7.5.3.3. Four the Entire World, the Earth

¹ “This number denotes God’s government of men and affairs upon the earth.”—Walter L. Wilson, A Dictionary of Bible Types (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers, 1999), 180.

² [Richard Chenevix Trench, Commentary on the Epistles to the Seven Churches in Asia (Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock Publishers, 1861), 63-64]. An exception to Trench’s comments regarding the four seasons may be found in the mention of “seedtime” (spring), “harvest” (fall), “winter and summer” in Gen. Gen. 8:22.

³ The word cherubim is the Hebrew equivalent to cherubs. The -im ending being the equivalent of our plural ending -s.

⁴ Contrary to the assertions of preterists who attempt to localize the global events of the book of Revelation to the Roman Empire.