Number 5

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Number Five

  *5 is the number of GRACE

• Main Meanings
  • Grace
  • Serve
  • Works
  • Service
  • Taxes
• Other Meanings
  • Bondage
    • Debt
    • Sickness
    • Phobias
• Bible References
  • Genesis 1:20-23
  • Leviticus 27:31
  • John 8:34
• Authors Quoted
  • Tony Silveira
  • Russ Moyer
  • E.W. Bullinger

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Notes:

Man and creation must be redeemed. Thus we have:

  1. Father
  2. Son
  3. Spirit
  4. Creation
  5. Redemption 

These are the five great mysteries, and five is therefore the number of GRACE.

when God changed Abram's name to Abraham (Gen 17:5), the change was made very simply, but very significantly (for there is no chance with God), by inserting in the middle of it the fifth letter of the alphabet, h (Hey), the symbol of the number five, and Mrb), Abram, became Mhrb) AbraHam (Gen 17:5). All this was of grace, and it is stamped with this significance.

FIVE SMOOTH STONES"

were chosen by David when he went to meet the giant enemy of Israel (1 Sam 17:40).

THE TABERNACLE

had five for its all-pervading number; nearly every measurement was a multiple of five. Before mentioning these measurements we ought to notice that worship itself is all of grace!

THE HOLY ANOINTING OIL (Exo 30:23-25)

was composed of five parts, for it was a revelation of pure grace. This five is marked by the numbers four and one. For four parts were spices, and one was oil.

The four principal species:—

  1. Myrrh, 500 shekels (5x100).
  2. Sweet cinnamon, 250 shekels (5x50).
  3. Sweet calamus, 250 shekels (5x50).
  4. Cassia, 500 shekels (5x100). 

THE INCENSE (Exo 30:34)

also was composed of five parts. Four were "sweet spices," Myms (Sa-meem), and one was salt. xlm, to salt, being rendered "tempered together." See verse 35, margin.

The four "sweet spices" were:—

  1. "Stacte," P+n (Nataph), "to drop"; hence a drop of aromatic gum. The LXX is stakth from spazein, "to drop." The Rabbins call it opobalsamum, as the RV margin.
  2. "On'ycha," tlx# (Sh'cheyleth), "a shell"; Greek onux, the shell of a species of mussel which burnt with an odour of musk.
  3. "Gal'banum," hnblx (Chel-b'nah), "a fragrant gum."
  4. "Frankincense," hnwbl (L'bonah), "a bright burning gum."
  5. The one, salt. The verb xlm (Mah-lach), "to salt," occurs only here and Leviticus 2:13 and Ezekiel 16:4, from which its meaning may be seen. 

This incense was called by various names,—"pure," "perpetual," "sweet," "holy." No imitation of it was allowed.