Understanding Languages 7

The light serves to symbolize the Holy Ghost within the seven millennial period, or seven days of the week, seven months, or every seven years when certain acts and rituals are performed as a reminder of the Israelites' relationship to God; that the Holy Ghost lights the way or giveth knowledge.

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To understand more the necessity to understand the number "7" in the Mosaic times, read in the Book of Leviticus 14 the sprinkling of water for lepers seven times then they are cleansed.

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Furthermore, on the Day of Atonement the blood of animals was sprinkled on the Mercy-seat eastwardly seven times, signifying that the atonement for their sins are accomplished by one who is to come from the East (Peter 1:2).

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In Isaiah 4 it is written: "…and in that day, seven women shall take the hold of one man, saying, we will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name to take away our reproach."

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This symbolizes or typifies that Christ will take unto himself seven churches by covenant, representing the oneness and the perfection of many churches under the Church of the Firstborn; and furthermore, it represents, based on the information contained by reading the previous chapter prior to four,

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It is speaking of the millennial day wherein saints are crowned with glory. (Isaiah was not written by chapters or verses, but it was one continuous write in its time) [Revelations 1: 11-20])

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On a another point of view, the human gestation period is two-hundred eighty days (7 X 40) or the number "7" represents complete and full, and the number "40" represents mourning and trial, or the forty years in the wilderness for the children of Israel before they are reborn, or the forty days of fasting for Christ in the wilderness before he is reborn to take on the ministry for which he came into the world or that Moses was forty years of age when he under took a rebirth to become the prophet for the children of Israel.

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The Number Eight

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The number "8" symbolizes: a new beginning, rebirth, the resurrection, and baptism.

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Because of the number "8" is a symbol for the resurrection, it is the number of Christ, the Lord God Almighty, the Son of God.

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In Romans 6:3-5, Paul speaks saying: "know ye not that so many of us were baptized unto Jesus Christ into his death?

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Therefore, we are buried by baptism unto death; like as Christ was raise up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we all should walk in the newness of life.

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For if we had been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection."

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What does Paul mean by these words, but that Christ rose on the first day of the week that that day was of necessity the eighth day.

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Accordingly with what is written in the scriptures, all children born into the covenant of Israel were baptized on the eighth year of their birth, if correctly taught of the parents.

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The number "8" is a symbol of: baptism, the resurrection, Christ, and the number "8", in accord with the gospel, connectedly joins heaven and earth. As the scriptures have said:

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There is a law(s) irrevocably decreed from before the foundation of this world, or that heaven and earth are inseparably connected, i.e., baptism, the resurrection, new beginnings, and the Christ.

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Further thought is that the earth cannot complete its celestial progress unless heaven come down unto her, i.e., the church of the Firstborn to the earthly saints, that Christ come from heaven to the earth, and then, from the earth back to heaven, that the baptism for the living and for the dead are connected, and much more.

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In accord with that thought, only eight persons of the family of Noah survived the flood.

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In 1 Peters 8:3: 18-21, and the Doctrine and Covenants 68: 27, herein it is figuratively spoken that even baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ we are saved unto eternal life if we but keep all his commandments.

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Thus, Noah started anew with his family, the human race with a new beginning commenced a newness of life.

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Then in the time of Moses, circumcision was to be completed on the eighth day after birth of all male children under the laws of Moses. This was the age of accountability. (Genesis 17:20)

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For the purpose of understanding the Levitical order and the calling of priesthood therein, the sons of Aaron were consecrated on the eighth day, after waiting at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation day and night for seven days.

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This then represented a complete rebirth or a newness of beginning, a complete consecration as priests, therefore, the sons of Aaron were purified before God becoming sons of God, typifying Christ to come.

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I will provide another example. To some who do not know the manner or the workings of the spirit, I will tell you that the risen Christ was seen of five-hundred twelve persons (the number of Christ is the cube of 8 or (8 X 8 X 8) as recorded in holy writ.

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Moreover, in the Book of Acts 1: 15 is recorded the number of disciples gathered in the upper room was one-hundred twenty (8X15).

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One might consider also that the ending or completion with perfection of this earthly world that becomes new with a new heaven is the seventh millennial time, while God's new kingdom of glory is the eighth age or finality of its paradisiacal glory or the crowning of a full celestial glory.

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If one could comprehend theological perfection, as intended by the doctrines of Christ heretofore written in holy writ, then one should conclusively comprehend that each of the following signifies becoming God's covenanted people (person) and the entry by the gate (Christ) into God's kingdom: a true and faithful circumcision for the Mosaic time, the eighth day;

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Baptism by water and the receipt of the Holy Ghost – sealing by the holy spirit of promise followed by a remission of sins allows entry into the gate, the eighth year; the resurrection of Christ, the eighth day allows the gate to be established by Christ; and the beginning of God's kingdom in the eighth age with a crowning by Christ saying: "It is done!", and that he hast subdued all evil under foot.

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Wherefore, if one can comprehend the spiritual significance above, then one can comprehend the importance of Lehi and his family spending eight years in the wilderness before embarking into the sea in a ship to the land of promise (1 Nephi 17:4) and the Jaredites crossing the many waters in eight boats;

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Both families prepared records that the children of Israel might have wherewith to repent and to be baptized typifying the celestial gate or entry into the land of promise. (Ether 3:1)

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Indeed, the land of promise is the land of the first inheritance as well as the land of the New Jerusalem. (Mosiah 9:1 and Ether 13)

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I will open another mystery for your understanding. If Satan had unlimited power and authority, the world would have ended in the sixth millennial period, because that is his number, the number "6".

