Is Gematria Biblical?

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IS GEMATRIA BIBLICAL?

Some Christians believe that Biblical numerics and gematria are nonbiblical traditions and are the exclusive domain of the occult. This perspective however is corrected by a simple understanding of the historical record. Gematria itself, is the ancient practice where letters of an alphabet were also numbers.

Though it is true that occultists have long been interested in gematria, it does not mean that gematria is itself occult. Long before the rise of Victorian occultism and the mumbo-jumbo of Europe’s idle rich, gematria was an everyday common practice of the ancient world. It was so common that it is routinely found in the street graffiti in ancient archaeological sites of the Mediterranean.

The truth is that gematria is an incontrovertible historical fact and not just another occult conspiracy. Occultists may have highjacked gematria for a season, but it was and is solidly Judeo-Christian.

Christians may be surprised to find out that their New Testament begins and ends with cryptic references to gematria. The first is found in the genealogy of Christ, Matthew Chapter One. The second is in the book of Revelation in that most infamous of numbers, 666.

The first book of the New Testament was written by Matthew, formerly a Jewish tax collector. A man of such a profession would not only know about gematria, but would have dealt with letters as numbers on a daily basis for years. It is then no surprise that the Gospel of Matthew begins with an extensive genealogy of Jesus Christ and an obvious reference to gematria. In verse 17 we find this summation:

So all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen generations; and from David until the carrying away into Babylon are fourteen generations; and from the carrying away into Babylon unto Christ are fourteen generations.

The author here is clearly emphasizing the number fourteen but fails to tell the reader why. So why didn’t Matthew inform his readers of the importance of the number fourteen here? The reason is, is that the intended audience would have already known the importance and meaning of fourteen.

Michelangelo's David

THE KEY OF DAVID

To any literate Jew (and Jews may have been the most literate people on earth at this time) the number fourteen would have been a clear reference to King David, and hence a fulfillment of prophecy that the Messiah would come from the House of David.

דוד = David = 14

דוד = 4 + 6 + 4 = 14

This name in Hebrew has only three letters, making its sum easy enough for a child to see. This name and its math is so simple that it surely was one of the most well known ‘Number-Names’ to any devout Jew. This little known fact can be seen in most Bibles as a footnote to the text.

What was not known until now is the following.

In Erasmus’s Greek Textus Receptus, the origin of King James Version of the Bible and a primary Protestant document, we find that the number of words in this genealogy (verses 1-16) comes to exactly 248.

So all the generations from Abraham to David…

We have seen how this passage relates to David, but the number of words in the passage is also another reference to the practice of gematria, be it intentional or divine coincidence.

Matthew 1:1-16 = 248 Words

אברהם = Abraham = 248

40 + 4 + 200 + 2 + 1 = 248 = Abraham

The name Jesus Christ has an alphanumeric sum in standard Greek gematria of 2368, which forms into a cube of crosses.

Read more about the Jesus Cube here.

The Old Testament is similarly laced with references to gematria. It is well attested by many Jewish authorities and is authorized by the Talmud, a sacred text to the Hebrews, as a legitimate form of scriptural scrutiny.

The reference in the Talmud is to Genesis 14:14 where Abraham sends 318 servants to rescue Lot. It is thought by commentators that this 318 is really just a gematric reference to his chief servant named Eliezer, since his name has a value of 318.

אליעזר = Eliezer = 318

MOUNT SINAI

Similarly, in Genesis 28:12 God shows Jacob in a dream a ladder reaching unto heaven, now known as ‘Jacob’s Ladder’. Jewish commentators have seen this as a reference to Mt. Sinai, where the Law was given unto Moses, since the word for Ladder and Sinai have the same value and they both require climbing and both reach up into heaven.

סלם = Ladder = 130

סיני = Sinai = 130

THE SILVER OF JUDAS

The culmination of the Passion Story of Christ begins with the betrayal of Judas. In this most famous betrayal of all time, we have a subtle nod to gematria, that those early Jewish converts to Christianity would certainly have recognized. The gospels record that Judas betrayed the Lord for the price of 30 pieces of silver.

