“Divine Order In Creation And Scripture” – Part 7

“What is the spiritual significance of 360 or circles”

[Study Aired September 17, 2026]

There is no direct reference to the number 360 in the bible, however Christ did say that there are twelve hours of light in a day (Jhn 11:9). In this study we will explore how this parable ties into the number 360.

Jhn 11:9  Jesus answered, Are there not twelve hours in the day? If any man walk in the day, he stumbleth not, because he seeth the light of this world.
Jhn 11:10  But if a man walk in the night, he stumbleth, because there is no light in him.
Jhn 11:11  These things said he: and after that he saith unto them, Our friend Lazarus sleepeth; but I go, that I may awake him out of sleep. [Christ is the only one who can awaken us spiritually from spiritual death (symbolized by 12 hours of darkness “but I go, that I may awake him out of sleep“), which is what we are in His eyes when we cannot see or hear spiritually (Mat 8:22 , Luk 8:10)]
Jhn 11:12  Then said his disciples, Lord, if he sleep, he shall do well.

Why is Christ making a point to explain that there are twelve hours of light in the day, when in reality in the northern and southern hemisphere there can be days upon days of light or darkness, and physically there is only one place on earth where there is consistently almost equal amounts of twelve hours of light and darkness, at the equator?

This equal light and darkness is in itself a parable (Rom 1:20) showing us that when we can discern good and evil, light 12 and darkness 12, from a foundational point of thinking, that foundation being Christ 12, then we will have light. This statement of Christ’s in (Jhn 11:9) is another way of saying “But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.”(Heb 5:14), or day and night, not stumbling any longer or being drawn about by the false doctrines of mankind that come from darkness (Eph 4:14-16 , Jhn 11:10).

Eph 4:14  That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive;
Eph 4:15  But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ:
Eph 4:16  From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.

Jhn 11:10  But if a man walk in the night, he stumbleth, because there is no light in him.

Jhn 11:9 is a parable as all of Christ’s words were (Mat 13:34). The twelve hours of light represents the time that we are baptized into Christ’s death (Rom 6:3). 3X4 equals 12 and so Lazarus who was in the grave for 4 days typifies that process of judgement 3 that all 4 of humanity [3×4=12] in time will need to experience in order to be raised to newness of life. That is why Lazarus is found within the context of this statement of Christ (Jhn 11:9 , Jhn 11:11).

Jhn 11:9  Jesus answered, Are there not twelve hours in the day? If any man walk in the day, he stumbleth not, because he seeth the light of this world.

Jhn 11:11  These things said he: and after that he saith unto them, Our friend Lazarus sleepeth; but I go, that I may awake him out of sleep.

Jhn 11:39  Jesus said, Take ye away the stone. Martha, the sister of him that was dead, saith unto him, Lord, by this time he stinketh: for he hath been dead four days.

But what about the number 360, how does this come into play. We know that twelve hours of light is a parable that refers to our eyes and ears being open in Christ who is the Sun of righteousness abiding in His people (Col 1:27 , Mal 4:2) and that there are 12 symbolic hours of light that are juxtaposed with 12 symbolic hours of darkness, and God is in control of both of them. This is what (Isa 45:7 , Eph 1:11) reveals. The light and darkness add up to 24 and the One who is in control of both is Christ who is identified with the number 12 which gives us our third 12 that adds up to 12+12+12=36. Christ is the one who is doing the foundational work within the body of Christ and light and darkness are the same unto him with whom we have to do (Psa 139:12 , Heb 4:13). In other words without Christ as our foundation 12, the two other 12s that represent light and darkness is what will spawn all the vain philosophies of mankind that are the sandy foundation of the world.

Col 1:27  To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:

Mal 4:2  But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.

Isa 45:7  I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.

Eph 1:11  In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:

Psa 139:12  Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to thee.

Heb 4:13  Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.

Now the number 360 should take on more meaning to us seeing it represents Christ’s cycle of life, from birth to death, which is confirmed to be in the earth, earth, earth, [the church is the earth] hear the word of the Lord found in (Jer 22:29 , His entire life was in the church of which he is the head (Mat 12:40 , Luk 13:32)).

Jer 22:29  O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of the LORD.

Mat 12:40  For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale’s belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

Luk 13:32  And he said unto them, Go ye, and tell that fox,[our flesh] Behold, I cast out devils, and I do cures to day and to morrow, and the third day I shall be perfected.[Christ and his body shall be perfected on the third day]

If we are hearing the word of the Lord it is because Christ 12 is in the midst of our earth, earth, earth, as the author and finisher of our faith (Eph 2:8). The 12, 12, 12, that has Christ as its foundation represents the church that Christ builds upon himself as the chief corner stone of that church (Mat 16:18 , Luk 20:17).

Mat 16:18  And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.

Luk 20:17  And he beheld them, and said, What is this then that is written, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner?

The bride of Christ is hidden from a world whose foundation, (which was all of ours at first) is built upon sandy ground, representing fleshly thinking that leads to death, and wants to see a sign but cannot interpret the parables of Christ without Christ within (Mat 7:26-27 , Pro 14:12 , Pro 16:25 , Mat 12:39-41).

Mat 7:26  And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand:

Mat 7:27  And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it. (Pro 14:12 , Pro 16:25). (This house represents the way that seems right unto us, and must fall and then a new foundation is built through Christ the builder of the spiritual house Psa 127:1)

Mat 12:39  But he answered and said unto them, An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas: [a parable given to the world that hides the truth of God’s workmanship that we are in Christ]
Mat 12:40  For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale’s belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
Mat 12:41  The men of Nineveh shall rise in judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: because they repented at the preaching of Jonas; and, behold, a greater than Jonas is here.

It is when our 12 earth, 12 earth, 12 earth (360) is judged that 3+6=9, nine representing judgement, that we are able to move forward in faith (1Pe 4:17), the faith of Christ 12 which is our solid foundation and new house He is building that will withstand all the fiery darts of the adversary (Mat 7:24-25). Whatever is not done in faith is sin (Rom 14:23) and so it is by God’s grace that sin is being destroyed in our lives as we go through a chastening process 3 upon our flesh 6 that brings us to cease from sinning (1Pe 4:1) so that ultimately we will be saved by grace through faith (judgment 36×10 upon flesh=360).

Mat 7:24  Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock:
Mat 7:25  And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.

Rom 14:23  And he that doubteth is damned if he eat, because he eateth not of faith: for whatsoever is not of faith is sin.

The number 360 also represents a circle or a wheel and the faith that God gives the church is something that is operating in each member in the measure that God has determined for every season of our life. We are each one of us a wheel within a wheel (Ezk 10:9-10), or a joint that is supplying to the building of the ark or temple of God (Col 1:24). Every part is necessary just as God cannot and will not have a hole in the ark somewhere that will cause the church to sink in times of great stormy duress (Mat 16:18), but rather this ark consists of the spiritual qualities we read of in these verses (Eph 4:16 , Php 2:1-4), which keeps us all spiritually afloat in this perverse and crooked age we’re living in (Heb 11:7 , Heb 5:7 , Psa 127:1).

Ezk 10:9  And when I looked, behold the four wheels by the cherubims, one wheel by one cherub, and another wheel by another cherub: and the appearance of the wheels was as the colour of a beryl stone.
Ezk 10:10  And as for their appearances, they four had one likeness, as if a wheel had been in the midst of a wheel.

Eph 4:16  From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth [“they four had one likeness“], according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.

Php 2:1  If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies,
Php 2:2  Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind.[“they four had one likeness“]
Php 2:3  Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.
Php 2:4  Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.

Heb 11:7  By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; (Heb 5:7) by the which he condemned the world [the world of sin within us and without], and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith.

Heb 5:7  Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared;

Psa 127:1  A Song of degrees for Solomon. Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.

What does the wheel or wheels do?

If we are as Christ then these verses that speak of a wheel will have some application in our own lives as well (1Jn 4:17).

Negatively the use of the word wheels is first used in (Exo 14:25-28) which describes how the Lord destroys the Egyptian within us by taking away our ability to move forward and then destroys our old man by a baptism of water.

Exo 14:25  And took off their chariot wheels, that they drave them heavily: so that the Egyptians said, Let us flee from the face of Israel; for the LORD fighteth for them against the Egyptians.
Exo 14:26  And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand over the sea, that the waters may come again upon the Egyptians, upon their chariots, and upon their horsemen.
Exo 14:27  And Moses stretched forth his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to his strength when the morning appeared; and the Egyptians fled against it; and the LORD overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the sea.
Exo 14:28  And the waters returned, and covered the chariots, and the horsemen, and all the host of Pharaoh that came into the sea after them; there remained not so much as one of them.

It was “Hiram out of Tyre” a type of the elect, who was hired by king Solomon to make many of the temple furnishings, and the first mention of a wheel that he would have fashioned is found in (1Ki 7:32).

1Ki 7:32  And under the borders were four wheels; and the axletrees of the wheels were joined to the base: and the height of a wheel was a cubit and half a cubit.

These four brazen wheels held up the molten sea and gave it the ability to be moved. In this chapter (1Ki 7:13-51) we learn that this whole system of washing [the molten sea] the sacrifices that would be offered to God has a base that is described in these terms which are symbols of the elect who will be administering judgment upon the whole world. The elect will take God’s word to the world via [four wheels](Jhn 3:17 , Jhn 20:21). Those wheels will break the vessels of clay to shivers (Rev 2:27), with a rod of iron one day. The thousand year reign of the saints is a shadow of things to come, a natural ruling over the kingdoms of this world without (Rev 11:15) that will culminate in the elect judging the nations within mankind’s hearts in the lake of fire, great white throne judgement (1Ki 7:42-44).

Rev 2:27  And he shall rule them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers: even as I received of my Father.

Hiram: 1Ki 7:40; 2Ch 2:13, 2Ch 4:11, Huram

1Ki 7:42  And four hundred pomegranates for the two networks, even two rows of pomegranates for one network, to cover the two bowls of the chapiters that were upon the pillars;
1Ki 7:43  And the ten bases, and ten lavers on the bases;
[the pomegranates are symbolic of the healing blood of Christ and the elect will have the virtue given to them as it was to Christ to heal the world when they touch the hem of Christ’s garment, His spirit within the elect that will heal (Luk 8:43-47 , Exo 28:33-35)]

Luk 8:43  And a woman having an issue of blood twelve years, which had spent all her living upon physicians, neither could be healed of any,
Luk 8:44  Came behind him, and touched the border of his garment: and immediately her issue of blood stanched.
Luk 8:45  And Jesus said, Who touched me? When all denied, Peter and they that were with him said, Master, the multitude throng thee and press thee, and sayest thou, Who touched me?
Luk 8:46  And Jesus said, Somebody hath touched me: for I perceive that virtue is gone out of me.
Luk 8:47  And when the woman saw that she was not hid, she came trembling, and falling down before him, she declared unto him before all the people for what cause she had touched him, and how she was healed immediately

Exo 28:33  And beneath upon the hem of it thou shalt make pomegranates of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, round about the hem thereof; and bells of gold between them round about:
Exo 28:34  A golden bell and a pomegranate, a golden bell and a pomegranate, upon the hem of the robe round about.
Exo 28:35  And it shall be upon Aaron to minister: and his sound shall be heard when he goeth in unto the holy place before the LORD, and when he cometh out, that he die not.

The four wheels represent the whole 4 of the elect who operate as “one sea, and twelve oxen under the sea” (1Ki 7:44). The wheels in this instance represent the positive judgement that God’s elect will administer unto all the world. The wheels that were taken off of the Egyptian chariots represent God’s judgement or vengeance upon sin that wants to rule over us but will be conquered by Him (Exo 14:25).

1Ki 7:44  And one sea, and twelve oxen under the sea;

Exo 14:25  And took off their chariot wheels, that they drave them heavily: so that the Egyptians said, Let us flee from the face of Israel; for the LORD fighteth for them against the Egyptians.

Who is the wheel?

Christ is the wheel who is working in us both to will and to do of God’s good pleasure (Php 2:12-13).

We are blessed to be in the midst^G3319 of that throne right now where “out of the throne proceeded lightnings and thunderings and voices:[symbols of judgement] and there were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God”(Rev 4:3-9).

Rev 4:3  And he that sat was to look upon like a jasper and a sardine stone: and there was a rainbow round about the throne, in sight like unto an emerald.
Rev 4:4  And round about^G2943 the throne were four and twenty seats: and upon the seats I saw four and twenty elders sitting, clothed in white raiment; and they had on their heads crowns of gold.
Rev 4:5  And out of the throne proceeded lightnings and thunderings and voices: and there were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God.
Rev 4:6  And before the throne there was a sea of glass like unto crystal: and in the midst^G3319 of the throne, and round about the throne^G2945, were four beasts full of eyes before and behind.
Rev 4:7  And the first beast was like a lion, and the second beast like a calf, and the third beast had a face as a man, and the fourth beast was like a flying eagle.
Rev 4:8  And the four beasts had each of them six wings about him; and they were full of eyes within: and they rest not day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come.
Rev 4:9  And when those beasts give glory and honour and thanks to him that sat on the throne, who liveth for ever and ever,
Rev 4:10  The four and twenty elders [24] fall down before him [12] that sat on the throne, and worship him that liveth for ever and ever, and cast their crowns before the throne, saying,
Rev 4:11  Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.

G2943 round about kuklothen koo-kloth’-en
Adverb from the same as G2945; from the circle, that is, all around: – (round) about.
Total KJV occurrences: 4

G2945 round about the throne kuklō
Thayer Definition:
1) in a circle, around, round about, on all sides
Part of Speech: adverb
A Related Word by Thayer’s/Strong’s Number: as if dative case of kuklos (a ring, “cycle” – akin to G2947)

G3319 midst mesos mes’-os
From G3326; middle (as adjective or [neuter] noun): – among, X before them, between, + forth, mid [-day, -night], midst, way.

This section of Revelation (Rev 4:3-9) has its type and shadow relationship revealed in (1Ki 7:13-51) and in both instances it is talking about a place of judgement and mercy where His “lightnings and thunderings and voices: and there were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God” are being heard and manifest through the church (2Co 2:14 , Eph 3:4 , Eph 3:10) who is represented by the “seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God”. The connection with the number 360 has to do with judgement as we saw, and now we’re seeing where that judgment is taking place today (1Pe 4:17), and where it will be administered in the future by the saints who will be the saviours that come up on mount Zion to do that judging (1Co 6:3 , Oba 1:21).

2Co 2:14  Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in every place.

Eph 3:4  Whereby, when ye read, ye may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ)

Eph 3:10  To the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God,

The circle reminds us that God’s work is not random or without purpose. He is working all things according to the counsel of His own will (Eph 1:11). What begins in darkness does not remain there. What is fleshly or carnal is brought under judgment. What is judged is brought through a process of death and resurrection, and what is raised is brought into newness of life in Christ.

This is why the words of Jeremiah are so fitting:

“O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of the LORD.” — (Jer 22:29)

The threefold “earth” reminds us of the complete earthly process of judgement through which God works in mankind starting with the elect of God (1Pe 4:17). Christ entered into the heart of the earth, the church (Col 1:27 , Rom 8:9) and He is the One who brings us out of spiritual darkness or death into life typified by this statement regarding Lazarus (Jhn 11:11)

“Our friend Lazarus sleepeth; but I go, that I may awake him out of sleep.

One final thought regarding the stone that was rolled back from Christ’s tomb. This round (360°) stone was designed to be rolled and represents Christ and our need to be crushed under that stone as we die daily, which results in our being dead to sin and alive in Christ, imagery that is centred around the sepulchre of Christ for our sakes (Mat 21:44 , Mat 27:60 , Rom 6:3-4 , Mrk 16:3-6 , 2Co 4:15).

Mat 21:44  And whosoever shall fall on this stone shall be broken: but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder.

