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Babylon and the Number 120

Unity in the Upper Room

Acts 1:15
And in those days Peter stood up in the midst of the disciples, and said, (the number of names together were about an hundred and twenty,)

Unity in Solomon’s Temple

2 Chronicles 5:12
And the Levites who were the singers, all those of Asaph and Heman and Jeduthun, with their sons and their brethren, stood at the east end of the altar, clothed in white linen, having cymbals, stringed instruments and harps, and with them one hundred and twenty priests sounding with trumpets—

Genesis 6:3
And the LORD said, “My Spirit shall not strive with man forever, for he is indeed flesh; yet his days shall be one hundred and twenty years.”

120 Jubilees from Adam to the time of the 2^nd Coming.

2 Peter 3:8
But, beloved, do not forget this one thing, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

Daniel 6:1
It pleased Darius to set over the kingdom one hundred and twenty satraps, to be over the whole kingdom;

120 mention of “Kings” in the New Testament.

Deuteronomy 34:7
Moses was one hundred and twenty years old when he died. His eyes were not dim nor his natural vigor diminished.

Origins of Babel
Babel Reversed

False Unity of Babel Broken – Genesis 11:6-7

And the LORD said, “Indeed the people are one and they all have one language, and this is what they begin to do; now nothing that they propose to do will be withheld from them.
Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.”

The Power of True Unity – Acts 2:1,4

When the Day of Pentecost had fully come, they were all with one accord in one place.

And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.

Babylon and the number 120 – Acts 1:15

§And in those days Peter stood up in the midst of the disciples (altogether the number of names was about a hundred and twenty), and said,