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EXP:Bible Numerics from 1 to 1000  by Peter Ruckman

Preface

The famous Bible rejecting apostate Albert Einstein (1879-1955) became
an atheist on the grounds that he could not believe in a God who "was
not a mathematical formula." Patterning his conceptions about God
after the hallucinations of his own unregenerate nature, Einstein, in
his last days on earth, refused every attempt by evangelical preachers
to lead him to Christ. Einstein majored in numbers--as the Antichrist
will.

Now aside from the fact that every unsaved man is blind and ignorant
(Rom. 10:3; II Peter 3:5; Eph. 4:18; etc.), Einstein was peculiarly
stupid in that he never took time in ninety years of living to
investigate anything Biblical that disagreed with his own opinions.
For example, there is a mathematical phenomenon found in the Bible
(any version of any translation) that defies every single known law of
demonstrable "science." It demonstrates (according to Einstein's own
theory of "meaning") that the Bible is supernaturally conceived,
written, and preserved, and it does it on a mathematical basis which
can be found in no other Book ever written by anyone, living or dead,
in the history of civilization.

This mathematical marvel is the fact that the Bible never hesitates to
prophecy, again and again, on matters that no one could even GUESS
at--let alone predict on. Madalyn Murray O'Hair, Jean Dixon,
Nostradamus and Edgar Cayce are not in any bracket like the word of
God, or near it. For example, the Book accurately predicts forty-eight
details of a man's life before He is born, and some of the predictions
are given 1,000 years before He is born. All come to pass literally as
prophecied. The chances (mathematically) of this happening--according
to Heisenberg's "uncertainty principle" and Einstein's mathematics--is
one out of ten to the 157th power. There are not that many electrons
in the known Universe.

But the mathematics of the Bible never have to be lowered to the cheap
and vulgar equations of some "Einstein." No, the Book goes ahead and
makes 500 detailed predictions about an event that is STILL in the
future (after 3,500 years from the first predictions). The chances of
500 details occurring in the future in regards to ONE HISTORICAL
INCIDENT that deals with ONE MAN, are more than one out of ten to the
8,000th power. The author of real mathematics, God, set up a universe
that runs so mathematically you can set your watch on it.

Einstein was a fool (Psalm 14:1).

Most educated idiots are (Mach, Heisenberg, Schweitzer, Weiskopf,
Pestalozzi, Dewey, Russell, etc.).

Now the King James Bible contains within its covers not only these
remarkable mathematical phenomena, but also a peculiar set of chapter
and verse numberings which defy analysis. In an attempt to overthrow
this natural display of the hand of God, Jerry Lucas (1978) attempted
to prove (by using the numerical system of Panin--1910) that the
Westcott and Hort Greek text of Nestle was "INSPIRED." However this
type of fumbling is not nearly as impressive as the English text with
the so-called "added" verse and chapter markings. Whoever put in the
chapter and verse markings, as they are NOW found in the AV text,
evidently had more insight into Bible numerics than any of the
present-day so-called "scholars" who think they should be omitted.

This short survey of Numbers in the Bible is presented in the hope
that the reader will pick up his Bible and "search to see if these
things be so" or not. If eighty-five percent of the thirteens in the
AV text are dealing with evil subjects you cannot throw the truth out
without proving you lack better sense than Einstein, or an unsaved
gambler for that matter. One hundred percent is not required to
establish the "meaning" of numbers.

A man who will not take a chance on eighty-five percent out of one
hundred percent is not an intelligent man, at least where numbers and
odds are concerned. Eight-to-one odds are strong to professional
gamblers; they are only weak to a faculty professor who objects to the
authority of the AV 1611 Bible. We will not accept any Bible that is
only eighty-five percent the word of God, naturally, and the apostates
who have those kinds of Bibles have no business publicly lying about
believing that the Bible IS the word of God and does not just
"contain" the word of God. A Bible that is only eighty-five percent
the word of God "contains" fifteen percent error.

In dealing with numbers where a number (forty for example) turns up
eight and nine times out of ten to deal with ONE subject you can be
certain that that subject is represented by that number.

We trust you will enjoy the following brief study which only gives the
bare, skeletal framework of Bible numerics. "The Bible" we use here is
quite naturally the infallible, inerrant, living word of the living
God.

Introduction

Numbers are strange things in that they have something to do with the
function of the universe. That is, mathematics is an exact science.
Numbers, like colors, have universal significance attached to them. No
one can deny this, even though any attention to it may be labeled as
"superstition."

There are certain things in life that one gets to see and gets
acquainted with after awhile, that confirm certain facts to him that
don't need additional proof. Take the color red, for example. What
does the color red mean? What does it stand for? Well, anybody knows
what it stands for. It doesn't stand for anything different in China
than it does in Africa, Japan, Cuba, or Nebraska.

A man said one time "Music is the universal language." That's true.
Glenn Miller's In the Mood says the same thing to a Russian as it does
to a New Yorker.

There are certain things that have universal significance that are
fixed. And when we talk about numbers in the Bible, we simply mean
this: that the Bible, if God wrote it--and there is no doubt in my
mind when I say it--the Bible, if God wrote it, has to fix the
universal symbols and define them. That is, the Author of truth has to
reveal truth in line with truth, as that is essential to His own being
and His nature. The harmonies and the laws that God has established
and fixed in the universe must be relative to His own divine person
and expression of Himself. I remember a man one time who put out a
very good book on this called The Answer to Just About Everything. It
was a book about the Trinity to try to prove that since the Trinity
was the basic nature of God and His essence, the Trinity, the "tri-
formula" of three was found in everything in the universe including
time and space. And he proved it; yes, he proved it.

When we deal with numbers, then, we are dealing with something basic.
The number One has certain things connected with it in the mind of
anybody, anytime, any place, anywhere, in any condition, regardless of
education. That is, One basically is the same to a Bushman in Africa
as it is to a Wall Street broker.

Now men may disagree as to how they use the number, or how they apply
the number; but any man who has enough sense to scratch for grub ants
and insects in the hills of the backwoods of Australia knows the
difference between one and two. Of course, if you didn't, you couldn't
survive. You know perfectly well that there are certain things you
lift with two hands you cannot life with one. That's a fact. There
isn't the simplest man anywhere who doesn't know that it is better to
have two eyes than one eye, and when one eye gets put out, he knows
it's gone.

So, numbers are something fundamental. And when I say fundamental, I'm
going to turn to the Bible, and I'm going to show, from the Bible,
that the author of absolute truth has a purpose or plan or pattern in
His revelation of the scriptures in line with this fundamental thing
of the universe--numbers. Now I'm not trying to say here that this
system is infallible, or that these numbers can always reckon the same
thing or mean the same thing to everybody that they should every time,
every way. When I say the number Thirteen is an unlucky number, I'm
stating something that generally is just as true as any other law of
mathematics. Now you say, "Well the laws of mathematics are not
generally true, they're fixed." No, the higher mathematics that
they're getting into these days are not fixed at all. Einstein's
theory of relativity is hardly a fixed thing. And when I'm talking
about these things here, I'm not going to say that these numbers have
this meaning every time and every place; because that would violate
God's nature.

For example: If the number Thirteen was a bad number, then if it
showed up in a Christian's life, it would be bad, right? No, it
wouldn't. Romans 8:28 says, "And we know that all things work together
for good...." Thirteen? Including thirteen. So I say these things
aren't fixed absolutely, mathematically, exactly, every time. But
there is enough information in the Bible on them so that you know that
the Designer who designed this Bible is the Author of creation and the
Revealer of truth. There is enough of that. And with that we'll get
into the numbers.

The Number ONE

The number One. The number One means unity. That is, one. Our words
unum, united, unitas, unity (uno in the Spanish), and so forth and so
on, show there's truth to the evidence. One is stability; it's fixed;
it's absolute. The number One, everywhere it's found in scripture or
outside of scripture, is connected with something that has unity to
it, and stability to it, and strength to it. It's the great word used
by the communists. Hence United Drive, United Fund, United Peace Corps
from unitas, unum, unos, one. One nation, indivisible, "under God";
scratch out "God" and you've gotten rid of the first commandment, and
you only have the second commandment--"one nation"--one people.

The word One occurs for the first time in the word of God in Genesis
1:9 where we read, "let the waters under the heaven be gathered
together unto one place." Thereafter it occurs so many times that it
would hardly do to list them--literally hundreds of times.

The great statement to Israel is, "Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is
one Lord" (Deut. 6:4). "The Lord our God is ONE Lord." The word one
here, as its fixed meaning, means a "plurality united," not a single
unit alone, but a "unity." "The Lord our God is one Lord." The word
there, in the Hebrew, is that word that refers to a oneness of a
multiplicity rather than a oneness all by itself with nothing
connected with it.

One, therefore, plainly stands for unity. That's what the world is
working toward; unity without the Bible, or unity with the Unitarian's
Bible, or unity with the United Nation's Bible, or a United Church's
Bible. What they want is oneness, and nothing brings this out any
clearer than the first great case of "one" in the Bible found again in
the book of Genesis. Although the first time the word One occurs is in
Genesis 1:9, the first time where we really see the word expounded on,
in all the glory of its meaning, is in Genesis 11 where it says that
the earth was of one language and of one speech and God said in
Genesis 11:6, "the people is one," and they all have one mind to do
this, and he said, "I'm gonna go down and break `em up." He scattered
them abroad upon the face of the earth. The word one, the number One,
as it stands, refers then to a strength of unity, and when Paul says
he wants to have the believers to be of one mind, and the same mind,
he's speaking of this. Where he says, "one body," "one Lord," "one
faith," "one Spirit," "one baptism," he is referring to the same
thing--a s ole thing that is correct and absolute into which
everything is united in accord, One. There is no problem with the word
One.

