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66: WHAT'S IN A NUMBER?

ONE OF THE MOST EVOCATIVE AND ENDURING ICONS OF AMERICAN POPULAR CULTURE IS ROUTE 66. FROM ITS STARRING ROLE AS THE "MOTHER ROAD" OF STEINBECK'S CLASSIC NOVEL "THE GRAPES OF WRATH",  FAMOUSLY FILMED BY JOHN FORD, TO ITS MORE RECENT CENTRAL CASTING IN THE DISNEY/PIXAR ANIMATED FEATURE "CARS", BOTH ON AND OFF THE SILVER SCREEN THERE HAS NEVER BEEN A ROAD QUITE LIKE IT!

IT WAS THE GREAT WAY WEST, A SERIOUSLY LONG RIBBON OF ROAD STRETCHING FROM CHICAGO IN ILLINOIS TO LOS ANGELES IN CALIFORNIA. FROM THE SHORE OF LAKE MICHIGAN TO THE SHORE OF THE PACIFIC OCEAN, THE BEST PART OF TWO AND A HALF THOUSAND MILES OF FARMLAND, MOUNTAIN AND DESERT. NOT JUST A LINE ON A MAP, BUT THE VERY SPINAL CORD OF A NATION!

BRIDGE DOWN!

LET US ASSUME FOR A MOMENT A BRIDGE COLLAPSE SOMEWHERE - ANYWHERE - ON ROUTE 66. IT COULD BE JUST A FEW SHORT PLANKS ACROSS A DRAINAGE DITCH, OR A SOARING VIADUCT SPANNING A WHITE-WATER RAVINE, BUT THE RESULT WOULD BE THE SAME. ROUTE 66 WOULD EFFECTIVELY BECOME A CUL-DE-SAC, A LONG ROAD TO NOWHERE. WITH THE RIBBON CUT, YOU COULD ONLY GO SO FAR... AND NO FURTHER!

JUST WHERE IS THIS TAKING US? WELL, IF WE SEE THE BIBLE AS OUR "ROUTE 66"... READ ON, AND ALL WILL BE REVEALED!

ISAIAH'S 66

THE BOOK OF ISAIAH IS REMARKABLE IN MANY WAYS. ONE OF ITS LEAST FETED ATTRIBUTES IS THAT ITS 66 CHAPTERS FORM A KIND OF ROUTE MAP OF THE COMPLETE CANON OF SCRIPTURE, FROM GENESIS RIGHT THROUGH TO REVELATION.

ISAIAH EFFECTIVELY SPLITS INTO TWO DISTINCT SECTIONS, SO CLEARLY THAT BIBLE SCHOLARS HAVE EVEN (ERRONEOUSLY) SUGGESTED TWO DIFFERENT AUTHORS!

CHAPTERS  1 - 39, CHARACTERISED BY "CONDEMNATION".

CHAPTERS 40 - 66, CHARACTERISED BY "CONSOLATION".

CONDEMNATION = LAW

CONSOLATION = GRACE

CHAPTERS  1 - 39 = OLD COVENANT / TESTAMENT (39 BOOKS)

CHAPTERS 40 - 66 = NEW COVENANT / TESTAMENT (27 BOOKS)

ISAIAH'S 66 CHAPTERS THUS MARVELLOUSLY MODEL THE BIBLE'S 66 BOOKS!

66 AS A TRIANGULAR NUMBER

66 IS AN EXAMPLE OF WHAT IS KNOWN IN MATHEMATICS AS A TRIANGULAR NUMBER. IN OTHER WORDS, IF SEEN AS AN UNBROKEN NUMERICAL SEQUENCE, THAT SEQUENCE COULD BE ARRANGED TO FORM A PERFECT EQUILATERAL TRIANGLE:

• 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11
• 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21
• 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
• 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38
• 39 40 41 42 43 44 45
• 46 47 48 49 50 51
• 52 53 54 55 56
• 57 58 59 60
• 61 62 63
• 64 65
• 66

AS SUCH IT IS REMARKABLY EMBLEMATIC OF THE TRINITY, ITS EQUAL SIDES REFLECTIVE OF THE FATHER, SON AND HOLY SPIRIT; IT CAN BE PERCEIVED AS A DIVINE SEAL ON THE SCRIPTURES, A HOLY MATHEMATICAL "SIGNATURE" ON THE REVEALED WORD OF THE CREATOR TO HIS CREATION!

