7...70...700...7000...

When I was 6 years old (interestingly the age of my eldest daughter), I thought 50 was ancient.  A 50 year old would have a cane, wear glasses, and be pretty much washed up.  The idea of 7000 years would have been eternity to a young child.

The age of the earth really depends on your belief system.  If you think scientists estimation of 4.54 billion years is true, then it is very hard to believe that Earth is only 7000 years old as many creationists believe.  There is a huge difference in those numbers.

However, no matter if the Earth is 7000 years old, or 7 million, or 7 billion; the truth is: at some point we are to be judged.  Right?  If we believe in the Bible....or is that something that man has created?

So today I want to begin with where these Biblical numbers stem.

The number seven (7) appears all over in the Bible.  Here are just a few:

1. In Genesis, God rests on the 7th day after creating the Heavens, Earth, man, etc.
2. In Exodus, we are told to rest on the Sabbath day; which is the 7th day of the week.
3. In Genesis, Noah was on the Ark for 7 days when the rains began.
4. Leviticus suggests that there are 7 Holy feast days for our Lord.

This website SEVEN states that the number 7 appears in the Bible 700 times.  That would suggest that the number seven is a very significant number.


As a musician, the following statement was very interesting to me:


"There are SEVEN notes in the musical scale. All other pitches are only variations of these. When the musician uses the eighth note he goes back to “do” and starts over. Man named the notes but God fixed the sounds, even as God fixed the days of the week, and man named them."

Okay, so this website person knows a bit about music.  Or is it more than that?  Is this number 7 have something to do with numerology?

I ran across this website: NUMEROLOGY, that states, "Number 7 is the most spiritual of all numbers."  Was this why the number 7 appears so many times in the Bible.  After all, the people of the ancient times were very spiritual and had mystical dealings with numbers and such.  Did the prophets of old use numerology to explain what God would do?


The Judgment Day, as promoted by Family Christian Radio, is based on this number 7.  They calculate that the year 2011 is 7000 years (minus 1 for the transition from BC to AD) from the flood.  They calculate that the flood took place in 4990 BC.  Where do they come up with this date?

The only evidence is stated, "by careful study of the Bible".  Don't you wish they would explain how they deduced that the date of the flood was in 4990 BC?  I do.  Because if the Bible gave us dates we could all jump on the rapture bandwagon.  We could sell our homes, rack up debt on our credit cards, see the world, and wait for the inevitable.

The number 7000 is derived by a passage in 2 Peter 3:8, which says:

But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day.(NIV)

So, with that calculation in mind, it took the Lord 6000 years to create the world as we know it: Earth, sea, sky, man.  And then he took 1000 years to chill out.


Why 7000 years?  That will be discussed in the next blog entry.