Numbers in Revelation—must be taken from the rest of Scripture and it's patterns in the Bible

1 God. God is singular and unique. Any symbolic number of 1 is pointing us to God.

2 Parallelism, witness, the same but different aspects

3 God, the Trinity, 

4 “is all about created life and things”

5 symbol for emotions, suffering, patience, behavior, worship, joy, desire, taste, feel, sound, smell, affliction. Full experience of human senses and emotions

6 creation i.e. process of creating, work—good or evil

7 4+3 man and God; judgment—condemnation or reward

8 New creation 4+4

10 totality, completion, full scope, every, all, all things

12 The Church, OT and NT