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GOD SAID, Genesis, 1:31-2:3:
31 And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
1 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.
2 And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.
3 And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.
The marvelous foundational principle of seven is established here. Seven is the number of completion. It is the number of rest. Seven is the number of the beginning. It is the number of Jesus Christ. In Genesis 2:2, God certifies the cyclical seven-day week, which is imprinted on all of life and is also pivotal to all of life.
MAN SAID: The Bible has no relevant value to humanity; there is no God as defined in the Scriptures; and the seven-day cycle is a product of old, outdated, religious superstition.
As a special note, I’d like to mention a couple of historical events concerning the common week. In 1792, the Socialists of France, in their rebellion against the seven-day cyclical pattern of life, instituted a new calendar with a 10-day week. It created total confusion and was abandoned 14 years later. In 1929, the Communist leadership of Russia, in an effort to destroy any attachment to the Bible, instituted a five-day week which ended up in the trash can just three years later. They were operating in the rebellious spirit of the Anti-Christ to come, of whom Daniel prophesied in Daniel 7:25:
25 And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.
Now THE RECORD. God, the Creator of all, has proven His supernatural existence over and over again by the supernatural nature of His Words found in the Bible. Thousands of years before man begins to understand the reason why, God declares it so with insights only the designer and Creator could know. An excellent example is the number seven which has been interwoven into all of life by the hands of God. This wisdom is just beginning to be understood by science.
It’s surprising that anyone would reject the seven-day week principle when one considers that a lunar month, which is a product of orbit in time and space, houses roughly four seven-day cycles. Those who suggest the seven-cycle comes primarily from a religious root should be advised that the number seven is not imposed on us from the outside, but from the inside. This becomes obvious when you note that plants, insects, and animals also have weekly cycles. The seven-day cycle is not a product of culture, but to the contrary, culture is a product of seven.
God places enormous emphasis on the number seven from the very beginning of creation. It is interwoven through all of life, to which the Scriptures I’ll cite will attest. The foundation of wisdom itself is the number seven. Proverbs 9:1 reads:
Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars:
The very beginning of creation is completed in seven days. Noah’s new beginning also finds itself beholding to the number seven. All animals were taken aboard the ark two by two, the male and his female, except for the fowl of the air and clean beasts, which were taken by sevens. When the ark finally rested on dry ground, it was in the seventh month (Genesis 8:4).
The number seven played a significant role in saving the children of Israel from starvation. Remember, it is through this lineage that Jesus Christ enters this world (Genesis 41:2-3).
When Joshua and the children of Israel began their lives in the Promised Land, the number seven played an integral part. The following verses in Joshua 6 are in regard to the first conquest in the Promised Land —the famed City of Jericho, the city where the walls came tumbling down:
1 Now Jericho was straitly shut up because of the children of Israel: none went out, and none came in.
2 And the LORD said unto Joshua, See, I have given into thine hand Jericho, and the king thereof, and the mighty men of valour.
3 And ye shall compass the city, all ye men of war, and go round about the city once. Thus shalt thou do six days.
4 And seven priests shall bear before the ark seven trumpets of rams’ horns: and the seventh day ye shall compass the city seven times, and the priests shall blow with the trumpets.
5 And it shall come to pass, that when they make a long blast with the ram’s horn, and when ye hear the sound of the trumpet, all the people shall shout with a great shout; and the wall of the city shall fall down flat, and the people shall ascend up every man straight before him.
God commands Israel to free all Hebrew servants every seven years (Exodus 21:2). The land is required to have its Sabbath of rest: In the seventh year, the land is not to be tilled or sown (Exodus 23:11). In Exodus 25:37, God gives instruction concerning the golden candlestick and its seven lamps that gave light in the sanctuary. We see these again in Revelation 1:20 as the seven churches that minister life and light to a dark and dying world. Over and over again, the Bible emphasizes the dominant importance of the number seven.
There is a scientific discipline known as Chronobiology, which is the research into how living things handle time. It has discovered, among a plethora of other things, that countless hormones crucial to human life processes are directed by an unseen conductor’s hand in predictable biological rhythms. Although secretions happen within ultradian and circadian time frames, they appear to occur in seven-day cycles. Perry and Dawson, authors of the book The Secrets Our Body Clocks Reveal reported:
Weekly rhythms known in chronobiology as "circaseptan rhythms" are among the most puzzling and fascinating findings of chronobiology. At first glance, it might seem that weekly rhythms developed in response to the seven-day week imposed by human culture thousands of years ago. However, this theory doesn’t hold once you realize that plants, insects, and animals other than humans also have weekly cycles. Biology therefore, not culture, is probably at the source of our seven-day week.
