I have long been convinced that God wrote the Bible through men using a numeric pattern. Most people today call this use of numbers “gematria.” Many books have been written concerning God’s mathematics, or gematria. Some are very good and enlightening; others attempt to predict God’s plans, purposes, and history using the numeric patterns and have proved to be miserable failures. God does not give us his Word in order to become a type of Christian wizard who can foretell the future. That is not the role of his end-time prophet.
God’s last days’ prophets are those who trumpet God’s truth. The “last trumpet” is the collective voice of these prophets who teach and warn the world of God’s ways.
Bible numerics prove useful for several reasons: 1) they authenticate the divine authorship of Scripture (even though those with ears to hear do not need this scientific authentication and, even though having it, unbelievers will still likely remain unbelievers), 2) they help us to discern which verses and words are part of the original “God-breathed” Scriptures, and 3) they help us to understand the truth contained in the Scripture.
Below are a couple links to some excellent Bible numeric resources. In the first article we learn that, “Dr. Panin was so convinced that this mathematical system revealed in the Bible could only have been accomplished by the mind of God that he offered $100 (a great deal of money in the early 1900’s) to anyone who could write even one paragraph of 300 words which would reflect this same numerical phenonmenon.”
The second link below is to an on-line version of the numeric New Testament itself which was written by Dr. Ivan Panin and published by Unleavened Bread Ministries. In the introduction there we learn,
“In GENESIS CHAPTER ONE, VERSE ONE we read, “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.”
FEATURE ONE: The number of Hebrew words in this verse is exactly seven.
FEATURE TWO: The number of letters in the seven words is exactly twenty-eight, or four sevens.
FEATURE THREE: The first three of these seven Hebrew words contain the subject and predicate of the sentence. These three words are translated–”In the beginning God created.” The number of letters in these first three Hebrew words is exactly fourteen, or two sevens. The last four of these seven words contain the object of the sentence. These four words are translated–”the heavens and the earth.” The number of letters in these last four Hebrew words is fourteen, or two sevens.
FEATURE FOUR: These last four Hebrew words consist of two objects. The first is “the heavens,” and the second is “and the earth.” The number of letters in the first object is exactly seven. The number of letters in the second object is seven.
FEATURE FIVE: The three leading words in this verse of seven words are God–the subject –and heavens and earth–the objects. The number of letters in these three Hebrew words is exactly fourteen, or two sevens. The number of letters in the other four words of the verse is fourteen, or two sevens:
FEATURE SIX: The shortest word is in the middle. The number of letters in this word and the word to its left is exactly seven.
FEATURE SEVEN: The number of letters in the middle word and the word to its right is exactly seven.
These are only a few examples of the many amazing numeric facts, which have been discovered in the structure of this first verse of only seven Hebrew words. Literally dozens of other phenomenal numeric features strangely underlie the structure of this verse.
Thus, according to the law of chances, for twenty-four features to occur in a passage accidentally, there is only one chance in 191,581,231,380,566,414,401–only one chance in one-hundred-ninety-one quintillion, five-hundred-eighty-one quadrillion, two-hundred-thirty-one trillion, three-hundred-eighty-billion, five-hundred sixty-six million, four-hundred-fourteen-thousand, four-hundred-one.”
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BIBLE NUMERICS: THE WORK OF DR. IVAN PANIN