Those scholars and theologians unfamiliar with the depth of historical gematria or its universality in the ancient world, cannot appreciate the reason this detail was included in the scriptures. It is both a fulfillment of prophecy and a dire warning to Judah the remnant of Israel, the Jews.

30 Pieces of Silver

Judas (יהודה) = 30

Jew/Judah (יהודה) = 30

SERPENT-MESSIAH?

One of the most famous historical citations of gematria from the Old Testament is especially relevant to the Christian theological understanding of the scriptures. In the book of Numbers while the Israelites are wandering the wilderness they are plagued by serpents. Moses is instructed to make a serpent of brass and set it on a pole, and those who were bitten by the snakes could be healed by only gazing at the serpent.

Theologians have long seen this incident as a prophetic reference to Christ on the cross. Here the serpent represents sin as it did in the Genesis account of the garden of Eden. As Christ then died on the cross for the sins of all humanity the token serpent of sin saved those bitten of sin in the wilderness.

What might have inspired this interpretation is the fact that the Hebrew word for serpent has the same numerical sum as that of Messiah.

נחש = Serpent = 358

משיח = Messiah = 358

What’s more, the Jewish toy, the dreidel, one of the most quintessential icons of modern Judaism shares this same identity.

נגהש = 4 Sides of the Dreidel = 358

In the New Testament Paul too gives a nod to gematria and once again leaves it to the reader of Greek to pick up the reference.

Galatians 3:17

And this I say, that the covenant, that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after…

Here the word for ‘law’ in Greek is ‘Nomos’ which has a value of 430.

Νομος = Law = 430

To skeptics this may seem like just another coincidence, but to any student of gematria and all ancient Greek and Hebrew readers were students of gematria, 430 is a very famous number. For someone like Paul who was equally versed in Greek and Hebrew he may have stumbled across a bewildering number of correlations to this number, all of which are very suggestive of some Divine hand at work in the languages of the Hebrew and Greek.

The following list of words all have the same value of 430.

• Mathematics (Mαθηματικα)

• Numbers (מספרים)

• Number (αριθμος)

• Law (νομος)

• Shekel (שקל)

The verse Galatians 3:17 connects in a startling way to the Temple of the Holy Spirit, by encasing it in a two-fold cubic shell.

Perhaps the most compelling evidence for gematria is found in the very name of the founder of Christianity, Jesus. Early Christians adopted Sunday as the worship day as opposed to the traditional Sabbath day of Judiasm. This shift was to honor that day of the week that Christ rose again from the dead.

The Bible begins with a narrative that is based on a seven day week. God created the world in the six days of the week and rested on the seventh, the Sabbath. We see this paralleled in the life of Christ, where on the sixth day his work on the cross is finished (Christ said, ‘It is finished.’) and on the seventh day, the Sabbath, he rested in the tomb. So in a very real way, Christ’s resurrection occurred on the eighth day of the week, which is the new Sunday of the new week.

Like an octave of music, which has seven whole notes and an eighth which is the return to the first, we can see an eternal renewal in the eighth day of the week. For early Christians this idea was all the more true to them because of the gematria of the name Jesus in Greek, which is 888.

Ιησους = Jesus = 888

That is the most number of eights any name in Hebrew or Greek could have. We see several references to eights in the Bible. Eight persons were saved from the flood. Ritual circumcision was to be performed on the eight day after birth. Jesus appears to Thomas eight days after his resurrection (John 20:26). King David, who foreshadows the coming true King in Christ, was the eighth son of Jesse, being the youngest (1Samuel 17:12). Christ was given the name Jesus on the eighth day at his circumcision (Luke 2:21).

