Vision of Delight (Twelfth Night)

It’s fascinating how creation works on two numbers: 7 and 12. The number 7 is the timing number in creation and 12 is the division number.

As Jordan explains, “Seven is a number of perfection with regard to the timing of things; the accomplishing and the maturing of something. Twelve, the number of the nation Israel, is the number of the governing of His creation; the vision of it.

“There’s the seven days of creation and ‘in the seventh day He rested.’ The seventh day was for the purpose of enjoying the work of the six days and that’s why it’s included.

“If you go to Leviticus, you’ll see God takes that seven and extends it out. He moves seven days to seven weeks (49 weeks, which is how you get to the feast of Pentecost in the 50th week) and then to seven months and you have the trumpets (the regathering of Israel) and atonement (the Second Advent) and the tabernacles (the Millennium). That’s the finality of the calendar of Israel’s calendar of redemption that starts at Passover and ends there.

“Then you move from the seven months until you have the seven years and then you have the ‘seven weeks of years,’ where you get to the year of Jubilee, and the sevens is constantly worked through God’s system. He divides seven up in the Bible.

“Seven, in Scripture, is divided generally by four and three. You can divide three and four but God usually divides it four and three. For example, in Matthew 13 He’s going to give them seven mystery parables of the kingdom.

Well, when He does it, He goes outside of the house, sits by the seashore, and gives the first four of them, then He goes back in the house and gives the last three and that pattern works all through Scripture that way.

“When you go back to the seven days of creation and work out the idea that
there’s seven purposes in creation and all those sevens tell you the timing of creation is that way.

"And then you say, ‘That last seventh day turns out to have a time period involved in it, which is a thousand years.’ Then you realize the verse, ‘One day with the Lord is as a thousand years,’ and you see the connection with those things.

“You’ll see God will tell Israel, ‘I’m gonna . . . You’ve got four and three. . .’ In Exodus, He told the nation with Moses, ‘I want you to leave out of Egypt, go out over here, get ready against the third day, because after two days I’m gonna meet with you.’

“So you’ll have the four and then you’ll have one day, two days, the third day He’ll meet with them. John 2:1 says, ‘And the third day there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee; and the mother of Jesus was there.’

“Well that third day happens to follow four days in chapter one. Well, if there’s four in chapter one and then the third day in chapter 2:1, which day would that be? The third day would be the what? You got four and one, two, third to seven.

“He goes to the Samaritans in John 4 and tarries two days and then He comes. You see that pattern through Scripture all over. Well, that’s where you get the thing we were looking at last week back in Leviticus 12.

“In Leviticus 12, the Lord spoke unto Moses saying, ‘Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a woman have conceived seed, and born a man child: then she shall be unclean seven days; according to the days of the separation for her infirmity shall she be unclean.’

“Now that term ‘man child’ is a very specialized term in Scripture. And although in this text it’s just talking about how she had a boy, and if you go on down it talks about what would happen if she had a maid child or a girl, that term ‘man child’ is used in the Book of Job. It’s also used in Revelation 12 as a reference to the 144,000.

“So it’s a term of art in Scripture. Here it’s talking about having a child, but THE man child in the Scripture is a reference to the Lord Jesus Christ. He’s THE man.

“On the eighth day, the day of the new beginning, there’s going to be a cutting off of all that goes before. You don’t cut it off at the beginning of the seventh day; you cut it off at the end of the seventh day and the beginning of the eighth day. The new thing begins after the seven days.”