344: Andy Walton – The Wonderful Numberer

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Welcome to good Chris Delphian
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And now let’s talk more about

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this week’s talk.
Welcome to the good Chris

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Adelphian Talks podcast.
This is brother Brian.

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This week’s talk is a class by
brother Andy Walton called The

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Wonderful Number.
The class comes from a YouTube

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video that was posted over 10
years ago that was most likely

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associated with his talks that
were run for the Weekly World

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Watch that brother Andy has
spearheaded.

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And in this instance, I would
highly recommend that you watch

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the video itself for the slides
that go along with it, as it’s

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much more helpful to see this
one than to just hear it.

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And we’ll include the link to
the video itself in the

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description.
Brother Andy tackles the

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breakdown of how God uses
numbers in the Bible to Rep, to

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repeat themes within patterns,
and to reveal His promise almost

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through the code, of what each
number comes to symbolize.

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I’m sure many other folks have
nailed down, you know how

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connected all of Scripture is
through the numerical use of a

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Hebrew letter having a specific
number and what it all adds up

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to.
And this is just another really

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enthusiastic and succinct intro
into how astounding the chosen

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words of Scripture really are.
I will say there might be a

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couple of conclusions that are
bit of a stretch and they might

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be right.
With God’s precision, nothing

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would surprise me.
That being said, I do think that

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this would be a good one to pass
along to folks who you feel kind

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of need to have a wow moment.
As far as you know, Oh yeah, you

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know, give me proof that the
Bible really is inspired to be

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like, boom.
Listen to that.

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My favorite part is definitely
the end.

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It’s worth waiting for so long
class, grind it out, get to the

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end.
This would also be a good one

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for folks to discuss online or
in your ecclesias.

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After listening, you know what
other patterns are we able to

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find through the use of numbers?
So, as always, we hope that this

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strengthens your faith and
brightens your day.

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Brother Andy Walton, the
wonderful number.

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So this is a subject we’re going
to look at this morning, the

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wonderful number.
Anybody want to tell me what

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what you think?
We’re going to be looking at

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numbers.
We’re going to be looking at

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numbers.
We’re going to be considering

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two things, OK.
One is that numbers are symbolic

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in the Bible.
So I’m going to hopefully show

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you that instead of just reading
say #2 or #3 or #4 which we can,

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and there’s nothing wrong with
doing that at all, I’m hopefully

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going to show you that all of
the numbers in the Bible have

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got a deeper symbolic meaning.
Now, do you have to know the

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deeper symbolic meaning?
Well, no, you could just read

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the Bible and ignore the deeper
symbolic meaning.

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But of course, if you understand
the deeper symbolic meaning, I

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think it helps in a deeper level
of understanding of the

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scriptures and sort of binds
things together even tighter.

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So I think it’s really worth us
having a look at this.

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The second thing I’m going to
hopefully show you, and this

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gets pretty mind blowing to be
honest with you, I don’t know if

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you’re aware, I’m sure you are,
is that every single letter in

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the Bible has got an equivalent
number.

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So if you look in the Hebrew,
every single Hebrew letter and

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there’s 22 of them has got an
equivalent number.

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And every single letter in the
Greek has got an equivalent

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number.
And therefore you could actually

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have the whole Bible just as
numbers, couldn’t you?

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You could convert every letter
into a number and you could just

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look at pages of numbers.
And actually it gets really

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quite interesting when you do
that because it shows some

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remarkable things that God has
embedded into the Bible, almost

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like a number code with it
within the Scriptures itself.

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And when you combine the number
code with the actual symbology

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of the number, well, hopefully
when we get to it, hopefully it

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doesn’t get too complex, but
you’ll see that no human being

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on this earth ever could have
written this book.

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It’s just the most astounding
thing that God has done in terms

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of numbers.
Does anybody know where this

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title comes from?
The wonderful number?

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Has anybody read this phrase
before?

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The wonderful number Well,
actually, it’s probably, it is

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in your Bible.
In fact, it’s in most people’s

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Bibles.
And what I’ve done is scanned in

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my own Bible, which is just
here.

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And this is taken from Daniel
chapter 8.

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And the reason it’s in your
Bible and that you might not

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have read it is well, I’ll show
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So I’m focusing right in here on
this verse 13.

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Can you all see this?
So here’s verse 13.

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And in verse 13 is basically in
Daniel chapter 8, talking about

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two angels that are talking to
each other and they’re described

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as Saints.
It’s got one St. speaking to

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another St. but those are
angels.

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It really means 2 holy ones
talking to each other.

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But there’s a very interesting
thing in the margin because one

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of these angels is given a
title.

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And in the central margin, look,
it says that one of them has got

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the title, the Hebrew title of
Palmoni.

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I don’t know if that’s exactly
how you say it, but that’s how

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it’s spelled.
Pal moni.

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So one of the angels is given
the title pal Moni, and what

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that actually means in the
Hebrew is given their look in

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the margin, the wonderful
number.

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So one of these angels that was
talking has given been given a

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title, the wonderful number.
And this particular Angel goes

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on and tells Daniel a specific
number of days to do with the

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prophecy.
So God quite clearly has given

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an Angel in heaven his title
that you are chief numberer.

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You’re a wonderful numberer.
Now that must mean, of course,

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because God has given this Angel
this ability to do wonderful

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things with numbers, that God
himself is a wonderful numberer

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because you, you know, God has
bestowed his power on this

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Angel.
But isn’t it amazing that there

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is an Angel in heaven whose job
is to do with numbers?

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Now, we’re not going to look at
this prophecy or anything like

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it, OK?
But I’m just showing you that

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there is an Angel in heaven
given this title, the wonderful

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number.
Now, numbers crop up all the way

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through the Bible.
And since I’ve been thinking

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about this talk over the last
month when we’ve been doing the

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readings, it’s just amazing how
many numbers are there.

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And you sort of read it and skip
over it.

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But once your brain gets focused
in on it, you just see numbers

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everywhere.
So what sort of numbers are

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there in the Bible?
What sort of numbers are we

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going to read?
Well, not, yeah, not the actual,

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sorry.
What types of numbers is a

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better question.
So there’s all the numerical

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different numbers that are in
there.

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So where I was, the question was
hopefully going to get these

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sorts of answers.
So you get dates in the Bible.

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They’re numbers, aren’t they?
We get dimensions in the Bible

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and we get defined objects in in
the Bible.

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So in other words, we might be
told it’s the fifth day of the

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5th month of a certain year.
It’s all numbers, isn’t it?

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We might be told that the ark is
so many cubits by so many cubits

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and the and the Tabernacle is so
many.

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So numbers, we might be told
there’s a certain number of

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sheep or there’s a certain
number of fish or there’s a

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certain number of people.
It’s all numbers.

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And what somebody’s done, and
this certainly wasn’t me, is

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gone through the Bible to see
how many Bible verses contain a

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number.
And they reckon that 1/5 of the

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Bible verses that contain a
number.

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That’s amazing.
And as I say, once you get into

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this, you’ll suddenly see, gosh,
there’s a number and there’s

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another one, and there’s another
one, and they’re all through the

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Bible.
Now, what I want to, first of

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all just show you is that God
really does love numbers.

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Tell me, how do we know that God
loves numbers?

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What’s 1 of the things that
we’re told about that God does?

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That really is quite amazing
from a numbering point of view.

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Counts the stars.
Uh huh.

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Right.
So God counts the stars, and not

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only does he count them, but he
names them.

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Now just stop and think about
this just for a minute, because

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there are a lot of stars.
So I go on the Internet to find

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out how many stars there are,
and of course nobody knows, do

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they?
Nobody’s actually physically

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counted them.
It’s impossible.

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But here’s the best guess.
And this figure came up on NASA

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and a number of different
websites as to the number of

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stars there are.
It’s the number one followed by

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24 zeros.
Now, to put that in some sort of

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context, supposing we thought,
look, let’s get planet Earth

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counting stars.
Let’s get every man, woman and

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child onto this project and
let’s all have a go at it.

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And what we’re going to do,
there’s 7 billion people on the

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Earth right now.
Let’s just pretend everyone is

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capable of counting a different
star.

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And what we’re going to do is
say to every man, woman and

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child is every second you’re
going to count a different star.

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So on one second, that’s 7
billion stars all different of

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being counted.
On 2nd 2, there’s another 7

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billion stars counted.
And so the seconds go on.

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How much time goes by with the
world counting 1:00 every single

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second?
That’s a 7 billion, seven

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billion, 7 billion, seven
billion.

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How long till we’ve counted the
stars?

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7 years.
It isn’t seven years, and it

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isn’t even 70 years.
It’s not 700 years.

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It’s not 7000 years.
It’s not 70,000 years.

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It’s over 400,000 years, 400,000
years, 7 billion.

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Every single second.
And God not only is counted that

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lot, but is given every single
one of them a name.

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And just to put that even more
in context, the amazing thing

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was because I decided to look at
how much sand there is on the

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earth because there’s verses,
aren’t there that say sand and

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stars are equated.
And you know something on a

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totally different website, they
came out with an almost

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identical type of figure as to
the calculation of approximate

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number of grains of sand on the
earth.

