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Forty Days And Forty Nights in the Bible — Hidden Meaning & Symbolism

Forty days and forty nights = the complete period of inner testing and preparation — the full season a mind needs to be emptied and made ready. Jesus' forty days in the wilderness and the flood's forty days are the same picture: the deep, complete inner work before a new beginning.

Read the whole map. Every symbol in the Bible is a state of your own mind — the book lays out the entire system, from Genesis to Revelation, in plain language.

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