THE 13TH PARLIAMENT
Malachi 4:6, “And he shall turn and reconcile the hearts of the [estranged] fathers to the [ungodly] children, and the hearts of the [rebellious] children to [the piety of] their fathers [a reconciliation produced by repentance of the ungodly], lest I come and smite the land with a curse and a ban of utter destruction”. The character thirteen is the number of rebellion and depravity . To write thirteen in Hebrew, they write two Hebrew letters, Yod and Gimel . These signify the hand outworking of pride . The number thirteen speaks of rebellion and depravity. The first occurrence of the number 13 in the Bible is found in Genesis 14:4 , “ Twelve years they had served Chedorlaomer, but in the thirteenth year they rebelled ”. This signified a time of rebellion. There were 13 tribes of Israel, including Levi, after Joseph received the double portion with two tribes, Ephraim and Manasseh. And when the tribes were given their inheritances in Canaan, the...