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So next time you’re sat on the
beach, just do me a favour.

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Pick up a handful of sand and in
it you’ve probably got hundreds

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of thousands of grains, haven’t
you?

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In one handful.
And every single one of those

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grains is a star some hundreds
of times the size of our sun.

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And everyone is named, everyone
is counted.

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And then just look at the beach
that you sat on that might

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stretch on for half a mile or
more.

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And everyone is a star on that
on on that beach, because every

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grain is equivalent to a star
and everyone is counted and

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everyone is named.
And then think maybe you’re in

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some desert area like this where
there’s hundreds of miles of

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sand, however many feet deep,
and every single grain is

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counted and everyone is a star
and every single one is named.

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And then think of all the sand
in all the world, and every

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single one is a star, and
everyone is counted and everyone

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is named.
Now that to me is astounding.

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Do you think God is a wonderful
number?

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It’s beyond all comprehension.
The other thing we’re told, of

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course, is that he numbers the
hairs of our head.

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It’s an easy job with some
people in the room, but there’s

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more with there’s more with
others.

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There’s an easier job.
So God can Passover a few of you

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fairly rapidly.
But they say that on average,

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and nobody sits there and counts
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I don’t know if anybody’s
bothered to say wonder how many

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hairs I’ve got on my own head.
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How could you do it?
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some point in their life has had
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head.
And so when you multiply that by

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billions and all the people that
have ever lived, you get

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enormous numbers.
And he probably doesn’t even

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stop there because if God’s
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head, he’s probably, I mean, why
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But he loves counting.
He knows exactly what he’s made

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and he counts it.
I think he probably even knows

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the cells in our body and
probably knows the genetic code

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that goes on and on and on
inside us all, and probably even

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the atoms as well that that make
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It’s the most astounding brain
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So God most certainly is a
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And it’s not therefore
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in his, in his word.
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Now we might say, well, OK, God
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but how do we know that numbers
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And there’s a number of place in
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look at that prove that the that
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But I think probably one of the
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that we actually had as a
reading, which is well, we

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actually read from the in the
record in Matthew, but here it

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is in Mark chapter 8.
Let me just put this in context.

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OK, so the Lord Jesus Christ
with his disciples on two

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different occasions fed
different numbers of people.

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Do you remember this with some
fish and, and bread?

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And on the 1st occasion he fed
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and two fish and they gathered
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and two fish and they gathered
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And sometime later the disciples
were chewing the cud about all

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of this and wondering what, what
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And Jesus sort of stopped them
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He said, do you remember when I
when I fed the when I fed the

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5000 people with the five
loaves, what number of baskets

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were leftover?
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Well, there were 12 baskets.
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second time when I fed the 4000
people and I used 7 loaves, Do

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you remember how many baskets?
What was the number of the

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baskets?
And I went one to the there were

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seven.
There were 7 baskets.

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He said yes.
And he said this don’t you

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understand?
You think what?

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You’ve only asked me how many
number of baskets we’ve

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collected.
We’re debating this whole thing

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and you just ask us for the
numbers and then you say, don’t

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you understand?
In other words, Jesus said,

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I’ve, I’ve asked you for the
number, you should understand

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just by telling me the number.
Does that make sense?

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Now to the disciples?
I think they’d have gone away

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and said, right, He said the
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What, what does #12 mean?
It must mean something more than

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just the number.
Because he said, don’t you

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understand what this is all
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And therefore the disciples, I
think, would have said, of

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course we know what number 12
means, and of course we know

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what #7 means, and we know what
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Now he’s given us the clue to go
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Now we understand well if it’s
surely right for the disciples

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to work out what the numbers
mean, is it not right for us?

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So the question then is how do
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And that’s what we’re going to
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We’re going to unlock the code.
We’re going to, we’re going to

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unlock all the numbers 1 to 9,
and we’re going to unlock the

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number 12.
There are many other numbers if

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we had time, that we could
unlock.

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And we’re going to be pushed to
do the 9.

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Now, anybody know where we need
to go to unlock all those

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numbers 1 to 9 and #12 where do
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Creation is a good answer.
So come to Genesis chapter 1.

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And in Genesis chapter 1, we can
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Now you’ve all got a worksheet.
And on that sheet you’ll see

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numbers 1 to 9 down the left and
#12 and then there’s a column

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that says a keyword.
And what I’m going to show you

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is that on each of the days that
God created something, there is

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a keyword that gives us the SIM,
the symbolic meaning of that

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number.
I’m going to tell you what that

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what what that word is.
And if you agree with it,

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because you might want to check
it yourself, write it on the bit

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of paper.
And then I’m also going to give

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you additional meanings to that
word as well, because it’s like

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a big word that covers the whole
thing, but lots of subheadings

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as well.
Now, the reason we’ve gone back

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to Genesis, of course, is
because it’s the first record of

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numbers.
Now these are ordinal numbers,

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OK?
So this is the first and the 2nd

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and the 3rd and the 4th and the
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they’re still numbers, OK?
So we’re looking at the first

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occurrence of the number one,
the first occurrence of the

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number 2, and so on.
And buried into Genesis 1 and

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the creative account is all the
symbolic meaning of those 1st 7

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numbers because obviously we got
the 7th day as well when God

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rested, which we’ll look at.
So here we go, we’re on day one.

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And on the first day, of course,
it says in the beginning God

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created the heaven and the
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The earth was without form,
void, darkness.

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And the Spirit of God moved upon
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And God said, let there be
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God saw that the light was good.
God divided the light from

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darkness.
God called the light day and the

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darkness he called night and the
evening and the morning with the

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first day.
So there’s the number one.

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That is actually the number one
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So the day one you could say,
anybody want to hazard a guess

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as to the keyword that number
one is symbolic of?

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It’s in that passage there.
It’s God, OK, it is the, it is

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God.
So God is the keyword for #1 Now

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here’s why number one is the
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The first thing is this is to do
with unity, isn’t it?

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So we’ve got #1 it’s a whole
number, and it is to do with

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unity.
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It is also to do with truth.
Do you remember in the New

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Testament it says there’s one
faith, there’s one Lord, there’s

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one God.
I’m saying this in the wrong

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order.
There’s one baptism.

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OK, so it’s all to do with
unity, not division.

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And of course, from a
mathematical point of view #1 is

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in every single number, so every
single whole number.

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So if I said how many ones are
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If I said how many ones are in
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And just as there’s a one in
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God is everywhere in everything
that is whole, so #1 is God.

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And of course, there’s a verse
that that backs this up in

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Deuteronomy chapter 6 that says
here, O Israel, the Lord your

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God is 1.
I am #1 OK, now whether we get

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chance to search on this or not,
I don’t know.

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But the very bizarre thing is,
of course, that in the Hebrew

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the word for God is Elohim.
And believe it or not, the word

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elohim is plural.
Every time you read the word God

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in the Bible, it’s actually
plural.

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Elohim is plural.
And you might say, well, why

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doesn’t it say in the beginning
there were gods?

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Because the Hebrew is saying in
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But it then says he does this
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And he said this.
So it talks about a singular

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person, but God is plural.
And we’ll touch on why that is.

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But God, believe me, is just one
being with form, with great

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power.
But amazingly his name behind

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the scenes is plural.
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God hear, O Israel, the Lord
your God is one.

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OK, so I’ll try and explain why
the actual name of God has got

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plurality built into it.
So here’s day 2.

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Anybody remember what God did on
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He separated exactly.
So what he then did, look, on

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Day 2, God said let there be a
firmament in the midst of the

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waters and let it divide the
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And God made the firmament and
divided the waters which were

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under the firmament from the
waters which were above the

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firmament.
And it was.

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So when you’re reading about
firmament, what’s a better word

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in our language for firmament
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What’s the atmosphere?
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around the world.
Any ideas what the keyword might

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be for #2?
It’s in there, no divided.

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So the keyword for number 2 is
divide or divided.

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And of course, if you divide #2
into any number, what, what are

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you going to do to it?
You’re going to have it every

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single time, aren’t you #2 is
about division.

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So let’s just have a little bit,
let’s have another look a little

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bit further at at this one then.
So it’s to do with division.

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But what is God actually
dividing?

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Well, let’s have, let’s have a
think about this to start with,

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you know, sort of with the
waters.

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There were some that were taken
into the heaven, weren’t there?

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And some that were left on
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What do you think?
Right.

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So sums, sums on earth and sums
in heaven and what this is

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actually showing us really from
a God actually did do that, but

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actually what he was really
showing us was something great

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because what do you think the
heavenly water is symbolising?

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So we’ve got earthly water left
on earth and heavenly water up

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in the sky.
What might the stuff in the

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heaven be and the stuff on the
earth be?

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1 is feeding the other, isn’t it
the?

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Water in the sky feeding.
Yeah, so you got the water, but

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what what are heavenly things
versus earthly things, good and

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evil?
Heavenly things are godly.

