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Forty Days ... Examples
Forty means: probation, probation of trial,
related to a period of evident probation.
Divine order applied to earthly things. It
has long been universally recognized as an
important number, both on account of the frequency of its
occurrence. The uniformity of its association with a period
of probation, trial, and chastisement (not judgment)
There are eight of such great periods on the surface of the Bible:
Acts 1:2 Forty days Jesus was seen with His disciples, speaking of the
things pertaining to the kingdom of God.
Forty days Ezekiel lay on his right side to symbolize the 40 years of
Judah's transgression.
Jonah 3:4 Forty days of Jonah and Nineveh.
Numbers 13:26, and Numbers 14:24 Forty days of the spies, issuing in the
penal sentence of the 40 years.
Genesis 7:4 For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon
the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living
substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of
the earth.
5 And Noah did according unto all that the LORD commanded him.
6 And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters
was upon the earth.
Genesis 8:6 And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that
Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made:
7 And he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro, until
the waters were dried up from off the earth.
8 Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were
abated from off the face of the ground;
9 But the dove found no rest for the sole of her
foot, and she
returned unto him into the ark, for the waters were on the face
of the whole earth: then he put forth his hand, and took her,
and pulled her in unto him into the ark.
Genesis 50:1 And Joseph fell upon his father's face,
and wept
upon him, and kissed him.
2 And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his
father: and the physicians embalmed Israel.
3 And forty days were fulfilled for him; for so are fulfilled
the days of those which are embalmed: and the Egyptians mourned
for him threescore and ten days.
4 And when the days of his mourning were past, Joseph spake unto
the house of Pharaoh, saying, If now I have found grace in your
eyes, speak, I pray you, in the ears of Pharaoh, saying,
5 My father made me swear, saying, Lo, I die: in my grave which
I have digged for me in the land of Canaan, there shalt thou
bury me. Now therefore let me go up, I pray thee, and bury my
father, and I will come again.
6 And Pharaoh said, Go up, and bury thy father, according as he
made thee swear.
Forty days Moses was in the mount and to receive the Law
Exodus 24:16 And the glory of the LORD abode upon mount
Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days: and the
seventh day he
called unto Moses out of the midst of the cloud.
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Moses waited on God = always do as God tells you
to do
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Moses obey God, Moses waited six days, notice on
the seventh day God called on Moses
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The cloud covered it six days: and the seventh
day God called Moses
17 And the sight of the glory of the LORD was like devouring
fire on the top of the mount in the eyes of the children of
Israel.
18 And Moses went into the midst of the cloud, and gat him up
into the mount: and Moses was in the mount forty days and forty
nights.
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Went into
= On 20-25th and 26th of Sever:
The fourth Sabbath.
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Moses went into the midst of the cloud,
Moses was in the mount forty days and forty
nights.
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Forty =
probation
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God has given us free, will to love Him or follow
Satan = God needs to know if you love Him
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Matthew 4:1 Then was Jesus led up of the
Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the
devil.
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Matthew 4:2 And when he had fasted forty
days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred.
Exodus 34:26 The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt
bring unto the house of the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not see the
a kid in his mother's milk.
27 And the LORD said unto Moses, Write thou these words: for
after the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with thee
and with Israel.
28 And he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights;
he did neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he wrote upon the
tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.
29 And it came to pass, when Moses came down from mount Sinai
with the two tables of testimony in Moses' hand, when he came
down from the mount, that Moses wist not that the skin of his
face shone while he talked with him.
Numbers 13:26, Numbers 14:24 Forty days of the spies, issuing in
the penal sentence of the 40 years.
While the majority of the men sent out by Moses bring back
evil report, Caleb and Hoshea, or Joshua, the
son of Nun, are the only ones to counsel the invasion of the
promised land.
What did God said?
Exodus 3:8 And I am come down to deliver them out of the
hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land
unto a good land and a large, unto a
land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the
Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the
Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites.
Caleb and Joshua were the only two of this generation to
enter the promise land.
Number 13:21 So they went up, and searched the land from the
wilderness of Zin unto Rehob, as men come to Hamath.
22 And they ascended by the south, and came unto Hebron; where
Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak, were. (Now
Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)
23 And they came unto the brook of Eshcol, and cut down from
thence a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bare it
between two upon a staff; and they brought of the pomegranates,
and of the figs.
24 The place was called the brook Eshcol, because of the cluster
of grapes which the children of Israel cut down from thence.
25 And they returned from searching of the land after
forty
days.
26 And they went and came to Moses, and to Aaron, and to all the
congregation of the children of Israel, unto the wilderness of
Paran, to Kadesh; and brought back word unto them, and unto all
the congregation, and shewed them the fruit of the land.
27 And they told him, and said, We came unto the land whither
thou sentest us, and surely it floweth with milk and honey; and
this is the fruit of it.
