NAKED - In Psalm 8:5 God crowned man with glory. Romans 3:23 says all have sinned and fallen short of glory of God.
--Adam walked in God’s presence every day. With the covering gone (glory), he was naked and afraid and hid himself.
--vulnerable; put yourself in a position where everybody can see what’s going on in your life; makes you transparent
before people
--if dream sitting at desk and no pants on - going to school and God teaching you something that will make you
spiritually reproductive
--without the image of God, not clothed with holiness and purity Revelation 3:17
• Without a glorified body- 2 Corinthians 5:3 (W)
NAKEDNESS - the nakedness of hiding was not just physical but spiritual - Genesis 3
NAME: If you hear your name called: first time it is preparing you; second time it is closer; third time it is “now”.
--a name represents character
--reputation Revelation 3:1
--who I am
• Name – expresses the sum total of His revealed attributes Micah 6:9 JFB
NARROW WAY – the fundamental law of admission into Christ’s school: to deny yourself. It is both the ‘strait’ gate,
and the ‘narrow’ way Matthew 16:24
NATIONS - ethnic groups; particularly those not Jewish; mainly Gentiles
NAVEL - inner life/formative years in the Lord
NAZARITE’S HAIR - marked his subjection and separation unto God
NAZARITE’S VOW - to separate himself to the Lord
NECK - free will (stiffnecked = rebellious and stubborn); submitted will
-godly submission; submit to authority
-strength of the soul
NECKLACE - THE WILL
NEED -
What need is this action dealing with?
You have an anger answer; not an anger problem
The sin on top is not the sin in the heart
--The Lord would not stretch out His hand and convert stones into bread to eat; for He was not motivated by necessity
but by the command of God. Had necessity been the motivation, the will of God would have been set aside. No, the Lord
would not initiate anything on His own. Even the greatest need in us ought never to be our motivation for doing anything;
for it can easily become the very area of the devil’s temptation. Whatever is not commanded by God is the area of
temptation for satan. “Need” motivation is very easily attached to satan, but not to God. Are we servants or are we
masters? If God has not given an order, what do we obey?
Whenever we ourselves become the motivation, we walk fairly close to satan’s way. Man has no right to decide on
anything, no right to choose the way of the Church or the method of work. The enemy will of course say that if you wait
for God’s word, you wait for death. But the Lord says that man shall live by every word that proceeds from the mouth of
God. Neither need nor self can be our inducement to act. The command of God is alone to be the determinant of our
actions. There is no greater loss on earth than the loss of the presence of God. (Nee)
NEEDS - want and poverty are a great temptation to discontent and unbelief and the use of unlawful means for our relief,
under pretence that necessity has no law.
NET – the common metaphor for temptation
NEW COVENANT -- begins/commences with the resurrection
NEW ORDER: Genesis 1:26 Let us make man
Old Order New Order
God God
Archangels Man
Angels Angels
--The angels had to go to God to present themselves before throne
--God prizes man so highly He goes down to earth and visits him every day
NEW WINE - the new wine is found in the cluster Isaiah 65:8
NICODEMUS - fleshly minded, cannot grasp heavenly things
born again born = sperma
You must be conceived again (see JPJ tape 5 notes)
Your life here on earth like the gestation period of a baby inside womb and our resurrection like birth into eternal life
NICOLAITANS - corrupters of the people
• From the word “nikao” means to conquer or consume and “laos” or laity, the people. They advocated a compromise
with the world system so Christians would be able to take part, without embarrassment, in the social and religious activities
of the society in which they lives. They attempted to harmonize heathen practices with the Christian faith. They represent
a clergy that departs from the “presence and power” of the supernatural and substitutes “form and ritual” in its place.
The compromise that they advocate causes the “dulling of the “spirits” of the Lord’s people.
NIGHT - time of darkness in our weakness with the idea of our consistency
--everything until the second coming
NIMROD - a type of a man whose quest for material and temporal power conceals a deeper spiritual motive: rebellion
against and overthrow of God Himself. The person in us who unwittingly worships power and equates success with moral
right. Genesis 10:9 “By his words Nimrod seduced the minds of the people”.
NIV - Someone said that version is “Nearly Inspired Version”
NOAH - Noah born in year 1058; Noah hidden in 58. Grace=Noah in reverse. His name in year = rest.