Mat 27:60  And laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock: and he rolled a great stone to the door of the sepulchre, and departed.

Rom 6:3  Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?
Rom 6:4  Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.

Mrk 16:3  And they said among themselves, Who shall roll us away the stone from the door of the sepulchre?
Mrk 16:4  And when they looked, they saw that the stone was rolled away: for it was very great.[type of Christ]
Mrk 16:5  And entering into the sepulchre, they saw a young man sitting on the right side, clothed in a long white garment; and they were affrighted.
Mrk 16:6  And he saith unto them, Be not affrighted: Ye seek Jesus of Nazareth, which was crucified: he is risen; he is not here: behold the place where they laid him.

2Co 4:15  For all things are for your sakes, that the abundant grace might through the thanksgiving of many redound to the glory of God.

“Divine Order In Creation And Scripture” – Part 6

“For where two or three are gathered together in my name,
there am I in the midst of them” (Mat 18:20)

[Study Aired September 3, 2026]

In this study we’ll look at more phrases in God’s word that use the numbers ‘two and/or three’ side by each.

There are eleven verses in the KJV bible that use the phrase “two or three”, and last week we looked at the only two red letter verses that discuss these numbers together, in (Mat 18:16, Mat 18:20). Those verses are very revealing as they show us what it takes for the body of Christ to be spiritually established with God’s word in us, “after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.”(1Pe 5:10), and how Christ as the author and finisher of our faith, must be in the midst of that process, “at that day” in order for this to be accomplished (Jhn 14:20-21).

Mat 18:16  But if he will not hear thee, then take with thee one or two more, that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established.

Mat 18:20  For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.

Jhn 14:20  At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.
Jhn 14:21  He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.

If we do a search for verses with the words ‘two’ and ‘three’ in them, it broadens the results to fourteen matches, and (Mat 18:16, Mat 18:20) still remain the only two red letter verses with those words being used together.

One other area of red letter scripture that I did not include in the study last week includes the word “thrice” as opposed to “three” (Mrk 14:30).

Mrk 14:30  And Jesus saith unto him, Verily I say unto thee, That this day, even in this night, before the cock crow twice, thou shalt deny me thrice.

The principle point that was being made for us through this section of Peter’s life, is that judgement is upon the body of Christ that is represented by the word “thrice”, which is a judgement that makes it possible for us to be received of God as we come to see the hypocrisy of our own flesh, vis-a-vis the chastening and scourgings that God administers to His children so that we can learn to forsake ungodliness and worldly lusts (Heb 12:6-9, Tit 2:11-12).

Heb 12:6  For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.

Tit 2:12  Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;

It takes a life long process of judgement upon God’s people so that we can go unto perfection on the third day (Luk 13:32, Mat 24:13), and that judgment brings us to see our own self righteousness that opposes God (2Th 2:7-8), our own sin filled nature that denies Christ thrice (3), and can only cease from sinning (1Pe 4:1) through Christ’s deliverance as the true witness (2) and author and finisher of our faith, who tries our faith (2Ti 2:9-13, Php 2:12-16, 1Pe 1:7), and delivers us from ourselves, despite ourselves so we can, in the final analysis, be found with His righteousness and not our own (Jhn 8:31-32, Jhn 8:36, Jhn 15:5, Php 3:9).

2Th 2:7  For the mystery of iniquity (Ezk 33:13) doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.
2Th 2:8  And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:

2Ti 2:11  It is a faithful saying: For if we be dead with him, we shall also live with him: (Gal 2:20)
2Ti 2:12  If we suffer, we shall also reign with him: if we deny him, he also will deny us: (We all, including God’s elect, deny him “thrice”)
2Ti 2:13  If we believe not, yet he abideth faithful: he cannot deny himself. (Jhn 18:9, Rom 8:35-39)

Jhn 8:31  Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed;

Jhn 8:36  If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.

Jhn 15:5  I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.

This parable that unfolds with Peter denying Christ becomes a very critical event in his life for us to consider as it reminds us that we all, as God’s elect, come to naturally deny Christ thrice, but if we are His body, Christ will not deny his own flesh and bones the victory (Eph 5:30), the conquering of sin that He has promised will be given the bride of Christ (Rev 19:7), at the hands of a fit man who has us bound to the altar, to the glory of God (Lev 16:21, Psa 118:27).

Eph 5:30  For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.

Rev 19:7  Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready.

Lev 16:21  And Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions in all their sins, putting them upon the head of the goat, and shall send him away by the hand of a fit man into the wilderness:

Psa 118:27  God is the LORD, which hath shewed us light: bind the sacrifice with cords, even unto the horns of the altar.

It is Christ who is in the midst of our lives, represented by the number two, is the true witness and hope of glory within us who gives us the ability to endure that chastening grace that every son must receive in this life (Heb 12:6). This grace and faith process is happening in the midst of the church (Mat 12:40), represented by the fiery furnace (1Pe 4:12, 1Pe 4:17, 1Jn 4:17) that three men, Shadrach Meshach and Abednego, encountered with Christ the true witness (2) in their midst (Rev 3:14, Col 1:27).

1Pe 4:12  Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you:

1Jn 4:17  Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world.

Rev 3:14  And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God;

There is a correlation with God’s grace (5) that becomes evident when the numbers ‘two’ and ‘three’ are being discussed. Looking at the following verses below, we’ll see how they connect with the sum of His word.

This first verse in (Deu 17:5-6) is an old covenant witness that our old man of sin must be put to death by grace through faith (Eph 2:8) for having worshipped other gods, “And hath gone and served other gods, and worshipped them, either the sun, or moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded” (Deu 4 17:3).

Deu 17:6  At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, shall he that is worthy of death be put to death; but at the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to death.

That process of judgement begins upon the elect who are first to be judged in this life (1Pe 4:17) and through that judgment are prepared as the two witnesses who are given power in this age to judge the whole world within us (2Co 13:5, Rev 11:2-3) and, in time, will judge all the world without (1Co 6:3, Mat 22:29-30 , Oba 1:21).

Rev 11:2  But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.
Rev 11:3  And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.

1Co 6:3  Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more things that pertain to this life?

Mat 22:29  Jesus answered and said unto them, Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God.
Mat 22:30  For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven.

The witness has to be given first, which shows us that we are worthy of death, just as it was given to Peter, who represents God’s elect, that denied Christ as all flesh does. The word must go forth to stone our old man but only after the witness is given “at the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses”. Our blessing is to be judged now and not have to experience the “second death”, lake of fire, great white throne judgement (Rev 20:6). Our idea of judgement in the flesh is not accompanied with mercy, but through Christ that all changes (Jhn 8:7).

Rev 20:6  Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.

Jhn 8:7  So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.

[It is the sinless body of Christ that is raised in the first resurrection who will be given the honour to judge angels [“He that is without sin among you”], and an accounting will be given of all, their own words that will judge them in that day (Mat 12:37). We don’t throw old covenant stones, rather we use God’s word to convict the world, showing mercy toward them in doing so, as God has done and is doing to us today. Joseph illustrates this judgement with his brothers that is a process that takes time.(Gen 50:15)]

The witness that the two witnesses give to the world will not return void and will serve to show all carnal minds in time how we cannot keep His commandments and die with Christ unless God’s spirit is within us (Col 1:27). Salvation comes after the witness is given during the thousand year reign of the saints, after Gog and Magog who symbolizes all the world, come up against the camp of the saints (Rev 20:8) to then be devoured by fire (Rev 11:3, Isa 55:11, Psa 127:1). That physical destruction is a shadow of the spiritual judgement that will happen to all of humanity in the lake of fire (Rom 1:20).

The next verse, (Deu 19:15), is another way of saying what scripture says in this verse (2Pe 1:20). Again something cannot be established unless there are multiple witnesses of it which brings us back to these two verses we’ve looked at  before, (Mat 18:16, Mat 18:20).

Deu 19:15  One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he sinneth: at the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall the matter be established.

2Pe 1:20  Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.

This next verse, (Jos 7:3), is a parable of how it is only through Christ that the process of judgement upon our sinful nature can be accomplished (1Sa 17:47)

Jos 7:3  And they returned to Joshua, and said unto him, Let not all the people go up; but let about two or three thousand men go up and smite Ai; and make not all the people to labour thither; for they are but few.

1Sa 17:47  And all this assembly shall know that the LORD saveth not with sword and spear: for the battle is the LORD’S, and he will give you into our hands.

This next verse, (2Ki 9:32), talks about the death of Jezebel who symbolizes the Babylonian churches we come out of, as well as our old man that must be destroyed. Her death is at the hand of two or three eunuchs who represent the elect of God that are eunuchs for the kingdom’s sake, not bearing children or false doctrine in this life anymore, and overcoming Babylon (Jezebel), via a process of judgement upon her [two or three eunuchs] (2Ki 9:33). Again ‘two’ mentioned to remind us that only Christ can give us victory over this deceived world that we are in but not of (2Co 6:17, Jhn 17:15-17).

2Ki 9:32  And he lifted up his face to the window, and said, Who is on my side? who? And there looked out to him two or three eunuchs.
2Ki 9:33  And he said, Throw her down. So they threw her down: and some of her blood was sprinkled on the wall, and on the horses: and he trode her under foot.

2Co 6:17  Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you,
2Co 6:18  And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.

Jhn 17:15  I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil.
Jhn 17:16  They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
Jhn 17:17  Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.

In this chapter of Isaiah, we find the next verse we will look at, (Isa 17:6), where the city of Damascus, Israel and Syria are used as a type of our old man that must be judged. For the purpose of our study, I just want to point to the numbers in this verse, and once again we see that they point to judgement upon God’s people, the remnant, who are being saved by grace through faith (Eph 2:8).

Isa 17:6  Yet gleaning grapes shall be left in it, as the shaking of an olive tree, two or three berries in the top of the uppermost bough, four or five in the outmost fruitful branches thereof, saith the LORD God of Israel.

The remnant is being typified by these small numbers representing the grace and faith needed upon our old man [2 or 3 berries = 5], which represent His judgement that is also expressed by the numbers 4 and 5, which add up to 9. For a more in-depth study on this judgement of our old man, please see the following done by Mike Vinson nine years ago:

iswasandwillbe.com/prophecy-of-isaiah-isa-171-7-damascus-shall-be-a-ruinous-heap/

This next verse has surrounding context that shows the stubbornness of our hearts and minds that doesn’t want to return unto God despite his ‘judgments. He wants to restore what the palmerworm has taken away “yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD”. So this “two or three” being spoken of is an example of grace and faith that is rejected and despised (Rom 2:3-4).

Amo 4:8  So two or three cities wandered unto one city, to drink water; but they were not satisfied: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.

Rom 2:3  And thinkest thou this, O man, that judgest them which do such things, and doest the same, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God?
Rom 2:4  Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?

In the next verse we will focus on “two or three” firkins of wine that filled the “six waterpots of stone” at the Cana wedding feast. ‘Six’ is the number of mankind, and the process by which we are being saved is through the sanctification of those waterpots symbolized by water turning into wine, God’s word, which must fill us “after the manner of the purifying of the Jews”, which purifying is symbolic of our being sanctified in this age by God’s word (Jhn 17:17).

It’s two or three firkins a piece in every pot, which witnesses that Christ must completely fill our lives as the author and finisher of our faith (Heb 12:2, Php 1:6). The three sixes that make up the mark of mankind 6.6.6. must be overcome by Christ (2) who grows in us when we are part of a miraculous process of judgement in this life, represented by the first miracle of Christ and a parable of what is going to happen in the lives of the bride of Christ first [Christ (2) x process of judgement (3) = 6]

Jhn 2:6  And there were set there six waterpots of stone, after the manner of the purifying of the Jews, containing two or three firkins apiece.

These verses remind us that when God’s grace and faith are working in our lives we are going to be learning to do things decently and in order. Numbers in the bible establish the fact that we serve a God who does all things decently and in order. Any man or prophet of God gives witness to Christ being in the midst of their lives by the numbers 2 and 3 being mentioned.

1Co 14:27  If any man speak in an unknown tongue, let it be by two, or at the most by three, and that by course; and let one interpret.

1Co 14:29  Let the prophets speak two or three, and let the other judge.(Mat 18:16, Mat 18:20)

As Christ was sent so are we sent to each other today and eventually to all the world (Jhn 20:21). We are coming in the name of the Lord (Psa 118:26), and as mentioned before, God’s word can only be established through just judgment which can only manifest by our committing our lives unto Him as unto a faithful creator (Jhn 5:30, Jhn 15:5, 1Pe 4:19)

Jhn 5:30  I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me.

2Co 13:1  This is the third time I am coming to you. In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established.

Jhn 15:5  I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.

In this next entry, we see that there is safety in a multitude of counsellors, and an accusation against an elder should not happen unless there are two or three witnesses (1Ti 5:19).

1Ti 5:19  Against an elder receive not an accusation, but before two or three witnesses.

Again, the 2 or 3 reminds us that it must be coming from someone who the Lord (2) is working with and saving by grace through faith (5) in this age through a process of judgement (3). It is qualified in this instance that their must be 2 or 3 witnesses, but the point remains that those witnesses must have no guile and need to be disciples indeed, bearing fruit that gives evidence that they are such men (Luk 6:44, Heb 13:7). Our detractors will ask why their multitude of counsellors is not accepted and ours is, and the answer lies in looking for which of the two parties is being obedient to the commandments of God, and not speaking heretical doctrine (1Jn 4:5-6, 1Co 11:19). The person who is not speaking heresies is the one who is being judged in this age and is being saved by grace through faith, making it possible to bring forth good fruit [2+3=5]

1Jn 4:5  They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them.
1Jn 4:6  We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.

1Co 11:19  For there must be also heresies among you, that they which are approved may be made manifest among you.

This last entry of our study, (Heb 10:28), is a type and shadow statement saying that those who are not being judged by Christ today, a judgement typified by the law of Moses, will die without being shown the mercy that is upon those who are being saved today by grace through faith [2+3=5].

Heb 10:28  He that despised Moses’ law died without mercy under two or three witnesses:

If we are in that blessed and holy first resurrection, those that we judge will see their old carnal nature die by being judged by 2 or 3 witnesses, which represents the elect and the process of judgement that will be administered at that time, mercy ruling over the judgement that we have already endured (1Co 6:3, Jas 2:13, Rom 11:30-31).

1Co 6:3  Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more things that pertain to this life?

Jas 2:13  For he shall have judgment without mercy, that hath shewed no mercy; and mercy rejoiceth against judgment.

Rom 11:30  For as ye in times past have not believed God, yet have now obtained mercy through their unbelief:
Rom 11:31  Even so have these also now not believed, that through your mercy they also may obtain mercy.

“Divine Order In Creation And Scripture” – Part 5

“For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them”(Mat 18:20)

[Study Aired August 20, 2026]

In this study we’ll look at the verses in God’s word that use the numbers and phrase “two or three” side by each.

There are eleven verses in the KJV bible that use the phrase “two or three” and we’ll look at each one individually.

The words of Christ are parables that hide the true meaning from the masses (Mat 13:10-13, Mrk 4:34), and these red-letter words of Christ (Mat 18:16, Mat 18:20) are the first parables that we’ll take a closer look at, along with the other nine later.

Regarding parables:

Mat 13:10  And the disciples came, and said unto him, Why speakest thou unto them in parables?

[parables like: “where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them” (Mat 18:20) and “But if he will not hear thee, then take with thee one or two more, that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established” (Mat 18:16)]

Mat 13:11  He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.[Heb 13:10]
Mat 13:12  For whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance: but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that he hath.
Mat 13:13  Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.

