The Town of Odyssey

The number 3 signifies God’s purpose.
When the Bible writes about Christ being crucified, the number 3 is featured about 15 times: 3 crosses, 3 apostles, 3 denials by Peter, etc. All of these 3’s are emphasizing it was absolutely God’s purpose that Christ be crucified.

The number 5 signifies the atonement or redemption.
This is seen, for example, by the ½ (.5) shekel atonement money which pointed to the atonement. Exodus 30:15 declares: “The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less than half a shekel, when they give an offering unto the LORD, to make an atonement for your souls.”
It is seen by the 5 shekels being a picture of redemption, as demonstrated in Numbers 3:47-48: “Thou shalt even take five shekels apiece by the poll, after the shekel of the sanctuary shalt thou take them”

The number 10 or 100 or 1,000 signifies completeness.
For example, the Bible speaks of 10 coins or 100 sheep or 1,000 years. God speaks of Satan being bound 1,000 years in Revelation 20:2-3. However, from much additional Biblical information we know he was bound between the years 33 A.D. and 1988 A.D. These 1,955 actual years are symbolized by 1,000 years. The Bible speaks of Him being bound 1,000 years to signify that He was bound for the completeness of God’s plan, which actually was 1,955 years.

The number 17 frequently signifies “Heaven.”
For example, in Jeremiah God describes the destruction of Judah and Jerusalem by the king of Babylon. This was typifying the end of the church age, at which time Satan, typified by the king of Babylon destroying Jerusalem and Judah, would rule in the churches. In that seemingly hopeless context Jeremiah was instructed to buy a field for the purchase price of 17 shekels of silver. God instructed Jeremiah that this purchase of land for 17 shekels was done as a guarantee or demonstration that the time would come that Israel would again occupy Jerusalem.

The number 23 points to destruction.
This is demonstrated in at least two significant citations in the Bible. One citation records a destructive plague that God sent upon Israel because they began to worship a heathen idol called Baal. As punishment we read in Numbers 25:9: “And those that died in the plague were twenty and four thousand.” Significantly the Bible makes reference to this same plague in the New Testament. We read in 1 Corinthians 10:8: “Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.” Notice God reports the destruction of 24,000 in the Old Testament and 23,000 in the New Testament. This is not a contradiction. A total of 24,000 persons were destroyed, of which 23,000 were destroyed in one day. This highlights the number 23’s association with destruction.
Another emphasis of this association of the number 23 with God’s wrath is found in Daniel 8. There God speaks of a time (which we now know is the first part of the Great Tribulation) lasting 2,300 days, during which Satan would rule over the church and the world as God begins to bring destruction upon the churches, preparing them and the world for Judgment Day. We read in Daniel 8:13-14: “Then I heard one saint speaking, and another saint said unto that certain saint which spake, How long shall be the vision concerning the daily sacrifice, and the transgression of desolation, to give both the sanctuary and the host to be trodden under foot? And he said unto me, Unto two thousand and three hundred days; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed.”