Linked From: {1 of 6} BIBLE: Genesis Chapter 6 – A Quantum Jump Into the Divine Design

In Hebrew The number Seven means “A Covenant/Promise/Oath/Treaty”.

Genesis 1:1 Seven Hebrew words of Creation: In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

• Romans 1:20 For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, that is, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, being understood by what has been made, so that they are without excuse.

The Sevens of Creation

• In Time
  
  • There are Seven days in a Week from the seven days of Creation

• In Music
  
  • The syllables do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, and ti can be applied to the first seven notes of any major scale;
    
• In Light (A continuum broken into seven parts)
  
  • There are seven Light Waves:
    • Radio waves, microwaves, infrared radiation, visible light, ultraviolet radiation, X-rays, and gamma rays
      
  • There are seven designated colors in the Visible Light Spectrum
    

• In Hebrew
  • Seven Words in Genesis 1:1
    
• On the Menorah
  • There are seven branches of light

• During the Flood
  • Noah took seven of every clean animal

• In Revelation
  • There are seven seals for God’s covenant with Israel
  • Seven warning trumpets for the Gentiles
  • Seven bowl of consequences to the Gentiles for not heeding God’s warnings

• II Samuel 24:13
  • Seven years of famine was one of the disciplines King David had to choose from, for his sin of taking a census.

• The Tribulation
  • Seven years of affliction

• The Jewish Feasts
  • Seven days of Passover
  • Seven days of Sukkot
  • Seven days of Affliction between the Feast of Trumpets and the Day of Atonement
  • Seven times seven in the Feast of Weeks

• Joseph’s Pharaoh’s Dreams
  • Seven fat cows for seven years
  • Seven lean cows for a seven year famine
    
• In Forgiveness
  • Not seven times but seventy times seven

• Jesus’ Seven Days of Affliction
  • Between the Triumphal Entry and His Resurrection

• In Psychology:
  • Dr. George Miller was working on cognitive science. In fact, he’s known as the father of cognitive science. He did a number of tests and experiments that proved we can only hold seven independent things in our short-term memory.

• Ruth 4:15
  • Ruth and Boaz’s son:
    “And may he be to you a restorer of life and a nourisher of your old age; for your daughter-in-law, who loves you, who is better to you than seven sons, has borne him.”