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Gematria |
Created Date: 23-May-2017 |
| God's Glory in the Consistent use of Numerics |
Last updated: 15-Mar-2021 |
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| 1 | Summary | 2 | Warning, Prohibition and Acceptable |
| 3 | Table of Numbers and Significance | 4 | Number 3 |
| 5 | Some Additional Examples of Gematria |
Gematria has its roots in the Kabalistic method of studying the scriptures of the Old and later the New Testament, for identification of patterns that authenticate God as the author by using:
which the Scripture consistently use to indicate a specific purpose, which will have a total, divisible or be equivalent to specific numbers such as 3, 7, 49 or 50.
The more conservative usage, that many who research Gematria, is the discoveries of the actual number equivalence to letters and words in the scriptures which have patterns to conform or corroborate the scriptural passage. There are specific numbers that are used in Gematria which are shown in the table list below, which have been found to be consistently used in the scriptures.
As noted by many Biblical Scholars, one of many authenticating parts of the scriptural expositional authenticity was 40 authors writing 66 books over thousands of years which all used the same patterns, word choices, themes and so much more.
The most important point of the scriptures is the theme of Jesus Christ, who is prophesized in the in the Old Testament as the future Messiah, followed with Jesus Christ being revealed in the New Testament. Jesus Christi is in the Way for us to have Salvation, and we all need Jesus Christ as our Savior. This does not mean that other interesting studies of the scriptures are not relevant, as long as they do not take away from the primary focus of Jesus Christ.
For this author, another interesting authenticating facet of the scriptures is the encryptions in the scriptures which are being re-discovered today by the use of computer algorithms. Additionally, God is using patterns, models, a heptadic structure throughout the entire Bible.
When searching the internet, there are more advanced studies of Gematria being done by assigning values to incidents, dates and other aspects of the scriptures including modern-day events. These types of approaches will contain algorithms which discuss ideas such as prime numbers, the number PI, and segments of a long number for a pattern for associations with numbers that conform to suggested dates in the scriptures, and so much more. There might be some truth or fascinating aspects to the equations and results, but rhetorically the question should be asked if this type of searching is going into an area that can yield spurious findings.
There are unfortunately, many theories surrounding the numbers in the scriptures that approach highly speculative conjectures, which in this author's opinion do not honor God. Additionally, these type of uses of Gematria often seem to approach a forbidden area for the Christian. Looking for obscure patterns based on esoteric number associations, patterns and sequences, seem to always have the documentation from investigators heading into predictions
A quip from Chuck Missler, who endorsed Gematria in some of his excellent MP3 documentaries but not the extremes of it, that this author is paraphrasing is:
"The danger of Gematria is the potential of creating a new type of religion which requires members with the best computer programs to belong in order to find data where people without the means are excluded."
The only two acceptable use
of Gematria, in many Biblical Scholars and this author's mind, is
both of which point to the numbers listed in the next section of this topic, which then honor God and show that God inspired the very words and even letters in the scriptures. |
| Source is from wikipedia on
Ivan
Panin's work: " Until his death in 1942, Ivan Panin labored continuously on the discovery of numerical patterns throughout the Hebrew language of the Old Testament and the Greek language of the New Testament, often to the detriment of his health. His conclusion was that if these patterns were implemented intentionally by man, the collaboration of all writers of the Bible—stretched over many disparate years—would be required, in addition to the condition that each of them be a mathematician of the highest order. " |
The following is a chart of the most significant meaning associated with numbers in the scriptures that are consistently used to convey a meaning and a pattern. The Bible is composed of 66 books written by over 40 different authors that wrote in different points in history, where God has used and will use events to occur in prophecy to have the patter of use of numbers to convey a meaning for us.
| Number | Significance |
| 1 | Singleness, Unity and Primacy |
| 2 | Witnessing and support |
| 3 | Completion, Marking of Perfection, and Perfect Unity |
| 4 | Relates to the earth |
| 5 | Associated with Grace, Mercy and Blessings |
| 6 | The number of man, not complete and missing something |
| 7 | Divine perfection and completion |
| 8 | New Beginnings |
| 9 | Fullness of blessings |
| 10 | Human Government and Law |
| 11 | Disorder, and not complete |
| 12 | Divine Government and God's authority with perfection and completeness |
| 13 | Association with mourning and sorrows |
| 14 | A multiple of 7 that represents perfection and completion. |
| 15 | Resting |
| 17 | Victory over the enemy |
| 20 | Complete |
| 21 | Wickedness and Rebellion |
| 30 | Symbolism for dedicating to a duty |
| 40 | Testing and Trials |
| 49 | Completion by God |
| 50 | Importance of Feasts, Ceremonies and Celebrations |
| 70 | Judgment and Human delegations |
| 200 | Insufficiency |
| 490 | Periods of Time in History, and times of tribulation |
| 666 | Antichrist who is the Beast of Revelation |
| 1000 | God's perfect administration |
| 1260 | Earth Preparation and Judgment |
Six other special numbers that are not Gematria but have significance:
| 17,640 | Temple is rebuilt, refurbished and operational. Old Testament Cannon is completed |
| 156,740 | Day Messiah executed |
| 173,880 | Total days in the 69 Weeks Prophecy of Daniel |
| 1,260 | Three and one half years, using 360 calendar of the scriptures, that divides the 70th Week of Daniel where the last three and one half years is the Tribulation Period. |
| 1290 | Mysterious days of Daniel 12:11-12 |
| 1335 | Mysterious days of Daniel 12:11-12 |
| Genesis 1:9-13 | 9 And
God said, “Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let
dry ground appear.” And it was so. 10
God called the dry ground “land,” and the gathered waters he called
“seas.” And God saw that it was good.
11 Then God said, “Let the land produce
vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit
with seed in it, according to their various kinds.” And it was so.
12 The land produced vegetation: plants
bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed
in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was
good. 13 And there was evening,
and there was morning—the third day. This is known as the day of double blessing. God blessed each day except for the 2nd day, which was Monday. Not that there was anything wrong with Monday, it was just not blessed as “good”. The on the third day, God says it is good twice. Many Jewish weddings are held on Tuesday in the hopes of a double blessing. |
| Genesis 22:4 |
It took 3 days for Abraham to reach
the destination to offer Isaac up a burnt offering.
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| Jonah 1:17 | And the Lord appointed a great fish to
swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days
and three nights. From Jonah 2:2, Jonah is praying from depth of Sheol which is the grave. In other words, it appears that Jonah had died in the belly of the fish and God resurrected him. |
| John 2:19 | Destroy this temple, [of His body] and in three days I will raise it up. |
| 1 Corinthians 15:3-4 | 3 For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received, that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, 4 and that He was buried, and that He was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures, |
| Luke 24:46 | The Messiah will suffer and rise from the dead on the third day, |
Some Great Sources for Codes in the Scriptures
Take a look at this link from Grant Jeffrey which is a wonderful read that discusses the matter on the "Signature of God". Another two great links from Chuck Missler are "Beloved Numerologist" and "Hidden Codes in the Bible".