Bible Exposed - 5

In the last posting I said I would investigate how the Jewish believers had mathematically arranged their holy book The Torah, but I am afraid that subject must be left until later because I have uncovered amazing new advances on the "Christian" front. Indeed, these new ideas are so thought-provoking I am beginning to think I shall have to stop differentiating between the two sects and just call them Kabbalists.

Right, let's get down to the facts!

Without going into all the boring preliminary work let me just state baldly two facts which I have stumbled on :-

4004 x 365 - 490 = 4000 x 365.2425

4004 x 365 - 434 = 4000 x 365.2565

The removal of 490 days from the s0-called "Ussher cycle" reveals 4000 tropical years and, likewise, the removal of 434 days reveals 4000 "Sidreal" years.

The modern figures for these two cycles are 365.2422 and 365.2564.

If these figures were known to these people then the accuracies are extremely good. But how can we tell if the Kabbalists were actually aware of the two hidden "Sol" cycles? Well, let's just rearrange the two deductions in the following manner:-

490 days = 70 weeks

434 days = 62 weeks

Now do you recognise these numbers? Of course you do! I am sure you are conversant with The Old Testament - no? Well, let me refresh your memory with the rambling apocalyptic writings of the prophet Daniel - especially in chapter 9.

Verse 24 says "70 weeks are determined on the people and on the holy city .............. etc."

Verse 26 says "And after three score and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off ............ etc."

Now I do not profess to understand what the Angel Gabriel is trying to tell Daniel but I do believe that these two lengths of time, found so close together in one chapter, are very significant indeed.

You have your doubts? Well, just observe these verses found in the New Testament:-

Matthew 24v15 "When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel, the prophet, stand in the holy place (whoso readeth, let him understand)."

Mark13v14 "But when ye shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not (let him that readeth, understand)."

Mark 13v19 "For in those days shall be affliction, such as was not from the beginning of the creation which God created unto this time, neither shall be." (This verse has a direct reference in the margin to Daniel 9v26.)

"Let him who can understand?"

What are the conclusions we can draw from the above? Well:-

1. It is all a coincidence and all the numbers are just so much moonshine. This is the conclusion the believers are forced into accepting because the alternatives are just too devastating to consider, which are the Bible has underlying numerological theories. Shock, Horror! This is not God's work but the doings of men with their silly secrets which corrupt the holy writings! I believe in the safety-first principle. I do not like to be fooled. Religion is too important to be left entirely in the hands of a few men, therefore I say let's investigate everything with the object of uncovering any hidden systems. Better to be safe than sorry.

2. The book of Daniel is supposed to have been written about 160BC and we shall suppose the numbers were included in the original work. But how can they be? Such an assumption must mean that the Jewish writer of Daniel knew about the holy cycle of 4004 years and I was under the impression that this period of time was cooked up by Christian sages sometime in the sixteenth century. If this conclusion is correct, then the cycle must have been kept secret for over 2000 years from the trusting believers and also the originators of such calculations must have been the Jews or some other people who passed such knowledge onto the Jewish mathematicians at an earlier date.

3. The numbers were inserted by Jewish persons after Christianity became a Roman religion. But why? What's in it for them? For the Jewish people do not accept Christ at the Messiah. Therefore why bolster his claims?

4. The numbers were inserted by Christians after the death of Christ. This does not make sense because the numbers in Daniel are found in the Jewish Bible and why should the Jews copy the Christians?

If we ignore conclusion 1, then only conclusion 2 makes sense.

Right, enought of the accusations, let's back to the numbers.

The tropical year is defined as the time from equinox to equinox, or, if you prefer, solstice to solstice.

The sidral year is defined as the time for the earth to complete an orbit around the sun from a fixed position relative to the stars and then return.

If we are given the values for these two cycles then we can easily calculate the very large cycle of Precession (approximately 26,000 years). I shall leave the technical explantion of this cycle to the internet, on which it should be easy to search out. But I would like to emphasise that this cycle was clearly known to the Ancients and also they believed the star-studded sphere was considered to be the home of God and, because of the precessional cycle, the heavens appeared to be slowly revolving around the earth. Its importance must have been paramount in the minds of astronomers of yore because it is the ultimate and largest cycle to be found in their universe.

To calculate this cycle is simplicity itself. Thus:-

Divide (365.2565 x 365.2425)

by (365.2565 - 365.2425)

and the answer is 9529085.5 days

When I examined this cycle, as the Ancients must have done as well, I found little of interest except that when this answer is divided by the time of the orbit of Venus (224.7 days), this gives the result of:-

42408.04 orbits

This number factorises to 72 x 589.

Is this the 72 names of God, the Jewish Kabbalists claim to know? Or is it:-

"I am the Alpha and the Omega."

"I am the Bright and Morning Star."

Perhaps it is all One.

St. Luke 8v10 (speaking to the disciples) "and he said, Unto you it is given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of God: but to others in parables; that seeing they might not see, and hearing they might not understand."

Bible Exposed - 4

Having counted the numbers of verses in the Penteteuch to number 5852, I then wondered if the Christian elders had somehow hidden their holy cycle of 8030 in the sequence of chapters. It seems to me that they probably did arrange something clever because the verse totals in each chapter were slightly different from the Jewish Bible. As a starting point I considered the Five Books of Moses to be seen as a complete circle of 187 chapters and so, therefore, I thought, why not just continue the count with Genesis 1 being repeated at chapter 188 and so on........ After another 73 chapters I had counted another additional 2178 verses and this gave me a new total of:-

5852 + 2178 = 8030

Another coincidence???

