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SEVEN IN NAME AND SCRIPTUREBY REV. DAVID COUPER SERMON FOR OCT. 29, 2000 "SEVEN" IS GOD'S MARK upon His perfect work, both in nature and in Scripture. This amazing fact proves, as Hugh Millar, the famous Scottish naturalist, said long ago, that "He Who dictated the Scriptures created the world." Let us look first at some of the more obvious "sevens" in nature. We all know that there are seven colors in the rainbow-red, orange, yellow, blue, indigo, violet. Not so many people know that God's mark is upon the whole wide range of the oc=s of the world. Every seventh wave is larger than the six preceding waves. Looking up at the stars we are accustomed to the group known as "Pleiades" or The Seven Sisters, mentioned twice in the Book of job. There are seven stars connected with the Southern Cross (five in the Cross and two that point to it). In the northern hemisphere there is the constellation known as Arcturus, or The Great Bear, with its seven-starred companion, the "Little Bear." The ancients, searching the skies, found seven radiant orbs differing from all the other heavenly bodies. These they called planets or "wanderers." Apparently there is no relationship between light and sound. But listen to this: seven colours in the sunlight, and seven notes in music. What is the connection? Science tells us it is a matter of vibrations. A tenor voice produces four hundred vibrations per second, a soprano voice eight hundred. Multiply these vibrations by a million million and sound becomes light. Four hundred million million vibrations per second correspond to red light, seven hundred million million to violet light, and so forth. This relationship between sound and light is acclaimed as one of the wonders of modern scientific discovery. But the Bible has told us of that relationship thousands of years ago: Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind and said, Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth . . . when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy? (job 38:4, 7). Not being able to explain about the morning stars singing together, we have called it poetic fancy. But now science comes to our aid in this discovery of vibrations. The lowest sound perceptible to the human ear has about thirty vibrations per second, the highest note has about 40,000. Higher than that there is silence, until after an immense gap vibrations are again perceptible, but this time as light. Whether we perceive vibrations as sound or light is only a matter of degree. If our ears were capable of taking in these light vibrations as sound, what wonderful music we should be hearing! Think of the starry heavens, the unplumbed depths of the Milky Way, the wonderful binary stars whirling round each other at incredible speeds, the revolving spiral nebulae, the star-clusters, the comets with luminous tails millions of miles long! Think of all this celestial grandeur as sound, the limitless o r c h e s t r a of Heaven, the "Song of the Morning Stars," and that phrase "The Music of the Spheres" takes on new meaning. Perhaps that heavenly music is one of the wonders God has in store for us in the new world that is coming, the Kingdom Age when our Lord Jesus returns to reign. Remember that great text in I Corinthians chapter 2, verse 9: Eye hath not seen, nor car heard, neither have entered into the heart of man the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. Note well, these wonders of light and sound are built up on a scale of seven, God's secret mark upon His creative work. Turn for a few moments to chemistry. Here we find everything is governed by laws, and these laws arc connected with numbers, chiefly the number seven. These laws have been discovered and formulated by man, but they were not made by man. They are inherent in the nature of things, by the decree of Almighty God. The number of elements known to the science of chemistry is 84 = 12 times 7. Of these, the nonmetals are 21=3 times 7. The number of metals is 63 = 9 times 7. The elements are divided into 7 groups. Oxygen, without which we cannot live, is of course the most important, and is the 7th in its series. Seventy-seven elements, that is all the elements except 7, are found to unite with oxygen, forming an important class of compounds called Oxides. In geology we find classifications according to 7 or multiples of 7. The same is true of chrystallography and mineralogy and botany. In connection with botany there are 7 departments. There are 7 stages in the life of a fruit-bearing plant: root, stem, leaves, stalk, flower, fruit, seed. A complete flower has seven parts : sepals, petals, anthers, pollen, ovary, style, stigma. The most useful plants to man are the cereals, seven in number, and found in most parts of the world: wheat, oats, barley, maize, rice, rye, millet. There are seven classes of wind, 7 of halos, 7 of clouds. There are really 7 continents not five, and when we speak of the "Seven Seas" we mean all the oceans of the world. There are 7 climatic zones, 7 vegetational zones, 7 animal regions. According to some scientists there are 7 species of man, and 7 groups of nations. A man may have 7 relations of the first degree: father, mother, brother, sister, wife, son, daughter. There are seven stages in the life-history of an animal, and a famous passage in Shakespeare deals with the 7 ages of man. Nothing, perhaps, is more remark, able in connection with the number 7 than the fact that the period of gestation, or pregnancy in animals and man, and the corresponding period of incubation for birds, is an exact multiple of 7 days. With the human being the period is 280 days or 40 times 7. The mouse 21 days, 3X7. The hare and rat 28 days, 4X7. The cat 56 days, 8X7. The dog 63 days, 9X7. The Eon 98 days, 14X7. The sheep 147 days, 21 X 7. The hen sits 21 days, 3X7. The duck sits 28 days, 4 X 7. Every snowflake has six points radiating from one center, making 7. Among countless millions of snowflakes, no two are ever identical, yet all are based on a pattern of 7. To the student of physiology or anatomy, the number 7 is prominent in the human body. For instance, there are twice 7 bones that form the face. There are 7 bones in the neck. The seventh rib is the longest. The ankle has 7 bones. The brain is in 7 parts. The fibers of the ventricles of the heart are in 7 layers. The muscles of the hand are 7 in number. There are 7 muscles in the foot, and 7 controlling the eye, while there are 7 bones that form the eye socket. There are 7 types of connecting tissues, 7 openings in the throat or pharynx. There are 7 chief ingredients that make up the body: brain, nerve, bone, muscle, blood, flesh and hair. Most of us, I suppose, are familiar with the fact that the whole structure of the body is renewed in 7 years. Though we retain our original form, and our personal identity is unimpaired, yet physically speaking we are entirely remade every seven years! After all this mighty array of sevens running through the whole of nature, the whole of creation, who can say that there is no God. And yet, as the Psalmist declared long ago, the fool still says in his heart that there is no God. Many people who ought to know better are thoughtlessly living without God, as though God can conveniently be left out of account. I cannot lift my hand to any work, but the very bones and joints of my fingers-twice 7 bones, and twice 7 joints-cry out as it were. "God, God, how are you responding to God?" God's secret mark, this beautiful number 7 is in our heads, in our hands and feet, in our eyes, and upon our hearts. "What," cries the Apostle, know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's. (I Corinthians 6:19, 20.) Yes, we are God's! Body as well as spirit! Every Adamic body born into this world is stamped from head to foot with God's own mark upon it. As one of our well known hymns has it: "Then on each He setteth His own secret sign." There was a body, marked as ours are, with God's own secret sign, and declared to be divine, as by a voice from heaven saying, "This is my Beloved Son: hear ye him." And yet that sacred body was nailed to a Cross. And as though God's marking of Him counted for naught, the cruel rage of man must give Him seven marks more: two in hands, two in feet, a thorn-crowned brow, a pierced side, and the seventh, a broken heart, deepest wound of all, the mortal wound, that had its beginning away back at the first sign of rejection, the first scowl of hatred leveled against him. He was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are heated." When "this same Jesus" comes again, we shall know Him by the wound prints in His Hands. Sin, not His own, gave Him these terrible marks of identification. But to them that look for him shall he appear the second time, without sin, unto salvation. (Hebrews 9:28.) O worship the King, and prepare for His coming! Sermon for October 29, 2000 #10781 New Christian crusade Church
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