The Bible says a man "shall leave father and mother and cleave to his
wife, and they shall be one flesh." One, therefore, forever, stands
for unity. The unity may be a unity of two, or of three, or of five,
of of ten, or a hundred; but one is a single unit as it stands, and so
it stands anywhere in the word of God. There's no trouble with One.

The Number TWO

Now we get to Two. The number Two in the Bible is used like it is used
anywhere, and of course the number Two immediately implies division.
Amos chapter 3, verse 3, "Can two walk together, except they be
agreed?" Why, in Genesis 2 Adam has his side divided; he's cut open.
The unity is marred of his body and out comes a woman, Two. The Bible
says in Genesis 2 that no help meet was found for Adam, so Adam became
two in Genesis 2. You say, "Well, that's kind of stretching it." Yes,
it is. Isn't it strange, though. You don't suppose the King James
translators knew that when they put the chapter and verse markings in,
do you? No, of course they didn't. We find the same phenomenon in
other places in two's in the Bible. But two doesn't need a great deal
of expounding on. Two plainly gives division. Now, the wise man says
in the book of Ecclesiastes that "two is better than one," referring
of course to a man and woman; but even though those are two they're
said to be one, and there should be no division between them. If there
is, that isn't an ideal situation, and it's not a scriptural
situation. Two, as it stands, implies division.

Isn't it strange that the division of the tribes of Israel began way
back there in the book of Numbers and continues right slap on through,
clean up to the time of Christ? Do you realize that there are two
spies that came back in the book of Numbers, and ten of them were not
faithful and two of them were and that divided the camp right down the
middle? It was divided again under Rehoboam after Solomon; into two
southern tribes and ten northern tribes, and so help me if James and
John (two brothers!) didn't come to Jesus and say, "Grant us that we
may sit at your right hand and your left hand in the kingdom."

Do you realize the Old Testament is divided, and the main division is
between the law and the prophets? Jesus speaks about the law and the
prophets and the Psalms in His exact division, but where Paul is
speaking before his witnesses and gives the divisions he simply says,
"the law and the prophets." That is the usual division. I realize that
technically there are three divisions: the writings, and the law, and
the prophets; but we find very often the expression "the law and
prophets," just the two given as the main divisions. The main
representatives of the law and the prophets, of course, are Elijah and
Moses. That's division. Elijah divides off the prophets; Moses divides
off the law. As a matter of fact, with three sections in the Old
Testament, there are two dividing marks in them. One demarcation is
between the law and the prophets; the other demarcation is between the
prophets and the writings. The two men who stand in these two
divisions are Moses and Elijah. Isn't that a strange thing? I guess
you realize when Moses and Elijah come back before the Second Coming
of Christ, they'll herald the Second Coming of Christ, and when Christ
returns (Zech. 14), the Mount of Olives shall cleave in Two. The word
Two clearly implies division. As a matter of fact, a schizophrenic is
a split personality, implying two people in one person or two
personalities in one person.

It was two angels who came to Sodom and got Lot out of town. That
split his family up pretty good, too, if you'll remember. He had two
daughters. We find two daughters a lot; Laban had two daughters.

There is a superstition, of course, among natives that twins are no
good, and they are to be buried or killed. In many African tribes
twins are still killed, and so is the mother killed. Why? Two is
division. Two is division. And this is clear. You don't find many good
meanings on the word Two.

The first time the word Two occurs in your Bible is Genesis 1:16. God
made two lights, a reference to the sun and the moon. You know what
the Lord said they were for? They were to divide, brother, to divide
the day from the night, the light from the darkness. One was Lord of
the daytime, the sun; one was Lord of the night, the moon. Two then
clearly stands for division, and most any place you find it, that will
be the basic idea behind it. One is unity, Two is division.

The Number THREE

Two and One is Three. A division in unity or a unity in division is a
trinitarian formula making three. We have this thing very much in
evidence in the Trinity itself. The Trinity is only divided at the
second one. The Bible says God is a spirit (John 4), and then we read
that the Holy Spirit is spirit; but the Son was a man. There is your
division. One, two--division. There is a tri-nature, a tri-unity, a
trinity. Three stands for something else, but notice that two is
division. Now, I realize that there is no controversy in the Godhead.
I realize that the Holy Spirit is referred to as the Lord in the book
of Acts where Agatha says, "Thus saith the Holy Ghost." I realize that
the Holy Spirit is referred to as the Lord in I Corinthians where it
says, "the Lord is that Spirit." I realize the Lord Jesus Christ is
the Everlasting Father and so forth and so on. But from the practical
standpoint, the only one of the three who appears in flesh, actually
walking around (I mean, the flesh itself), is the Son. Now, Jesus
said, "He that hath seen me hath seen the Father," but of course He
wasn't referring to the Father's body, but the Father's soul. He said,
"The Father dwelleth in me and I in him," and "As I live by the
Father, so you'll live by me." The Lord Jesus Christ is the duo in the
Trinity. The divider is that one member of the Trinity who becomes
flesh and dies. God can't die. There is your division.

Then three brings a thing back together. Three universally is a lucky
number. I don't know of any language or any nation or tribe anywhere
in the world where three is considered to be an unlucky number. Three
is a basic structure for things. Time is divided into three: past,
present, and future. Space is divided into three: breadth, length, and
width, those three. Man has a tri-parted nature: body, soul, and
spirit. God the Father has a trinitarian nature; God the Father, God
the Son, God the Holy Ghost. You have this thing throughout
constantly, this trinitarian thing--this three that brings it back
together.

Did you ever wonder about the Bible itself? The Bible itself has two
Testaments--division: the Old Testament which ends with a curse
(Malachi 4), and the New Testament which ends, "Even so, come, Lord
Jesus. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen."
There's real division. John says, "The law came by Moses, but grace
and truth by Jesus Christ." There is division between those
Testaments. They're not alike, but they need a third thing to top it
off. What do you reckon the third thing is?

Did you ever think about that?

There are two Testaments. Isn't that an incomplete Bible?

Do you know what the rest of that Bible is? It is Jesus Christ. How
about that? John 1:1 says that He was the Word; Revelation 19 says
that his name is called the "Word of God." He is the third Testament.
There are only two of them in print. The Bible says that in heaven
there are three that bear record, "the Father, the Word, and the Holy
Ghost." You've got an incomplete Bible without Jesus Christ. How about
that?!

The Neo-orthodox fellows put all the emphasis on Jesus Christ at the
expense of the Bible. Sometimes we fundamental, Bible-believing people
tend to put all the emphasis on the Bible at the expense of Jesus
Christ. It is both: it is the incarnate Word, and it is the carnate
word. There are three Testaments; only two are in print and the third
one completes it and brings it back to where it ought to be: Father,
Son, and Holy Spirit.

All right, three points to the Trinity. There is not much doubt about
the number three. The number three represents the Godhead, Himself, in
three persons, manifested throughout the universe in three phases.
History is divided into past, present, and future. Every verse of
scripture has three applications: historical, doctrinal, spiritual. We
find throughout the universe this three manifested.

I read a book by a man one time who insisted that time was the fourth
dimension. He didn't mean you had to go backward and forward in time
to get into another dimension. He said that reality (what you lived in
or experienced right now), was a combination of three dimensions,
making the fourth dimension. He proved that thing by taking out any
one of the other dimensions and showing you that without any one of
the other dimensions, you'd be unconscious and dead; the whole
universe would be unconscious and dead. He proved conclusively that
you can't have a line without three dimensions. There is no such thing
as a two-dimensional line. Did you ever think about that?

So a thing has to be three to be complete. That is the trouble with an
unsaved man; one part of him is missing. He is a two man; he is
divided; he is divided against himself. An unsaved man has a live body
and a dead spirit and a live soul. Only two parts of him are alive--
his soul and his body. That's division. He is not complete until he
gets a live spirit--that's a Trinity--and then he is born again.

Now these things are basic--they're fundamental. I haven't even begun
yet a discussion of chapter and verse headings in detail. I'm talking
about basic fundamental things that are apparent to anyone who reads
any Bible at all. Three stands for those things.

If you are working on a mathematical problem or a social problem or a
family problem or an ecclesiastical problem or a spiritual problem or
a problem in physics or a problem in chemistry, and the solution
escapes you, let me tell you something: Look for three sides and
you'll have it. When you don't have the answer, it is when you only
have one side or two sides. No problem is complete until the third
side has been found. Hegel worked on this. Hegel called this
"dialectic reasoning," having a Thesis, an Anti-thesis, and a
Synthesis. He began with A, opposed it with B, and got C, and thought
he had something new. He had something that is fundamental to leaf
structure and animal life. He had something that the writer of Genesis
knew about before Hegel's grandmother had the syrup taken out of her
formula. If you can't find an answer, it is because you don't have
three parts to the answer. That goes for fixing an automobile, or
sewing a dress. Three is a fundamental, fixed, mathematical figure
that controls the nature and function of reality; and so has God
ordained it and set it up, and thus shall it ever be, world without
end. Amen. It works by threes.

