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The number "2" also represents life force or reproduction, the creative power of male and female in the plan of God in the earth and then into the celestial after life.

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Thus, in accord with what is written and conveyed in scripture one might begin to understand the meaning behind every passage of scripture unto a greater understanding of what is being conveyed.

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The Number Three

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In viewing what is contained in holy writ, the number "3" is the most common and symbolic number used in the scriptures; this symbolism is next to the number "7".

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The number "3" conveys to us unity, as the unity of the Godhead, the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost.

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The number "3" emphasizes the distinctness and the separate spiritual actions of the Godhead, i.e., a more sure word, a calling and election made sure, and a sealing-a holy spirit of promise to gift and to seal all holy actions of man on the earth, respectively.

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Thus the number "3" typifies and symbolizes God as though there is one God, they, the three are one in purpose and act under the holy order and under the holy priesthood of God.

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For example, in the life of the Lord Jesus Christ, there were key and major events in his ministry: he raised three people from the dead as a witness of who he was; he took with him three apostles, representing the presidency or the Godhead, into the garden of Gethsemane with him;

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Christ prior to commencing his earthly ministry, he was tempted three times by Satan; the Lord was crucified on the third hour; in the place of his crucifixion there were three crosses; and darkness existed for three days and three nights (in Jerusalem and in the land of Bountiful);

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And that darkness lasted for a period of three hours; and after his body was taken down off the cross, he was in the tomb for three days.

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Wherefore, the number "3" bears witness and testifies that God the Father willed the events, the most sacred events in the life of his Only Begotten Son to bring about the resurrection and the atonement in perfection.

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In the land of promise it is written that the Lord spoke to the Nephites in the city of Bountiful three times when they recognized his voice and remembered what had been prophesied concerning this thing.

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Abraham, the patriarch, received three heavenly messengers as well as others in ancient times, including our father Adam with Eve.

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For the gentile times or periods, Peter was given a vision three times of the descending sheet that Peter would send the gospel unto the gentiles.

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Elijah poured water on his burnt offering three times as well as Jonah being in the belly of the fish for three days until he repented of what he had done.

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Furthermore, Elijah stretched his body on top of the child three times and raised the boy from the dead.

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In these examples and others in holy writ, it represents that God is speaking or that through God's power men of God are able to perform miracles and acts of God.

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Moreover, there are the three degrees of glory or kingdoms where under men shall be assigned upon conclusion of the judgment of God.

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Thus, Moses created a tabernacle with three sections representing the journey of man:

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The outer court (the Telestial Kingdom), the Holy Place (the Terrestrial Kingdom), and a Holy of Holies (the Celestial Kingdom).

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This reminded Israel of their journey to return unto the Father of spirits; the children of Israel were so hard hearted that they remained outside the tabernacle (gate), and the Levite priests were the only ones allowed into the tabernacle to serve God.

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In First Kings Chapter 7, it is written concerning the brazen sea, or laver, which held three-thousand baths and was compassed by a line of thirty cubits on which were three hundred knobs.

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In addition, three measures of meal formed the great meal offering.

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These numbers in the tabernacle of Moses for the children of Israel set forth the perfection of Christ's divine nature.

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Furthermore, in the progress of time for the house of Israel, the great feasts maintained by them consisted of three meals for which the Israelites would come to Jerusalem to fulfill.

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For the Navajos in the separation ceremony of olden times consisted of three days and three nights to achieve a completion in a Hooghan (Navajo female home) separated from the regular place of residence; while the house of Israel's days of separation consisted of a three day journey into the wilderness. In the offerings of Israel, the Levite

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Priests offered three year old animals above all other ages representing perfection in unity.

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Consequently, in the temple ceremony in all ages of man the number "3" is frequently represented and symbolized God.

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While the omnipotence, omnipresence, and omniscience of God, the three traits of God, are made manifest in time by the past, present, and future that in God all things are present before him.

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The Number Three and One-Half

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In holy writ the number "3 and a ½" is made manifest for our understanding by the words "a time and times" and the "dividing of time" (Daniel 7:25, 12:7, or the number 1,260 (Revelation 12:6).

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Or in another words, the number "3 ½" represents half of the number "7" that the time is arrested half way through its course of completion.

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An example of the usage of this number is found in the Book of Revelation where John's prophesy of the two witnesses prophesying in the streets of Jerusalem for forty-two months or "3 and a ½" years (Revelation 11: 3-14).

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While the "½" number represents the stoppage or arrest of their ministry to the Jews because Satan will overcome them and they are destroyed in flesh in the course of their ministry.

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After their bodies shall then lay unburied in the streets for "3 and a ½" days, then they are resurrected, arresting or stopping the work of Satan.

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Which arresting of time typifies the meridian of time in the seven thousand years wherein Christ is born and is crucified and resurrects, and therein atones for the sins of mankind in all dispensations before, presently, and into the future, arresting Satan's hold on the soul of man (fall and death).

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In the Book of Daniel (Daniel 7: 21-25), he speaks of Satan treading down and breaking into pieces kingdoms of earth, speaking great words against the Most High and as a result wears out the saints of God in the earthly battle of good and evil, and to a degree prevails against them.

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Satan thinks to change times and laws, breaking the decrees of God appointedly set and affixed.

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For it states that he appears to have power to do so "until a time and times and the dividing of times" or for "3 and a ½" years.