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Earthly things in the Scriptures
are evil.

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So you’ve got God’s ways, you’ve
got man’s ways.

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And isn’t the whole Bible about
the division of good and evil?

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It’s about saying God’s ways
and, and your instinct ways and

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I want you to try and get on to
my ways.

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So the division in the Bible as
you go through it is all about

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the separation of God’s ways
from man’s ways, heavenly ways

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from earthly ways.
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The Bible says it’s separation
as well.

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So we’ve got to divide and, and
separate.

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Here’s a verse in Leviticus 20,
verse 26.

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And God says to his people,
including us, I want you to be

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holy.
For me, the word holy means

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separate.
For I the Lord am holy, I the

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Lord am separate, and I have
divided you from other people.

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So there are two things going on
now.

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So to start with day one, that’s
God and it’s unity.

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Day 2, there’s now division, and
there’s good and evil, and #2 is

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symbolic of division.
But the subheadings you might

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want to write down is
subdivision of good and evil,

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God’s ways, man’s ways.
OK, right #3 a bit of a clue

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what God did on the third day
there.

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He created plants.
So here’s what we read all in

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Genesis 1.
God said, let the earth bring

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forth grass and the herb
yielding seed, and the fruit

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tree yielding fruit after his
kind, whose seed is in itself

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upon the earth.
And it was so.

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And the earth brought forth
grass and the herb yielding seed

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after its kind, and the tree
yielding fruit whose seed was in

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itself after his kind.
And God saw that it was good.

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And the evening in the morning
with the third day, this is #3

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What do you think the keyword is
in all of that?

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The answer is seed.
You see, the word seed crops up

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all the way through here.
Now, I don’t know if you’re in

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Genesis 1, how many different
things are we told that we’re

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going to bring forth seed?
And what are they?

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Have a look.
It’s in verse 11.

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00:27:30,320 –> 00:27:42,880
Try again.
Try again 3 So we’ve got grass,

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herb, and tree.
Is that true?

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Grass, herb, and tree.
There’s three things bringing

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forth the seed, grass, herb, and
tree.

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Now what is seed all about then?
So let’s have a think about

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seed.
So what seed is all about is

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about descendants #3 is about
multiplication.

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It’s about reproduction.
So we know, don’t we, that God

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said to Abraham, I’m going to
give you lots of descendants,

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and it’s going to be through
your seed.

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And in effect, you know, man and
woman have got seed built into

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them.
And when those two, when the egg

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and the sperm come together,
then we create in life.

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But their seed that God sees it
as seed.

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And that is why it’s all to do
with descendants.

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So when God says I’m going to
great you make you a great

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nation, it will be your seed
that there literally is seed

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involved.
And ultimately the same applies

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with plants, doesn’t it?
So a plant has got seed and what

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00:28:52,920 –> 00:28:55,520
does it do?
But that seed, you know, gets

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germinated and now grows into an
identical bit of plant that was,

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00:29:00,320 –> 00:29:02,720
you know, the the parent of it
in effect.

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So #3 is all to do with seed.
Now again, you know, there’s two

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stories to seed, is there not?
The seed of the serpent and the

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seed of the woman.
And what chapter does that

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00:29:16,000 –> 00:29:18,880
appear in, in the Bible, in
Genesis?

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Where do we read about Genesis?
The seed of the woman in the

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Genesis chapter 3.
Interesting, isn’t it?

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00:29:26,360 –> 00:29:31,160
In the 3rd chapter we read all
about the seed of the serpent

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00:29:31,160 –> 00:29:34,960
and the seed of the woman.
Now the seed of the serpent is

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to do with what sin and the seed
of the woman is to do with

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00:29:42,760 –> 00:29:44,800
Jesus.
Jesus, and ultimately those who

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are part of that seed, that part
of those people who follow him.

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00:29:48,760 –> 00:29:53,360
Yeah, have a look at this.
So this is the Lord God talking

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in Genesis 26, verse 4.
I will make thy seed to multiply

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00:29:59,560 –> 00:30:04,240
as the stars of the heaven, and
will give unto thy seed all

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00:30:04,240 –> 00:30:08,680
these countries, and in thy seed
shall all nations of the earth

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00:30:08,680 –> 00:30:11,920
be blessed.
So seed is to do with people

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00:30:12,080 –> 00:30:15,280
multiplication.
But once again, we’ve got a

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division going on between two
types of seed.

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Happy with that right #4 What
did God do on the 4th day?

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Bit of a clue on the screen.
He made the sun, moon and stars.

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Now says let them be for lights
in the sky, in the firmament of

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the heaven, to give light upon
the earth.

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And it was so.
And God made 2 great lights, the

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greater light to rule the day
and the lesser light to rule the

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00:30:44,200 –> 00:30:45,920
night.
And he made the stars as well,

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00:30:46,520 –> 00:30:49,440
just like that.
And God set, set them in the

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firmament of the heaven to give
light upon the earth, and to

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rule over the day and over the
night, and to divide the light

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00:30:54,560 –> 00:30:57,720
from the darkness.
And God saw that it was good and

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00:30:57,720 –> 00:30:59,760
the evening in the morning with
the 4th day.

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What do you think the keyword is
on day 4?

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00:31:07,680 –> 00:31:24,240
No, no, no, no, no, but you’re
getting closer.

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Shall I show you what it is?
Now, the reason that it is earth

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is this.
If you have a look in your Bible

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00:31:36,120 –> 00:31:41,120
at verse, let’s have a look
here.

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00:31:41,120 –> 00:31:48,960
So verse 14, which isn’t on the
screen, it says let there be

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00:31:48,960 –> 00:31:52,280
lights in the firmament of the
heaven to divide the day from

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00:31:52,280 –> 00:31:56,080
the night and let them be for
signs and for seasons and for

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00:31:56,080 –> 00:31:59,880
days and for years.
Who is getting the signs in the

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00:31:59,880 –> 00:32:01,760
seasons and the days in the
earth?

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00:32:03,560 –> 00:32:07,480
How many things are the lights
in the heaven giving on earth?

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00:32:07,480 –> 00:32:09,760
What I’ve just listed out how
many things there?

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00:32:11,480 –> 00:32:14,720
There’s four.
So the signs, seasons, days and

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00:32:14,720 –> 00:32:18,200
years, there’s four things that
are happening on planet Earth

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00:32:18,760 –> 00:32:21,200
given by how many objects in the
sky?

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00:32:21,200 –> 00:32:24,040
What are the three categories
that we’re giving you the

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00:32:24,080 –> 00:32:28,160
answer?
How many things are in the sky?

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00:32:29,320 –> 00:32:35,960
There’s the sun, moon, stars.
So there are three things in the

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00:32:35,960 –> 00:32:38,640
heavens giving 4 things on
Earth.

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00:32:38,640 –> 00:32:44,040
Does that make sense?
Interestingly #3 is to do with

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00:32:44,040 –> 00:32:49,680
what seed.
Now, what is the sun symbolic of

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00:32:49,680 –> 00:32:53,280
in the Bible?
Jesus.

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00:32:53,680 –> 00:32:55,840
How do we know that the sun is
symbolic of Jesus?

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00:32:57,280 –> 00:33:00,400
Because it’s called the Sun of
Righteousness, SUN of

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00:33:00,400 –> 00:33:03,800
righteousness, right?
So there’s the sun, there’s

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00:33:03,800 –> 00:33:06,840
Jesus.
Is he one of the chosen seed?

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00:33:07,720 –> 00:33:10,640
Think so?
What are the stars symbolic of

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00:33:10,640 –> 00:33:12,680
in the Bible?
It tells us in Daniel the

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00:33:12,680 –> 00:33:15,960
Saints.
So the stars now are the Saints.

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00:33:16,280 –> 00:33:18,680
And what is the moon symbolic of
in the Bible?

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00:33:20,560 –> 00:33:26,200
Shall I tell you the Ecclesia?
Because the we’ve got no natural

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00:33:26,200 –> 00:33:29,400
light of ourselves, have we?
But we reflect the light of

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00:33:29,520 –> 00:33:32,120
Jesus, who is the sun into the
darkness of the world.

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00:33:33,000 –> 00:33:36,440
So individually we like stars,
but the moon is like the

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00:33:36,440 –> 00:33:40,480
collective congregation and the,
and the sun himself is the Lord

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00:33:40,520 –> 00:33:44,400
Jesus Christ.
And therefore in the sky, God

527
00:33:44,400 –> 00:33:48,320
says there are three things that
are casting light upon the earth

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00:33:48,320 –> 00:33:50,960
for signs, for seasons and for
days and for years.

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00:33:50,960 –> 00:33:54,560
And brothers and sisters, that’s
exactly what we do, is it not?

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00:33:54,560 –> 00:33:57,400
We tell people through the
seminars, this is what’s

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happening in the earth.
Here’s the signs, here’s the

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00:34:00,160 –> 00:34:01,880
seasons.
This is what’s happening,

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00:34:02,320 –> 00:34:03,760
otherwise you wouldn’t have a
clue, would you?