When a man believes properly according to Romans 10, he believes on
the "Lord Jesus Christ," not just "the good Lord," not just "my
blessed Jesus," not just "the Christ." Have you ever noticed how all
these false Christian gods have something hacked off their names? Did
you ever hear some rural Christian people say, "O, Lordy," "O the good
Lord," "Lordy, Lordy," "Lordy me," etc.? You haven't got ALL of it.
Did you ever hear these holiness folks sing, "My Jesus," "Blessed
Jesus," or "My Sweet Jesus"? That is interesting, but you have to be
careful. Did you ever hear these modernists talk about the "Christ of
Calvary," the "Christ of the open rood," etc.--meaning the spirit that
was in Christ who helped the socialists and the reformers centuries
later. You have to watch that kind of business. It is THE LORD JESUS
CHRIST. It's the Lord--so much for God the Father. It's Jesus--so much
for God the Son. It's Christos--anointed, the Holy Spirit--so much for
the Trinity. Three is a picture or revelation of the Godhead.

All of the light in this solar system and all of the heat in this
solar system have their eventual source in the sun. I'm not saying
that there aren't light bearers independent from the sun, but I'm
saying that if the sunlight went out there wouldn't be any phosphorus
in the water, or light in the lightning bugs, because the bugs would
all die. The chemical elements of the water wouldn't be there. It
would be a dead, blasted planet like the moon. I'm saying that all the
rays that come down to this earth are alpha rays, beta rays, and gamma
rays; three types of rays--light rays, heat rays, and actinic rays. It
is a manifestation, a type, of the Godhead so much so that Paul says
in Romans 1 that the invisible things of Him, God, "are clearly seen,
being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power
and Godhead; so that they are without excuse."

There is no doubt about the number Three, absolutely no doubt at all.

The Number FOUR

We have come to the number Four. Now the number Four is far more
elusive than the number Three. The number Four occurs for the first
time in your Bible in Genesis 2:10 where it speaks about the ancient
river being parted into "four heads." Then we find the four kings
battling against five a little later on in Genesis, around chapter 14.

The word Four, as it stands, is also kin to the word Fourth. The word
Fourth occurs the first time (by itself) in your Bible in I Kings
22:41, "In the fourth year of Ahab king of Israel." We have the fourth
part occurring in Exodus 29:40, the fourth part of an hin of wine,
talking about the measurement put out for the sacrifice.

The number four doesn't yield too much. I've heard many things about
the number four. In most of the books on numerology which you can buy
(Christian numerology, like the list by Clarence Larkin in the middle
of Dispensational Truth, and the book called Bible Numerics, and the
work by Bullinger), we find the number four associated with the earth.
It is supposedly the earth number. This may or may not be true. The
Bible certainly doesn't put too much on it. It is called the "earth
number" because the earth is supposed to have four seasons: summer,
winter, spring, and fall. This isn't too conclusive as in the Bible
there are six, not four. Notice the winter, summer, seed time,
harvest, cold, and heat given in Genesis 8. You find six seasons and
not four. Then we read about "the four corners of the earth," a true
expression from the compass, and of course, recently discovered to be
a true expression of the land surface itself. They found definitely
four elongated bumps on the earth's surface--not mountain ranges--but
four places where the spheroid isn't shaped quite right. It has kind
of an edge to it. Then we have the four corners of the compass: north,
south, east, and west. This coupled with the four seasons is supposed
to indicate that the number four is an "earth number." It may be; I
don't know. You have the basic elements: fire, wind, earth, and water,
which may be significant. That about covers it, but of course the
ancients went by this and then you found out that there was more to it
than that in the way of chemicals. The number four is very elusive
when you get to actually tracking it down in the Bible. I'm not
satisfied on it at all.

The ancient Hebrew is told to restore four sheep for a sheep, if he
stole one, in Exodus 22:1. He was told to cast four rings of gold
around the corners of all the articles of furniture in the tabernacle
to carry them with. And there were four rows of stones (three in each
one), for the children of Israel, and certainly three by four is
connected with the children of Israel, and we know what the number
three is. The number three is connected with the Trinity. The number
four might possibly be an earth number. It is certain that the twelve
tribes of Israel were called out for an earthly inheritance and an
earthly kingdom. That's for certain. But the evidence is not too
conclusive. We read about animals that go on all four a number of
times in Leviticus 11.

The fourth chapter in the Bible deals with the murder of Abel by Cain.
It is hard to locate any one thing in the chapter that is significant.
If a man wants to locate anything, I suppose he would locate "your
brother's blood cries to me from the ground," or from the earth. Then
you could tie this in with the earth number, but it is not too
conclusive. A lot happens in that chapter besides the earth getting
soaked with blood--an awful lot happens. In Exodus chapter 4, we have
the call of Moses. In John 4 we have the conversation with the woman
at the well. The number four just doesn't yield very much. You may
say, "Well what do you mean by using those chapters"? Because the
further we get in Bible numbers, the more we realize that the chapters
have something to do with the definition of numbers as well as the
verses as well as the numbers in the verses. Four evidently hasn't
been worked out.

The word "four" occurs more times in Ezekiel 1 than any other chapter
in the word of God. In this chapter it occurs pretty close to ten
times when it speaks of four living creatures which have four faces,
four wings, and the four had this, and the four had that, and the four
had the other thing. The number four occurs more times there than any
other chapter in the word of God--Ezekiel 1. Of course it is there
dealing with the cherubim, and again there may be some reference to
the earth. As we find out later in our study, there were five cherubim
and one fell and lost his place over the throne, leaving four cherubim
and those four cherubim undoubtedly represent things on the earth. For
example:

1. The four had the face of a man (that's the king or crown of God's
creation).

2. They had the face of an ox (the ox is the undisputed king of the
domestic animals, the bull, even so much that the white cow is
considered a sacred animal).

3. The four had the face of an eagle (which is undoubtedly king of the
flying animals).

4. They had also the face of the lion (which is undoubtedly the king
of the wild beasts).

There is some reference to earth and especially to creation in the
four beasts of Ezekiel 1. It may be that the number four has less to
do with the earth itself and more to do with creation than one might
think. But again this doesn't follow through as the periods of
gestation among animals and human beings won't be connected with four;
they're closer to nine. The number four is still a mystery to me, and
I don't profess to know exactly what it is.

They divided Christ's garment into four parts but of course they took
the poncho, the one that was woven throughout from the top, making
five parts, and shot dice over the fifth part after they divided the
four parts. I don't know what the significance of this is--the four
pieces of the clothing that Christ wore. The court has four corners to
it in Ezekiel chapter 46. We read about the four winds of the earth in
Revelation 7:1. We run into the four beasts again in Revelation 6:1
and that about winds the thing up. The altar of burnt sacrifices was
foursquare and New Jerusalem is foursquare. But what this has to do
with the earth, I don't know.

We read about Daniel's fourth kingdom in Daniel 2. That fourth kingdom
in Daniel 2 is the Roman Empire, the one of iron. We read about the
fourth beast in Daniel 7, and the fourth beast is not the Roman
Empire, but the Antichrist's empire that comes out of the Roman
Empire. And of course the fourth being in Daniel 3:25 is like the Son
of God. There must be some significance in the fact that Jesus comes
in the fourth watch of the night to the disciples as a type of the
Second Coming in Matthew 14:25 and Mark 6:48; but what that has to do
with the earth, I don't know. Perhaps He is coming to the earth; one
might say, but I think this is stretching the point a little.

The Passover is killed in the fourteenth day of the month and this is
a combination of ten and four; but when we get into the number Ten,
we're going to find out beyond the shadow of a doubt that the number
Ten is connected with the Gentiles. How you would add a four to a
Gentile to get a passover I don't know, and I don't profess to be able
to find out. The number Four in the Bible is still a mystery; I have
not mastered it. I do not profess to have mastered it; I know there is
something lacking or something wanting in the dissertations of those
who profess to have located it. There is some material they don't
have. I don't know what is missing, but it is not conclusive evidence
by any means.

The Number FIVE

We now come to the number Five. The number Five can be located much
easier, and it is very conclusive. Strangely enough, this one number
is probably more conclusive than any number in the Bible outside of
the number Thirteen, but you won't find it defined properly in any
book on numerology or Bible numerics. The standard interpretation of
the number Five according to Bible scholars, Christian scholars, and
unsaved scholars is "grace." And the peculiar confusion connected with
this number lies in the fact that Christ's death has connected with it
five wounds (as the song writer Charles Wesley wrote), and also five
pieces of garment (one whole and the four divided among the soldiers
and the other piece shot dice for). This five shows up in connection
with Christ's death, and of course the word "Grace" itself has five
letters in it, and the word "Death" has five letters in it; so it is
taken for granted that the number five is "the number of Grace." As a
matter of fact, the number five only signifies grace in one death out
of the several billion deaths that have taken place on this earth, and
every other time the number five is connected with anything, it is
connected with death without grace. As a matter of fact, the only
reason Christ's death could be connected with five is because it was
death, not grace. The fact that one death of grace happened to be
connected with five would alter the number five is ridiculous.
Christ's death was the death of a man, as men have died on this
planet, and He is called the "Son of Man," who as a man died and who
as a man said, "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" And Who,
as a Risen Saviour, said, "I was dead and am alive ever more," and of
whom the writer of Hebrews said, "he tasted death for every man."
There is no doubt about His dying at all and that is where the number
five is. The fact that, in His particular case, it was an act of the
grace of God toward sinners doesn't affect the number at all. The
number stands. The number five is death any place you find it, any
time, anywhere. That's abundantly clear from the scriptures.

