Believers are often reminded that God speaks through Scripture, but Pastor Troy Brewer says the Lord is also revealing His voice through numbers, names and even historical events. By learning to recognize these prophetic patterns, Christians can better understand what God is doing in their own lives today.
Brewer, pastor of Open Door Church in Burleson, Texas, recently shared in his Numbers That Prophesy series that biblical numbers carry significant meaning and are often connected to moments when God radically changes the course of history.
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“All the way through the Word of God, 120 is when God shows up and changes everything,” Brewer said. “It took Noah 120 years to build the ark. Moses was 120 years old, and then God killed him and buried him. How many people were in the upper room when the Holy Ghost came? There you go.”
Brewer teaches that prophetic understanding is not limited to seeing the future. He believes the primary role of prophetic people is to hear what God is saying in the present. “The largest percentage of the role and the responsibility of people who operate in prophetic gifts is not about foresight,” he said. “It’s about being able to look at the things that are going on right now and say, ‘This is what the Word of God is. This is what the Lord is saying.’”
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This perspective, Brewer says, is rooted in Romans 1:20, which declares that God’s invisible qualities “are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made.” He explains, “God’s clearly speaking through everything going on around us. If that was a dream, what would it mean? If that was a dream, I’d search it out. Well, I don’t have to dream this, this is happening right here in front of me.”
He also encourages Christians to pay attention to names and historical details, pointing out that they often hold a prophetic message. Using Mount Everest as an example, Brewer said, “Everest is a prophetic name. It speaks of eternity, ‘ever rest.’ The tallest mountain in the world named Everest is 29,029 feet tall, and 29 represents mountains in the Bible. That’s not coincidence; that’s God speaking.”
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For Brewer, this way of seeing deepens a believer’s awareness that the Lord is active in the details of life. “If you can begin to see the numbers that prophesy around you, God will show up and change everything,” he said. “You’ll never be the same again.”
James Lasher is staff writer for Charisma Media.