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00:34:05,080 –> 00:34:08,639
So there are three things in the
heavens giving 4 things upon

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00:34:08,639 –> 00:34:11,199
Earth.
Now, interestingly, of course,

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00:34:11,199 –> 00:34:14,840
the number 4 links very much
into planet Earth, because what,

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00:34:15,000 –> 00:34:19,560
what numbers, what sort of
things tie in with #4 that are

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00:34:19,560 –> 00:34:25,400
all to do with the Earth?
So we’ve got Four Seasons.

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00:34:25,400 –> 00:34:27,600
The whole Earth is affected by
Four Seasons.

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00:34:27,600 –> 00:34:31,199
What’s another very obvious one
that’s got 4 but covers the

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00:34:31,199 –> 00:34:34,199
entire Earth?
What’s the compass?

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00:34:35,159 –> 00:34:40,120
Points to the compass.
It’s the number 4 is all to do

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00:34:40,120 –> 00:34:46,080
with the complete earth.
Now, interestingly, it is to do

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00:34:46,080 –> 00:34:48,600
with the entire earth, but from
God’s point of view, there’s

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00:34:48,600 –> 00:34:51,320
again, division, isn’t there?
Because the entire earth is

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00:34:51,320 –> 00:34:58,040
made-up of two sets of people.
They are what’s another way of

547
00:34:58,040 –> 00:35:01,640
putting, what’s another way of
putting it, Jews and Gentiles.

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00:35:03,760 –> 00:35:07,800
So when you actually read about
the number four in the Bible, it

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00:35:07,800 –> 00:35:11,800
often is to do with encompassing
Gentile as well as Jew, because

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00:35:11,800 –> 00:35:16,280
it’s the entire earth #4 is to
do with the entire earth, not

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00:35:16,280 –> 00:35:19,720
just a bit of it, the entire
earth, Gentile and Jew.

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00:35:20,200 –> 00:35:24,560
And here in Acts 13, verse 47,
it says, I have set you to be a

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00:35:24,560 –> 00:35:26,480
light.
There we are.

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00:35:26,480 –> 00:35:29,440
Look, there’s the light that
we’re, we’re shining, we’re the

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00:35:29,440 –> 00:35:34,680
seed of the Gentiles that thou
should it be for salvation to

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00:35:34,680 –> 00:35:38,640
the ends of the earth.
So the whole of the Gentiles are

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00:35:38,640 –> 00:35:40,760
going to come in and that will
be the ends of the earth.

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00:35:41,880 –> 00:35:46,280
Happy with that.
Number 4 is earth, the entire

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00:35:46,280 –> 00:35:54,200
earth subheadings, Jew and
Gentile right #5 What did God

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00:35:54,200 –> 00:35:57,280
make on Day 5?
And creatures.

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00:35:57,560 –> 00:36:00,920
Not animals, Well, it’s unless
you want to class fish and

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00:36:00,920 –> 00:36:04,240
birds.
So God made fish and birds.

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00:36:04,800 –> 00:36:09,160
So it says here in verse 20, God
said let the waters bring forth

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00:36:09,160 –> 00:36:12,800
abundantly the moving creature
that has life and fowl that may

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00:36:12,800 –> 00:36:16,160
fly above the heaven, above the
earth in the open firmament.

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00:36:16,160 –> 00:36:18,800
And God created great whales and
every living creature that

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00:36:18,800 –> 00:36:22,000
moves, and the waters brought
forth abundantly after their

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00:36:22,000 –> 00:36:24,520
kind, and every wing foul after
his kind.

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00:36:24,520 –> 00:36:27,760
And God saw that it was good.
And God bless them, saying, be

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00:36:27,760 –> 00:36:31,200
fruitful and multiply and fill
the waters and the seas and let

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00:36:31,200 –> 00:36:33,920
the fowl multiply in the earth
and the evening in the morning

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00:36:33,920 –> 00:36:38,800
with the 5th day.
Now then, what do you think the

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00:36:38,800 –> 00:36:44,160
keyword is in that?
It’s not multiply, it’s not move

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00:36:45,320 –> 00:36:50,280
so long, those sorts of lines.
The keyword is life.

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00:36:52,160 –> 00:36:54,960
It’s life because this is the
first life, isn’t it?

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00:36:55,200 –> 00:36:58,800
OK, plants got a type of life,
but this is a living, breathing,

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00:36:58,800 –> 00:37:02,160
moving creature.
The keyword is life.

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00:37:03,040 –> 00:37:05,800
Now it’s interesting.
There’s two types of life here.

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00:37:06,720 –> 00:37:10,240
There’s some life in the water
and there’s some life in the

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00:37:10,240 –> 00:37:11,880
heavens.
Which one do you think came

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00:37:11,880 –> 00:37:13,200
first?
Or do you think it all happened

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00:37:13,200 –> 00:37:15,800
at the same time?
What does the Bible sort of give

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00:37:15,800 –> 00:37:23,840
you an indication of what comes
first, the fish and then the

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00:37:23,840 –> 00:37:25,360
birds?
Because if you look at the

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00:37:25,360 –> 00:37:28,720
order, it says that’s basically
what he’s doing, isn’t it?

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00:37:29,880 –> 00:37:32,880
God said, let the waters bring
forth abundantly the moving

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00:37:32,880 –> 00:37:36,640
creature that has life, the fowl
that fly of the heaven.

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00:37:36,640 –> 00:37:39,480
So you’ve got the moving
creature that has life, but it’s

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00:37:39,480 –> 00:37:41,360
like it’s starting in the
waters.

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00:37:42,120 –> 00:37:44,920
Does that make sense?
So God starts bubbling away,

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00:37:44,920 –> 00:37:48,120
making life in the waters, and
then he starts making life in

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00:37:48,120 –> 00:37:53,680
the heavens.
In other words, it’s almost as

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00:37:53,680 –> 00:37:57,360
if God is taking life out of the
water.

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00:37:57,360 –> 00:38:01,280
He starts off in the water with
these fish and whales, and then

595
00:38:01,280 –> 00:38:03,480
he starts making the stuff in
the heavens.

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00:38:03,480 –> 00:38:08,040
He almost takes these creatures
and makes life up in the open

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00:38:08,040 –> 00:38:10,920
heavens.
So God created great whales and

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00:38:10,920 –> 00:38:13,680
every living creature that
moves, which the waters brought

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00:38:13,680 –> 00:38:17,000
forth abundantly.
So it’s like everything was

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00:38:17,000 –> 00:38:19,800
being made from the waters.
That’s how it sounds to me.

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00:38:19,800 –> 00:38:23,480
Does it to you a little bit.
So I mean, obviously this goes

602
00:38:23,480 –> 00:38:26,800
totally against the evolution
that says the fish crawled out,

603
00:38:26,800 –> 00:38:29,640
became an animal, and then the
animals climbed trees and then

604
00:38:29,720 –> 00:38:32,200
threw themselves off in a
suicidal manner and lo and

605
00:38:32,200 –> 00:38:38,680
behold, started flying.
So but of course life isn’t is,

606
00:38:38,720 –> 00:38:42,320
is actually there’s deeper sub
meanings here because life is

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00:38:42,320 –> 00:38:47,040
also to do with salvation, isn’t
it?

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00:38:47,640 –> 00:38:49,840
Because we are saved if we’re
given life.

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00:38:52,160 –> 00:38:55,920
And of course we’ve also got new
life here coming from water.

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00:38:55,920 –> 00:38:58,760
We’re told that the waters
bought 4 things abundantly.

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00:38:58,760 –> 00:39:02,000
So we’ve got new life.
And I think there’s also a sub,

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00:39:02,000 –> 00:39:08,120
sub heading here of baptism
because we are taking people out

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00:39:08,120 –> 00:39:12,320
of water and giving them life.
In the New Testament, we’re told

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00:39:12,320 –> 00:39:16,160
to be fishers of men.
So we’re lifting people out the

615
00:39:16,160 –> 00:39:19,400
water.
So I think the birds that God

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00:39:19,400 –> 00:39:22,440
created a symbolic of those who
are following God, they’ve

617
00:39:22,440 –> 00:39:24,640
lifted out the water.
They’re in the heavens.

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00:39:25,000 –> 00:39:28,320
And the fish that are left in
the sea, well, they’re people

619
00:39:28,320 –> 00:39:32,640
who are swimming around, you
know, effectively the fish are

620
00:39:32,640 –> 00:39:35,240
symbolic of those who are
heading towards death because

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00:39:35,240 –> 00:39:38,280
they’re buried under the water.
And we go and lift them out,

622
00:39:38,280 –> 00:39:40,600
don’t we?
At baptism, we literally lift

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00:39:40,600 –> 00:39:44,440
them out the water.
And so I think the birds we’ve

624
00:39:44,440 –> 00:39:48,560
got up in the in the heavens, a
symbolic of of, of those who’ve

625
00:39:48,560 –> 00:39:51,840
been saved and given life.
And the fish that are left in

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00:39:51,840 –> 00:39:54,800
the water are those who are
still in, in death.

