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The Number FORTY
Below is a complete list of verses using the number FORTY,let me suggest to you that the reason for using this number is as follows.
The majority of babies born are 40 weeks, symbolizing the physical body, hence all the 40's in the bible.
How many organs are there in the human body?
According to Dr. Linda Johnson, who teaches anatomy at the University of Texas Health Science
Center at San Antonio, the answer to your question is not an easy one! You think it would be but after a bit of explanation you'll understand why it isn't! The problem is the actual definition of an organ. To start at the very basic level, in the human body, atoms form into molecules, molecules into cells, cells into tissues, tissues into organs, organs into systems.
The problem starts when the individual scientist or physician has to decide how many tissues together form an organ. A very good example of this is with the salivary glands. There are the major "named" glands but - there are many very small glands that are not named. The problem is the question: "is each salivary gland considered an organ?" You can see where the problem is!
As for the classical or traditional definition of an organ - there are approximately 40 that includes the stomach, heart and SKIN!! (Linda Johnson, Ph.D., Department of Cellular and Structural Biology, UTHSCSA) You see there are 40 major organs in the body, and the average birth is at the 40th week.
So, what does this mean?
Another use of symbolism we see in the bible is the 40 days and nights of the rain in the Noah allegory. Again we see we can relate this to human body-mind connection. As we saw in the Jesus walking on water allegory, we can now understand that , the true meaning of the 40 days of rain.
when we are apart from God living in the physical, ruled by the qualities of our lower nature, living in our emotional body, controlled by the energy currents of the organs of the body, we feel the gamut of feelings and mood swings. This is because we are manifesting the physical nature instead of the Light (God from above). There are 40 organs in the body.
It means that we are born of the PHYSICAL, our spirit or soul is nesting inside a PHYSICAL body, to gain experience,to seek it's way back to the Father, or the Cosmos from whence it came.
The number forty signifies the Physical body and the soul taking up residence there.
We are always wandering in the wilderness spiritually when we stay in the forty (physical), we experience the flood of the forty days, wandering in deserts for forty tears, etc etc.
It simply means until we become one again, with the godhead, we are living in the forty (physical) and all of our thoughts and deeds, will be manifested from the Forty (physical) instead of the spiritual.
Here are the verses with the number forty in them.
Gen 5:13 And Cainan lived after he begat Mahalaleel eight hundred and forty years, and begat sons and daughters:
Gen 7:4 For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth.
Gen 7:12 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
Gen 7:17 And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth.
Gen 8:6 And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made:
Gen 18:28 Peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty righteous: wilt thou destroy all the city for [lack of] five? And he said, If I find there forty and five,I will not destroy [it].
Gen 18:29 And he spake unto him yet again, and said, Peradventure there shall be forty found there. And he said, I will not do [it] for forty's sake.
Gen 25:20 And Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah to wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padanaram, the sister to Laban the Syrian.
Gen 26:34 And Esau was forty years old when he took to wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Bashemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite:
Gen 32:15 Thirty milch camels with their colts, forty kine, and ten bulls, twenty she asses, and ten foals.
Gen 47:28 And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years: so the whole age of Jacob was an hundred forty and seven years.
Gen 50:3 And forty days were fulfilled for him; for so are fulfilled the days of those which are embalmed: and the Egyptians mourned for him threescore and ten days.
Exd 16:35 And the children of Israel did eat manna forty years, until they came to a land inhabited; they did eat manna, until they came unto the borders of the land of Canaan.
Exd 24:18 And Moses went into the midst of the cloud, and gat him up into the mount: and Moses was in the mount forty days and forty nights.
Exd 26:19 And thou shalt make forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards; two sockets under one board for his two tenons, and two sockets under another board for his two tenons.
Exd 26:21 And their forty sockets [of] silver; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board.
Exd 34:28 And he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he did neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.
Exd 36:24 And forty sockets of silver he made under the twenty boards; two sockets under one board for his two tenons, and two sockets under another board for his two tenons.
Exd 36:26 And their forty sockets of silver; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board.
Lev 25:8 And thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years unto thee, seven times seven years; and the space of the seven sabbaths of years shall be unto thee forty and nine years.
Num 1:21 Those that were numbered of them, [even] of the tribe of Reuben, [were] forty and six thousand and five hundred.
Num 1:25 Those that were numbered of them, [even] of the tribe of Gad, [were] forty and five thousand six hundred and fifty.
Num 1:33 Those that were numbered of them,[even] of the tribe of Ephraim, [were] forty thousand and five hundred.
Num 1:41 Those that were numbered of them, [even] of the tribe of Asher, [were] forty and one thousand and five hundred.
Num 2:11 And his host, and those that were numbered thereof, [were] forty and six thousand and five hundred.
Num 2:15 And his host, and those that were numbered of them, [were] forty and five thousand and six hundred and fifty.
Num 2:19 And his host, and those that were numbered of them, [were] forty thousand and five hundred.
Num 2:28 And his host, and those that were numbered of them, [were] forty and one thousand and five hundred.
Num 13:25 And they returned from searching of the land after forty days.
Num 14:33 And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms, until your carcases be wasted in the wilderness.
Num 14:34 After the number of the days in which ye searched the land, [even] forty days, each day for a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, [even] forty years, and ye shall know my breach of promise.
Num 26:7 These [are] the families of the Reubenites: and they that were numbered of them were forty and three thousand and seven hundred and thirty.
Num 26:18 These [are] the families of the children of Gad according to those that were numbered of them, forty thousand and five hundred.
Num 26:41 These [are] the sons of Benjamin after their families: and they that were numbered of them [were] forty and five thousand and six hundred.
Num 26:50 These [are] the families of Naphtali according to their families: and they that were numbered of them [were] forty and five thousand and four hundred.
Num 32:13 And the LORD'S anger was kindled against Israel, and he made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation, that had done evil in the sight of the LORD, was consumed.
Num 35:6 And among the cities which ye shall give unto the Levites [there shall be] six cities for refuge, which ye shall appoint for the manslayer, that he may flee thither: and to them ye shall add forty and two cities.
Num 35:7 [So] all the cities which ye shall give to the Levites [shall be] forty and eight cities: them [shall ye give] with their suburbs.
Deu 2:7 For the LORD thy God hath blessed thee in all the works of thy hand: he knoweth thy walking through this great wilderness: these forty years the LORD thy God [hath been] with thee; thou hast lacked nothing.
Deu 8:2 And thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, [and] to prove thee, to know what [was] in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no.
Deu 8:4 Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy foot swell, these forty years.
Deu 9:9 When I was gone up into the mount to receive the tables of stone, [even] the tables of the covenant which the LORD made with you, then I abode in the mount forty days and forty nights, I neither did eat bread nor drink water:
Deu 9:11 And it came to pass at the end of forty days and forty nights, [that] the LORD gave me the two tables of stone, [even] the tables of the covenant.
Deu 9:18 And I fell down before the LORD, as at the first, forty days and forty nights: I did neither eat bread, nor drink water, because of all your sins which ye sinned, in doing wickedly in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.
Deu 9:25 Thus I fell down before the LORD forty days and forty nights, as I fell down [at the first]; because the LORD had said he would destroy you.
Deu 10:10 And I stayed in the mount, according to the first time, forty days and forty nights; and the LORD hearkened unto me at that time also, [and] the LORD would not destroy thee.
Deu 25:3 Forty stripes he may give him, [and] not exceed: lest, [if] he should exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes, then thy brother should seem vile unto thee.
Deu 29:5 And I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes are not waxen old upon you, and thy shoe is not waxen old upon thy foot.
Jos 4:13 About forty thousand prepared for war passed over before the LORD unto battle, to the plains of Jericho.
Jos 5:6 For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, till all the people [that were] men of war, which came out of Egypt, were consumed, because they obeyed not the voice of the LORD: unto whom the LORD sware that he would not shew them the land, which the LORD sware unto their fathers that he would give us, a land that floweth with milk and honey.
Jos 14:7 Forty years old [was] I when Moses the servant of the LORD sent me from Kadeshbarnea to espy out the land; and I brought him word again as [it was] in mine heart.
Jos 14:10 And now, behold, the LORD hath kept me alive, as he said, these forty and five years, even since the LORD spake this word unto Moses, while [the children of] Israel wandered in the wilderness: and now, lo, I [am] this day fourscore and five years old.
Jos 21:41 All the cities of the Levites within the possession of the children of Israel [were] forty and eight cities with their suburbs.
Jdg 3:11 And the land had rest forty years. And Othniel the son of Kenaz died.
Jdg 5:8 They chose new gods; then [was] war in the gates: was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel?
Jdg 5:31 So let all thine enemies perish, O LORD: but [let] them that love him [be] as the sun when he goeth forth in his might. And the land had rest forty years.
Jdg 8:28 Thus was Midian subdued before the children of Israel, so that they lifted up their heads no more. And the country was in quietness forty years in the days of Gideon.
Jdg 12:6 Then said they unto him, Say now Shibboleth: and he said Sibboleth: for he could not frame to pronounce [it] right. Then they took him, and slew him at the passages of Jordan: and there fell at that time of the Ephraimites forty and two thousand.
Jdg 12:14 And he had forty sons and thirty nephews, that rode on threescore and ten ass colts: and he judged Israel eight years.
Jdg 13:1 And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the LORD; and the LORD delivered them into the hand of the Philistines forty years.
1Sa 4:18 And it came to pass, when he made mention of the ark of God, that he fell from off the seat backward by the side of the gate, and his neck brake, and he died: for he was an old man, and heavy. And he had judged Israel forty years.
1Sa 17:16 And the Philistine drew near morning and evening, and presented himself forty days.
2Sa 2:10 Ishbosheth Saul's son [was] forty years old when he began to reign over Israel, and reigned two years. But the house of Judah followed David.
2Sa 5:4 David [was] thirty years old when he began to reign, [and] he reigned forty years.
2Sa 10:18 And the Syrians fled before Israel; and David slew [the men of] seven hundred chariots of the Syrians, and forty thousand horsemen, and smote Shobach the captain of their host, who died there.
2Sa 15:7 And it came to pass after forty years, that Absalom said unto the king, I pray thee, let me go and pay my vow, which I have vowed unto the LORD, in Hebron.
1Ki 2:11 And the days that David reigned over Israel [were] forty years: seven years reigned he in Hebron, and thirty and three years reigned he in Jerusalem.
1Ki 4:26 And Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen.
1Ki 6:17 And the house, that [is], the temple before it, was forty cubits [long].