28 Nevertheless the people be strong that dwell in the
land, and the cities are walled, and very great:
and moreover we saw the children of Anak there.
29 The Amalekites dwell in the land of the south:
and the Hittites, and the Jebusites, and the Amorites, dwell in
the mountains: and the Canaanites dwell by the sea, and by the
coast of Jordan.
Why did they wander in the wilderness forty years?
They did not believe God, they started listen to man.. don't
fall asleep at the last hour
Caleb and Joshua were the only two of this generation to enter
the promise land.
Numbers 14:29 Your carcases shall fall in this
wilderness; and all that were numbered of you, according to your
whole number, from twenty years old and upward,
which have murmured against me,
Number 14:33 And your children shall wander in the wilderness
forty years, and bear your whoredoms, until your carcases be
wasted in the wilderness.
34 After the number of the days in which ye searched the land,
even forty days, each day for a year, shall ye bear your
iniquities, even forty years, and ye shall know my breach of
promise.
35 I the LORD have said, I will surely do it unto all this evil
congregation, that are gathered together against me: in this
wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.
36 And the men, which Moses sent to search the land, who
returned, and made all the congregation to murmur against him,
by bringing up a slander upon the land,
Deut 9:18, 25 Forty days Moses was in the mount after
the sin of the Golden Calf
Deuteronomy 9:9 When I was gone up into the mount to receive the
tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant which the LORD
made with you, then I abode in the mount forty days and forty
nights, I neither did eat bread nor drink water:
10 And the LORD delivered unto me two tables of stone written
with the finger of God; and on them was written according to all
the words, which the LORD spake with you in the mount out of the
midst of the fire in the day of the assembly.
11 And it came to pass at the end of forty days and forty
nights, that the LORD gave me the two tables of stone, even the
tables of the covenant.
12 And the LORD said unto me, Arise, get thee down quickly from
hence; for thy people which thou hast brought forth out of Egypt
have corrupted themselves; they are quickly turned aside out of
the way which I commanded them; they have made them a molten
image.
13 Furthermore the LORD spake unto me, saying, I have seen this
people, and, behold, it is a stiff necked people:
14 Let me alone, that I may destroy them, and
blot out their
name from under heaven: and I will make of thee a nation
mightier and greater than they.
15 So I turned and came down from the mount, and the mount
burned with fire: and the two tables of the covenant were in my
two hands.
16 And I looked, and, behold, ye had sinned against the Lord
your God, and had made you a molten calf: ye had turned aside
quickly out of the way which the Lord had commanded you.
17 And I took the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands,
and brake them before your eyes.
18 And I fell down before the Lord, as at the first,
forty days and forty nights: I did neither eat bread,
nor drink water, because of all your sins which ye sinned, in
doing wickedly in the sight of the Lord, to provoke him to
anger.
Deuteronomy 9:25 Thus I fell down before the LORD
forty days and
forty nights, as I fell down at the first; because the LORD had
said he would destroy you.
26 I prayed therefore unto the LORD, and said, O Lord GOD,
destroy not thy people and thine inheritance, which thou hast
redeemed through thy greatness, which thou hast brought forth
out of Egypt with a mighty hand.
27 Remember thy servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; look not
unto the stubbornness of this people, nor to their wickedness,
nor to their sin:
28 Lest the land whence thou broughtest us out say, Because the
LORD was not able to bring them into the
land which he promised
them, and because he hated them, he hath brought them out to
slay them in the wilderness.
29 Yet they are thy people and thine inheritance, which thou
broughtest out by thy mighty power and by thy stretched out arm.
Deuteronomy 10:9 Wherefore Levi hath no part nor inheritance
with his brethren; the LORD is his inheritance, according as the
LORD thy God promised him.
10 And I stayed in the mount, according to the first time,
forty
days and forty nights; and the LORD hearkened unto me at that
time also, and the LORD would not destroy thee.
11 And the LORD said unto me, Arise, take thy journey before the
people, that they may go in and possess the land, which
I sware
unto their fathers to give unto them.
12 And now, Israel, what doth the LORD thy God require of thee,
but to fear the LORD thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to
love him, and to serve the LORD thy God with all thy heart and
with all thy soul,
13 To keep the commandments of the LORD, and his statutes, which
I command thee this day for thy good?
14 Behold, the heaven and the heaven of heavens is the LORD's
thy God, the earth also, with all that therein is.
15 Only the LORD had a delight in thy fathers to love them, and
he chose their seed after them, even you above all people, as it
is this day.
1 Samuel 17:16 And the Philistine drew near morning and evening,
and presented himself forty days.
17 And Jesse said unto David his son, Take now for thy brethren
an ephah of this parched corn, and these ten loaves, and run to
the camp to thy brethren;
Many people believe this will be the same area the deadly wound
will happen.