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Wherefore, Satan will appear to prevail in corruption and the falling away of man time after time with an immoral and iniquitous movement of power, but he will be insignificant, for God will marshal his army of saints and prevail against Lucifer, and great shall be his fall, and the Fall of Babylon his kingdom. (Doctrine and Covenants 88: 110-112)

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The number "1" represents the wholeness of a number wherein under is a part of all numbers.

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Moreover, the number "1/3" (one-third) shows that the bounds have been set. (Doctrine and Covenants 88:34-39)

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Furthermore, the unaffected part of the remnant is represented by the number one-third.

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In Ezekial 5:1-5, and 12, and again in Zechariah 13: 8-9, the number is used towards a particular individual or event being spoken of, it suggests that the event or the individual has limited power of influence.

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Therefore, in the Book of Revelations, God shows forth his godly degree of mercy by limiting the power of his destructive wrath upon the earth.

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Thus, in Revelation (Revelation 8: 7-12) in the outpouring of destruction preceding the Second Coming, a "third-part" of the trees and green grass is burned up, a "third-part" of the creatures in the sea and boats of the sea are destroyed, a "third-part" of all water becoming bitter and undrinkable, and a "third-part" of the sun, moon, and stars darkened.

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Thus, I speak to clarify many things pertaining to what is written in the scriptures for your understanding if you seek to know truth, which understanding would lead you closer to God in understanding his omnipotence.

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For example, in the Doctrine and Covenants 29: 36-38 it states that Satan drew away a third-part of the host of heaven with him (Revelation 12:4).

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To most members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, this passage of scripture is misinterpreted at best.

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There is a distinction between the number symbols "one-third" and a "third-part" meaning: the fraction "one-third" represents 33 1/3 percent of 100 percent, while the "third-part" implies or represents numerically an undetermined segment of the population of spiritual children of God.

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This symbolizes that Satan's power over the spirit children of God/pre-mortal spirits was limited, and this implies that of Father's children who followed Satan is unknown.

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This because of the unlimited influence of Satan allowed by God in the pre-mortal life over the spirit children, but the influence was sufficient.

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The Number Four

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The symbolic meaning of the number "4" is geographic completeness of perfection or totality of harmony.

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When the family of Lehi came into the land of promise, they were led into the land of promise by God, and they settled within the boundary of the four sacred mountains which God had given unto them for a land of their inheritance by covenant.

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Later when the Lehi goes by way of the earth, there is dissention with the remaining children and the family divided into two groups, the Nephites and the Lamanites.

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This division was a record struggle over birthright and that God favored one group over the other because of righteousness.

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Hence Nephi leads his family southward to the land of their father's first inheritance, meaning the land of Adam's first inheritance, the land given to him of God upon expulsion from the Garden of Eden.

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Thus within the four sacred mountains of the Navajos, a covenant was given unto Lehi that this land would be his children's inheritance forever in the movement South.

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This promise to Lehi impacts and effects the whole earth or all of Israel and the repentant gentile in the last days.

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Or in other words, the number "4" here represents that an event or some eternal truth will affect the entire earth and all the inhabitance thereof, both on the earth and those who are not on the earth but are in the grave, and those who are in heaven. These who are the saints, those having their calling and elections made sure shall come in a cloud and other mortal saints shall rise up to meet them in the cloud to do a work for those who repent and the work shall be done in the land of the first inheritance.

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And Adam shall stand at the head of all the works of God in that day.

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The number "4" is the number for creation. Thus, it represents and is symbolic of all that is created.

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According to the Book of Genesis, on the fourth day the material creation was finished and it was good (thus, on the fifth and sixth day was the furnishing and the peopling created, and the seventh day all was completed).

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According to what is written in the New Testament and parts of the Old, the number "4" represents: the four elements of the earth meaning: fire, air, water and earth; the four directions of the earth that represents certain things in and of itself that includes: North, South, East and West; and there are also four season to a given year: spring, summer, fall (autumn), and winter that likewise represent certain things in the words of God.

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In the land of Adam, the land of the first inheritance, there are four rivers or streams that fills the land with water; in addition, in the Garden of Eden, the river of Paradise mentioned is divided into four heads.

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The number "4" is symbolic of completeness which was identified as a material completeness in the creation.

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In the Book of Revelation it speaks of the four beasts of creation along with the twenty-four elders worshipping God in endless beatitude.

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Wherefore, the river that flows from Eden into four parts represents the issuance of God's influence or the affects thereof on the whole earth for out of Eden comes the blessing of the Tree of Life and the Tree of Knowledge that maketh man like unto God (Abraham 5:10, Genesis 2:1014, and Moses 3:10).

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It is from this existence that our first parents found their agency to choose that which is righteous that man might be that man might have joy.

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Then it might be considered in viewing the meaning of the passage in Revelation 22: 1-2, wherein John saw a river flowing out from under the throne of God in heavenly Jerusalem into four parts that it is the spiritual revelation(s) that comes from Eden, or that Eden represents the temple of God with the blessings of heaven going in to all the world. (John 7:37-39)

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For in the last days, the days of Israel or in the last dispensation of God, the New Jerusalem shall be built in the land of Adam-Ondi-Ahman or where the Garden of Eden was placed by God for man; and the Lord Jesus Christ and God the Father shall be the temple thereof, because they will be in the midst of the covenant saints (there will be no need for a temple because they are the temple thereof [Revelations 21: 22-23]).

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Isaiah the prophet and Nephi both spoke of the restoration of Israel in the last days by "one" to be raised up of God to gather the dispersed of Israel and the house of Judah from the four corners of the earth (Doctrine and Covenants 45:9 and 115: 4-5, and Isaiah 11:12).