glory to GOD FOR TRUTH Amen ! “The devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days” (Rev. 2:10). Those “ten days!” Let me explain to you what those ten days mean. Ten is the number in scripture that refers to personal testing. The number ten, the last of the scale of numbers, each of which has a mystic meaning of its own, is naturally, in the symbolism of numbers, the representative of completeness, and here, therefore, of trial and testing carried to its full extent, and lacking nothing that could make it thorough and perfect, as a test. It comes as the climax of the whole picture of the sufferings to which the typical church of Smyrna was to be exposed. It is, furthermore, a full number, denoting that which is complete, yet of limited duration. Let us explore this meaning a little further. Ten is a number which is very frequently employed in scripture, and it often occurs in the book of Revelation. The antediluvian world was comprised of the lifetime of ten patriarchs. Before the heart of the Pharaoh of Egypt was inclined to let the children of Israel go to serve their God, ten plagues were sent upon the land. The whole of the law of God was summed up in ten commandments. The Lord Jesus in His parables spoke of ten virgins having ten lamps, and of servants entrusted with ten pounds whom He will place over ten cities. In the book of Revelation we read of the ten horns of the great red dragon, of the ten horns of the beast, of his ten royal diadems, and of the ten kings who shall hate the whore with whom they have committed fornication. Now if we consider all these applications of the number ten, and more besides, there can be no question of the fact that it is a round number, that whatever other number is multiplied by it, must also be a round number. As such it beautifully serves as a symbol of completeness and fullness!
Posted on: Thu, 01 Aug 2013 15:14:01 +0000
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