God's Divine nature has seven aspects and His Holy Spirit divides into the Seven Spirits of God. The creation also inherits many sevenfold categorizations. The nature of these sevenfold aspects can be studied in various manifestations using the following tables. Each horizontal row in these tables (or common colouring) should indicate some comparability to the same level in another subject column. The first table expands on the minimum requirements of precepts four to ten of the ten commandments - and so describes how we may mature and diversify in our fulfilling of the general requirement of God's law - to love our neighbour as ourself....

1. Positive/Additive,  2. Negative/Subtractive


The greatest appreciation for happiness is that success is the greater because of the failures, the second greatest appreciation is the experience of pure success, and the third is appreciation for the temporary failures themselves....

As the seven categories of God's sevenfold character determine how He creates, the seven categories of His love - revealed in the ten commandments are profound and categorize many assortments of things in the universe. Scripture has set out some things in sevenfold progression which reflect and point to the seven prime categories in God's loving nature and character...

The seven primary categories of God are reflected in the Lord's prayer. The seven days of the creation account (Gen 1-2:2) are ordered according to these seven categories, and this characteristic pattern is also repeated in the character and order of the seven festivals appointed for Old Covenant Israel (Lev 23). Here is a list that summarises these three sevenfold orderings in the bible.

• [The Passover]  'Our Father' - Heaven & earth, light on the ocean
• [Unleavened Bread]  'Hallowed be your name' - Atmosphere between the waters
• [First Fruits]  'Your kingdom come' - Land and plants emerge
  
  
• [Leavened bread]  'Your will be done on earth as in heaven' - 'Cloud layer' thins, heavenly bodies show
• [Trumpets]  'Daily bread' - Waters teem with life, (amph.-dino.) birds
• [Day of Atonement]  'Forgive us as we forgive' - 'Mammals' and man
  
  
• [Tabernacles]  'Lead us not into trial & deliver us from the evil one' - God's creative rest

Israel's history had seven phases of leadership ministry:






These sevenfold categories are somewhat comparable to the recent revelation of seven priorities of God in His prophetic message which was explained by angels to Pastor Roland Buck. For details:~  Angels on Assignment - online book.


How these sevenfold categories were constructed: These tables are an attempt to be categorical about how various things in God and creation correlate to the way God's Holy Spirit divides into seven parts - by likewise dividing into seven categories. Light itself neatly divides into seven colour categories, hence the colouration of the rows in the tables. For more explanation of the mystery of the seven spirits of God and sevenfold division see the page called 'Lord Iyehuweh' which is about God's nature - and introduces the three-fold and sevenfold divisions in God. This subject is essentially a search for the various ways that the Creator has a sevenfold division within Himself and how this inevitably is imprinted into His creation... Here are some principle sevenfold categorizations which have acted as reliable beacons to guide my mind in its search for other sevenfold categories: Light is significant with its threefold and sevenfold categories. How the sevenfold division is can colour-ordered by extension from the three primary colours to produce four further categories of secondary colour - symbolises to me the nature of how the Father uses the seven categorizatons of love in His Personal priority ordering. Time neatly divides into three aspects - present, future, past which can then be combined together in four essential ways representing mixed persectives of present, future and past.
      In the scripture it has been very important to analyse the seven precepts of the ten commandments which are from the fourth to the tenth and express a sevenfold division of the command to love your neighbour as yourself. The five-fold progression of the eldership found in Paul's letter to the Ephesians combines with the two other leadership positions mentioned in scripture - supervisor/overseer/bishop and servant/deacon which seem to come inevitably immediately after evangelist, pastor, teacher. And this resulting sevenfold division of leadership seems to be exampled to us in the Old Testament scripture's account of a progression in the forms of Israel's spiritual/political leadership. Also it was very helpful to to consider the list of the forms of wisdom found in the letter of James (3:17) and making some comparison to the nine happinesses of Matthew's gospel is also interesting. Other than examining the scripture I have meditated and considered areas or aspects of existence and life that seem to call for arranging in groups and ordered them according to the Old Testament priority given in the local creation and Jewish festivals also repeated in the Lord's prayer. And through the light of reason and recourse to comparisons with related sevenfold categories already established I have presented all the sevenfold lists in the same correlated order.

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