Biblically, the number 1 is associated with unity; it’s the number of God. No. 2 represents division and is the testimony of one divided. No. 3 brings one and two back together and gives completeness. No. 4 is the number of the earth. No. 5 is the number of death and No. 6 is the number of man.

Now, given that, here’s a great example from Jordan in the Book of Revelation on just how God ingeniously displays His number meanings in His Word.

From Revelation 20, we know that when Christ comes back at the Second Advent and sets up His kingdom, the first stage of the transition into the eternal kingdom will last for 1,000 years (the millennium).

The term 1,000 years is used six times in Revelation 20 and the first reference is in connection with Satan being taken off the earth. Jordan reasons, “If you get rid of Satan on the earth, you got rid of the conflict, didn’t you? And you brought harmony. Now they’re can be unity in the earth because Satan the deceiver is gone.”

The second reference has Satan cast into the bottomless pit for 1,000 years. He’s divided from the earth for a thousand years, shut up with a seal set on him ‘that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season.’

Then, as John reports in Rev. 20: 4-6: “And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.
[5] But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.
[6] Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.”

Jordan explains, “When they live, that’s the first resurrection, so the third reference to 1,000 years is in regard to the first resurrection. The fourth reference in verse 5 is to the rest of the dead who don’t live. They’re lost people. Where are they? They’re in hell. Where is hell? It’s in the heart of the earth. Not just the grave but in hell.

In verse 6, the fifth appearance of 1,000 years occurs with a reference to the second death. The last reference to 1,000 years, starting in verse 7, reads: “And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison, And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.”

Jordan says, “Six is the number of man, and Satan’s let out and you know what he finds? He finds a ready audience among mankind to serve him still.

“Well, when I read through a passage like that and I see these numbers, I say, ‘You know, there’s not ANY way under God’s heaven that a man wrote that! It just doesn’t make any sense.’ That’s why I tell you, the more you study your Bible from a believing point of view—just give it the benefit of the doubt—the more you’ll find that it will confirm itself to be God’s Word.”

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Jordan continues, “If you want to learn something about really believing, come back to Genesis 1. Your Bible will prove itself. The number 1, the number of God and the number of unity, is the foundation for all other numbers because every other number is a multiple of one.

“So the number 1 is a fundamental, foundational number, which makes sense that it would be God’s number. It first occurs in the text of Scripture in Gen. 1:9: ‘And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.’

“The waters He scattered out and now they’re gathered to one place. The idea with one is a gathering together in one place. In Deut. 6:4—the great confession of Israel—Moses writes, ‘Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD.’ ”

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“Now, you go to Genesis 2 and see that the number 2 is a number of division. It’s interesting that it’s in Genesis 2 that Adam is divided. Genesis 1 says, ‘He created man and in the image of God created he.’

“Well, when did Adam become a ‘them’? In Genesis 2, God put Adam asleep, opened up his side, took out a rib and out of that rib He formed a separate person, Eve. Now there’s two.

“I’ve often thought about what it would have been like when Adam woke up from that sleep. I’ve never been anesthetized but once in my life and that’s when they did the radiation implants, and when I woke up from that I looked down at my feet and there stood a nurse with a Geiger counter. I said, ‘What are you doing?!’

“Well, when Adam woke up there stood Eve. I don’t know what you think he might have said—‘Whoa, where have you been all my life?!’

“And verse 24 describes what God did: ‘Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.’ We like to say, ‘Baby, I’m stuck on you.’ Do you see that word one there? It’s about uniting together.

“If you really want to see it in action, come over to Genesis 11, because every uniting is not a good uniting.

“Gen. 11 says ‘the whole earth was of one language.’ Verse 6 says the ‘people are one and have one language.’ I read that chapter and I think, ‘Wow, that is so true! Man can accomplish and achieve anything he sets his mind on doing unless God intervenes, as He did here.’ They had one world with one language and in verse 4 they tried to create a one-world religion. It was globalism at its best.”