The cube of the New Jerusalem

NEW JERUSALEM CUBE

In the book of Revelation, John sees the New Jerusalem descending from heaven. He is ordered by an angel to measure the city's dimensions with a measuring reed. This is a reiteration of multiple passages in the Old Testament, where prophets were ordered to measure the dimensions of a holy building.

The dimensions of the New Jerusalem are supremely simple. They are 12.

The 1728 magnetic balls represent the dimensions of the New Jerusalem. The meaning of this 12-based structure would not have been lost to John's intended audience: 12 Tribes, 12 Disciples.

But is there something more?

As of yet, we do not have the 'smoking gun' evidence that the authors of the Bible were using the ordinal denomination. They were aware of it (it was used for indexing, as in the acrostic Psalm 119) but we do not know for certain if correlations to the ordinal are consciously intended or mystically incorporated.

Which is why the cube of the New Jerusalem is so important, as each face of the cube equals that of the ordinal Hebrew, Lord Jesus Christ.

אדני יהושע המשיח = Lord Jesus Christ = 144

12^2 = 144

This spelling (the biblically correct spelling of Jesus) and title would certainly have been known to John. If he had known the ordinal summation of the name he would have known the city's dimensions, were also based on the most holy name of the Lord Jesus Christ.

ABRAAM > ABRAHAM

In the Old Testament we see that God quite often changes a person’s name. Abraam becomes Abraham, Jacob becomes Israel, Sara becomes Sarah. In the New Testament this tradition continues, where now Christ rechristens a person, namely in that of Simon to Peter. This also happens beyond the gospels with Paul who changes his Jewish name of Saul to Paul.

It is with these last two changes that we find a striking numerical relationship in the Greek. The key here is adding the title ‘Apostle.’ Peter was first a Disciple then later calls himself (in the book of 1Peter) an Apostle.

Saul’s name in Greek comes to 901. His new name and title comes to exactly twice the sum.

Saul (Σαυλος) = 901

The Apostle Paul (Αποστολος Παυλος) = 1802

901 x 2 = 1802

So in yet another supernatural finding, the birth name and number of Paul (Saul) is found in the first verse.

Here it would seem that doubling the sum represents the converted person or the born again Christian, the new spiritual being. We see this same pattern in The New Jerusalem of the book of Revelation. John describes it as a cube of 12 x 12 x 12. A cube such as this has an area of 1,728, which, not coincidentally is twice the sum of Jerusalem. So like with Saul to the Apostle Paul, the New Jerusalem is twice that of the old Jerusalem.

Jerusalem (Ιερουσαλημ) = 864

864 x 2 = 1,728

The Dimensions of the New Jerusalem = 1,728 (12x12x12)

We see this once more in the name Christ gives to Peter, in that of Petros, anticipating his eventual role as an Apostle and how he would be the new leader on earth of His church.

Jesus (Ιησους) = 888

The Apostle Peter (Αποστολος Πετρος) = 1776

888 x 2 = 1776

The doubling here of the value of His name is not to say that Peter would be twice that of Jesus, but rather, that Peter would be the next leader of the church of God. This fact may have even been used to evidence Peter’s leadership over the church. For we see a strong mathematical relationship again if we look at the Aramaic name that Christ sites in his renaming of Peter.

כיפא = Kepha = 111

111 x 8 = 888

Jesus (Ιησους) = 888

The icons of Habakkuk and Micah

INTENTIONAL GEMATRIA?

Much of theistic mathematics concerns mystical coincidence, but if, as I argue, that gematria was so well known in the ancient world that it needed no reference, certainly then there would be some intentional wordplay, like we see with Eliezer-318. In two books of the minor prophets, Habakkuk and Micah we find something that is perhaps more than a coincidence.

Micah 3:10 = 1014

Habakkuk 2:12 = 1014

Micah 3:10

They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.

Habakkuk 2:12

Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and stablisheth a city by iniquity!

