ALPHA MAAMA (A.M.)

Monite Fepueli 20, 2023 

ה שבעים Seventy

FITUNGOFULU

GENESIS 46:27

ALL THE PERSONS OF THE HOUSE OF JACOB WHO CAME INTO EGYPT WERE SEVENTY.

SENESI 46:27

Pea ko e hako ‘o Siosifa ‘a ia na‘e fanau‘i kiate ia ‘i ‘Isipite, ko e ongo me‘a ‘e toko ua: ko e lau fakataha ‘o e fāmili ‘o Sēkope na‘e ha‘u ki ‘Isipite ko e toko fitungofulu.

The Bible's numerical symbolism begins already in Genesis 1 with seven days and continues all the way to Revelation with the number "666." The Hebrew number seventy, shiv'im, is part of this symbolic world.

Seventy is the number of large - scale completeness, a great and full totality. Add up all the families of the world listed in the genealogy of Genesis 10 and it comes to seventy. When Jacob and his family journeyed to Egypt, they were seventy in all (Gen. 46:27). Israel was represented by seventy elders (Exod. 24:9). Even in nonbiblical literature, such as Ugaritic, there are seventy members of the divine pantheon.

Jesus' choice to send out seventy disciples ahead of him to announce the kingdom was no accident (Luke 10:1 NASB). These spokesmen went with his full authority to proclaim a kingdom that recognized no geographical, racial, or cultural boundaries. Jews and Gentiles were included. Male and female. Everyone. The entire world was the compass of the redeeming work of Christ. All the persons of the house of humanity who came into the Egypt of sin and death and the devil were rescued by the Passover death and resurrection of the Son of God.

O Creator and Redeemer the world, come quickly to save us from all our adversaries.