I can point to just a few things that have allowed me to remain steadfast in faith over these last 33 years.  One is that since I began obeying God those many years ago I have believed that He wrote the Bible.  Yes, I knew that men penned the words, but I knew that God spoke through them. And, I knew this through a direct revelation that God gave me one night while I was searching for truth by actually reading a copy of the Bible.  I have spoken about that in other places.

So, when I later read in 2 Timothy 3:16 that “All scripture is given by inspiration of God” and in 2 Peter 9:20-21 that “No prophecy of the scriptures is of any private interpretation. For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost” I understood what they meant and I believed their words.  More than that, I said to myself, “If God said it, then I had better do it.”

Since those days over three decades ago I have learned a bit about just how inerrant the holy Scriptures are.  God wrote the entire Bible numerically and with multiple layers of numeric patterns.  Some people call this “Theomatics.”  Most call it Biblical “gematria.”  The basic idea of this concept is that each letter of the languages used to write the books of the Bible, Hebrew and Greek, equates to a numeric value.  The first letters of both the Hebrew and Greek alphabets both equal one, and so on.

God gifted a man named Ivan Panin to discover manifold intricacies of the Bible based upon these numeric patterns.  You can read his Numeric New Testament online here.  Be sure to read the introduction in order to get some idea of just how profound his work was.  Following is also a very excellent article detailing some marvelous aspects of this important work:
God is a Mathematician.

I believe that 2010 will prove to be an exciting year for understanding more of God’s Word and for seeing many prophecies therein come to fulfillment.  But, I want to caution you.  Do not try to use gematria and numeric patterns to try to predict the future.  I have seen countless attempts at this over the past fourteen years and each and every prediction has been wrong.  Unfortunately this has not stopped many foolish people from continuing their futile attempts.  I have even discontinued fellowship with certain Christians and websites because of their continual barrage of useless numeric mumbo-jumbo.

God indeed wrote the Scripture numerically.  But, he did not write it this way so that men could program a computer, reduce the Bible to bits and bytes, and then foretell the future.  Neither was or is foretelling the future the primary work of his prophets.  He gives all men his Word so that we may learn his ways and walk in them.

Peace and God’s blessings to you and yours this new year as you endeavor to do so!