Hi Russ! i just headed over to your new site from your link-- got it bookmarked along with this one!

That is interesting about the Bible's symbolism also.

i recall reading about what each number symbolizes. Our one pastor learned it and would post about the meanings in books he wrote.

So far, I learned the following from his writings:

1- The number 6 stands for Unredeemed Man
2- The number 7 stands for God's perfection-- standing for Completion.

3- The number 4 stands for God's Bride- the Body of Christ.
4- The number 10 stands for all that Man can Contain.
5- The number 12 is an Apostalic number standing for God's chosen people. (i.e., 12 Tribes if Isreal, 12 Apostles)

6- The number 3 stands for the Trinity.

7- When people in the bible- including Jesus were in some sort of Test or Fast, it seems it is mentioned as 40 days. Multiply 10 (all that man can contain) with 4 (The number that symbolizes His Church) and you get the symbolism of how Jesus's fasting in the Wilderness 40 days and 40 nights is prophetic of how, like Christ, His Church will also have to go through a spiritual preparation - Trials and Temptations God will permit for each of us -- but all that we can contain, and no more.

When the Isrealites traveled the Wildnerness 40 years,-- that also symbolized something similar. 4 x 10 --- symbolizing how Christ's followers roam about til they cant take it anymore (#10) and they find their Destination.

There are many truths locked in God's Word that only the Holy Spirit can unlock -- but most of us dont really bother reading the Bible too much, so we lose out on all these truths we can learn.