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Because as I have expounded on the number "6", it symbolizes: deficit, imperfection, lacking, or failure to achieve completeness of godliness (celestial capacity), which celestial capacity is the number "8", or the number of Christ.

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Then if the seventh millennial time is to achieve that completion or perfection of all things thereon this earth and it is celestially glorified and crowned, then it become Christ's, the time thereafter when he says: "It is done!", is called the eighth age of the earth or the crowning of the earth's celestial glory.

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Thus, I will tell you that the number for Christ is 888 and the number for Satan is 666.

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Both numbers represent the magnitude of righteousness-perfection and the magnitude of unrighteous-imperfection, respectively.

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And in this world all things evil that imitates or exemplifies evil is an attribute of Satan that destroys man's capacity of perfection; the number "666" is not a man, it could be, but it is the order after Satan that destroys the both body and soul of man.

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The Number Nine

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The number "9" is sometimes used in holy writ, and when it is used it means: divine judgment, finality or completion thereof (the number "3" squared is the number "9").

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Or in other words, the number of divine perfection is "3" or the number "9" is the finality in divine things.

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The three Godheads represents divine perfection in judgment and finality of divineness.

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The Number Ten

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The number "10" means "all of a part". It is like the Ten Commandments that God gave to the children of Israel, the Ten Commandments represented a unit or number existent that is a part of a greater whole, meaning the laws of Christ yet to come.

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If you might recall that the Ten Commandments did not comprise all of God's commandments that were to be given to the Israelites, but failure of the house of Israel brought forth the Ten Commandments.

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Therefore, what the Israelites received at the hand of Moses contained a complete unit of the laws of Moses, but not the whole of celestial laws.

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For example, the law of consecration is a celestial law, while the law of tithing of ten percent is a preparatory law of consecration embedded in the Aaronic priesthood that is preparatory.

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Thus, a ten percent tithe is a complete unit of the greater whole of the law of consecration wherein all things belong unto the Lord.

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This full consecration is one that is given to those who achieve celestial capacity of both body and soul.

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For that reason Malachi said wherein have we robbed God?, in tithes and offerings; he did not say in ten percent tithes and three meals as a fast offering on Fast Sunday.

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Otherwise the earth shall utterly be wasted at his coming because what the Lord requires is a consecration of all things, i.e., self, family monies, property, service, and the like.

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And this consecration will be taught by and represented by the sons of Levi as they are God's priests, offerings, and his holy priesthood.

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Further analysis of the scriptures details the manner that God employed Moses in warning Pharaoh of plagues if he did not let the children of Israel go out of bondage in Egypt.

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Pharaoh refused Moses and God poured out ten plagues upon Egypt and her people that softened the heart of Pharaoh to let the children of Israel leave Egypt.

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God does not pour out the fulness of his wrath as he will in the Book of Revelation, rather the whole part of ten plagues only to accomplish the release of his people. (Exodus 7-10)

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In addition, the "lost ten tribes" of Israel is a whole part of the twelve tribes of Israel to be restored at another time to the fold of God.

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Thus, in Hebrew the word for ten is connectedly tied linguistically to the Arabic word for "kinsman" or "tribe" or that it means a "collection".

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By and through language, wherein Hebrew and Arabic have a common ancestry, the number "10" symbolizes a part of a whole, i.e., the lost ten tribes of the twelve tribes of Israel.

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In our understanding of mathematics, the number "10" represents a complete cycle, series, or units, i.e., ten, twenty, thirty, and so on to one hundred, or thousands.

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The Number Eleven

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In our scriptures the number "11" appears only a few times, but in those times, it symbolizes: transgression, sin, conflict, disorder, imperfection, and possibly disintegration.

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In the story of Jacob the patriarch, he has twelve sons and the eleven sons conspire to get rid of the youngest one-son named Joseph.

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This causes for a time disorder, disintegration of rights and blessings, conflict among the sons remaining, and by placing Joseph in the well, transgression occurs, though Joseph himself understands it as a blessing to the children of Jacob later on in Genesis.

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Today, those who do not understand spiritualism from a prophetic standpoint, usually point the finger because they understand not the workings of God; Joseph spent time as a slave, then as a prisoner in prison, and then accused of "rape", but God healed him and brought him out of the well of darkness into the light becoming a "savior" of his people.

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All godly men have been imprisoned, because prison is the tool of Satan, but Paul calls it our school master meaning men who are called by God; physical bondage is nothing compared to spiritual bondage.

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The Number Twelve

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The number "12" is a symbol for the holy high priesthood of God that includes the power of the priesthood and its authority and right of godly government.

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In the New Testament, Matthew 10: 1-4, Jesus called the twelve apostles and enliven in them the holy priesthood.

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Then after his resurrection he appeared unto the Nephites in the land of Bountiful and there again he call twelve disciples to minister to the people and gave unto them power and authority to preach the gospel and to baptize in his name. (3 Nephi 12:1)

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Both the twelve ministers chosen of the Lord represent power and authority of government in the Lord's church upon the earth.

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Furthermore, there are many representation of this power and authority by the number "12" throughout the scriptures, i.e., the twelve tribes of Israel, the one-hundred and forty-four thousand (144,000) representation of the tribes of Israel from almost all tribes that will come with Christ in the Millennial Day having a multiplicity and magnitude of the power of priesthood;

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For the ordinance of baptism, for the living and for the dead, God has caused a baptismal font to be built resting on the back of twelve oxen facing the four cardinal directions of the earth (1 Kings 7:23-27);