THE TRINITY'S 66

WHY 66, AND NOT SOME OTHER TRIANGULAR NUMBER? THE ANSWER LIES IN THE FACT THAT THE GOD-GIVEN LANGUAGE OF THE JEWISH TANAKH, OUR OLD TESTAMENT, IS OF COURSE HEBREW.

GOD IS "THE FIRST AND THE LAST", AND AS SUCH HE IS ALSO EVERYTHING IN BETWEEN! THE HEBREW ALPHABET, FROM THE ALEPH TO THE TAV, IS 22 LETTERS LONG. THEREFORE:

           GOD THE FATHER = THE ALEPH TO THE TAV = 22 

                GOD THE SON  = THE ALEPH TO THE TAV = 22

GOD THE HOLY SPIRIT  = THE ALEPH TO THE TAV = 22

      THE SUM OF THE TRINITY IS CONSEQUENTLY: 22 + 22 + 22 = 66

THE BIBLE'S 66

LET'S LOOK AGAIN AT THE FULL 66-BOOK CANON OF SCRIPTURE IN ITS TRINITARIAN, TRIANGULAR FORMAT, USING ABBREVIATIONS OF THE TITLES FOR THE SAKE OF SIMPLICITY:

• GE EX LE NU DE JO JU RU 1S 2S 1K
• 2K 1C 2C EZ NE ES JO PS PR EC
• SO IS JE LA EZ DA HO JO AM
• OB JO MI NA HA ZE HA ZE
• MA MA MALUJO AC RO
• 1C 2C GA EP PH CO
• 1T  2T  1T  2T  TI
• PH HE JA 1P
• 2P 1J 2J
• 3J JU
• RE

THE VERY LAST WARNING RECORDED IN SCRIPTURE IS: "IF ANY MAN SHALL TAKE AWAY FROM THE WORDS OF THE BOOK OF THIS PROPHECY, GOD SHALL TAKE AWAY HIS PART OUT OF THE BOOK OF LIFE, AND OUT OF THE HOLY CITY, AND FROM THE THINGS WHICH ARE WRITTEN IN THIS BOOK." (REVELATION 22:19)

IT ECHOES THE ORIGINAL O.T. COMMANDMENT, "YE SHALL NOT ADD UNTO THE WORD WHICH I COMMAND YOU, NEITHER SHALL YE DIMINISH AUGHT FROM IT." (DEUTERONOMY 4:2)

THE WORD OF GOD IS ABSOLUTELY UNALTERABLE! IT IS THE SUM OF HIS MESSAGE TO MANKIND. NO ADDITION OR SUBTRACTION IS PERMISSIBLE; IF ATTEMPTED, MAN MULTIPLIES HIS MISTAKES, WITH DISASTROUS CONSEQUENCES!

IT CAN BE SEEN THAT ALTERING THE BIBLE'S SUM OF 66 BOOKS WOULD IMMEDIATELY "ERASE" ITS HOLY "SIGNATURE"; IN A VERY REAL WAY IT WOULD BECOME ANONYMOUS... NO LONGER BE THE WORD OF GOD! IT IS WHY SATAN HAS TOILED TIRELESSLY TO PERSUADE MEN TO DO EXACTLY THIS! THE CATHOLICS' INCLUSION OF "THE APOCRYPHA" OR THE MORMONS' "BOOK OF MORMON" WOULD BE CLASSIC EXAMPLES, AS WOULD THE EXCLUSION OF THE ENTIRE NEW TESTAMENT BY NON-MESSIANIC JEWS.

BUT THE OLD SERPENT BEING "MORE SUBTIL THAN ANY BEAST OF THE FIELD" (GENESIS 3:1), HIS DECEITS RUN FAR DEEPER AND MUCH MORE DEVIOUSLY THAN THAT!

THE JOT AND THE TITTLE

JESUS TAUGHT THAT "ONE JOT OR ONE TITTLE SHALL IN NO WISE PASS FROM THE LAW, TILL ALL BE FULFILLED." (MATTHEW 5:18). THE WORDS "JOT" AND "TITTLE" ARE SO TRANSLATED FROM THE ORIGINAL GREEK WORDS "IOTA" AND "KERAIA", THE FORMER BEING THE SMALLEST LETTER OF THE GREEK ALPHABET AND THE LATTER BEING THE MERE PART OF A LETTER (LIKE "DOTTING THE I'S AND CROSSING THE T'S").

