The Other Witness seeks to serve as a starting point for the exploration of biblical math. This study considers numbers and their usage in the Bible in order to illustrate their meanings, and it develops a reference to confirm biblical stories. It also explores related algebraic equations to obtain more details. With this knowledge, you can better understand how numbers are integrated both in scripture and in the world around you.
Offering a unique approach to the study of numbers in scripture and in everyday life, The Other Witness seeks to inspire you to search and research the Bible for a greater appreciation of the scripture’s truth.
The Other Witness seeks to serve as a starting point for the exploration of biblical math. This study considers numbers and their usage in the Bible in order to illustrate their meanings, and it develops a reference to confirm biblical stories. It also explores related algebraic equations to obtain more details. With this knowledge, you can better understand how numbers are integrated both in scripture and in the world around you.
Offering a unique approach to the study of numbers in scripture and in everyday life, The Other Witness seeks to inspire you to search and research the Bible for a greater appreciation of the scripture’s truth.
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The Other Witness seeks to serve as a starting point for the exploration of biblical math. This study considers numbers and their usage in the Bible in order to illustrate their meanings, and it develops a reference to confirm biblical stories. It also explores related algebraic equations to obtain more details. With this knowledge, you can better understand how numbers are integrated both in scripture and in the world around you.
Offering a unique approach to the study of numbers in scripture and in everyday life, The Other Witness seeks to inspire you to search and research the Bible for a greater appreciation of the scripture’s truth.
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| ISBN-13: | 9781491755570 |
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| Publisher: | iUniverse, Incorporated |
| Publication date: | 12/23/2014 |
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| Format: | eBook |
| Pages: | 124 |
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The Other Witness
By Ben Behrens
iUniverse
Copyright © 2014 Ben BehrensAll rights reserved.
ISBN: 978-1-4917-5556-3
CHAPTER 1
Single Digits 0–9
The Bible was originally written in three languages: Hebrew, Greek, and mathematics. All numbers have two meanings: the quantitative value and the intrinsic meaning. Let us begin by examining single-digit numbers.
Why are these stand-alone single digits so important? By understanding and applying just two of these single digits to Rabbi Jonathan Cahn's best seller The Harbinger, you will be able to see what lies ahead for the United States in the year 2015 and perhaps 2022. This revelation can be frightening or reassuring—or perhaps both.
A single-digit number is a one-digit number with no numerical value on either side of it. For example:
1 - 0 = 1
0 + 1 = 1
1 = 1
One is just itself, no more and no less. This principle applies to the digits 0 through 9.
Zero
The value of zero is nothing or is the absence of something.
Genesis 11:6 states, "And the Lord said, Behold the people is one, and they have all one language and this they begin to do; and now nothing will be restricted from them." Here "nothing" is used by God as the "absence of something."
From 1 Corinthians 4:4: "For I know nothing by myself." Again, nothing is used as something without existence. It just does not exist or appear.
One
One is the number or single digit of God. John 1:1 tells us, "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God and the Word was God." Isaiah 45:6 says, "I Am the Lord, and there is none else." From Exodus 20:3, we have, "Thou shall have no gods before Me," and in Exodus 34:14, "For thou shall worship no other god; for the Lord whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God."
From this you can clearly see that YHWH stands alone. However, God is not unreachable but desires daily or continued communication with His people, that they "pray without ceasing" (1 Thessalonians 5:17). The digit one is sovereign. This implies there is no higher power than the Creator.
Two
Two is defined as the sum of a single entity joined to another single entity. One apple added to another apple gives a sum total of two apples.
Biblically, one man and one woman are two individuals that become one flesh through the union of marriage (Genesis 5:6).
Deuteronomy 17:6 states that at the mouths of two witnesses shall one worthy of death be put to death. The two witnesses have a union of their testimonies. The same comes from Deuteronomy 19:15: "at the mouth of two witnesses, or the mouth of three witnesses, shall a matter be established." The two witnesses confirm a fact or facts. John 20:12–13 relates: "And seeing two angels sitting in white robes ... And they said unto her, Woman, why weepest thou?" And again, two angels spoke in unison to confirm that fact that Yeshua had risen from the grave. From the above scriptures, two can be defined as a union.