1Ki 7:3 And [it was] covered with cedar above upon the beams, that [lay] on forty five pillars, fifteen [in] a row.
1Ki 7:38 Then made he ten lavers of brass: one laver contained forty baths: [and] every laver was four cubits: [and] upon every one of the ten bases one laver.
1Ki 11:42 And the time that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel [was] forty years.
1Ki 15:10 And forty and one years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother's name [was] Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom.
1Ki 19:8 And he arose, and did eat and drink, and went in the strength of that meat forty days and forty nights unto Horeb the mount of God.
2Ki 2:24 And he turned back, and looked on them, and cursed them in the name of the LORD. And there came forth two she bears out of the wood, and tare forty and two children of them.
2Ki 8:9 So Hazael went to meet him, and took a present with him, even of every good thing of Damascus, forty camels' burden, and came and stood before him, and said, Thy son Benhadad king of Syria hath sent me to thee, saying, Shall I recover of this disease?
2Ki 10:14 And he said, Take them alive. And they took them alive, and slew them at the pit of the shearing house, [even] two and forty men; neither left he any of them.
2Ki 12:1 In the seventh year of Jehu Jehoash began to reign; and forty years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother's name [was] Zibiah of Beersheba.
2Ki 14:23 In the fifteenth year of Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel began to reign in Samaria, [and reigned] forty and one years.
1Ch 5:18 The sons of Reuben, and the Gadites, and half the tribe of Manasseh, of valiant men, men able to bear buckler and sword, and to shoot with bow, and skilful in war, [were] four and forty thousand seven hundred and threescore, that went out to the war.
1Ch 12:36 And of Asher, such as went forth to battle, expert in war, forty thousand.
1Ch 19:18 But the Syrians fled before Israel; and David slew of the Syrians seven thousand [men which fought in] chariots, and forty thousand footmen, and killed Shophach the captain of the host.
1Ch 29:27 And the time that he reigned over Israel [was] forty years; seven years reigned he in Hebron, and thirty and three [years] reigned he in Jerusalem.
2Ch 9:30 And Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel forty years.
2Ch 12:13 So king Rehoboam strengthened himself in Jerusalem, and reigned: for Rehoboam [was] one and forty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the LORD had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there. And his mother's name [was] Naamah an Ammonitess.
2Ch 22:2 Forty and two years old [was] Ahaziah when he began to reign, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. His mother's name also [was] Athaliah the daughter of Omri.
2Ch 24:1 Joash [was] seven years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem. His mother's name also [was] Zibiah of Beersheba.
Ezr 2:8 The children of Zattu, nine hundred forty and five.
Ezr 2:10 The children of Bani, six hundred forty and two.
Ezr 2:24 The children of Azmaveth, forty and two.
Ezr 2:25 The children of Kirjatharim, Chephirah, and Beeroth, seven hundred and forty and three.
Ezr 2:34 The children of Jericho, three hundred forty and five.
Ezr 2:38 The children of Pashur, a thousand two hundred forty and seven.
Ezr 2:64 The whole congregation together [was] forty and two thousand three hundred [and] threescore,
Ezr 2:66 Their horses [were] seven hundred thirty and six; their mules, two hundred forty and five;
Neh 5:15 But the former governors that [had been] before me were chargeable unto the people, and had taken of them bread and wine, beside forty shekels of silver; yea, even their servants bare rule over the people: but so did not I, because of the fear of God.
Neh 7:13 The children of Zattu, eight hundred forty and five.
Neh 7:15 The children of Binnui, six hundred forty and eight.
Neh 7:28 The men of Bethazmaveth, forty and two.
Neh 7:29 The men of Kirjathjearim, Chephirah, and Beeroth, seven hundred forty and three.
Neh 7:36 The children of Jericho, three hundred forty and five.
Neh 7:41 The children of Pashur, a thousand two hundred forty and seven.
Neh 7:44 The singers: the children of Asaph, an hundred forty and eight
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Neh 7:62 The children of Delaiah, the children of Tobiah, the children of Nekoda, six hundred forty and two.
Neh 7:66 The whole congregation together [was] forty and two thousand three hundred and threescore,
Neh 7:67 Beside their manservants and their maidservants, of whom [there were] seven thousand three hundred thirty and seven: and they had two hundred forty and five singing men and singing women.
Neh 7:68 Their horses, seven hundred thirty and six: their mules, two hundred forty and five:
Neh 9:21 Yea, forty years didst thou sustain them in the wilderness, [so that] they lacked nothing; their clothes waxed not old, and their feet swelled not.
Neh 11:13 And his brethren, chief of the fathers, two hundred forty and two: and Amashai the son of Azareel, the son of Ahasai, the son of Meshillemoth, the son of Immer,
Job 42:16 After this lived Job an hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, [even] four generations.
Psa 95:10 Forty years long was I grieved with [this] generation, and said, It [is] a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways:
Jer 52:30 In the three and twentieth year of Nebuchadrezzar Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive of the Jews seven hundred forty and five persons: all the persons [were] four thousand and six hundred.
Eze 4:6 And when thou hast accomplished them, lie again on thy right side, and thou shalt bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days: I have appointed thee each day for a year.
Eze 29:11 No foot of man shall pass through it, nor foot of beast shall pass through it, neither shall it be inhabited forty years.
Eze 29:12 And I will make the land of Egypt desolate in the midst of the countries [that are] desolate, and her cities among the cities [that are] laid waste shall be desolate forty years: and I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries.
Eze 29:13 Yet thus saith the Lord GOD; At the end of forty years will I gather the Egyptians from the people whither they were scattered:
Eze 41:2 And the breadth of the door [was] ten cubits; and the sides of the door [were] five cubits on the one side, and five cubits on the other side: and he measured the length thereof, forty cubits: and the breadth, twenty cubits.
Eze 46:22 In the four corners of the court [there were] courts joined of forty [cubits] long and thirty broad: these four corners [were] of one measure.
Amo 2:10 Also I brought you up from the land of Egypt, and led you forty years through the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite.
Amo 5:25 Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?
Jon 3:4 And Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.
Mat 4:2 And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred.
Mar 1:13 And he was there in the wilderness forty days, tempted of Satan; and was with the wild beasts; and the angels ministered unto him.
Luk 4:2 Being forty days tempted of the devil. And in those days he did eat nothing: and when they were ended, he afterward hungered
Jhn 2:20 Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days?
Act 1:3 To whom also he shewed himself alive after his passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days, and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God:
Act 4:22 For the man was above forty years old, on whom this miracle of healing was shewed.
Act 7:23 And when he was full forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brethren the children of Israel.
Act 7:30 And when forty years were expired, there appeared to him in the wilderness of mount Sina an angel of the Lord in a flame of fire in a bush.
Act 7:36 He brought them out, after that he had shewed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red sea, and in the wilderness forty years.
Act 7:42 Then God turned, and gave them up to worship the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, O ye house of Israel, have ye offered to me slain beasts and sacrifices [by the space of] forty years in the wilderness?
Act 13:18 And about the time of forty years suffered he their manners in the wilderness.
Act 13:21 And afterward they desired a king: and God gave unto them Saul the son of Cis, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, by the space of forty years.
Act 23:13 And they were more than forty which had made this conspiracy.
Act 23:21 But do not thou yield unto them: for there lie in wait for him of them more than forty men, which have bound themselves with an oath, that they will neither eat nor drink till they have killed him: and now are they ready, looking for a promise from thee.
2Cr 11:24 Of the Jews five times received I forty [stripes] save one.
Hbr 3:9 When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.
Hbr 3:17 But with whom was he grieved forty years? [was it] not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?
YOU SEE
The flood rains lasted 40 days and 40 nights
Moses was in the Egypt 40 years, Midian 40 years, and on the mountain 40 days.
Israel wandered in the wilderness 40 years.
The spies were in Canaan for 40 days.
Elijah fasted 40 days.
40 days was given to Nineveh.
Jesus fasted 40 days
Jesus was with His disciples for 40 days after His resurrection (Acts 1:3).
The number 40 is a very familiar one in the Bible. In the story of Noah and the flood, it rains 40 days and 40 nights (Gn 7:4,12,17; 8:6).
After the sealing of the covenant at Mt. Sinai, Moses is with God on the mountain for 40 days and 40 nights (Ex 24:18).
When the prophet Elijah is being pursued by Queen Jezebel, he flees for his life and travels 40 days and nights until he comes to the mountain of God at Horeb (Sinai) (1 Kgs 19:8).
The number appears also in the New Testament. Jesus is tempted in the desert for 40 days and nights; his ascension to heaven occurs 40 days after the Resurrection (Acts 1:3).
Numbers in the Bible are often not meant to be taken literally, but serve a symbolic function. Our suspicions are aroused especially with a number that recurs so frequently as 40. What would be the symbolic meaning of the number 40? On one level, it represents a longer period of time, but there is more.
The longer time has content: It is a time of need, of struggle, of testing. There is in fact extra-biblical evidence for this usage as well. But in the Bible, a third level of meaning appears.
Forty denotes a period of preparation for some special action of the Lord; it is a time of SEPERATION FROM GOD, LIVING UNDER THE RULE OF THE FORTY ORGANS (THE MATERIAL)instead of the spiritual.
After the flood in Genesis, a new creation begins. After Moses converses with God, the covenant is renewed. After Israel's wandering in the wilderness, they will enter into the Promised Land.
After Elijah's journey, God strengthens him to resume his prophetic ministry. After Jesus' temptation, he begins his public ministry; after the Ascension, we enter the age of the Church. At the end of the season of Lent, we celebrate Holy Week and the great feast of Easter.
Wilderness
Since the "time" of the wandering is symbolic, what about the place? Israel certainly knew the real wilderness, since that would describe fairly well the regions to the south, southwest and east across the Jordan. The desert is a place of no water and no food since little vegetation can grow there.
It is also the abode of dangerous animals. The desert is a place of extremes where choices are more clear-cut.That's why, our lord was crucified in a place spiritually called EGYPT.Because it is used as a metaphor, being apart, separated.
The wilderness carries a symbolic meaning. In the religion of Canaan, a special god named Mot (a word that can also mean "death") was in charge of the hot, dry, barren place, the wilderness, and of the hot, dry, barren time, the summer. Rain ceases; vegetation dries up and dies.
The wilderness is a negative place where the power of Death/Mot holds sway, where basic questions have to be dealt with. In the Gospels, Jesus is tempted in the wilderness to be a different kind of Messiah; to take the path of spectacle and power rather than that of humble service, but this temptation would continue throughout his ministry up to his death itself when he is taunted to come down off the cross.
