This numbering structure only work's with the TR which the
King James Bible is translated from. Why? Westcott and Hort Greek NT adds
"Achaz/Ahaz" in Matthew 1:9 and in Matthew 1:25, omit's "autos
prototokos" or in the English "her firstborn."
Part 1: If we look at the first 17 verses
of the New Testament (The Gospel of Matthew) which deals with a single
principal subject: the
genealogy of Jesus Christ, It
contains 72 Greek vocabulary words in these initial 17 versus(*note;The verse
divisions are man's
allocation for convenience, added
in the thirteenth-century A.D.). We find the following Heptadic (7) structure
throughout these
original Greek verses in the King
James Bible.
NOTE: The Westcott and Hort Greek N.T. text adds "Achaz/Ahaz" in the Greek manuscript in Matthew 1:9
#1. The number of words which are nouns is exactly 56, or 7 x
8.
#2. The Greek word "the" occurs most frequently in
the passage: exactly 56 times, or 7 x 8.
#3. Also,
the number of different forms in which the article "the" occurs is exactly
7.
#4. There are two main sections in the passage:
verse 1-11 and 12-17. In the first main section, the number of Greek
vocabulary words used is 49, or 7 x 7.
#5. Of these 49 words, The number of those beginning with a vowel is
28, or 7 x 4.
#6. The number of words beginning with
a consonant is 21, or 7 x 3.
#7. The total number of
letters in these 49 words is exactly 266, or 7 x 38-exactly.
#8. The numbers of vowels among these 266 letters is 140, or 7 x
20.
#9. The number of consonants is 126, or 7 x
18-exactly.
#10. Of these 49 words, the number of
words which occur more than once is 35, or 7 x 5.
#11. The number of words occurring only once is 14, or 7 x2.
#12. The number of words which occur in only one form is
exactly 42, or 7 x 6.
#13. The number of words
appearing in more than one form is also 7.
#14. The
number of 49 Greek vocabulary words which are nouns is 42, or 7 x 6.
#15. The number of words which are not nouns is 7.
#16. Of the nouns, 35 are proper names, or 7 x 5.
#17. These 35 nouns are used 63 times, or 7 x 9.
#18. The number of male names is 28, or 7 x 4.
#19. These male names occur 56 times or 7 x 8.
#20. The number which are not male names is 7.
#21. Three women are mentioned-Tamar, Rahab, and Ruth. The
number of Greek letters in these three names is 14, or 7 x 2.
#22. The number of compound nouns is 7.
#23.
The number of Greek letters in these 7 nouns is 49, or 7 x 7.
#24. Only one city is named in this passage, Babylon, which in Greek
contains exactly 7 letters.
And on and on it
goes.
Just to understand how unique these properties are try to
design a genealogy-even from fiction that meets the following criteria:
1) The Number of words must be divisible by 7 evenly (In
each of these constraints, it is assumed that the divisions are without
remainders.)
2)The number of
letters must also be divisible by 7.
3)The number of
vowels and the number of consonants must be divisible by 7.
4)The number of words that begin with a vowel must be divisible by
7.
5)The number of words that begin with a consonant
must be divisible by 7.
6)The number of words that
occur more than once must be divisible by 7.
7)The
number of words that occur in more than one form must be divisible by
7.
8)The number of words that occur in only one form
shall be divisible by 7.
9)The number of nouns shall
be divisible by 7.
10)Only 7 words shall not be
nouns.
11)The number of names in the genealogy shall
be divisible by 7.
12)Only 7 other kinds of nouns are
permitted.
13)The number of male names shall be
divisible by 7.
14)The number of generations shall be
21, also divisible by 7.
There are even more features in the numerical structure of
the words themselves. As you may know, both the Hebrew and
Greek use the letters of the alphabet for numerical values. Therefore,
any specific word in either Hebrew or Greek- has a
numerical value of its own by adding up the values of the letters in
that particular word. The study of the numerical values of
words is called gametria.
The 72 vocabulary words add up to a gametrical value of
42,364, or 7 x 6,052.
The 72 words appear in 90
forms-some appear in more than one form. The numeric value of the 90 forms is
54,075, or 7 x
7,725. Exactly.
It becomes immediately obvious that hidden below the surface
are aspects of design that cannot be accidental or just
coincidence.
Part 2: Matthew 1:18-25 - The History of
Christ's Birth. Again The Westcott Hort Greek omitts "autos prototokos"
or
in the English "her firstborn" in
verse 25.
The Pattern of SEVENS in Matthew 1:18-25 - The History of
Christ's Birth
1. The number of words in the seven
word passage is 161 (7 x 23 = 161)
2. The number of
Vocabulary words is 77 (7 x 11 = 77)
3. Six Greek
words occur only in this passage and never again in Matthew. These six Greek
words contain precisely 56 letters
(7 x 8 =
56)
4. The number of distinct proper names in the
passage is 7
5. The number of Greek letters in these
seven proper names is 42 (7 x 6 = 42)
6. The number
of words spoken by the angel to Joseph is 28 (7 x 4 = 28)
7. The number of Greek forms of words used in this passage is 161 (7 x
23 = 161)
8. The number of Greek forms of words in
the angel's speech is 35 (7 x 5 = 35)
9. The number
of letters in the angel's 35 forms of words is 168 (7 x 24 = 168)
This phenomenal discovery by Panin has been examined by
numerous authorities and the figures have been verified. In total,
Panin accumulated over forty thousand pages of detailed
calculations covering most of the text of the Bible before his death.