Yeshua, Jesus, in Mathew 22:37–40 combines all of the commandments into two by stating, "Thou shall love the Lord your God with all of your heart and with all thy soul and with all of your mind ... thou shall love thy neighbor as thyself."
In Exodus 34:1, the Lord instructs Moses to hew two tablets of stone like the first set of three and says, "I will write upon these tablets the words that were written in the first set of three tablets." God's Ten Commandments were written the second time on two hewn stone tablets.
In Mark 8:22–26, Yeshua lays His hands on a blind man to heal his sight. The first touching allows the blind man to see men as walking trees, and the second touching completes the restoration of the man's sight ...
1 time + 1 time = 2 healing
Or the union of two times to complete the healing.
The last example of two comes from John 8:4–11. The woman caught in adultery (obviously a setup) was taken before Yeshua. As the accusers brought her before Jesus, He ignored them while writing in the dust with His finger. Finally, He answered, "He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her" He then went back to writing in the dust. All the accusers, being convicted by their own sins, left, one by one, beginning with the eldest, until all were gone. The woman was standing all alone in front of Jesus. Then Jesus stood up and observed the woman standing there alone. He then asked her, "Woman, where are those thy accusers? Hath no man convicted thee?" She said, "No man, Lord." Jesus said unto her, "Neither do I condemn thee: go and sin no more." Her sins were just like the words in the dust that Jesus was writing. I can see Him erasing with His feet the words in the dust, exactly as He forgave her of her sins, never more to exist.
In John 10:10, He says, "I am come that they may have life and that they might have it more abundantly." Clearly, He saved her life and also gave her a new one.
Note: From Exodus, twice God used His finger to write the Ten Commandments, and twice Jesus wrote in the dust with His finger. Both gave a unity from two. Therefore, two is the number or digit of unity.
Three
On the third day of Creation, God introduces life in the form of grasses, herbs, and fruit trees (Genesis 1:12).
In Daniel 6:11, Daniel opens his window toward Jerusalem, gets down on his knees three times a day, prays, and gives thanks to his God, our God Yeshua.
Another three is shown in 2 Corinthians 1:10; this one concerns time. "He delivered us ... He delivers us and He will deliver us." The past, that which He has done, the present, now; the future, and here faith is integrated with this statement. Hence, three time zones.
Look at Exodus 24:12. The Lord said to Moses, "I will give you three tablets of stone and a law, and commandments which I have written so that you may teach them."
There are many examples of three in the Lord's Word, but perhaps it is best illustrated in 1 John 5:7: "For there are three that bear record in Heaven, the Father, the Word and the Holy Spirit." And these three are one, three in one.
Deuteronomy 17:16 states that "three times in a year shall all males appear before the Lord thy God in the place which He shall choose; in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of first fruits, and in the feast of Tabernacles." The three required feasts for males are (1) Passover, (2) Firstfruits, and (3) Tabernacles.
Summary—(1) Passover, (2) Firstfruits, (3) Feast of Tabernacles
At the expense of sounding like a simpleton, the most stable form of a stool is with three legs.
Likewise, our God is a triune God: the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. This triune God gives us all the love, support, and direction that we'll ever need. In the Bible, the single digit or integer three carries with it the identity of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit as well as the power of the Trinity.
Four
Genesis 1:14. "And God said, let there be light in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for the days, and years."
Verse 19 says, "And the evening and the morning were the fourth day." God put two great lights in the heavens, the sun to shine by day and the moon to rule at night. He also created the stars for a nightlight and the fourth light, the stars, to enlighten events. Matthew 2:2 says, "Where is He that is born of the Jews? For we have seen His star in the east, and have come to worship Him."
Genesis 2:10 explains, "And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from there it was parted, and became into four heads." This example of four is used to encompass and define the boundaries of the lands and to supply life-giving water to these areas.