Many spiritual writers today speak of a "wilderness experience." This is a kind of retreat experience, time set apart to focus on, to ask, to consider, to respond to basic questions of the spiritual life.
It need not be, and often is not, a literal "desert place," though that is not impossible. Lent is the Church's annual "wilderness experience," its retreat to ask again the basic questions
AGAIN
Gen 7:4 - Rained 40 days and 40 nights.
Exo 24:18 - Moses on Mount Sinai 40 days and 40 nights.
Exo 34:28 - Moses fasted 40 days and 40 nights.
Num 13:25 - Israel spied out the land 40 days.
Num 14:33 - Israel wandered 40 years.
1Sa 4:18 - Eli led Israel 40 years.
1Sa 17:16 - Goliath taunted Israel 40 days.
1Ki 19:8 - Elijah's trip to horeb took 40 days and 40 nights.
Eze 29:12 - No one will be able to pass through Egypt for 40 years.
Jnh 3:4 - Jonah preached Ninevah would be destoryed in 40 days.
Mat 4:2 - Jesus fasted 40 days and 40 nights, then tempted.
Act 1:3 - 40 days and 40 nights between resurrection and ascension.
The significance of the number forty is living apart, or separated from god, because you are operating from your animal nature, you are the number FORTY.
The number forty "40" has remarkable coincidences in the Bible. There were forty days of rain (Gen. 7:17) at the time of the flood, forty days before sending forth the raven (Gen. 8:6), Forty days for embalming (Gen. 50:3), and of fasting by Moses (Ex. 24:18; 34:28; Deut. 9:9,25), by Elijah (1 Kin. 19:8), and by Jesus (Matt. 4:2). Spies were in the promised land for forty days (Num. 13:25).
Forty days of probation was given to the Ninevites (Jonah 3:4), the temptation of Jesus lasted for forty days (Luke 4:1-2), and Christ stayed forty days here on earth after His resurrection (Acts 1:3).
The number 40 is also used symbolically in Ezekiel 4:6.As for forty years, the Israelites wandered in the wilderness (Ex. 16:35; Num. 14:34, 32:13).
There was to be peace in Israel for forty years (Judg. 3:11, 5:31, 8:28). Egypt was to be desolated (Ezek.29:11) and restored after (Ezek.29:13).Also, Forty stripes were administered in punishing criminals (Deut. 25:3) and the 'forty minus one' or thirty-nine lashes (2 Cor. 11:24).
Goliath the Philistine took his stand against Israel for forty days (1 Sam. 17:16) and both David and Solomon reigned over Israel for forty years (1 Kin. 2:11, 11:42). Is there a common theme? In the sense of repentance/fasting yes, but there is not 'set time' in the Bible for how long we should repent or fast.
en 7:4 - Rained 40 days and 40 nights
Exo 24:18 - Moses on Mount Sinai 40 days and 40 nights
Exo 34:28 - Moses fasted 40 days and 40 nights
Num 13:25 - Israel spied out the land 40 days
Num 14:33 - Israel wandered 40 years
1Sa 4:18 - Eli led Israel 40 years
1Sa 17:16 - Goliath taunted Israel 40 days
1Ki 19:8 - Elijah's trip to horeb took 40 days and 40 nights
Eze 29:12 - No one will be able to pass through Egypt for 40 years
Jnh 3:4 - Jonah preached Ninevah would be destoryed in 40 days
Mat 4:2 - Jesus fasted 40 days and 40 nights, then tempted
Act 1:3 - 40 days and 40 nights between resurrection and ascension
One of the laws of mikveh (a gathering of waters for immersion) is that it must hold at least forty Seah, or approximately 200 gallons of water. In deriving this quantity of forty Seah, we saw that in a sense, this was based upon a measure of man. It is interesting to note that the concept of forty occurs a great many times in the Torah. The Flood of Noah lasted forty days, Moses was on Mount Sinai for "forty days and forty nights" when he received the Torah, and the Israelites similarly spent forty years in the desert. There are many other places where we find the concept of forty in the Bible.
Why is the number forty so important? Why do we come across this number as a duration of time so often in the Torah? We find the beginnings of an answer in the laws of childbirth, as they applied in the time of the Holy Temple.
The pain and infirmity associated with childbirth are an indication of the imperfection of human reproduction, and therefore, they bring about a state of "impurity" in a woman who has given birth.
The Talmud states that one reason a woman had to bring a sacrifice after giving birth to a child was because she had so much pain that she would swear never again to bear a child.
Talmud - Mas. Nidah 31b R. Simeon b. Yohai was asked by his disciples: Why did the Torah ordain that a woman after childbirth should bring a sacrifice? He replied: When she kneels in bearing she swears impetuously that she will have no intercourse with her husband.
The Torah, therefore, ordained that she should bring a sacrifice. (R. Joseph demurred: Does she not act presumptuously in which case the absolution of the oath depends on her regretting it? Furthermore, she should have brought a sacrifice prescribed for an oath!)
And why did the Torah ordain that in the case of a male [the woman is clean] after seven days and in that of a female after fourteen days?
On the birth of a male with whom all rejoice she regrets her oath after seven days, [but on the birth of a female] about whom everybody is upset she regrets her oath after fourteen days. And why did the Torah ordain circumcision on the eighth day? In order that the guests shall not enjoy themselves[8] while his father and mother are not in the mood for it.
Childbirth, and the pain associated with it, is related to man's imperfection and therefore requires "purification. In speaking of this purification, the Torah says:
Leviticus 12:2-4 "When a woman conceives and bears a male child, she shall be unclean seven days, as the days of niddah... And she shall continue... for thirty-three days...."
Counting the days required for purification after childbirth, we find a total of forty.
Our sages teach us that these forty days represent the time that an embryo takes to attain human form. From a standpoint of Jewish Law, an embryo does not have any status as a human being until forty days after conception This concept is also sound from a scientific viewpoint, since it is well known that the human embryo begins to assume recognizable human form around the fortieth day after conception.
This helps explain why the flood described in the Torah lasted for forty days. According to the traditional interpretations, the main sin that brought about the flood was sexual immorality.
The Midrash thus says that the flood lasted for forty days because the people of that generation "perverted the embryo that is formed in forty days."
Therefore I WILL CAUSE IT TO RAIN FORTY DAYS AND FORTY NIGHTS. AND EVERY LIVING SUBSTANCE (YEKUM) THAT I HAVE MADE WILL I BLOT OUT. R. Berekiah said: That means, whatever exists (kayomaya) upon it.[16] R. Abin said: The one who arose against him [his brother] R. Levi said in the name of Resh Lakish: He [God] kept him [Cain] in suspense until the Flood came and swept him away: hence it is written, And He blotted out every one that had arisen (Gen. VII, 23).[19]
It is interesting to note that the Zohar gives a similar reason for the fact that the punishment was through water. The division of the waters represent the original concept of the aters below the diaphram, and the water in the brain, above the diaphram. "upper waters" as the male element, and the "lower waters" as the female.
Therefore, the "upper waters" and "lower waters" came together to punish them. The Torah thus says:
Genesis 7:11 "The springs of the great deep were split open, and the windows of heaven were opened.
This same concept also applies to Mikveh, which can be made up of rain waters and spring waters. The same concept also applies to the giving of the Torah. This also involves the idea of birth.
The Jewish people were born anew under the covenant of the Torah, and the Torah itself, in being transmitted to man, had to undergo a birth process. As in the case of man, this was to take forty days. The same reasoning also explains why the Israelites spent forty years in the desert. When Moses sent spies to explore the Promised Land, the Torah tells us that:
Numbers 13:25 "they returned from spying out the land at the end of forty days."
The spies knew that the Israelites would undergo a spiritual rebirth when they entered the Promised Land (the brain) In order to experience this rebirth themselves and report on it, the spies spent forty days in the land. They were not worthy of the land, however, and therefore, they brought back a bad report.
As a result of this report, the Israelites rebelled against Moses, not trusting that God would give them the land. It was then decreed that they should spend forty years in the desert, as the Torah says:
Numbers 14:34 "Following the number of days in which you spied out the land forty days - for every day, you shall bear your sins for a year forty years."
These forty years represent yet another kind of rebirth the rebirth of an entire generation that would be worthy of eventually entering the Promised Land. We see that the number forty represents the process of birth.
As we have said, it is related to the measure of man. This also explains the forty Seah of water that the Mikveh must contain. The Mikveh also represents the womb, and therefore, these forty Seah parallel the forty days during which the embryo is formed.
Numbers 13:16-25 These are the names of the men Moses sent to explore the land. (Moses gave Hoshea son of Nun the name Joshua.) When Moses sent them to explore Canaan, he said, "Go up through the Negev and on into the hill country.
See what the land is like and whether the people who live there are strong or weak, few or many. What kind of land do they live in? Is it good or bad? What kind of towns do they live in? Are they unwalled or fortified?
How is the soil? Is it fertile or poor? Are there trees on it or not? Do your best to bring back some of the fruit of the land." (It was the season for the first ripe grapes.) So they went up and explored the land from the Desert of Zin as far as Rehob, toward Lebo Hamath.
They went up through the Negev and came to Hebron, where Ahiman, Sheshai and Talmai, the descendants of Anak, lived. (Hebron had been built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.) When they reached the Valley of Eshcol, they cut off a branch bearing a single cluster of grapes.
Two of them carried it on a pole between them, along with some pomegranates and figs. That place was called the Valley of Eshcol because of the cluster of grapes the Israelites cut off there. At the end of forty days they returned from exploring the land.
Numbers 14:29-35 In this desert your bodies will fall every one of you twenty years old or more who was counted in the census and who has grumbled against me. Not one of you will enter the land I swore with uplifted hand to make your home, except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.
As for your children that you said would be taken as plunder, I will bring them in to enjoy the land you have rejected. But you your bodies will fall in this desert. Your children will be shepherds here for forty years of, suffering for your unfaithfulness, until the last of your bodies lies in the desert.
For forty years one year for each of the forty days you explored the land you will suffer for your sins and know what it is like to have me against you.'I, the LORD, have spoken, and I will surely do these things to this whole wicked community, which has banded together against me. They will meet their end in this desert; here they will die."
Numbers 32:13 The LORD'S anger burned against Israel and he made them wander in the desert forty years, until the whole generation of those who had done evil in his sight was gone.