It is the historical proximity of these two authors that makes this connection a compelling case for an intentional gematric correlation. Micah and Habakkuk lived and wrote within 100 years of one another. They lived on either side of the great Assyrian invasion and wrote on either side of the invasions and punishments of Israel.

Due to this historical and topical proximity, it is not too much of a stretch to argue that Habakkuk was not only aware of the writings of Micah, but was making an intentional numerical reference to the verse of Micah 3:10. Looking carefully at the Hebrew grammatical construction we find a basic similarity. Where Micah uses the proper nouns of Zion and Jerusalem, Habakkuk writes in a more general sense, speaking of towns and cities. In either case the same basic sentence construction remains the same.

Micah 3:10

בנה ציון בדמים וירושלם בעולה

Habakkuk 2:12

הוי בנה עיר בדמים וכונן קריה בעולה

To Build (Banah) בנה

In Blood (Ba'dameem) בדמים

By Iniquity (Ba'evelah) בעולה

This then might satisfy the modern skeptical materialist, who ever argues that there is a non-supernatural explanation. Although I find myself generally opposed to this position, when it comes to Holy Writ, it does not mean that occasionally it can't get it right.

Is it relevant that these two verses produce a figurative cross formation? Surely, neither Prophet could have known of the coming significance of the cross, making this a purely Divine 'coincidence.'

But what does it mean?

It is up for interpretation, but I see a prescient anticipation of the judgement of Jerusalem, the city that kills its own prophets, and would ultimately, by the iniquity of its leaders, crucify the Son of God.

24 ELDERS

The 24 Elders of the book of Revelation is a very poorly understood passage. This is perhaps because we have such a very dim view of the ancients and how they lived and what they thought. This obscurity is perfectly captured by gematria itself, which to the modern is but footnote to a footnote and rarely given more than a thought. But to the ancients, gematria was more than common knowledge; it was an everyday practice. Anyone who could read and do arithmetic was well versed in gematria.

An example of a modern day parallel might be crossword puzzles or suduku.

The early Christians believed the number 24 to represent Jesus 888. It's not hard to see why....

8 + 8 + 8 = 24

Some historians and biblical commentators think that the 24 Elders cited in the book of Revelation are a cryptic reference to the 24 letters of the Greek alphabet. This belief is almost totally lost on the modern person. However, in the ancient world the letters of an alphabet were mystical if not magical entities. These simple symbols came together to produce words, speech and ultimately the very medium of meaning that allowed thought to exist. Hebrew kabbalists still hold onto a similar belief that the 22 letters of the Hebrew alphabet were the primordial elements that produced the universe.

To the ancient then, the 24 elders were an obvious reference to the letters of the Greek alphabet among other references, such as perhaps the hours of the day. The first verse to mention the 24 elders is Revelation 4:4 and its sum is a fractal of the Cross.

If we divide the sum of Rev. 4:4 by the 24 Elders we find a most interesting dividend. The dividend is equal to The Lord and a quarter, a strange but very square sum indeed, as 870.25 x 4 = 3481 (59^2).

20,886/24 = 870.25

or

870 and a quarter

The Lord = 870

Ο Κυριος

5077 units form four sides of the 37th cube

and can represent the first and last CHAPTERS of the Bible

ALPHA-OMEGA

In the book of Revelation we find several references to gematria, including Christ calling himself ‘The Alpha and Omega.’ That is to say, the first and last letters of the Greek alphabet. Modern scholars might say this is simply a poetic way of saying the first and the last, however, a study of history of the day would disagree. Christians and Jews both of that time period were very much aware of gematria. They would encounter it on a daily basis in the market place and in their record keeping such a tax collector might keep.

In Revelation 22:13 we have the final reference to the Alpha and Omega.

Revelation 22:13

I am the Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.

If there are secret codes in the Bible, surely this would be a good place to hide them. When we look closely at the numerics involved with this verse we begin to see a very meticulous hand at work.

