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Numbers 7, 8 and more...

This is an extract form a booklet.

The Old Testament was originally written in Hebrew and the word for "seven" in Hebrew also means ‘full’, or ‘complete’.

Consider a few of the incidences of the figure 7 in nature:

· The light from the sun has seven distinct colours.....red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet.

· The earth is 49 times (7x7) larger then the moon.

· The moon takes 28 days (4x7) to encircle the earth.

· The human embryo is formed in 28 days. (4x7).

· The gestation period with man is 280 days. (40x7)

· Each cell in the body is renewed every 7 years.

· In bird life, the incubation period of the egg is always in a multiple of
seven days.......

o domestic hen 21.

o canary 14.

o finches 14.

o cockatoos 14.

o large owl 28.

o emu 56.

o ostrich 42.

o mucovy duck 35.

Thousands of varieties have been investigated and although the incubation times differ considerably, all these time factors are in multiple of 7 days and as yet none have been discovered with an incubation period which is not a multiple of 7 days.

The incidence of the figure 7 is multitudinous and such information could fill volumes, but to enlarge on this aspect is not our purpose at this time. The examples given should demonstrate our point. .....

As within nature, so also in the Bible there is evidence of mathematical design. The figure 7 is especially prominent and one soon comes to recognise this figure 7 as the sign or seal of completeness with which almighty God stamps his completed created works.

The Bible contains a sevenfold natural division: Moses, the Psalms,

the Prophets, Gospels, Acts, Letters, and the Revelations. throughout the Old Testament the word seven occurs exactly 287 times......7x41. the word seventh occurs 98 times......... 7x14. the word sevenfold occurs 7 times....... 7x1. The combined total of these occurrences is 392. which is 7x7x7+7x7.

Here we get the indication that a law is operational within the scriptures that has to do with the figure 7 as a number and as a multiple. Let us continue.........

There are 28 writers of the Old Testament.................. 7x4
The word manna occurs just 14 times........................ 7x2

The words little children occur 41 times.......... 7x6.

7 of these are in Deuteronomy........ 7x1.

21 in the rest of the Pentateuch.......... 7x3.

14 are elsewhere in the Old Testament....... 7x2.

In Noah's Covenant, Covenant occurs 7 times. 7x1.

In Abraham's Covenant, Covenant occurs 14 times. 7x2.

Indeed, the incidence of the figure 7 is continuous throughout

the entire Old Testament record.

The incidence of 7 in scripture is manifold but in each case it had to do with a completed work. For example, at Jericho on the seventh day

the Israelites had to walk around the walls 7 times. Again, the leper had to wash in the Jordan 7 times.

Now, if they had only walked around Jericho six times. If the leper had
only washed five times.......if the hen leaves her eggs on the 20th
day........what would have happened? Absolutely nothing!! For the stamp of the designer, His hallmark of completion, would not have been present.

STEP-BY-STEP:

ONE to SEVEN

LET US ESTABLISH THAT NUMERALS DO HAVE A MEANING IN SCRIPTURE. THE "KEY' TO
THIS ABSORBING STUDY IS CONTAINED IN THE FIRST CHAPTER OF GENESIS.
THE SEVEN DAYS OF CREATION ALSO FORESHADOW AND ARE A 'TYPE" OF, THE 7000
YEAR PERIOD THAT GOD HAS OUTLINED FOR MAN IN THE BIBLE.

KNOWING THIS HELPS TO PROVE THE MEANING OF THE FIGURES "ONE" TO "SEVEN'.

FIGURE 1. "IN THE BEGINNING GOD...." ON THE FIRST DAY OF CREATION GOD SAID
"LET THERE BE LIGHT". THE SCRIPTURE TELLS US THAT GOD IS LIGHT. THROUGHOUT
THE SCRIPTURES THE STATEMENT IS MADE THAT GOD IS ONE. DURING THE FIRST
MILLENIUM THE LIGHT OF GOD WAS HELD SUPREME AND GOD WAS WITH MAN. IN THE
SCRIPTURE THE FIGURE 1 REPRESENTS GOD AND AS GOD IS IN ALL SO THE FIGURE 1
IS PART OF ALL NUMBERS.

FIGURE 2. ON THE SECOND DAY OF CREATION A GREAT DIVISION TOOK PLACE WHEN
GOD DIVIDED THE WATER FROM THE EARTH. IN THE SECOND MILLENIUM A GREAT
DIVISION TOOK PLACE WHEN GOD DIVIDED THE EVIL FROM THE GOOD MEN AT THE
FLOOD. AGAIN, AT THE TOWER OF BABEL HE DIVIDED MEN OVER THE FACE OF THE
EARTH. FIGURE 2 PREPRESENTS DIVISION.