Deuteronomy 2:7 The LORD your God has blessed you in all the work of your hands. He has watched over your journey through this vast desert. These forty years the LORD your God has been with you, and you have not lacked anything.
Deuteronomy 8:1-6 Be careful to follow every command I am giving you today, so that you may live and increase and may enter and possess the land that the LORD promised on oath to your forefathers.
Remember how the LORD your God led you all the way in the desert these forty years, to humble you and to test you in order to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep his commands.
He humbled you, causing you to hunger and then feeding you with manna, which neither you nor your fathers had known, to teach you that man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of the LORD.
Your clothes did not wear out and your feet did not swell during these forty years. Know then in your heart that as a man disciplines his son, so the LORD your God disciplines you. Observe the commands of the LORD your God, walking in his ways and revering him.
Deuteronomy 9:9-11 When I went up on the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant that the LORD had made with you, I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights; I ate no bread and drank no water.
The LORD gave me two stone tablets inscribed by the finger of God. On them were all the commandments the LORD proclaimed to you on the mountain out of the fire, on the day of the assembly. At the end of the forty days and forty nights, the LORD gave me the two stone tablets, the tablets of the covenant.
Deuteronomy 9:15-26 So I turned and went down from the mountain while it was ablaze with fire. And the two tablets of the covenant were in my hands.
When I looked, I saw that you had sinned against the LORD your God; you had made for yourselves an idol cast in the shape of a calf. You had turned aside quickly from the way that the LORD had commanded you. So I took the two tablets and threw them out of my hands, breaking them to pieces before your eyes.
Then once again I fell prostrate before the LORD for forty days and forty nights; I ate no bread and drank no water, because of all the sin you had committed, doing what was evil in the LORD'S sight and so provoking him to anger.
I feared the anger and wrath of the LORD, for he was angry enough with you to destroy you. But again the LORD listened to me. And the LORD was angry enough with Aaron to destroy him, but at that time I prayed for Aaron too.
Also I took that sinful thing of yours, the calf you had made, and burned it in the fire. Then I crushed it and ground it to powder as fine as dust and threw the dust into a stream that flowed down the mountain.
You also made the LORD angry at Taberah, at Massah and at Kibroth Hattaavah.
And when the LORD sent you out from Kadesh Barnea, he said, "Go up and take possession of the land I have given you." But you rebelled against the command of the LORD your God. You did not trust him or obey him. You have been rebellious against the LORD ever since I have known you.
I lay prostrate before the LORD those forty days and forty nights because the LORD had said he would destroy you.
I prayed to the LORD and said, "O Sovereign LORD, do not destroy your people, your own inheritance that you redeemed by your great power and brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand.
Deuteronomy 10:10 Now I had stayed on the mountain forty days and nights, as I did the first time, and the LORD listened to me at this time also. It was not his will to destroy you.
Deuteronomy 25:1-4 When men have a dispute, they are to take it to court and the judges will decide the case, acquitting the innocent and condemning the guilty.
If the guilty man deserves to be beaten, the judge shall make him lie down and have him flogged in his presence with the number of lashes his crime deserves, But he must not give him more than forty lashes. If he is flogged more than that, your brother will be degraded in your eyes.
Deuteronomy 29:5-6 During the forty years that I led you through the desert, your clothes did not wear out, nor did the sandals on your feet. You ate no bread and drank no wine or other fermented drink. I did this so that you might know that I am the LORD your God.
Joshua 5:5-7 All the people that came out had been circumcised, but all the people born in the desert during the journey from Egypt had not. The Israelites had moved about in the desert forty years until all the men who were of military age when they left Egypt had died, since they had not obeyed the LORD.
For the LORD had sworn to them that they would not see the land that he had solemnly promised their fathers to give us, a land flowing with milk and honey. So he raised up their sons in their place, and these were the ones Joshua circumcised. They were still uncircumcised because they had not been circumcised on the way.
Joshua 14:6-8 Now the men of Judah approached Joshua at Gilgal, and Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him, "You know what the LORD said to Moses the man of God at Kadesh Barnea about you and me.
I was forty years old when Moses the servant of the LORD sent me from Kadesh Barnea to explore the land. And I brought him back a report according to my convictions, But my brothers who went up with me made the hearts of the people melt with fear. I, however, followed the LORD my God wholeheartedly.
Judges 3:7-11 The Israelites did evil in the eyes of the LORD; they forgot the LORD their God and served the Baals and the Asherahs. The anger of the LORD burned against Israel so that he sold them into the hands of Cushan-Rishathaim king of Aram Naharaim, to whom the Israelites were subject for eight years.
But when they cried out to the LORD, he raised up for them a deliverer, Othniel son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother, who saved them. The Spirit of the LORD came upon him, so that he became Israel's judge and went to war.
The LORD gave Cushan-Rishathaim king of Aram into the hands of Othniel, who overpowered him. So the land had peace for forty years, until Othniel son of Kenaz died.
Judges 5:20-31 From the heavens the stars fought, from their courses they fought against Sisera. The river Kishon swept them away, the age-old river, the river Kishon.
March on, my soul; be strong! Then thundered the horses' hoofs--galloping, galloping go his mighty steeds. 'Curse Meroz,' said the angel of the LORD. 'Curse its people bitterly, because they did not come to help the LORD, to help the LORD against the mighty.'
"Most blessed of women be Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite, most blessed of tent-dwelling women. He asked for water, and she gave him milk; in a bowl fit for nobles she brought him curdled milk. Her hand reached for the tent peg, her right hand for the workman's hammer.
She struck Sisera, she crushed his head, she shattered and pierced his temple. At her feet he sank, he fell; there he lay. At her feet he sank, he fell; where he sank, there he fell dead. "Through the window peered Sisera's mother; behind the lattice she cried out,
'Why is his chariot so long in coming? Why is the clatter of his chariots delayed? The wisest of her ladies answer her; indeed, she keeps saying to herself, Are they not finding and dividing the spoils: a girl or two for each man, colorful garments as plunder for Sisera, colorful garments embroidered, highly embroidered garments for my neck all this as plunder?'
"So may all your enemies perish, O LORD! But may they who love you be like the sun when it rises in its strength." Then the land had peace forty years.
Judges 8:28 Thus Midian was subdued before the Israelites and did not raise its head again. During Gideon's lifetime, the land enjoyed peace forty years.
Judges 13:1 Again the Israelites did evil in the eyes of the LORD, so the LORD delivered them into the hands of the Philistines for forty years.
I Samuel 4:16-18 He told Eli, "I have just come from the battle line; I fled from it this very day." Eli asked, "What happened, my son?" The man who brought the news replied, "Israel fled before the Philistines, and the army has suffered heavy losses. Also your two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead, and the ark of God has been captured."
When he mentioned the ark of God, Eli fell backward off his chair by the side of the gate. His neck was broken and he died, for he was an old man and heavy. He had led Israel forty years.
I Samuel 17:12-19 Now David was the son of an Ephrathite named Jesse, who was from Bethlehem in Judah. Jesse had eight sons, and in Saul's time he was old and well advanced in years. Jesse's three oldest sons had followed Saul to the war: The firstborn was Eliab; the second, Abinadab; and the third, Shammah. David was the youngest.
The three oldest followed Saul, But David went back and forth from Saul to tend his father's sheep at Bethlehem.
For forty days the Philistine came forward every morning and evening and took his stand. Now Jesse said to his son David, "Take this ephah of roasted grain and these ten loaves of bread for your brothers and hurry to their camp.
Take along these ten cheeses to the commander of their unit. See how your brothers are and bring back some assurance from them. They are with Saul and all the men of Israel in the Valley of Elah, fighting against the Philistines."
2 Samuel 2:10 Ish-Bosheth son of Saul was forty years old when he became king over Israel, and he reigned two years. The house of Judah, however, followed David.
2 Samuel 5:4 David was thirty years old when he became king, and he reigned forty years.
I Kings 2:10-11 Then David rested with his fathers and was buried in the City of David. He had reigned forty years over Israel--seven years in Hebron and thirty-three in Jerusalem.
I Kings 6:14-17 So Solomon built the temple and completed it. He lined its interior walls with cedar boards, paneling them from the floor of the temple to the ceiling, and covered the floor of the temple with planks of pine.
He partitioned off twenty cubits at the rear of the temple with cedar boards from floor to ceiling to form within the temple an inner sanctuary, the Most Holy Place. The main hall in front of this room was forty cubits long.
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The Shabbat preceding the week contains the potentiality of that upcoming week. Ergo, Shabbat Hagadol before Pesach, Shabbat Chazone before the Ninth of Av and the upcoming Shabbat Shuvah which precedes Yom Kippur.
This Shabbat' Parshas Nitsavim is always read before Rosh Hashanah. Not only does the very first verse reflect this, "You are standing today all of you before Hashem," it is reflected in the fact that Nitsavim is 40 verses long, paralleling the 40 days from the beginning of the month of Elul through Yom Kippur.
The 40 forty appears in the Torah to signify a time of rebirth and renewal. This is reflected in nature in the fact that it takes 40 days for a politically correct fertilized egg to become a sexist fetus. In the time of Noach, raining forty days and forty nights was to give the world a new beginning. Moshe was up on Mt. Sinai 40 days and nights which precipitated the birth of a new Nation.
After committing the sin of the calf, Moshe went up another 40 days and nights, for obvious reasons. Likewise, it should be no surprise, if not expected that we have 40 days between the beginning of the month of Elul and Yom Kippur when every Jew hopes to be "born again". Our slates wiped clean. YES! Our sins forgiven. PRAISE HASHEM! A new start. AMEN!
It is no coincidence that the sign of the month of Elul is the (Jewish) Maiden, symbol of purity and virtue, as long we can keep her away from the White House.
Final note:
It should be obvious to the reader at this time, that the number forty is a symbol of man/woman living apart from god, as your spirit is deeply entomed in the flesh (40) and seeks to come home to the fathers house (brain) through the (7) seals. Then you will have come to the promise land, you will have become transfigured on the mount, the 40 days of rain has subsided WITHIN you etc....
So, your first birth into this world is symbolized by the number 40, your second birth, which is the spiritual birth, or second birth is through the number SEVEN and then the fully manifested number TWELVE, and the 24 elders will be present in the temple (the brain)
Here are the scriptures showing the number TWELVE as well as some number TWELVES from around the world.
The Number Twelve
Twelve: the number is used many times throughout the Bible, it represents the twelve cranial nerves of your brain, and the twelve signs of the zodiac.
