Although I know that everything that has happened is real, it seems unreal. I am having a hard time accepting the reality of it all.
The following is from the book "Numbers in Scripture" by E.W. Bullinger.
The number 11 is the number which marks disorder, disorganization, imperfection and disintergration.
- Jehoakim reigned ELEVEN years
when Nebuchadnezzar came up and began his disintegrating work on Jerusalem (2 Kings 23:36; 24:1; and 2 Chronicles 36:5, 6)
Zedekiah reigned ELEVEN years
when Nebuchadnezzar completed the work by putting an end to Israel's rule in Jerusalem (2 Chronicles 36:11; Jeremiah 52:1), for "in the eleventh year the city was broken up: (Jeremiah 39:2)
The ELEVENTH year
in which Ezekiel prophesied against Tyre (Ezekiel 26:1) and against Egypt (30:20; 31:1) was the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in which Jerusalem was broken up. And the threefold repetition of it is to impress us with the fact that Tyre and Egypt should be broken up, as Jerusalem had been.
The ELEVEN apostles
witness of disintegration even amongst the Twelve (Acts 2:14, etc.)
The ELEVENTH hour
(Matthew 20:6, 9) is proverbial as being contrary alike both to what is right in order and arrangement.
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