Numerical Significance:
1 Exclusion of
difference, sufficiency, power, omnipotence, independence, perpetual, eternal,
identity, concord, peace, congruity, harmony, sovereignty, election, promise,
grace, birth
2 Difference, division, addition, growth, increase, competent
testimony, seconding, salvation, relationship, service, dependence,
contradiction, seed, separation, death
3 Cubic measure, solidity,
fullness, trinity, actuality, manifestation, sanctification, spirit,
resurrection
4 Weakness, testing, trial, failure, experience, number of the
creature
5 God in Government, responsibility,
6 Manifestation of evil,
or of the enemy's work, work day week
7 Perfection, rest, completes the
series,
8 New beginning,
7 The Christ life developed in full
"image" (37:2-50:26)
1 God's council and man's rebellion . (37:2-36)
1
Visions of supremacy.(37:2-11)
2 Separated from his brethren.(37:12-36)
2 Judah's separation from his brethren and humiliation.(38:1-30)
1 Tamar's
widowhood,(38:1-11)
2 Tamar's deception.(38:12-23)
3 The manifestation.
(38:24-30)
3 Zanhnath-paaneah, "the Revealer of
Secrets.(39:1-41:52)
1 Unchanging integrity.(39:1-23)
1 Ruler in his
master's house.(39:1-6)
2 The assault of sin and the
accusation.(39:7-12)
3 His exaltation in prison.(39:13-23)
2 Joseph in
prison the interpreter of life and death.(40:1-23)
3 A man in whom the
spirit of life is.(41:1-52)
1 The king's dream.(41:1-7)
2 The
Interpretation.(41:8-36)
3 Raised from the dungeon to the
throne.(41:37-52)
4 The days of famine.(41:53-47:27)
1 The first
decent of his brethren into Egypt and call to repentance.(41:53-42)
1
Joseph the sole resource.(41:53-57)
2 His Brethren come for
help.(42:1-5)
3 Manifested to themselves.(42:6-24)
4 Continued
trial.(42:25-38)
2 The Second descent: Joseph their
deliverer.(43:1-45:28)
1 Benjamin sent.(43:1-14)
2
Debating.(43:15-25)
3 With Joseph.(43:26-34)
4 New trial.(44:1-17)
5 Judah's plea: the end reached at last.(44:18-34)
6 Joseph's
victory.(45:1-15)
7 The consummations.(45:16-28)
3 Israel Dwelling in
Egypt.(46:1-47:12)
1 The call and Blessing of God.(46:1-7)
2 The
increase of Jacob.(46:8-27)
3 Settling in the land.(46:28-47:12)
4 The
land reduced under Pharaoh.(47:13-27)
5 The moral conclusion: the end
as a way.(47:28-49:27)
1 Survival in death.(47:28-31)
2 The double
portion of Joseph.(48:1-22)
1 The birthright made over to him.(48:1-7)
2 Manasseh and Ephraim: spiritual increase.(48:8-20)
3 Joseph;s portion in
the land.(48:21-22)
3 The portion of the tribes.(49:1-27)
1 The son's
of Leah: the nation under the first covenant.(49:1-14)
1 The first-born
losses the primacy.(49:1-4)
2 Confederacy and violence remedied by
division.(49:5-7)
3 Judah's exaltation: the spirit of praise.(49:8-12)
4 Israel turning to the Gentile world.(49:13)
5 Under the yolk on
retribution.(49:14-15)
2 The children of the bondmaids. Deliverance at the
lowest point of humiliation and distress under antichrist. (49:16-21)
1
Self government again in Isreal, but the reign of the willful
king.(49:16-18)
2 Conflict and deliverance.(49:19)
3 Enjoyment of their
portion in the land.(49:20)
4 Practical condition.(49:21)
3 Rachel:
seed of the barren wife. Manifestation of God in Christ for his people.
(49:23-27)
1 Abiding power and grace: the blessing of the
almighty.(49:23-26)
2 The Destruction of the enemies.(49:27)
6 The
final victory of life over death, and of God over evil.(49:28-50:26)
1 Life
unchanged by death.(49:28-50:14)
2 Joseph with his brethren.(50:15-26)
1 Unchanging grace and divine sovereignty in good.(50:15-21)
2 A witness in
death. Bearing about in the body of the dying Jesus. (50:21-26)
(From the Numerical Bible by F. W. Grant)