Words from the Pastor

Greetings in the Name of Christ Jesus, to all in Christ! I want to call the attention to the importance of the great subject of Number and Scripture and defining the significance of the number eight. It is 7 plus 1. In Hebrew, the number eight is (Sh-moneh), from the root (Sha-meyn), “to make fact,” “cover with that” “to super-abound.” As a participle it means “one who abounds in strength,” etc. As a noun, it is “superabundant fertility,” “oil,” etc. So that as numeral it is the superabundant number. As seven was so called because the seventh day was the day of completion and rest, so eight, as the eighth day, was over and above this perfect completion, and was indeed of new series as well as being the eighth. Hence, it is the number specially associated with Resurrection and Regeneration, and the beginning of a new era or order. When the whole earth was covered with the flood, it was Noah (the eighth person who stepped out onto a new earth to commence a new order of things). “Eight souls” passed through it with him to the new or regenerated world. Hence, too, circumcision was to be performed on the eighth day, because it was for shadowing of the true circumcision of the heart, that which was to be made “made without hands,” even “the putting off of the body of the sin of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ.” This is connected with the new creation. The first-born was to be given to Jehovah on the eighth day. There were eight individual resurrections other than the Lord and the saints. The Feast of Tabernacles lasted eight days. The transfiguration also took place on the eighth day after the first announcement of Christ’s “sufferings,” and it was the showing forth of the “glory” which should follow at his coming again.

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