Now, there is some phenomena that are connected with this that go
unnoticed by Bible scholars. For example: "May-Day" is a plane crash
signal, and while various reasons are offered for choosing the month,
May is the fifth month. Somebody said, "That's an accident. That's
coincidence." Is it any accident that the S.O.S. signal is put out on
one frequently and that is 500 kilocycles? Is it any accident that
breakdown #5 is a breakdown of a ship in water? Didn't you know that
every animal that ever died, died on an altar that was five by five in
the Old Testament? That's why they think of it as grace. They think
the lamb, being a type of Christ, died; therefore five is grace.
Brother, there may be grace in the lamb, but there is no grace in the
altar. The altar is a type of hell, and it was five cubits by five
cubits. That isn't all.

The first man who ever died, died in Genesis 5:5, and don't tell me
the King James translators planned that thing. They couldn't have
known what the number meant because the best Bible scholars today
don't know what it means. The proof is in the pudding. The best Bible
writings you can get today by Eric Sauer, Bullinger, Larkin, Pink, and
Stamm have no idea what the number means. Why would the King James
translators accidentally put it in chapter 5, verse 5? You say, "Well,
Abel died." He did not, he was killed! The first man who ever died on
this planet died in the fifth verse of the fifth chapter of a King
James Bible. Somebody said, "Well, they were added later." Well,
whoever added them sure knew how to add, brother!

That isn't all. Did you see that man die over there in Acts 5:5?
Didn't you read that whole death chapter on Adam and Christ in Romans
5? You know there is more there than meets the eye, Brother. Did you
notice when you got in that Bible, that the man who replaced Abel when
he was killed was Seth, and the number five occurs for the first time
in your Bible as such in Genesis 5:6 where it says Seth lived 105
years (so forth and so on), and he died. Did you notice in Genesis
43:34 and Genesis 45:22 that Benjamin got five times as much as his
brothers? Why? Grace? Not by a sight. His mama died when he was born.

Did you notice that no life shows up on this earth until the fifth
day, because Christ doesn't die until after 4,000 years. That is
something to think about, isn't it? The first time life shows up in
your Bible is in Genesis 1 and on the fifth day. Why? Because "One day
with the Lord is as a thousand years and a thousand years is as one
day." There are 4,000 years before the first coming of Christ,
therefore there has to be four days before there is any life. "For he
that hath the Son hath life, and he that hath not the Son of God hath
not life," and "except a kernel of wheat fall on the ground and die."
Five is death.

You can't beat five. Every man on this earth who is normal has five
fingers on each hand, and they've been killing each other ever since
they came on the scene. Why, the man who got off the cross was a
murderer, Barabbas, and the Prince of Life took his place, and they
pounded those nails in. Do you know how many wounds Christ had on him
when they got through? He had five of them: one on each hand, one on
each foot, and one through the side. Five is death! It is not grace.
It never has been grace and never will be grace.

Didn't you read about all of those fellows who got killed in 1 Samuel
that got hit in the fifth rib? Fifth is kin to five just like fourth
is kin to four.

Read over there in II Samuel 2:23; 3:27; 4:6; 20:10. It says there
four times when those fellows were killed that they were smitten in
the fifth rib, right where Eve came out of Adam, Brother. Eve was
death for Adam. Didn't Adam die for her? That's what he says over in
II Timothy; that's what he says over in Ephesians 5. Five is death;
five is death.

Didn't you read about the five sons of Michal that David killed and
strung up in II Samuel 21:8? Don't you know that when the plague hit
the Philistines in I Samuel 6, and they were dying like flies, they
had to get five golden emerods and five golden mice to atone for their
sins. There were five lords of the Philistines throughout that fought
against the children of Israel right straight along all the time they
were there. And you know about the five kings whom Joshua chased and
put his foot on and slew. Five is death; five is death.

Isn't it five loaves that Christ feeds them with in Matthew 14:17?
Didn't He say, in less than thirty minutes after that, that it wasn't
the bread of life, and that they'd eat of that bread and die.  Five is
death.

Paul got five good whippings from the Jews in II Corinthians 11:24. He
said he bore in his body the marks of Christ. There is just no doubt
about the number five; five is death.

If every numerics book in the world said it was "grace," it wouldn't
mean anything except that it was grace in one case out of 155 million,
give or take a few. Five is death.

Man is mortal; he is subject to death. He has five toes on each foot;
he has five fingers on each hand. He's death; he's death! As a matter
of fact, the last great Gentile world kingdom that is on this earth
before the Second Coming of Christ is like a man, Daniel 2, with five
toes on each foot, and when the smiting stone falls and drops and
tears up that image, when that smiting stone lands on 200 million of
the United Nation's troops in the book of Revelation, when the blood
comes up on the horse's bridles, it is said to land on five toes on
one side and five on the other. It is death, Brother, and Gentile
death at that. Ten (five times two) is the number of the Gentiles.
Having located Five, we now go on to the number Six.

The Number SIX

Now Noah was 500 years old when the Lord began to deal with him about
making the ark; he begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth. He was 600 when he
went into the ark, which brings us up to the number Six. Now Noah of
course had found grace in the eyes of the Lord, and so somebody could
grab that 500 and say, "Well, that shows grace." But let's just face
it, Noah may have had some grace shown on him, but the Bible says he
condemned the world over in II Peter 2 and Hebrews 11. He is death to
them. The number that is connected with going into the ark and the
flood coming was 600; which brings us to Six.

Now six has some problems connected with it. Normally, it is said to
be "the number of man," and I'm not going to argue with this. I'm sure
it has something to do with man; but as to whether it is limited to
man, I don't know. Also, as to whether or not it is man in this age, I
don't know. I don't know how much you can connect it with man alone,
or the Antichrist alone, or demons or the Devil in relation to man,
but the facts are these: The number, as it stands by itself (six),
occurs for the first time in Genesis 7:6 where Noah is 600 years old
when the flood comes.

"Sixth," which is kin to it, is of course connected with Genesis 1 "on
the sixth day," and the sixth day is the day that Adam is made, and
this of course gives tremendous weight to the theory that six is
connected with man. It's on the sixth day that Adam is made. (It
certainly has something to do with man.) The number "six" occurs
several times in the book of Genesis, and the most notable place was
the 600th year of Noah's life.

Later in the Bible we find 600 men a very common expression for some
reason. The scholarly approach to this business is "These are just
round numbers"--that is, they don't mean anything. Of course we reject
that nonsense. Everything in that Book has some meaning to it. They're
not just round numbers; they have meaning to them. We find 600 men
used frequently, and we find that in Genesis 46:26 the number of souls
that go down into Egypt with Jacob have the number six in them, "all
the souls were threescore and six." It is used in reference to people
in that case and most of the time it is. When Pharaoh chases the
children of Israel he takes 600 chosen chariots, and as I said before,
this 600 men keeps popping up. Notice it in I Samuel 30:9; notice it
in II Samuel 15:18, and there are several other places where this
business shows up. Notice in the book of Judges, three times in
Chapter 18, the six hundred men. Notice it in Judges 20:47. Now, I
don't know why that is, but there is something very significant about
that. Notice again in I Samuel 23:13; 27:2; and 30:9. I never have
worked out that six hundred, but there is bound to be something to it.
The Bible doesn't throw numbers around for no reason, and this idea of
"round numbers" of course is nonsense.

The Lord is very careful to tell you the number of fishes that come
into the net in John 21 and the number of people that got saved on the
boat wreck that Paul was on. Any book this specific is not going to
waste time talking about generalities and "round numbers." When it
gives a number, Brother, there is a reason and purpose behind it, and
our ignorance is no reason to reject it.

I've never professed to know all that Book; I don't profess to know it
now. There is something about the tone of my voice that irritates
people, and I've heard people complain and say, "You know, Bob thinks
he's right and everybody else is wrong." You have to consider the
source. Those who say that usually are either too lazy or too proud to
investigate anything but their own conceit. Anybody who takes the
trouble to do a great deal of studying quickly finds out that many of
the things he's been taught (the sacred cows) are wrong. There is
plenty about the Bible I don't know. I know where the verses are, but
God forbid that I should profess to be able to interpret them. I can't
interpret them--the Holy Spirit interprets them, and where He doesn't
show me the answer, I don't have the answer. But I know when another
man doesn't have it too! That's one of the blessings about being
critical. If you are hard on yourself, the other fellow won't get by
you too close. Now I don't know why these six hundred men keep popping
up, but I'm absolutely certain there is a purpose behind it.

The six days of creation are found repeated throughout the Bible in
connection with the Sabbath rest and the warning to the Jew to be
careful about the seventh day. He keeps mentioning the six days, the
six days, the six days, in Exodus 16:26; 20:11; 21:2; 23:12; 23:10.
The cloud covers the tabernacle six days in Exodus 24:16. The golden
candlestick in the tabernacle has seven lights on it, but it is so
made that it has only six branches, the seventh branch being the
candlestick itself, the center piece. We read about six names of the
Jews on one stone and six on the another in Exodus 28:10. When the
Jews get in the promised land, they're told to have six tribes on one
mountain and six tribes on another reading the curses of the law. Yet
when the division of the tribes comes, it never comes on a six and six
proposition. Where the tribes are divided, they're always divided off
into ten and two as we'll see later when we get into a study of the
number ten. They're always divided off into ten and two, for some
reason, with Joshua and Caleb leading the way back there in the book
of Numbers.