Mrk 4:34  But without a parable spake he not unto them: and when they were alone, he expounded all things to his disciples.[Mat 13:16]

God’s words cannot “be established” (Mat 18:16) within us unless there is the true witness of Jesus Christ [2] cleansing the temple of God within (1Co 3:16) of all the deception and lies that initially inhabit the temple (Jhn 2:16). That beastly nature must be driven out by Christ’s judgements upon us [3] by which we are received and “established”  by grace through faith [5] [Heb 12:6, 1Pe 5:10]. The combination of Christ [2] executing a process of judgement [3] upon the body of Christ (1Pe 4:17) is what is going to make us perfect, stablish, strengthen and settled in the Lord (Jhn 2:15-19, Ecc 4:12, Tit 2:12-13).

1Pe 5:10  But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.

Christ reveals to us who it is that truly has Christ in their midst. It is those who are being judged in this age (1Pe 4:17) and being given to put off our flesh so that we can trust God, and this all being done to His glory, “For where two or three are gathered together in my name (Jhn 6:44), there am I in the midst of them”. It is not specifically because there were two or three people, making God obligated to be in their midst, but is because of what those numbers mean to us as the body of Christ who are given eyes to see their spiritual meaning.

As a witness to this concept, God put two or three people in the fiery furnace, who were in the midst of Christ who was the fourth man in the book of Daniel, in that fire (Dan 3:16-28). It’s not about the amount of people, it’s about what the numbers represent to us spiritually, and this story is plainly showing us that the process of judgement upon flesh [3], represented by Shadrach Meshach and Abednego – [3] men, must have Christ in the midst of them [2] in order to bring salvation which will come to the whole of humanity in time [4 men].

The response given to Nebuchadnezzar in (Dan 3:17-18) is what brought great fury to him, and is akin to these verses in (1Co 3:13-15) that remind us that “Every man’s [4] work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man’s [4] work of what sort it is”. Nebuchadnezzar is part of the “every man” whose work is being revealed by his anger, similar to Cain’s wrath toward Abel. And we can go so far as to say that everyone who is against God’s word is unknowingly showing hatred toward Christ and His body, including those that God gives over to a heretical spirit, and ultimately the whole of humanity coming up against the camp of the saints [1Jn 3:12-15, Rev 20:7-8). That hatred toward the body of Christ is prophesied to only grow stronger as we near the end of this evil age. Thanks be to God that we are in His arms and being delivered from the fiery furnace.

Dan 3:17  If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of thine hand, O king.
Dan 3:18  But if not, be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up.

1Co 3:13  Every man’s work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man’s work of what sort it is.
1Co 3:14  If any man’s work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward.
1Co 3:15  If any man’s work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.

1Jn 3:12  Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother’s righteous.
1Jn 3:13  Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hate you.
1Jn 3:14  We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death.
1Jn 3:15  Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.

Cleansing the temple that we are:

Jhn 2:15  And when he had made a scourge of small cords, he drove them all [4] out of the temple [1Co 3:16], and the sheep, and the oxen; and poured out the changers’ money, and overthrew the tables;
Jhn 2:16  And said unto them that sold doves, Take these things hence; make not my Father’s house an house of merchandise.
Jhn 2:17  And his disciples remembered that it was written, The zeal of thine house hath eaten me up.
Jhn 2:18  Then answered the Jews and said unto him, What sign shewest thou unto us, seeing that thou doest these things?[2]
Jhn 2:19  Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple,[2 – his body our body (Col 1:24)] and in three days I will raise it up

[3 – the process of judgement that requires Christ 2 in the midst of our hearts and mind, in His body the church (Col 1:24), as we are being saved by grace through faith 3+2=5 (Mat 12:39)].

Mat 12:39  But he answered and said unto them, An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas:

[It is Babylon, that God’s people are called out of, which is that evil and spiritually adulterous generation being spoken and who are given a sign which is only physical to them [knowing Christ only after the flesh as we all did in our appointed time], a sign that is a parable for the unbelieving (1Co 14:22). This sign is another witness for God’s elect that Christ [2] has to be in the midst of the earth [the church] for three days [3], in order to judge us so we can hear His words. (Jer 22:29)]

Mat 12:40  For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale’s belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

When Christ is in our midst it will ultimately do us no good regarding going on to perfection, unless He is within us as our hope of glory (Col 1:27), a hope that we share as the body of Christ and one that cleanses the temple to see ‘the wood hay and stubble burnt out’. If we are blessed to continue to abide in Him and endure all things through him ‘the gold, silver and precious stones’ will also be purified within us (1Jn 3:3, Jhn 17:17, 1Co 3:12-13, Mal 3:17, Eph 2:8).

Jhn 2:15  And when he had made a scourge of small cords,[“a threefold cord is not quickly broken“] he drove them all out of the temple (1Co 3:16), and the sheep, and the oxen; and poured out the changers’ money, and overthrew the tables;
Jhn 2:16  And said unto them that sold doves, Take these things hence; make not my Father’s house an house of merchandise. [as a rich and foolish old king who represents our unbridled flesh (Ecc 4:13)]

Ecc 4:12  And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.
Ecc 4:13  Better is a poor and a wise child [man child Rev 12:5] than an old and foolish king, who will no more be admonished (Rom 2:4).

1Jn 3:3  And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.(Col 1:27);

Jhn 17:17  Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.

The order of what Christ drove out of the temple is significant as well “he drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen; and poured out the changers’ money, and overthrew the tables”. The first thing to go is the people which represents our carnal wood hay and stubble selves, then “the sheep, and the oxen; and poured out the changers’ money, and overthrew the tables” which represent the valuable idols of the rich young ruler (Mat 19:22) that are wrapped around our hearts [iniquity which is self righteousness (Ezk 33:13, Ezk 18:26)] and must be driven out and overthrown to be replaced with true worship in spirit and in truth (Jhn 4:23). It all has to go, and Christ is the man who is going to get the job done within the body of Christ as our hope of glory [obedience] (Col 1:27).

What we are going to be looking for in the following eleven verses with the phrase “two or three” is a witness that is either positive or negative with the number 2, and a process of judgement being described positively or negatively regarding the number 3.

The other lesson we can search out is found by knowing that we can add 2+3 to get the number 5 which is the number that is associated with grace through faith. God’s grace and faith require the gift of the Comforter [Jhn 14:16] being within us [2] enabling us to go through a process of judgement [3] in this life, as the author and finisher of our faith finishes that which has been predestined to succeed from the foundation of the world (Heb 12:2, Eph 1:12, Rom 11:1-36).

Heb 12:2  Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.

Eph 1:12  That we should be to the praise of his glory, who first trusted in Christ.

“Comforter” of (Jhn 14:16) –  G3875 paraklētos par-ak’-lay-tos
An intercessor, consoler: – advocate, comforter.
Total KJV occurrences: 5

If we are as Christ in this life, we are going to be judged and suffer as He did in his flesh (1Jn 4:17), filling up what is behind of the afflictions of our Lord (Isa 53:4, Lev 16:21, Col 1:24, 2Ti 2:12). These are His words related to judgement that are true of His own body as well (Jhn 5:30-36,  Jhn 20:21, jhn 3:17)

1Jn 4:17  Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment1Pe 4:17, Heb 5:8) because as he is, so are we in this world.

Jhn 5:30  I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me.(Pro 3:5-6) [“for without me ye can do nothing“Jhn 15:5]
Jhn 5:31  If I bear witness of myself, my witness is not true.
Jhn 5:32  There is another that beareth witness of me; and I know that the witness which he witnesseth of me is true.
Jhn 5:33  Ye sent unto John, and he bare witness unto the truth.
Jhn 5:34  But I receive not testimony from man: [John] but these things I say, that ye might be saved. [Eph 2:8]
Jhn 5:35  He was a burning and a shining light: and ye were willing for a season to rejoice in his light.
Jhn 5:36  But I have greater witness than that of John: (as does the body of Christ Rev 11:3, Jhn 14:12) for the works which the Father hath given me to finish, the same works that I do, bear witness of me,[2] that the Father hath sent me.[Jhn 20:21]

Jhn 20:21  Then said Jesus to them again, Peace be unto you: as my Father hath sent me, even so send I you. [our being sent of Christ bears witness that we are His body that Christ is working through]

[we bear witness of the Father and Christ (Rev 11:3) as Christ did of His Father (Jhn 14:9). We suffer as Christ did, and cease from sinning (1Pe 4:1), growing in our discipleship toward one another that is revealed by our love for one another, expressed in obedience to His commandments (1Jn 5:2-3)]

Jhn 3:17  For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.[Oba 1:21]

Grace [5] is not grace by which we can be saved if it is based on works that don’t acknowledge Christ doing the work within us (Gal 2:20). We die daily and carry our cross so that we can bring forth good works via the grace and faith [2+3=5] by which we are being saved (Tit 3:8, Eph 2:8). We must constantly be striving to acknowledge who it is that is doing those works within us both to will and to do of God’s good pleasure as we continually go about our Father’s business as Christ did (Luk 2:49, 1Jn 4:17), working out those works with fear and trembling in the days of His flesh and bones that we are (Php 2:12-13, Heb 5:7).

God is omniscient and the whole world lives and moves and has their being in Him (Act 17:28). The elect also have their being in Christ, the difference being that Christ is only within those who have His spirit in them (Col 1:27, Rom 8:9, Jhn 14:20), which makes it possible for us to be saved by grace through faith because “we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose”(his purpose Rom 8:28, Eph 2:8) that is accomplished by His love being shed abroad in our hearts, which works with the faith of Christ that is given to us, excluding boasting (Rom 5:5, Gal 5:4-6, Rom 3:27).

Gal 5:6  For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love.

Rom 3:27  Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.
Rom 3:28  Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.

Notice the answer that is given to Elias who felt he was alone in (Rom 11:1-8). Physically he often was alone, as do many of His body’s members have to be due to physical circumstances in this life. Of course, we don’t forsake the assembling of the brethren when the Lord has given us those opportunities (Heb 12:10), and that is not just speaking about physically coming together, but being raised together through a sacrificial life that is presented to God as a living sacrifice, which is our reasonable service that brings us together in Christ (Eph 2:6-8, Rom 12:1).

Rom 11:1  I say then, Hath God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.
Rom 11:2  God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew. Wot ye not what the scripture saith of Elias? how he maketh intercession to God against Israel, saying,
Rom 11:3  Lord, they have killed thy prophets, and digged down thine altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life.
Rom 11:4  But what saith the answer of God unto him? I have reserved to myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to the image of Baal.
Rom 11:5  Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.

[regarding the earlier point, it is the few who are being saved in this life by grace through faith (Eph 2:8, Eph 1:12), typified by the “seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to the image of Baal” made possible by the life of Christ within us and the process of  judgement that we are going through that enables us to trust Him 2+3=5]

Rom 11:6  And if by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then is it no more grace: otherwise work is no more work.
Rom 11:7  What then? Israel hath not obtained that which he seeketh for; but the election hath obtained it, and the rest were blinded.

[the Israel of God is obtaining it and will obtain it by grace through faith 5 that can only be accomplished by the works that Christ does in us 2, which entails  a lifelong process of judgement that is upon our old man 3]

Rom 11:8  (According as it is written, God hath given them the spirit of slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear;) unto this day.

To recap, God’s word is being “established” within us through Christ as we grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Saviour (2Pe 3:18). Matthew chapter 18, and verses 16 and 20 in particular (Mat 18:16, Mat 18:20), are all about judgement and the blessing it brings upon those who have Christ [2] in the midst of their lives today, doing that judging which is a process [3] that the entire body of Christ is part of and not to despise (Rom 2:4), as He works in us toward the goal of being established and reconciled to Christ with His mind that brings joy to every member of His body who are being saved by grace through faith (Php 2:2-3).

Mat 18:16  But if he will not hear thee, then take with thee one or two more, that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established.

Mat 18:20  For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.

2Pe 3:18  But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and for ever. Amen.

Php 2:2  Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind.
Php 2:3  Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.

Next week Lord willing we will delve into the next series of verses that have the phrase “two or three” within them.

“Divine Order in Creation and Scripture” – Part 4

‘One Day is With the Lord as a Thousand Years, and a Thousand Years as One Day’

[Study Aired August 20, 2026]

This 3rd chapter of Peter helps interpret for us the signified meaning (Rev 1:1) of these words that we will be looking at, “But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day”, found in (2Pe 3:8).

Why are we told “But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing…”. Why is there so much emphasis for God’s elect being placed on this verse, and what does this ratio of 1 day to a 1000 years and a 1000 years to 1 day have to do with God’s people?

In this study, we’ll look at the context in (2Pe 3:1-13) that points to the need for judgement in the lives of those who God is dragging to Christ in this age (1Pe 4:17, Jhn 6:44). We know that 1000 is a number that represents that process of judgement [three 10’s] that all flesh in time will need to experience (10x10x10=1000). Judgement however, first begins with the elect (1Pe 4:17), a judgement that is typified in (Psa 84:10). What the psalmist is telling us is the same thing that the Hebrews writer said about Moses in (Heb 11:26).

Psa 84:10  For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.

Heb 11:26  Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt: for he had respect unto the recompence of the reward.

Here are the first few verses in 2Pe 3:

2Pe 3:1  This second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you; in both which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance:
2Pe 3:2  That ye may be mindful of the words [1Co 4:6] which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us the apostles of the Lord and Saviour:[1Co 4:16-17]
2Pe 3:3  Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,[no repentance and no adherence to that which has been proven already and held fast to (1Th 5:21, Rev 3:11)]
2Pe 3:4  And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.[hardened hearts]
2Pe 3:5  For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:

[No fear, or faith in God’s word as they reject “the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us the apostles of the Lord and Saviour”(2Pe 3:2). Today it is as it was in the days of Noah, or in the time of Lot where very little typical faith was found then, just as there will be a small remnant of God’s elect who will have the faith of Christ when He returns being convinced of where we have learned what we have learned (1Co 14:37-40). It is God’s people who recognize the process that takes us from the sea to the earth as we are raised into heavenly places due to His mercy that makes it possible for us to go from glory to glory, learning obedience from the things that we suffer (2Co 3:18, Rom 2:4, Heb 5:8, 1Jn 4:17)]

2Pe 3:6  Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:[(1Pe 3:20-21, Mat 24:37, Luk 17:28)]
2Pe 3:7  But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men. (Luk 18:7-8)

And then right after being told that we are not to lose sight of the reality that the world is being “reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men”, we come to the verse we’re focused on, (2Pe 3:8), that explains what God is doing in the lives of those who are being preserved spiritually or sealed in the Lord today, in the day of the Lord.

2Pe 3:8  But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing,(Php 3:13) that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.(1Jn 1:7)
2Pe 3:9  The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward,(Rom 2:3-4) not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

[God will save all men, but the context here is to encourage His children to remember that He will not be slack in getting the job done of receiving His elect today through judgment (Heb 12:6, Rom 8:28, Rom 5:20)]

2Pe 3:10  But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.[2Th 2:5-8]
2Pe 3:11  Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,(1Pe 5:6)
2Pe 3:12  Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God,(Heb 10:25) wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?[2Th 2:5-8]
2Pe 3:13  Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.

[We look for a new heaven and earth that is now in subjection unto Christ who has all power over heaven and earth (Mat 28:18) as the fit man of (Lev 16:21) who is able to judge us and give us the fiery trials in this life that we are not to think of as being strange (1Pe 4:12). It is that judgment that is upon the house of God that we give thanks and praise to our Father in heaven for. That judgement is the wonderful works unto the children of men that is preparing our hearts to be kings and priests in His service (Psa 107:31).]

Psa 84:10  For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.

Heb 11:26  Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt: for he had respect unto the recompense of the reward.(Rom 8:12, Rom 8:18, Rom 8:21)

Psa 107:31  Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men!

The number one represents unity, and the unchangeable nature of God that, if we are granted to continue in, will purify us with that hope within us (1Jn 3:3, Col 1:27). Our hope of glory is that Christ will accomplish what must happen in the day of the Lord for God’s children, ‘today’, a day that is also symbolized by the number 1. Experiencing the day of the Lord is what is required in order for us to be partakers of that unity, or one body of Christ (1Co 12:12).