Twelve angels at the gates: Rev 21:12 These twelve gates are your twelve cranial nerves.
Twelve Apostles: Lk 6:13-16
Twelve baskets of fragments left: Mt 14:20
Twelve bulls, lambs, rams: Num 7:87
Twelve cakes: Lev 24:5
Twelve cities: 1Chron 6:63
Twelve foundation stones of the wall of the Heavenly Jerusalem: Rev 21:14
Twelve foundations of the wall of Jerusalem adorned with twelve kinds of precious stones, jasper, sapphire, agate, emerald, sardonyx, sardius, chrysolite, beryl, topaz, chrysoprase, jacinth, amethyst: Rev 21:20
Twelve fruits bearing on the tree of life: Ez 47:12, Rev 22:2
Twelve gates of the Heavenly Jerusalem: Rev 21:12
Twelve gates of the Heavenly Jerusalem were twelve pearls: Rev 21:21
Twelve gold cups: Num 7:86
Twelve governors: 1King 4:7
Twelve he-goats: Ezra 8:35
Twelve hours in a day (6am to 6pm): Jn 11:9
Twelve legions of angels: Mt 26:53
Twelve lions: 1King 10:20
Twelve lots cast: 1Chron 25:9-31
Twelve men: Josh 3:12
Twelve months in a year: Rev 22:2
Twelve oxen: 2Chron 4:15, Jer 52:20
Twelve parts of a garment: 1King 11:30
Twelve pillars: Ex 24:4
Twelve precious stones in priestly vestments, carnelian, topaz,
emerald, garnet, sapphire, beryl, jacinth, agate, amethyst, chrysolite, onyx, and Jasper: Ex 28:17-20
Twelve princes for Ishmael: Gen 17:20
Twelve rods: Num 7:84,17:2
Twelve scouts: Deut 1:19-25
Twelve silver basins, plates: Num 7:84
Twelve sons of Ishmael: Gen 25:12-16
Twelve sons of Jacob: Gen 35:23-26
Twelve spies: Num 13:1-33
Twelve springs of water: Num 33:9
Twelve stars in her crown: Rev 12:1
Twelve stones: 1King 18:31
Twelve thousand sealed from each of
twelve tribes of Israel: Rev 7:5
Twelve thousand stadia, the height, length, and breadth of the
Heavenly Jerusalem. One stadia is about 606 feet. Each of the three measurements equals 7,272,000 feet or 1377.27 miles: Rev 21:16
Twelve thrones: Mt 19:28
Twelve tribes of Judah/Israel: 1Chron 2:1, Rev 7:4-8
Twelve wells at Elim: Ex 15:27
Twelve year hemmorage: Mt 9:20
Twelve years of age: Lk 2:42
The twelve-legged horse of Hoshang
TWELVE MANUALS OF THEOSOPHY
the 'twelve' mandates of the Antichrist.
Twelve times I have served God in that nation.
the twelve fohatic magnetisms of the celestial zodiac
Twelve yogic postures are assumed in order with twelve sacred Hindu mantras
The 'Twelve Pointed Star' is complete in higher symbolism
the twelve sins
Explanation: The complex interactions of three stars in the Orion B molecular cloud complex have resulted in the ejection of particles along a 12 light-year long jet.
That this enormous blast of energy took place 12 billion years ago and this is like looking back in time to about 85% of the life of the universe is also acceptable
But, in actuality, isn't the earth closer to the blast than 12 billion light years because of the fact that we are also moving outward from the Big Bang
and the light from the blast was merely moving faster than us and finally caught up with us? (Example: a car catching up to a bicycle.)
The city has twelve gates with the names of the twelve tribes on them.
Twelve angels stand at the gates, the walls have twelve foundations
garnished with twelve precious stones, and in them the names of the twelve apostles.
The city is twelve thousand furlongs square, and the twelve gates are twelve pearls.
The number twelve is used here symbolically of Gods perfect government.
Twelve is here nine times and the walls are 144 cubits = 12 x 12. If we accept the 144 being a reference to 12 then we have ten such in this passage.
In the United States, twelve people are appointed to sit on a jury for felony trials in all but four states, and in federal and D.C. courts. The number of jurors in the movie gave the title to the film 12 Angry Men.
Twelve men have walked on the Earth's moon.
In astrology, Pisces is the 12th and final astrological sign of the Zodiac.There have always been 12 eggs in a dozen, 12 hours on a clock,12 inches in a foot, 12 months in a year, 12 steps in a staircase, 12 ounces in a Troy pound (used for precious metals), 12 constellations in the ecliptic (or signs of the zodiac), 12 gears on a racing bicycle, and 12 volts in a car battery.
Other movies with the number twelve in their titles include The Dirty Dozen, 12 Monkeys, Ocean's Twelve and Twelve Chairs.
Twelfth Night, another name for the 12th Day of Christmas or January 5 (the eve of Epiphany), gives its name to a Shakespeare comedy, as well as that of progressive rock band.
At MIT, Course 12 refers to the Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Science.
In Greek mythology,the number of labours of Heracles(Hercules).
The number of dan (master) grades in judo.
The designation of United States Interstate 12, a freeway in Louisiana.
In the Netherlands, highway A12 connects The Hague via Utrecht and Arnhem with the German border. In Germany, highway A12 connects Berlin with the Polish border near Frankfurt an der Oder. In Belgium, highway A12 connects Brussels via Antwerp with the Netherlands
European route E12 Moi Rana Umeå Vaasa Tampere Hämeenlinna Helsinki
A character in the Street Fighter video game; see Twelve(Street Fighter)
Historical years: A.D. 12, 12 B.C., or 1912
“The Secret of the Number Twelve
The headquarters of the Order of the Phoenix may be found at number twelve, Grimmauld Place, London." (OP3)
Everyone first thinks of the twelve constellations of the Zodiac around the Sun. In Egypt, the Sun god Ra's twelve retainers pull his boat through the twelve gates (Cranial Nerves) of the Duat (underworld).
There were twelve ordeals of Gilgamesh, twelve Roman tablets of law,
twelve labors of Hercules, twelve Argonauts with Jason, twelve books of Virgil's Aeneid,and twelve tribes of Israel.
In the myth of the founding of Thebes, Cadmus first fixed the head of the snake to the site with a "world axis"spear and then sowed its twelve teeth which became the city's founding families.
Well known are the twelve disciples around Christ, twelve advisors to theDalai Lama,
the twelve knights of the round Table around King Arthur,twelve tribe nation of Native America, and Charlemagne's twelve-fold royal court.
the twelve asses of the scandanavians, the twelve cushions of the japanese diety,
the twelve officers of king solomon, they had twelve stones in their breastplates, twelve sons of jacob, tweleve months etc.etc.
The twelve "fevers" of the Russian popular tradition.
The twelve provinces that Râ visits each day by passing one hour in each one of them.
The twelve animals of the Chinese dances included in the ceremony of the change of year.
The twelve imposing rooms of the Scandinavian paradise.
The twelve virtues and the twelve vices of Our Lady of Paris.
The twelve solo circuits which made taking part the quadrigae in the races of tank of ancient Greece.
The twelve rooms of the Hell corresponding to the twelve nocturnal hours of the eschatologic doctrines of Valentine.
The twelve lions decorating the steps of the throne of Solomon in the Arab legends.
The twelve seats surrounding the throne of Odin.
Twelve is the number of the disciples accompanying the great Masters of the history: the 12 apostles of the Christ; the 12 disciples choose by Mahomet to spread his doctrine; the 12 minor flamines beside the Pontiff Maximus; the 12 first companions of St. Francis of Assisi; the 12 disciples of Confucius; the 12 disciples of Mithra; the 12 descendants of Ali; the 12 companions of Odin, with also the 12 goddesses for women; the 12 marshals of Napoleon.
Buddha had 12 helpers.
Twelve spokes unite at the hub but the ultimate use of the wheel depends on the part where nothing exists.
Re is the "one who is in Nun", and in the scene that concludes the book, he will be raised up out of Nun. The souls of the blessed appear in the upper register.
Before them stand a group of figures who offer them bread and vegetables. By contract, in the lower register we find, once more, the condemned. Here are depicted twelve enemies who are each bound in one of three different manners.
In the twelfth hour, the sun god finally arrives at the gate "with the mysterious entrance", through which he will the miracle of his rebirth will occur. In the upper register, gods "carry the blazing light".
The twelfth gate is the final gate, and the initiate will see god face to face. The Egyptian.
what about the number 12 in wafer size, apparently the standard chip wafer starts out at twelve inches in diameter
At the heart ofthe harmonic symbolism are the twelve notes of the chromatic musical scale (piano's 7 white keys + 5 black keys), which are not arbitrary but based on the continual subdivision of a vibrating string by two-thirds, producing the "spiral of fifths".
In China and elsewhere, twelve-part music was once at the heart of the world's beneficent enchantment. In essence, the structure of myth, religion and mysteries shared the structure of clocks and calendars, the form of the cosmos.
And twelve acupuncture meridians around a central one flowing through the body was the model of the earth energies of feng-shui flowing through the earth, where buildings, monuments and standing stones served as fountains to the body's flow of ch'i in the global system of the living earth.
In the esoteric systems of meditation, our twelve cranial nerves energize in the final stages of spiritual transcendence.
Where the solar plexus energy has risen from the dragons den,( The stomach) to sit at the right hand hand of the father, the right side of the brain.Bhaisajyaguru has 7 bodies, 12 warriors (Yakas or Titans) according to this wonderful book , "Buddhism Flammarion Iconographic Guides" by Louis Frederic.
He described Buddhism images, icons and stories relate to these symbols of all Mahayana traditions.
It is a well researched on Esoteric Buddhism particularly Japanese and Tibetan.
Twelve Days of Christmas
he Law of the Twelve Tables
The Twelve Voices of Easter.
Oceans twelve
Twelve Powers of Man
Twelve Traditions of Overeaters
Twelve Dragons is the story of a halfling dwarven weapon smith
Twelve step program
Twelve methods that will exercise parts of your brain that rarely get it, and make you more creative and better able to understand the world.
Meditation: Or whatever 'stand still and look until you really see' attention techniques work for you. Anything that can still the noise of the machine in our heads, anything
(like Getting Things Done) that can empty the detailed minutiae of your life from your memory and make room for something new. Because the better you are at paying attention, the more likely you are to be able to see and appreciate other perspectives.
The Twelve Gables, located at the foot of Doi Khom Mountain in Thailand, fuses East and West in stunning perfection.
twelve minor prophets of Israel.