1558 numerical/space = word of God to wipe clean
1658 - 100 yrs later = a place of rest
1989 - Jews from Russia return to Israel
1997-98 (5758) the Season of Noah (rest)
1998 - Israel’s year of Jubilee
NOAH’S ARK - Part of a prophecy: “No political system will be able to stop Me bringing together My people from the four
corners of the earth, any more than the devil could stop Me from bringing the animals to the ark. I caused them to walk.
I caused the animals to take long journeys. I caused the animals to walk across terrain, to walk around the different
places of the world. I caused them to walk across places so rough men would have said they couldn’t have come.
But when the time of the flood came, they were in there two by two, and nobody could stop it for the Lord God was
bringing it to pass.
NORTH - the assembly place in the Eternal City - Hebrews 12:22, 23; Psalm 48:1
• He mentions not the north because the same word that signifies the north signifies the secret place, and from the secret
of God’s counsel it does come, or from the oracle in Zion, which lay on the north side of Jerusalem Psalm 75:6
NORTH WIND = chastening, correction; difficult circumstances
NOSE - spiritual discernment and warfare, specifically spiritual warfare in the knowledge of good and evil (SOS 7:4)
--discernment of spiritual fragrance --sound judgment --focus
• Seat of anger; because when it grows warm and violent, it discovers itself, as it were, by a heated vehement breath
that proceeds form them – TOD Psalm 18
NOSTRILS – Blast of Your nostrils – used figuratively for the wind Exodus 15:8
NOW - a word of release (Revelation 21:3)
• Now or this day – one to forth years
NUMBERS:
• The Bible employs the numbers 1 to 7 as the basic roots of all other biblical numerals. All the other numerals derive
their meaning and explanation from these seven basic ones. “7” is a perfect number; and this is known and recognized
by man. “8” is not an independent numeral. 7 forms a cycle, and 8 is the beginning of another cycle. All the numerals
higher than 7 are formulated from these seven basic numerals by means of adding or multiplying. For example: the
numeral ‘10’ comes from the number ‘5’ multiplied by ‘2’; the numeral ‘12’ comes from the multiplication of the basic
numbers “3” and “4”; the numeral “40” is the multiple of the numbers “5” and “2” and “4”. (Watchman Nee)
• 1 - number of God things; God
o God’s number – represents independence, which admits of no other
• 2 - number of covenants; when God says it twice it is a covenant(Moses, Moses; verily, verily....)
--number of testimony or witness
The number of fellowship and union with Christ
The number of the Lord Jesus; addition, help and fellowship; testimony; division
• 3 - perfection; Trinity; Kingdom (faith, hope, love); Godhead
--numerical signature of God; fullness of time;
--represents perfection of Deity; perfection of God’s plans and purposes
--number of manifestation
--personal completeness; resurrection
• 3-1/2 - (1/2 of 7) incomplete; temporary
o Time of no rain in Israel declared by Elijah 1 Kings 17:1
o Implies a number opposed to the divine (seven) but broken in itself and which in the moment of its highest triumph, is
overwhelmed by judgment and utter ruin
• 4 - Holy Spirit delegating Kingdom functions in the Church; God’s creative works
--balance; numerical signature of Nature, creation; completeness (Ezekiel 1:5)
--universal/whole
--number of creation
--number of man; four living beings
--the world; 4 winds of earth
• Four stands for completeness (Ezekiel 1:5 NIV)
o Luminaries created on 4th day and by them count the years of the world
o Number of the world
o Four winds of the earth are the four great powers that have swept over the whole earth which have brought
sweeping and profound changes on a civilization-wide basis. These are: (1) military power, (2) religious power,
(3) political power, and (4) economic power
o Significant of world-wide extension, e.g., the four quarters of the world
o Jewish tradition says the “four standards” under which Israel encamped in the wilderness, to the east Judah,
to the north Dan, to the west Ephraim, to the south Reuben, were respectively a lion, an eagle, an ox, and a man,
while in the midst was the tabernacle containing the Shekinah symbol of the Divine Presence
o Wave them – turn the offering to all the four parts of heaven and earth as a symbol that it was offered to the
God of heaven and earth (Exodus 29:24)
o The number of the world’s extension; four corners of the earth, four winds, four angels loosed form the
Euphrates, Jerusalem lying “foursquare” – represent world-wide extension
