NUMBERS TO CREATE THE UNIVERSE? (3)

0. Introduction

a) How were numbers used to create some of the properties of the universe that are familiar to us? How does the very existence of the universe PROVE that a divine Being MUST exist?

1. The first division of time

a) The first natural division of time we find in the Bible is a day. The number seven marks this day.

i) "Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And by the beginning of the seventh day God finished His work which He had made. And He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had made. And God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it because on it He rested? from all His work which God had created and made." (Genesis 2:1-3)

b) When God ordained periods of rest and worship for Israel he marked them with the number seven. The seventh day is a weekly holy day. The seventh Hebrew month has special Biblical Feast days within it. The seventh year was deemed a year of rest for the land. Every seven times seven years (49) marked a very special period known as the year of Jubilee.