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Subject: Re: [ISO] On the Bible Code (Book)
Date: 1 Feb 1998 21:06:39 -0500
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Numbers are beyond my understanding!  Can't sing either, but here is a
html page on Bible Code that i picked up somewhere online and never got
rid of.

 Gematria in the Bible 
 

Date: Tue, 08 Oct 1996 21:14:28 -0700
From: Moshe Zew (zew@kareltek.fi)


THE NUMERIC SYSTEM OF THE BIBLE

In the early times the Hebrew Bible, "Tanakh", was not one book like
nowadays, but it consisted of 22 scrolls (according to Sabas, dead 
532). The number of the letters of Hebrew language is 22, too. These 
scrolls were divined into three groups: Torah, Prophets and 
Scriptures. Yeshua accepted this order. We can read it accordind to: 
"... beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them 
in all the scriptures the things concerning himself" (Luke 24:27). 
Also He himself had said: "... that all things must be fulfilled, 
which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in 
the psalms, concerning me" (Luke 24:44).

New Testament consists of 27 books; and the alphabet of modern
Hebrew language consists of 27 letters, 22 letters and five final 
letters (sofit).

In the Bible there are 66 books in all. We can calculate that the 
numeric value of the words MYHVH, from YHVH, HADVN, the Lord and 
BN-DVD, David's son is 66 is sum 1 + 2 + 3 + ... + 11.

26 authors are called the writers of the Bible (according to Ivan 
Panin). The numeric value of numbers AChD AChD, one, one (1,1) and of 
the name YHVH is 26, too.

The most usual words in "Tanakh" include a message (the numeric
values of verbs are calculated using only root letters): YHVH (5766), 
to say (5000), Son (4887), to be (3514), God (2603), to do (2573), to 
come (2530), King (2522), Israel (2513), earth (2498), day (2241). 
According to: Mitchell, Word frequency list of Biblical Hebrew, 
Zondervan, 1984.


QABBALAH

The word QBLH, Qabbalah means receiving and receipt. Different parts
of Qabbalah are usually clived into four parts: 1. The practical
Qabbalah, 2. The litteral Qabbalah, 3. The unwritten Qabbalah and 4.
The dogmatic Qabbalah. And the literal Qabbalah is divided into tree
parts: GMTRIA, Gematria; NVTRIQVN, Notariqon; and ThMVRH,
Temura.


GEMATRIA - THE NUMERIC SYSTEM OF THE HEBREW LANGUAGE

We can recearch the first texts of the Bible using the numeric 
system; those texts are mostly written in Hebrew and in Greek. Both 
the Hebrew and the Greek characters has their numeric values. We can 
calculate the numeric value of some word of an original language by 
adding up the numeric values of all letters. And then we can get the 
numeric value of a sentense by adding up all numeric values of all 
words. This kind of the numerical research of the Hebrew language is 
called GMTRIA, Gematria or GMTRIOT, Gematrias, because there are many 
different ways to research. The word Gematria becomes from a Greek 
word "geometry". Jewish people call the interpretation by means of 
the numeric system "the dessert of the wisdom".

Nowadays Jews, who are called cabbalists, use the numeric system to
research but Gematria is already known in early christian writings, 
too. This way of the interpretation is based on The Book of Wisdom 
11:20: "... thou hast ordered all things in measure and number and 
weight". An example of Gematria is founded in the Apocalypse of the 
Bible, in that it is mentioned the number of a beast: Here is wisdom. 
Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it 
is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and 
six (Revelation 13:18). Possibly the number means a person who will 
lead the insurrection of satan and sinked men against God and 
Messiah. In diffent ages the number of a beast is interpreted
by many diffent ways. For example according to an interpretation a
beast would had been Nero Caesar, whose name is written in hebrew:
NRVN QSR. The numeric value of the name of the present pope John
Paul II (YVChNN PVLVS ShNI) is 666.

Gematria is not similar to a numerology, that is a matter of fashion
nowadays, but both gematria an numerology have the same features.
By means of numerology (for example according to a person's bith day)
they can draw conclusions about a person's character or they can draw
up predictions. But knowing that the present Christian calendar is
inaccurate - Yeshua was born four - seven years before the beginning
of the Christian calendar, besides there is not the year zero at all 
- so numerology has lost its arguments and its conclusions are 
unfounded. But gematrias are useful researching different 
interpretations of the Bible.


THE MOST GENERAL WAYS TO CALCULATE

1. We can compare words or sentences with other words or sentences,
which have similar to their numeric values. The case in point is the 
word GBVRH (3 + 2 + 6 + 200 + 5 = 216), strength, courage, that is 
similar to word ARIH (1 + 200 + 10 + 5 = 216), lion.