Jericho is compassed six days before it fell on the seventh day. The
giants evidently have six fingers and six toes in II Samuel 21:20,
showing that they are supermen. Solomon, as a type of the Antichrist,
has his throne with six steps and six lions on one side and six lions
on the other side making 666. Now this lends great weight to the
theory that six is connected with man, as the Antichrist will be the
Super-man, the God-man, the Trinity--666. Of course, the only problem
is that he is the wrong god. If you're looking for a God-man you'd
have to look for 777. And of course this is all outside of the realm
of physics and mathematics, and not even the extra sensory perception,
LSD, hippie, gurus, and Berkeley crowd can get on the boat here
because they don't have the brains or the fortitude! What you're
looking for is 777; it is three times completion. That's the Trinity
times perfection, and that's the One you're looking for.

Obviously, 666 is incomplete, and 666 is obviously a trinity of sixes.
If six is man, then it is man at his best, fallen man at his best.
This is the number you're told to look out for in Revelation 13:18.
Somehow or other the verse marking escaped the notice of the new
conservatives in that verse 18 itself has three sixes in it.

I suppose the King James translators rigged this up! Certainly, they
positively could not have even thought about it. It just came out that
way. Somebody says "Coincidence." Well, I used to believe that for a
long time. Then, after I discovered about 85 percent of the
"instances" in the Bible were sheer "coincidence," I decided I'd
better go with the bookies and con men and bet safe.

Let me illustrate: It is amazing how when you produce these things
from the word of God somebody says, "You can do that with any type of
number, and there is nothing to it." Yet no man who bet on odds or
numbers, no professional man who dealt with numbers professionally,
would think of taking such odds. The only people who take such odds
are Bible "scholars" who resent the Authorized Version. They'll take
`em; I won't!

How do you account for that 666 popping up in Chapter 13 on a verse
that is divisible by three sixes? A man said, "Coincidence." Tell me
something. Why does the number occur again in Ezra 2:13? In the
thirteenth verse of Ezra 2 it says 666. Could you tell me why the only
other time that thing occurs is in II Chronicles 9:13? 666. How come
it is always showing up with the thirteen? You say, "Well, it shows up
in Chapter 10 of I Kings." Well, that's one out of four. Tell me
something, with the odds of three to one in 31,000 verses; what are
you talking about, "Coincidence," when the odds are three to one?! I
don't know many gamblers who would take odds of three to one, do you?
I've known some gamblers; I've known some who take what appear to be
three-to-one odds, but that isn't all. These odds are better than
three to one considering all the possibilities of numbers that could
have been used.

The 666 occurs again in I Kings 10:14, and it is still connected with
the same man, and the same thing, and the same measurements, and the
same articles mentioned in II Chronicles 9:13. How can we separate
this gold or gold image with a head like a lion of Nebuchadnezzar, the
king of Babylon, from the beast in Revelation 13 who has a mouth like
a lion, who controls all the gold, whose number is 666, who shows up
in a verse divisible by sixes and is found in Ezra 2:13 where the man
mentioned, Adonikam, means the "lord of rebellion." The odds are not
three to one. If it were just the number you were dealing with, the
odds would be three to one, but you were dealing with gold, lions,
kings, rebellion, and world dictatorship. Now what are the odds? The
odds are too great for a gambler to take a chance on. The only person
who would take a chance on it is a Protestant, Catholic, or Jew who
doesn't like the Authorized Version of the Bible.

When Jesus dies on Calvary's cross it was about the sixth hour when
the darkness comes (Luke 23:44), and that of course puts it from noon
until about three o'clock in the afternoon, clearly dividing the day
itself at the sixth or middle point. Thus six evidently has something
to do with the division of time. Six months is going to be a division
of a year; the sixth hour is going to be a division of a day. We were
amazed to find how many times this combination of three and six is
used where it refers to a division: three years and six months, three
days and a half. This thing occurs over and over again in your Bible
in connection with the resurrection of Jesus Christ and the reign of
the Antichrist. The measurement of forty-two months itself is three
years and six months. The measurement 1260 days, given in Revelation
11, is three years and six months. This division occurs over and over
again--three and one-half, three and one-half, three and one-half.
Daniel refers to it as "time, times, and a half a time."

So I learn the term "six" has not only something to do with man, but
also has something to do with the division of time in connection with
man. His days are "numbered," as it were. Exactly what all of it
means, I don't know. I know the Antichrist is the Superman, 666. I
know that God commanded His blessing on the Jew on the sixth year in
Leviticus 25:21 so they could rest on the seventh year. I know six
cubits is said to be something to do with a man in the book of
Revelation. I know from reading the Bible that six days has to do with
the period of this age. Christ doesn't appear in glory until after six
days, Matthew 17:1, Mark 9:2. The Sabbath is plainly a type of the
Millennial reign of Jesus Christ, so this age that I live in is
peculiarly marked by the number Six. That has to be a characteristic
of this age. If I had lived before the year 1000, the thing that would
have marked my age would have been five. If I had lived the first 1000
years before Christ, my number would have been four. If I had lived
before the reign of Solomon, it would have been three. You can't beat
the mathematical, absolute, infallible accuracy of numbers. The number
that will characterize this age before Christ comes will be the number
six. You say, "Are you sure?" Yes sir! "Dear right?" Absolutely! "You
think everybody else is wrong?" Absolutely, Brother! You say, "I never
heard such conceit in all my life." No, you never heard such truth in
all your life, Brother. Six is the characteristic of this age (and
you'd better look out for words that end in X)!

All right, so there is the number Six; and it obviously has something
to do with man, although I don't understand everything about it. It
has something to do with the Superman and something to do with the day
or age of man that you're now living in. It is wound up by the perfect
complete number, Seven. I'm looking for the return of 777, and you can
have old 666. I don't want him; I don't like him; he's too electronic
for me.

The Number SEVEN

Now we come to the number Seven. There is no need for a great deal of
thought or research or study or consideration as Seven is so obviously
the number of completion that it doesn't need any justification. One
of the ways you mark dead scholarship or dead-orthodox foolishness,
where it crosses the word of God, is by the mania of scholarship to
count every number as a "round number" or a "complete number." If you
read very many commentaries on the Scriptures (which I hope you don't)
or read very many scholarly works on the Scripture by dead-orthodox
scholars (which would be a waste of your money and your time), you'll
find whenever a number is given the scholar simply dismisses it by
saying, "This is not an exact number, but a round number showing
completeness." This asinine procedure is followed by the greatest
conservative scholars in the world until it just gets to be down right
ridiculous. "The 1,000 years in Revelation is not a real period of
time but a round number of completeness"; "Gideon had more than 300
men but the scribe simply used 300 as a round or complete number," and
so forth and so on. Ad nauseum!

The number Seven is the number of completeness, and there is no other
number that is as complete as the number Seven. This can be proved
anywhere, as someone once said, "From Generation to Resolution."

Now to begin with we have the present earth and heaven, and I say
present (not the one in Genesis 1:1), the present earth and heaven is
made in six days and God ceasing from His work on the seventh day. As
a matter of fact, this is how the Bible begins, and it is interesting
to note that when the Bible ends, it ends with a book where the words,
"this Book," are found seven times, where there are seven bowls, seven
vials, seven trumpets, seven candlesticks, seven spirits, and seven
churches. The Book, being an infinite Book, goes in a circle (and
anybody who reads the book of Revelation knows that already), as the
Tree of Life found in Genesis shows up in Revelation. The paradise of
God in Genesis shows up in Revelation, and it takes you right back in
a circle. That's why the Bible is not a "drop in an ocean of truth"
(as we hear propounded by the leading infidels of the National Council
of Churches), but it is the whole cotton-pickin' ocean, including
several hundred billion square miles of water above the universe that
the National Council hasn't found yet.

Seven is plainly the number of completion. This is apparent at the
beginning of the Bible and at the end of the Bible. If it were not
apparent from here, one would see immediately from studying Leviticus
23 and 25 that God doesn't do anything without "sevening" it. As a
matter of fact, the word for seven in the Hebrew is the same word as
to swear or put yourself under an oath. When the Lord says, "I have
sworn by myself," He has sevened Himself, or as they say on the craps
table--"seven come eleven." Seven is the finish.

Seven, in Leviticus 23 and 25, is pictured as the number of days in a
week, the number of weeks before the Pentecostal celebration, the
number of months before the Feast of Tabernacles and the Day of
Atonement, the number of years before the land release, and the number
of seven's of years before the jubilee and the sounding of the
trumpet. As a matter of fact, God divides the ages into periods of
sevens and the dispensations into periods of sevens. There is not much
doubt about what the Lord does with the number Seven. Seven winds it
up.

We have the original earth in Genesis 1:1. We have the earth that was
destroyed, or became without form and void, and the one in Genesis
1:2-3. We have the present earth as it was before the flood in Genesis
4,5,6,7, and 8. We have the earth over-flooded. We have the present
earth after the flood left it from Genesis 10 on to the present time.
We will have the Millennial earth when Jesus Christ returns to this
earth as found in Romans 8, Isaiah 11, and Revelation 20. We will have
the burning or consummation of that in II Peter 3, Isaiah 66, and
Revelation 20. And we, according to His promise, look for new heavens
and a new earth.

Now if you'll go back through and count, there are seven earths. The
new heavens and the new earth is the eighth, and this is the law of
music and art. As a matter of fact it is the law of nature. Nature
does nothing by ten's. It does everything by seven's. If you are a
male or female you have seven members to your body, the body being the
trunk. The trunk of the body, the body proper, has seven members
protruding from it. Male or female, you have seven members.