Forty days of Elijah in Horeb, 1 Kings 19:8
1 Kings 19:1 And Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and
withal how he had slain all the prophets with the sword.
2 Then Jezebel sent a messenger unto Elijah, saying, So let the
gods do to me, and more also, if I make not thy life as the life
of one of them by to morrow about this time.
3 And when he saw that, he arose, and went for his life, and
came to Beer-sheba, which belongeth to Judah, and left his
servant there.
4 But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and
came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for
himself that he might die; and said, It is enough; now, O LORD,
take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.
5 And as he lay and slept under a juniper tree, behold, then
an
angel touched him, and said unto him, Arise and eat.
6 And he looked, and, behold, there was a cake baken on the
coals, and a cruse of water at his head. And he did eat and
drink, and laid him down again.
7 And the angel of the LORD came again the second time, and
touched him, and said, Arise and eat; because the journey is too
great for thee.
8 And he arose, and did eat and drink, and went in the strength
of that meat forty days and forty nights unto Horeb the mount of
God.
9 And he came thither unto a cave, and lodged there; and,
behold, the word of the LORD came to him, and he said unto him,
What doest thou here, Elijah?
10 And he said, I have been very jealous for the LORD God of
hosts: for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant,
thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword;
and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it
away.
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The children of Israel have forsaken thy
covenant
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Slain thy prophets with the sword; and
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I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life,
to take it away.
Ezekiel 4:4 Lie thou also upon thy left side, and lay the
iniquity of the house of Israel upon it: according to the number
of the days that thou shalt lie upon it thou shalt bear their
iniquity.
5 For I have laid upon thee the years of their iniquity,
according to the number of the days, three hundred and ninety
days: so shalt thou bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.
6 And when thou hast accomplished them, lie again on thy right
side, and thou shalt bear the iniquity of the house of Judah
forty days: I have appointed thee each day for a year.
7 Therefore thou shalt set thy face toward the siege of
Jerusalem, and thine arm shall be uncovered, and thou shalt
prophesy against it.
8 And, behold, I will lay bands upon thee, and thou shalt not
turn thee from one side to another, till thou hast ended the
days of thy siege.
9 Take thou also unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and
lentiles, and millet, and fitches, and put them in one vessel,
and make thee bread thereof, according to the number of the days
that thou shalt lie upon thy side, three hundred and ninety days
shalt thou eat thereof.
10 And thy meat which thou shalt eat shall be by weight, twenty
shekels a day: from time to time shalt thou eat it.
Jonah 3:3 So Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh, according to
the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city of
three days' journey.
4 And Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he
cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be
overthrown.
5 So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast,
and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the
least of them.
6 For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his
throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered him with
sackcloth, and sat in ashes.
7 And he caused it to be proclaimed and published through
Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let
neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste any thing: let them
not feed, nor drink water:
Forty days Jesus was tempted of the Devil
Matthew 4:1 Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the
wilderness to be tempted of the devil.
2 And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was
afterward an hungred.
3 And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son
of God, command that these stones be made bread.
Acts 1:1 The former treatise have I made, O Theophilus, of all
that Jesus began both to do and teach,
2 Until the day in which he was taken up, after that
he through the Holy Spirit had given commandments unto the apostles whom he
had chosen:
3 To whom also he shewed himself alive after his passion by many
infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days, and speaking
of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God:
4 And, being assembled together with them, commanded them that
they should not depart from Jerusalem, but
wait for the promise
of the Father, which, saith he, ye have heard of me.
5 For John truly baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized
with the Holy Spirit not many days hence.
6 When they therefore were come together, they asked of him,
saying, Lord, wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom
to Israel?
7 And he said unto them, It is not for you to know the times or
the seasons, which the Father hath put in his own power.
8 But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy
Spirit is come
upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem,
and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part
of the earth.
9 And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld,
he was
taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight.
10 And while they looked sted fastly toward heaven as he went
up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel;
11 Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up
into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into
heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into
heaven.
12 Then returned they unto Jerusalem from the mount called
Olivet, which is from Jerusalem a Sabbath day's journey.
13 And when they were come in, they went up into an upper room,
where abode both Peter, and James, and John, and Andrew, Philip,
and Thomas, Bartholomew, and Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus,
and Simon Zelotes, and Judas the brother of James.
14 These all continued with one accord in prayer and
supplication, with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and
with his brethren.
15 And in those days Peter stood up in the midst of the
disciples, and said, (the number of names together were about
an
hundred and twenty,)
• Exactly 2520 years from the exile
of Benjamin, Iceland became an independent nation.
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The first tribe to be
conquered by the Assyrians was Manasseh,
in 745 B.C. Exactly 2520 years later America became a nation on July 4, 1776.
• Study the book: Abrahamic Covenant,
(A study outline of the identity of God's people) By E. Raymond Capt
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