FIGURE 3. ON THE THIRD DAY GOD CREATED PLANTS YIELDING SEED AND IN THIS WAS
ESTABLISHED THE PRINCIPLE OF RE-GROWING OR RENEWING, OF RE-BIRTH AND
SONSHIP. THE SEED GOES INTO THE EARTH FROM THE OLD PLANT AND FROM IT
SPRINGS TO LIFE A NEW PLANT. IT WAS THE 3RD MILLENIUM THAT GOD ANNOUNCED
THIS PRINCIPLE TO ABRAHAM AND GAVE UNTO HIM HIS SON ISAAC "IN WHOM HIS SEED
WAS CALLED". FIGURE 3 PREPRESENTS SEED.

FIGURE 4. ON THE FOURTH DAY OF CREATION THE LIGHT OF GOD WAS MANIFESTED IN
TWO MARVELLOUS WORKS OF HIS HAND, THE SUN AND THE MOON. IT WAS AT THE END
OF THE FOURTH MILLENIUM THAT THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD, JESUS CHRIST WAS BORN.
AS THE SUN AND THE MOON REFLECTED THE LIGHT OF GOD SO JESUS AND THE CHURCH
THAT HE ESTABLISHED WOULD REFLECT THE LIGHT OF THE WORD THAT HE OBTAINED
FROM GOD. FOR, THE WORD IS LIGHT. FIGURE 4 REPRESENTS THE WORD.

FIGURE 5. ON THE FIFTH DAY OF CREATION GOD CAUSED LIFE TO COME FORTH. HE
CREATED BIRDS AND FISH FROM THE WATER. HERE THE GREAT PRINCIPLE OF LIFE
FROM THE WATER!!! WAS DEMONSTRATED AND AT THE BEGINNING OF THE FIFTH
THOUSAND YEAR, BAPTISM, LIFE FROM THE WATER, WAS INITIATED. THIS, WE ARE
TOLD IS A GREAT GIFT OF GRACE. THEREFORE FIGURE 5 REPRESENTS GRACE.

FIGURE 6. ON THE SIXTH DAY GOD CREATED LIFE FRO THE EARTH. THE LAST OF HIS
CREATIONS WAS MAN. AT THE END OF THE SIXTH THOUSANDTH YEAR GOD HAS
PROMISED "LIFE FROM THE EARTH" INDEED, FOR THIS IS THE TIME OF THE
RESURRECTION, GOD'S PROMISE TO MAN. FIGURE 6 REPRESENTS MAN AND AS MAN IS
USUALLY DEPICTED IN THE SCRIPTURE AS BEING SINFUL, SIX IS ALSO SYNONYMOUS
WITH SIN.

FIGURE 7. HAVING COMPLETED THE CREATION, GOD RESTED. THIS REST IS A TYPE OR
A FORESHADOWING OF THE MILLENIUM REST, THE SEVENTH THOUSAND YEARS. FIGURE
7 IS COMPLETION OR REST.

WE WILL DEAL WITH NUMERAL 8 TO ESTABLISH ITS MEANING

BUT I WILL INCLUDE IT IN THE FOLLOWING LIST FOR CONVENIENCE:

1. GOD.                                                        6. MAN
2. DIVISION.                                                7. COMPLETION
3. SEED                                                       8. OF THE RESURRECTION
4. THE WORD                                            9. FINALITY
5. GRACE

HERE THEN IS THE MEANING OF ALL THE SINGLE NUMBERS IN SCRIPTURE.

HOW ARE THESE NUMBERS USED? TAKE THIS EXAMPLE. JESUS TOLD HIS DISCIPLES TO CAST THEIR NETS IN ON THE OTHER SIDE AND WHEN THE NET WAS PULLED IN IT CONTAINED 153 GREAT FISHES. DID THIS HAVE A PARTICULAR MEANING? IF "3" REPRESENTS SEED OR "SONS' AND "5" IS GRACE AND "1' IS GOD, THEN WHAT THESE DISCIPLES REALLY CAUGHT WERE 'SONS BY THE GRACE OF GOD". DOESN'T THIS ALL FIT...DIDN'T JESUS TELL THEM THAT HE WOULD MAKE THEM "FISHERS OF MEN"? IN THIS ONE ACTION JESUS SHOWED THEM THEIR TRUE CALLING. THEY WERE TO CATCH 'SONS BY THE GRACE OF GOD". THIS STORY IN JOHN 21 WAS WRITTEN IN THE GREEK AND WE HAVE SHOWN HOW "153" HAS A REPRESENTATIVE MEANING AS "SONS OF GOD". IN THE HEBREW THE TERM "SONS OF GOD' IS BENI HA-ELOHIM.

