And the winning number is.................

Sorry, i don't think gambling or playing the lotteries is smart or even fun.

I prefer to put my faith in a sure thing. Like the Word of God!

I have written about Bible Numerics before, about a year ago I think, but it's a subject that just needs to kept at the forefront.

Today I came across another couple of articles about Dr. Ivan Panin. His work should be shouted from the roof tops. He proved, mathematically, that the Holy Bible is indeed the inspired Word Of God. Men may have put stylus to papyrus, but it was under the guidance and total influence of the Holy Spirit.

Check this out.....

IS GOD A MATHEMATICIAN?

By Keith Newman. The authenticity of the Holy Bible has been attacked at regular intervals by athiests and theologians alike but none have explained away the mathematical seal beneath its surface. It would seem the divine hand has moved to prevent counterfeiting in the pages of the Bible in a similar manner to the line that runs through paper money. Bible numerics appears to be God's watermark of authenticity. Vital research on this numeric seal was completed by a native of the world's most renowned atheistic nation, Russia. Dr Ivan Panin was born in Russia on Dec 12, 1855. As a young man he was an active nihilist and participated in plots against the Czar and his government. He was a mathematical genius who died a Harvard scholar and a citizen of the United States in 1942. Panin was exiled from Russia. After spending a number of years studying in Germany he went to the United States where he became an outstanding lecturer on literary criticism. Panin was known as a firm agnostic - so well known that when he discarded his agnosticism and accepted the Christian faith, the newspapers carried headlines telling of his conversion. It was in 1890 that Dr Panin made the discovery of the mathematical structure underlining the vocabulary of the Greek New Testament. He was casually reading the first verse of the gospel of John in the Greek: "In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with the God and the Word was God...". Dr Panin was curious as to why the Greek word for "the"' preceeded the word "God"' in one case and not the other. In examining the text he became aware of a number relationship. This was the first of the discoveries that led to his conversion and uncovered the extensive numeric code. Oldest manuscripts Dr Panin found his proof in the some of the oldest and most accurate manuscripts - the Received Hebrew Text and the Westcott and Hort Text. In the original languages of the Bible, mostly Hebrew and Greek, there are no separate symbols for numbers, letters of the alphabet are also used to indicate numbers. The numeric value of a word is the sum total of all its letters. It was curiosity that first caused Dr Panin to begin toying with the numbers behind the texts. Sequences and patterns began to emerge. These created such a stirring in the heart of the Russian that he dedicated 50 years of his life to painstakingly comb the pages of the Bible. This complex system of numbering visibly and invisibly saturates every book of the scriptures emphasising certain passages and illustrating deeper or further meaning in types and shadows. The 66 books of the Bible 39 in the Old and 27 in the New were written by 33 different people. Those authors were scattered throughout various countries of the world and from widely different backgrounds. Many of them had little or no schooling. The whole Bible was written over a period of 1500 years with a 400 year silence apart from the Apocrypha between the two testaments. Despite the handicaps the biblical books are found to be a harmonious record, each in accord with the other. Dr Panin says the laws of probability are exceeded into the billions when we try and rationalise the authorship of the Bible as the work of man. He once said: "If human logic is worth anything at all we are simply driven to the conclusion that if my facts I have presented are true, man could never have done this. Inspiration from on high "We must assume that a Power higher than man guided the writers in such a way, whether they knew it or not, they did it and the Great God inspired them to do it''. The Bible itself states clearly that it is the literal God-breathed'' living word of the Creator. The words "Thus saith the Lord"' and "God said"' occur more than 2500 times throughout scripture. In 2 Timothy 3:16 it states "All scripture is given by inspiration of God". Then in 2 Peter 9:20-21 it plainly states: "No prophecy of the scriptures is of any private interpretation. For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost". Let's take the number seven as an illustration of the way the patterns work. Seven is the most prolific of the mathematical series which binds scripture together. The very first verse of the Bible "In the begining God created the heaven and the earth" (Gen 1:1), contains over 30 different combinations of seven. This verse has seven Hebrew words having a total of 28 letters 4 x 7. The numeric value of the three nouns "God", "heaven" and "earth" totals 777. Any number in triplicate expresses complete, ultimate or total meaning. Also tightly sealed up with sevens are the genealogy of Jesus, the account of the virgin birth and the resurrection. Seven occurs as a number 187 times in the Bible (41 x 7), the phrase "seven-fold" occurs seven times and "seventy" occurs 56 times (7 x 8). In the Book of Revelation seven positively shines out: there are seven golden candlesticks, seven letters to seven churches, a book sealed with seven seals, seven angels standing before the Lord with seven trumpets, seven thunders and seven last plagues. In fact there are over 50 occurrences of the number seven in Revelation alone. Divisible by seven There are 21 Old Testament writers whose