“Seventy
‘sevens’ are decreed for your people and your holy city to finish transgression, to put an end to sin, to atone for
wickedness, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and
prophecy and to anoint the Most Holy Place. Daniel 9:24
The
number “seven” isn’t a lucky number or a blessed number, meaning that if you
bet on it or organize around it that somehow things will go your way.
But
it’s a number that has always pointed to God in the Bible. The number shows the mark of God and
separates itself away from other numbers—seven days of creation, seven days of
the week, Sabbath day of rest. But
there’s another number, forty, that has a similar pattern.
Seventy
“sevens” in Daniel points to seventy weeks or seven periods of time. Scholars have used all kinds of combinations
of this number to arrive at 490 years, about the time Jesus showed up after
Daniel. You can see more of that here: https://www.gotquestions.org/seventy-sevens.html
The number on the jersey of a sports player identifies him from all
the other players. Seven is God’s
number, even though He should always be Number One in our lives.