In time
There are twelve months in a year.
The Western zodiac has twelve signs, as does the Chinese zodiac.
The Chinese use a 12 year cycle for time-reckoning called Earthly Branches.
There are twenty-four hours in a day in all, with twelve hours for a half a day.
The hours are numbered from one to twelve for both the ante meridiem (a.m.) half of the day and the post meridiem (p.m.) half of the day. 12:00 after a.m. and before p.m. (in the middle of the day) is noon, and 12:00 after p.m. and before a.m. (in the middle of the night) is midnight.
A new day is considered to start with the stroke of midnight.
The minute hand of a clock face turns twelve times as fast as the hour hand.
In religion
Jewish tradition and the old testament of the Bible talks of twelve tribes of Israel.
New Testament describes twelve apostles of Jesus.The Book of Revelation 12:1 mentions a woman - usually interpreted as Virgin Mary wearing a crown of twelve stars.
In traditional Jewish practice, a girl becomes a bat mitzvah on her twelfth birthday.
In Shi'a Islam, there are twelve Imams. These twelve early leaders of Islam are Ali, Hasan, Husayn, and nine of Husayn's descendants.
The 12 apostles of Christ.
There are 12 days of Christmas. The song Twelve Days of Christmas came from the traditional practice of extending Yuletide celebrations over the twelve days from Christmas day to the eve of Epiphany; the period of thirteen days including Epiphany is sometimes known as Christmastide.
There are 12,000 people sealed from each of the twelve tribes of Judah in the Book of Revelation prophecies.
Eastern Orthodoxy observes 12 Great Feasts.
In Ancient Greek religion, the Twelve Olympians were the principal gods of the pantheon.
In music
Twelve is the number of pitch classes in an octave, not counting the duplicated (octave) pitch. Also, the total number of major keys, (not counting enharmonic equivalents) and the total number of minor keys (also not counting equivalents).
This applies only to twelve tone equal temperament, the most common tuning used today in western influenced music.
The twelfth is the interval of an octave and a fifth. Instruments like the clarinet overblow at the twelfth.
In sports
In rugby union one of the centres, most often but not always the inside centre, wears the 12 shirt.
The retired jersey number of American football quarterback Roger Staubach and hockey player Sid Abel.
In technology
ASCII and Unicode code point for form feed.
The number of function keys on most PC keyboards (F1 through F12)
The number of dialling keys in any standard digital telephone (1 through 9, 0, * and #)
In other fields
In English, twelve is the number of greatest magnitude that has just one syllable. There are normally twelve pairs of ribs in the human body.
Twelve stars are featured on the European flag.
In the United States, twelve people are appointed to sit on a jury for felony trials in all but four states, and in federal and D.C. courts. The number of jurors in the movie gave the title to the film 12 Angry Men.
Twelve men have walked on the Earth's moon.
In astrology,Pisces is the 12th and final astrological sign of the Zodiac.
There have always been 12 eggs in a dozen, 12 hours on a clock,12 inches in a foot, 12 months in a year, 12 steps in a staircase, 12 ounces in a Troy pound (used for precious metals), 12 constellations in the ecliptic (or signs of the zodiac), 12 gears on a racing bicycle, and 12 volts in a car battery.
Other movies with the number twelve in their titles include The Dirty Dozen, 12 Monkeys, Ocean's Twelve and Twelve Chairs.
Twelfth Night, another name for the 12th Day of Christmas or January 5 (the eve of Epiphany), gives its name to a Shakespeare comedy, as well as that of progressive rock band.
At MIT, Course 12 refers to the Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Science.
The United States of America is divided into twelve Federal Reserve Districts (Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Richmond, Atlanta, Chicago, St. Louis, Minneapolis, Kansas City, Dallas, and San Francisco);
American paper currency has serial numbers beginning with lone of twelve different letters, A through L, representing the Federal Reserve Bank from which the currency originated.
District (San Francisco) is the largest in area and population.
The ordinal adjective is duodenary.
Twelve is:
In Greek mythology, the number of labours of Heracles (Hercules).
The number of dan (master) grades in judo.
The designation of United States Interstate 12, a freeway in Louisiana.
In the Netherlands, highway A12 connects The Hague via Utrecht and Arnhem with the German border. In Germany, highway A12 connects Berlin with the Polish border near Frankfurt an der Oder. In Belgium, highway A12 connects Brussels via Antwerp with the Netherlands.
A character in the Street Fighter video game; see Twelve (Street Fighter)
Historical years: A.D. 12, 12 B.C., or 1912
“The Secret of the Number Twelve
The headquarters of the Order of the Phoenix may be found at number twelve, Grimmauld Place, London." (OP3)
Journey all right, Harry? Bill called, trying to gather up twelve scrolls at once."
The Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures (Pest Sub-Division) keeps a dozen albino bloodhounds for this purpose.
he number 12 appears several times in the Bible, i.e., the twelve tribes of Israel, the twelve disciples of Christ, twelve stones, twelve princes, etc. It is my belief that these represent the twelve signs of the zodiac:
Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricorn, Aquarius and Pisces.
2 sons of Israel (Yaaqov). They are bonded into oneness in their Father Israel. When they buried their father, Israel, there were three tribes on each o the four sides of the bier, in exactly the same order as they camped in the wilderness as tribes.
12 Tribes. They are bonded into the oneness of the nation of Israel. There are three tribes to the north, south, east, and west of the Tabernacle. See picture below.
12 constellation on the ecliptic (zodiak).
They are bonded into oneness on the ecliptic. The constellations are divided into four sets by the vernal equinox, the summer solstice, the autumnal equinox, and the winter solstice.
12 months. They are bonded into oneness in a solar year.
The months are divided into three sets of four by the seasons: spring, summer, autumn, and fall.
12 Apostles. They are bonded into oneness as Apostles.
12 Loaves of showbread. They are bonded into oneness on the table of showbread.
12 gates in the New Jerusalem. They are bonded into the oneness of the wall. There were three gates in each of the four walls of the city.
12 Daylight hours. They are bonded into the oneness of a day. There are four watches in a day.
12 Nighttime hours. They are bonded into the oneness of a night. There are four watches in a night.
12 Stones on the brestplate of the Kohen Gadole, the High Priest.
12 stones that Yaaqov placed under his head on his way to Charan fused into one stone.
Whether on a conscious or unconscious level, the fact that Jacob gathered twelve stones alludes to the twelve tribes that he will bring into the world as a result of his marriage in Charan.
More specifically, the fusion of the twelve stones alludes to the fusion of the twelve tribes. This unification of the twelve sons of Yaaqov occurred just prior to his death. Surrounding Yaaqov's bed, his twelve sons proclaimed as one:
“Hear O Israel (Jacob's name) God is our God, God is One”
The only other instance in the Bible of stones fusing together is when King David kills Goliath. In I Samuel 17:40 David takes five stones to put in his slingshot.
Verse 49 describes him as killing Goliath with the one stone in his slingshot. Here too, the five stones fused into one.
The numbers of these stones reflect a beautiful mathematical phenomenon that sheds a new light on the inner meaning of these two fusion events. There is an important mathematical relation between 12 and 5. 12 squared equals 144, while 5 squared equals 25.
144 plus 25 equals 169, which is 13 squared. 13 is the numerical value of the word echad ("one"). This reflects the plurality of the many stones becoming one.
The word echad is spelled alef (1), chet ( 8), dalet (4). Together, the chet and dalet represent the twelve tribes.
They combine with their father, Israel, represented here by the alef, in their proclamation that HaShem is One.
The 12 sons combine with their one father to manifest the unity of echad (13).
The Number Twelve
Twelve: the number is used many
times throughout the Bible.
Twelve angels at the gates: Rev 21:12
Twelve Apostles: Lk 6:13-16
Twelve baskets of fragments left: Mt 14:20
Twelve bulls, lambs, rams: Num 7:87
Twelve cakes: Lev 24:5
Twelve cities: 1Chron 6:63
Twelve foundation stones of the wall of the Heavenly Jerusalem: Rev 21:14
Twelve foundations of the wall of Jerusalem adorned with twelve kinds of precious
stones, jasper, sapphire, agate, emerald, sardonyx, sardius, chrysolite, beryl, topaz, chrysoprase, jacinth, amethyst: Rev 21:20
Twelve fruits bearing on the tree of life: Ez 47:12, Rev 22:2
Twelve gates of the Heavenly Jerusalem: Rev 21:12
Twelve gates of the Heavenly Jerusalem were twelve pearls: Rev 21:21
Twelve gold cups: Num 7:86
Twelve governors: 1King 4:7
Twelve he-goats: Ezra 8:35
Twelve hours in a day (6am to 6pm): Jn 11:9
Twelve legions of angels: Mt 26:53
Twelve lions: 1King 10:20
Twelve lots cast: 1Chron 25:9-31
Twelve men: Josh 3:12
Twelve months in a year: Rev 22:2
Twelve oxen: 2Chron 4:15, Jer 52:20
Twelve parts of a garment: 1King 11:30
Twelve pillars: Ex 24:4
Twelve precious stones in priestly vestments, carnelian, topaz,
emerald, garnet, sapphire, beryl, jacinth, agate, amethyst, chrysolite, onyx, and Jasper: Ex 28:17-20
Twelve princes for Ishmael: Gen 17:20
Twelve rods: Num 7:84,17:2
Twelve scouts: Deut 1:19-25
Twelve silver basins, plates: Num 7:84
Twelve sons of Ishmael: Gen 25:12-16
Twelve sons of Jacob: Gen 35:23-26
Twelve spies: Num 13:1-33
Twelve springs of water: Num 33:9
Twelve stars in her crown: Rev 12:1
Twelve stones: 1King 18:31
Twelve thousand sealed from each of
twelve tribes of Israel: Rev 7:5
Twelve thousand stadia, the height, length, and breadth of the Heavenly Jerusalem. One stadia is about 606 feet. Each of the three measurements equals 7,272,000 feet or 1377.27 miles: Rev 21:16
Twelve thrones: Mt 19:28
Twelve tribes of Judah/Israel: 1Chron 2:1, Rev 7:4-8
Twelve wells at Elim: Ex 15:27
Twelve year hemmorage: Mt 9:20
Twelve years of age: Lk 2:42
he Heavenly City
The city of God in Revelation chapter 21, symbolic of the church and also called the bride of Christ.
