Genesis 7:12 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and
forty nights
Genesis 50: 3 taking a full forty days, for that was the
time required for embalming. And the Egyptians mourned for him seventy days.
Exodus 24: 18 Then Moses entered the cloud as he went on up
the mountain. And he stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights.
Numbers 13: 25 At the end of forty days they returned from
exploring the land.
Matthews 4:1 Then Jesus was led by the Spirit
into the desert to be tempted by the devil. 2 After fasting forty
days and forty nights, he was hungry.
Exodus 34: 28 Moses was there with the LORD forty
days and forty nights without eating bread or drinking water. And he wrote on
the tablets the words of the covenant--the Ten Commandments.
1 Kings 19:8 So he got up and ate and drank. Strengthened by
that food, he traveled forty days and forty nights until he reached Horeb, the mountain of God.
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Horeb is thought to mean glowing/heat, which
seems to be a reference to the sun, while Sinai may have derived from the name of
Sin, the Sumerian deity of the moon, and thus Sinai and Horeb would be the
mountain of the moon and sun, respectively.
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Horeb (a.k.a. Sinai, and the Mountain of God) is
the mountain where Moses fasts for two times forty days back to back, as he
receives the Law (Exodus 3:1). Later the prophet Elijah also spends forty days
fasting on Horeb (1 Kings 19:8), after which he has his famous conversation
with God in the cave (19:9-18).
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The name Horeb comes from Horeb (hareb) meaning
to dry up, be in ruins, lay waste.
Jonah 3: 4 On the first day, Jonah started into the city. He
proclaimed: "Forty more days and Nineveh
will be overturned."
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Nineveh is the capital of Assyria, built by
Nimrod (Genesis 10:10). It's also the city to which Jonah was sent (Jonah 1:2)
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In cognate languages the city of Nineveh was
known as Nina, Ninua or Ninu, so the Hebrew rendering of Nineveh should be
expected to be a meaningless transliteration more than a deliberate name.
However, the form Nineveh may have reminded a Hebrew audience of a combination
of nin (nin) and nawa (naweh):
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nin (nin) means offspring, from the root nun
(nun) meaning propagate, increase. nun (nun).
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nawa (naweh) means dwelling, from the root nawa
(nawa) meaning keep at home.
Forty is the only number which, when spelled out in full,
has its letters in alphabetical order. Forty is a composite number, an octagonal
number, and as the sum of the first four pentagonal numbers, it is a
pentagonal pyramidal number. Adding up some subsets of its divisors (e.g., 1,
4, 5, 10 and 20) gives 40, hence 40 is a semiperfect number.
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A composite number is a positive integer that
has at least one positive divisor other than one or itself.
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An octagonal number is a figurate number that
represents an octagon.
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A pentagonal number is a figurate number that
extends the concept of triangular and square numbers to the pentagon (Having
“5” sides).
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In number theory, a semiperfect number or
pseudoperfect number is a natural number n that is equal to the sum of all or
some of its proper divisors.
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In science it is the atomic number of zirconium.
(Zirconium is a lustrous, greyish-white, soft, ductile and malleable metal
which is solid at room temperature.)
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In astronomy, the planet Venus forms a pentagram
in the night sky every eight years with it returning to its original point
every 40 years with a 40 day regression.
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In religion, the number 40 is used in Jewish,
Christian, Islamic, and other Middle Eastern traditions to represent a large,
approximate number: "umpteen".
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a number equal to four times 10
Four: Genesis 1: 1 In the beginning God created the heavens
and the earth. 2 Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the
surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters. 3 And
God said, "Let there be light," and there was light. 4 God saw that
the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness. 5 God called
the light "day," and the darkness he called "night." And
there was evening, and there was morning--the
first day. 6 And God said, "Let there be an expanse between the waters
to separate water from water." 7 So God made the expanse and separated the
water under the expanse from the water above it. And it was so. 8 God called
the expanse "sky." And there was evening, and there was morning--the second day. 9 And God said,
"Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground
appear." And it was so. 10 God called the dry ground "land," and
the gathered waters he called "seas." And God saw that it was good.
