The Number of His Name
The formal name and title given to the Son of God is 'Jesus Christ' in English, 'Yehoshua HaMashiach' in Hebrew and 'Ihsous Christos' in Greek. . These names have been woven into the chapter and verse structure of the NIV Bible in a remarkable way, using the standard value system of gematria and all three languages utilised by the New Bible Code. The phenomenon again serves as a summary of the code's end-time message to us all. [1]
The Numbers
The standard values of the Hebrew, English and Greek versions of Jesus' full name and title are given below. [2]
Yehoshua HaMashiach/Jesus the Messiah (s) = 754
Jesus Christ (s) ................................................= 925
Ihsous Christos/Jesus Christ (s) ....................= 2368
Jesus' Hebrew Name in Verse
Primacy is an important code principle, so I counted verses from the beginning of the NIV Bible, coming first to the 754th Bible verse, which is Genesis 27.26, a critical verse in the story of Jacob taking his elder brother Esau's birthright from their father Isaac on his deathbead (when the firstborn son was traditionally blessed), where Jacob pretends to be Esau in front of his dying father, who asks him to draw nearer so he can be sure he is really talking to Esau.
Then his father Isaac said to him, "Come here my son and kiss me." (Gen. 27.26, NIV '84)
Genesis 27.26 (o) ......= 525
Second Appearing (s) = 525
The Coming (c) ..........= 525
This, then, is the message of the entire code reduced to one concise encoding: the Second Coming, the fulfillment of God's plan for man's redemption, is now underway.
Unlike Esau, who was a proud and worldly man, Jacob was a humble student of the Torah and in Biblical typology a type of Christ, chosen by God before he was born to foreshadow Christ. Jacob was also a trickster and deceiver ('Jacob' means 'supplanter'). His sleight of hand in stealing Esau's birthright was a critical moment in God's plan of redemption for mankind. Therefore, the alignment of these numerical values with this verse is a clear indication of the import of the event and of its meaning for us now. It is reinforced by the idea of doubling and twoness, relevant to the account itself, because the firstborn son received a double portion, and also because it involved two people. These ideas also link the verse the Second Coming.
Jesus' English Name in Verse
The next number we come to as we count verses is 925, the standard value of 'Jesus Christ'. The 925th verse is Genesis 31.51.
Laban also said to Jacob, "Here is this heap, and here is this pillar I have set up between you and me." (Gen 31.51, NIV '84)
Genesis 31.51 (o) ..........= 831
The Second Coming (c) = 831
So again 'Jesus Christ' is matched with 'Second Coming'! The theme of 'twoness' is found here again in the heap and pillar in the hill country, also symbolising the twin towers on 9/11, the event that announced the Second Coming to the world. Jacob sacrificed an animal there, prefiguring the Day of Atonement sacrifices and the Crucifixion, the events 9/11 symbolised
9/11 also represented a covenant. In Genesis 9.11, God instituted a new covenant with man:
I establish my covenant with you: Never again will all life be cut off by the waters of a flood; never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth. (Gen. 9.11, NIV '84)
This verse is the Bible's 217, and the numbers 911 and 217 are brought together again in the Bible's 911th chapter, Haggai 2, which begins
On the twenty-first day of the seventh month, the word of the Lord came through the prophet Haggai. (Hag. 2.1, NIV '84).
Why would that be? Firstly, 911 is the standard value of the Hebrew word reshith, meaning 'beginning', as in the institution of a new covenant. Secondly, 217 is the ordinal value of this phrase.
Christ's Second Coming (o) = 217
The events of 9/11 are symbolised in a geometric puzzle I call the September-11 Cube, which revealed the deepest meaning of 9/11 in one potent symbol:
Genesis in Verse
Before we leave Genesis, I would like to point out a stunning identity linking the total verse count of Genesis, 1533, with a well-known title for Jesus in John 11.25.
Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will live, even though he dies;" (John 11.25, NIV '84)
Number of verses in Genesis .......= 1533
The Resurrection and the Life (s) .= 1533
The Incarnate Word (c) .................= 1533
This number is a triangle of trefoils, the entire figure cut from triangle 3828. This is the 87th triangle in the sequence and 87 is the ordinal value of the Greek word Ihsous/Jesus!
Ihsous/Jesus (o) ...............................= 87
The Resurrection and the Life (s) = 1533
Jesus' Greek Name in Verse
The 2368th verse in the NIV Bible is Exodus 29.31.
Take the ram for the ordination and cook the meal in a sacred place. (Ex. 29.31, NIV '84)
Exodus 29.31 (o) = 539 = 49 x 11 = 77 x 7
Lord (o) ...............................................= 49
Jesus (r) ..............................................= 11
Christ (o) .............................................= 77
Here we see direct links between numerical values of Jesus Christ in Greek and English. The verse belongs to the Lord's instructions to Moses for the consecration of priests in the Tent of Meeting. Jesus Christ is of course our High Priest and his sacrifice on the Cross, which for Christians replaced the Day of Atonement, was prefigured by animal sacrifice in the Tabernacle.
Finally, the chapter and verse indicators for these three passages, Genesis 27.26 and 31.51, and Exodus 29.31, sum to an interesting number.
