| Numbers in Scripture: #40 |
| Forty denotes a complete time of testing. It is God’s full-length probation period to bring to light good or evil. Here are some examples: |
| • Regarding the flood in Noah’s time: “The rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights” (Genesis 7:12). |
| • Israel’s testing: “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” (Deuteronomy 8:2). |
| • The spies: “returned from searching of the land after forty days” (Numbers 13:25). |
| • Goliath’s challenge to the army of Israel: “The Philistine drew near morning and evening, and presented himself forty days” (1 Samuel 17:16). |
| • Jonah’s message: “Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown” (Jonah 3:3). |
| • The Lord Jesus: “He was there in the wilderness forty days, tempted of Satan” (Mark 1:13). |
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