Ten tens

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Is the number ten associated with the coming of Jesus and His salvation (and separation) of His people from their enemies?  ... Ten verses to ponder:

1.  Ten days into the month in which The Flood was to destroy his enemies, Noah entered the ark by which God saved him (Genesis 7:4-11)

2.  Ten generations on, Abraham was promised The Seed who would save, and his own sons manifest salvation and separation, with the banishing of Ishmael and blessing of Isaac (Genesis 17)

3.  Ten times faithless Israel “tempted” God in the wilderness, and died there, while Joshua and Caleb were invited into the promised land (Numbers 14:22)

4.  Ten “plagues” struck Egypt, the tenth being the death of the firstborn of God’s enemies, but life and freedom to the firstborn of God’s people (Exodus 11)

5.  Ten days into each new year, God’s people brought the Passover lamb into the home, remembering how the faithful were saved and the faithless were lost (Exodus 12)

6.  Ten days into each seventh month of the year, God’s people celebrated the Day of Atonement, when Jesus would die for the faithful and “cut off” the faithless (Leviticus 23:27-30)

7.  Ten commandments were given to “prove” Israel, and were placed in the ark under the mercy seat – the fearful “stood afar off”; the faithful “drew near … where God was” (Exodus 20 and 25)

8.  Ten days into the first month, God’s people entered the promised land, where the faithful would live and the faithless would be killed (Joshua 4:19)

9.  Ten virgins awaited The Bridegroom in Jesus’ parable, half of whom were welcomed, the other half shut out (Matthew 25)

10. Ten days of tribulation, symbolised by ten horns, will give way to Satan’s defeat and the ultimate separation of God’s people and their enemies (Daniel 7 and Revelation 2, 12, 13, 17)