2. The numeric value of a letter does not take into account tens or
hundreds (Tav = 4; Kaf = 2). For example the numeric value of the
words BIT, a hause, a residence, Temple of Yerusalem is 412 using the
usual way of calculating (Beit = 2; Yud = 10; Tav = 400). With regard 
not to tens and hundreds the numeric values are Beit = 2; Yud = 1; 
Tav = 4, so the word BIT is by its numeric value 7 like the word BH, 
in her (fem.), I Corinthians 3:16: "Know ye not that ye are the 
temple of God", compare with John 2:21: "... he spake of the temple 
of his body" and I Corinthians 12:27: "Now ye are the body of Christ, 
and members in particular". When a congregation is described as a 
fiancee and as a wife in the Bible (for exampel Revelation 21:9: "the 
bride, the Lamb's wife") so this femine form "in her" is right.

3. The numeric value of the letter is determined according to the
mathematical series of this numeric value. For instance the word ChI,
living; the numeric value of the letter Chet is 8 and Yud is 10, so
according to theirs arithmetical serieses the numeric values are:
Chet 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 + 7 + 8 = 36 and Yud 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 
+ 7 + 8 + 9 + 10 = 55, so in total 36 + 55 = 91, whish is the numeric 
value of the word HALHIM, God, too.

4. MLVI, the "filling": the numeric value of the letter is formed so 
that the letters of the names of alphabet is added up (B:I:T = 412; 
D:L:T = 434; Y:V:D = 20). In addition the names of the letters Hei 
and Vav can be formed many ways: HV, HH, HA and VV, VAV, VIV (they 
can be formed according to Alef, Hei or Yud). Thus we have four 
different ways "filling" for the word YHVH that is God's name. The 
"filling" YVD, HA, VAV, HA = 45 in gematria ADM, Adam; YVD, HH, VV, 
HH = 52, in gematria BN, Son; YVD, HI, VAV, HI = 63, in gematria AChD 
HMH, They are one and YVD, HI, VIV, HI = 72, in gematria YHVH ALHI, 
YHVH God, HIH HVH VIHIH, He was, He is and He will come and sum Y + 
YH + YHV + YHVH. Numbers ShBAH ShNIM, seven and two (7-2) are by 
their numeric value 777. The second way is a "filling" of the 
"filling", or a second "filling" (B:I:T = 838; D:L:T = 914; Y:V:D = 
466). The third way is "short filling". Then the first letter is 
removed from the name of the letter (YVD is VD = 10; ShDI, God 
Almighty is IN, LT and VD = 500, ShR, the Ruler).

5. The numeric value of the word or the sentence is written with 
letters, the numeric value is calculated and the sum is compared with 
other words or sentences with the same numeric values. For example 
these words are by their numeric values 102: BN-HADM, Man's Son, 
ALHINV, our God, HVA MLKh, He is the King, HVA LKN, He is for you and 
BAL, a husband. Number 102 is written by letters: MAH VShNIM, one 
hundred and two is its numeric value 452 like: HADVN YShVA, Lord 
Yeshua or YShVA HADVN, Yeshua is the Lord, YShVA MYHVH, Yeshua from
YHVH and YShVA ALHIKh, Yeshua, your God. The number 102 written
accordind to the letters MAH VShNIM, one hundred and two is by its
numeric value 1012 when final-mem-letter is also calculated. The
numeric value of the sentence MAT ALHIM MN-HShMIM, from heaven from 
God is 1012, too.

6. Each number of the numeric value is written by letters and the
number is compared with other words with same numeric value. For
instance the numeric values of these sentences are 761: YShVA HVA
HMShICh, Yeshua is Messiah and AShR-HMH LV LA QBLHV, His own people 
did not receive Him. When the number 761 is written number by number: 
seven, six and one, the numeric value is 995, like the sentence:
HVA TsLM HALHIM HNALM VBKVD KL-NBRA, Who is the image of the 
invisible God, the firstborn of every creature (Colossians 1:15).


NOTARIQON

NVTRIQVN, Notariqon is derived from the Latin word notarius and it
means that we can write or interpret words according to their first 
or last letters, so the interpretation is based on abbreviations.

There was a title on the cross of Yeshua, on which a sentence was
written in old Hebrew language: IShVA HNTsRI VMLKh HIHVDIM, Yeshua of 
Nazareth the King of the Jews (John 19:19). From the first letters of 
these words we can form God's name: IHVH, YHVH.

MI YALH-LNV HShMIMH, Who shall go up for us to the heaven?
(Deuteronomy 30:12; compare with Romans 10:16). From the last letters
of this sentence we can form the name IHVH, YHVH.

