CELEBRATE! At ’40’ you enter the Promise Land!
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As I promised here are thoughts on ’40’. It is a powerful time… 40 days, 40 years, 40, it seems some great things in history were in ’40’.
Facts:
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Moses was on Mount Sinai for 40 days and nights, on two separate occasions (Exodus 24:18, 34:1 – 28), receiving God’s laws.
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He also sent spies, for forty days, to investigate the land God promised the Israelites as an inheritance (Numbers 13:25, 14:34).
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The prophet Jonah powerfully warned ancient Nineveh, for forty days, that its destruction would come because of its many sins.
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The prophet Ezekiel laid on His right side for 40 days to symbolize Judah’s sins (Ezekiel 4:6).
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Elijah went 40 days without food or water at Mount Horeb.
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God flooded the earth by having it rain for 40 days and nights (Genesis 7:12)
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Forty days after the birth, Jesus was presented to the Temple of Jerusalem for his legal purification, according to the established law.
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The 40 days of fasting of Jesus in the desert. (Mt 4,2)
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Forty days separate the Ascension of Jesus of His Resurrection. (Act 1,3)