11 Then God said, "Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants
and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their
various kinds." And it was so. 12 The land produced vegetation: plants
bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it
according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good. 13 And there was
evening, and there was morning--the
third day. 14 And God
said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day
from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark seasons and days and years,
15 and let them be lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the
earth." And it was so. 16 God made two great lights--the greater light to
govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars.
17 God set them in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth, 18 to
govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw
that it was good. 19 And there was evening, and there was morning--the fourth
day.
Before God put any
kind of creature on the Earth, it was prepared. God planted “seeds” that bore
more “seeds”. He supplied water and light, which this light is mention in two
parts of Genesis. Verses 3 and 4, the light is separated from the darkness.
Verse 14 thru 18, the light was given to govern the day and night, in the
expanse of the sky. It is also utilized to give signs of seasons, days, and
years.
Ten: “10” is the first number after all the single digits.
When separated it has one and nothing.
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Increasing a quantity by
one order of magnitude is most widely understood to mean multiplying the quantity
by ten.
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To reduce something by
one-tenth is to decimate. (In ancient Rome, the killing of one in ten soldiers in a cohort
was the punishment for cowardice or mutiny; or, one-tenth of the able-bodied
men in a village as a form of retribution, thus causing a labor shortage and
threat of starvation in agrarian societies.)
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With ten
being the base of the decimal system, a scale of 1 to 10 is often used to rank
things, as a smaller version of a 1-to-100 scale (as is used in percentages
and wine-tasting). Hence, something that scores perfectly is
"a perfect ten". A person who is attractive and physically flawless is often said to
be "a ten", from the idea of ranking that person's appearance and
sex-appeal on a 1-to-10 scale.
But what is involved
with this “40 days”? The number forty is used by God to represent a period of
testing or judgment (the length of time necessary to accomplish some major part
of Gods plan in his dealings with various portions of mankind). The 40 days of
rain in the days of the flood were the judgments of God. The 40 day periods of
fasting, testing, and communing with God that were faced by Moses and Jesus
were a form of God's judgments. The forty years that the Israelites spent in
the wilderness were also the judgments of God. Various leaders in Israel who
reigned for 40 year periods were put there BY God according to His Will and
Judgments. Egypt was left desolate for 40 years because of God's judgments.
Matthews 4:1 Then Jesus was led by the Spirit
into the desert to be tempted by the devil. 2 After fasting forty
days and forty nights, he was hungry. 3 The tempter came to
him and said, "If you are the Son of God, tell these stones to become
bread." 4 Jesus answered, "It
is written: 'Man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes
from the mouth of God.' " 5 Then the
devil took him to the holy city and had him stand on the highest point of the
temple. 6 "If you are the Son of God," he said, "throw yourself
down. For it is written: " 'He
will command his angels concerning you, and they will lift you up in their
hands, so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.' " 7
Jesus answered him, "It is also written: 'Do not put the Lord
your God to the test.' " 8 Again, the devil took him to a very high
mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their splendor. 9
"All this I will give you," he said, "if you will bow down and
worship me." 10 Jesus said to him, "Away from me, Satan!
For it is written: 'Worship the Lord your God, and serve him only.' " 11
Then the devil left him, and angels came and attended him.
Hebrews 4: 15 For
we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses,
but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are--yet
was without sin.
Genesis 1: 1 Now
the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the LORD God had made.
He said to the woman, "Did God really say, 'You must not eat from any tree
in the garden'?" 2 The woman said to the serpent, "We may eat fruit
from the trees in the garden, 3 but God did say, 'You must not eat fruit from
the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you
will die.' " 4 "You will not surely die," the serpent said to
the woman. 5 "For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be
opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil." 6 When the woman
saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and
also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some
to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it. 7 Then the eyes of both of
them were opened, and they realized they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves
together and made coverings for themselves.
1 Thessalonians3:5 For this reason, when I could
stand it no longer, I sent to find out about your faith. I was afraid that in
some way the tempter might have tempted you and our efforts might have been
useless.
Deuteronomy 8: 3 He humbled you, causing you to hunger and then feeding you with
manna, which neither you nor your fathers had known, to teach you that man does
not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of the LORD.