Looking initially at the numbers of Alpha and Omega in Greek we get the number one and the number eight-hundred, together eight hundred and one. This number is the exact same value for the Hebrew phrase ‘The key of gematria.’

Α + Ω = Alpha and Omega = 801

מפתה גימטריא = The Key of Gematria = 801

Similarly, if we add this number 801 to the value of the name Jesus in ordinal form, that is the value of the letters as their order in the alphabet, we find a double reference to Jesus and gematria.

Α + Ω = Alpha and Omega = 801

Ιησους = Jesus = 87 (Ordinal)

801 + 87 = 888

Ιησους = Jesus = 888 (Standard)

Interestingly, if we look at the ordinal version of the verse itself, we find another spectacular coincidence.

εγω ειμι το Α και το Ω = I am the Alpha and Omega = 180

180 is not only the sum of the three interior angles of every triangle known to geometry, it is also the sum of Jesus of Nazareth (Greek ordinal).

Ιησους Nαζαρηνου = Jesus of Nazareth = 180

If that weren’t enough, we find the entire verse itself is laced with mathematical improbabilities. The sum of the entire verse is 6887. This very specific number is what is known in number theory, which is the underlying basis of mathematics itself, called a ‘Semi-prime’ since the number has two prime factors. This is to say that there are only two numbers that can possibly factor into the number 6887. The numbers that do this are 71 and 97 exclusively.

71 x 97 = 6887

This verse is about the beginnings and ends, so it would make sense here if the number 71 and 97 has some reference to a beginning and or end. And they do.

ΓΕΝΕΣΙΣ = Genesis = 71

ΠΑΡΟΥΣΙΑ = Parousia = 97

The first number 71 is the sum of the word Genesis in the ordinal, which is the first book of the Bible and means beginning. The second word here is ‘Parousia’ in the Greek ordinal and means theologically the return of Christ, which is at the end of time. So we see that truly 71 times 97 equals the sum of the Alpha and Omega, beginning and end, first and last.

We have many other examples of correlations with the alphabet. The sum of the whole Hebrew alphabet comes to 1495, which is the exact same value for the Greek ‘The Eternal God’.

Sum of the Hebrew Alphabet

אבגדהוזחטיכלמנסעפצקרשת = 1495

The Eternal God

Ο Αιωνος Θεος = 1495

This number can be factored in two ways, both of which display the divine hand in the gematria.

65 x 23 = 1495

אדני = 65 = Lord

חיה = 23 = Life

Lord x Life = The Alphabet

13 x 115 = 1495

אהבה = 13 = Love

יהושע המשיח = 115 = Jesus the Messiah

Love x Jesus the Messiah = The Alphabet

These may seem strange correlations to the modern who has so takes for granted the very idea of language. In ancient cultures however, language itself was marveled at and thought to be imbued with strange if not supernatural powers. To the ancient, the sum of the alphabet would be an analog to the universe itself. We can see these sort of basic beliefs in the claim of the Alpha Omega of Jesus Christ.

From the very first letter of the Hebrew alphabet we find some incredible coincidences, that correspond very well with the idea of the alphabet being the source of number and mystical inspiration. For the very first letter, when spelled out according to the spellings of the Talmud, show us a most obvious and telling design.

אלף = 111 = A (Alef) the first letter of the alphabet

This triple ‘oneness’ of the first letter matches well with other gematric correlations to this number.

אלהים הוא אחד = 111 = God, He is One

μια πιστις = 111 = One Faith

Interestingly, if we sum the Hebrew alphabet again, this time using the modern Hebrew values, which include the final form letters, letters added by scribes centuries after Christ, we find a remarkable coordination to the Alef and the number 111.

Modern Hebrew Alphabet

אבגדהוזחטיכךלמםנןסעפףצץקרשת = 4995

45 x 111 = 4995

ΩΜΕΓΑ = 45 = Omega (Ordinal)

Alef x Omega = Modern Hebrew Alphabet

Mathematically, the number 45 is of fundamental relevance to our base ten number system, as 45 is the sum of the first nine cardinal numbers. Like the alphabet is the set of all letters in Hebrew, 45 is the set of all cardinal numbers in a decimal system.

