The Star of the NT

THE STAR OF THE NEW TESTAMENT

By John Elias

The name Jesus Christ came to the English speaking world through the Greek New Testament. The name Jesus Christ is a northern European approximation of the Greek Yehsous Christos (Ιησους Χριστος).

This most prominent of names is found in the collection of historical manuscripts known as the New Testament (η Καινη Διαθηκη). This title (The New Testament) also comes from the very manuscripts themselves in 1 Corinthians 11:25.

This name and this title go hand in hand. Everything about the New Testament is about Jesus Christ and Jesus Christ is the subject matter and subtext of every page, paragraph and sentence of the New Testament. There is another seemingly trivial similarity between Jesus Christ and the New Testament. Both series of words have the exact same number of letters.

Jesus Christ = Ιησους Χριστος = 13 Letters

The New Testament = η Καινη Διαθηκη = 13 Letters

The number 13 is most famous as an unlucky number. It has even been rebranded as an evil number. So why should the name Jesus Christ have 13 letters? And couldn’t Jesus be numbered as the 13th member of his 12 disciples?

There is a perfectly reasonable understanding of why so much superstition has gathered on this number over the centuries. It is because it is a number most closely associated with God, not the devil. For the scriptures teach that God is to be feared above all others and that this is the beginning of wisdom.

In the mathematical study of the scriptures, we use Figurative Matrix mathematics to search for highly improbable patterns in the numbers. When a verse or passage comes to a particular figurative shape, its components are laid out in that shape and analyzed.

For instance, in this section of Deuteronomy, we find this statement to have exactly 25 letters. 25 is of course 5 x 5 a natural square. So when we the lay out the letters in a square one can see a pattern emerge.

Deuteronomy 10:17

For the Lord Your God He is a God of Gods

כי יהוה אלהיכם הוא אלהי האלהים

There are many shapes in figurative mathematics: squares, triangles and cubes are perhaps the most prominent. These shapes have been shown to display uncanny mathematical patterns. But the shape that has produced truly the most fascinating properties is that of the star.

This is not the unicursal star that children are taught to draw but the six sided star of a hexagram the symbol of the modern state of Israel, known to history as the Star of David. If there was a single icon of the Old Testament it would be this.

These figurative stars are also known as Star Numbers and they are relatively rare. The first four are 1, 13, 37, 73. We know the 37, 73 pair to have been used in the first 22 verses of the Bible as an alternating fractal of stars (see The Star of Stars). So it is of some interest that the number 13 precedes them on this list.

13 Units as a Star

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We can arrange then the letters of this two as a star and look for patterns.

The Name Jesus Christ as a Star

Η Σ Ο Υ

Σ Χ Ρ

Ι Σ Τ Ο

Ιησους Χριστος

The New Testament as a Star

Κ Α Ι Ν

Η Δ Ι

Α Θ Η Κ

η Καινη Διαθηκη

Looking carefully, we can see that in both instances, the central character marks the beginning of the last word. In the Jesus Christ star it is the X, which is the X of X-mas. In the New Testament star,it is the letter Delta, which when capitalized is a triangle, the symbol of the Trinity.

It is when we convert these letters into their numerical equivalents, that we find startling mathematical patterns. Here we will use the Greek ordinal, the numeration of Greek letters according to their place in the alphabet. The ordinal was in use in both Greek and Hebrew as indexing numbers. It is in this hidden ordinal that we have some of our most compelling correlations.

Ιησους Χριστος = Jesus Christ = 205 (Ordinal)

η Καινη Διαθηκη = The New Testament = 93 (Ordinal)

What is immediately arresting about these sums, is that the difference between them is 112, a primary value in the study of Biblical numerics.

205 – 93 = 112

יהוה אלהים = Lord God = 112

The ‘Lord God’ is the composite title of God used throughout the Old Testament. It is, in perfect dictionary form here, the union of thee most commonly used and most sacred names for God in the whole of the Bible. If a Deity wanted to display a union between the personage of the Old Testament God and the Son of God in the New Testament, the number 112 is perhaps the very best number to employ.

What’s more telling, however, is when we add these ordinal numbers together.

205 + 93 = 298

Genesis 1:1 = 298 (Ordinal)

It is highly improbable that these two sums would arrive at this number by chance. So in another way, God is displaying a union between the Old and New Testaments.

When we look at the star of Jesus Christ we see some unusual patterns.

Jesus Christ (Ιησους Χριστος)

7 18 15 20

18 22 17

9 18 19 15

The red hexagon highlighted above comes to 105 and neatly splits the two into 100 and 105.

אל מסתתר = A Hidden God = 105

אנכי יהוה אלהיך = I am the Lord Your God = 100

Laying out the New Testament in similar fashion we find a similar message in the numbers.

The New Testament (η Καινη Διαθηκη)

10 1 9 13

7 4 9

1 8 7 10

The red hexagon here now comes to 41 and the remainder comes to 52. What two words in Hebrew could be better to describe the contents of the New Testament other than God and Messiah?

אלהים = God = 41 (Ordinal)

משיח = Messiah = 52 (Ordinal)

When we make now a star of the individual differences of every number we find another surprise. Here we subtract each individual number in their given position from their counterpart in the other star to produce a positive differential. So the top number in the New Testament star is subtracted from the top number in the Jesus Star and so on all throughout.

Individuated Difference = 118

3 17 6 7

11 18 8

8 10 12 5

Χριστος = Christ = 118

Here now we see that the configuration once again neatly splits itself into 100 around the central 18 and this new sum becomes 118, the sum of the name of Christ in Greek.

Should we add these two stars together we find another connection to the 118 of Christ.

Composite Star

17 19 24 33

25 26 26

10 26 26 25

The center now becomes 26 which is the sum of the most Holy name in the Bible in that of Yahweh.

יהוה = Yahweh = 26

This composite configuration is packed with correspondence after correspondence. This also reveals one of the great secrets of the Bible, in that the puzzle pieces must be properly sorted, matched and then put together to find their ultimate solution.

17 19 24 33

25 26 26

10 26 26 25

Red = 93

η Καινη Διαθηκη = The New Testament = 93

The top crossbar here comes to 93 which was the original sum of The New Testament now found again through ingenious mathematical design. This return to the original grammatical split happens not just once but twice and symmetrically.

17 19 24 33

25 26 26

10 26 26 25

Red = 87

Ιησους = Jesus = 87

Highlighting the central column we find our Lord God, this time as ordinal in the number 67.

17 19 24 33

25 26 26

10 26 26 25

Red = 67

יהוה אלהים = Lord God = 67 (Ordinal)

The corresponding central row has a corresponding reference to that of the summation of the theology of the Gospel of John.

17 19 24 33

25 26 26

10 26 26 25

Red = 77

O Λογος = The Word = 77 (Ordinal)

Our connection to the 118 of Christ comes when we put these two together, the Lord God plus the Word. The plus here being quite literally a cross and thee cross of Christ. For when we highlight a cross on this configuration, which also happens to be the alternating rows as well in this configuration, we get the 118 of Christ.

17 19 24 33

25 26 26

10 26 26 25

Χριστος = Christ = 118

Ιησους Nαζαρηνου = Jesus of Nazareth = 180

The remainder of 180 corresponds to the proper name of Jesus of Nazareth. Giving us a perfect ordinal equivalency between the first verse in Hebrew Ordinal and Jesus Christ of Nazareth in Greek Ordinal.

Ιησους Χριστος Nαζαρηνου = Jesus Christ of Nazareth = 298

Genesis 1:1 = 298

Here then is the first and final signature of the author of the Bible, in the person of the Savior, the Son of God, Jesus Christ of Nazareth.