Do Bible Numbers Have Meaning or Is It Just Useless Filler Info within the Bible?
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I must take exception with your post. It is clearly stated in the bible that every word, and character, even a period at the end of a sentence is of critical importance. Various numbers or genealogies may seem unimportant to some or even the most ardent reader but only goes to prove the inerrancy of the Word of God. There is an ultimate purpose or reason for each word or number in the bible.
Here is my take on this. I do believe that every number has significance to God and has a meaning however while this may be true its very easy to take things to far. That and you have to be careful about what you think the number means. I have seen ppl take things to far even I used to earlier in my faith but I saw how it consumed my mind and I saw things that werent really there. I thought these numbers were messages and thought i knew the meaning however I became more focused on this than God so I got out of that.
But this was almost a year ago and I havent done it since yet these numbers I spoke of appear everywhere.
But this was almost a year ago and I havent done it since yet these numbers I spoke of appear everywhere.
I see the numbers 11:11 alot. Numerology is somethin' I'm gonna start studying up on.. 
I do see numbers, and try to associate meaning to them, there's nothing there! Like the number 10 I see up and down as the number 1..... I see 0 as the world..., this is my stinking thinking... This is not Gods, Jesus said nothing about it, if people want to get into numbers and out of the Bible "mostly what's written in red" it's up to the individual and I do not recommend it.
Just as in the parables of scripture, there are always many layers of meaning in scripture, especially in the Old Testament, more than in the new Testament. That is because the people used to illustrate bible truths in the OT spoke and thought as Hebrews. By the time of Christ, Greeks had influenced the way men thought. We know that people of Iraq, a tribal based people are often hard for us to understand, to give you an idea of a different way of reasoning. To these Hebrews, symbolism and numbers had a deeper meaning than we have for them today. They didn't use the why, when, how of Greek thinking but just learning facts and how they could use those facts in their life.
To understand scripture, we really need to study and understand some of the way the people thought that scripture use to tell of us truths. Also, how scripture speaks to us through the significance of numbers. For example, the number 40 is used often for a time of testing. Christ was tempted for 40 days. Elijah fasted for 40 days. The number 12 is symbolic of perfection of rule, and we find it often in scripture. The 12 apostles, the 12 tribes, Jesus was 12 years old when questioned by scholars in the temple, the number 144,000 in Revelations is a multiple of 12.
There are always many layers of meaning in the OT, even in the stories that shows patterns that happen over and over. When we learn to see these, and when we learn how numbers speak to us, we can know God so much better.
To understand scripture, we really need to study and understand some of the way the people thought that scripture use to tell of us truths. Also, how scripture speaks to us through the significance of numbers. For example, the number 40 is used often for a time of testing. Christ was tempted for 40 days. Elijah fasted for 40 days. The number 12 is symbolic of perfection of rule, and we find it often in scripture. The 12 apostles, the 12 tribes, Jesus was 12 years old when questioned by scholars in the temple, the number 144,000 in Revelations is a multiple of 12.
There are always many layers of meaning in the OT, even in the stories that shows patterns that happen over and over. When we learn to see these, and when we learn how numbers speak to us, we can know God so much better.
You say Bible numbers are not useless info but that is exactly what you mean because they are just useless background noise with no rhyme or reason to you. You write off the repeated occurrence of numbers that ascribe a particular meaning. You see it merely as coincidence.
I don't see it that way, my brother.
I don't see it that way, my brother.
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Numbers have a basic understanding based on the context and not by one's imagination or by some spirit or dream or in the hopes to use these numbers to tell the future.
All things glorify God. Including numbers in the Bible. For a person can say the same thing about Messianic prophecies. But such a view leads to a wooden literalistic vew of the Scriptures, though.
All things glorify God. Including numbers in the Bible. For a person can say the same thing about Messianic prophecies. But such a view leads to a wooden literalistic vew of the Scriptures, though.