45 = Σ 1-9

1+2+3+4+5+6+7+8+9 = 45

ΩΜΕΓΑ = 45 = Omega (Ordinal)

If we look at the Greek letter ‘A’ the Alpha mentioned in Revelation we find it corresponds to many names of God in the Old Testament Hebrew. It may not be immediately obvious why it should do so, but it is perfectly appropriate. The idea that Hebrew should only match up to Hebrew and to Greek is a great oversimplification of the united theology of the Old and New Testaments.

Very often we find that Hebrew words connect in meaningful theological ways with Greek terms as well as Greek words corresponding to the earlier Hebrew. The meaning here is showing us a united text, a completed work and a theological synthesis of both testaments. This we can see in the Alpha and Omega of the Greek.

Αλφα = 532 = Alpha

הקדוש האלהים יהוה = 532 = The Holy Lord God (1 Sam. 6:20)

שם יהוה עליון = 532 = Name of the Lord Most High (Ps. 7:17)

יהוה מושיעך וגאלך = 532 = Lord Thy Savior & Redeemer (Isa. 49:26)

Now if we study the Omega, the last letter of the Greek alphabet, we find theological inflections in the Greek, that are truly Trinitarian.

Ωμεγα = 849 = Omega

η τριας εν μοναδι = 849 = The Three in One

η μονας εν τριαδι = 849 = The One in Three

ο τελειος ανερ = 849 = The Perfect Man

The origin of our English word ‘Alphabet’ comes from the Hebrew Alef-Bet for the first two letters of the alphabet. Here again we find startling correlations to gematric claims of Jesus Christ in Revelation with the Alpha and Omega, now in Hebrew, the Jewish native tongue as Alef and Tav.

אלף בית = 523 = Alphabet

אלף ותו = 523 = Alef and Tav (Alpha and Omega)

More intriguingly, this number 523 appears again in a complete way in the very text itself of the Old Testament. If we count the number of words of the first verses of all the 39 books of the Old Testament we find they number exactly to 523. Here we can begin to see the Divine hand acting through the ages, working in concert with the many minds and authors who wrote the scripture and finally the Lord signing off with a simple signature in number in that of 523, the Alpha and the Omega.

Total Words in all Old Testament 1st Verses = 523

The gematria of the ancient world was not viewed as it is today, as some obscure possibly Satanic occult conspiracy. Rather, gematria was a common everyday fact that all peoples of the civilized world of the Mediterranean were aware of.

We have seen that both the Old and New Testament display an understanding by the authors of basic gematria. The archaeology of the Graeco-Roman world displays an everyday understanding of gematria as seen in potshards, ancient manuscripts and even graffiti. We now are also becoming aware of just how prevalent the practice was in the ancient world especially among the early Christians.

LORD = FAITH

In Roger Bagnall’s book ‘Everyday Writing in the Graeco-Roman East’ we find what may be the very first archaeological Christian reference to Biblical Gematria, or what the Greeks would have called Isopsephy. In the agora of ancient Smyrna, archaeologists have discovered a graffito or graffiti of clearly Christian origin. What’s more it predates 125 AD making it within a generation of Christ and his followers.

The graffiti records one of the most outstanding correlations of Biblical gematria and reads as follows.

ισοψηφα

κυριος ω

πιστις ω

A modern translation would read:

These words are equal:

Lord = 800

Faith = 800

One wonders if this ancient graffiti artist was aware of the second coordination between these words that have such a powerful theology. When we add the letters up of these two words, now using an entirely different but logical connected number system, that of the ordinal, we find once again that they have equivalence.

κυριος = Lord = 89

πιστις = Faith = 89

The chances that the word Lord and Faith would have a double equivalency is around 1 in 100,000 or one hair out of all the hairs on the average human head.