Genesis 47:24 declares, one fifth part unto Pharaoh and four parts shall be yours alone. The four in four parts is the parameter or defining amount to sustain life for the subjects of the pharaoh. This is (possession) used here to define the amount for the pharaoh and the rest to support life for the living of the Hebrews.
Exodus 25:12. "And thou shall cast four rings of gold for it, and put them in the four corners thereof; and two rings shall be in one side it and the other two rings in the other side of it." Here, the Lord tells Moses how to make the support for the ark. Again four is used as the support to transport the Ark of the Covenant. Note also that the locations of the rings are on the perimeter of the ark.
Exodus 25:34, 35 says "And in the candlestick shall be four bowls made like unto almonds, with their knops and their flowers. And there shall be a knop under two branches of the same and a knop under the two branches of the same according to the six branches that proceed out of the candlesticks." (I could not follow these instructions given to them.) From verse 40: "Make them after their pattern, which was shown you on the mount."
First Kings 18, verses 33 and 34 state, "Fill four barrels with water, and pour it on the burnt sacrifice, and the wood." This they did a second time and a third time. And in verses 38 and 39, "the fire of the Lord fell, and consumed the burnt sacrifice and the stones, and the wood and then licked up the water left in the trenches." Again, (1) sacrifice, (2) wet wood, (3) the altar stones, (4) water in the trench—the four parameters used to resist the fire.
Job 1:19 tells us, "And behold, there came a great wind out of the wilderness and smote the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young men and they are dead; and I only am escaped alone to tell them." Four here defines the parameter of the house; four defines an area.
Proverbs 30:24–28 tells us that "little on the earth" is as wise as ants, conies, locusts, and spiders. Four here is used to define wisdom in God's creatures, and no other is like these. This is a parameter of wisdom defined by four creatures. All of these examples seem to represent types of people: "The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer for the winter."
Verse 26 points out that the "conies are but a feeble folk, yet make their houses in the rocks." Verse 27 notes, "The locusts have no king, yet they go forth all of them, by bands." And in verse 28, we are reminded, "The spider taketh hold with her hands, and is in the king's palace."
Isaiah 11:12: "from the four corners of the earth." North, east, south, and west, four again is used to define a parameter, much as in Job 1:19 but on a much larger scale. I believe that the author of Isaiah uses the directions to symbolize the entire earth, perhaps because he was not familiar with the equation of the surface of a sphere (4πr2).
In Jeremiah 49:36, God says, "And upon Elam will I bring the four winds from the four quarters of heaven, and will scatter them toward all those winds."
Ezekiel 10:10. "They four had one likeness." Again, four is defining one. The four cherubs moved in unison together with each wheel upon their sides. Four here illustrates unison in movement.
Daniel 3:25. "Lo, I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire, and they have no hurt and the form of the fourth is like that of the Son of God." The four were of one accord, walking in the fire.
Daniel 7:17 refers to "these great beasts, which are four kings, which shall arise out of the earth." This is an example of a historical parameter of ruling nations, past, present, and future.
Revelation 6:2–8 describes four horses dispensing judgment upon the earth.
1. White horse
2. Red horse
3. Black horse
4. Pale green horse
These four horses are the symbols of judgments or deceptions upon the people of the earth during their great tribulation.
In the New Testament are the four Gospels: Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. All of these present true but different perspectives of the life of Yeshua. However, the Gospels are all the coordinated presentation of the life of Christ. Again, the parameter of four, surrounding the life, death, and resurrection of our Lord.
The digit four is used to define the parameters of areas, situations, or events.
Five
Originally, day five of the creation signified the beginning of life.
In Genesis 1:20, God says, "Let the waters bring forth abundantly the many creatures that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament or heaven." Verse 21 relates, "And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: And God saw that this was good." From Genesis 1:20 and 21, you can see that day five was a day of life for all of the animals. Note: "And He created great whales ... and the whales brought forth abundantly"; therefore, there had to be great bodies of water to sustain them. Another implication in "every winged fowl after his kind" is that a male fowl pursues the female in order to procreate. I have chickens, and this is certainly true!