1Jn 3:3  And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.

Col 1:27  To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:

1Co 12:12  For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ.

God’s elect are judged in this life (1Pe 4:17) and that judgement is symbolized by the ratio of 1 to a 1000 and 1000 to 1. Another way of looking at these numbers is found in (Jhn 3:30). The increase in our life that God gives us is represented by the number 1 (1Co 3:6). The ability to hear the word of the Lord with spiritual eyes and ears comes as a result of that judgement, so when we say 10x10x10=1000 it could be expressed this way as well “O earth [10], earth [10], earth [10], hear the word of the LORD”, which can only happen as a result of the day of the Lord [1] that is working against the flesh via a process (three 10’s) of judgement against it [1000] (Jer 22:29). Clearly “a day in thy courts is better than a thousand” (Psa 84:10), because this house is a house of mourning where we are blessed to be dying daily, (1Co 15:31), decreasing daily so that He can increase (Ecc 7:2, Mic 6:8, Jer 18:4).

Jhn 3:30  He must increase [1], but I must decrease[1000].

Ecc 7:2  It is better to go to the house of mourning,[Isa 53:3, Mat 10:22, 1Jn 4:17] than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his heart [those who are ‘alive in Christ and dead to sin’ will lay this to their hearts today and the rest will consider this in the lake of fire, great white throne judgement].

Mic 6:8  He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?

Jer 18:4  And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter: so he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it.

When something is typical of something else it will often be spoken of as being as, [eg: as in the days of Noah, or, it was the same [as] in the days of Lot] and so when we look at this verse in question “But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day” (2Pe 3:8), we’re being shown that both numbers represent a judgement of sorts.

So simply put, those who are being judged today, God’s elect, are being conformed to the image of Christ via that judgement that is represented by the number [1] as opposed to those during the 1000-year reign of the saints who will be judged with a rod of iron, fleshly judgement that is represented by the number 1000. The judgement symbolized by [1000] is as, or typical of the judgement that will come upon all the world in the lake of fire, judgement that will be upon all the world at that time represented by the number [1]. This is why 1 is as a 1000 and a 1000 is as 1. True lasting spiritual change can only come via fiery trials for God’s elect ‘today’, and the lake of fire for the rest of the world in the second resurrection.

If we examine or judge ourselves today (2Co 13:5), we will not need to be judged tomorrow and be saved yet so as by fire (1Co 3:13-15).

2Co 13:5  Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?

1Co 3:13  Every man’s work shall be made manifest: for the day [1] shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man’s work of what sort it is.
1Co 3:14  If any man’s work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward.[1st resurrection]
1Co 3:15  If any man’s work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.[2nd resurrection]

Another point to remember about the ratio of 1 to a 1000 and a 1000 to 1 found in (2Pe 3:8) is that God is showing us that all that He is accomplishing in all of humanity is outside of time. God is not bound by time as we are in this life. The illusion for flesh is that we have free will, because of our fleshly composition, however as fast as we may think we are in our flesh and minds that control that flesh, God is infinitely faster, and I put it that way to illustrate that flesh does appear to be able to control its own destiny, but God declares, NO, there is one will, and it is His will that is working all things according to the counsel of His own will (Eph 1:11). It is God’s will to quicken his people via that judgement today, changing us as we go from glory to glory learning obedience by the thing that we suffer, as opposed to having hearts repeatedly hardened despite the judgement upon us as was the case with Pharoah and the nation of Israel who are types of us. This of course is connected to the warning that we mentioned last week, that we must hear his voice who speaks to us from heaven (Heb 12:25) and not despise His goodness that is leading us unto repentance (Rom 2:3). Lord willing or permitting (Heb 6:3) that is what we will experience in this age (Eph 1:11, Isa 45:7).

Heb 6:3  And this will we do, if God permit.

Eph 1:11  In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:

Isa 45:7  I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.

Is God that fast and omniscient that He can take this corrupt flesh and in due time make us profitable servants? Of course, the answer is yes (Jhn 6:63, Jhn 3:5, Jer 18:4, 2Ti 3:17).

Jhn 6:63  It is the spirit that quickeneth;[1] the flesh profiteth nothing:[1000] the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.

Jhn 3:5 Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water [1000] and of the Spirit [1], he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.

Jer 18:4  And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter: so he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it.

2Ti 3:17  That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.

The ratio of 1 to 1000 and 1000 to 1 is very intriguing (2Pe 3:8), as it reminds us that from God’s perspective our life is a mist, but that does not mean that He cannot control that mist perfectly (Jas 4:14, Psa 103:15), as scripture declares He does (Psa 139:16). As an example, when accidents happen in this life there are a myriad of moving parts that unfold very quickly from the perspective of our clay vessels. We can be assured that God is ever present, and in complete control of every single detail of any accident because He is outside of time and causing the events (Eph 1:11). So, it’s profitable to know God’s perspective of our corrupt, transient, and weak flesh, especially when we consider how merciful He is (Luk 17:10, Psa 103:8-13).

Jas 4:14  Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.

Psa 103:15  As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.

Luk 17:10  So likewise ye, when ye shall have done all those things which are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants: we have done that which was our duty to do.

Psa 103:8  The LORD is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy.
Psa 103:9  He will not always chide: neither will he keep his anger for ever.
Psa 103:10  He hath not dealt with us after our sins; nor rewarded us according to our iniquities.
Psa 103:11  For as the heaven is high above the earth, so great is his mercy toward them that fear him.
Psa 103:12  As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us.
Psa 103:13  Like as a father pitieth his children, so the LORD pitieth them that fear him.

We can commit our ways unto Him as unto a faithful Creator who can deliver us through judgment (1Pe 4:19), through the physical circumstances of our lives (Pro 3:5-8) that He has ordain in mercy and love toward us, regardless of what those circumstances are (Rom 8:28, Php 4:13, 1Co 13:7). The very first time the phrase “all things” is used is found in (Gen 9:3) where God tells us what He has given us. What we don’t understand at first is that the “all things” have never left the control of the One who created and gave them to us.

Eph 1:11  In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:

Rom 8:28  And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

Php 4:13  I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.

1Co 13:7  Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.(Rom 5:5)

Gen 9:3  Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you;[all things] even as the green herb have I given you all things.[all things 2Co 4:15]

2Co 4:15  For all things are for your sakes,[all things Isa 45:7] that the abundant grace might through the thanksgiving of many redound to the glory of God.

Next week, God willing, we will continue to look at the use of number combinations in scripture, not just the meaning of any single number that is critical to know, but also how some of the real time applications of those numbers or combination of the numbers, can reveal hidden treasures of God’s word for us (Pro 25:2).

Pro 25:2  It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings is to search out a matter.

“Divine Order In Creation And Scripture” – Part 3

Rightly Dividing the Word of Truth

[Study Aired August 13, 2026]

Last week we looked at how Christ and His body are not divided. This week we’ll look at how division is used in God’s word in a positive way (2Ti_2:15, Isa_28:10).

2Ti 2:15  Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

Isa 28:10  For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:

Regarding fractions, we know that 0.1 is the same as 1/10, working our way up, 0.2=2/10, 0.3=3/10, right up to 1.0=10/10

Looking at these fractions, which are numbers that have been divided, we can use this illustration to remind us in type and shadow that there are measures of God’s spirit (Rom_12:3-5) and that God is working with us to bring us to a point of wholeness, singleness in Christ (2Co_11:3, Rev_17:14), represented by the number 1 or 1.0 [unity] (Eph_4:13).

Rom 12:3  For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.
Rom 12:4  For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office:
Rom 12:5  So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.[Eph_4:16]

Eph 4:13 Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:[Luk_21:19, Rev_3:10]

2Co 11:3  But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity^G572 that is in Christ.

haplotēs hap-lot’-ace From G573; singleness,[one body] that is, (subjectively) sincerity (without dissimulation or self seeking), or (objectively) generosity (copious bestowal): – bountifulness, liberal (-ity), simplicity, singleness

Gideon‘s Army reduced or divided to the glory of God: 

Two sections of scripture that connect with this story of Gideon’s army are found in Romans chapters 11 and 9 (Rom_11:30-36, Rom_9:17-26): God always wants us to remember that we are His workmanship and that our salvation is not dependent on anything that we bring to the table, although we do work out our own salvation with fear and trembling when we know it is God who is working in us both to will and to do of His good pleasure which is to give us the kingdom (Php_2:12-13, Luk_12:32).

Rom 11:30  For as ye in times past have not believed God, yet have now obtained mercy through their unbelief:
Rom 11:31  Even so have these also now not believed, that through your mercy they also may obtain mercy.
Rom 11:32  For God hath concluded them all in unbelief, that he might have mercy upon all.
Rom 11:33  O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!
Rom 11:34  For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been his counsellor?
Rom 11:35  Or who hath first given to him, and it shall be recompensed unto him again?
Rom 11:36  For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things: to whom be glory for ever. Amen.

Rom 9:17  For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose have I raised thee up, that I might shew my power in thee, and that my name might be declared throughout all the earth.

[God’s power is a two edged sword (Heb_4:12) and the way Pharaoh’s heart was softened and hardened was to remind us that the blindness of this world and the bondage of sin is something that God is causing through Satan, the god of this world, who is typified by Pharaoh here (Jas_1:13-18, 1Ki_22:22). We know boasting is excluded by the law of faith (Rom_3:27), and sin is something repented of by God convicting us of it via the riches of His word that we are blessed to hear with spiritual ears (Rom_2:4, Rom_10:17) so we can be delivered from our sins through Christ who is able to wield that sword righteously in our heavens unlike Peter who cut off the ear of the servant (Jhn_8:36 , Christ is Heb_4:12)]

Rom 9:18  Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy,[Rev_11:3, Col_1:27, Zec_4:6, Rom_8:9] and whom he will he hardeneth.
Rom 9:19  Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his will?
Rom 9:20  Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?
Rom 9:21  Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?
Rom 9:22  What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:
Rom 9:23  And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory,
Rom 9:24  Even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?
Rom 9:25  As he saith also in Osee, I will call them my people, which were not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved.
Rom 9:26  And it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people; there shall they be called the children of the living God.

With these verses in mind, here is Gideon’s story:

Jdg 7:1  Then Jerubbaal, who is Gideon, and all the people that were with him, rose up early, and pitched beside the well of Harod: so that the host of the Midianites were on the north side of them, by the hill of Moreh, in the valley.
Jdg 7:2  And the LORD said unto Gideon, The people that are with thee are too many for me to give the Midianites into their hands, lest Israel vaunt themselves against me, saying, Mine own hand hath saved me.(Eph_2:8, Rom_3:27 , Deu_7:22)
Jdg 7:3  Now therefore go to, proclaim in the ears of the people, saying, Whosoever is fearful and afraid, let him return and depart early from mount Gilead. And there returned of the people twenty and two thousand; and there remained ten thousand.
Jdg 7:4  And the LORD said unto Gideon, The people are yet too many; bring them down unto the water, and I will try them for thee there: and it shall be, that of whom I say unto thee, This shall go with thee, the same shall go with thee; and of whomsoever I say unto thee, This shall not go with thee, the same shall not go.Jdg 7:5  So he brought down the people unto the water: and the LORD said unto Gideon, Every one that lappeth of the water with his
tongue, as a dog lappeth, him shalt thou set by himself; likewise every one that boweth down upon his knees to drink.
Jdg 7:6  And the number of them that lapped, putting their hand to their mouth, were three hundred men: but all the rest of the people bowed down upon their knees to drink water.
Jdg 7:7  And the LORD said unto Gideon, By the three hundred men that lapped will I save you,(2Ti_2:12) and deliver the Midianites into thine hand: and let all the other people go every man unto his place.

Rev 17:14  These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful.[three hundred men]

The called, and chosen and faithful are represented by Gideon’s army that was whittled down or divided from 32,000. Of this lot 22,00o departed early from mount Gilead and there remained 10,000, both numbers representing multiples of ten that represent the flesh, the way that seems right to us (Pro_14:12), our old man that must be put off via judgement (32,000 + 22,000=54,000 and 5+4=9 which is judgement).

The number 2,000 that is connected to 32,000 and 22,000 bears witness that this dividing of the army is a work of the Lord. The 300 that remain represents the new man, who is the 8th of the seven and will be more than a conqueror through Christ, enduring to the end (Rev_17:11).

Caleb is typical of those who have God’s holy spirit within (Num_14:24 , Rom_8:9 , Col_1:27 ), telling us that Christ is the only way we can make war against the powers and principalities we wrestle against (Eph_6:12)). This picture of the preparing of Gideon’s army is reminiscent of the parable of the Sower that results in many seeds not going onto maturity except for those that God had ordained Jdg_7:4-7 , Gal_3:16]. In Gideon’s case the few of (Mat_21:14) are represented by the 300 that remain, which is a symbolic number that tells us a process of judgment must be upon the few who are called and chosen to endure to the end (1Pe_4:17-18) in this life, being made ready through judgement [3x10x10=300](Rev_19:7)

Christ grew in “wisdom and stature“ (Luk_2:52) and we being like him (1Jn_4:17) grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Saviour via judgment (2Pe_3:18, 1Pe_4:12, 1Pe_4:17). Christ having the spirit without measure does not mean that He didn’t have to grow (Joh_3:34), but rather that the spirit given by God was the assurance that Christ our high priest would mature and never sin as a result of that power given to him to overcome every trial in this life as our spotless, sinless sacrifice, and finisher of our faith. Christ went on to tell his disciples that they would drink the cup prepared for them (Mat_20:23), and that the gates of hell would not prevail against the church (Eph_1:13-14, Rev_7:4 , Rom_5:10). That cup we drink represents the trials and much tribulation that we must endure (Act_14:22) in order to grow and go unto maturity in the Lord, being able to quench all the fiery darts of the adversary, so that we can one day rule under Christ (Eph_6:16 , 2Ti_2:12).

Eph 1:13 In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise,
Eph 1:14 Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.

Rev 7:4 And I heard the number of them which were sealed: and there were sealed an hundred and forty and four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel.

Rom 5:10  For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.

God made provision for Christ’s physical struggles in the flesh, and His experience of evil in this life was for our sakes so that we could have a high priest (Heb_4:14-16) who could identify with all that we go through in a life that can now see him increasing as we decrease (Joh_3:30), another most important ratio to contemplate of the author and finisher of our faith (Heb_12:2). Our old man is incrementally being divided and conquered by Christ, by little and little, and so our trials continue to nourish us in this life (Exo_23:30, Num_14:9).

Joh 3:30  He must increase, but I must decrease.

Heb 4:14 Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession. (Rev_3:10)
Heb 4:15 For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.
Heb 4:16 Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.

Exo 23:30  By little and little I will drive them out from before thee, until thou be increased, and inherit the land.

Num 14:9  Only rebel not ye against the LORD, neither fear ye the people of the land; for they are bread for us: their defence is departed from them, and the LORD is with us: fear them not.

Before we look at some more concrete examples of the positive use of division in the bible, there is a wonderful example of this in nature that can serve to help us understand how the spiritual organism of the body of Christ is growing day by day (Rom_1:20). That example is seen in plants. The process is called Meristematic Cell Division, which describes how a plant fractionalizes to grow and in time to bring forth fruit (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meristem).

Rom 1:20  For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:

I don’t want to spend too much time on the science of plants, but rather just make the point for now that this Meristematic Cell Division parallels very wonderfully with how God’s spiritual creation is developing.

God is the husbandman who oversees all of His creation and has in like manner as with plants, created the conditions for all of humanity to grow, so that ultimately all the harvests of God, will be saved via a process of judgment (Barley, Wheat, and Grapes Deu_16:16), and God will be all in all (Jas_5:7, 1Co_15:28).