That isn't all; there are only seven colors. If a man has red, yellow,
and blue, the primaries, orange, green, and purple, the secondaries,
and black, he can make or mix any color there is. You say, "What about
white?" White is absence of color. "White" people are called "white"
because of the absence of pigmentation in their skin. (They're not
really white; their skin is actually "pink" because of the blood
flowing underneath. If they were really white they'd be dead!) White
is an absence of color. That's the point. So, if a man has seven
colors, he can paint anything, because seven winds it up. There are no
more than seven colors.

I know men whose eyes can pick out all kinds of colors. I know other
men whose eyes have a spectrum range of about 360 shades; that is,
they can only see 360 different forms of color. In regular house paint
put out in the paint store there are well over 800 different shades.
But every one of those 800 plus shades are made of red, yellow, blue,
orange, green, purple, and black with mixtures of white; white being
the color of the paper itself, colorless. If you have seven colors you
can paint anything, if you can paint at all. There is nothing that
Michelangelo or DaVinci or Rembrandt or Monet or Trujillo or Goya or
Norman Rockwell ever painted in their lives that had any more colors
to it than seven colors. Seven colors is all there is--there ain't no
more!

Then you have seven notes on the musical scale. There is not a piece
of music that came from the pen of Beethoven, Brahms, Bach,
Tschaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, Stravinsky, Schumann, Schubert,
Mendelssohn, Handel, Rimski-Korsakov--not a one of them ever penned
anything that used any more than seven notes. You see the black notes
on a piano are not true notes; they're what you call half notes. The
notes are the white notes, and when you get on the eighth note, you're
playing the same one as the first one because an octave up from the
first one is eight. There are only seven notes on a piano. That's all
there is; there isn't any more. When you get to eight, you're up an
octave from the first.

So there is not much doubt about the number Seven. You don't have to
even begin to trace it in the word of God. Wherever you find seven it
is going to wind up, and whether it be seven seven's or seventy
seven's or seventy times seven, that's the end. It is very interesting
to note that in Dispensational Truth by Clarence Larkin, you'll find
the entire history of Israel divided off into periods of 490 years
each, which is plainly 7 times 70--490. You might check that on
dispensational dealing with Israel--God's plan of dividing things off
according to seven's. Seven is plainly and clearly beyond any
reputation the number of completion. And although Gentiles count by
ten's--and we'll see why later on--God counts by Seven's.

The Number EIGHT

Now going from seven to Eight is not going to be very difficult--
because once we define seven, we've practically defined Eight. If
seven is the final and complete number (and there is no doubt about it
in the scripture), then Eight has to be first in a series of new
things. This would be true in the case of music or anything. The human
body itself changes all its cells once every seven years and begins
over again with a new set of cells. Eight is something brand new. We
find Eight used many times in the word of God in all kinds of cases,
and yet it plainly sets forth something that is new.

For example: the first time we read about "eight" in connection with a
bunch of people is Noah and his family. Noah was the eighth person, a
preacher of righteousness. There were eight souls in the ark in I
Peter 3:20, and these were the people who populated the new earth.
They were the new beginning all over again after a previous
civilization had been wiped clean out.

We read that eight days are accomplished when a child is born; it is
circumcised on the eighth day, Luke 2:21. Nothing could be clearer
about this business. Notice the same thing in Leviticus 12:3; 14:10;
14:23; 15:14; 15:29 and so forth and so on, and notice that
circumcision is an eight-day ritual. Anybody who studies circumcision
in the Bible knows immediately what is involved. Circumcision is a
type of a new creature. The cutting is in connection with a man's
seed. The circumcision of Christ that makes a man a new creature in
Christ is found in Colossians 2, and this circumcision in the Old
Testament took place on the eighth day. Paul says this about himself
in Philippians 3:5. Abraham, of course, was circumcised the eighth
day. Acts 7:8; and so was the Lord Jesus Christ--notice Luke 1:59.
Eight is plainly a picture of something new.

The seven sons of Jesse are one bunch and the eight, David, is
something new, a type of Christ.

Eight then in the Bible, and multiples of eight, are plainly going to
be connected with something that's brand new. It may have other
connotations, but that much is certain. That much we can rest on until
the Lord Jesus shows us something else in connection with the number.
We have other multiples of course--800 and 8000 and series of eight's
(2 times 8, 3 times 8, etc.), but Eight, basically, stands for
something new.

The Number NINE

We now come to the number Nine. The number Nine is going to be a little bit
tougher to get into and work out. You may find books of numerology which
profess to have run down this number Nine, but I must confess that in all my
dealings with the number, I can't find anything absolutely conclusive. I'll
tell you what I have found and give you the findings, and you can run them
down. Nine seems to be connected with fruitfulness and evidently has some
connection with covenants, although I don't fully understand everything
about it. Nine is one short of the Gentile number, which can be proved very
quickly. It is one number beyond the new man, the new creation, which is
eight. It is also what is kept for self when you give God a tenth. Now this
may give some hint as to how the number works out as Abraham is ninety-nine
years old when God makes a covenant with him--ninety-nine. He is said to be
dead in Romans 4 and yet bearing fruit. And Christ said, "Except a corn of
wheat fall in the ground and die, it abideth alone; but if it die, it
bringeth forth much fruit."

Nine seems to be connected with fruitfulness. I'll tell you why I say that,
because there are nine fruits of the Spirit given in Galatians 5:22-23.
(5:22? 5 plus 2 plus 2 equals nine!) Three are inward; three are outward;
and three are Godward. Notice too that there are nine gifts of the Holy
Spirit in I Corinthians 12 for power and for character in Galatians. There
are nine in each one of these cases that have to deal with the fruit of the
Holy Spirit, and nine is the number that follows eight which is the new
line.

In Genesis 9:9 we clearly have a covenant--"I establish my covenant with
you, and with your seed after you." I take this to be of some significance
as it seems like the numbers in Genesis (the first book) seem to settle the
meaning thereafter. Abraham is ninety-nine years old when that covenant is
made with him; but as I said before, there is not a great deal that's
conclusive on this thing. In Genesis 17:1 (one plus seven plus one) the
covenant with Abraham is made when he is ninety-nine, and of course here he
is said to be "dead."

There are other nines in the Bible which don't seem to fall in line with
this. We read of the 900 chariots of iron in Judges 4:3, and we read some
connection of this iron with giants in other places in the word of God. The
bedstead of Og, the king of Bashan (Deut. 3:11) was "nine cubits in the
length thereof." The number nine is very prominent in the age of the
Patriarchs in Genesis 5, where we read 900, 900, 900, 900, 900, seven or
eight times in one chapter. So I say this thing here is not too clear. When
we studied the number five I mentioned the Mayday--the fifth month; I
mentioned the #5 breakdown in water of a ship in dry dock; I mentioned the
distress frequency of 500 kilocycles for an SOS--the international distress
frequency, and some other things which may not seem very related to Bible
truth. But in all heresies there is some truth, and every superstition has a
background in absolute truth as God is the author of all truth. Therefore He
is the one who sets up the absolute standard from which all the imitations
and counterfeits have to be made. I say that because of the peculiar
expression used universally--"Cloud Nine." I don't fully understand it, but
it is an expression meaning joyfulness or happiness. They say, "That fellow
is on Cloud Nine," meaning he is in a happy, joyful condition.

Other famous nines are the ninety-nine good sheep and the one that got lost.
Jerusalem was destroyed in the ninth month in Jeremiah 52:4-6. The Bible was
cut up in Jeremiah 36:23 in the ninth month. Nine is the period of
gestation--nine months--for women in producing fruit. Peter's vision is
around the ninth hour; Ezekiel 24 speaks of the ninth year, and there are a
few other places. None of these of course give us conclusive evidence as to
what the number means. It probably has a good meaning as it is plainly three
times three. That much is clear. You can also make up combinations. For
example:

1. Six and three--Six is the number of man and three is the Trinity. This
would say plainly, "Bring forth fruit."

2. Eight and one--Eight is the new creature and one is unity. This would
bring forth fruit.

3. Seven and two--Seven is the number of completion and two is the number of
divisions. This is a very odd combination which doesn't yield anything
numerically.

4. Five and four--Five, as it stands, is death and four, as it stands of
course, has no absolute meaning fixed that we've been able to locate. Now if
it is the earth, it is the earth plus death, which gives a bad connotation
to nine.

Strangely enough, most of the connections of Nine in the Bible are good
connotations. They indicate the longest lives that men have ever lived. If
they indicate giants, at least they indicate the biggest men who ever lived.
Its peculiar connection with the fruits of the Spirit in Galatians, and the
gifts of the Spirit in I Corinthians, plainly indicate some kind of a
spiritual thing that has to do with bearing fruit. Abraham's case has
already been cited. He doesn't bear fruit until he is ninety-nine, and the
fact that it is a gestation period for women is highly significant--nine
months. But I wouldn't make a final statement on it because all the evidence
has not been accumulated, and it may have more than one meaning. It seems to
have that primary meaning.

The Number TEN

We come now to the number Ten. Now Ten, of the numbers in the Bible that are
given, is by far the easiest number to locate outside of Five and Seven.
Only Five and Seven are easier to locate than the number Ten. The number Ten
is called a round number or number of completeness by Bible writers who are
lazy and irreverent, and who do not believe the Authorized Version is
reliable; but for those of us who believe it to be the word of God preserved
in the form in which He intends for us to have it, the word "Ten" is of easy
location. It can be located immediately, dogmatically, without fear of
contradiction, and it will stand. The Bible is right, and whoever disagrees
with it is off base. The number Ten can be located.