A Paradise is in Hebrew GN-ADN and its letters are initial letters 
from words: GVF, body, NFSh, soul, AD, eternity, DAT, knowledge, 
NKVN, truthfur, right.

In Gematria NVTRIQVN, Notariqon and the words MAIR AINIM, clearing
up they are, using the usual way of calculation, by their numeric 
value 431. When we take account of the final mem-letter, the words
NVTRIQVN, Notariqon and TVRT-HSVD, Qabbalah are their numeric value 
1081. Using the "filling" way to calculate N:V:T:R:I:Q:V:N, Notariqon 
and BTVRT HMShICh, in doctrine of Messiah are their numeric value 
1371. Using the "filling" way and with the final nun-letter 
N:V:T:R:I:Q:V:N, Notariqon and Sh:B:T:I L:A:I:T:N:V, wake to life are 
by their numeric value 1927.

The table of Temurah AThBSh gives a letter combination TPNGMDPT
from the letters of the word NVTRIQVN, Notariqon. The numeric value
of this letter combination is 275, like the numeric values of the 
words DBR AL LBV, to thing, to reflekt, ADH, to uncover and BGIMTRIA, 
in gematria. The numeric values of the letter combination 
T:P:N:G:M:D:P:T and of the sentence: "when the Gentiles heard this, 
they were glad, and glorified the word of the Lord: and as many as 
were ordained to eternal life believed" (The Acts 13:48), using the 
"filling" way to calculate, are 1703.

The Table of Temurah ALBTH gives the letter combination ITsHNDSTsI
from the letters of the word NVTRIQVN, Notariqon. The numeric value
of this letter combination is 319, like the numeric values of the 
word DIShH, threshing (also about things). The numeric values of 
letter combination I:Ts:H:N:D:S:Ts:I and the words NTChNVT, 
analytical are 914 using the "filling" way to calculate.


TEMURAH

ThMVRH, Temurah (651) means "exchange", change a place. A text is
interpreted by the help of tables, which are formed from the letters 
of Hebrew alphabet, the number of them is 22. These tables are called
TsIRVP, Tziruf (the numeric value 386 of the word TsIRVP is similar 
to the numeric value of the word IShVA, Yeshua) and these tables are 
22, which are different from each other. New combinations of letters 
is formed by chaging letters, and it is possible to form new words 
from these combinations and then receive these combinations by the 
help of Gematria.

An example of the table, that is called ALBTh:

       11   10   9    8    7    6    5    4    3    2    1
       K    I    T    Ch   Z    V    H    D    G    B    A
       M    N    S    O    P    Tz   Q    R    Sh   Th   L

The letter combination NGTsCh is formed from the letters of the name
IShVA, Yeshua and the sum of these letters is 151. The numeric value
of the sentence IHVH ALHIM IHVH AChD, YHVH God, YHVH is one is same.

In Gematria the numeric values of the words ThMVRH, Temurah, HALHIM, 
God, NAM, he says, AMRTI, I said and TsRIKh LQRA, must to read are 
651 using the common way to calculate. The numeric values of these 
expressions Th:M:V:R:H, Temurah, ChTVM, closed, locked, HTBARVT, 
becoming clear and H:N:N:I M:V:D:I:A:Kh, Behold, I will make thee 
know (Daniel 8:19) are 1044 using the "filling" way to calculate.

The table of Temurah ALBTH gives the letter combination QDTsKB from
the letters of the word ThMVRH, Temura and its numeric value is 216
like the numeric values of the expressions HAIR, to illustrate, to 
clear up, to explain. The numeric value of letter combination 
Q:D:Ts:K:B and the numeric value of these expressions is 1236: RChMI 
IShVA NKMRV VIGA BAINIHM, "So Yeshua had compassion on them, and 
touched their eyes" (Matthew 20:34) and M:H - A:T:H R:A:H, what do 
you see?


THE EXEMPELS OF THE LITERAL QABBALAH

An interpretation is done using Gematria, Notariqon an Temurah in 
this presentation. The words which are calculated using the numeric 
value of letters is normally written: GIMTRIA, wheras the words which 
are calculated using the names of the letters ("filling") are written
with colons between letters: Q:B:L:H. Final letters are enlarged 
while they are considered: AMN or A:M:N.

The numeric value of the word GIMTRIA, Gematria is 273 (3 + 10 + 40 +
9 + 200 + 10 + 1). The next expressions has the same numeric value:
MATs HChIIM, from the tree of life (Genesis 2:9), BDVQ VMNSH,
absolutely trustworthy, tested and AMN AMN AMN, Amen, Amen, Amen!

