SOME INTERESTING SEVENS IN THE BIBLE

The number seven, in its various forms, appears 763 times in the King James Bible.  Here are just thirty examples: 


*  Seven days of creation:  Gen. 2:2-3.
*  The seventh day God rested:  Gen. 2:2.
*  Enoch was the seventh generation from creation:  Gen. 5:24.
*  The life of Lamech, son of Methuselah was 777 years:  Gen. 5:31.
*  The number of clean animals and fowls on the Ark was 7 pairs each:  Gen. 7:2-3.
*  The seven feasts of the LORD:  Lev. 23.
*  Seven priests, seven trumpets, seventh day, Jericho fell:  Josh. 6:1-20.
*  Solomon's 700 wives turned him away for God:  1 Kgs. 11:3.
*  Naaman dipped seven time in the Jordon:   2 Kgs. 5:14.
*  David was the seventh son of Jesse:  1 Chron. 2:13-15.
*  Job's "counselors" were silent for seven days:  Job 2:13.
*  The seven abominations to God:  Prov. 6:16.
*  Daniel's seventy-sevens prophecy:  Dan. 9:24-27.
*  The 4000 fed from seven loaves:  Mt. 15:32-39.
*  We are to forgive 70 time 7:  Mt. 18:21-22.
*  Seven "devils" cast out of Mary Magdalene:  Mk. 16:9.
*  Seven spiritual men ordained to be servants to the Church:  Acts 6:1-6.
*  The seven churches which are in Asia:  Rev. 1:4.
*  Seven candlesticks:  Rev. 1:12.
*  Seven stars in Christ's right hand:  Rev. 1:16.
*  The seven Spirits of God:  Rev. 3:1.
*  The seven lamps of fire burning before the throne:  Rev. 4:5.
*  The book with seven seals:  Rev. 5:1.
*  Seven angels with seven trumpets:  Rev. 8:2.
*  The seven thunders uttered their voices:  Rev. 10:3.
*  Seven thousand killed in an earthquake:  Rev. 11:13.
*  The dragon with seven heads and seven horns:  Rev. 12:3.
*  Seven angel with seven plagues:  Rev. 15:1.
*  Seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sits:  Rev. 17:9.
*  Seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come:  Rev. 17:10.

Seven is obviously easily identified with God, but have you ever noticed that the next number, the number eight, which speaks of new beginnings, is the sign for infinity when it is horizontal?