We now come to the last part in this present series, based on the first verse of Genesis. “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” Several expositors over the years have commented on the beauty of this verse, a transcendent beauty of numerical design that simply could not have been the result of human workmanship. In this paper I should like to mention the work of Dr Bullinger, Ivan Panin, Dr Charles Ozanne, and Dr Vernon Jenkins, to mention but four sources, the first two from the turn of the century, and the last two of the present time.
First of all, let’s have a look at this verse in the Hebrew, as displayed by Vernon Jenkins in an article which he wrote some years ago. It shows very clearly how the Gematria is calculated, and gives the totals for the words. (Hebrew words not shown)
|90 + 200 + 1 + 5||400 + 1 + 6||40 + 10 + 40 + 300 + 5||400 + 1||40 + 10 + 5 + 30 + 1||1 + 200 + 2||400 + 10 + 300 + 1 + 200 + 2|
|earth the||and –||heavens the||–||God||created||beginning the In|
[And as I edit this Telegraph in March 1999, I have heard from Vernon to say that he has set up his own web site, which I heartily commend to all my readers. It contains the substance of this chapter, and much more about triangle numbers. To view it, click on to http://homepage.virgin.net/vernon.jenkins/index.htm His thesis is entitled “THE OTHER BIBLE CODE”]
The final total is 2701, which is yet another triangle number, the 73rd in fact. But the last two words of the verse (‘and the earth’) add up to 703, which is the 37th triangle number.
It is also interesting to notice that
407 = 11 × 37,
296 = 8 × 37,
and their sum,
703 = 19 × 37.
The number 37 pervades the whole of this structure. Having carved off the last two words from the rest, we find the first five words adding up to 1998, which is 3 × 666, and 666 is the 36th triangle number! Now
666 = 18 × 37,
so we have yet another example of the ubiquitous 37. Vernon Jenkins has depicted this whole verse in a most graphic manner, by a composite triangle. The central triangle has numerical value 703, and the three surrounding triangles are each of numerical value 666. So often these days we are presented with information about the “Antichrist”, and his number, 666, but if that is the case, then why do we find it THREE TIMES in the first verse of Genesis, before Satan had fallen?
I should like to present an answer to that, extracted from a paper I wrote a while bock, [P.T. 80C] after I had found 666 in Psalm 118:22. Unfortunately the Hebrew of this verse cannot be presented
|corner||Head of||has become||the builders||(which) rejected||The stone|
The words we are interested in are the ‘Head of the Corner’. They are pronounced L’ROSH PINNAH, and together they have a numerical value of 666, as shown in the following table.
|Total = 666|
When first I found this, I was so astounded I had to check the calculation THREE TIMES, to make sure I hadn’t been careless, but no, it was certainly the correct sum. So why should “The Head of the Corner”, represent the Lord Jesus Himself, be accounted as 666? Herein is a great lesson, I feel. 666 was NOT originally a “bad” number, but it was “stolen” by one who had declared “I will sit on the mount of the congregation, I will elevate my throne above the stars of God, Iwill be like the Most High.” (Isaiah 14) Surely he must have known about these numbers from the very beginning, the one who was himself “Full of wisdom and perfect in beauty”. (Ezek.28) Therefore I am no longer puzzled about the appearance of 666 three times in the first verse of the Bible.
There are many other unique properties to be found in Genesis 1:1, with its amazing variety of factors of SEVEN. But I must leave these for now, simply because I have wanted to focus on the appearance of the triangle numbers, and their significant appearance in the Bible. I’m sure there must be other examples from which lessons may be learned, and if our readers have an urge to spend a little time investigating, using the list in P.T.110, then we should be delighted to receive further enlightenment.
Why triangles? Maybe each triangle is a symbol of the Trinity, placing God’s stamp of approval on His own work. If so, then the Trinity appears WITHIN the triangle of Gen.1 :1, with its 3 X 666, surrounding the central triangle to do with the earth. It is as though the Godhead is protecting the Geosphere of His plans and purposes. And with that, we’ll leave the mystery of the triangles.
Finally, I should like to add yet another piece of information, which has come to hand in recent days, from a magazine published in America, entitled “YAVOH, He is coming”, the newsletter of “Lion and Lamb Ministries.” In their November 1997 issue, and on the first page, their Editor, Monte Judah spoke about the MIDDLE word in Genesis 1:1, pronouncedETH, and impossible of translation because it is a little connecting word used in the construction of sentences. But this word consists of the FIRST and the LAST letters of the Hebrew alphabet, and the expression “The First and the Last” occurs in significant places in the Bible, for example, Isaiah 44:6 where we read,
“Thus says the Lord, the King of Israel, and his redeemer the Lord of Hosts, I am the FIRST, and I am the LAST, and beside me there is no god.”
This is repeated in Revelation 1:7-8, 1:17, and 22:13.
“I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End, the First and the Last.”
Surely it isn’t without point that this secretive, untranslatable little word should have pride of place as the CENTRAL WORD in Genesis 1? Are we being shown the very presence of the Christ, the Son of God, in this verse, long before His time of manifestation? It is instructive to see that The Apostle John has used this in the first verses of his Gospel.
“In the beginning was the WORD, (the word ETH), and the WORD was with God, (ETH is placed right next to ELOHIM) and the WORD was God.”
And in verse 4,
“And God saw the LIGHT that it was good.”
In the Hebrew it is ELOHIM ETH HA-OR thus planting the Lord Jesus next to the word LIGHT. And John said,
“In Him was life, and the life was the LIGHT of men.”
In Zechariah 12:10 we read,
“I will pour out on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and supplication, so that they will look upon ME (ETH) whom they pierced and they will mourn for Him as one mourns for an only son, and weep over Him bitterly, like the bitter weeping over a first-born.”
Once again this little word is found RIGHT NEXT TO the One who is to come again in the clouds of heaven. Surely in all these things there is great wisdom, hidden wisdom. Was Paul referring to it in 1 Cor.2:6-7, “We speak wisdom amongst those who are mature – – the hidden wisdom which God ordained before the world unto our glory”?