The numeric value of the next expressions is 718: ChShB MSPR HChIH, 
to calculate the number of a beast, MGIMTRIOT, from Gematrias and 
TChQIR, researching.

The numeric value of the word Q:B:L:H, Qabbalah is 678 (186 + 412 + 
74 + 6) when it is calculated according to the names of letters
("filling"). The word GIMTRIOT, Gematrias has the same numeric value,
that is logical because Gematrias are the part of Qabbalah.

Using the common way to calculate the numeric value of the word
QBLH, Qabbalah is 137 like the numeric values of the expressions:
AVPN, a habit, a shape, a method, MLVNAI, the author of a dictionary;
to be connected with a dictionary, AMTsAH, a discovery; an invention
and MTsVA, a thing that is possible to find. The number 137 written 
by letters MAH ShLShIM VShBA, one hundred and thirty seven is by its
numeric value 1664. The numeric value of a sentence: BZAT ChKMH MI
SHBINH LV IChSHB MSPR HChIH, "Here is wisdom. Let him that hath
understanding count the number of the beast" (Revelation 13:18) is
1664, too.

It seems to be that Yeshua used the methods of Gematria. We cannot
see that directly but we can think so judging by His speeches. A case 
of point is His saying: BAV BPTCh HTsR, "Enter ye in at the strait 
gate" (Matthew 7:13) and a sentence: BShM HADVN IShVA, "In the name 
of the Lord Yeshua" (Colossians 3:17). The numeric value of both of 
them is 794. We can go in only through His name. It is for the most 
part of people - both for jews and for gentiles - a strait gate.

The next names which are used about Messiah: TsMCh, The Branch
(Zechariah 6:12), MNChM, The Comforter (Lamentations 1:16) are by
their numeric value 138 like the expressoins: BN-ALHIM, The Son of
God, HVA MALHIM, He is from God and HGPN the vine (John 15:1,5).

The words which describe about essence of God: AIN-SVP, endless,
eternal, AL-ZMNI, perpetual, eternal, ADVN AVLM, the Lord of the
World, RZ, secret and AVR, light are by their numeric value 207. Also
HRB, Rabbi, teacher and aramic word RBH, big are by their numeric
value 207.

The numeric value of the word AHBH, love is 13 like the word AChD,
one. "God is Love" (I John 4:8) and He is One (Deuteronomy 6:4; Mark
12:29). From the letters of the word AChD, one we can get the 
initials of words: AMT, the truth, ChIIM, the life and DRKh, the way. 
When Yeshua said, that he is the way, the truth and the life (John 
14:6) he informed in covert word to be God who is one.

In Genesis 49:10 in that Jacob blesses Judah, there is a prophecy 
that Messiah will come from the generation of Judah. That can be 
confirmed by the help of Gematria, too. The numeric value of the 
expression IBA ShILH, "Shiloh come" is 358, it is similar to the 
numeric value of the word MShICh, Messiah and the numeric value of 
the sentence LQTs HAVLM HZH, "in the end of this world" (Matthew 
13:40). The numeric value of the expression KI-IBA ShILH, "until 
Shiloh come" is 388 that is similar to the numeric values of the 
words BIShVA, in Yeshua.

The table of Temurah AThBSh gives a letter combination IBMS from the
letters of the word MShICh, Messiah that is by its numeric value 112 
like the numeric values of the words: IHVH ALHIM, YHVH God, too. 
Using the "filling" way to calculate the letter combination I:B:M:S 
and ANKI ISRALI, I'm Israelite and L:M:A:N Ts:I:V:N, for  Zion are by 
their numeric values 638.

The table of Temurah ALBTh gives a letter combination KGNA from the
letters of word MShICh, Messiah and it is by its numeric value 143 
like the numeric values of the next expression: BN-HALHIM, The Son of
God. Using the "filling" way to calculate the letter combination 
K:G:N:A and the ADVN MShICh, Lord Messiah are by their numeric values 
419.

The table of Temurah AThBSh gives a letter combination TsIBMS from
the letters of the word MShICh, Messiah, this letter combination is 
by its numeric value 202, similar to the expressions: HAL AMNV, God 
with us, RB, Rabbi, teacher and Z:H H:V:A, He is that. By using the 
"filling" way to calculate the letter combination Ts:I:B:M:S and ShMI 
IShVA, My name Yeshua and HVA ADVN AChD, He is One Lord are by their
numeric values 736.


Moshe Zew
Adat Yeshua HaMashiach b'Finland
Eeronpolku 2 A 1, FIN-23100 Mynamaki, Finland
E-mail: zew@kareltek.fi

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Miki
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