names appear in the Bible (3 x 7). The numeric value of their names is divisible by seven. Of these 21, seven are named in the New Testament: Moses, David, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Daniel, Hosea and Joel. The numeric values of these names is 1554 (222 x 7). David's name is found 1134 times (162 x 7). God's seal also pervades creation as though it were woven into the very fabric of nature. The Bible has declared man's years to be three score and ten (70). The development of the human embryo is in exact periods of sevens or 28 days (4 x 7). Medical science tells us the human body is renewed cell for cell every seven years. We're told the pulse beats slower every seven days as if it were in accord with the seventh day of rest proclaimed in the Genesis creation week. And God formed man of the dust of the ground (Gen 2:7); science confirms the human body is made of the same 14 elements (2 x 7) found in your average handful of dust. The light of the sun is made up of seven distinct colours as shown in the rainbow. In music there are seven distinct notes which climax in a chord or octave at the beginning of a new seven. In almost all animals the incubation or pregnancy period is divisible by seven. Seven is often referred to as "God's seal" or the number of spiritual perfection. Number of resurrection Eight is the number of new life or "resurrection". It is the personal number of Jesus. When we add together the letter values of the name Jesus in the Greek we get 888. Jesus was called The Christ, the numeric value of this title is 1480 (185 x 8). He was Saviour which has the value 1408 (2 x 8 x 88). Jesus is also Lord which again is a multiple of eight being 800 (100 x 8). Messiah has the numeric value 656 (82 x8). Jesus also called himself the Son of man. The term occurs 88 times and is valued at 2960 (370 x 8). Jesus said "I am the truth": the numeric value of "the truth" is 64 (8 x 8). The last book in the Bible is the Revelation of Jesus Christ which has exactly 888 Greek words. Eight persons were saved in the Ark at the great Noahic flood. God made a covenant with Abraham that every male Jewish child was to be circumsised on the eighth day of his life. There are eight individual cases of resurrection spoken of in the Bible apart from Jesus. Three occur in the Old Testament, three in the gospels and two in Acts. It was on the eighth day or the first day of the new week that Jesus rose from the dead. The Holy Spirit also came down from heaven on the eighth day. Nine is finality or completion. The first example of its use is that infinitely sealed first verse of the Bible: "In the beginning God'' which in Hebrew is: Brayshith Elohim which has the numeric value of 999. The very next statement "created the heaven" is also sealed with 999. Nine is finality The number nine is endowed with a peculiar quality, it is finality in itself. Not only is it the final single number, but if you multiply it by any other number, the addition of the resulting figures will always revert back to nine (2 x 9 = 18 / 1 + 8 = 9 etc). There are nine basic gifts available to the Christian believer through the power of God's Holy Spirit (1 Cor 12:8-10). There are nine basic fruits which should be evident in the life of the believer (Gal 5:22-23). The words "my wrath" have the numeric value 999. The word Amen or verily is valued at 99 and occurs 99 times. The work on the cross was completed at the ninth hour when Jesus said "It is finished". The shedding of his blood was final. It saw an end to the old system of animal sacrifice to atone for sin. The word "blood" in this sense occurs 99 times. Great superstition has always surrounded the number 13 as being unlucky or dark. Perhaps there is good reason. One of the most convincing proofs of the origins of this number can be found by unraveling all the names by which Satan is known. Drakon or dragon has a value of 975 (13 x 75) and it occurs 13 times. Peirazon or tempter has a value of 1053 (13 x 81). Belial which is personification of evil has a value of 78 (13 x 6). Anthropoktonos or "murderer" has a value of 1820 (13 x 40). Ophis or "serpent" is 780 (13 x 60). The phrase used by the Holy Spirit Ho kaloumenos diablos kai ho Satanas or "called the Devil and Satan" is valued 2197 (13 x 13 x 13). Small neat calculations This article is in truth an oversimplification of the work of Dr Panin and others who followed in his footsteps. Dr Panin's work initially involved some 40,000 pages of material on which he had written millions of small neat calculations. It involved volumes. He often laboured up to 18 hours a day exploring the vast numeric structure. By and large it was a thankless task. Dr Panin said "When I first made the discovery I was of course, taken off my feet - I was in the same condition as our friend Archimedes who when he solved a great mathematical problem while in the bath, rushed in to the street naked, crying 'I have found it'. I thought people would be delighted to embrace the new discovery, but I found human nature is always the same. So I quietly withdrew and did my work all by myself". Although it would appear that his work has been largely lost from popular reading today Dr Panin did accomplish several outstanding works. He published Structure in the Bible the Numeric Greek New Testament and the Numeric English New Testament. The works of Dr Ivan Panin have been put before the experts many times. Dr Panin once challenged nine noted rationalists and Bible critics through the medium of the New York Sun newspaper Nov 9, 1899. He dared them to publicly refute or give explanation for a few of his presented facts. Four made lame excuses. The rest were silent. Dr Panin issued a challenge throughout leading newspapers of the world asking for a natural explanation or rebuttal of the facts. Not a single person accepted.