The tenth man from Adam is Noah, who is the father of the Gentiles. Isn't it
a strange coincidence that Gentiles could by ten's? If that weren't enough,
in Genesis 10 you have the first Gentile kingdom ever started, and the last
Gentile kingdom has ten nations in it, Daniel 2. If that weren't conclusive
enough, you ought to read the entire tenth chapter of Genesis and find this
is the list of the genealogies of the Gentiles. If that weren't enough, in
Acts 10 you have the opening of the door to the Gentiles in the New
Testament. In John 10 is the sheep of the "other fold," and the missionary
call and message to the Gentiles is found in Romans 10. And it is in
Revelation 10 the Lord puts His foot on the earth and takes possession of
the Gentile kingdoms. There is no doubt about ten; it has to do with the
Gentiles. It is a Gentile number.

Twelve is plainly a Jewish number, as we are going to see when we get to it.
In contradiction with Twelve is Ten, which of course is Gentile.

This might give the argument of Garner Ted Armstrong some precedence,
although he's not aware of the truth involved (otherwise, I'm sure he would
have used it long before now). As you remember, his argument was that the
ten northern Tribes of Israel scattered out through Europe and became
England and the United States. This "British Israelism" put out by Armstrong
is about a hundred years out of date; and it is amazing that you'd find
anybody who would subscribe to such a harebrained theory any more, but
scores of people do. This will leave the two southern Tribes--Judah and
Benjamin--as Judah with the tribe of Levi. That's the position of Garner Ted
Armstrong.

The first time the word "ten" occurs in the Bible, it occurs in Genesis
5:14. (Five plus one plus four equals ten.) The days were 910 years in a
man's life, the word ten occurring here for the first time, which is a
reference to the life of somebody before the law. They are all Gentiles
before the law. Of course I know that they're divided off into Gentiles
coming from Japheth, and then the Shemites and Ham under another one, but
the division in the New Testament is Gentile, Jew, and church; and before
the law, Abraham is an uncircumcised Gentile.

The next time the word ten occurs in the Bible is Genesis 16:3. (One plus
six plus three equals ten.) Notice also in Genesis 18:32 the ten is found in
Sodom and Gomorrah, not inhabited by the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and
Jacob, but by the Canaanites. And the next time the word ten occurs, it
occurs three times in a row. As a matter of fact it occurs three times in
Genesis 24:10; 24:22; and 24:55 where ten camels go out, and the damsel is
said to abide ten days, and the damsel is from the still uncircumcised
progenitors of Abraham, where back there Laban and the rest of them stayed
in the other country before God circumcised Abraham and made him a peculiar
people and race. The term "ten," then, is plainly Gentile.

The last world power on this earth under the United Nations will be a ten
kingdom federated kingdom of Gentiles represented by the toes on Daniel's
image, and represented by the ten kings of Revelation 17. This is the
Gentile world dominion when Christ Jesus returns to set up an Everlasting
Kingdom. This first Gentile kingdom was set up in Genesis 10 by Nimrod, the
thirteenth from Adam.

That is, we're dealing here with something that is as scientific as anything
the world has set up. We're not dealing here with a thing that occasionally
works. We're dealing with a thing that is an underlying law with deep
significance as it affects all numbers. We may not be able to state a
theorem that will meet all the demands of each number. We may not be able
to, in the Bible itself, trace down every case and prove every case as it
comes up and connect it with what we're talking about; but we're dealing
here with a general law that is as generally true as the law of gravity. You
say, "The law of gravity is always true." It most certainly is not! The law
of gravity is no more scientific than the law of numbers. It will be
discovered some day that the law of gravity is based on the law of numbers.
Numbers, as used in the Bible, gives the reader the clue or key to the basic
meaning of each number. Ten is the Gentile number.

The Number ELEVEN

Of all the numbers in the Bible, the next one is the least satisfactory; and
that is the number Eleven. In fact, I don't really profess to have any
solution on it at all. I've read books about it; I've seen numerology books
printed about it, but none would give me any satisfaction, and I find no
clue in scripture to locate the thing as to exactly what it is. As a general
practice in trying to find a number, the thing you do is find the number of
that book--like if you are looking for eleven, you take the eleventh book in
the Bible. Then when you have found the eleventh book, take the eleventh
chapter and look at the eleventh verse. This does not always yield results
but sometimes it does.

The eleventh book in your Bible, as it stands, is I Kings, and of course I
Kings 11 takes you right into the time of Solomon, king of Israel. First
Kings 11:11 is a warning by the Lord that Solomon has not kept the covenants
that He made with him. This means nothing by itself, and it stands about by
itself in the Bible. It isn't good. The eleventh chapter in the Bible is
Genesis 11 which is not good either. In Genesis 11 we have the Tower of
Babel and the scattering of the nations abroad across the face of the earth.
The first time the word eleven occurs in the Bible is in Genesis 32:22. The
obvious indication is in Genesis 37:9 referring to the sons of Israel
exclusive of Joseph.

Now we find this eleven popping up in the New Testament; the eleven
disciples in Matthew 28:16, the eleven in Mark 16:14, the eleven in Acts
1:26, and Acts 2:14. The eleven are the apostles minus Judas, and yet this
is an incomplete number in that they have to choose a replacement for Judas.
Jesus promised in Matthew 19 that twelve apostles will sit upon the twelve
thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. The number, as it stands, is
one number over a Gentile and one number short of Israel, as it stands.

"Twelve" in the Bible is very rarely divided into eleven and one, except in
the case of Judas. The division normally in twelve is ten and two, or six
and six. (I don't recall hardly any places where it is divided any
differently.) Wherever you have twelve, it's divided into six and six, like
the six tribes and the six stones and the six more below them and the six in
one mountain cursing and the six in the other mountain blessing and that
kind of business. Then there's ten and two which is a division of the tribes
of Israel, but eleven and one is a division that doesn't bode too much good.
It is only used in reference to Judas Iscariot; I know of hardly any other
place where the thing is used any other way than that.

The eleventh month is referred to a good bit in Numbers and Deuteronomy but
nothing special with it. We read about the eleventh hour in Matthew 20:6
meaning the last hour and in Matthew 20:9 the same thing. Eleven seems to
indicate something right before a catastrophe, and it is almost impossible
to locate it. I don't profess to know exactly what it does mean.

We could work in combinations. It's made up of ten and one. Ten is plainly a
Gentile number beyond any dispute; One is unity or singleness or
unification, so I don't know where you are there. You could work it up of
nine and two. Two is division and nine is probably fruitfulness--that
doesn't yield anything. You could work it up of seven and four--seven being
completeness or perfection and four, unknown. You could work it up of five
and six--six being man's number, and five being death. That isn't a very
good combination.

The number is a dark horse. It has not been located. It is usually
significant of the lull before the storm or the last hour before the thing
falls apart. This is of course because there are twelve hours in a day and
twelve hours in a night. As I've said before, the findings on it are
inconclusive.

The Number TWELVE

Now when we come to the number Twelve we're on solid ground again. There are
twelve saved nations in eternity because in Deuteronomy 32:7,8 we read that
the Lord God set the boundaries of the nations according to the number of
the children of Israel. There are twelve children of Israel, and they have
twelve breastplate stones that represent them back there in making the
breastplate in the book of Exodus. We find that the twelve stars on the
woman in Revelation 12 represent the twelve tribes. There are twelve gates
for the tribes, twelve foundations for the apostles in the city, and twelve
manner of fruits for the nations who are numbered after the number of the
tribes. If this weren't enough, there are twelve constellations in the
zodiac which must match the months (twelve months in the year), and these
match the nations in the birthstones in the breastplate. There are twelve
chapters in Daniel dealing with the salvation of Israel during the
Tribulation. You might also check Genesis 12 where the first Hebrew or Jew
is called out; there are no Jews before Genesis 12. You might look at Exodus
12 which is the beginning of the Jewish nation as such. You might also check
Numbers 12 and Revelation 12.

The number Twelve plainly is a reference to Israel, and anything connected
with it is connected to Israel. You often hear the common fable that twelve
represents "government." Of course this is sheerly pure nonsense; twelve
represents the nation of Israel always, every time. If it represents
government, it represents government in relation to Israel, not Israel in
relation to government. Twelve is plainly Israel. You put two of those stars
of Moloch together--stars of Remphan (Acts 7) which are not symbolic of
Israel at all, but a false god--you put two of those together and you have
twelve points; there are six points on each one. So, Twelve is Israel. That
is easy to locate.

The Number THIRTEEN

Thirteen is extremely easy to locate. There is no doubt about the number
Thirteen at all. Eighty-five percent of the thirteens in the Bible refer to
something bad. (You can check it out in every verse.) There are thirteen
words in the harlot's subscription in Revelation 17. There are thirteen
letters in Judas Iscariot, and he is mentioned in John 13:13 which has
thirteen words in it and thirty-nine letters which is three times thirteen.
The word "dragon" occurs thirteen times in Revelation. Nimrod, the first
type of Antichrist, is the thirteenth from Adam. The curse of the law is in
Galatians 3:13. You are delivered from the curse of the law in Acts 13:39--
multiples of thirteen. There are thirty-nine books in the Old Testament,
three times thirteen, and the last word is curse. There are thirteen evils
in the human heart which Jesus lists. There are twenty-six unclean animals.
(You might compare this with the list in Leviticus.) In Mark 1:13 you'll
find Satan showing up. You'll find forty save one for breaking the law
making thirty-nine stripes--thirty-nine--three times thirteen. There are
thirteen Baals in scripture. The king of Assyria (type of the Antichrist) is
mentioned thirteen times. The number 666 occurs in Ezra 2:13 and Revelation
13:18. You'll find it in II Chronicles 9:13, and another reference to the
Devil in Revelation 2:13. The other multiples of it like twenty-six and
thirty-nine and fifty-two are too numerous to mention. There is no doubt
about thirteen.

