10,000 Times 10,000

Please don’t try to make a doctrine out of this. It is a spiritual principle, and not intended to be an exegetical study.

I was in a prayer meet most of the day last Saturday with some of the leaders of the Business Men’s Fellowship. Most of the day we had twelve men in constant prayer to seek God’s direction for the ministry. Twelve was also a significant number to Jesus. Though He had many disciples, He specifically called out twelve. What was the point of twelve? This Scripture came to my remembrance.

“How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except their Rock had sold them, and the LORD had shut them up?” Deuteronomy 32:30

I recognize that this passage refers to the favor of the armies of Israel against their enemies. But I have often found that Old Testament physical warfare has correlations to New Testament spiritual warfare. One Israelite warrior had tremendous favor on the battlefield against the enemies of the Lord. So what did that have to do with Jesus ordaining twelve with apostolic authority. I’m no “math wiz”, so bear with me. It seems the favor increases ten times with each warrior, etc.

Then it hit me …
1 vs 1,000
2 vs 10,000
3 vs 100,000
4 vs 1 Million
5 vs 10,000,000
6 vs 100,000,000
7 vs 1 Billion
8 vs 10,000,000,000
9 vs 100,000,000,000
10 vs 1 Trillion
11 vs 10,000,000,000,000
12 vs 100 TRILLION

I have no idea how many godly angels or fallen demonic spirits exist in the kingdom of God. John the Revelator said, “And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne and the beasts and the elders: and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands” (Revelation 5:11). That number alone looks like 100 million and then some.

In prayerful authority we walk in spiritual power over the forces of darkness! Jesus told these same disciples, “Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you” (Luke 10:19). We really don’t need a mathematical formula to realize that just a room full of Spirit filled believers who come together to pray in faith and agreement with the Lord’s will, do so in authority over ALL spiritual forces! But the shear numbers gave me a vivid picture of what ALL really means. The theory (not doctrine) is that Jesus called out 12, because 12 possessed total domination over any, every and all spiritual powers. It only took 12. Twelve was enough. If this is true, then the principle is unchanged for us in our day. We must gather to pray! As the National Day of Prayer approaches on Thursday May 7, let us put into perspective, the power of prayer to affect the will of God in the earth! Let us pray!