Text Box:            THE DECIPHER KEY - A BRIEF BEGINNER’S
        COURSE IN BIBLICAL NUMERICS/GEMATRIA 
                                     OR Bn/g.

Our English word “gematria” comes from the Greek word “gemetria” meaning “sacred geometry”. Biblical numerics/gematria or Bn/g is a little known anomaly of the Bible but it is the decipher key to understanding crop circle spiritual messages. It is the nearly forgotten ancient Midrashim-Talmud-Kabala numerics of the spiritual relationships between the numbers, letters, words and phrases in the Bible and it occurs at several different levels and simultaneously and cohesively in several languages. For example, at the simplest level, besides the Ten Commandments there are 613 laws in the book of Leviticus that directed the early Hebrews’ political, social and spiritual lives in order to over-ride man’s (= 6 in Bn/g) natural tendency to disbelieve in God (= 13 in Bn/g).

 

On another level, the early Hebrews believed that numbers symbolized ideas. For example, the number 10 denoted completeness, as in worldly power. Israel would be Given worldly power if only they obeyed the Ten Commandments (Ex. 19:5; 23; 27, 28; Lev. 26:1-13; Deut. 4:38; 28:1-14) and ten plagues destroyed Egypt, the world power in Moses’ day. The world power of Daniel chapter 7 and Revelation chapters 13 and 17 has ten horns. Horns, along with gold finger rings, swords and the thigh where the sword was carried, are the four main Biblical symbols of power.

 

Briefly, in general the number:

 

1 denotes the one true God;

2 = the prime Spiritual Directive, i.e., our God-Granted freedom of choice;

3 = God and/or emphasis by God, the Trinity, i.e., the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit,

      God is past, present and future, i.e., God is changeless, timeless and eternal;

4 = nature, creation, our God-Inspired creations, there are four directions, four winds, four

      corners to the earth, four dimensions, three spatial and one of time, etc.;

5 = our (undeserved) Favor from God;

6 = spiritual imperfection as in man, the devil and the spirit of the devil in man;

7 = spiritual completeness/perfection (as in Christ);

8 = new beginnings;

9 = Judgment (by Christ);

10 = worldly power;

11 = discord, destruction;

12 = the church, Divinely appointed human government;

13 = man’s disbelief in God.

 

When added together the primary numbers denote man. For example, 3 (God) + 3 (God) = 6 (imperfect man). Another good example is found in the number 13. Man, addition, = God (3) + worldly power (10) = spiritual complacency resulting in disbelief in God (13). When the primary numbers are multiplied they denote God (God the multiplier as defined in Deut 8:13), the product having an amplified/multiplied meaning of its own. For example, 4 is a product of 2 (our God-Granted freedom of choice) multiplied by itself or 2 x 2 = 4 (our God-Inspired creations). Besides the number 6 being an added product of 3 + 3 or 2 + 2 + 2, 6 is also a multiple product of 3 (God) x 2 (our God-Granted freedom of choice) = 6 = (still) imperfection in man. The number 8 is the product of 4 (nature, creation and/or our God-Inspired creations) x 2 (our God-Granted freedom of choice) = 8 = new beginnings by our creative God-Inspired and God-Granted creative capabilities. The number 9 is a product of 3 (God) multiplied by itself or 3 x 3 = 9 = God’s Judgment. The number 10 is a product of 2 (our God-Granted freedom of choice) x 5 (God’s Favor) = 10 (God-Granted worldly power). The number 12 is a product of 3 (God) x 2 (our God-Granted freedom of choice) x 2 again = 12 (the church and/or God-Inspired human government).

 

As an example of addition (= man in Bn/g) as opposed to multiplication (= God in Bn/g), God, El, Yahweh, Elohim, (= 3 in Bn/g, i.e., the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit) = 3 + 3 = 6 (6 = addition = imperfection, man, the devil, the spirit of the devil in man in Bn/g) whereas God (= the multiplier) = 3 x 3 = 9 (9 = God’s Judgment of man in Bn/g). One should always use the lower prime number possible when determining the main spiritual significance of a product number. For example, although both work in deciphering the spiritual message of the number 30, for the main spiritual message we should use is 3 and 10 in preference to 5 and 6. In the example of the number 30, since it is a multiple product of 3 and 10, the greater gematria message would be a Godly (3) appointed worldly power (10), 3 x 10 = 30.

 

For example, three people in the Bible began their worldly power ministries when they were 30 years old: Joseph of Genesis (Gen. 41: 46), King David (2 Sam. 5: 4) and Jesus Christ (Luke 3:23). Jesus Christ (3) was later traded for 30 pieces of silver (Zech. 11:13; Matt. 26:15; 27:3) and on his Second Advent He will exercise all his worldly power (10) to Judge the world (3 x 10 = 30, the blood of Christ = 30). The lesser Bn/g message would be God’s Favor (5) is Given to men (= 6 as in David and Joseph) so that they would gain God-appointed worldly power (5 x 6 = 30).