We are in His hands and ‘Paul plants and Apollos waters‘, but God gives the increase (1Co_3:6) as we work out our own salvation with fear and trembling knowing that it is the Vine Jesus Christ (Jhn_15:5) who we are connected to who is working in us as God’s workmanship (Eph_2:10) both to will and to do of His good pleasure (Php_2:12-13). Ultimately just as with the healthy physical plant, God has deemed that the bride of Christ will be made ready and that readiness will be reflected in our being stablished, strengthened, and settle at His hand (1Pe_5:10).

Jas 5:7  Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain.

1Co 15:28  And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all.

1Pe 5:10  But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.

What about bread?

Bread is also very analogous of the growth process that is happening in the body of Christ. When Jesus says it is one seed not many seeds (Gal_3:16) the same is true of the positive representation of bread in his word, where a woman, the bride of Christ takes leaven and puts it in “three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened” (Mat_13:33).

Again ‘three’ being the process of judgement which is upon the body of Christ that is unfolding as we are sanctified by His spirit (Jhn_17:17). In this case the leaven growing in us is a positive use of leaven that is likened unto the word of God that must mature and be rightly divided within us if it is going to mature us in this age.

Jhn 17:17  Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.

What comes to mind is how the loaves and fishes were multiplied (Mat_14:17-21, Mat_15:36-39), remembering that this bread represents the wave offering of (Exo_29:23-24, Lev_8:26-28, 1Co_10:17) which is typical of Christ’s life on this earth. This includes the two loaves being offered in (Lev_23:17) that represents Christ’s body the Church (Col_1:24). Grace and truth comes by Jesus represented by the 5000, and it is all the world that will partake of this bread of life, in time, represented by the 4000. The 4000 can also represent the complete compliment of God’s elect, the entire body. This all shows us the power of God to accomplish what He has determined for mankind from the foundation of the world (Eph_1:11).

1Co 10:17  For we being many are one bread, and one body: for we are all partakers of that one bread.

Mat 14:17  And they say unto him, We have here but five loaves, and two fishes.
Mat 14:18  He said, Bring them hither to me.
Mat 14:19  And he commanded the multitude to sit down on the grass, and took the five loaves, and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven, he blessed, and brake, and gave the loaves to his disciples, and the disciples to the multitude.
Mat 14:20  And they did all eat, and were filled: and they took up of the fragments that remained twelve baskets full.
Mat 14:21  And they that had eaten were about five thousand men, beside women and children.

Mat 15:36  And he took the seven loaves and the fishes, and gave thanks, and brake them, and gave to his disciples, and the disciples to the multitude.
Mat 15:37  And they did all eat, and were filled: and they took up of the broken meat that was left seven baskets full.
Mat 15:38  And they that did eat were four thousand men, beside women and children.
Mat 15:39  And he sent away the multitude, and took ship, and came into the coasts of Magdala.

If we add these two numbers, we get 5000+4000=9000 which represents judgement that is now upon the house of God preparing us to be the 9 pillars, which will distribute the bread of life from the temple (Eph_3:10) that we will be to the rest of the world one day. In that temple there are five pillars at the front and four pillars at the back toward the holy of holies. This number [5] represents the grace and faith that the whole world [4] will experience via the judgment that the saviours who come up upon mount Zion will bring to all the world (4), delivering them as Joseph did with his brothers via that judgment of God’s word, which is likened unto bread (1Co_3:16). Bread is sweet in the mouth, as is the gospel message of the salvation of all, but it is bitter in the belly for our old man who must be destroyed in order for us to enter into the kingdom of God (Rev_10:9-10). Judgment is that one event that is common to all men, and the means that God has devised to save his banished is through Christ and His body who were the first to be judged and “scarcely be saved in this life” (2Sa_14:14 , 1Pe_4:17-18).

2Sa 14:14  For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither doth God respect any person: yet doth he devise means, that his banished be not expelled from him.

Judgement is process that takes time, as does the growth of a newborn in his mother’s womb. Christ’s words and works throughout his life were a parable for us to understand this growth process that must take place in His children. Being roughly nine months in Mary’s womb is also a parable of how judgment is on the church (1Pe_4:17), starting with the head, Jesus Christ, and then the man child who represents the body of Christ. A child in the womb grows via the dividing of cells, and this physical phenomenon is also a parable that connects with the story of the loaves and fishes if we can see that the body of Christ is one body made up of many members (Eph_4:16).

Next week, God willing, we will continue to look at the use of number combinations in scripture, not just the meaning of any single number that is critical to know, but also how some of the real time applications of those numbers or combination of the numbers, can reveal hidden treasures of God’s word for us (Pro_25:2).

Pro 25:2  It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings is to search out a matter.

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“Divine Order In Creation And Scripture” – Part 2

‘Christ is not divided’

[Study Aired August 6, 2026]

 God’s elect endure today in seeing the invisible God by the faith of Christ (Rom 1:20, Col 1:15-16, 1Ti 1:17), and in the realm of numbers, zero is a good representation of the invisibility of God, in the sense that physically zero cannot be divided, and spiritually God and Christ are not divided (1Co 1:13).

1Co 1:13 Is Christ divided? was Paul crucified for you? or were ye baptized in the name of Paul?

 Zero is not visible or divisible but it certainly has the power to change the landscape of a number very quickly, just as the faith of Christ can in the lives of true believers. Faith like the number zero is not seen, and yet faith is “the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen“ (1Jn 2:24-25, Joh 17:3).

1Jn 2:24  Let that therefore abide in you, which ye have heard from the beginning. If that which ye have heard from the beginning shall remain in you, ye also shall continue in the Son, and in the Father.
1Jn 2:25  And this is the promise that he hath promised us, even eternal life.(Heb 11:1)

 Joh 17:3  And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.(Heb 11:1)

In (Mat 25:25) we read of the fearful and unbelieving servant who we all start off as, who is a shadow of the truth that our earthly works are not accompanied with the faith of Christ and the love of God,(Heb 4:2, Rom 5:5, Rom 8:28), and therefore cannot drive out fear (1Jn 4:18), leaving our talents buried in the earth (Mat 25:25), as opposed to being laid up in heaven “where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal“ (Mat 6:19-20). Those works that are ordained of God for his children are built upon the foundation of Jesus Christ, and are tried in the fire today to the glory of God (1Ti 6:19, 1Co 3:9, 1Co 3:16, 1Pe 4:12).

Mat 25:25  And I was afraid, and went and hid thy talent in the earth: lo, there thou hast that is thine.

Mat 6:19  Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth,[Mat 25:25] where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:
Mat 6:20  But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:

1Ti 6:19  Laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come,(1Co 3:14) that they may lay hold on eternal life.

It is one talent that is buried and given back to God that has no zero connected with it in (Mat 25:25). However, the productive fruit that is brought forth has a zero in each measure of productivity, representing what God has done in us through Christ both to will and to do of His good pleasure (Php 2:12-13), “some an hundredfold, some sixtyfold, some thirtyfold“. Even that which the one servant had is taken from him and given to the one who had more talents and was spiritually bearing fruit, to demonstrate that every talent must be founded on Christ (Mat 25:29). The talents or gifts that God gives His children must be accompanied with the fruit of the holy spirit, otherwise even that which we seem to have will be taken and given to someone else, that is what this verse in Revelation is reminding us and results from our being found with our own righteousness and not that of Christ (Rev 3:11, Php 3:9).

Mat 13:8  But other fell into good ground, and brought forth fruit, some an hundredfold, some sixtyfold, some thirtyfold.

[judgment that is upon God’s people today is what is needed in order to bring forth spiritual fruit, some 100+60+30=190, and it is God’s 1 workmanship that is being judged – 9 – today, our flesh 6×10=60 that is going through a process 3×10=30 that is accompanied with pruning that makes it possible for us to scale that spiritual productivity or receive the increase that comes from God alone (Joh 15:2-4, 1Co 3:6)]

Mat 25:29  For unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath.

Rev 3:11  Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown.

Php 3:9  And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:

Joh 15:2  Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.
Joh 15:3  Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.
Joh 15:4  Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.(Col 1:27, Rom 8:9, Php 2:12-13)

The positive use of the number zero is a shadow of the truth that “faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen“ (Heb 11:1). How we can come see him who is invisible, is by putting off the carnal mind which takes the life of Christ working in us to accomplish this as our faith is tried (Heb 11:6) and becomes very precious via the trials (Col 1:27, Rom 8:7-9, 1Pe 1:7, Isa 13:12). The type and shadow of this process is read here in Hebrews, “By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king:(Mat 25:25) for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible“(Heb 11:27).

God can and does work through Christ to change the spiritual landscape in our lives as we go through afflictions, persecutions and much tribulation that are required to put off our flesh (2Th 1:5, 2Co 12:9, Php 1:29) making it possible for us to see or know God and Christ (Joh 17:3, 2Co 3:18, Php 2:12-13). Signs and wonders are for the unbelieving who long after the loaves and fish, the visible miracles that God says are for the unbelieving (1Co 14:22). Eternal life comes to those who are seeking the invisible God, those who are blessed to acknowledge that this life is a vapour that is passing and that we are in constant need of the grace and faith of God which is a gift from Him, given to those who are being saved in this age (Eph 2:8).

Heb 11:27  By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king: for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible.

1Co 14:22  Wherefore tongues are for a sign, not to them that believe, but to them that believe not: but prophesying serveth not for them that believe not, but for them which believe.

Eph 2:8  For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
Eph 2:9  Not of works, lest any man should boast.

 Do Not Grow Weary in well doing:(Gal 6:9)

The Father is ever present, just as Christ is now, and yet invisible to our physical eyes, unless Christ manifests himself as He did to His disciples after he was resurrected (Luk 24:39). That visible way that Christ revealed himself to his disciples was going to be replaced with not knowing Christ after the flesh or ‘visibly‘ (2Co 5:16), but rather in our hearts and minds having received the holy spirit, the hope of glory within (Heb 12:25, Joh 20:29, Luk 8:10, Col 1:27). That is why this ultimate warning is given to us in Hebrews (Heb 12:25) which, if we are granted to hold fast to, will see us holding fast to our crown, and looking to the author and finisher of our faith with confidence (Rev 3:11, Heb 12:1-3, Rom 12:1-2, Php 1:6).

Heb 12:25  See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven:(Rom 8:14-16, Pro 3:5-8)

Rev 3:11  Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown.

Heb 12:1  Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,[Luk 21:19]
Heb 12:2  Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
Heb 12:3  For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.[1Pe 4:1, 1Co 10:13]

Rom 12:1  I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
Rom 12:2  And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

Php 1:6  Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:

The question is asked, is Christ divided (1Co 1:13), no he is not, and could not be because of the spirit of God given to him without measure while he was in his flesh (Joh 3:34). It is when the spirit moves us or quickens us (Joh 6:63, Mat 10:19) that we can feel the effect of that substance spoken of in (Heb 11:1). The positive representation of zero can be seen as the spirit of God, and the negative representation of zero can be represented by the will of man, which cannot inherit the kingdom of God (Mrk 10:18, Luk 22:42). God is sovereign over the operation of all numbers, the light and the dark (Jer 17:3), the peace and the evil (Isa 45:7, Mat 7:11) and has already determined who is going to fulfill His will on earth as it is done in heaven, until our last breath (Luk 22:42, 1Jn 4:17).

Isa 45:7  I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.

Mat 7:11  If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?

Zero added to one, is one, but visually if you put zero next to one on the right side you get ten [10]. The first Adam is 10 [flesh], that without God‘s spirit is against God as Adam and Eve were, and all flesh [10], that we are called to bring into subjection unto God (Gal 2:20). “No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.“(Joh 1:18). Adam and Eve were seeing Yahweh, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ, so they were seeing him physically not spiritually, and we don‘t see him with the mind of Christ, until the spirit is given, the grace and truth that we receive through Him. The second Adam who has the spirit without measure declares God to us, Christ “the Son of the living God“ and yet we still don‘t see him or understand the gospel message within until the holy spirit is given to us (Mat 16:16). It is on Pentecost and going forward that what has been revealed to us through Christ‘s witness during his days when he was in the earth (Heb 5:7) becomes a testimony of his life, and power, and soundness of mind in the true believers (1Co 2:4-6, 2Ti 1:7).

Both numbers for the first and last Adam (1Co 15:45) have a zero beside them, which represents the invisible component that is doing the work in Christ and Adam (Joh 3:34, Joh 5:30, Eph 1:11). The first Adam lives and moves and has his being in Christ [-10] (Act 17:28), and the church which can do nothing spiritually (Gal 6:3-4, Joh 15:5) except it be in Christ, are now connected to the vine, and although nothing of ourselves, are able through Christ to reflect his life on this earth [+10](Act 17:28, Joh 15:5).

Joh 5:30 I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me.

Gal 6:3 For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself.
Gal 6:4  But let every man prove his own work, (Eph 2:10, Mal 3:10, Joh 6:44) and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another.

Joh 15:5  I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.

The negative and positive numbers in our heavens can be seen as the light and dark or the peace and evil, that God is working in our lives (Isa 45:7) to a glorious end (2Co 1:20, Psa 139:12). We start off as that first -10, marred in the hand of the Potter creation, to become something new as the positive ‘flesh and blood‘ life of Christ, replaces our Adamic first man Adam thinking, which is carnal (Joh 6:55-57).

Joh 6:55  For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.
Joh 6:56  He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him. (Rom 8:9, Col 1:27)
Joh 6:57  As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father: so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me.

Nothing:

In this last section today, we will look at the word nothing^G3367 in the bible and see how it correlates with the number zero.

In order to be something and not nothing we need to acknowledge that our own efforts and accomplishments in the earth are nothing and of no value until we are given to acknowledge that we are His workmanship (Eph 2:10) who makes us of great value, and highly favoured (Mat 10:31, Luk 12:32, Luk 1:28) in His sight because of our hope of glory within us who causes us to savour the things of God and not of men (2Co 2:16). That is when we begin to offer our lives a living sacrifice that can only be accepted upon the burnt offering Jesus Christ (Rom 12:1, Eph 1:6) who gives us the power to go without the camp (Gal 6:3, Col 1:27, Joh 5:19, Joh 5:30, Joh 15:5, Heb 13:13).

Rom 12:1  I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.

Eph 1:6  To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved.

Mat 5:13  Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.

Joh 5:19  Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise.

Joh 5:30  I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me.(Rom 8:14-16)

Joh 15:5  I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.

“the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus”(Php 3:14) that we are pressing toward, is reflected in our not being negatively trodden under the foot of men (Mat 5:13), as we resist the devil and cleave to Christ (Jas 4:7) so that we can overcome all his attempts to destroy the church (Mat 16:18). It is with the fiery darts of the devil that persecutions are brought upon His body, the church, persecutions that work together for good for those who are called according to His purpose, and are experiencing God’s love being shed abroad in our hearts (Mrk 10:30, Rom 8:28). Our old man is trodden under foot positively for the duration of Christ’s ministry within us and by God’s grace and the faith of Jesus Christ we can endure to the end all said persecutions and be saved (Col 1:24, Rev 11:2, Eph 2:8).

Mat 16:18  And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.

Col 1:24  Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body’s sake, which is the church:

Rev 11:2  But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.(Php 1:29)

Eph 2:8  For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:

Today we are learning of the great power of God that can be manifested in those who are given to humble themselves under His mighty hand, abasing ourselves so that in due time Christ can be exalted within us (1Pe 5:6). What we are promised is that what God has started in us He will finish through the author and finisher of our faith, and nothing shall take us out of the hands of our Father or Christ (Joh 10:28-29).

1Pe 5:6  Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time:

Mat 17:20  And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you.

Luk 1:37  For with God nothing shall be impossible.

Luk 6:35  But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the unthankful andtothe evil.

Joh 10:28  And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.[“For with God nothing shall be impossible”]
Joh 10:29  My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father’s hand.[“For with God nothing shall be impossible”]

Next week Lord willing we’ll continue to look at more scriptures that demonstrate how there is a divine order in all of God’s physical and spiritual creation. The use of numbers in scripture play a vital role in revealing that divine order (1Co 14:40, Eph 1:11, Rom 8:28-29).