Let's try and see just how unusual is this number occurring. The average chapter of the Torah is approximately 31 verses long. We can now see that any one number will appear at the end of the chapter and then there will be another 30 numbers that will not be "used" and then another number will appear at the end of the next chapter. This suggests to me that the odds of a number appearing as the last verse of a chapter is about 30:1 against. So now we can see that the number 8030 appearing in the list is about 30:1 against and, as the bookmakers will tell you, you cannot make money betting on such rank outsiders.

It now seems that such an occurrence is not accidental and the number appears because of the machinations of church cryptographers.

In my investigation of these cycles I can across a Pythagorean theory of the "quality" of numbers in which odd numbers were thought to have different attributes from even numbers. This table shows how this mumbo jumbo works:-

Odd Even
Right Left
Male Female
Light Darkness
Good Bad

and so on - I think you can get the picture. It is just a table of opposites and, as an aside, notice how the female column has all the suspect qualities. Perhaps this explains why women have nearly always been treated by the major western religions.

Anyway, I decided to now divide the chapters into two parts - odd and even - and then total the verses in each part to see if there was anything hidden. While I was dividing the total of 260 chapters into two equal parts, I speculated that it would be brilliant if the verse totals in each section were both equal and that the results would be:-

4015 + 4015 = 8030

but I didn't allow for the ingenuity of the church who came up with a much better system than I had realised.
The odd chapter totals were 4026
The even chapter totals were 4004
and some simple calculations showed that:-

4026 = 11 x 366
4004 = 11 x 364
and also 8030 = 22 x 365

Is this marvellous or what?
Is this yet another coincidence?
Surely NOT!

Get your King James, which I know you all treasure and love so much, and check my results. Make certain I am not manufacturing numbers to suit my own purposes. If these results do not make you a little bit suspicious of the church then I will have to resort to some serious imbibing to hide my despair!

I must point out that I believe the system of chapter division is purely a Christian device and not a Jewish one because I cannot find any evidence of this in the Torah when it is considered as a single unit of 5852 verses. The Jewish position is completely different (only to be expected) and I will endeavour to explain why their different cycle was important to them in my next posting.

Let me leave you with this quote - Isaiah 48v14
"My left hand has found the earth and my right hand has spread out the heavens."

Bible Exposed - 3

In the previous posting I proposed that the verse from Zechariah was the start of a holy cycle of 8030 verses which someone had arranged to symbolise the birth of Christ. There are two indications which suggest that this supposition is correct:-

1. A quick check through the two books of Zechariah and Malachi show that there isn't any other verse with such a significant "header note".

2. The Jewish Bible ends with the book of Chronicles but obviously the Christian Old Testament is different and has been rearranged so as to end with the books of the Prophets. It would be extremely difficult to find a verse in Chronicles which could be used to predict the coming of the Messiah but in Zechariah or Malachi it would be much easier to arrange for an appropriate verse to appear in the right place.

Many people have wondered why Christianity still clings to the Old Testament. Why don't they reject these horrid tales of murder and war and generally disgusting descriptions of sacrifices and only show allegiance to the New Testament which is generally a bit more civilised (overlooking the incredibly stupid book of Revelations)? The answer is always the same. The Old Testament prophesises many times the Coming of the Messiah who will save the world. Hence the predicitions are needed to underline Christ's status as the genuine article. Therefore, from my point of view, it must be theologically correct to extend the "holy cycle" of verses backwards into the Old Testament, as this will also underline Christ's role in history and provide a linkage between the two main sections of the Bible which should not be broken.

The Torah, Penteteuch or the Five Books of Moses

Jewish belief holds that God has revealed himself to Mankind through his descent onto Mount Sinai, as recorded in the book of Exodus. The Torah is the word of God as passed to the hand of Moses. As such it is the source of all wisdom as a guide to the nature of ultimate reality and creation. What is particularly to be noticed for the purposes of our study is the fact that the Torah was thought of as containing a magical structure and this idea became the central point for later Kabbalistic speculation. In short, the Torah was considered by many to be a cosmic blueprint of creation and time. Wherever the Bible mentions "The Law" it is referring to The Torah. For instance Jesus is quoted as saying, in St. Matthew chapter 5, "Think not that I am come to destroy the law or the prophets. I am not come to destroy but to fulfill." We shall refer to this verse at a later stage as I believe it is very important.

I think I have said enough to show that the five books of Moses are central and extremely important to the beliefs of both Jews and Christians.

After finding the Christian cycle of 8030 verses, I then counted the number of verses in the Torah and the answer is:-

5852 verses

and this number, when it is factorised, is as follows:-

5852 = 266 x 22

or, alternatively:-

5852 = 38 x 7 x 22

The period of 38 x 7 days can be considered, obviously, as 38 weeks and this is the time that it takes to make a human being (on average) or, to put it in a different manner, this the gestation period of mankind. There are two "Creations" in the Bible, as written in Genesis 1 & 2. The first one is considered, in Kabbalistic thought, to be some sort of blueprint of Creation and the second one has Adam being made by God in this fashion - "And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life and man became a living soul."

It is extremely interesting and revealing that Adam's creation took place in the 38th verse of the Bible. This is probably the most important event of the Old Testament.

Are these events to be considered purely coincidental?

In the next blog I will try to expand on this subject further.