Jeremy Campbell, chronobiologist, refers to the father of chronobiology, Franz Halberg:
Franz Halberg proposes that body rhythms of about seven days, far from being passively driven by the social cycle of the calendar week, are innate, autonomous, and perhaps the reason why the calendar week arose in the first place.
The following excerpt is from Eviatar Zerubavel, author of The Seven Day Circle:
Many physicians believe that transplant patients tend to have more rejection episodes seven, fourteen, and twenty-one days after surgery. In western civilizations and urbanized cultures, heart attacks are most frequent on Monday mornings, possibly associated with the shift from leisure to work.
All of creation—including a whole society of approximately six billion people—march to the beat of a seven-day rhythm. This biological clock is the handiwork of God.
Life begins at seven. Why seven? Why seven in "primitive" one-celled organisms? Why seven in bacteria? Why seven in all forms of life? The answer is God’s common design.
From the book Inner Time comes the following:
The best-investigated circaseptan rhythms concern our immunities. The common cold, for example, will last a week no matter how much we spend at the drug store. Patients with pneumonia or malaria face the greatest danger around the seventh day of their illnesses, and the symptoms of chicken pox usually appear around two weeks after exposure. The immune cells vital for our resistance to infections and cancer—T-cells and B-cells—fluctuate in number on a seven-day schedule. This immune cycle can make a difference if we undergo surgery. After surgery, for example, the amount of swelling that patients experience varies on a seven-day cycle, worsening on the seventh, fourteenth and twenty-first days. Doctors who perform kidney transplants know that the risk of rejection is highest one week after the procedure, and for a while danger zones continue to occur every seven days. Studies of animals have found similarly timed risks for heart and pancreas transplants.
In Leviticus 13: 1-6, God gives instruction to His people concerning the dreaded, highly contagious, disease of leprosy. When the disease is first suspected, the victim is quarantined for seven days and then viewed again for diagnosis and so on. Leviticus 15:13 instructs concerning contagious illness and declares that after one is cleansed of his issue that he should perform a seven-day purification cycle. It reads:
And when he that hath an issue is cleansed of his issue; then he shall number to himself seven days for his cleansing, and wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in running water, and shall be clean.
In Numbers 31:19-24, commandments for cleansing and purifying are given concerning anyone who touches the dead. They are required to be quarantined for seven days and finally be cleansed.
The plague that affects so many millions, commonly called yeast infection or Candida albicans, according to many in medical science, finds its remedy in a specially restricted seven-day fast. The pivotal power of seven is just becoming apparent to science. Of course the Creator understood the secret of seven as well as the life cycles of contagious contaminants all along.
Campbell expounds further on life’s rhythms:
Perhaps the most intriguing of these body rhythms are those that have a period of about seven days. These circaseptan (7 day) rhythms are one of the major surprises turned up by modern chronobiology. A central feature of biological time structure is the harmonic relationship that exists among the various component frequencies. A striking aspect of this relationship is that the components themselves appear to be harmonics or subharmonics, multiples or submultiples, of seven, a number that has played a disproportionately large role in human culture, myth, religion, magic and the calendar.
The following excerpt concerning HIV patients is from the website listed in the reference of this feature:
While receiving seven-day-on, seven-day-off cycles of intermittent HAART, study participants had no significant increases in the amount of HIV in their bodies, as determined by tests that measured HIV in their plasma and lymph nodes, as well as within immune cells. In addition, patients’ CD4+ T-cell counts were maintained at pre-study levels, and no evidence suggested the development of resistance to HAART medications.Importantly, the investigators also noted significant decreases in serum cholesterol and triglyceride levels, which frequently are elevated in HIV-infected individuals receiving HAART and can contribute to heart disease and other problems. Mean serum cholesterol and triglyceride levels dropped 22 percent and 51 percent, respectively, after 24 weeks of intermittent therapy.
Although more research needs to be done, preliminary data shows that circadian drug administration could reduce cost dramatically, improve effectiveness, and reduce side effects.
Consider the fact that approximately every seven years all the cells in your body are completely replaced. Imagine, your body is never older than seven years, at least until the cells cease to renew themselves. Skin cells live for seven days and the sevens roll on and on and on.
Science begins to understand creation’s secret of seven.
GOD SAID, Genesis 1:31-2:3:
31 And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
1 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.
2 And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.
3 And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.
MAN SAID: The Bible has no relevant value to humanity; there is no God as defined in the Scriptures; and the seven-day cycle is a product of old, outdated, religious superstition.
Now you have THE RECORD.
References:
King James Bible
Briggs and Peat, The Turbulent Mirror, Harper and Row, 1989.
DeYoung, D., Fascinating Facts From the World of Discovery, New Leaf Press.
http://insomnia.biologic-rhythms-sleeplessness.com.
Perry, S., and J. Dawson, The Secrets Our Body Clocks Reveal
