completeness, perfection, and salvation. It represents God’s sovereign plan in its perfection and completeness. The number ten speaks of completeness in the human experience or dimension. And the number twelve speaks of completeness in terms of the community of God’s people, a unity in diversity. The number seven is especially important in Revelation (used 53 times), so we shouldn’t be surprised that another way the book could be organized is in seven sets of seven: Prologue (1:1–3) 1. Seven churches