So, Mr. Doubter, are you going to take him up on his challenge? Watch out if you do, you just might become a Believer in Jesus Christ. Wouldn't that be awful? We know you're much happier walking through the world in darkness.

Seriously, with all of the proof presented, what stops you from accepting The Gift? Could it be that you like your sin? That your having too much fun? Well, dear lost one, God loves you and so do I. It doesn't matter what you've done, where you've been, how dark you secrets are; Repent and believe that Yeshua (Hebrew name for Jesus) died and rose again from the dead, for you to have forgiveness of sin and life abundantly, now and forever.

As a former party animal, I can assure you that the party awaiting us in eternity is beyond anything we can imagine.

To you He says, "Come".

Link found at; http://www.wordworx.co.nz/panin.html

PROOF!!!

Ok, so it's been awhile. But here's an amazing bunch of factoids.

If, after reading this, you still don't believe that the Bible is the inspired and only true Word of Yahwey, then I release you.

SHORT EXPLANATION OF NUMERICS
What is so important about the Numeric New Testament? The perfect divine
inspiration of the original Scriptures are scientifically obtainable through numerics. Let
me tell you a little of the awesome story.

Ivan Panin was forced to leave Russia during the
Bolshevik Revolution and come to the United States. He became a Harvard Scholar,
professor, and mathematician, who once tutored Albert Einstein. His training, devotion to
Christ and the Scriptures well-equipped him for his future work. Here he found his life’s
work in scientifically proving the divine inspiration of Scriptures. For fifty years, Dr. Panin
devoted twelve to eighteen hours a day to this work. The basis for his revelation, which
he called numerics, was the ancient Hebrew Old Testament and Greek New Testament
Scriptures. The Hebrews and Greeks used their letters also for their numbers. In other
words, the whole Bible was actually written in numbers also. What Dr. Panin discovered
is that when he used the numbers, the 66 books of the Bible showed a pattern of numbers
and divisibility that no other writing had. He diligently researched other Hebrew and
Greek writings and found no pattern. This included the apocryphal books added in the
Catholic and other early Protestant Bibles, including the original King James Version
before its many revisions.

I have read Dr. Panin’s works for many years and am totally impressed that God
ordained him to bring us back to the original text. Below is a small sample of his volumes
of work from a pamphlet titled Astounding New Discoveries © 1941 by a disciple of his,
Karl G. Sabiers, M.A. The number seven is by far the most common number used in the
surface text of the Bible, used in Revelation alone more than fifty times, but it is also
common beneath the surface of the whole Bible.

In GENESIS CHAPTER ONE, VERSE ONE we read, “In the beginning God created the
heavens and the earth.”

FEATURE ONE
The number of Hebrew words in this verse is exactly seven.