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00:39:55,040 –> 00:39:57,680
And the other word, and of
course this links in as well

628
00:39:57,680 –> 00:40:00,920
very much with this particular
number is grace.

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00:40:01,320 –> 00:40:04,480
So quite often you’ll hear that
number 5 is symbolic of grace.

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00:40:05,000 –> 00:40:09,160
And of course it is.
It is true, because we can’t say

631
00:40:09,160 –> 00:40:14,040
to God you must give me life.
Because we can’t, we can’t

632
00:40:14,040 –> 00:40:15,720
demand God.
It’s through his grace.

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00:40:15,720 –> 00:40:18,080
He says, Mark, you’ve got life.
John, you’ve got life.

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00:40:18,400 –> 00:40:20,480
Alfie, you’ve got life.
We can’t demand it, can we?

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00:40:21,560 –> 00:40:24,160
So it’s through God’s grace that
we’re given life.

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00:40:25,680 –> 00:40:28,880
And these two words come
together, baptism and life,

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00:40:28,880 –> 00:40:30,960
because this is to do with water
and life.

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00:40:30,960 –> 00:40:35,280
In Romans 6, verse 4, we’re
buried with Him by baptism into

639
00:40:35,280 –> 00:40:39,880
death, just like the fish under
the water there, like as Christ

640
00:40:39,880 –> 00:40:42,560
was raised up from the dead by
the glory of the Father, Even

641
00:40:42,560 –> 00:40:44,360
so, we should walk in a new
life.

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00:40:44,400 –> 00:40:47,960
We like pulled out of water, and
now we’ve got a new life.

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00:40:49,400 –> 00:40:54,640
So #5 is all to do with life,
and you’ll often see it when you

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00:40:54,760 –> 00:40:57,720
lock on to this number.
Water is involved.

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00:40:59,280 –> 00:41:02,560
The five stones that David took
out, where did he take them out

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00:41:02,560 –> 00:41:04,840
of?
Took them out of the water,

647
00:41:04,840 –> 00:41:07,480
didn’t he?
You suddenly see this cropping

648
00:41:07,480 –> 00:41:15,520
up #6 well, this is what I’m,
I’m presuming they weren’t

649
00:41:15,520 –> 00:41:17,560
galloping around quite like
that.

650
00:41:17,560 –> 00:41:23,080
But anyway, God made animals and
man.

651
00:41:23,320 –> 00:41:26,120
On the 6th day, God made animals
and man.

652
00:41:27,640 –> 00:41:31,240
So I’m not going to read all of
that, but John’s already told us

653
00:41:31,240 –> 00:41:34,800
actually what number six is
symbolic of what’s the keyword

654
00:41:34,800 –> 00:41:41,120
in there?
Man, man is what number six and

655
00:41:41,120 –> 00:41:44,080
now beast does come into it
absolutely odd.

656
00:41:44,080 –> 00:41:51,280
So but man is the keyword.
The number of man is number six

657
00:41:52,200 –> 00:41:53,880
and and here’s what what we
know.

658
00:41:53,880 –> 00:42:01,120
So man without God is definitely
like a beast, would we say?

659
00:42:01,440 –> 00:42:03,720
In fact, we’re told that man
without God is like the beast

660
00:42:03,720 –> 00:42:05,320
that perish.
There’s no difference.

661
00:42:06,120 –> 00:42:12,000
But man with God is like God.
Man without God, like a beast,

662
00:42:12,000 –> 00:42:15,840
is a man in sin, isn’t it?
So sin becomes symbolic of #6 as

663
00:42:15,840 –> 00:42:19,560
well.
Man with God is like a son of

664
00:42:19,560 –> 00:42:22,240
God, and he’s in the image of
God.

665
00:42:22,240 –> 00:42:23,680
And that’s all to do with
forgiveness.

666
00:42:23,680 –> 00:42:27,360
So there’s two types of men.
One got one man like God and

667
00:42:27,360 –> 00:42:32,360
another good man not like God.
The man who is like God is the

668
00:42:32,360 –> 00:42:35,360
one who’s got rid of his sin,
because then he becomes a son of

669
00:42:35,360 –> 00:42:39,000
God.
Now see, Ollie was right all

670
00:42:39,000 –> 00:42:42,560
along, because there we are in
Revelation and here is wisdom.

671
00:42:42,560 –> 00:42:46,520
Let him that has understanding
count the number of the beast,

672
00:42:47,080 –> 00:42:57,560
for it is the number of man.
It is the number 666, 666.

673
00:42:59,760 –> 00:43:03,600
Now that’s interesting because
it isn’t just six, is it?

674
00:43:03,600 –> 00:43:09,040
It’s 666.
So there are three sixes #3

675
00:43:09,040 –> 00:43:15,560
means seed.
So we’ve got here the seed of

676
00:43:16,040 –> 00:43:18,440
the serpent.
We’ve got the seed of sin and

677
00:43:18,440 –> 00:43:21,280
man, every man has sinned.
We’re all in the same boat.

678
00:43:21,680 –> 00:43:28,680
Our number is 666 and it’s the
same as the beast, right #7 What

679
00:43:28,680 –> 00:43:30,800
happens on the 7th day?
What did God do?

680
00:43:32,600 –> 00:43:40,120
And guess what the keyword is?
And there it is, He rested, He

681
00:43:40,120 –> 00:43:42,880
rested.
Keyword is rest.

682
00:43:43,880 –> 00:43:48,360
It’s a nice picture isn’t it,
that Janet will paint that for

683
00:43:48,360 –> 00:43:51,920
us later.
And here is the sub themes to

684
00:43:51,920 –> 00:43:53,960
this.
So we’ve got completion because

685
00:43:53,960 –> 00:43:56,520
when God rested on the 7th day,
he completed.

686
00:43:57,080 –> 00:43:59,520
It was all to do with perfection
because he said it’s all very

687
00:43:59,520 –> 00:44:04,560
good.
And we read in Hebrews on the

688
00:44:04,560 –> 00:44:06,920
7th day God rested from all his
work.

689
00:44:06,920 –> 00:44:09,440
So God’s rest is there for
people to enter.

690
00:44:09,720 –> 00:44:12,640
But those who first heard this
good news failed to end because

691
00:44:12,640 –> 00:44:15,000
they disobeyed God.
So God set another time for

692
00:44:15,000 –> 00:44:19,480
entering his rest, which of
course is in the Kingdom.

693
00:44:21,000 –> 00:44:25,160
Now, wonderful thing is when you
actually put all of this up on

694
00:44:25,160 –> 00:44:29,000
the screen, you can see we’ve
got, I’ve got numbers one to six

695
00:44:29,000 –> 00:44:32,240
down here.
So we’re saying God is number 1

696
00:44:33,280 –> 00:44:36,440
and God is mentioned and only
God is mentioned there.

697
00:44:36,680 –> 00:44:38,640
Then we’ve got #2 which is
division.

698
00:44:38,640 –> 00:44:41,240
And we, we were told that there
was waters above and waters

699
00:44:41,240 –> 00:44:43,680
below.
Then we’re told that the seed

700
00:44:43,680 –> 00:44:46,200
and we’re told that there were
three types of things that gave

701
00:44:46,200 –> 00:44:48,120
seed.
Grass, urban tree.

702
00:44:48,600 –> 00:44:52,240
Then we’re told #4 is the earth.
And there were 4 signs.

703
00:44:52,240 –> 00:44:56,880
Given signs, seasons, days and
years #5 is to do with life.

704
00:44:56,880 –> 00:44:59,320
And we’re actually told there
were insects, birds, whales,

705
00:44:59,320 –> 00:45:02,760
another type of fish, and
another type of bird.

706
00:45:03,320 –> 00:45:07,280
So there were five types of
birds and fish mentioned.

707
00:45:07,680 –> 00:45:10,320
Number six, we’re told that
there were creatures, cattle,

708
00:45:10,320 –> 00:45:14,240
creeping things, beast, man, and
of course we also know woman was

709
00:45:14,240 –> 00:45:16,800
made on that day as well.
So there were six things that

710
00:45:16,800 –> 00:45:19,840
God made there.
And in terms of the rest, when

711
00:45:19,840 –> 00:45:23,560
you go through it, there are 7
statements about when God

712
00:45:23,560 –> 00:45:24,880
rested.
When you go through it, there’s

713
00:45:24,880 –> 00:45:28,520
a little semi colon after each
one and there are 7 statements

714
00:45:28,520 –> 00:45:31,680
to do with God resting.
So though there’s a little bit

715
00:45:31,680 –> 00:45:38,760
of a, a chart there, and I think
all of that, you know, explains

716
00:45:38,760 –> 00:45:43,040
God’s plan and purpose.
So his plan and purpose is this.

717
00:45:44,160 –> 00:45:46,800
God created the heavens and the
earth.

718
00:45:47,800 –> 00:45:50,720
He then divided the world into
good and evil.

719
00:45:52,520 –> 00:45:56,120
He created a nation, a seed
through Abraham.