NUMERICALLY, THIS IS EXPRESSED IN THE HEBREW ALPHABET AS FOLLOWS

- READ FROM RIGHT TO LEFT:

M   Y He L A He Y    N   B
40 10 5   30 1   5    10 50 2

TOTAL ..........    153 !!!

THIS PRIMARY APPLICATION FOR NUMBERS IS USED THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE BIBLE AND THEIR MEANINGS ARE CONSTANT.

THE BIBLE WAS WRITTEN IN HEBREW AND GREEK, THE GREEKS HAD NO SEPARATE SYMBOLS LIKE OUR ARABIC FIGURES FOR EXPRESSING NUMBERS SO THEY MADE USE OF THE LETTERS OF THEIR ALPHABET FOR THIS PURPOSE. THUS THE 26 LETTERS OF THEIR ALPHABET ALSO STOOD FOR 26 NUMBERS. THEREFORE THE GREEK LETTERS IN ADDITION TO EXPRESSING THE SOUNDS A, B AND G ETC, ALSO EXPRESSED THE NUMBERS 1, 2, AND 3, ETC.

IN THE RUINS OF POMPEY THERE WAS DISCOVERED WRITTEN ON A WALL THE FOLLOWING WORDS IN GREEK. "I LOVE HER, THE NUMBER OF WHOSE NAME IS 66". LATER, WE WILL BE ABLE TO SEE HOW THE NAME OF THIS GIRL COULD HAVE BEEN DIANA.

HERE IS THE GREEK ALPHABET - EACH LETTER HAS A VALUE.

ALPHA	a 1	THETA	th 9	XI	x 60	UPSILON	u 400
BETA	b 2	IOTA	i 10	OMICRON	o 70	PHI	ph 500
GAMMA	g 3	ELTA	d 4	KAPPA	k 20	PI	p 80
CHI	ch 600	EPSILON	e 5	LAMBDA	l 30	RHO	r 100
PSI	ps 700	ZETA	z 7	MU	m 40	SIGMA	s 200
OMEGA	o 800	ETA	e 8	NU	n 50	TAU	t 300

THE HEBREW ALPHABET

ALEPH	a 1	BEYTH	b 2	GIYMEL	g 3	DALETH	d 4
HE	h 5	VAV	v 6	ZAYIN	z 7	CHEYTH	ch 8
TEYTH	t 9	YOWD	y 10	KAPH	k 20	LAMED	l 30
MEM	m 40	NUWN	n 50	CAMEK	c 60	AYIN	ar 70
PE	p 80	TSADEY	ts 90	QAWPH	q 100	REYSH	r 200
SIYN	s 300	TAU	t 400

Ph has equal value with p. Sh has equal value with s.

Th has equal value with t.

So looking at the 153 fishes, which has a representative meaning as "sons of God".

In the Hebrew the term means Beni ha-Elohim.

Read from right to left      M   Y   He   L   A   He   Y    N   B
                                              40 10   5    30 1    5     10 50   2

TOTAL..........153.

THIS TERM "SONS OF GOD" OCCURS EXACTLY 7 TIMES IN THE OLD TESTAMENT.

IN THE STORY OF THE 153 FISHES IN JOHN 21 .........

THE GREEK WORD FOR FISHES HAS A VALUE OF 1224     OR 153X8
THE TERM 'THE NET' ALSO HAS A VALUE OF 1224                OR 153X8
THE GREEK TERM 'SONS OF GOD' IS VALUED AT 3213        OR 153X7X3
THE COMPARABLE TERM 'JOINT HEIRS' VALUE AT 1071     OR 153X7
AND THE SIMILAR TERM 'HEIRS OF GOD' VALUE 1071           OR 153X7

LET'S LOOK AT GENESIS 1 V 1. IN THE BEGINNING GOD CREATED THE HEAVEN AND THE EARTH. IN HEBREW IT HAS 7 LETTERS.