• 5 - number of ministry (five-fold); grace; forgiveness; lifespan of locust
o An incomplete number and the number of man’s responsibility before God
• 6 - number of man/less than perfect (6 jars of wine empty); falls short
o The number of the world given to judgment
o Half of twelve, as three and a half is the half of seven
o Number of the devil; also of man who listened to the devil
• 7 - number of “perfectness”; perfection; completeness; unit, fullness, completion,
totality (3+4 = signature of totality)
-perfect number
-mystically implies universality
--The seven churches represent the Church in its totality
--the number of God’s revelation in the world
--Seven seals, trumpets, bowls – are severally a complete series each in itself, fulfilling perfectly the divine course of judgments
• 7 – the number “seven” may figure in the structure of the universe far beyond man’s knowledge:
o Every 7th day a Sabbath
o Every 7th year a Sabbatic year
o Every 7th Sabbatic year was followed by a Jubilee year
o Every 7th month was especially holy, having 3 feasts
o There were 7 weeks between Passover and Pentecost
o Passover Feast lasted 7 days
o Tabernacles Feast lasted 7 days
o At Passover 14 lambs (twice 7) were offered daily
o At Tabernalces 14 lambs (twice 7), daily and 70 bullocks
o At Pentecost 7 lambs were offered
o Revelation built around a system of “sevens”:
Seven letters to seven churches
Seven seals and seven trumpets
Seven vials or bowls
Seven candlesticks
Seven stars
Seven angels
Seven spirits
A Lamb with seven horns and seven eyes
Seven lamps
Seven thunders
A red dragon with seven heads and seven crowns
A leopard-like beast with seven heads
A scarlet-colored beast with seven heads
Seven mountains
Seven kings
o Levitical system of the old Testament built on a cycle of ‘sevens”
o Jericho fell after seven priests, with seven trumpets, for seven days marched around its walls and blew their
trumpets seven times on the seventh day.
o Naaman dipped in the Jordan seven times
o The bible begins with seven days of creation and ends with a book of sevens about the ultimate destiny of creation
o Seven days in a week
o Seven notes in music
o Seven colors in the rainbow
• 7 and 8 – an idiom for a full and sufficient number (JFB)
• 8- new beginnings; new birth; new creation
8th month - prophecy of double portion 1 King 6:38 (Oct-Nov); resurrection
• 9 - judgment, saturation; covenant
• 10 - Abraham tested with ten tests; often had the symbolic significance of completeness
(NIVp1291); comprehensiveness of sphere of authority (Daniel 7:7); Divine order; testing
--pastoral, wilderness, compassion; signature of worldly power;
--testing and proving Numbers 14:22; Genesis 31:7
--generational curse of illegitimacy is ten years
--total responsibility
--number of limitation
--put God to the test ten times - Numbers 14:22
--number of the world
--number of the world powers hostile to the church (JFB)
--world perfection
• Symbolic of completeness or finality (NIV)
• 11 - prophetic; destruction
• 12 - number of God’s people; government; apostolic (3x4 = signature of God’s people); administration
o The number of the church
o Twice twelve is the number of the heavenly elders
o Twelve times twelve thousand the number of the sealed elect
o The tree of life yields twelve manner of fruits
o permanency
• 13 - number of rebellion - number of divine atonement
o God visited Abram 13 years after the birth of Ishmael to establish covenant/circumcision (Genesis 17)
• 14 - double anointing; quite meaningful to the Lord (Matthew 1:17 - Nee)
2 x 7 - 14; 2 is number of testimony; 7 - perfection
In Hebrew 14 = 10 + 4; 10 the number of testing or two hands have 5 fingers each (5 wise/5 foolish virgins) ;
4 number of creation/#of man
--10+4 = created man being tested
--numerical value of David = 14
--2x7 - complete failure of mankind and the perfect victory of Christ
--10+4 in Greek = human responsibility
• 24 - elders; divisions of singers and musicians; 24 classes of priests; sacerdotal families
o --testimony of government/complete humanity
• 25 - pastoral ministry training
• 27 - days to form a habit
• 30 - training; # of maturity; the year priest enters service (Numbers 4:30); the year of maturity
• 35 – Highway of holiness – Isaiah 35
• 37 – 37 years before the fall of Jerusalem, He forewarned His disciples what they should see when compassed
with armies Zechariah 11:11
• 38 - man healed by pool was 38. Israel 38 years in dessert
--generation of the men of war - Deuteronomy 2:14
• 40 - number of testing -- Moses (2000 BC) - 40 years in wilderness
o Jesus (0) - 40 days in wilderness
o Us (2000 AD) - 40 hours (???) in wilderness (time speeding up??)
