Post date: Apr 18, 2014 3:0:39 PM
Ever since I became a Christian I have been fascinated with numbers and how they are used in Scripture. God sends messages in many ways, and sometimes He uses numbers to get His point across.
Numbers are important in Scripture, and not just of themselves. Numbers in Scripture can convey a meaning beyond the mere definition of the term, for certain of them are used to signify the presence and design of God, and when such numbers appear in groups with each other they stamp a divine exclamation point upon the one to whom they have been assigned by God.
So, what are these numbers? For many years, even by secular movie makers, they have been recognized as having Divine significance. Three is the number of the Trinity, seven and ten are the numbers of God, holy and complete; each of them occurs, and is so used, throughout Scripture, from Genesis to Revelation, from Alpha to Omega, from beginning to end.
Things like this one hesitates to write, for how does one write it without pointing to oneself and seeming to trumpet themselves? He who would ascribe intelligence to himself is a foolish man, for wisdom is a gift of God and not of men. Yet men have developed a method—a score, if you will—by which to discern the level of intellect with which each person has been gifted. Being a product of men it is, of course a product of foolishness. But it is a product that God can use, for it is God who assigns an intellect to a man and not the man himself. He merely lives with what God has done.
Among the possibilities of these scores there is a certain subset. Each of the members of this subset has three digits, the value of which is not zero, for the holder is of value to God. With each of these members the digits are co-equal, signifying the Trinity, placing upon the holder a signature of God. In each of these members, when you divide it by the sum of its digits you arrive at a particular prime number whose digits and the sum of them, together, give you another particular subset: three, seven, ten, which are the numbers of God.
Things like this one hesitates to write, for men will say “you are bearing witness about yourself, so your witnessing is not valid.” Even to God Himself they spouted such things, but these numbers are values ascribed by God and not by the man himself, who is simply the holder and conveyor of the information borne.
Even from his earliest childhood, it is God who assigns an intellect to a man and not the man himself, and in my earliest childhood, the least of these members was assigned to me, which is appropriate, for I am...