There are 11 examples of the number seven being important in Christian writings. Do you know of one?
There are a lot more than 11 examples of seven being important in Christian writings. Seven is used hundreds of times in the Bible. It is associated with completeness and finishing. An example completeness is the seven day week. Once a seven day week ends on the Sabbath (seventh day), a new week begins. After seven times seven years, a new year different from the other 49 years takes place. It is a year of jubilee. Leviticus 25:8-10 8 “‘Count off seven sabbaths of years–seven times seven years–so that the seven sabbaths of years amount to a period of forty-nine years. 9 Then have the trumpet sounded everywhere on the tenth day of the seventh month; on the Day of Atonement sound the trumpet throughout your land. 10 Consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee for you; each one of you is to return to his family property and each to his own clan. Here is an example of the word “finished” in connection with the number