o Bear guilt (40 years for 40 days - Numbers 14:34)
o --completion of testing
o Noah opened the window of the ark and sent out a raven and then a dove at the end of 40 days
o Israel mourned the loss of Joseph for 40 days
o Moses waited 40 days and God gave him the boundaries for the future generation
o The spies went out and spied the land for 40 days
o Goliath taunted God’s covenant people 40 days
o Ezekiel interceded for Judah for 40 days – Ezekiel 4:9
o Jesus fasted 40 days
o Jesus presented Himself to His disciples for 40 days after His resurrection
o Forth afterwards became sacred, and was considered a proper space for humiliation (Genesis 7)
o Often connected with affliction and judgment (Jerome) (JFB)
o The number forty is a significant number, representing a special fullness of time (NCBC)
• 42 - encampments in wilderness; 42 generations to Jesus = Body of Christ
o First 42 letters of scripture are the name of God – and the necessary information for calculating the
unfolding of the ‘days and seasons’
• 50 - number of Pentecost
--USA didn’t get 50 states until end times; they will spread message of Holy Spirit (JW) --year of Jubilee
--Holy Spirit in the Word
--redemption from debt
--liberty
Forty-five days after Egypt – one day spent on the mount, one returning the people’s answer, three days
of preparation, making the whole time fifty days from the first Passover to the promulgation of the law. Exodus 19:1
• 51 - whatever you do 51% of time is a passion
• 60 - sufficient army against surprise attack of enemy (SOS 3:7); 60 pillars in Moses’ tabernacle
--man’s responsibility
• 70 - Anna in the temple 70 years praying and fasting - then one day in the temple and a baby boy gets “edited”. She
hears the cry of the babe and knows the voice of the Lord.
o --The seventy sent to heal in His name corresponded directly to the Sanhedrin - a body of seventy elders
stationed in Jerusalem. These seventy, whose origin is found in Numbers 11:16-17 were to represent the mind and
the heart of God as He led His people Israel in their national call.
o Days of one king – duration of a monarchy; Seventy years. Isaiah 23:15
o 14 nations from Japheth; 30 from Ham; 26 from Shem = 70 (the multiple of 10 and 7 – both numbers
signifying completeness – perhaps in anticipation of the 70 members of Jacob’s family in Egypt)
o 70 years – symbolizes a full measure of time, a lifetime – Isaiah 23:15 (HCBH)
o The number of souls that went down into Egypt
o Number of elders appointed to be Moses assistants – Numbers 11:16
• 118 - number of curses in Deuteronomy 28
• 120 - end of your flight
• 144 - 144 times to pray for the peace of Jerusalem, bless Israel
• 200 - double tithe; 2/10’s of the whole paid back by Jesus Christ (JFB p503) SOS 8:12; a good profit (SOS 8:12)
• 273 - number of firstborn (Numbers 3:46)
• 288 - skillful singers in Tabernacle
• 318 – Genesis 14:14 – number of men Abram took to save Lot
• 300 -deliverance; Divine deliverance(ark 300 cubits, Benjamin 300 shekels silver; Gideon 300 men)
• 400 - God had been silent 400 years between Old and New Testament; the Day of Pentecost was the result of God’s voice
• 666 - maximum of what man can be; fullness of man, can’t reach 7
• 1,000 - abundance; fullness; full return; a full response of the heart back to God - SOS 8:11
o Perfection, whether in good or evil; symbolizes that the world is perfectly leavened and pervaded by the divine
o 1,00 is ten (the number of the world) raised to the third power, three being the number of God
• 1,365 - shekels (Numbers 3:50)
• 2,000 – Joshua 3:4
• 4,000 - musical instruments in Tabernacle
• 6,000 - 120 Jubilees x 50 years of Jubilee
• 10,000 - incomparable greatness
• 12,000 - all Israel
• 144,000 - the firstfruits unto God and to the Lamb (Revelation 14:1-5)
--perfect number; complete number
--12x12x1,000 perfect cube; 10 to the 3rd power
NUTS - previous fruit of autumn; the end of winter, verge of spring (SOS 6:11)