720
00:45:56,160 –> 00:45:59,880
And that nation was Israel.
Initially only direct

721
00:45:59,880 –> 00:46:03,720
descendants of Abraham could be
saved, but then we get Jesus,

722
00:46:03,720 –> 00:46:07,560
the light of the world, and he
established the ecclesia.

723
00:46:08,760 –> 00:46:13,440
They were able to create life
from water by taking people out

724
00:46:13,440 –> 00:46:17,240
of water through baptism.
The whole world was now part of

725
00:46:17,240 –> 00:46:21,400
God’s plan.
Man was finally in the image of

726
00:46:21,400 –> 00:46:24,520
God, IE we could become in the
image of God through the

727
00:46:24,520 –> 00:46:27,600
forgiveness of sin.
The plan is complete.

728
00:46:28,200 –> 00:46:31,960
It’s finished.
That is the days of creation

729
00:46:32,320 –> 00:46:35,200
written out in in in some sort
of code.

730
00:46:36,680 –> 00:46:39,880
There’s three of the numbers I
quickly want to explain to you

731
00:46:39,880 –> 00:46:42,760
that aren’t obviously in the
first seven days.

732
00:46:43,760 –> 00:46:45,200
The first number I want to
explain.

733
00:46:45,200 –> 00:46:47,360
This is very helpful to know
this particular number.

734
00:46:47,360 –> 00:46:49,840
This is a very, very important
number.

735
00:46:51,480 –> 00:46:53,480
We got the seven days of
creation.

736
00:46:54,480 –> 00:46:59,720
What would the 8th day be?
The first one again?

737
00:47:00,280 –> 00:47:05,120
It’s the new day.
It’s a new beginning and it’s to

738
00:47:05,120 –> 00:47:09,680
do with resurrection as well.
What actual day is the 8th day

739
00:47:09,680 –> 00:47:10,280
by the way?
Sunday.

740
00:47:11,800 –> 00:47:15,040
Sunday.
The Sunday is the first day

741
00:47:15,040 –> 00:47:18,320
because the Sabbath is the Is
the Saturday the 7th day?

742
00:47:18,320 –> 00:47:21,800
So the 8th day is the new day.
Today is the 8th day.

743
00:47:23,640 –> 00:47:25,000
This is all to do a new
beginning.

744
00:47:25,000 –> 00:47:30,920
Anybody know what #9 might be
symbolic of #9 is to do with

745
00:47:30,920 –> 00:47:36,360
finality and the end?
It is the last single digit

746
00:47:36,360 –> 00:47:39,920
number.
Do you realise if you multiply

747
00:47:39,920 –> 00:47:44,600
any number by 9 and you add
those remaining numbers

748
00:47:44,600 –> 00:47:47,160
together, it will always always
add up to 9?

749
00:47:48,480 –> 00:47:58,120
So 9 * 9 is 81, eight plus one
is 9/4 times 9 is 36, three plus

750
00:47:58,120 –> 00:48:00,200
6 is 9.
And it doesn’t matter how big a

751
00:48:00,200 –> 00:48:04,440
number you get, it will always,
always come back to 99.

752
00:48:04,440 –> 00:48:06,960
Is to do with the end.
It’s to do with finality, it’s

753
00:48:06,960 –> 00:48:10,400
to do with judgement.
Therefore, really what you’ve

754
00:48:10,400 –> 00:48:13,040
got here is the beginning and
the end.

755
00:48:13,040 –> 00:48:16,240
You’ve got the alpha and Omega.
They’re put together.

756
00:48:16,240 –> 00:48:23,320
Those those two numbers come
together like that, right #12

757
00:48:23,320 –> 00:48:25,480
anybody know what number 12 is
symbolic of?

758
00:48:27,800 –> 00:48:33,400
Yeah, government and rulership.
The reason #12 is symbolic of

759
00:48:33,400 –> 00:48:37,240
that is that is because 3 * 4 is
12.

760
00:48:38,280 –> 00:48:40,360
You’ve got three being the
siege.

761
00:48:40,360 –> 00:48:44,680
You’ve got 4 being the earth.
And the seed ruling the earth is

762
00:48:44,680 –> 00:48:47,480
therefore rulership over the
entire earth.

763
00:48:48,640 –> 00:48:52,760
So that’s why there are 12
tribes, 12 disciples who will

764
00:48:52,760 –> 00:48:56,480
rule over the 12 parts of the
Kingdom in in the future.

765
00:48:57,760 –> 00:49:02,960
It’s government and rulership.
Now then let’s see if we can

766
00:49:02,960 –> 00:49:05,800
rattle through some of these.
There’s the ark.

767
00:49:07,240 –> 00:49:09,600
How many people walked off the
ark?

768
00:49:10,800 –> 00:49:14,920
8 What does #8 mean?
A new beginning, a new

769
00:49:14,920 –> 00:49:16,200
beginning?
Was this a new beginning?

770
00:49:17,480 –> 00:49:18,640
It was a new beginning, wasn’t
it?

771
00:49:19,640 –> 00:49:21,760
Do you think it was a
coincidence it was eight people

772
00:49:21,760 –> 00:49:23,880
that walked off the ark?
I don’t think so.

773
00:49:24,120 –> 00:49:27,280
I think if we were decoding the
numbers, you’d say, aha, there’s

774
00:49:27,280 –> 00:49:29,240
the new beginning.
It’s eight people.

775
00:49:29,240 –> 00:49:32,520
Not six people or two people,
but eight people.

776
00:49:33,520 –> 00:49:35,360
What about this?
Anybody know what’s going on

777
00:49:35,360 –> 00:49:37,560
here?
Abraham.

778
00:49:39,320 –> 00:49:44,800
There’s Abraham being visited by
3 angels.

779
00:49:44,800 –> 00:49:47,240
It says men, but we we end up
finding out that they were

780
00:49:47,240 –> 00:49:50,280
angels.
Now, what is significant about

781
00:49:50,280 –> 00:49:53,280
the conversation that these
three angels are having with

782
00:49:53,280 –> 00:49:55,080
Abraham?
What did they gone there to tell

783
00:49:55,080 –> 00:49:58,480
him?
Not no, he’s going to have a

784
00:49:58,720 –> 00:50:00,440
son.
He’s going to have a son.

785
00:50:01,120 –> 00:50:04,080
He said, we’re going to tell you
all about the seed that you’re

786
00:50:04,080 –> 00:50:06,360
going to have.
And Sarah sat sat in the tent

787
00:50:06,360 –> 00:50:08,840
thinking, Well, that’s a joke
because I’m like pretty ancient.

788
00:50:10,000 –> 00:50:13,560
And Abraham’s there thinking,
gosh, they’ve come to tell me

789
00:50:13,560 –> 00:50:16,160
about the seed.
Do you think it’s a coincidence

790
00:50:16,160 –> 00:50:19,480
that it was three people talking
about the seed?

791
00:50:19,480 –> 00:50:23,640
Because what does 3 actually,
what’s 3 symbolic of seed?

792
00:50:24,640 –> 00:50:28,440
Now, here’s an amazing thing.
So these three turn up and talk

793
00:50:28,440 –> 00:50:32,560
to Abraham.
One of them disappears

794
00:50:32,560 –> 00:50:35,840
somewhere, and two out of the
three go somewhere.

795
00:50:35,840 –> 00:50:41,160
Where did they then go?
They went to Sodom and Gomorrah.

796
00:50:41,160 –> 00:50:43,480
So how many angels turned up at
Sodom and Gomorrah?

797
00:50:44,000 –> 00:50:49,280
22 angels, it says Genesis 19
verse one.

798
00:50:49,280 –> 00:50:54,320
Two angels came to Sodom.
Now why is it 2 angels and not 3

799
00:50:54,320 –> 00:50:59,200
angels or one Angel or they’re
dividing.

800
00:51:00,080 –> 00:51:03,560
They’ve gone there to divide.
They’ve gone there to separate

801
00:51:03,560 –> 00:51:10,560
what good from evil.
How many people came out of

802
00:51:10,640 –> 00:51:14,400
Sodom?
No, three, but one.

803
00:51:14,400 –> 00:51:18,360
Three.
There was actually 4, but one of

804
00:51:18,360 –> 00:51:22,920
them turned back.
There was Lot, his wife and two

805
00:51:22,920 –> 00:51:27,040
daughters, but his wife got
turned into a pillar of assault.

806
00:51:27,040 –> 00:51:31,880
So only three people were
rescued, which 3 is to do with

807
00:51:31,880 –> 00:51:33,720
the seed.
And God was saying I don’t keep

808
00:51:33,720 –> 00:51:36,080
my seed going.
I’m not going to let my seed be

809
00:51:36,080 –> 00:51:38,120
destroyed.
I’m going to keep my seed going.

810
00:51:38,960 –> 00:51:41,800
Make sense?
Do you see all these numbers are

811
00:51:41,800 –> 00:51:43,680
there?
They’re not coincidence.