1Co 14:40  Let all things [the natural and the spiritual] be done decently and in order.

Eph 1:11  In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:

Rom 8:28  And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
Rom 8:29  For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren (1Jn 4:17).

“Divine Order In Creation And Scripture” – Part 1

Sequence of Numbers in Genesis

Building on the numbers series that Mike was inspired to present to us, this mini series looks at some of the ways the holy spirit inspired numbers to be used in God’s word. Not just the meaning of any single number, which is critical to know, but also how some of the real time applications of those numbers or combination of the numbers, can reveal hidden treasures of God’s word for us (Pro 25:2).

Pro 25:2  It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings is to search out a matter.

This opening study has to do with the sequence, or order of the creation in Genesis and some of what those sequences of numbers show us.

Sequence of numbers in creation:

There is a forming and filling event with the days of creation shown in God’s word. The natural event of the creation week (Rom 1:20) reveals many things about how God’s workmanship which we are, is being ordered (Eph 2:10).

Rom 1:20  For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:

Eph 2:10  For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.

Forming and filling:

Day 1 was filled with Day 4.

Day 2 was filled with Day 5.

Day 3 was filled with Day 6.

Day 1 God creates light and darkness, not the sun, moon, and stars, but light and darkness (Gen 1:5), and then tells us what will fill Day 1 (light and darkness Isa 45:7) on Day 4. There are three days needed before the fourth day brings forth the sun, moon, and stars. We know that ‘three’ represents the process of judgment, telling us that our heavens are formed through a process. The sun, moon and stars appear on Day four, but that does not mean that they are perfected, just that they are in place to accomplish God’s ultimate goal of making a new creation in Christ.

Isa 45:7 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things. [typified by that part of creation on day 1]

Gen 1:5  And God called the light Day,[sun] and the darkness he called Night [moon]. And the evening and the morning were the first day.

These first six days of God’s creation signify the physical work that sets the stage for God to enter into His rest on the seventh day. The natural work precedes the spiritual work, or rest, that happens on the seventh day (Heb 4:4-10). The sun, moon and stars are in place, and those signified parts of creation are used to show us what is going to happen in (Rev 17:11), each man in his own order.

Heb 4:4 For he spake in a certain place of the seventh day on this wise, And God did rest the seventh day from all his works.(1Co 15:46)
Heb 4:5 And in this place again, If they shall enter into my rest.
Heb 4:6 Seeing therefore it remaineth that some must enter therein, and they to whom it was first preached entered not in because of unbelief:[when we believe we can do the work of God and enter into His rest]

[belief comes on the seventh day when God’s people enter into a rest as God did (Heb 4:9-10, Christ our rest today explained in these verses Php 2:12-13). When we believe, we can do the works of God and enter into His works because we now know at this point and time that it is Christ doing the work within at that day (Joh 14:20)]

Heb 4:7 Again, he limiteth a certain day, saying in David, To day, after so long a time; as it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts.
Heb 4:8 For if Jesus had given them rest, then would he not afterward have spoken of another day.

[in other words the Sabbath was no rest, just a type of the rest found in Christ that was yet to come]

Heb 4:9 There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.(Rom 8:9, Col 1:27)
Heb 4:10 For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his (Zec 4:6).

We are not complete even on the seventh day but it does represent the beginning of that completeness that will happen when the new man [8] is formed out of that seventh day (Rev 17:11). The 6 days of creation are inside, or part of, the 8th day which represents the new man who is being spiritually circumcised [Lev 12:3], something that can only happen because of the complete work that must occur on the 7th day (Rev 15:8) in order for us to enter into the temple in the fullness, in the blessed and holy first resurrection (1Co 13:12). This transformation into becoming a new creation requires the true witness of Christ’s life within us, represented by the number two that works on the number six to give us the new man [8] that God is forming in each of His children.

Rev 17:11 And the beast [mankind the number 6] that was, and is not, even he is the eighth [the new man], and is of the seven [going on to perfection], and goeth into perdition [which bring about perfection that is accomplished by the destruction of the 6.6.6. beast via a process of judgment that Christ 2 is executing as the author and finisher of our faith].

Rev 15:8 And the temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God, and from his power; and no man was able to enter into the temple, till the seven plagues of the seven angels were fulfilled.

1Co 13:12 For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.

That’s the first sequence 1 and 4, and now let’s look at the sequence of 2 and 5.

The same principle is applied of something being made to be filled with something. The firmament was made on the 2nd day that represent God’s spirit which every living creature lives and moves and has their being in, where God can work all things according to the counsel of His own will, and nothing is impossible (Act 17:28, Psa 139:1-4, Heb 1:3, 1Co 8:6, Eph 1:11). All things would include the great fish that swallowed up Jonah (Joh 1:17), Balaam‘s donkey that talked (Num 22:21-35), the parting of the Red Sea (Exo 14:21-22), etc… all events that occurred to provide instructive prophecy (1Pe 1:12, 1Co 10:11) for those who would be the first to enter into Christ’s rest.

Act 17:28 For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.

Psa 139:1 To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. O LORD, thou hast searched me, and known me.
Psa 139:2 Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off.
Psa 139:3 Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways.
Psa 139:4 For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O LORD, thou knowest it altogether.

Heb 1:3 Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;

1Co 8:6 But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.

Act 17:28 For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.

Eph 1:11 In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:

The first, second, and third days were created as a platform to be filled by the fourth, fifth, and six days, revealing that without Christ who comes in on the seventh day (Col 1:27, Rom 8:9) we are incomplete. All those physical things created typify things within us that need to be in place before the natural can go unto perfection on the seventh day.

Day 1 is eventually filled with the sun, the moon and stars on Day 4, but is not complete. Day 2 is when the firmament was created that is needed for birds and fish to survive Day 5 but it is not complete. Birds represent spirits, and fish represent mankind that harbours those spirits. Day 3 brings forth the land, seas, and plants of which animals will thrive and humans will be given dominion over (Gen 1:26). Again this dominion is only typical of the spiritual dominion that all mankind will one day have through Christ, and a process is being discussed as the number three is what it takes in each instance to go from the formed state to the filled state, just as judgment must be upon the house of God (1Pe 4:17) where a process is unfolding, a dominion over sin, that will conclude in our going unto perfection on the third day (Luk 13:32).

123 4

234 5

345 6

 The last sequence is Day 3 that is filled up with Day 6. The land and the sea of Day 3 represents our bodies, and the plants represent the incomplete nourishment that is needed to sustain both beasts, animals and humans, on Day 6 (Ecc 3:19). The sea is a lower state of awareness which represents all of mankind, akin to the camp outside of the court, and the court is more akin to the land, but still carnal and not the temple which represents the body of Christ (1Co 3:16).

Ecc 3:19 For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity.

Those animals need to be in place in order to be sacrificed on the seventh day where we can go without the camp and present ourselves a living sacrifice by the strength of Christ that makes it possible for us to be as he is in this world, at this time (Heb 13:10-13, 1Jn 4:17).

Heb 13:10 We have an altar,[1Co 3:16, Gal 2:20] whereof they have no right to eat which serve the tabernacle.
Heb 13:11 For the bodies of those beasts, whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest for sin, are burned without the camp.
Heb 13:12 Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate.
Heb 13:13 Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach.

1Jn 4:17 Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world.

Now the stage is set to introduce the pinnacle of God’s incomplete physical creation, that was very good for what it was intended to produce in the end (Gen 2:1-25).

“They shall be one flesh” (Gen 2:24), and complete each other, in the same way that all these physical things being discussed in chapter one were filling, completing, or setting the stage for what God is going to teach us through the relationship of Adam and Eve and all their descendants. This natural relationship of Adam and Eve is only the type of the oneness that will come to those who are given the spirit of God within making us one with our husband and head Jesus Christ (1Co 11:3).

1Co 11:3  But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.

If Adam and Eve were marred in the hand of the Potter which they were (Jer 18:4), then the creation itself which represents what is abiding within each of us is also incomplete, and not capable of inheriting eternal life (1Co 15:50).

What is spoken of Adam and Eve in (Gen 2:23-25) is true of all of humanity. These verses describe both a negative and positive example of unity, or oneness that can only be found in Christ (2Co 11:3).

Gen 2:23 And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.
Gen 2:24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
Gen 2:25 And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.

2Co 11:3 But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

Adam and Eve were not of us (1Jn 2:19, Jer 18:4). They were in the earth and were about to be driven (Gen 3:24) from the garden which is a type of our going into Babylonian captivity which we all must go into and then come out of in God’s ordained time (2Co 6:17). It is through the dragging out process of God (Joh 6:44) that we can come out of Babylon our former mother where we initially go into exile, to then begin to cleave unto the church of the first born, where we can provoke one another unto love and good works (Heb 10:24-25).

1Jn 2:19 They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.

Jer 18:4 And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter: so he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it.

Gen 3:24 So he drove^{H1644 = “divorced” (H853)} out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.

Heb 10:24 And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works:
Heb 10:25 Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.

In this series of studies we’ll look at different uses of numbers in the bible, be it in patterns, combinations of numbers, multiples of number, sequences, addition, subtraction, fractions, or divisions that can be “profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness”(2Ti 3:16). All those combinations and uses of numbers relates back to the same point of God providing lessons for us that can help us understand how the bride is being made ready, so that she is one with her husband spiritually (Rev 19:7).

2Ti 3:16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:

Rev 19:7  Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready.

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“She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life” – Part 3

(Pro 31:25-31)

[Study Aired July 23, 2026]

In this last section of proverbs 31, we will look at the remaining spiritual attributes of Christ’s bride that are given to us to believe (Joh 6:29).

Joh 6:29  Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent.

It is when we see the spiritual meaning of the words we are reading that they become profitable words which quicken us (Joh 6:63).

Joh 6:63  It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.

The words mean what they mean and not what they say (Mat 13:13 , Luk 8:10), and what they tell God’s elect is that Christ’s wife is “highly favoured” (Luk 1:28) in this age to know God and Jesus Christ, and to know that this hope of glory within us is real and nothing shall be able to separate us from the love of God or the work that He is doing in us through Christ (Col 1:27 , Joh 14:20 , Rom 8:35-39 , Joh 18:9 , Eph 2:10). The words and the work of God within the body of Christ are being typified for us throughout this 31st chapter of Proverbs.

Mat 13:13  Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.

Luk 8:10  And he said, Unto you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God:[Luk 17:21] but to others in parables; that seeing they might not see, and hearing they might not understand.

Col 1:27  To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:[Luk 17:21]

Joh 14:20  At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.

Rom 8:35  Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

Rom 8:36  As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
Rom 8:37  Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
Rom 8:38  For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
Rom 8:39  Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Joh 18:9  That the saying might be fulfilled, which he spake, Of them which thou gavest me have I lost none.

Eph 2:10  For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.

Pro 31:25  Strength and honour are her clothing; and she shall rejoice in time to come.

What God has started in us is being accomplished by Christ who is our “strength and honour” and finisher of our faith (Heb 12:2 , Php 1:6). It is “her clothing” that represents her “strength and honour”, meaning the righteousness of Christ within the bride, which is a gift from God (Eph 2:8) that we carry with us through this life in earnest, knowing that “we shall rejoice in time to come” (Rev 19:8 , Eph 1:14 , Col 1:24).

Eph 2:8  For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:

Rev 19:8  And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints.

Eph 1:14  Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.

Col 1:24  Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you [“she shall rejoice in time to come”], and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body’s sake, which is the church:

Pro 31:26  She openeth her mouth with wisdom; and in her tongue is the law of kindness.

This verse describes for us the fruit of the bride’s life. Christ is our wisdom (1Co 1:30-31 , Eph 1:17-18), and the one who is able to soften our hearts through the trials and much tribulation that we must go through in order to have His mind (Act 14:22), which produces “the law of kindness”.

1Co 1:30  But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:
1Co 1:31  That, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.

Eph 1:17  That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him:
Eph 1:18  The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,

Act 14:22  Confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.

Pro 31:27  She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness.

We are our brother’s keeper (Gen 4:9), and we are each called to “looketh well to the ways of her household” (Pro 27:23 , Php 2:4-7 , 1Pe 5:2 , Act 20:28).

Pro 27:23  Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, and look well to thy herds.

Php 2:4  Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.
Php 2:5  Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:
Php 2:6  Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:
Php 2:7  But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:

1Pe 5:2  Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind;

Act 20:28  Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.

It requires Christ’s life, the true bread of life within us (Joh 6:35), to give us victory over “the bread of idleness”. Very few are given that fear of God in this age (Isa 66:2 , Heb 5:7), which creates a zeal within the body of Christ (Tit 2:14-15) that is needed to move with fear to the saving of our temple (1Co 3:16 , Psa 119:139), or “household”, typified by Noah who did just that (Heb 11:7).

Joh 6:35  And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.

Isa 66:2  For all those things hath mine hand made, and all those things have been, saith the LORD: but to this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word.

Heb 5:7  Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared;

Tit 2:14  Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.
Tit 2:15  These things speak, and exhort, and rebuke with all authority. Let no man despise thee.

Heb 11:7  By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith.

God has purposed that it would be few who are initially saved, so that mankind, in time, will get the message that it is only by Christ working in us both to will and to do of His good pleasure that we can become profitable servants who are prepared at the end of this age (Php 2:12-13 , Luk 17:10 , Rom 3:27-28).

Php 2:12  Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.
Php 2:13  For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.

Luk 17:10  So likewise ye, when ye shall have done all those things which are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants: we have done that which was our duty to do.

Rom 3:27  Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.
Rom 3:28  Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.

Pro 31:28  Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her.

This verse takes us back to recognizing the value of the merchandise that we have (Pro 3:14 , Pro 31:18), which merchandise is God’s word, “Her children arise up”, that Christ holds fast to within us (Col 1:27 , Rev 3:11 , Joh 18:9).

Pro 3:14  For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold.

Pro 31:18  She perceiveth that her merchandise is good: her candle goeth not out by night.

Col 1:27  To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:

Rev 3:11  Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown.(Php 4:13)

Joh 18:9  That the saying might be fulfilled, which he spake, Of them which thou gavest me have I lost none.(Lev 16:21)

The doctrines that God has opened our heavens to understand are likened unto “Her children arise up, and call her blessed”. God gives the increase, and the spirit of those words that we now have and understand bear witness that we are the children of God (Rom 8:14-16).

Rom 8:14  For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.
Rom 8:15  For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.[Heb 5:7 , 1Jn 4:17]
Rom 8:16  The Spirit [Joh 6:63] itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:

The doctrines of Christ are likened unto children that “arise up” in our heavens as God gives the increase (1Co 3:6). We are raised in heavenly places with our Father and Christ, and Christ acknowledges the workmanship of God, praising God for what He is doing within each joint that supplies in love (Eph 2:6-8 , Eph 4:16).

Eph 2:6  And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:
Eph 2:7  That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.
Eph 2:8  For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:

1Co 3:6  I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.
1Co 3:7  So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase. [Mat 13:37-40 , 1Pe 4:12 , 1Pe 4:17]

Mat 13:38  The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom [Gal 3:16]; but the tares^G2215  are the children of the wicked one;

Tares G2215 zizanion
Thayer Definition:
1) a kind of darnel, resembling wheat except the grains are black
Part of Speech: noun neuter

 

Pro 31:29 Many daughters have done virtuously, but thou excellest them all.

Many people have waxed valiant for God in the old covenant providing a type and shadow of the greater works that God would do through the body of Christ (Heb 11:1-40). How much greater those works would be is something that our Father wants the world to know in time, not to draw attention to the bride of Christ, but rather to draw attention to the reality of who is doing these greater works than even what Christ did while in his flesh (Joh 14:12), which are being accomplished in the body of Christ today (Php 2:12-13). Virtuous behaviour does not equate with knowing the Truth (Luk 10:24), and the most virtuous or greatest work we can do in this life is to draw people to Christ if God will grant us that ability to be fishers of men (Mat 4:19 , 1Ti 4:16 , 1Jn 4:6).

