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The Significance of Number 14
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| Many people recognize Jesus as the Passover Lamb, but your book teaches us about other mysteries of the Passover and Messiah, such as number 14. | |
| Can you tell us more about that? | |
| Yeah, so the Passover lamb was to be slayed on the 14th day of the month of Nisan. | |
| Nisan literally means miracles. | |
| We are entering into the month of miracles. | |
| So believe God, first of all, for your miracle. | |
| Believe God for your breakthrough in the season. | |
| What he did for Israel, he wants to do for you as well. | |
| But what's significant is about the number 14. | |
| God picked that day of all the days. | |
| Why? | |
| Because 14 in Hebrew, as we said, Hebrew is alphanumeric. | |
| The way that you write numbers is with letters. | |
| So the two letters that form the Hebrew number 14 is Yud Dal, which literally spells the word for hand. | |
| 14 is the number of the hand because God redeemed Israel with a mighty hand and with an outstretched arm. | |
| The Passover Lamb was the revelation of God's hand of salvation in history, first through the Passover lamb in the days of Moses, but ultimately through the greater lamb of God, Jesus, our Messiah. | |
| But of course, there is something more there because there's two great redemptions in the Bible that happen both on the 14th day. | |
| We have at the first month of the Hebrew calendar is the Passover, the month of Nisan, which is number one, the first month on the Hebrew calendar. | |
| And then there's a redemption in the last month of the Hebrew calendar, the 12th month, which we read about in the book of Esther. | |
| God delivers the Jewish people from the plans of Haman to commit genocide against the children of Israel on the 14th day of the month of Adar. | |
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Hidden Hand of God
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| So 14 salvation at the beginning of the year. | |
| And we have 14 at the end, the last month of the Hebrew calendar. | |
| Why? | |
| Because we have two hands. | |
| Passover is about the revealed hand of God. | |
| Everyone saw the miracles. | |
| Even the Egyptian sorcerers had to recognize that the miracles were caused by the finger of God. | |
| But Esther doesn't even make it. | |
| Esther almost didn't make it into the Bible. | |
| And the reason for that is, is God's name is not mentioned once in the book of Esther. | |
| And it's meant to teach us that in the book of Esther, God was hidden. | |
| It's about the hidden hand of God. | |
| And the lesson is even when you can't see the hand of God, you have to trust the heart of God. | |
| And this connects into the end times because the redemption from Egypt with the 14 in the hand is at the beginning of history. | |
| And the last month of the calendar years represents prophetically what God is going to do at the end of history. | |
| It's going to seem as if God is hidden. | |
| It's going to seem all the nations are going to try and destroy the Jewish people. | |
| Even in the book of Esther, it was Persia, Iran that was trying to, Haman was in Iran, wanted to destroy the Jewish people. | |
| And that's what we see today, Iran trying to wipe out the Jewish people. | |
| But God's hand is going to save in the end, just like it did in the beginning, in the days of Moses. | |