More Pre-introduction (significance of 8)

There are 8 verses in each section of Psalm 119 and my friend Brother Ray had shared the significance of 8.

Yes, I would have expected you as a Pastor to have more insight into the Preaching part of this Psalm. Very good!! I like that acrostic you made of the word JOY, and then that Simple Sermon of the 1. 2. 3. You brought meaning and purpose to the acrostic! I'm glad LeeAnna enjoyed this as well.

A couple morenotes on this, is the number "8", which is the number of verses included foreach letter. As we all know, 8 in music is an octave. Each note has the exact tone of the previous and post octaves notes, but only at different pitches. (David was known as 'The Sweet Psalmist of Israel'). So, this being a 'Psalm', it is based as you said Bro Bill on music and poetry. But additionally, each number in scripture has some spiritual significance. Eight is the number for Resurrection or New Life. It's a new beginning. In Hebrew and Greek, the ancients used the letters of their alphabet as numbers also. EW Bullinger wrote the book, "Number in Scripture" and talks about the numbers there. One easy example is God making the world in 7 days, and the 8th day was a new beginning, or a new week. Jesus rose from the dead on that day. What was it that God created on the first day of creation? "LIGHT"! Jesus is the Octave of that first Light! Also, in Israel, the day begins with evening and then day, not as we do with midnight and sandwich the day between two nights. At the end of each creation day, it says that there was "Evening and Morning". I think that the reason for this is that the misery and sorrow of the night of this world comes first, and then the morning brings the Joy of Eternal Bliss. We are still in that nighttime of the world, spiritually speaking. If we calculate Jesus name in Greek it works out to the number 888, whereas the antichrist comes to 666, just short of perfection of "7". Thus I believe God used each letter 8 times in this Psalm. In Dispensationalism, we believe that God used the first week of Creation as a type for the history ofmankind, since he spoke through Moses that to God a "Day is as a thousandyears".

So, there will be 7,000 years to human history, but, after that begins the new octave Morning of Eternity. Morning of Eternity, not Day of Eternity. God called the "LIGHT" Day and the Darkness Night, but "There was Evening and there was Morning, Day One". I think the reason for this is that it has no end and will be morning eternally, and will no longer progress to nighttime.
JESUS Himself is The Day!
Oh the unsearchable riches of the wisdom and knowledge of GOD! This God is our God!!! Maranatha!
RayG