2726 + 3151 + 2931 = 8808
Ihsous/Jesus (s) ........= 888
If we now add the sum of the ordinal values of each verse (525, 831 and 539) to this total, we obtain the following number and factors:
525+ 831 + 539 + 8808 ............= 10703 .........= 139 x 77
King of Glory (o) .....................................................= 139
Christ (o) ...................................................................= 77
Anoki YHVH Eloheka/I am the LORD your God (s) .= 173
Jesus' Hebrew and English Names in Chapter and Verse
The first verses of the 754th and 925th Bible chapters (2368 is greater than the total number of Bible chapters, 1189) are marked for our attention.
1. The first verse of the 754th Bible chapter, Jeremiah 9.1, is the Bible's 19177th verse.
19177 ....................................= 151 x 127
Jesus Christ (o) ...............................= 151
Melek HaKavod/King of Glory (s) ....= 127
2. The first verse of the 925th Bible chapter, Zechariah 14.1, is the Bible's 23070th verse.
23070 .....................................= 769 x 30
Covenant (s) ..................................= 769
The very appropriate theme of this chapter is The Lord Comes and Reigns! As indicated earlier in this page, the New Bible Code tells us that 9/11, when the Lord came back to reign, announced a new covenant between God and man.
The two positional values sum to the following number and factors, again summarising the code's eschatological message:
19177 + 23070 = 42247 .........= 83 x 509
Our Lord Jesus Christ (r) .................= 83
The Appearance (s) .......................= 509
The verses themselves have ordinal value of 1142 (Jeremiah 9.1) and 673 (Zechariah 14.1).
1142 + 673 .= 1815 = 363 x 5 = 121 x 15 = 165 x 11
HaMashiach/The Messiah (s) .........................= 363
Second Coming (o) .........................................= 121
Resurrection (o) ..............................................= 165
His Name in the Garden
Two of the three numbers, 754 and 925, are found three times in the Garden (Gen. 1.1-5, NIV '84). all in close proximity and against tremendous odds.
The six encoded numbers, stacked together, suggest the letter vav, the sixth letter of the hebrew alphabet and itself associated with man and first found in the sixth word of Genesis in the original Hebrew, where it 'mediates' between heaven (word 5) and the earth (word 7).
The sixth word, v'et, means 'and', which is the eighth word in the NIV and the very word at which this cluster of encodings of Jesus Christ begins.
The third number, 2368, is implied in two ways by the ordinal value of the entire Garden, 3764. Firstly, this is a concatenation of the geometrically-related factors of 2368, 37 and 64. [4] Secondly, when 3764 is added to its mirror, 4673, the sum, 8437, is the 38th hexagram, formed by the self reflection of triangle 6328, a numerical anagram of 2368 and the sum of the opening verses of the Hebrew Bible and the Greek New Testament:
Genesis 1.1 (BHS, s) = 2701
John 1.1 (TR, s) ........= 3627
2701 + 3627 ..............= 6328
Adding 3764 to this sum, we form what I call the New Garden, summing to the trefoil number 10092 and a paradise of fractal geometry.
Finally, the number of words in the Garden, 83, and the number of letters, 347, also point to the Son of God.
Our Lord Jesus Christ (o) = 83
Son of God (s) ...............= 347
For more on Jesus Christ and the number 6, please see The Signature of Christ, The Number of the Beast and this video. For a remarkable double encoding of the letter vav in the Garden, shpwing how the New Bible Code is 'hooked' onto the text of the NIV (the tent hooks used by the Israelites resembled a vav), please see the end of The Maker's Mark.
Addendum
A few hours after I finished this page yesterday I got the following word: YE MISSED THE FIRST. Its ordinal value is 204.
YE MISSED THE FIRST (o) = 204
204 is the eighth square pyramid number, with dimensions 8, 8, 8 (Ihsous (s) = 888), so this is important. I emboldened the word 'first' because it was stressed. 'First' = 72, so I went back to the NIV and looked at the first 72 letters of the NIV. Here they are, with their ordinal value..
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and em . . . . (o) = 754
So this is the first encoding! The number of letters here is 72 and the encoding ends on the 27th letter of Genesis 1.2. 72 and 27 are the standard and ordinal values of this word:
Code (s) = 72
Code (o) = 27
The ordinal value beginning at the second verse is 324, another important code number.
Now the earth was formless and em . . . . (o) = 324
The Ark (s) .....................................................= 324
Even the first two letters of the word 'empty', where this piece of code ends, are part of it, because they sum to 18, which is 'Code' (r)!
Bill Downie 30/8/23
Latest Update: 31/8/23
Notes
1. Note that, in accordance with the code's main operating principle, verses are numerated as ordinal values but take on meaning as standard values, or occasionally combined or ordinal values.
2. All of these numbers all have profound geometric and wider mathematical implications, as detailed on other pages, but here we are concerned mainly with the numbers themselves.
3. Adding verse sums, taking partial verse sums and manipulating chapter and verse indicators, also yields important numbers, but in this initial survey I will concentrate only on full verse sums.
4. 64 is a cube and 37 is the 2D diagonal projection of that cube, hexagon 37.