Lately I’ve noticed more Christians talking about numbers as if they’re messages from God!
Be it things like number “2”, or “18” people or “7” this or “18” in multiple occurrences, and It never fails to always include or come with a  spiritual sounding tone: “God’s trying to tell me, or us something.”
To be brutally honest, that idea doesn’t sit right with me. When we start reducing God’s voice to numbers, shadows on a map or a shadow today like there was 1456 years ago, I mean really!!… People who do this are shrinking God down into something far less than the Lord Jesus Christ that Scripture describes.
Sure, numbers do show up in the Bible with meaning: seven often stands for completion, twelve for God’s people, forty for a time of testing but those uses are part of the story itself. They’re not codes we’re supposed to crack in everyday life. There’s nothing in Scripture that tells believers to look for hidden messages in numbers, no matter how they are presented.
Gracious goodness, I have acquaintances with witches and they at times have been kinder than Christians and less judgmental, and they are number studied at times with lots of definitions, but they even say beware of people who use, see, hear, or dream about numbers or try to associate it with higher powers etc

In Deuteronomy 18, God tells His people not to practice divination or read omens because those things seek secret knowledge apart from Him. And that’s really what modern-day “number messages” do—, they look for spiritual truth outside what God has already revealed.
God doesn’t need to line up your receipts or clocks to get your attention, or have a certain number of people in a church service or social gathering at church.
Jesus Christ speaks through His Word (2 Timothy 3:16‑17), through the Holy Spirit (John 14:26), through prayer, and at times through people with actual proven spiritual discernment and knowledge.

The moment people start treating 2s and 18s like messages from heaven, they turn God into a puzzle maker dropping hints instead of a Father who speaks clearly through Christ.
When God uses numbers in Scripture, it’s to help us understand His truth, not to send us on a chase for secret signs. The gospel already gives us Jesus, the living Word. Once our eyes are fixed on Him, we don’t need mystical codes, or shadows and numerology to prove God is near.

He already is.