812
00:51:43,680 –> 00:51:46,160
As soon as you got the code,
it’s easy to unlock it.

813
00:51:47,280 –> 00:51:49,920
Let me just quickly do this one
for you.

814
00:51:49,920 –> 00:51:53,200
So here’s Jesus doing what?
Feeding the 5000.

815
00:51:53,200 –> 00:51:54,480
Feeding.
Well, he could be feeding the

816
00:51:54,480 –> 00:51:56,400
five or he could be feeding the
four.

817
00:51:57,040 –> 00:51:59,040
We don’t really know because we
can’t count them on there.

818
00:52:00,240 –> 00:52:04,560
Now there were two feedings.
Matthew 14 tells us about when

819
00:52:04,560 –> 00:52:07,760
he fed 5000 people with five
loaves with two fish and

820
00:52:07,760 –> 00:52:13,120
collected 12 baskets.
Matthew 15 months later, Jesus

821
00:52:13,120 –> 00:52:16,960
feeds 4000 people with 7 loaves
with two fish and seven baskets.

822
00:52:16,960 –> 00:52:20,920
We started off by looking at
this and we said, Jesus said you

823
00:52:20,920 –> 00:52:23,120
counted the baskets, what was
the number?

824
00:52:23,120 –> 00:52:27,520
Don’t you understand?
What can we understand?

825
00:52:28,040 –> 00:52:31,320
Can we unlock this?
The clue here though is that

826
00:52:31,320 –> 00:52:34,360
this first group here and
haven’t got time to explain how

827
00:52:34,360 –> 00:52:37,560
we know this, but was
predominantly to Jewish people.

828
00:52:38,200 –> 00:52:41,840
This group over here was
predominantly to do with Gentile

829
00:52:41,840 –> 00:52:44,320
people.
The clue actually is in the word

830
00:52:44,320 –> 00:52:46,720
baskets because they’re
different, entirely different

831
00:52:46,720 –> 00:52:48,440
words.
These baskets here were very

832
00:52:48,440 –> 00:52:52,000
small ones that the Jews used
and these baskets over here were

833
00:52:52,000 –> 00:52:54,160
much larger Gentile type
baskets.

834
00:52:54,160 –> 00:52:57,080
It’s a totally different word in
the original Greek.

835
00:52:57,640 –> 00:52:59,400
And also there were different
areas.

836
00:52:59,400 –> 00:53:02,720
This area was a Gentile area.
This area was a Jewish area.

837
00:53:03,360 –> 00:53:08,640
So here’s Jews, here’s Gentiles.
So Jesus goes and he feeds 5000

838
00:53:08,640 –> 00:53:12,200
people with five loaves and gets
12 baskets.

839
00:53:13,400 –> 00:53:19,440
What is 5 symbolic of life and
grace?

840
00:53:20,960 –> 00:53:24,360
It’s we can’t demand.
We can’t demand from God.

841
00:53:24,360 –> 00:53:26,520
You should give me life because
I’ve done this, this, this and

842
00:53:26,520 –> 00:53:29,600
the other.
And the lesson the Jews had to

843
00:53:29,600 –> 00:53:34,200
learn was that we get life
through grace.

844
00:53:35,920 –> 00:53:40,440
And if you can understand that,
then what is the 12 symbolic of

845
00:53:44,040 –> 00:53:46,680
rulership?
You will be my righteous rulers

846
00:53:46,680 –> 00:53:48,760
over the earth.
If you, if you do this, if you

847
00:53:48,800 –> 00:53:53,720
understand it’s not the law, it
is by grace you are saved, then

848
00:53:53,720 –> 00:53:55,640
you will be my rulers of this
earth.

849
00:53:56,720 –> 00:53:58,600
Now the Gentile message was
different.

850
00:53:59,920 –> 00:54:08,160
Now what is the #4 symbolic of
earth including Jew and

851
00:54:08,160 –> 00:54:10,560
Gentiles.
So This is why it’s 4000 here,

852
00:54:10,560 –> 00:54:13,560
because it’s, it’s indicating
it’s to do with the Gentiles.

853
00:54:14,280 –> 00:54:16,800
But here the message is 7 and
seven.

854
00:54:16,800 –> 00:54:18,680
The key ones are where the
numbers repeated.

855
00:54:18,680 –> 00:54:21,920
So we’ve got 7 and seven and
five and five.

856
00:54:22,120 –> 00:54:26,440
So the key numbers here are 7
and 7. 7 is to do with what?

857
00:54:26,440 –> 00:54:31,440
Completion.
Completion and perfection.

858
00:54:31,800 –> 00:54:35,080
How do we get perfection?
How do we become perfect?

859
00:54:37,680 –> 00:54:39,720
Through baptism and the
forgiveness of sin.

860
00:54:40,320 –> 00:54:44,000
The thing that the Gentiles had
to realise is that they needed

861
00:54:44,000 –> 00:54:47,720
to be perfect before God because
a Gentile didn’t even know they

862
00:54:47,720 –> 00:54:51,400
were sinful, did they?
They had no concept of sin.

863
00:54:52,080 –> 00:54:53,920
If they went and killed some,
you did something, they didn’t

864
00:54:53,920 –> 00:54:55,800
actually know if they were doing
right or wrong.

865
00:54:56,160 –> 00:54:58,760
Jesus says you’ve got to
understand before God, you’ve

866
00:54:58,760 –> 00:55:01,280
got to get rid of sin and become
perfect.

867
00:55:01,840 –> 00:55:05,640
And that is the message here.
It’s to do with the forgiveness

868
00:55:05,640 –> 00:55:09,400
of sin and becoming perfect.
These guys knew that.

869
00:55:09,920 –> 00:55:12,920
They understood that they had to
do things right, but their

870
00:55:12,920 –> 00:55:15,280
message was you’ve got to do it
and it’s grace.

871
00:55:15,280 –> 00:55:17,440
You can’t earn it.
These people didn’t even know

872
00:55:17,440 –> 00:55:20,080
about that and their message was
you’ve got to get rid of your

873
00:55:20,080 –> 00:55:24,560
sin.
Little bit later on, the Lord

874
00:55:24,560 –> 00:55:27,120
Jesus Christ, after his raise
from the dead, he sat on the

875
00:55:27,120 –> 00:55:31,280
beach and we are told the most
amazing thing.

876
00:55:31,880 –> 00:55:34,960
The disciples had tried catching
fish all, all day and all night

877
00:55:34,960 –> 00:55:39,440
and had caught the grand, grand
total of nothing, not a fish.

878
00:55:40,320 –> 00:55:43,320
Jesus gets in the boat and says
right, cast over to the right,

879
00:55:43,320 –> 00:55:44,800
pull it in.
Now how many?

880
00:55:44,800 –> 00:55:48,720
Count your fish.
And they counted the fish and it

881
00:55:48,720 –> 00:55:54,800
says there were 153 fish.
And then he says them go and

882
00:55:55,040 –> 00:55:56,760
preach to the world, go and look
out.

883
00:55:56,760 –> 00:56:00,960
Go and go and convert people, go
and become fishes of men and

884
00:56:00,960 –> 00:56:05,520
rescue people.
And the $1,000,000 question is

885
00:56:05,840 –> 00:56:08,520
why are we told the exact number
of fish?

886
00:56:09,040 –> 00:56:14,600
We’re told there’s 153 of these
things, right?

887
00:56:15,400 –> 00:56:21,000
Number one is, is what?
God #5 is what?

888
00:56:22,440 –> 00:56:29,440
Expand it #5 is what?
Salvation through water and

889
00:56:29,440 –> 00:56:31,920
baptism, taking something out
the water.

890
00:56:32,360 –> 00:56:35,480
And then what do we get?
Seed.

891
00:56:36,720 –> 00:56:39,440
And that, you know, is why God’s
name is plural.

892
00:56:40,760 –> 00:56:43,000
Because God isn’t just about
him.

893
00:56:44,000 –> 00:56:47,520
God is about creating a whole
lot of mini gods.

894
00:56:48,680 –> 00:56:52,200
That’s exactly what he’s going
to do when we get it finally

895
00:56:52,200 –> 00:56:54,240
into the Kingdom.
We made him mortar with no

896
00:56:54,240 –> 00:56:58,160
temptation and we’re the true
sons of God living with him One

897
00:56:58,160 –> 00:57:02,040
day on this earth at the end of
the Millennium, we become, I’m

898
00:57:02,040 –> 00:57:05,120
not saying there isn’t a
hierarchy, but we become as gods

899
00:57:05,120 –> 00:57:09,840
at that point with ultimate
power and ultimate knowledge and

900
00:57:09,840 –> 00:57:13,160
ultimate ability of living
forever without temptation.

901
00:57:13,440 –> 00:57:18,520
And God in his own name, Elohim
is saying it isn’t just about

902
00:57:18,520 –> 00:57:21,560
me.
I’m going to create lots of

903
00:57:21,560 –> 00:57:27,360
gods, lots of people like me.
And here is God through grace,

904
00:57:27,640 –> 00:57:31,360
through the water, pulling
people out becomes this amazing

905
00:57:31,360 –> 00:57:35,720
seed that he’s that he’s after.
Interesting.

