This blog post centers around the word given at the beginning of this year. In a concerted effort to share it among a greater audience of the whole body of believers, let’s dig into this tremendous prophetic release, piece by piece.
The biblical number 21 has both negative and positive aspects in Scripture.
The number twenty-one is usually associated with something negative, mainly because of how it portrays within specific Biblical frameworks.
For example, the children of Israel committed twenty-one rebellions in their forty years in the wilderness, which helps set this particular adverse context.
Another gloomy connection is the laundry list of Jeroboam’s royal sins, the first ruler of the northern tribes of Israel after the nation split in half, reinforcing yet another downward spiral for this number.
And finally, the nail in the coffin for this number is when Paul categorizes people’s failings during the last days. Beginning in 2 Timothy, chapter 3, verse 2, the converted Saul of Tarsus pens phrases such as “lovers of self,” “disobedient,” and “boasters, proud, and blasphemers.” He continues to catalog how men and women of the end times will degenerate toward evil. So how many characteristics does he finally make in his list? You guessed it: twenty-one.
It is an incriminatory report for the number following twenty because it portrays Rebellion so effectively; nevertheless, this is merely one of its facets.
Thankfully, there are positives to prove far more critical to those who have the ears to hear what the Spirit is saying to the church.
But 21 also has positive traits, which we are about to explore.
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