Sending Out the Twelve

The number twelve is a symbol of GOD’S perfect divine government. It can be found over 187 times throughout GOD’S Word, and each time, we see GOD establishing HIS work. Jacob had twelve sons which became the twelve tribes of Israel.  Jesus was twelve years old the first time He ministered in the Temple. When He fed the 5,000, the twelve apostles gathered twelve baskets of leftover bread. During the tribulation, GOD will seal twelve thousand souls from each tribe of Israel. Again we see HIS government perfected in the New Jerusalem. It has twelve gates for each tribe of Israel made of twelve pearls. The wall of the city has twelve foundations representing the twelve apostles, and the length, and breadth, and height is twelve thousand furlongs. Finally there is the tree of life which bare twelve different types of fruit and the leaves are for the healing of the nations.

The emphases of the message is not that there was twelve apostles or seventy disciples sent out which resembles the twelve tribes and seventy elders of Israel. This is simply another mystery revealed in GOD’S perfect divine government HE established through HIS Son. The weight of this message we need to convey is how GOD establishes HIS promises, seals it with HIS divine perfection, and confirms it with the patterns established in HIS government. Israel’s bridegroom not only arrived when He was promised, He fulfilled the Old Ketubah, established the New, and sealed them both with His blood which He freely gave on Calvary. There should never be a question as to whether or not a New Covenant would replace the Old for Jeremiah 31:31 clarified this completely. This broadcast well defines the beginning of the new relationship between the bride and groom, how Jesus received her, and the commitment she made to Him in the New Ketubah.