See Gideon's Diamond in the Map of the Three Seven

The 300 of GIDEON

In the book of Judges we have a famous scene, in which God selects 300 men to make a miraculous victory for the Israelites. This selection process is often misunderstood by students of the Bible, who think that God is selecting the men based on some sort of military merit. This idea is contrary to spirit of the story, in that it is by God's power and not that of the men, that the victory is achieved. This is underscored by the very gematria of the number 300, which indicates the miracle was perfromed by God's spirit.

This specific command comes, interestingly enough, in the SEVENTH verse, of the SEVENTH chapter of the SEVENTH book of the Bible. The only such triple-seven verse in the whole of the Bible.

Judges 7:7

And the LORD said unto Gideon, By the three hundred men that lapped will I save you,

and deliver the Midianites into thine hand: and let all the other people go every man unto his place.

This number, in the context of the story, appears to be specifically chosen by God, though he does not explicitely reveal why. Only by the unified front of the geometry and the gematria of the Bible does the number make sense. It is one of the earliest names of God, from the second verse of the Bible. The number is more than just a round number, it is perhaps the first biblical gematria reference to the Trinity.

רוח אלהים = The Spirit of God = 300

300 = 24th Triangle

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Triangular numbers in the Biblical context are a reference to the Trinity.

God tells Gideon that the 300 are to shout aloud for all the Midianites to hear: "The Sword of the Lord and of Gideon." Is this a reference to the blade like point of the triangle? It would appear so, as there are three significant triangles in the passage.

Sword (חרב) = 210

Three-Hundred = 300

The Sword of the Lord and of Gideon = 435 = חרב ליהוה ולגדעון

435 = T-29

300 = T-24

210 = T-20

29 + 24 + 20 = 73

The Three-Seven Code

The SECRETS of the SEPTUAGINT

It might surprise most moderns to learn that the early Christians had a decided preference for reading the Old Testament in Greek, known now as the Septuagint. In fact, at that time so did most Jews around the Mediterranean. Until, that is, the Christians started pointing out how the entire Old Testament, their Tanakh, prophetically anticipated the coming of the Son of Man, Jesus of Nazareth.

At which point the Hebrews decided to go back to Hebrew....

According to Sir L.C.L. Brenton, the translator of Zondervan's Septuagint, Jewish scholars in the days of the early Church returned to the Hebrew scriptures because (paraphrasing here) the Christians had ruined the Septuagint for them. And more importantly, the new Christians couldn't read Hebrew. In other words, the Jewish skeptics could argue that the prophecies were not there in the original Hebrew and no one was qualified to rebut their argument.

Perhaps one of the points of contention between the early Christians and the Jewish skeptics could have started in the very first verse. To the ancient mind, the mind of nearly any literate person in the 1st century AD, the first verse of the Bible would have read as an obvious code and allusion to the Lord Jesus Christ. See below.

3,167 + 1 = 3,168

In the ancient world, when gematric sums were only off by one number, they were considered to be equal. They called this ‘Fudge Factor’ a Collel.

Greek Lord Jesus Christ = 3,168

Greek Genesis 1:1 = 3,167

By today's standard we would consider this a near miss, but in understanding the ancient mind we must enter in to their mindset, where things such as 'Collel's' were absolutely legitimate.

We have seen that the Bible is laced with references to gematria and name and number. Biblical scholars have used these references to discover or bolster theological insights.

The real question is not, Is Gematria Biblical? rather it is how Gematric is the Bible?

The Bible is an extraordinarily large historical document, and the best preserved work in history. It is also entirely composed of number. The father of Western mathematics, Pythagoras, contended that the universe operated according to the whims and dictates of number and mathematics alone. Thousands of years later, science has proven this fact over and over again. It would seem then something more than a coincidence, that the Holy Book of the world’s largest religion was also a vast encyclopedia of hidden mathematical improbabilities.

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