sit facing the middle of a 4 sided table every day.
East, West, South, North
Lion, Ox, Man, Eagle
And those first 9 verses indeed set this up as they touch in detail on the course they took.
Similarly there are 7 cities in the course, with the ship "unladening her burden" appropriately at the 7th, all mentioned right before the mention of a layover of 7 days.
Philip the evangelist is "one of the seven" just like Philippians is one of Pauls seven letters, and Philidelphia is one of John's seven letters.
I'd say if the Spirit wills, it can even reveal the meat of the prophecy of those 4 virgins by tying their quantity of 4 and it's variants, 40, 400, and so on, together every where 4 occurs in scripture. For anyone wanting to look deep, and to look with hope above fear.
Numbers and names are among other more important things, a method of cross reference put in place by God, before man decided to divide up chapters and verses in his own mechanical file cabinet kind of way. Or enumerating every word like Strong's.
A "numerology" system that a child can understand, as opposed to the tiring and complicated ones that are submitted by math gurus looking for dates.
Before a child learns to multiply and divide, he thinks 666 is the same as 18, and 4000 is a really big 4 that nobody can count to.
And when he starts to learn to multiply and divide, he quickly discovers that 7 must be the loneliest number ever.
I don't know their names, but I think it's easy to believe their names jive in essence with every other set of 4.
Four is something like "knowing the way" or "direction sense", something that consumes a large amount of time for 4 legged creatures. We drive on 4 wheels and sit facing the middle of a 4 sided table every day.
East, West, South, North
Lion, Ox, Man, Eagle
And those first 9 verses indeed set this up as they touch in detail on the course they took.
Similarly there are 7 cities in the course, with the ship "unladening her burden" appropriately at the 7th, all mentioned right before the mention of a layover of 7 days.
Philip the evangelist is "one of the seven" just like Philippians is one of Pauls seven letters, and Philidelphia is one of John's seven letters.
I'd say if the Spirit wills, it can even reveal the meat of the prophecy of those 4 virgins by tying their quantity of 4 and it's variants, 40, 400, and so on, together every where 4 occurs in scripture. For anyone wanting to look deep, and to look with hope above fear.
Numbers and names are among other more important things, a method of cross reference put in place by God, before man decided to divide up chapters and verses in his own mechanical file cabinet kind of way. Or enumerating every word like Strong's.
A "numerology" system that a child can understand, as opposed to the tiring and complicated ones that are submitted by math gurus looking for dates.
Before a child learns to multiply and divide, he thinks 666 is the same as 18, and 4000 is a really big 4 that nobody can count to.
And when he starts to learn to multiply and divide, he quickly discovers that 7 must be the loneliest number ever.
I don't know their names, but I think it's easy to believe their names jive in essence with every other set of 4.
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Mary: mother of Christ. Luke 1:26-45 .. Luke 1:27,30,34,38,39,41,46,56; 2:5,16,19,34…Matthew: (1:16,18,20; 2:11) (13:55)… Mark: (6:3) 3:31. etc.
Eve : from who eventually , Christ would come through Mary.
Four daughters of Philip the evangelist; virgins, which did prophesy. Acts 21: 7 -9
Priscilla : Acts 18:2-3, Acts 18:18, Acts 18:19:, Acts 18:26, Romans 16:3-4 , 1 Corinthians 16:19:,
2 Timothy 4:19:
Deborah – Judges 5:1-2, Judges 5:6-7, Judges 5:5:12-13
Huldah – 2 Kings 22:13-16, 2 Kings 22:20, 2 Chronicles 34:22-28
Naomi. Ruth 1:16-17
Eunice and Lois – mother and grandmother of Timothy
Elizabeth – Luke 1:5-7, Luke 1:13, Luke 1:24-25, Luke 1:36, Luke 1:40-44, Luke 57-61 Mother of John the Baptist.
Euodias, and Syntyche Philippians 4 : 1- 4 -5…
Mark 12:41-44
King James Version (KJV)
41 And Jesus sat over against the treasury, and beheld how the people cast money into the treasury: and many that were rich cast in much.
42 And there came a certain poor widow, and she threw in two mites, which make a farthing.
43 And he called unto him his disciples, and saith unto them, Verily I say unto you, That this poor widow hath cast more in, than all they which have cast into the treasury:
44 For all they did cast in of their abundance; but she of her want did cast in all that she had, even all her living.
Eve : from who eventually , Christ would come through Mary.
Four daughters of Philip the evangelist; virgins, which did prophesy. Acts 21: 7 -9
Priscilla : Acts 18:2-3, Acts 18:18, Acts 18:19:, Acts 18:26, Romans 16:3-4 , 1 Corinthians 16:19:,
2 Timothy 4:19:
Deborah – Judges 5:1-2, Judges 5:6-7, Judges 5:5:12-13
Huldah – 2 Kings 22:13-16, 2 Kings 22:20, 2 Chronicles 34:22-28
Naomi. Ruth 1:16-17
Eunice and Lois – mother and grandmother of Timothy
Elizabeth – Luke 1:5-7, Luke 1:13, Luke 1:24-25, Luke 1:36, Luke 1:40-44, Luke 57-61 Mother of John the Baptist.
Euodias, and Syntyche Philippians 4 : 1- 4 -5…
Mark 12:41-44
King James Version (KJV)
41 And Jesus sat over against the treasury, and beheld how the people cast money into the treasury: and many that were rich cast in much.
42 And there came a certain poor widow, and she threw in two mites, which make a farthing.
43 And he called unto him his disciples, and saith unto them, Verily I say unto you, That this poor widow hath cast more in, than all they which have cast into the treasury:
44 For all they did cast in of their abundance; but she of her want did cast in all that she had, even all her living.
I think an important aspect to the study of God's word is to be able to say that God didn't tell me that, I don't know, God didn't think I needed to know.
When we begin to use our own reason, trying to make what we are told and what we do know add up to fill in what God hasn't told us, lots of time our reasoning leads us in wrong direction. If God doesn't tell us something, I think we should leave it alone. When we say I don't know, there is no harm in it. When we try to reason through to make up our own minds, when we add to scripture, there often is real harm in it.
When we begin to use our own reason, trying to make what we are told and what we do know add up to fill in what God hasn't told us, lots of time our reasoning leads us in wrong direction. If God doesn't tell us something, I think we should leave it alone. When we say I don't know, there is no harm in it. When we try to reason through to make up our own minds, when we add to scripture, there often is real harm in it.