Joh 14:12  Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.(Col 1:27)

The greater works that God is going to do and has been doing within the body of Christ is what the statement “but thou excellest them all” is a type and shadow of. The “many daughters” in the verse represents the many daughters of Babylon that God’s people come out of (Rev 17:5) and who have done many wonderful works, but were not able to give all glory to God, still being found with their own righteousnesses as God intended to be the case (Php 3:9 , Mar 10:21-23). It will only be through God burning out that self righteous spirit within us today (2Th 1:4-5) that we will be able to be found counted worthy to be in that blessed and holy first resurrection (Rev 20:6)

Php 3:9  And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:

Mar 10:21  Then Jesus beholding him loved him, and said unto him, One thing thou lackest: go thy way, sell whatsoever thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, take up the cross, and follow me.
Mar 10:22  And he was sad at that saying, and went away grieved: for he had great possessions.
Mar 10:23  And Jesus looked round about, and saith unto his disciples, How hardly shall they that have riches enter into the kingdom of God!

2Th 1:4  So that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that ye endure:
2Th 1:5  Which is a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God, that ye may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which ye also suffer:

Rev 20:6  Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.

Pro 31:30  Favour^H2580 is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the LORD, she shall be praised.

favour  H2580  chên  khane
From H2603; graciousness, that is, subjectively (kindness, favor) or objectively (beauty): – favour, grace (-ious), pleasant, precious, [well-] favoured.

Favour is not the problem, but rather the deceitful and desperately wicked heart that is seeking a reward in the flesh in this life (Mat 6:2-5). Beauty is vain, but again beauty is not the problem, the problem is the corrupt heart that tells God, ‘I’m beautiful, I’ve done all these works from my youth up’ not knowing that those works in our flesh are a stench in God’s nose, where we don’t recognize our own ongoing unprofitability (Luk 17:10 , Gal 6:3 , Mar 10:18 , Mar 10:21).

Mat 6:2  Therefore when thou doest thine alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
Mat 6:3  But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth:
Mat 6:4  That thine alms may be in secret: and thy Father which seeth in secret himself shall reward thee openly.
Mat 6:5  And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.

Luk 17:10  So likewise ye, when ye shall have done all those things which are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants: we have done that which was our duty to do.

Gal 6:3  For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself. [1Co 3:6-7]

Mar 10:18  And Jesus said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God.

Mar 10:21  Then Jesus beholding him loved him, and said unto him, One thing thou lackest: go thy way, sell whatsoever thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, take up the cross, and follow me. [those who are given to obey these commands of Christ are represented by the proverbs 31 woman]

What is truly beautiful to God is the body of Christ with the life of Christ within us who fears God (Heb 5:7), “a woman that feareth the LORD”. That is the woman, or church, who will be praise by her husband, or lord, with these words, “Well done, good and faithful servant” (Mat 25:17 , Mat 25:21 , Mat 25:23).

Mat 25:17  And likewise he that had received two, he also gained other two.

Mat 25:21  His lord said unto him, Well done, thou good and faithful servant: thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord.

Mat 25:23  His lord said unto him, Well done, good and faithful servant; thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord.

Pro 31:31  Give her of the fruit of her hands; and let her own works praise her in the gates.

Giving to “her of the fruit of her hands; and let her own works praise her in the gates” is a statement telling us that God is going to reward the elect for all that we have had to endure in this life for the kingdom’s sake (Mat 19:27-30).

Mat 19:27  Then answered Peter and said unto him, Behold, we have forsaken all, and followed thee;[Mar 10:21] what shall we have therefore?
Mat 19:28  And Jesus said unto them, Verily I say unto you, That ye which have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of man shall sit in the throne of his glory, ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
Mat 19:29  And every one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name’s sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting life.
Mat 19:30  But many that are first shall be last; and the last shall be first.

The workmanship of God within the elect was declared from the foundation of the world (Eph 2:10), works that Christ is doing within us that glorify God. Through Christ the church will glorify God, and the Lord will make a point to draw the world’s attention to the love that He had toward the elect and the miraculous work that He did within them, as he does with this proverbs 31 woman who represents Christ’s bride (Mal 3:16-18 , Rev 3:9-11).

Mal 3:16  Then they that feared the LORD spake often one to another: and the LORD hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the LORD, and that thought upon his name.[Heb 10:25]
Mal 3:17  And they shall be mine, saith the LORD of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels; and I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him.
Mal 3:18  Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not.

Rev 3:9  Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee.
Rev 3:10  Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.
Rev 3:11  Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown.

Praise God for those wonderful works to the children of men that He is doing in His little beloved flock! (Luk 12:32)

“She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life” – Part 2

(Pro 31:17-24)

[Study Aired July 16, 2026]

“She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life”, is something that is being accomplished in the body of Christ through Christ today (Php 2:12-13), and the desire that God has put in Christ’s flesh [the church, his body] (Col 1:24, Eph 5:30) is to approve things excellent and to be sincere and without offence till the day of Christ.

How those desires are achieved is explained for us in many of these last verses of proverbs (Pro 31:17-31) and give us great hope in what Christ can and will accomplish within us “until the day of Jesus Christ”, meaning until the blessed and holy first resurrection, “the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus” that we are striving toward together as the bride of Christ (Php 1:6, Php 4:4, Php 3:1). Clearly God is telling us to have no confidence in our flesh which operates under the law for the lawless (Rom 7:25), but to put our complete confidence in Christ who is the author and finisher of our faith, the very faith of Jesus (Rev 14:12).

Php 1:6  Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:

Php 4:4  Rejoice in the Lord alway: and again I say, Rejoice.(Rev 19:8)

Php 3:1  Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not grievous, but for you it is safe.

Rom 7:24  O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
Rom 7:25  I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.

Rev 14:11  And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name.
Rev 14:12  Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.

Pro 31:17  She girdeth her loins with strength, and strengtheneth her arms.

Php 3:21 explains how this woman who represents the body of Christ can “girdeth her loins with strength, and strengtheneth her arms”. Christ alone is the one who can “change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself” (Rom 7:25). In other words, He is the one who “girdeth her loins with strength, and strengtheneth her arms” (Rev 19:7-8, Php 1:6).

Php 3:21  Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.

Rev 19:7  Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready.
Rev 19:8  And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints.

Php 1:6  Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:

The first mention of the word loins^H4975 in the bible is in (Gen 35:10-12) where Jacob’s name is changed to Israel. This change of name that is announced typifies the elect being sealed in Christ (Eph 1:13) and becoming the “Israel of God” (Gal 6:15-16) who can now, through Christ, “be fruitful and multiply”. This blessing of a new name is tied into the inheritance that is in the saints, to the one seed of Israel, not seeds as of many but one seed (Gal 3:16), reminding us that many are called but few are chosen to be that spiritual seed of Christ who is typified by the patriarch Israel.

Gal 6:15  For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature.
Gal 6:16  And as many as walk according to this rule, peace be on them, and mercy, and upon the Israel of God.

Gen 35:10  And God said unto him, Thy name is Jacob: thy name shall not be called any more Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name: and he called his name Israel.
Gen 35:11  And God said unto him, I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply;(1Co 3:6) a nation and a company of nations shall be of thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins;
Gen 35:12  And the land which I gave Abraham and Isaac, to thee I will give it, and to thy seed after thee will I give the land.(1Co 10:11, Gal 3:16)

Gal 3:16  Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ.

Our role today toward each other is to strengthen one another, to strengthen the church’s arms (Joh 21:16-17), the many joints that supply (Eph 4:15-16). Another example of strengthening the arms of Christ’s body is found in these verses in (Exo 17:11-13) which again demonstrate how the battle is the Lord’s as each one of us participates in bearing each other’s burdens, fulfilling the law of Christ which is made possible by having His love shed abroad in our hearts (Rom 5:5).

Joh 21:16  He saith to him again the second time, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me? He saith unto him, Yea, Lord; thou knowest that I love thee. He saith unto him, Feed my sheep.

Eph 4:15  But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ:
Eph 4:16  From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.

Exo 17:11  And it came to pass, when Moses held up his hand, that Israel prevailed: and when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed.
Exo 17:12  But Moses’ hands were heavy (Act 15:10); and they took a stone, and put it under him, and he sat thereon (Mat 16:18); and Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands (Eph 4:16), the one on the one side, and the other on the other side; and his hands were steady until the going down of the sun.
Exo 17:13  And Joshua discomfited Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.

Pro 31:18  She perceiveth that her merchandise is good: her candle goeth not out by night.

Perception comes from seeing, and seeing is synonymous with believing God (Mat 13:16), which is what we must be able to do in order to do the work of God in this life (Mat 6:22, Joh 6:27-29).

Mat 13:16  But blessed are your eyes, for they see: and your ears, for they hear.

Mat 6:22  The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.

Joh 6:27  Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him hath God the Father sealed.
Joh 6:28  Then said they unto him, What shall we do, that we might work the works of God?
Joh 6:29  Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent.

“her candle goeth not out by night” is another way of telling us that the elect will be blessed to be given the extra oil in their lamps, representing the spirit of God that is given to the bride in the darkest of days, so that we can endure unto the end and scarcely be saved (1Pe 4:17-18). It is God’s free gift of salvation being given to the elect, which is being typified by the “merchandise” that is made possible by God’s holy spirit quickening us, and is likened unto a candle that does not go out by night (Mat 25:2-8, Rom 11:11-18 , Psa 119:105).

1Pe 4:18  And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear? (Mat 25:7) [All ten trim their lamps telling us all the Christian world is going to try to be prepared for Christ’s return, but it is only those who are granted to be wise who will experience God working in them both to will and to do of His good pleasure (Php 2:12-13)]

Mat 25:4  But the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps.
Mat 25:5  While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept.
Mat 25:6  And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him.
Mat 25:7  Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps.

Rom 11:11  I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid: but rather through their fall salvation is come unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy.
Rom 11:12  Now if the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fulness?

Rom 11:18  Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee.

Pro 31:19  She layeth her hands to the spindle, and her hands hold the distaff.

The “spindle” and the “distaff” were tools used for spinning thread from wool or flax. We are told that “She layeth her hands to the spindle, and her hands hold the distaff”, which is a reminder that we are to work out our own salvation with fear and trembling as we labour for the meat that does not perish (Php 2:12, Joh 6:27) and is likened unto willingly working with the wool and flax (Pro 31:13) that God is giving us the power through Christ to do of his good pleasure (Php 2:13).

Php 2:12  Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.
Php 2:13  For it is God which worketh in you both to will (Pro 31:13) and to do of his good pleasure.(Luk 12:32)

Joh 6:27  Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him hath God the Father sealed.(Heb 11:6)

God directs all we do, just as the word “spindle” shows us, and all is through judgement that is now on the house of God, as the word “distaff” eludes to:

“spindle” H3601 From H3787; literally a director (Rom 8:14, Joh 6:63) that is the spindle or shank of a distaff by which it is twirled: – spindle.

(root of spindle)H3787 A primitive root properly to be straight or right; by implication to be acceptable;(Eph 1:6) also to succeed or proser: – direct, be right, prosper.

“distaff” H6418  From an unused root meaning to be round; a circuit (that is, district); also a spindle (as whirled); hence a crutch: – (di-) staff, part.

[This Strong’s number for “distaff” ^H6418 is ‘surrounded’ by Strong’s numbers related to the words ‘judge’ or ‘judgement’, from H6414 to H6421. All these Strong’s numbers are related to some variation of the notion of judgement. And to add to that, from the definition we are given for the meaning of ‘distaff’ ^H6418, a circuit and whirled, are also used to denote judgement of some kind, for example: 1Sa 7:16, Job 22:14, Psa 19:6, Ecc 1:6, for ‘circuit’; and Job 38:1, Pro 10:25, et al for ‘whirlwind’.]

Pro 31:20  She stretcheth out her hand to the poor; yea, she reacheth forth^H7971 her hands to the needy.

This is not a verse about philanthropy, so much as it is a commission to the body of Christ to do good unto all men, especially unto the household of faith (Gal 6:10) who are aware of their spiritual poverty and need for a physician (Mat 9:12).

Mat 9:12  But when Jesus heard that, he said unto them, They that be whole need not a physician, but they that are sick.

“reacheth forth” H7971 A primitive root; to send away, for, or out (in a great variety of applications)…
[also used in previous verse – “She layeth^H7971 her hands…” showing us a witness that it is God who directs all we do.]

God has called the poor of the world to be rich in faith (Jas 2:5), and again being physically poor is not the primary message with this statement either, but rather reminds us that it is those who are granted to be of a poor and of a contrite spirit (Isa 66:2, Psa 51:17) that God will use to help “the [spiritually] poor” and “the  [spiritually] needy”. Christ cared for the poor of the world as we should, but he made this statement in (Mat 26:11) to remind us that the most important poverty that needs to be tended to as the body of Christ is the spiritual starvation (Hos 4:6, Isa 3:1) that we are being blessed to be overcoming through Christ, but not to leave the other undone (Joh 21:17, 1Jn 3:17-18).

Jas 2:5  Hearken, my beloved brethren, Hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him? [if we love God we are keeping his commandments, and that is what makes us spiritually rich (1Jn 5:2)]

Isa 66:2  For all those things hath mine hand made, and all those things have been, saith the LORD: but to this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word.

Psa 51:17  The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.

Mat 26:11  For ye have the poor always with you; but me ye have not always.(Joh 9:4, these are the works that Christ was telling Peter would be accomplished through him while he was spiritually alive in Christ and dead to sin [Joh 21:17] )

Joh 21:17  He saith unto him the third time, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest^G5368 thou me? Peter was grieved because he said unto him the third time, Lovest thou me? And he said unto him, Lord, thou knowest all things; thou knowest that I love thee. Jesus saith unto him, Feed my sheep.

1Jn 3:17  But whoso hath this world’s good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love^G26 of God in him?
1Jn 3:18  My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth. [“Feed my sheep” (Eph 4:16)]

Pro 31:21  She is not afraid of the snow for her household: for all her household are clothed with scarlet.

Although the snowy winter season is a parable for the seasons in our life where we are not as spiritually productive (Mat 24:20), “snow” itself is used positively as a symbol of purity in the bible. So, not only does this wise woman realize that those unproductive seasons come and go and are necessary for our spiritual growth, and she is therefore “not afraid of the snow for her household”, but we, as that wise woman, also understand the symbolism of its purity. We acknowledge that only God can give the increase in our lives which happens at an appointed time due to His goodness (Rom 2:4) and see that this parable continues to show that the elect are blessed to be led unto repentance in this age, to purify us. Although our sins are like scarlet (Isa 1:18), the scarlet colored blood of Christ is what covers her household (Mat 27:28, Joh 17:16-17) and takes them/us through those spiritually lean times, “for all her household are clothed with scarlet”.

Mat 24:20  But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day:

Job 9:30  If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;

Isa 1:18  Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

Mat 27:28  And they stripped him, and put on him a scarlet robe. [a scarlet robe covers Christ’s body, the church (Col 1:24)]

Joh 17:16  They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
Joh 17:17  Sanctify them through thy truth:[“put on him a scarlet robe”] thy word is truth.

Pro 31:22  She maketh herself coverings of tapestry; her clothing is silk and purple.

This is the positive use of tapestry, and clothing of silk and purple, meaning it represents the righteousness of Christ that is covering the bride of Christ as opposed to the negative clothing that we wore when we were in Babylon described in these verses (Pro 7:16, Rev 18:12).

Pro 7:16  I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with carved works, with fine linen of Egypt.

Rev 18:12  The merchandise of gold, and silver, and precious stones, and of pearls, and fine linen, and purple, and silk, and scarlet, and all thyine wood, and all manner vessels of ivory, and all manner vessels of most precious wood, and of brass, and iron, and marble,

Pro 31:23  Her husband is known in the gates, when he sitteth among the elders of the land.