10And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and shewed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God,
11Having the glory of God: and her light was like unto a stone most precious, even like a jasper stone, clear as crystal; 12And had a wall great and high, and had twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and names written thereon, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel:
On the east three gates; on the north three gates; on the south three gates; and on the west three gates. And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and in them the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb
And he that talked with me had a golden reed to measure the city, and the gates thereof, and the wall thereof.
And the city lieth foursquare, and the length is as large as the breadth: and he measured the city with the reed, twelve thousand furlongs. The length and the breadth and the height of it are equal.
And he measured the wall thereof, an hundred and forty and four cubits, according to the measure of a man, that is, of the angel.
And the building of the wall of it was of jasper: and the city was pure gold, like unto clear glass.
And the foundations of the wall of the city were garnished with all manner of precious stones. The first foundation was jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, a chalcedony; the fourth, an emerald;
The fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolite; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, a topaz; the tenth, a chrysoprasus; the eleventh, a jacinth; the twelfth, an amethyst.
And the twelve gates were twelve pearls; every several gate was of one pearl: and the street of the city was pure gold, as it were transparent glass.
Revelation 21:10-21
The city has twelve gates with the names of the twelve tribes on them.
Twelve angels stand at the gates, the walls have twelve foundations garnished with twelve precious stones, and in them the names of the twelve apostles.
The city is twelve thousand furlongs square, and the twelve gates are twelve pearls.
The number twelve is used here symbolically of Gods perfect government.
Twelve is here nine times and the walls are 144 cubits = 12 x 12. If we accept the 144 being a reference to 12 then we have ten such in this passage.
But also not that the length bredth and height are all equal, all twelve thousand furlongs.
If we count this as three measures of twelve rather than just one, than there are twelve, twelves in this passage of twelve verses.
Perfect numbers
Twelve is one of the perfect numbers, three is divine perfection, seven is spiritual perfection, ten is ordinal perfection and twelve is governmental perfection. It is thus that the children of Israel are divided into twelve tribes.
Even though there are in actuality thirteen tribes, every time they are listed only twelve are listed. Similarly in the New Testament Jesus chose for himself twelve apostles.
Twelve is the product of three times four and the significance of both of these numbers can usually be seen in twelve.
Three is divine perfection and usually denotes things from or of God, thus wee see that perfect government can only exist when God is involved, in particular we shall only have perfect government when God rules all.
Four is the number of the world and the creation, thus we see the perfect governments connection to that which is governed. It is the things of this world, the nature of this world that it needs to be governed.
The Twelfth Chapter
The twelfth chapter of the Bible starts with God calling Abram to come out of the land he was living in and go where God would tell him.
This is the beginning of Gods plan to call out a nation unto himself, that would be ruled by God and be a testimony to all the nations of the earth of the one true God.
That the nation of Israel failed to live up to their glorious calling in no way alters Gods intentions or plans. Here we can clearly see the link between perfect government and the number twelve.
It is interesting to not that six, the number of man only comes halfway to perfect government.
By definition, perfect government must involve God, man alone cannot reach it. Thus in Genesis chapter twelve we have God calling out his nation in the person of Abraham who would be its father.
Abraham was called to leave his family and home, without even knowing where he was going, God would tell him later. Thus right from the start, walking by faith was what the Lord demanded.
The Twelve Tribes
The twelve sons of Israel, who became the head of the twelve tribes can be divided in the following manner.
Six were the sons of Leah, if you remember Jacob (Israel) was tricked into marrying Leah instead of Rachael. Nevertheless God turned misfortune into blessing in that fully half of Jacob's sons were by his wife Leah.
Two sons were born to Jacobs favored wife Rachael. However before they were, Rachael tried her own solution to her apparent barreness and had her handmaid bear two sons to Jacob in her stead. Leah saw this and also had her handmaid bear two sons for Jacob.
However Rachels oldest son, Joseph, had his own two sons, grandsons of Jacob adopted as Jacobs sons. Thus there are thirteen "sons" of Jacob. When the Lord gave the Israelites the law he commanded that the tribe of Levi (the decendants of one of Leah's
sons - Levi) become the priests for the whole nation and there were not to be reckoned a tribe anymore. Thus in effect only five tribes came from Leah. Thus bearing in mind these two important "legal" changes to the birth order of Jacobs twelve sons we have:
Rachael
Manasseh
Ephraim
Benjamin
three sons, the number of divine perfection, Jacob worked for Rachael, God granted her sons despite her barreness, these were the sons of promise.
Leah
Ruben
Simeon
Judah
Issachar
Zebulun
- the wife that Jacob was tricked into marrying by the devious Laban, nevertheless God blessed a bad situation and thus five tribes can be reckoned to Leah, Five is the number of grace, exactly what God showed Jacob in turning all things to good for him.
Also as mentioned in Genesis 29:31, when God saw that Jacob did not love Leah, he granted her grace and she conceived, thus Gods mercy was also unto Leah as well as Jacob.
Bilhah and Zilpah
Dan
Naphtali
Gad
Asher
Ehe two handmaids together bore Jacob four sons. Having their handmaids bear children to Jacob on their behalf was the solution of the two wives who were competing against each other. Their natural, worldly solution to their envy, is marked with the number four, the number of the world.
Properties of the number 12
Symbolism
Twelve is the number of what is completed, which forms a whole, a perfect and harmonious unit. In the ancient civilizations, like Oriental and Judaic, it corresponds to the plenitude, the completion and the integrality of a thing. R. Allendy tells that it expresses the idea that the Universe forms a whole, associated with the idea of differentiation - 10 + 2.
Represent the manifestation of the Trinity to the four corners of the horizon - 3 X 4.
Symbolize the command and the good, and governs the space and the time, that is to say the operation of the Cosmos, from where its designation of cosmic number.
Symbol of material and spiritual food, because of the 12 breads which Jesus Christ broke to the Last Supper, Himself being the Bread of Life.
Number attributed to the government of the world or the cosmos.
It is the creative capacity, and in some religions, it expresses also the Divine Mother.
Bible
The twelve apostles of the Jesus Christ: Simon whom he called also Peter, Andrew, James and John, Philip, Bartholomew, Thomas, Matthew, James son of Alphaeus, Simon called the Zealot, Jude son of James, and Judas Iscariot, replaced after the Ascension by Matthias. (Lk 6,12-16; Mt 10,2-4; Mk 3,16-19; Act 1,13)
A woman suffered haemorrhage since twelve years she was cured by Jesus. (Lk 8,40)
In the Revelation: the twelve gates of the celestial City (Rv 21,12); the twelve kinds of precious stone of the celestial City (Rv 21,19-20); the twelve stars of the crown that wears the woman (Rv 12,2); the trees of life, which bear twelve crops of fruit in a year, one in each month (Rv 22,2).
The twelve "minor" prophets of the Old Testament: Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi.
The twelve son of Ishmael. (Gn 25,13-16 and 16,20)
The twelve great priests of Chronicles.
The twelve stones of the altar of the alliance. (Ex 24,4)
The twelve names engraved on the pectoral. (Ex 28,21)
The twelve loaves of permanent offering on the golden table. (Lv 24,5)
The twelve branches to confirm the choice of Aaron. (Nb 17,21)
The twelve explorers sent in Canaan. (Dt 1,23)
The twelve stones chosen by the twelve men in the Jordan to make a
monument. (Jos 4,3)
The twelve administrators of Solomon for all Israel. (1 K 4,7)
The twelve oxen of the bronze Sea. (1 K 7,25)
The twelve strips made with the cloak of Ahijah. (1 K 11,30)
The twelve stones of the altar of Elijah. (1 K 18,31)
animals. (Nb 7,87 and 29,17)
The three series of twelve silver bowls offered for the dedication of the altar. (Nb 7,84)
The twelve curses proclaimed by Moses to all men of Israel. (Dt 27,15-26)
The twelve springs of Elim. (Ex 15,27)
The twelve tributes of Israel: Judah, Reuben, Gad, Asher, Naphtali, Manasseh, Simeon, Levi, Issachar, Zebulun, Joseph and Benjamin. (Rv 7,5-8)
The twelve years required for the young Israelis to be admitted as "son of the law".
The twelve precious stones which were on the pectoral of the great Priest Aaron, brother of Moses.
The twelve son of Jacob. (Gn 46,8-25)
General
The twelve articles of the Creed.
The twelve promises make by Our Lord, to saint Marguerite Mary Alacoque, for those that would have a devotion to His Sacred Heart by practicing the first nine Fridays of the month.
God would have given to Moses not ten but twelve commandments. In addition, in the revelations of Maria Valtorta, Jesus declares that "if the Commandments of the Law are ten Commandments given by God the Father to Moses on the Sinai (Ex 20)in reality they are twelve since that the Word of the Father, the eternal and infinitely perfect Wisdom, has completed and perfected the Law,teaching that commandments of the commandments are: 'To love God of all yourself, and your neighbor as yourself', because these two firsts and main commandments are, in reality, the base of life of the Ten,
since the three firsts can not be practiced if you don't love God of all yourself, of all your forces, of all your soul, and that the seven others can not be practiced if you don't like the neighbor as yourself, without lacking to the love, to the justice and to the honesty towards what or anyone."
In the visions of Maria Valtorta, Jesus explains that he sees represented in his twelve apostles choose by Him all the whole humanity and in which all the humanity is seen also gathered in his twelve apostles.
In the French book "Parole d'Amour" (Word of Love), Jesus specifies by giving more precision: "Among myriads of men, twelve represents for Me all the humanity. And each man has one of these twelve spirits to follow, My Church has twelve faces and there is only one that unites them all: the mine.
Me only am for you the Perfection. And from Me, this unique Spirit is divided into twelve virtues for the man. Even if in you, you have all them, only one prevails and for you: it is the love. Here is the charisma by which the Holy Spirit leads you to Me.
In other brothers, other virtues prevail, but all you assume yourselves in Me. This is why I tell you it: do not seek to act with another charisma that, while being in you, does not prevail on which my Father has given you, otherwise you will not succeed in your mission.
That is be quite clear! John could not be Peter, neither Peter Philip, nor Philip James, neither James Andrew, nor Andrew Jude, neither Jude Thomas!." And similarly that Juda, one of the Twelve, betrays Him, Jesus affirms in private revelations of Maria Valtorta in the proportion of one on twelve, one of us also betrays Him.
The twelve shepherds who see the Child Jesus in the crib during His birth: Elijah, Levi, Samuel, Jonah, Isaac, Tobit, Jonathas, Daniel, Simeon, John, Joseph and Benjamin, according to visions of Maria Valtorta.
