This happened over and over again Judges , , , etc. Whatever the number 40 portrays or symbolizes in the Bible, the purpose of testing is to humble us and to show us how strong or weak our faith is. Take a look of this collection of articles: Bible Answers to Questions. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Tagged as: 40 days , 40 years , number He did his graduate work at Moody Theological Seminary.
Read them in the archive below. If you like what you're reading, you can get free daily updates through the RSS feed here. Thanks for stopping by! Thanks for your contribution, IAM blessed, today being my 40years in marriage, IAM praying that I should enter my promised Land and posses my possession.
Thank you all for this wonderful inspiring words, i am forty this month and i know after this forty years of wondering and toiling in the wilderness of life God is able to lift me up Amen David. I think 40 days or years is a total number of trial. This is the time for God to establish new things in what He created. God spent 40 days with Moses at the Mountain writing the law and He completed that in forty days.
Jesus Christ fasted for 40 days and 40 nights and during that period, the devil was always in his case. Thanks children stay blessed and before covered by the blood of Jesus Christ. Thanks for all the comments, very revealing and an eye opener to the mysteries in the Word.
Even full term for a pregnancy is 40wks. God is indeed awesome. Moses spent forty days and nights with God on mount sinai. That must have been the best forty days of his life. That has nothing to do with trials or testing. Have always been fascinated with how GOD works with the 40 in the word. This is a great analysis. May GOD blee. Genesis KJV And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:.
So the forty days quarantine we are experiencing in the UK is of significance. We are now going through a time of judgment and trial for how man has been treating the natural environment. May our Lord enlighten us and send us an epoch of better times living after His will after Covid19 disappears. God bless you as you continue studying the word of God.
Powerful inspiration, amazing surely people must work for their pass mark. God give you more Revelations. The last days are not about the end of the world, but rather, are about the end of the age the age of the law , that is the Old Covenant Age culminating in the dramatic events of AD It is also significant because Jesus predicted this. Indeed, Jesus had a hand in this judgement against Old Covenant Israel. This contains the largest body of prophecy in the New Testament outside of the book of Revelation.
It is found: Matthew 24, Mark 13, and Luke The end of the age the old covenant age was connected to the destruction of the temple. The Bible does not speak of the end of time. Anne I find your insight very interesting. There is such a degradation in society when it comes to God. I truly believe that there is a major battle going on between God and Satan. I wonder where we are in the number 40 now. I am a new reader to the Bible and it is fascinating how one can see history continually repeat itself.
Man is no better today when it comes to Christ. We continually turn our backs on him. I have not read Revelation yet. Maybe the answer is there. Numbers can often have meaning in the Bible so what does the number forty mean and what is normally associated with it? The number forty usually has to do with testing in the Bible. There are dozens of examples to show this and we will examine a few to see why this is so. From Jesus to the children of Israel in the Wilderness, the number forty shows that testing and trials are sometimes associated with this number and so we read in the Scriptures that the number forty generally symbolized a period of testing, trial or probation.
As has been said, a faith that is not tested cannot be trusted. Can you imagine fasting for forty days and nights? What must that have felt like? How famished and exhausted He must have been! Being hungry, how hard it must have been for Jesus to not turn stones into bread, yet Jesus defeated the Devil at his own game. Since they tested God, God then tested the house of Israel.
He has watched over your journey through this vast wilderness. Many people fast when they are trying to overcome a major sin or when they are petitioning God because of a great trial in their life.
While God was chiseling out the Ten Commandments, the nation of Israel was already playing the harlot and worshiping an idol. Today, God is still testing His saints but often this testing is seen as a punishment but as in the case of Job, this testing is not always for reproof or correction but to see if they will seek God and still praise Him even in the storms of life.
The prophet Ezekiel laid on His right side for 40 days to symbolize Judah's sins Ezekiel Elijah went 40 days without food or water at Mount Horeb.
Jesus was tempted by the devil not just three times, but many times during the 40 days and nights he fasted just before his ministry began. He also appeared to his disciples and others for 40 days after his resurrection from the dead.
The number forty can also represent a generation of man. Because of their sins after leaving Egypt, God swore that the generation of Israelites who left Egyptian bondage would not enter their inheritance in Canaan Deuteronomy 1.
The children of Israel were punished by wandering the wilderness for 40 years before a new generation was allowed to possess the promised land. Jesus, just days before his crucifixion, prophesied the total destruction of Jerusalem Matthew - 2, Mark - 2. Forty years after his crucifixion in 30 A. The book of Exodus, with its 40 chapters and 1, verses, is the seventh longest book.
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