I do not know how long the original value or meaning of five lasted, but we read in Genesis 3:3 of God saying, "Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die." Here, Adam and Eve first sinned by going again the Lord God's command. Hence, five for life became five for death, and all of creation was shaken.
The use of five in 1 Samuel 17:40 is where I first questioned, "Why five?"
"And David chose him five smooth stones out of the brook." The stones were from the brook and not the ground above the brook. Why? Stones not from the brook are highly irregular and jagged or rough. The stones from the bottom of the brook have undergone years of tumbling, grinding, and polishing from the rushing of water and have become smooth and spherical in shape. Using rough rocks in a sling would guarantee inaccurate and slow flight of the projectile; a smooth stone, like a bullet, becomes much more accurate and faster, deviating only slightly from its intended target.
David could have picked up and used only one stone in his sling, but this is where God introduces death to Goliath. Because David chose five smooth stones from the brook, the mark of death came upon Goliath.
Physics 101
F = ma
And the kinetic energy:
E = mv2/2
F = force, the striking energy imparted by an object
m = the weight of the projectile
a = the acceleration produced in a mass (m)
E = total energy produced
It is obvious that the value of the kinetic energy, the force of the stone that hit Goliath, was greatly increased as the velocity (v) increased. With a smooth stone, the velocity does not decrease nearly as rapidly as one with a rough, irregular surface, and the killing power is greatly increased. So from David's sling to Goliath's forehead, the smooth stone became the turning point of the battle by Saul's forces against the Philistines. (More about another number marking Goliath when we discuss forty.)
From 2 Samuel 4:5, 6: "And the sons of Rim mon the Be-erothite, Re' chab and Ba'-a-nah, went about the heat of the day to the house of Ish-bo'shoth, who lay on a bed at noon" ... "and they smote him under the fifth rib."
Also from 2 Samuel 2:23 is, "Howbeit he refused to turn aside: wherefore Abner went with the hinder end of the spear smote him under the fifth rib, the spear came out behind him; and he fell down there, and died in the same place."
Joshua 10:5. "Therefore the five Kings of the Amorites, ... gathered themselves together."
Joshua 10:11. "The Lord cast down great stones from heaven upon them ... and they died."
The five armies of the Amorites were destroyed, killed; again five is used as a number of death.
Joshua 10:26. "And afterward Joshua smote them and slew them, and they hanged them on five trees: and they were hanging upon the trees until evening" ... "That Joshua commanded that they take them off of the trees, and cast them into the cave where they were hiding." These were the five kings of the Amorites when the day stood still for Joshua.
In Isaiah 14:13–14, Isaiah quotes five "I will" boastings of Lucifer. These five are an important revelation as to who this god (small "g") really is.
1. "I will" ascend into heaven.
2. "I will" exalt my throne above the stars of God.
3. "I will" sit upon the mount of the congregations.
4. "I will" ascend above the heights of the clouds.
5. "I will" be like the Most High.
Make no mistake; Lucifer is the god of five.
After the Torah was translated into the present form, it so happens that Genesis 5:5 says, "Then Adam died"; five overcame Adam. One can argue that this is just a coincidence; however, Our God, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the Father of our Lord Jesus, knew before heaven and earth were formed that this would be Genesis 5:5.
In summary, originally five signified the beginning of life, but after the fall, the meaning of five took on a complete reversal and became the number of death.
(Continues...)
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Table of Contents
Contents
Foreword, vii,This Book—Why?, ix,
Acknowledgments, xiii,
1 Single Digits 0–9, 1,
2 Double Digits, 21,
3 Number Construction, 37,
4 Factors, Integers in Functions, and Prime Numbers, 51,
5 Unusual Numbers, 73,
6 Recognizing Current Numbers That Are Speaking to Us, 79,
7 Applying God's Number System to Structures, Events, Forces, 85,
8 Beginning Anew: The Gates, 97,
Glossary of Terms and Numbers, 105,
Index, 107,