Finley,
A quick online search came across the
following. No idea as to the credibility of the
source but, in reviewing the data, it appears sound and
Scripturally based. Even better, it seems like a
really cool number to find oneself associated with!
Jimboni
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5 Doves,
For space, perhaps the top 3 sentences
get pasted on Five Doves and then ref the rest for study
by those interested?
Jimboni
Thirty-Seven (lamed-zayin)
Inheritance
The
number thirty-seven in Hebrew was written with the letters
lamed (authority) and zayin (weapon, to
cut or pierce). Our inheritance from God comes by means of
“cutting a covenant,” as the Bible puts it. When God made
His covenant with Abraham in Gen. 15:10, He required
Abraham to cut the animals in half (except for the birds).
Verse 18 reads, “On that day the Lord made [karath,
“cut”]
a covenant with Abram.” 34
Thirty-seven
is the number of inheritance, which is established by God
“cutting a covenant” with us. It is often associated with
Jesus Christ the ultimate Inheritor of the earth, but it
is also applied to inheritance in general. Further, one’s
land inheritance was said to be “divided” among the
people. The land was “cut” or “divided” in that sense in
order to give each his portion.
Perhaps
the most striking example that shows the meaning of this
number is the fact that the name
Caleb appears precisely 37 times in the Bible.
Caleb is best known for inheriting Hebron. When Joshua
gave the Israelites their inheritances, we read in Joshua
14:5-14,
5
Thus
the sons of Israel did just as the Lord had commanded
Moses, and they divided the land.
6
Then the sons of Judah drew near to
Joshua in Gilgal, and CALEB the son of Jephunneh the
Kenizzite said to him, “You know the word which the Lord
spoke to Moses the man of God concerning you and me in
Kadesh-barnea… 9
So Moses swore on that day, saying,
‘Surely the land on which your foot has trodden shall be
an
inheritance to you and to your children forever,
because you have followed the Lord my God fully’…”
13
So Joshua blessed him and gave Hebron to
Caleb the son of Jephunneh for an
inheritance. 14
Therefore, Hebron became the inheritance
of Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite until
this day, because he followed the Lord God of Israel
fully.
Besides the name
Caleb, the 37th
time Noah is mentioned is in Gen. 9:24,
where Noah awakes from his drunken stupor, learns what his
sons did, and then put a curse upon Ham, and blessings
upon Shem and Japheth. This determined the future
inheritances of his three sons.
Because of that curse, Ham’s son,
Canaan, was
disinherited according to the factor of Cursed
Time, which is the meaning of the number 414. (See my
book,
Secrets of Time.) And so, precisely 828 years (414
x 2) after Noah’s curse, Joshua led Israel into Canaan and
disinherited the Canaanites and gave Hebron to
Caleb as his inheritance.
The 37th
time the name Abram is used is in Gen.
15:1, where God said to Abram,
1
…Do not fear, Abram, I am a shield to
you; your reward shall be very great.
Abram’s reward was his inheritance. The
37th
time the name Abraham is used is in Gen.
21:5,
5
Now Abraham was one hundred years old
when his son Isaac was born to him.
Abraham’s inheritance properly began
with the birth of Isaac, the heir. The number 100
indicates fullness—in this case, the fullness of time.
Interestingly, the 37th
time that the name Isaac appears is in Gen.
26:12,
12
Now Isaac sowed in that land, and
reaped in the same year a hundredfold. And the Lord
blessed him,
13
and the man became rich, and continued to
grow richer until he became very wealthy.
Isaac did not own any land inheritance,
because, like his father, he was a stranger in the land of
Canaan. Yet God had promised that he would inherit the
land some day, and we know from hindsight that his
descendants would inherit it at the end of Canaan’s Cursed
Time. The purpose of Cursed Time is to provide a grace
period to give the people time to repent and come into
Blessed Time (period of 490 years). The Canaanites did not
do so, and so they were disinherited 828 years from their
offense and from Noah’s curse.
The 37th
time Moses is mentioned is in Ex. 6:2 at
the burning bush:
2
God spoke further to Moses and said
to him, “I am the Yahweh;
3
and I appeared to Abraham, Isaac, and
Jacob as El Shaddai, but by My name, Yahweh, I did not
make Myself known to them.
4
and I also established My covenant with
them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land in which
they sojourned.
Once again we see the connection with
Israel’s inheritance, the land of Canaan. Yet also
foreshadowed in this is the fact that God was the
inheritance of the priesthood (Num. 18:20).
The 37th
time that the name Joseph appears is in
Gen. 40:12, where he interprets the butler’s dream,
telling him that he would be restored to his position
(inheritance) within three days.
The 37th
time that Jerusalem is mentioned
is in 2 Sam. 19:19. David was returning to reclaim His
throne, which was his inheritance, after Absalom had
usurped the throne for a time.
Taken from
http://www.newhorizonscomchurch.net/uploads/2/3/1/9/23197588/meaning_of_numbers.pdf
7/3/2017