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Numbers in Scripture: #8
The number eight symbolizes a new beginning.
• When God established a new order of worship and communion with Israel, a baby boy was to be circumcised on the eighth day. Paul was a prime example: “Circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel” (Philippians 3:5).
• Eight souls were saved in the ark to begin a new order of things on a cleansed earth. “The longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water” (1 Peter 3:20).
• The eighth day, or the “morrow after the Sabbath” is a figure of resurrection, typified in the Wave Offering. “And he shall wave the sheaf before the Lord, to be accepted for you: on the morrow after the Sabbath the priest shall wave it” (Leviticus 23:11). “In the end of the Sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week” (Matthew 28:1).
• In the future millennial city, there are eight sets of twelve — Gates, angels, tribes of Israel, foundations, apostles, furlongs, pearls, fruits. See if you can pick them out in Revelation chapters 21 & 22.
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