Thirteen has a well-founded superstition connected with it, and you may well
be highly suspicious of it, and have the psychiatrist think you are guilty
of tripskadekaphobia, but it makes no difference. The number thirteen has a
bad connotation about eighty-five percent of the time.

Paul wrote thirteen epistles, and he is the thirteenth apostle, and it is I
Corinthians that is the foundation and ground root of the National Council
of Churches. As a matter of fact, it is the Pauline epistles that people
stumble over and wrest to their own destruction (II Peter 3), and it is the
Pauline epistles that are placed aside by Rome in favor of the Jewish gospel
of Matthew to try to prove that Peter was the first bishop to Rome.

Thirteen will fix you; it'll fix you!

Is it possible there will be fifty-two states in the United States before
long? On the old dollar bill which was a silver certificate (not a federal
reserve note) there were twenty-six ones. E Pluribus Unum has thirteen
letters in it, and there were thirteen stars and thirteen stripes for the
original thirteen colonies that had a snake for a symbol on their flag with
the words, "Don't tread on me," which has thirteen letters in it. You may
notice the thirteen stars in the Confederacy--the losing side--have the X-
bar in the middle with the thirteen stars across it. Thirteen is the number
of rebellion. The first time it occurs in the Bible it says, "in the
thirteenth year they rebelled," Genesis 14. There is no doubt about that
number whatsoever.

Here we finish the numbers that can be deciphered accurately and positively,
except for the numbers forty and one thousand which are comparatively
simple.

The Number FORTY

Now the number Forty is comparatively simple, because it is plainly
probation or a testing period of time. Practically every time the word or
number Forty shows up in the Bible it is within this connection or context.
That is, the number is connected with some type of testing. The first time
the word occurs as just plain "Forty" is Genesis 5:13 as the age of a man,
but the time the word actually occurs just by itself without the 800
attached to it is in Genesis 7:4 where the flood was upon the earth forty
days and forty nights (and again in Genesis 7:17). This context of the first
mention generally fixes the meaning for the number Forty thereafter. Notice
Esau is forty years old when he messes up and takes the wrong kind of wife.
Notice that Isaac is forty years old when he takes Rebecca to wife. Notice
the children of Israel are tested forty years in the wilderness until the
rebels are purged out from among them. Notice Jesus Christ fasted forty days
and forty nights. Notice that Moses himself was on the Mount for forty days
and forty nights fasting (Exodus 24:18). Notice Elijah the prophet was in
the same condition in I Kings 19:8. Elijah goes forty days and forty nights
without anything to eat, this being the days or time given to testing. The
man healed in Acts 4:22 is above forty years old, which is considered an
absolute limit or time limit for getting healed; hence the peculiar
expression among Americans, "Life begins at forty."

The references for the children of Israel being in the wilderness for forty
years are too numerous to mention such as: Hebrews 3:9; 3:17; Numbers
14:33,34; Deuteronomy 2:7; 8:2; and Moses fasting forty days and forty
nights in Deuteronomy 10:10. The land of Israel rests in the period of the
Judges forty years in Judges 3:11 and again in Judges 8:28. Notice Eli
judges forty years in I Samuel 4:18. If that weren't enough, it turns out
that this is the length of Saul's reign in Acts 13:21, the length of
Solomon's reign, and the length of David's reign, I Kings 2:11; 11:42--the
period is very significant then--and it's very significant as a period of
testing or waiting to determine the issue or outcome of a thing. This
probably has a tremendous bearing on the Second Coming of Christ which I
don't profess fully to understand. But the number Forty is plainly a period
of testing or probation or a kind of interim before God does something in a
certain situation.

The Number FORTY-SEVEN

One of the strangest phenomena observed by the careful student of the
scripture that seems to have escaped the eye of Pettingill, Gaebelein,
DeHaan, Scofield, Larkin, Bullinger, Sauer, and all others included, is the
peculiar relationship of Seven and Forty. Notice this in Genesis 7:4. First
the word "Seven" and then the word "Forty," which by itself would have no
significance at al; but come now to Genesis 25:17 and notice how this thing
keeps recurring in the most unlikely combinations. Here the number Seven is
the last numeral given in the series in verse 17, and the next numeral given
in any series in the narrative is the number Forty in Genesis 25:20.
Somebody says, "That's an accident." I don't know how much of an accident it
is; it's Seven and Forty. Let's just see if it is a coincidence. Look at
Leviticus 12:2,4 and notice how this thing keeps cropping up constantly.

In Leviticus 12 (again an unlikely series) we read in verse 2 about this
woman being seven days unclean after she is born of man, and then she is to
continue thirty-three days in her purifying of her blood; and the thirty-
three and seven makes forty, the seven occurring first and the next total
number being forty, and although the next number given is thirty-three, the
inclusion is forty, which may be merely an accident--and maybe not.

Now turn to Numbers 13:22 (a parenthetical passage put in for no reason at
all, they'll tell you!). "Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in
Egypt," and lo and behold, not three verses later in v. 25, "they returned
from searching of the land after forty days." Seven and forty--all of which
you say might be manipulated and might not prove anything. But step over to
II Kings 11:21 and look at the age of the king when he began to reign.
Jehoash was seven years old when he began to reign, and in chapter 12 verse
1, he reigned forty years. Seven and forty. Seven followed immediately by
forty in chapter 12. Unfortunately, I haven't marked all these references
like this, but they occur a number of times. Of course somebody will say,
"Well, look at the number of times forty occurs after different numbers."
That's true, and yet the first time that the numbers seven and forty occur
together, they occur together at the first of the Bible in the first book in
connection with a judgment on man, where the seven precedes the testing
period, and some times later you will find the seven following the testing
period. I'd suggest you go through a Bible and mark these places where forty
follows seven or seven follows forty; and although you couldn't establish a
law on it absolutely, I'll guess very strongly that when the problem is
finally unravelled and the knot is untied, that you will find it has a
definite bearing on the time of the Second Coming of Jesus Christ and the
Tribulation (which is seven years) ending a probation period.

The Number ONE THOUSAND

Now the number One Thousand is very easy to locate. The word "Thousand"
occurs six times in the book of Revelation indicating that there is a 6,000-
year span of time before the seventh day Millennial Sabbath rest of the Lord
Jesus Christ when He returns to the earth to set up His kingdom. So that
much is plain.

The word "Thousand," where it occurs, is the division that divides off the
ages. The ages are divided off into periods of one thousand years each, and
these periods are roughly, as found in your Bible: the first period coming
from the time of Adam down about the year 3,000 B.C.; the next period would
come down about the year 2,000 B.C. which would be right after the flood
around 2,300 B.C. You could date the time of Abraham right on the Millennial
mark at 2,000 B.C., and the founding of the temple by Solomon right on the
Millennial mark at 1,000 B.C.--and the middle of the Dark Ages and the
Crusades at 1,000 A.D. and the Second Advent in the fall (September or
October) at the Feast of Tabernacles when the Lord Jesus is coming to set up
His Millennial kingdom on this earth in the year 2000. I realize that this
comes under the heading of date setting to some people so I'll not go on any
further, but there is definitely something to it. "One day with the Lord is
as a thousand years and a thousand years as one day." And as the Bible
scholars at the turn of the Millennial period, 1000 A.D., began to talk more
about the Second Coming of Christ, so we begin to talk about it now at the
beginning of the next Millennial period, except the first time is always the
faux pas--the false or feinted movement--the second time is always the real
thing. "The law was given by Moses, but grace and truth by Jesus Christ." It
isn't Cain; it's Abel. It's not Esau; it's Jacob. It isn't Ishmael; it's
Isaac. It's not 1000 A.D.; it's 2000 A.D. (if our calendar is correct).

All right, that is all that I can do with numbers and I confess ignorance
for the rest of them. Perhaps they can be figured. Sixty is certainly six,
the number of man, times ten, the number of the Gentiles. Fifty is plainly
the Gentile number multiplied by the number of death, five. Seventy is
plainly a Gentile number with a seven slapped onto it that indicates
completion, and the seventy elders of Israel are set up as the seventy, and
there is the LXX--Gentiles trying to imitate them with a Greek translation
down in Alexandria, Egypt, which undoubtedly they never made. Also, as the
nations will be ruled by the numbered division bounds of Israel (Deut. 32:7-
8), I have no doubt that the seventy elders of Israel have something to do
with judicial divisions of the Gentile nations at a future date. The number
100 is plainly a century number or century mark. The number seventy is not
only a Gentile times seven but the completion of a Gentile's life--the days
of our years are threescore and ten. I don't profess to know the meaning of
15 or 20 or 25 or 30 or 35 or 45, or the 1,100 pieces of silver mentioned so
frequently in the word of God. It will take more prayer and more study than
I have been able to put out yet to get the answers, but I trust God will
give them to the person who diligently applies himself.

No prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation. What I don't
know, God hasn't shown me. What He hasn't shown me, He can show somebody
else. He did not show everything to the Scofield Board of Editors nor to the
New Scofield Board of Editors.

Don't ever stop with Scofield or DeHaan. They didn't stop with Calvin and
Luther.

Go with the Book. It is an eternal Book. It has much more to reveal that no
one has seen yet.