906
00:57:36,800 –> 00:57:41,320
Have you got 2 minutes or you
sure this is, there’s three

907
00:57:41,320 –> 00:57:44,880
slides left?
Because this is now me just

908
00:57:44,880 –> 00:57:48,120
showing you very quickly that it
all goes to a much better, say

909
00:57:48,120 –> 00:57:52,360
better, deeper level again,
because as I said to you,

910
00:57:53,320 –> 00:57:57,600
actually every single Hebrew
letter has got an equivalent

911
00:57:57,600 –> 00:57:59,000
number.
So there’s all the Hebrew

912
00:57:59,000 –> 00:58:02,720
letters, there’s the equivalent
numbers, and it’s the same in

913
00:58:02,720 –> 00:58:05,240
the Greek.
So there’s all the Greek letters

914
00:58:05,240 –> 00:58:07,240
and there’s all their equivalent
numbers.

915
00:58:08,520 –> 00:58:13,000
Let me just show you one or two
pretty amazing things here.

916
00:58:13,000 –> 00:58:16,280
Is the name Jesus in the Greek?
Anybody want to try and add

917
00:58:16,280 –> 00:58:17,600
those?
So there’s the letters.

918
00:58:18,520 –> 00:58:20,960
Here’s their values.
What do you think that little

919
00:58:20,960 –> 00:58:26,240
lot adds up to?
Do you think that’s a

920
00:58:26,240 –> 00:58:29,640
coincidence?
What’s 8 all about?

921
00:58:30,800 –> 00:58:36,600
Was this a new beginning?
Mentioned three times, he’s the

922
00:58:36,680 –> 00:58:38,800
new beginning.
He’s the chosen seed.

923
00:58:38,800 –> 00:58:42,600
He is the seed that was promised
at the very beginning, starting

924
00:58:42,600 –> 00:58:45,320
here.
It isn’t a coincidence that his

925
00:58:45,320 –> 00:58:50,280
his own number is 888.
What is even more remarkable is

926
00:58:50,280 –> 00:58:54,640
this.
Every single title of Jesus in

927
00:58:54,640 –> 00:58:59,760
the Bible is divisible by 8.
Christ has got a value of 1480,

928
00:58:59,760 –> 00:59:04,160
which is 8 times 185.
Saviour has got a value of 1408,

929
00:59:04,160 –> 00:59:10,000
which is 8 * 1 seven 6 Lord is
the value of 800, which is 8 *

930
00:59:10,000 –> 00:59:14,600
100.
Messiah is 656, which is 8 * 82.

931
00:59:14,840 –> 00:59:19,800
Son of Man has got a value of
2960, which is 8 * 370.

932
00:59:20,200 –> 00:59:25,120
Jesus Christ has got a value of
2368, which is 8 * 296.

933
00:59:25,960 –> 00:59:30,480
The chances of that are one in
750,000.

934
00:59:31,520 –> 00:59:34,720
In other words, somebody has
designed it to be that way.

935
00:59:35,760 –> 00:59:38,040
And the last one I was going to
show you is, is this.

936
00:59:38,040 –> 00:59:42,720
So this is the first verse of
the first verse of the Bible.

937
00:59:43,400 –> 00:59:48,240
In the beginning, God, Elohim
created the heavens and the

938
00:59:48,240 –> 00:59:49,600
earth.
So we’re reading that way

939
00:59:49,600 –> 00:59:55,040
because Hebrew goes like that.
Let me just give you some facts

940
00:59:55,040 –> 00:59:57,440
about this one tiny little
verse.

941
00:59:58,080 –> 00:59:59,800
How many words are there do you
think?

942
01:00:01,040 –> 01:00:05,600
In this first verse there are 7
words.

943
01:00:05,880 –> 01:00:09,760
And now we’re on to it because
suddenly you’ll find that the

944
01:00:09,760 –> 01:00:12,880
sevens right the way through
just this first verse.

945
01:00:12,880 –> 01:00:16,240
God saying I’m complete, this is
perfection.

946
01:00:17,280 –> 01:00:21,000
Have a listen to some of this.
So there are 7 words in the

947
01:00:21,000 –> 01:00:25,880
first verse of the Bible.
They have exactly 28 letters,

948
01:00:25,880 –> 01:00:28,120
which is 7 * 4.
So if you add up all those

949
01:00:28,120 –> 01:00:34,200
letters, there’s 28 of them.
The first 3 words contain the

950
01:00:34,200 –> 01:00:37,240
subject.
So that is the subject.

951
01:00:37,240 –> 01:00:40,040
And this little bit down here is
the object.

952
01:00:40,040 –> 01:00:41,840
That’s how the sentence is
structured.

953
01:00:41,840 –> 01:00:43,520
So this is a subject, this is
the object.

954
01:00:44,200 –> 01:00:49,400
The subject here has got 14
letters, which is 7 * 2, and

955
01:00:49,400 –> 01:00:53,320
this bit has got 14 letters,
which is 7 * 2.

956
01:00:53,840 –> 01:00:57,200
If you take all of the nouns
which is God, heavens, and

957
01:00:57,200 –> 01:01:01,360
earth, they have 14 letters as
well, which is 7 * 2.

958
01:01:01,840 –> 01:01:06,920
There is one verb in that
passage, and that has got a

959
01:01:06,920 –> 01:01:12,000
value of 203, which is 7 * 29.
If you Add all of the nouns

960
01:01:12,000 –> 01:01:16,160
together, they come to 777.
So if you add up God, heavens,

961
01:01:16,160 –> 01:01:20,720
and earth, you come to a total
of 777, which is obviously a

962
01:01:20,720 –> 01:01:24,240
multiple of 7.
The numerical value of every

963
01:01:24,240 –> 01:01:27,920
word, if you take the first and
the last letter of every single

964
01:01:27,920 –> 01:01:33,720
word is 1393, which is 7 * 199.
And so it goes on.

965
01:01:33,720 –> 01:01:37,600
There’s a page of it and the
chance of all these sevens being

966
01:01:37,600 –> 01:01:42,160
built into this one verse is 1
in billions.

967
01:01:42,800 –> 01:01:46,720
You can’t actually construct it
without massive amount of design

968
01:01:46,880 –> 01:01:50,080
because just one letter wrong
and the whole lot falls apart.

969
01:01:50,240 –> 01:01:53,600
It’s amazing design that’s
hidden within that.

970
01:01:54,960 –> 01:01:59,480
The last slide is this.
If you add up the words in the

971
01:01:59,480 –> 01:02:04,280
beginning, God, it actually
comes to 999.

972
01:02:05,520 –> 01:02:10,480
What is 9 symbolic of the end,
the final.

973
01:02:10,920 –> 01:02:14,000
It’s actually to do with the
final statement of everything

974
01:02:14,000 –> 01:02:16,560
because, well, it’s so, you
know, when Jesus says verily,

975
01:02:16,560 –> 01:02:20,400
verily, I say unto you, the word
verily is the word Amen.

976
01:02:21,320 –> 01:02:25,440
He says Amen, Amen.
Amen has got a numerical value

977
01:02:25,440 –> 01:02:28,840
of 99.
It’s the final definitive

978
01:02:28,840 –> 01:02:32,320
statement.
And the fact is this, this

979
01:02:32,320 –> 01:02:37,000
phrase in the beginning God, in
the beginning God, is the

980
01:02:37,120 –> 01:02:40,840
ultimate definitive statement.
It’s the final answer to

981
01:02:40,840 –> 01:02:47,200
humanists, atheists, and
evolutionists because it is the

982
01:02:47,200 –> 01:02:51,560
final definitive statement, and
that adds up to 999.

983
01:02:51,560 –> 01:02:54,000
It is the ultimate end
statement.

984
01:02:54,000 –> 01:02:57,840
There’s nothing else to say.
It’s the final statement.

985
01:02:58,680 –> 01:03:02,480
And the last word in the whole
Bible is the word Amen, which

986
01:03:02,480 –> 01:03:05,440
also in the Greek has the value
of 99.

987
01:03:05,440 –> 01:03:07,760
It’s the end, it’s complete, it
is finished.

988
01:03:07,760 –> 01:03:10,600
It’s the final word of the whole
thing.

989
01:03:12,840 –> 01:03:17,240
We could talk more and more, but
the bottom line is God is indeed

990
01:03:17,240 –> 01:03:20,480
a wonderful number.
And hopefully you’ll see as you

991
01:03:20,480 –> 01:03:23,640
go through this now, when you
start looking at the Bible and

992
01:03:23,640 –> 01:03:26,680
start seeing numbers, if you
keep that sheet with you, go

993
01:03:26,680 –> 01:03:30,200
back to it and I promise you it
never, ever, ever fails.

994
01:03:44,320 –> 01:03:46,440
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995
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996
01:03:49,040 –> 01:03:50,560
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997
01:03:51,720 –> 01:03:53,760
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