{"id":21993,"date":"2025-02-08T01:06:19","date_gmt":"2025-02-08T01:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/?p=21993"},"modified":"2026-09-19T18:06:51","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T18:06:51","slug":"99-in-bible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/ja\/learn\/99-in-bible\/","title":{"rendered":"The Number 99 Has No Meaning in the Bible \u2014 It Appears Twice"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"cppw-protected cppw-protected--overlay\"><div class=\"cppw-excerpt cppw-excerpt--overlay\"><p>The number 99 has no assigned meaning in the Bible. It appears in two places, and both of them are about somebody being left behind or left waiting. Neither is numerology. Both are worth the visit. Does the number 99 mean anything in the Bible? No. Scripture does use certain numbers with meaning \u2014 seven for completeness, forty for a season of testing, twelve for the tribes and the apostles \u2014 and it establishes those patterns openly, in the text,\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\t\t<div class=\"cppw-paywall paywp-paywall\" data-required-level=\"25\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"cppw-lock-mark\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n\t\t\t<h2>Continue reading with a subscription<\/h2>\n\t\t\t<p>Get unlimited access to all our premium content and exclusive features.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"cppw-paywall__actions\">\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"cppw-button\" href=\"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/ja\/become-a-member\/\">Subscribe Now<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"cppw-login-link\" href=\"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/ja\/login\/\">Already a subscriber? Sign in<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<p class=\"cppw-paywall__microcopy\">Enjoy unlimited access, cancel anytime.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The number 99 carries no meaning in Scripture. It is Abram&#039;s age when God renamed him, and the flock left behind to find one sheep.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":104176,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[39],"tags":[],"series":[223],"class_list":["post-21993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christian-education","series-biblical-numerology"],"mb":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/christianpure.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/hf620-img_00098.webp?fit=900%2C675&ssl=1","mfb_acf":[],"mfb_rest_fields":["title","jetpack_publicize_connections","jetpack-related-posts","jetpack_sharing_enabled","jetpack_featured_media_url"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21993"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107595,"href":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21993\/revisions\/107595"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21993"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=21993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}