WHAT JESUS WAS EMPHASISING IS THAT IT IS NOT JUST AN ISSUE OF THE KEEPING OF THE BOOKS: IT IS THE KEEPING OF EVERY PART OF EVERY LETTER, EVERY LETTER OF EVERY WORD, EVERY WORD OF EVERY SENTENCE, EVERY SENTENCE OF EVERY VERSE, EVERY VERSE OF EVERY CHAPTER, EVERY CHAPTER OF EVERY BOOK, AND THEN EVERY BOOK OF THE 66!

SATAN'S AWARENESS OF THIS HAS PROMPTED THE ENDLESS USE OF HIS CENSOR'S SCISSORS! AND THE RESULT? THE MULTITUDE OF "MODERN" BIBLE TRANSLATIONS, THAT IN THE NAME OF "READABILITY" HAVE DONE EXACTLY THAT WHICH THE AUTHOR EXPRESSLY FORBADE! OMISSION AND PARAPHRASE HAVE BECOME THE ORDER OF THE DAY! SCRIPTURE HAS BECOME A CORDIAL FOR MEN TO DILUTE TO TASTE.

IT IS NO COINCIDENCE THAT THE GROWTH OF ERROR AND FALSE DOCTRINE IN THE CHURCH PARALLELS THE ABANDONMENT OF THE KING JAMES AUTHORISED VERSION, THE HOLY SPIRIT-INSPIRED WORD-FOR-WORD  TRANSLATION. IT IS FOR GOOD REASON THAT WE ARE INSTRUCTED TO "REMOVE NOT THE ANCIENT LANDMARK, WHICH THY FATHERS HAVE SET". (PROVERBS 22:28).

TO MOVE THE BOUNDARIES OF GOD'S WORD IS NOT JUST A STUMBLING BLOCK TO OURSELVES, BUT TO OTHERS AS WELL. "CURSED BE HE THAT REMOVETH HIS NEIGHBOUR'S LANDMARK. AND ALL THE PEOPLE SHALL SAY, AMEN". (DEUTERONOMY 27:17).

THE BIBLE IS OUR "ROUTE 66". IF WE TAKE ANYTHING AWAY, BE IT "A PIP OR A PUMPKIN", IT IS THE EQUIVALENT OF THE BRIDGE COLLAPSE WE PICTURED EARLIER: OUR JOURNEY IS CURTAILED: WE CAN ONLY GO SO FAR, AND NO FURTHER! THERE IS A BARRIER BETWEEN OURSELVES AND THE COMPLETENESS OF GOD'S REVELATION TO US!

THE PIC'N'MIX APPROACH

IT IS NOT MERELY A MATTER OF WHICH TRANSLATION WE USE. IT IS OF VITAL IMPORTANCE TO PERSONALLY ADHERE TO  THE TEXT IN ITS ENTIRETY, TO OBEDIENTLY EMBRACE EVERY LAST "JOT AND TITTLE"; THE PIC'N'MIX APPROACH TO THE SCRIPTURES IS AT THE HEART OF THE PROPHESIED "FALLING AWAY", WHICH IS SO OBVIOUSLY BEING FULFILLED BEFORE OUR VERY EYES. YOU CAN'T JUST SELECT WHAT YOU LIKE BEST, AND REJECT THE REST: IF YOU PUT YOUR HAND IN THE JAR, YOU EITHER TAKE THEM ALL OR NONE AT ALL!

ACCEPTING ONLY HALF THE TRUTH = ACCEPTING FULLY HALF A LIE!

IN CONCLUSION...

A LITTLE VERSE WHICH HOPEFULLY ENCAPSULATES SOMETHING OF THE ESSENCE OF THIS WEB PAGE:

• The building stands - so grand and tall! -
• By every brick in every wall,
• While every tile upon its roof
• Makes sure that it's waterproof!
• Don't take one brick or break one tile,
• Or add bits in a different style:
• You may just come to rue the day
• You added or you took away!

   or else...! 

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