Books Decoding
The
Numerical Structure of the Bible
 In November 1998, I came across a
book that caught greatly my attention. Upon getting the
book, I kept reading without stopping until it was all finished. The book is called "The Pattern
& The Prophecy -- God's Great Code", written by mathematician
James Harrison. This is one of the most
comprehensive amongst books exploring the amazing numerical
pattern of the Bible. Using this tool, all true
interpretations of the Bible can be confirmed
numerically. It is as if doubting Thomas had touched Jesus' torn hands and side.
James' book reports a remarkable discovery in the
Scripture. Although it is not a new topic, somehow,
BIBLICAL NUMEROLOGY, as it was called before, has long been
rejected or ignored by many Bible scholars. After years
of study in this area, James and many others are
convinced that the numerical pattern is genuine
and can be used as a valuable tool to help us
better understand the Bible, a work as amazing
as the marvelously structured physical world.
This clearly shows that the Word of God and the Works of
God go hand in hand.
For those who have heard of the Bible Code (or ELS, for
Equidistant Letter Sequence) phenomenon, we need to point
out that the numerology of the Bible is a different
aspect of the same puzzle. As you will see in the
following section, both Hebrew and Greek letters have a
dual function, i.e., each letter in the alphabet table is used as a distinct number.
Numerology of the Bible deals with all the numbers in the
Bible. These numbers can be classified into two main
catagories: (1) numbers in the surface text and (2)
numbers hidden in the text.
To just give you a glimpse of the numbers in the surface
text of the Bible, I am simply pointing out the wonder of
the number 153.
As we all know, this number appears in chapter 21 of
John, where Jesus' seven disciples, with Peter in lead, were
catching fish as they did not know what to do, even after
they had seen the risen Lord. They worked hard all night,
but caught nothing. Then they heard a man by the shore
speaking to them: "Cast the net on the right
side of the boat!" They did as instructed and
caught a net of 153 big fish, no more and no less. This is the only
miracle after Jesus' resurrection recorded in the Bible
that is associated with a number. You know, a fisherman
seldom counts his fish -- even if he does, he counts in a
rough manner, not an exact number -- there is little
reason for doing the latter. What is so unusual about 153? As some of you might already know:
153 = 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + ... + 17
And the number 17 is associated with Noah's Ark (it
rested on the Mountain of Ararat on the 17th of the month) and the Lord
Jesus' resurrection (on the 17th, since the Passover is on the 14th, and 3 days later Jesus arose). Amazingly, the Greek
noun for "fish" in "153 big fish" occurs in the whole Bible in
17 verses.
To express 153 in a geometrical shape, it is like
stacking 153 tennis balls on a three-sided base, with
each side having 17 balls.
More about 153:
153 = 1 + 1x2 + 1x2x3 + 1x2x3x4 +
1x2x3x4x5
( or = 1! + 2! + 3! + 4! + 5!)
153 = (12x12) + (3x3)
153 = 3x3x17
Most interestingly, 153 will resurrect itself when we
apply a function
called "Trinity Function" to it:
153 => 13 + 53 + 33 = 153
Usually, when we apply
this function to other numbers, the Trinity Function will
convert them to different numbers, for example
12
=> 13 + 23 = 9;
123 => 13 + 23 + 33 = 36.
Further more, the numbers 17 and 153 are directly related to a number
in the Old Testament, 969, which is the longest years a man
of flesh (Mathushelah, Genesis 5:27) ever lived on earth
according to the Bible. What is the connection?
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