READING FROM RIGHT TO LEFT (IF WE WERE READING IN HEBREW) IN THE BEGINNING NUMERIC VALUE 913. CREATED 203 GOD 86 THE 401 HEAVENS 395

AND THE 407 EARTH 296.

THE SENTENCE HAS 7 HEBREW WORDS.   7X1
THESE 7 WORDS CONTAIN 28 LETTERS.    7X4
THERE ARE THREE NOUNS. GOD, HEAVEN, EARTH, TOTAL VALUE. 777    7X111
THERE IS ONE VERB. CREATED, VALUE 203    7X29

THUS IS SHOWN AN ELABORATE DESIGN OF FOURTEEN FEATURES OF SEVEN RUNNING THROUGH THE FIRST SEVEN OF THE BIBLE. THIS IS ONLY THE 'BEGINNING' OF A COMPLEX
OF MATHEMATICAL FEATURES CONTAINED WITHIN THESE SEVEN WORDS BUT THE CHANCE OF THOSE FEATURES ALREADY QUOTED HAVING OCCURED UNDESIGNED IS ONE IN SEVEN MULTIPLIED BY ITSELF FOURTEEN TIMES.....OR.... 1 IN 678233072849.

THAT IS NEARLY ONE IN SEVEN HUNDRED THOUSAND MILLIONS.. !!!!!

CONSIDER NOW THE INCIDENCE OF THE FIGURE 8 IN SCRIPTURE:

SHEMONEH, THE HEBREW WORD FOR EIGHT ALSO SIGNIFIES "FULLNESS" OR
"PLENTEOUS" AS IF GREATER AND ABOVE THE PERFECT SEVEN:

IN THIS THOUGHT IS EMBODIED THE PRINCIPLE THAT CHRIST WAS LORD OF THE
SABBATH AND THE FOLLOWING WILL DEMONSTRATE THIS.

"8' SIGNIFIES NEW BEGINNING (EG, RESURRECTION). THERE ARE 7 DAYS IN

A WEEK.......THE 8TH DAY IS THE BEGINNING OF THE NEW WEEK.

8 SOULS CAME FORTH FROM THE ARK. THIS WAS A 'TYPE' OF RESURRECTION.

ABRAHAM HAD 6 SONS TO KETURAH AND ONE TO HAGAR. THE "EIGHTH" SON ISAAC WAS OF MIRACULOUS BIRTH.

DAVID A 'TYPE' OF JESUS WAS THE EIGHTH SON OF JESSE.

JEWISH MALE CHILDREN WERE CIRCUMCISED ON THE 8TH DAY.
THIS WAS CONSIDERED A NEW BEGINNING UNDER THE LAW.

OTHER THEN JESUS THERE WERE 8 INDIVIDUAL RESURRECTIONS RECORDED

IN THE SCRIPTURES:

1. THE WIDOW OF ZAREPHATH'S SON
2. THE SHUNAMITE'S SON
3. THE MAN THROWN INTO ELISHA'S TOMB.
4. JAIRUS' DAUGHTER
5. THE YOUNG MAN OF NAIN
6. LAZARUS
7. DORCAS
8. EUTYCHUS.

AS '8' IS THE NUMERAL REPRESENTING RESURRECTION, IT WOULD BE REASONABLE TO ASSUME THAT GOD WOULD HAVE INCORPORATED THIS FIGURE WITHIN THE NAME OF JESUS, FOR JESUS SAID 'I AM THE RESURRECTION...'

JESUS IN THE GREEK IS;

I E S O U S
10+8+ 200+ 70+ 400+200 = 888!

THIS IS AN AMAZING REVELATION, YET, LOOK AT SOME OF THE OTHER TITLES

OF JESUS:

THE CHRIST.     VALUE 1480    8X185

SAVIOUR             VALUE 1408   8X176

LORD                     VALUE 800       8X100

MESSIAH              VALUE 656       8X82

THE SON OF MAN VALUE 2960   8X370

THE TRUTH       VALUE 64          8X64

THE REVELATION OF JESUS CHRIST, THE LAST BOOK IN THE BIBLE, HAS

A VOCABULARY OF EXACTLY 888 WORDS!!!

JUST LOOK AT THE FANTASIC NUMERICAL PATTERN INCORPORATED IN THE NAME JESUS CHRIST:

I     E   S O U    S                            CH    R I     S     T     O    S
10   8   200 70 400 200                       600   100 10 200 300 70   200

TOTAL VALUE        2368        37X8X8

JESUS VALUE         888          37X8X3

CHRIST VALUE        1480        37X8X5

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