John Thomas - Numbers in Dreams

one of the things in dream interpretation is understanding what different elements mean now we're very careful at streams to avoid interpretive legalism meaning this always means this but there are certain patterns that we recognize that certain things often mean the same things it numbers is one example but there's often a reason why those numbers mean what they mean let me give you just a couple examples the number one one will often talk about unity or a talk about God now we do that because of the what we call the Shema which is the the famous declaration over the nation of israel here o Israel the Lord your God is one God and so that we have this knowing that God is one now God is three which is also why three can often represents the fullness of God or the Trinity it's representing all three parts you have a principle in scripture it says that the mouth of two or three witnesses a matter is established so if something gets repeated two times or three times often it's just a witness that this thing is true that this thing is accurate so that you pay more attention to it the idea of 4/4 is is talks about creativity or the created order or it talks about everything wine because you got the four corners of the earth which is everything that's created though the four winds of heaven which is every aspect of the spiritual realm it we use those phrases not because there's actually four corners of the earth but it represents in every direction whether you go east or whether you go west or whether you go south or whether you go north that it's in every direction so it's all of the created orders so it represents creation and creativity in the created order five we talked about five talking about grace and we get that out of Ephesians chapter 4 where it talks about the grace gifts that he's given gifts according to the grace given to us he gave some to be apostles prophets evangelists pastors and teachers there's five different aspects of grey that are represented that are communicated there by Paul when he's talking about grace and so we often think of five as representing grace because of the grace gifts six we talk about meaning man or humankind well six is out of Revelation it says the six is the number of man and so the Bible says six is the number of men so we just understand six to represent mankind or humanity or something that comes from men seven now seven is an interesting number there's so many different times that seven is mentioned in scripture you have the boy I could talk about the seven days of creation the seven spirits of God the Sevenfold gifts that are given in Romans chapter 12 you've got the seven elements of the tabernacle and the seven pieces of cloth or or of clothing that the high priests would wear seven represents the fullness or the completeness of the perfection it took seven days to complete creation it takes seven spirits of God to reveal the fullness of the Spirit of God and so seven represents fullness or completion or perfection and what its meaning not 8/8 an interesting number where do you get the idea that eight represents new beginnings well it's because this you have seven days in the week and then the eighth day starts a new beginning and so seven days of week the eight starts the new beginning say eight often talks about the beginning of something new it's completely seven and eight is the beginning of the next season of the next start or the next thing and we could keep on going through these one one that often gets question is is what about the number thirteen why is thirteen represent rebellion and this one this is this is a little bit of a secret you got to do some digging but if you take a look when Abraham decided that he was going to go into Hagar and he birthed Ishmael it was thirteen years from when Ishmael was born till God spoke to him again see the season of his rebellion was thirteen years before the Bible talks about God speaking to Abraham again and coming back and bringing him the promise of Isaac there's 13 and that number is is is interesting when you can you find that the number 12 often represents government why because there were 12 tribes that represented the whole of the tribe of Israel that was the governmental structure of Israel there's the 12 apostles which is the governmental structure that God placed into the church and the 12 apostles and the twelve tribes of Israel that represent the 24 gates in the New Jerusalem michonne going when you find a number see if there's anything in scripture that would give you a clue as to what it means because that'll usually give you a piece and and if not ask the Holy Spirit because it's not about finding some cipher it's about engaging God because He loves to explain himself and he loves the interaction that's why he gives us dreams in the first place so we'll come back to him and ask for more so lots of numbers keep on searching I'm sure that you've got a few of your own what what numbers have you found when you've been doing dream interpretation [Music] you

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