We have often discussed God's
creation of the seven note musical scale.
Before God created man, He created, “the heaven and the earth.” It is important that we understand the
significance of God creating the mathematical ratios that make the seven note
scale possible. The perfectness of the number seven is a part of Gods eternal
laws. The world was brought into being and set in motion at the will of God in
accordance to His laws.
A part of these laws was the eternal concept of seven days ending with a
Sabbath and a re-beginning on the eighth day.
God, without doubt, created music in the beginning to conform to these
laws. The eighth note of the musical
scale is essentially the same as Sunday of the next week. Sunday is the eighth day or the day of
re-beginning of the same sequence just like the eighth note of the musical
scale. If you sing the diatonic major
scale and stop on the seventh degree which is a leading tone in the major scale
this tone demands resolution. The note
of resolution is the eighth degree of the major scale which is the same as the
first degree i.e. the tonic. The
concept of seven degrees in a musical scale cannot be improved upon since the
number seven is always the number of perfection in Scripture, and eight is the
number of regeneration and re-beginning.
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