Numbers and the Resurrection through Pentecost
The use of numbers in the Bible is always very significant. Man often uses numbers haphazardly, but God uses them always with a divine, instructive purpose. Forty denotes a period of probation, trial, and proving. Jesus Christ was on earth forty days in his resurrected body, proving himself to be alive by many infallible proofs. He had begun his ministry being proved for forty days of temptation in the wilderness. During the forty days before the ascension, mankind was in a period of probation during which it would decide whether or not to believe that Christ was risen.
Biblically, ten represents ordinal perfection and is a multiple of five, the number of grace. On the tenth day after the ascension came Pentecost, when the administration of the Church, the one Body of Christ, was established. With the coming of Pentecost and God’s giving of the holy spirit, any person, Judean or Gentile, could be born again of God’s Spirit. Anyone and everyone who desired to believe could receive eternal life, power from on high, holy spirit. This would mark the beginning of the Administration of Grace.
The above is from Jesus Christ Our Passover by Victor Paul Wierwille; pages, 381 and 382.
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