Sometimes take the bible literally

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Dalibor

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Some contect is needed, a few weeks ago, I was praying and it was tough, very. I had been crying for a bit. A thing that the Lord helped me find was taking the time rn like 17:28 and serach up "bible verse 17:28" but when I was praying it was 00:07. Of course no bible verse starts with 00 so I decided to add a number to both sides. I picked the number 7 as it was the lords number. Here is where the testimony truly starts.

Revelation 7:17 NIV
[17] For the Lamb at the center of the throne will be their shepherd; ‘he will lead them to springs of living water.’ ‘And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.

This verse is about how life will be in heaven but when i read "and God will wipe away every tear from their eyes" I felt how the tears on my face had dried up. It was insane but I had to rake the verse literally to get it. Somerimes you need to do both checking litterally and symbolically. There is more to this though, I thought me picking 7 was just random, it wasnt. I had watched a video on the mark of the devil earlier that day but a oart i remembered is that the numbers will add to three sixes after eachother but that the lords day was number 7. I saw a kid with a Ronaldo jersey that piqued my intrest as it had every club he played for in one kit. Of course number 7 on the back, i had woken up about 7, everything was 7. The day after I watched a little bit of a movie where a guy gets tricked into betting for a plahers short number by other people, he picks a "random number" but he saw that number everywhere that day, its really intresting honestly. The day after I thought about and realised maybe God wanted to tell me that he made me pick the number 7 as well.
 
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You believe you received some secret knowledge based on doing random things with numbers, and shared that as though it was from God. That's gnosticism.
Thank you! I havent been that active in any cheistian communities and closing in on 1,5 years as a believer but thank you for pointing that out! I mostly thoughr it was an intresting detail like the number was everywhere and its the first thing i thought of but thanks for pointing that out i will keep it in mind, thanks!
 
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