At the three years old, the Virgin Mary entered to the Temple and she remained there for a period of twelve years.
According to the visions of Anne-Catherine Emmerich, after his temptation in the dessert, Jesus is served by 12 superior angels and 72 angels of lower level.
The twelve plagues which will knock the earth before come from the Messiah and his kingdom, according to the Apocalypse of Baruch of the writings of the library of Qumran.
In the appearances of the Virgin Mary to sister Mary-Danielle, named "Bush of Thorns", Mary speaks about the twelve apostles of the last times who will be called to lead a combat for the truth: "They are these twelve that will restore the new Church which will resuscitate from the ancient. I will reign with them, because they will be the princes of the new Church."
The twelve winds and their porticoes seen in the vision by Enoch, according to the Book of the calendar of writings of the library of Qumran.
The tradition reports that Joseph of Arimathea, who brought in Great Brittany the cup of the Holy Grail, had with him twelve knights.
The Testaments of the twelve patriarchs (from the writings of the library of Qumran), for each of twelve son of Jacob.
The twelve degrees of humility according to the holy monastic rule of saint Benoit.
The Buddhists recognize twelve causes of existence or Nidanas.
According to revelations of Isabelle David in her French book "2000 ans sur le chemin de la lumière" (2000 years on the path of the light), twelve Brothers and Sisters would be in permanent meditation on each continent. Some among them would be the luminous Beings.
Fabre of Olivet recognizes in the man twelve abilities, divided into six dualities: attention and perception, reflection and repetition, comparison and judgement, retention and memory, perception and comprehension, imagination and creation.
The twelve signs, or constellations, of the zodiac.
Receptacle of the good and the evil, the Egg of Osiris contained twelve white pyramids, symbol of the good, and twelve black pyramids, emblems of the evil, introduced by Typhoon.
The twelve "simple" letters of the Hebraic alphabet are the initials of the zodiacal names in Hebrew.
The twelve eras that the Earth crosses in 26000 years. At each of the twelve cycles of the humanity would incarnate a rescuer.
The twelve works of Hercules:
Slay the Nemean Lion,
Kill the Hydra,
Capture the Cerynean Stag,
Cage the Erymanthian Boar,
Clean the Augean Stables,
Kill the Stymphalian Birds,
Claim the Mares of Diomedes,
Pen the Cretan Bull,
Take the Girdle of Hippolyte, the Amazon,
Capture Geryon's Cattle,
Fetch the Golden Apples of Hesperides, and
Capture Cerberus from the Gates of Tartaros.
The twelve animals of the Chinese horoscope: the Rat, the Ox, the Tiger, the Cat, the Dragon, the Snake, the Horse, the Goat, the Monkey, the Cock, the Dog and the Pig.
The twelve lunar years in the Chinese lunar calendar forming the complete cycle which lasts sixty years.
There are twelve principal divinities in the Greek mythology.
The twelve names of the Sun in Sanskrit, which are pronounced such as the mantras.
In the Japanese cosmology, the Creator is sat on twelve sacred cushions
There would be twelve Universe and the earth would belong the twelfth. And in this twelfth Universe, there would be twelve different solar systems.
The twelve petals of the Anahata Chakra located in the area of the heart and the twelve petals of the corolla of the Sahasrara Chakra located a the top of the head.
It is the number of proposals or verses of the Emerald Table, summarizing all the teaching of the Hermetic tradition. It is a document originating from Egypt, attributed to Hermes Trismegist.
According to some testimonies, there would be on the planet twelve rich families which would be at the base of a "secret government" whose their only goal would be to direct and to enslave the whole world by the power of money.
This government would have a seizure on United Nations, the military, the agencies of information, the World Bank and of any tool making it possible to make and to act as they want.
According to other sources, this secret government would be rather a meeting of multinational and thirteen rich families. Some authors see even in this secret government an analogy with the Beast of the Revelation.
The woman would carry her child during twelve months: three astral months and nine physical months.
Our solar system would be composed of twelve planets.
There remains only one planet to be discovered by the man among the eleven remaining ones since one of them was destroyed. That orbiting beyond Pluto was discovery in 1993. That to discover would orbit between Mars and Jupiter. Both would have approximately the size of Mars planet.
Twelve is the number of the disciples accompanying the great Masters of the history: the 12 apostles of the Christ; the 12 disciples choose by Mahomet to spread his doctrine; the 12 minor flamines beside the Pontiff Maximus; the 12 first companions of St. Francis of Assisi; the 12 disciples of Confucius; the 12 disciples of Mithra; the 12 descendants of Ali; the 12 companions of Odin, with also the 12 goddesses for women; the 12 marshals of Napoleon.
In the Islamic religion, there are the twelve imams. The imam is the preferential intermediary between the men and God. For the Shiites, he should be descent of Ali, son-in-law of Mahomet.
The twelfth imam having disappeared at age of four years old, in 260 of the Hegira (873), with the death of his father, he had no successor and he was considered alive.
The twelve gods of Egypt whose Hercules was the chief.
The twelve tables of the shield of Achilles which represent the social and the agricultural life during each month, starting with January.
The twelve "fevers" of the Russian popular tradition.
The twelve provinces that Râ visits each day by passing one hour in each one of them.
The twelve animals of the Chinese dances included in the ceremony of the change of year.
The twelve imposing rooms of the Scandinavian paradise.
The twelve virtues and the twelve vices of Our Lady of Paris.
The twelve solo circuits which made taking part the quadrigae in the races of tank of ancient Greece.
The twelve rooms of the Hell corresponding to the twelve nocturnal hours of the eschatologic doctrines of Valentine.
The twelve lions decorating the steps of the throne of Solomon in the Arab legends.
The twelve seats surrounding the throne of Odin.
Measured by the passage of the twelve moons (29 days and half each time), the lunar year counts only 354 days.
Twelve is the first number known as "abundant" since the sum of its dividers (aliquot parts) gives a result higher than 12: 1+2+3+4+6=16.
The twelve gates of the human body of the man 2 eyes, 2 ears, 2 nostrils, the mouth, 2 breasts, the navel, the anus and the penis.
The human cell has twelve biochemical salts.
The twelve ganglions in the human body.
The pure light would be made up, not of 7, but of 12 colors.
The twelve semitones derived from the seven notes of the scale.
Birthday of marriage: linen or silk weddings.
Occurrence
The number 12 is used 189 times in the Bible.
The Gospel of Thomas uses on the whole 12 different numbers: 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 24, 60, 99, 100, 120, 1000 and 10000. The sum of each of their individual occurrence gives as total 36.
The number 12 is used 7 times in the Koran. (Koran II,57; II,130; III,78; VII,159; VII,159; IX,36 and LXXXV,1)
The word Gehenna is used 12 times in the Bible, the 12 times in the NT. In the Gospel of John, 12 times the Christ is designated as the Son of Man.
he twelve "animals" five times repeated and coupled with the five elements and the seven colours, furnish a whole alphabet.
Twelve Seasonal Festivals of the Christian Year
The twelve-legged horse of Hoshang
TWELVE MANUALS OF THEOSOPHY
the 'twelve' mandates of the Antichrist.
Twelve times I have served God in that nation.
Explanation: The complex interactions of three stars in the Orion B molecular cloud complex have resulted in the ejection of particles along a 12 light-year long jet.
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Clicking on the picture will download" That this enormous blast of energy took place 12 billion years ago and this is like looking back in time to about 85% of the life of the universe is also acceptable But, in actuality, isn't the earth closer to the blast than 12 billion light years because of the fact that we are also moving outward from the Big Bang and the light from the blast was merely moving faster than us and finally caught up with us? (Example: a car catching up to a bicycle.)
Most Distant Cosmic Object
Light traveling space for 12 billion years
The most distant cosmic object ever seen from the Earth was detected in April 2000. The object is a quasar and is located in the direction of the constellation Sextans (the Sextant). The distance from the Earth to this quasar is estimated at about 12 billion light years.
Supposing the Universe is 13 billion years old, the lights from this quasar we see now left it just after the Universe was born, or only 1 billion years after the Big Bang, and have traveled space towards our planet for 12 billion years.
Twelve-part Myths
The twelve fold geometry encoded in monuments was also expressed in other symbolic forms. I'm sure that you can come up with dozens of examples of twelve-around-one symbolism in religion, myth, legend, science and society. Add your own to this list.
Everyone first thinks of the twelve constellations of the Zodiac around the Sun. In Egypt, the Sun god Ra's twelve retainers pull his boat through the twelve gates (Cranial Nerves) of the Duat (underworld).
There were twelve ordeals of Gilgamesh, twelve Roman tablets of law, twelve labors of Hercules, twelve Argonauts with Jason, twelve books of Virgil's Aeneid,and twelve tribes of Israel. In the myth of the founding of Thebes, Cadmus first fixed the head of the snake to the site with a "world axis"spear and then sowed its twelve teeth which became the city's founding families.
Well known are the twelve disciples around Christ, twelve advisors to theDalai Lama, the twelve knights of the round Table around King Arthur, twelve tribe nation of Native America, and Charlemagne's twelve-fold royal court.
The twelve jurors in the court, the twelve asses of the scandanavians, the twelve cushions of the japanese diety, the twelve officers of king solomon, they had twelve stones in their breastplates, twelve sons of jacob, tweleve months etc.etc
Twelve generals surrounded George Washington. (If you doubt the Masonic influence of the original founders, just see the engravings of the laying of the cornerstone of the Capitol building, with Washington, Franklin and others wearing their Masonic aprons and other regalia.)
At the heart ofthe harmonic symbolism are the twelve notes of the chromatic musical scale (piano's 7 white keys + 5 black keys), which are not arbitrary but based on the continual subdivision of a vibrating string by two-thirds, producing the "spiral of fifths".
In China and elsewhere, twelve-part music was once at the heart of the world's beneficent enchantment. In essence, the structure of myth, religion and mysteries shared the structure of clocks and calendars, the form of the cosmos.
And twelve acupuncture meridians around a central one flowing through the body was the model of the earth energies of feng-shui flowing through the earth, where buildings, monuments and standing stones served as fountains to the body's flow of chi in the global system of the living earth.
In the esoteric systems of meditation, our twelve cranial nerves energize in the final stages of spiritual transcendence. Where the solar plexus energy has risen from the dragons den,( The stomach) to sit at the right hand hand of the father, the right side of the brain.
IA AM THAT I AM means the light, it's electrical, and below is the twelve cranial nerves of your brain.
Your city with TWELVE gates.