 

Another good example of extra meaning in the end product is found in the 66 books in the Bible. The spirit of Satan (= 6 = spiritual imperfection in Bn/g) x destruction (= 11 in Bn/g) = Satan destroyed by God’s Word (= 66), 6 x 11 = 66 Bible books. Another example would be in the 39 books in the Old Testament, most of which record man’s misadventures from his lack of faith and thus his shortcomings seen in his disbelief in God. God revealed (3) x man’s disbelief in God (13) = 39 Divinely Inspired books. Bn/g message: although God had revealed Himself to many men and women of God on numerous occasions who then recorded their experiences, this is insufficient evidence for a bridge between an invisible God and disbelieving man. In spite of a more visible Old Testament God in many miracles such as the escape from Egypt and the “cloud by day and pillar of fire by night” that guided the Hebrews for 40 years in the desert (a UFO?) (Ex. 13:21 and many others), disbelief in God (13) still abounds. Note Exodus 13:21 where 13 = disbelief in God and 21 = 3, God, x 7, spiritual perfection in God (in the UFO?) = 21; 3 x 7 = 21.

 

God has to do something extraordinary to cure this lack of faith and disbelief. God accomplishes this by sacrificing His Son on the cross and then resurrecting Him to eternal life as the ultimate proof of His Loving Presence and to teach us to fear not death. “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life” (John 3:16). This extraordinary event is recorded in the 27 books of the New Testament with Christ’s birth, many miracles, death and resurrection. It ends with Christ’s Judgment of Satan and all of his influences on mankind (Rev. 20:5-15). God (3) x 3 = God’s Judgment (9). God’s Judgment (9) is 9 x 3 = 27 (total and final Judgment), i.e., 3 x 3 x 3 = 27. Jesus Judges all (John 5:22) in the book of Revelation (Rev. 19:11; 20:12, 13), the 27th book of the New Testament. On another level of written language Bn/g, each letter in the Greek alphabet (New Testament) and the Hebrew alphabet (Old Testament) is given a number collating it with a spiritual significance.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Note: 1). There are only 22 letters in the Hebrew alphabet, but the last 5 “final” repeated letters were added to fill out the 27 letters that would be necessary to complete the gematria anomaly. Note also that 3 x 3 x 3 = 27; 3 = God the multiplier in Bn/g from Deuteronomy 8:13. Note also that at the simplest level, 8 = new beginnings for man and 13 = man’s disbelief in God in Bn/g.

 

2). There are only 24 letters in the Greek alphabet and the required number, 27, was made up by using the final “ς” called Stigma for 6, and adding two arbitrary symbols called respectively Koppa, for 90, and Sampsi, for 900. Note also that the three letters SSS (in Greek Σ Σ Σ) for the number 666 is remarkably like our $$$ sign which certainly is the god of our world. The Σ symbol is often used as a symbol for a summation as in adding up all our $$$. All this can hardly be an accident.

 

3). A more detailed analysis of Hebrew, Greek and English numerics-gematria and many examples of Bn/g in the numbers 1-13 are given on pages 90-92 of Crop Circles Deciphered, but here I will give the example of the number six only.

 

The Greek letter ς (called Stigma) is used for the number 6. Why this letter and number should be associated no one seems to know for sure, except that both are intimately connected with the ancient Egyptian “mysteries” in that the later Greek empires also had many false snake gods. It’s my guess that the Greek letter ς and the English equivalent S are so derived from the resemblance to the erect hissing cobra (the invert image of the Uraeus photo on the left). This also explains why the words snake, serpent and Satan (= “hisss”) all begin with an S symbolizing the flames (i.e., also a “hisss”) of destruction. The 3 letters SSS (in Greek Σ Σ Σ) were the symbol of Isis, which is thus connected with 666.

 

Isis was the divine Egyptian mother goddess who had Osiris for her brother as well as her husband and their son was the winged falcon Horus (meaning “face from above”) warlord god.

 

The Egyptians had hundreds of gods and goddesses that had to be appeased to avoid disasters, i. e., the more gods the better philosophy, but Osiris, Horus and Isis were among the chief deities. Osiris was murdered by his destructive twin brother Set or Seth and Isis became the goddess of motherhood, marital devotion, healing of the sick and magical spells and charms by resurrecting Osiris. Horus became a warlord god by avenging Osirus’ death. “Isis” means “throne” and the Egyptian rulers sometimes wore a crown in the form of a gold diadem with the erect hissing cobra serpent on the forehead and the taller throne symbol on the back of the headband. King Tutankhamen used the Egyptian cobra (Naja haje) as his imperial symbol for Lower Egypt’s sacred Uraeus cobra or asp (the small Uraeus symbol is on the far side of the crown in the photo on the left).

 

 

The ten plagues that God through Moses used to besiege Egypt in order to convince Pharaoh to free the Hebrews in Exodus chapters 7 to 11 were meant to mock the Egyptian gods. For example, the 6th plague of boils (note the 6th plague) (Ex. 9:8-12) was used to disgrace the Egyptian gods/goddesses of healing including Isis, the goddess of healing abilities. Thus the destructive serpent is connected to Isis. The expression of this number in Greek letters for 666 is Χ ξ ς, consisting of the initial and final letters of the Greek word Χρστός or “Christos” in English (meaning “the anointed one”), Christ, viz., Χ and ς, with the symbol of the serpent’s worldly power, ξ, between them, viz., Χ - ξ - ς.