John 4: 34 "My
food," said Jesus, "is to do the will of him who sent me and to
finish his work.
Psalms 91: 11 For
he will command his angels concerning you to guard you in all your ways; 12
they will lift you up in their hands, so that you will not strike your foot
against a stone.
Dueteronomy 6: 16 Do not test the LORD
your God as you did at Massah.
In 1 Chronicles, chapters
19 thru 21, David had to deal with his kindness being taken for granted. People
humiliated him and it enticed him to react. When he began to react it enticed
the seed planted to grow inside of him. Before he realized it he was going up
against God. 1 Chronicles 21: 1 Satan rose up against Israel and incited
David to take a census of Israel.
Job 1: 6 One day the angels1 came to present themselves
before the LORD, and Satan2 also came with them.3 7 The LORD said to Satan,
"Where have you come from?" Satan answered the LORD, "From
roaming through the earth and going back and forth in it."4 8 Then the
LORD said to Satan, "Have you considered my servant Job?5 There is no one
on earth like him; he is blameless and upright, a man who fears God6 and shuns
evil."7 9 "Does Job fear God for nothing?"8 Satan replied.
Matthews 16: 23 Jesus turned and said to Peter, "Get
behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me; you do not have in mind the
things of God, but the things of men."
Mark 4: 15 Some people are like seed along the path, where
the word is sown. As soon as they hear it, Satan comes and takes away the word
that was sown in them.
Luke 10: 18 He replied, "I saw Satan fall like
lightning from heaven.
Luke 13:16 Then should not this woman, a daughter of
Abraham, whom Satan has kept bound for eighteen long years, be set free on the
Sabbath day from what bound her?"
Luke 22: 3 Then Satan entered Judas, called Iscariot, one of
the Twelve.
This is a form of “demon
possession”, which is actually “feeding on the fruit’s of evil”
Romans 16: 20 The God of peace will soon crush Satan under
your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus be with you.
God will put Satan under
our feet if we do not feed on the fruits of evil, but allow them to fall by the
way side. Bad fruits usually decay and rot and then become food for the soil.
We then can walk on this soil to facilitate the firmness of our walking path.
2 Corinthians 2: 11 in order that Satan might not outwit us.
For we are not unaware of his schemes.
At times the fruits of
evil look good on the outside, but when we bite into them we find the bitter
taste it has from decaying on the inside.
2 Corinthians 11: 14 And no wonder, for Satan himself
masquerades as an angel of light.
Again, it is not always
what you see is what you get. We have to analyze what we see to ensure it is
what it is.
2 Thessalonians 2: 9 The coming of the lawless one will be
in accordance with the work of Satan displayed in all kinds of counterfeit
miracles, signs and wonders,
Revelations 12: 9 The great dragon was hurled down--that
ancient serpent called the devil, or Satan, who leads the whole world astray.
He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him.
Although satan comes to tempt
us and work the miracles in our presence, we have been design to process what
he does. Satan makes things look desireable but we have to take into
consideration, what is involved in the presentation. God stands in the
forefront of what happens in our lives but what we choose to do has to be in
accordance to God’s Will. When satan brings it to be me, my reaction must be
what is this, first. Understand what is here and thien make a sound decision
how to best deal with what is brought to me. I cannot react like the animals do
because I have the ability to analyse and use my senses to get a better
understanding. Satan’s revelations are just that, what I see, or what is
revealed through my senses. My job is to find out what it is and handle it in
an orderly fashion
For 40 years, I have come
under a lot of attacks that enticed me to react. When I look back on my life I
see that what those things were didn’t cause me to react the way I did but I
didn’t utilize my God-given talents to deal with those situations properly. All
my biblical instruction could have been used to handle the situations, I
encountered, on a more manly manner. Instead I reacted like a mitch and the
outcomes were not the best. I still, to this day, suffer due to how I handled
my past situations. I thank The Almighty for still allowing me to come to this
point in my life because He really didn’t have to let me live. But because He
has I try to improve my self by studying His Word and manifesting myself in
Him.
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