These incredible, mathematical patterns are not limited to
the number seven. There are numerous other patterns. These amazing
patterns appear in the vocabulary, grammatical forms, parts
of speech, and particular forms of words. They occur throughout
the whole text of the Bible containing 31,173 verses. When
you consider the amazing details of this mathematical phenomenon
you realize that the change of a single letter or word in
the original languages of Hebrew or Greek would destroy the pattern.
Now we can understand why Jesus Christ declared that the
smallest letter and grammatical mark of the Scriptures was
persevered by God's Hand: "For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and
earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no
wise
pass from the law, till all be fulfilled" (Matthew 5:18).
Other Implications
There are words in the passage just described that occur
nowhere else in the New Testament. They occur 42 times (7 x 6)
and have 126 letters (7 x 18). How was this
organized?
Even if matthew contrived this characteristic into his
Gospel, how could he have known that these specific words-whose sole
characteristic is that they are found nowhere else in the
New Testament-were not going to be used by the other writers?
Unless we assume the absurd hypothesis that he had an agreement with
them, he must have had the rest of the New Testament
before him when he wrote his book. The Gospel of Matthew, then, must
have been written last
It so happens the Gospel of Mark exhibits the same
phenomenon. It can be demonstrated that it would have had to be written
"last." The same phenomenon is found in Luke, John, Peter,
Jude, and Paul. Each would have had to write after the other in
order to contrive the vocabulary frequencies! You can
demonstrate that each of the New Testament books had to have been
"written last."
There is no human explanation for this incredible and precise
structure. It has all been supernaturally designed. We simply gasp,
sit back, and behold the skillful handiwork of the God who
keeps his promises.
The Astonishing Pattern of SEVENS in Genesis 1:1
by Grant R. Jeffrey (from his book "The Signature of God")
"In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth" (Genesis 1:1)
(Genesis 1:1)
Ivan Panin carefully examined the Hebrew text of Genesis 1:1
and discovered an incredible phenomenon of multiples of 7 that
could not be explained by chance. Genesis 1:1 was composed
of seven Hebrew words containing a total of 28 letters.
Throughout the Bible the number seven appears repeatedly as a symbol
of divine perfection - the 7 days of creation, God
rested on the 7th day, the 7 churches, the 7 seals, the 7 trumpets,
etc. In total, Panin discovered 30 separate codes involving
the number 7 in this first verse of the Bible.
A Partial Listing of the Phenomenal Features of Sevens Found
in Genesis 1:
1. The number of Hebrew words =
7
2. The number of letters equals 28 (7 x 4 =
28)
3. The first three Hebrew words translated "In
the beginning God created" contain 14 letters
(7 x 2
= 14)
4. The last four Hebrew words "the heavens and
the earth" have 14 letters (7 x 2 = 14)
5. The fourth
and fifth words have 7 letters
6. The sixth and
seventh words have 7 letters
7. The three key words:
God, heaven and earth have 14 letters (7 x 2 = 14)
8.
The number of letters in the four remaining words is also 14 (7 x 2 =
14)
9. The shortest word in the verse is the middle
word with 7 letters
10. The Hebrew numeric value of
the first, middle and last letters is 133 (7 x 19 = 133)
11. The Hebrew numeric value of the first and last letters of all
seven words is 1393 (7 x 199 = 1393)
12. ...
When professors on the mathematics faculty at Harvard
University were presented with this biblical phenomenon they naturally
attempted to disprove its significance as a proof of divine
authorship. However, after valiant efforts these professors were
unable to duplicate this incredible mathematical phenomenon.
The Harvard scientists used the English language and artificially
assigned numeric values to the English alphabet. They had a
potential vocabulary of over 400,000 available English words to
choose from to construct a sentence about any topic they
chose. Compare this to the limitations of word choices in the biblical
Hebrew language which has only forty-five hundred available
word choices that the writers of the Old Testament could use.
Despite their advanced mathematical abilities and access to computers
the mathematicians were unable to come close to
incorporating 30 mathematical multiples of 7 as found in the Hebrew
words of Genesis 1:1.
The number "seven" permeates the totality of Scripture
because the number speaks of God's divine perfection and perfect
order. The actual number 7 appears 287 times in the Old
Testament (7 x 41 = 287) while the word "seventh" occurs 98 times
(7 x 14 = 98). The word "seven-fold" appears seven times. In
addition, the word "seventy" is used 56 times (7 x 8 = 56).
Ivan Panin discovered literally thousands of such
mathematical patterns underlying all of the books of the Old Testament
before
his death in 1942. I refer the interested
reader to Panin's book, The Inspiration of the Scriptures
Scientifically
Demonstrated, which discusses these
phenomena extensively. Panin and others have examined other Hebrew literature
and
have attempted to find such mathematical
patterns, but they are not found anywhere outside the Bible.
By the way, the crucifixion of Jesus took place at Golgotha,
elevation = 777 meters above sea level. What a coincidence.