 

Thus the numerical difference between the 66 Bible books of God and Satan and/or the antichrist (ξ) who tries to substitute himself for God (2 Th. 2:4) by using worldly power (ξ) to come between God (Χ) and man (ς) and whose “number is 666” (Rev. 13:18), not 66. Note that at the simplest level, 13 = man’s disbelief in God and 6 = man and the spirit of the devil in man (= addition in Bn/g), 6 + 6 + 6 = 18. Here it is not the 613 Leviticus laws but the Revelation chapter 13 and verse 18 Bn/g anomalies that cannot be an accident.

 

Moses’ first miracle preformed before Pharaoh (= world power) was to change his brother Aaron’s staff into a snake (Ex. 7:8-13). The Greek letter ξ for the serpent (= 60 in Greek Bn/g, 10 = world power controlled by Satan) not only looks like a snake, it has a Hebrew Bn/g of 60 with the end-product extra meaning that, just like Moses confrontations with Pharaoh, the serpent Satin (6) has God-Granted (God the multiplier) worldly power (2 x 5 = 10) to test man’s (also 6, addition) freedom of choice (2 + 2 + 2 = 6) in morality and our freedom of choice of the one true God (Job 1:8-12), 6 x 10 = 60.

 

As another example of the similar extra meaning in the Bn/g end product, this time in another Bible language, the Hebrew word for “Judge” is “Dan” which combines the letters Daleth (4) + Nun (50). Since man is addition in Bn/g (as opposed to God which is a multiplier in Bn/g), 4 + 50 = 54. The fourth son of the 12 sons of Jacob which became one of the 12 tribes of Israel was the tribe of Dan which God had Moses assign to supply the civil judges for the new Israeli nation (Gen. 49:16). In the dispersion of the 10 northern tribes in Samaria that fell to the Assyrians in 722 B. C. E. the tribe of Dan (allegedly) founded the nation of Danmark, now called Denmark and is re-known for its civil justice laws.

 

The spiritual significance of a number and/or the number of times a word or phrase is used is consistent throughout the Bible irrespective of the written language. For example, in studying the number seven and it’s Biblical use (7 = spiritual perfection in Bn/g), we find that the writer of Genesis in Hebrew (by Moses, the beginning of the Bible) and the writer of Revelation in Greek (by the apostle John, the end of the Bible) both unknowingly to each other (and probably even to themselves) use the number seven a total of 54 times in their works even though there are 1600 years between the time of the writing of Moses’ record in Genesis chapter 1 and John’s vision of the future recorded in the book of Revelation.

 

There are very different events and very different circumstances between those of Genesis and those of the book of Revelation, but Judgment is a major theme in both books. The serpent spirit of disobedience in man and the serpent himself is Judged in Genesis chapter 3 (written in Hebrew) and this disobedient spirit in man and the serpent-dragon himself is Judged again beginning in the 3rd last chapter of the book of Revelation (written in Greek). Judgment (= 9 in Bn/g) x man (= 6 in Bn/g) = God’s Judgment of all man = 54 (9 x 6 = 54; 5 + 4 = 9). Thus Judgment of all creation by God becomes Bible spiritual bookends, as it were, both in the third from the first and the third from the last chapters of the Bible (3 or third = God and/or God’s emphasis in Bn/g). All this can hardly be an accident.

 

Another example is found in the writer of Hebrews (most likely Paul), 35 years before John wrote the book of Revelation in 96 C. E. (note John’s 9 and 6 date of writing for another 9 x 6 = 54 = total Judgment). The writer of Hebrews lists 5 “sevens”: 7 “better things” in heaven, 7 exhortations, 7 eternal things, the 7 titles of Christ and the term “Once for all” appears 7 times. Also, Ezekiel lists 7 things concerning Israel in his day (591 B. C. E.), 7 things God or Yahweh will do to Israel’s oppressors, 7 things Yahweh will do for Israel and 7 things Israel will do for themselves (even though some of these took several decades to fulfill and some that are not fulfilled yet) for a total of 4 “sevens”. The 5 sevens of Hebrews + the 4 sevens of Ezekiel = 9 sevens = Judgment Day in Bn/g. One can discover these anomalies ad-infinitum, but for the sake of brevity I refer the reader to E. W. Bullinger’s “Number in Scripture”, 1967, Kregel Publications, LCCC No. 67-26498, ISBN 0-8254-2238-8 (paperback).

 

Suffice to say that after only a brief study one comes away with an attitude of utter amazement about Divine Inspired Design in the Bible in the Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek written languages because the repeated overall homogenous numerical patterns, summations and multiples in the three different languages found in the Bible would not have been discernable by the 44 or so individual writers scattered over 16 centuries. The overall effect of Bible numerics/gematria is to teach us subtle proofs that the Bible has Divine Design because consistent repeated relationships between numbers, letters and spiritual significance could not happen by random chance or by man’s imagination unless he had Divine Inspiration.