Our husband is Christ and he is known through the church via his judgements that are found at the gate, which represents our hearts and minds that are being judged (1Pe 4:17). Christ sitting among “the elders of the land” reminds us that the Lord is mindful of God’s elect in this day of visitation in which we are being judged (Psa 8:4).

Psa 8:4  What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?

Nothing that defiles the temple is to be allowed in, and that is Christ and the body’s role in this age, typified by the cherubim and the flaming sword that turns every way, “to keep the way of the tree of life” (Psa 8:4, 1Co 3:17, Rev 21:27, Gen 3:24).

1Co 3:17  If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.

Rev 21:27  And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb’s book of life.

Gen 3:24  So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.

Pro 31:24  She maketh fine linen, and selleth it; and delivereth girdles unto the merchant.

The fine linen is the righteousness of Christ, and this word “selleth”^H4376, tells us what we must do with our lives which belong unto God (Rom 12:1, Mal 3:10).

“selleth” H4376  A primitive root; to sell, literally (as merchandise, a daughter in marriage, into slavery), or figuratively (to surrender): –    X at all, sell (away, -er, self).  Total KJV occurrences: 80

Rom 12:1  I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
Rom 12:2  And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

Mal 3:10  Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the LORD of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.

She, or the body of Christ, gives away freely what we have received to “the merchant”^H3669 who represents our fellow labourers in the Lord, and those who have a respect unto the recompense of the reward and want to buy this pearl of great price today (Mat 13:45-46).

Rom 12:1  I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.

Mal 3:10  Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the LORD of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.

Mat 13:45  Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchant man, seeking goodly pearls:
Mat 13:46  Who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had, and bought it.

The first use of the word “merchant”^H3669 is found in (Gen 23:16). In this chapter of Genesis, Abraham who typifies Christ purchases this field so that he can bury his wife Sarah who has died. This action of Abraham is symbolic of how Christ’s life will redeem the whole of humanity with this symbolic price of [4x10x10=400], four representing the whole of humanity.

Gen 23:16  And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron; and Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver, which he had named in the audience of the sons of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, current money with the merchant^H3669.

The first to be buried in the field is Sarah (Gen 23:19) who represents the body of Christ, the kind of first fruits unto God who are the first be redeemed by being dead to sin and alive in Christ as we are buried into His death (Rom 6:11, Rom 6:3).

Rom 6:11  Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Rom 6:3  Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?

Our existence now is not to traffick with the world to build bigger barns (Luk 16:8-9) but rather to buy this field in the world where the pearl of great price resides, Jesus Christ who is the vine within the vineyard where we are to occupy [abide] until he appears (Mat 6:26, Luk 12:18).

Mat 6:26  Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?

Luk 12:18  And he said, This will I do: I will pull down my barns, and build greater; and there will I bestow all my fruits and my goods.

We are to apply the zealous and wise heart -that people have toward money – toward our relationship with Christ, similar to how we are to spiritually train and run like Olympic athletes, but not for a crown that perishes but rather for the crown of life (1Co 9:25-27, Rev 3:11). These examples demonstrate for us how we are connected to this worldly “merchant”^H3669 in verse 24.

Luk 16:8  And the lord commended the unjust steward, because he had done wisely: for the children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light.
Luk 16:9  And I say unto you, Make to yourselves friends of the mammon of unrighteousness; that, when ye fail, they may receive you into everlasting habitations.

1Co 9:25  And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.
1Co 9:26  I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air:
1Co 9:27  But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.

Rev 3:11  Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown.
Rev 3:12  Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name.

“Merchant” H3669  Patrial from H3667; a Kenaanite or inhabitant of Kenaan; by implication a pedlar (the Canaanites standing for their neighbors the Ishmaelites, who conducted mercantile caravans): – Canaanite, merchant, trafficker

Our former conversation (Eph 2:1-4) described in (Eze 23:12-19) explains the negative use of “girdles upon their loins”, the strength that is in Babylon, the smooth things that initially seduce us and bring us into spiritual captivity.

Eze 23:12  She doted upon the Assyrians her neighbours, captains and rulers clothed most gorgeously, horsemen riding upon horses, all of them desirable young men.
Eze 23:13  Then I saw that she was defiled, that they took both one way,
Eze 23:14  And that she increased her whoredoms: for when she saw men pourtrayed upon the wall, the images of the Chaldeans pourtrayed with vermilion,
Eze 23:15  Girded with girdles upon their loins, exceeding in dyed attire upon their heads, all of them princes to look to, after the manner of the Babylonians of Chaldea, the land of their nativity:

Nevertheless, now, Lord willing, we are witnesses to this world of what we have received freely and are giving away freely (Mat 10:8), that being the Truth that we are girded with. This is what we are delivering unto the merchant, “and delivereth girdles^H2290 unto the merchant”.

“girdles”H2290  From H2296; a belt (for the waist): – apron, armour, gird (-le).[note interlinear got the Strong’s number correct; KJV erroneously put H2289 instead]

(root of ‘girdles’) H2296 A primitive root; to gird on (as a belt, armor, etc.): – be able to put on, be afraid, appointed, gird, restrain, X on every side.

Next week, Lord willing, we’ll look at the last few verses of (Pro 31:25-31) that again show us how by God’s grace we will “do him good and not evil all the days of her life”.

“She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life” – Part 1

(Pro 31:12-16)

[Study Aired July 9, 2026]

Pro 31:12  She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life.
Pro 31:13  She seeketh wool, and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands.
Pro 31:14  She is like the merchants’ ships; she bringeth her food from afar.
Pro 31:15  She riseth also while it is yet night, and giveth meat to her household, and a portion to her maidens.
Pro 31:16  She considereth a field, and buyeth it: with the fruit of her hands she planteth a vineyard.

The physical endeavors that preserve this woman’s family due to the diligent spirit God has given her (Pro 31:12-31) represent the diligent work that He is doing within the bride of Christ (Php 2:12-13), the church today,  “to preserve you a posterity in the earth,” (Gen 45:7) meaning all the world (Mat 5:5), that is going to be saved by a great deliverance via the body of Christ. The natural deliverance will come first (Mat 24:22) and then in the great white throne judgement all of mankind will be saved via the body of Christ (1Co 15:46, 1Co 6:3, Luk 1:30, Luk 2:35, Gen 45:7-8, Oba 1:21).

Mat 24:22  And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened.

1Co 6:3  Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more things that pertain to this life?

Luk 1:30  And the angel said unto her, Fear not, Mary: for thou hast found favour^G5485 with God.

Luk 2:35  (Yea, a sword shall pierce through thy own soul also,) that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed. [God’s grace is God’s favour^G5485 upon the body of Christ demonstrated in chastening us and scourging us (Heb 12:6) so that we forsake ungodliness and worldly lusts in this age, and that is the piercing being spoken of that Mary who represents the church must endure (Tit 2:12)]

Gen 45:7  And God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance. (typified by Israel being delivered by a mighty hand from Egypt. God is doing the same thing with the Israel of God, moving heaven and earth for the body of Christ today to deliver us so that we can become saviours who come up on mount Zion to deliver the world (Mat 28:18))
Gen 45:8  So now it was not you that sent me hither, but God: and he hath made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt.

This woman of Proverbs 31 spoken of as “she” and “her” multiple times typifies the body of Christ who like Christ will be found “full of grace^G5485 and truth” (Joh 1:14) in the first resurrection, and is why the angel says to Mary who typifies the church, “for thou hast found favour^G5485 with God”(Luk 1:30). It is an ongoing favour that God’s people are growing in as we fill up what is behind of the afflictions of Christ for His body’s “which is the church” (Col 1:24).

Joh 1:14  And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.

God has chosen “the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty”, to accomplish His work that no flesh will glory in (1Co 1:29-31).

1Co 1:29  That no flesh should glory in his presence.
1Co 1:30  But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:
1Co 1:31  That, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord. [Aaron’s study last night reminded us of  the “far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory” which is the life of Christ being formed in us through “our light affliction, which is but for a moment” (2Co 4:17)]

God’s mercy is ultimately extended to all of His creation in due time through the body of Christ (1Co 1:25-27, Rom 11:25-32) who are sent with His word to heal the nations (1Jn 3:17, Joh 20:21, Psa 107:20-22). Our “due time” to experience that deliverance is right now, and is being accomplished through His judgements upon the bride who will be made ready (Rev 19:7), and have many children (Rom 5:6, 1Pe 4:12, 1Pe 4:17, Gal 4:27).

Gal 4:27  For it is written, Rejoice, thou barren that bearest not; break forth and cry, thou that travailest not: for the desolate hath many more children than she which hath an husband.

In this last section of chapter 31 of Proverbs we will look at the typical fruit of righteousness that God produces through this woman who represents the body of Christ doing these works unto our husband Jesus Christ. These works were purposed in Christ and ordained from the foundation of the world (Eph 1:9-10, Eph 2:10-13).

Eph 1:9  Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself:
Eph 1:10  That in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him:

Eph 2:10  For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.

The works spoken of in these last verses of chapter 31 are all typical of what God can do through the body of Christ spiritually. The works that He has accomplished through the prophets of old bear witness (1Pe 1:12) of these wonderful works that God has ordained for Christ’s wife to bring forth in this age, and going forward. We are truly more than conquerors through Him, is what we are being shown by all these excellent works that this woman does (1Pe 1:12, 1Co 10:11, Jas 5:10, Heb 11:1-14, Php 3:14, Rom 8:37-39).

Rom 8:37  Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
Rom 8:38  For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
Rom 8:39  Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Pro 31:12  She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life.

God’s intention for the bride of Christ is to have her “do good and not evil all the days of her life” unto him, meaning unto Christ. God sees the bride of Christ through Christ by whom we are accepted (Eph 1:6). So our new man in Christ can do nothing but “good and not evil all the days of her life” (1Jn 3:9).

Eph 1:6  To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved.

1Jn 3:9  Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; [“good and not evil all the days of her life”] for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.

Our old man is decreasing as Christ increases (Joh 3:30, 1Jn 1:8), and the giants in the land are being overtaken by little and little (Exo 23:30-31, Deu 7:22), giving us strength to overcome and putting us in remembrance of who is doing the work within us, both to will and to do of His good pleasure, but as always it is a process that is promised to take our entire life (Php 2:12-13).

Joh 3:30  He must increase, but I must decrease.

1Jn 1:8  If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

Exo 23:30  By little and little I will drive them out from before thee, until thou be increased, and inherit the land. (Mat 24:13)

Deu 7:22  And the LORD thy God will put out those nations before thee by little and little: thou mayest not consume them at once, lest the beasts of the field increase upon thee.

Pro 31:13  She seeketh wool, and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands.

The “she” who is the church, the bride of Christ, does many detailed things, that we know represent what Christ is doing through us both to will and to do of God’s good pleasure, that we are working out by God’s spirit within us (Php 2:12-13, Zec 4:6).

Zec 4:6  Then he answered and spake unto me, saying, This is the word of the LORD unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the LORD of hosts.

It is done “willingly with her hands” because our hands are not our own (1Co 12:15), and our old carnal hands are being cut off, and our carnal eyes gouged out (Mat 18:8-9),  so that we can seek  “wool, and flax” that is meant to ‘cover our nakedness’ (Hos 2:9), and which represents the righteousness of Christ that we seek first through Christ’s body (Mat 6:33-34). These two fabrics mentioned demonstrate the witness of the righteousness of Christ that we are blessed to have a hunger and thirst for in this life (Rev 19:8, Mat 5:6). Having the fabric is one thing, even as having the faith, but when the fabric is woven into something practical, “worketh willingly with her hands”, it becomes precious, just as the trial of our faith does in God’s sight (1Pe 1:7).

1Co 12:15  If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?

Rev 19:8  And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints.

1Pe 1:7  That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:

Pro 31:14  She is like the merchants’ ships; she bringeth her food from afar.

Notice the bride is likened unto a “merchants’ ship” who brings “her food from afar”.

There are negative merchant ships that ply the waters of Tyre carrying the adulterous lies of Babylon to every corner of the world and these ships go afar with the intention of making one proselyte, “and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves”(Isa 23:1, Mat 23:15).

Isa 23:1  The burden of Tyre. Howl, ye ships of Tarshish; for it is laid waste, so that there is no house, no entering in: from the land of Chittim it is revealed to them.

Mat 23:15  Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.

And then there is this diligent woman [Jerusalem above the mother of us all, the ‘mother ship’ as it were (Gal 4:26)] who does not stubbornly ‘go afar compassing sea and land to make one proselyte’, but rather by God’s grace and the faith of Christ (Jas 4:13-17) she diligently searches out the scriptures afar, to go whatever distance it takes (Mat 5:41, Jer 29:13, Heb 11:6) to understand the will of God and receives her food or spiritual increase from Him, who abundantly provides “her food from afar” that is made manifest in the church (Psa 145:18, Eph 3:10).

When Christ revealed himself in these two stories, (the blind man healed and cast out of the synagogue Joh 9:36-37, the woman of Samaria who meets Christ at the well Joh 4:25-26), he was not afar, but near as He always is . It is when we are blessed to be drawn to Christ (Joh 6:44) that the spirit bears witness with us that we are His sons (Rom 8:15-16) who have had our eyes and ears opened (1Co 13:12, 1Co 15:31). Being led then by the spirit is the key (Rom 8:14), whether we are taken near or far, we are always seeking a country even while we have the earnest of our inheritance “sealed with that holy spirit of promise” (Heb 11:9-10, Heb 11:14, Eph 1:13-14)

Heb 11:9  By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise:
Heb 11:10  For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.
Heb 11:11  Through faith also Sara herself received strength to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful who had promised.
Heb 11:12  Therefore sprang there even of one, and him as good as dead, so many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand which is by the sea shore innumerable.
Heb 11:13  These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
Heb 11:14  For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country.

Pro 31:15  She riseth also while it is yet night, and giveth meat to her household, and a portion to her maidens.

Rising early, “She riseth also while it is yet night”, represents the diligent spirit that God is fashioning within the body of Christ who sacrifice their lives to be where they have to be, and when they have to be there for the body’s sake, which leads to spiritual liberty (Rom 8:14-16, 2Co 3:17, Mat 24:45-46).

Rom 8:14  For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.
Rom 8:15  For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.
Rom 8:16  The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:

2Co 3:17  Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

Mat 24:45  Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season?  [“and giveth meat to her household”]
Mat 24:46  Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing.

The “portion”^H2706 given to the maidens is telling us that what God gives us to give to each other is done so in the measure of faith that we each operate in (Rom 12:3), and every joint supplies (Eph 4:16) in providing for these “maidens”^H5291 who represent the maturing body of Christ.

Rom 12:3  For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.

Eph 4:16  From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.

portion   H2706   chôq   khoke
From H2710; an enactment; hence an appointment (of time, space, quantity, labor or usage): – appointed, bound, commandment, convenient, custom, decree (-d), due, law, measure, X necessary, ordinance (-nary), portion, set time, statute, task. Total KJV occurrences: 127

maidens  H5291  na‛ărâh  nah-ar-aw’
Feminine of H5288; a girl (from infancy to adolescence): – damsel, maid (-en), young (woman).  Total KJV occurrences: 63

Rising “while it is yet night” symbolizes that because the light of Christ is in our lives, both the day and the night are the same unto us (Psa 139:12, 1Jn 4:17), and we can find ourselves being spiritually productive in this spiritually dead world that is lying in darkness. The darkness or unbelief of others is not going to prevent the faith of Christ from prevailing within the body of Christ (1Jn 5:19, Rom 3:3-4). God alone can use the evil circumstances, the darkness, for the good of the body of Christ, and so the light and darkness are His to use to His glory, and it is all for the elect’s sake (Isa 45:7, 2Co 4:15)