FEATURE TWO
The number of letters in the seven words is exactly twenty-eight, or four sevens.

FEATURE THREE
The first three of these seven Hebrew words contain the subject and predicate of the
sentence. These three words are translated–“In the beginning God created.” The
number of letters in these first three Hebrew words is exactly fourteen, or two sevens.
The last four of these seven words contain the object of the sentence. These four words
are translated–“the heavens and the earth.” The number of letters in these last four
Hebrew words is fourteen, or two sevens.

FEATURE FOUR
These last four Hebrew words consist of two objects. The first is “the heavens,” and the
second is “and the earth.” The number of letters in the first object is exactly seven. The
number of letters in the second object is seven.

FEATURE FIVE
The three leading words in this verse of seven words are God–the subject –and heavens
and earth–the objects. The number of letters in these three Hebrew words is exactly
fourteen, or two sevens. The number of letters in the other four words of the verse is
fourteen, or two sevens.

FEATURE SIX
The shortest word is in the middle. The number of letters in this word and the word to its
left is exactly seven.

FEATURE SEVEN
The number of letters in the middle word and the word to its right is exactly seven.
These are only a few examples of the many amazing numeric facts, which have
been discovered in the structure of this first verse of only seven Hebrew words. Literally
dozens of other phenomenal numeric features strangely underlie the structure of this
verse.

Thus, according to the law of chances, for twenty-four features to occur in a
passage accidentally, there is only one chance in 191,581,231,380,566,414,401–only
one chance in one-hundred-ninety-one quintillion, five-hundred-eighty-one quadrillion,
two-hundred-thirty-one trillion, three-hundred-eighty-billion, five-hundred sixty-six million,
four-hundred-fourteen-thousand, four-hundred-one. (The nomenclature herein used is
the American, not the British.)

Many brief Bible passages have as many as seventy or one hundred or more
amazing numeric features in the very structure of their text. If there is only one chance in
quintillions that twenty-four features could occur together accidentally, what would the
chance be for seventy features to occur together accidentally?
When there is only one chance in thousands for something to happen accidentally,
it is already considered highly improbable that it will occur at all. When there is only one
chance in hundreds of thousands, it is considered practically impossible. But here there
is one chance in not only millions, but billions, and trillions, and quadrillions, and
quintillions, that merely twenty-four features could occur together in a passage
accidentally.

If that is not enough to convince any sane man, there are patterns of eight, eleven,
thirteen, seventeen, nineteen, twenty-three, thirty-seven, forty-three, etc., on top of the
sevens throughout the Word. Larger patterns connect book to book, Old Testament to

New Testament and show the correct order of the books. What all this proves is that one
divine, brilliant mind wrote the Bible rather than thirty-three simple men, with relatively no
schooling, who lived in different countries over a span of 1,600 years. If men wrote the
Bible, they would have all had to live at the same time and place and all been
mathematical geniuses. Then they would have each had to write their book last with the
knowledge of the numeric pattern in all the other books. Men have tried to write a simple
numeric text with very few features and failed miserably.

The Hebrews had extremely stringent rules for the scribes to follow in copying the ancient
manuscripts. God did this through them in order to preserve this pattern of perfection in
the Scriptures that we might have the “God-breathed” Word of God. If a Greek or Hebrew
letter is added, removed, or changed, the pattern breaks in that text. The main problem
today in publishing Bibles is deciding which manuscript to use. It makes common sense
to use only ancient manuscripts, which were close to the original with less likelihood of
human mistake. Using a copy of a copy of a copy, etc. makes no sense, and yet, because
of prejudices or lack of availability of ancient manuscripts, some have published Bibles
from these. Needless to say, the ancient manuscripts proved to be much more numeric.
What God has done through numerics is to give us a method by which we can find out
which manuscript is right and where each one is right or wrong. Then of course Ivan used
only the numeric texts for an original copy. Numerics has made searching multiple
translations obsolete. It also makes it possible to find out which translation is the most
accurate. In comparing the Bibles up through the early 1900s, Dr. Panin rated the
American Revised Version in English, now called the American Standard Version
(starbible.com), to be the most accurate. However, his Numeric New Testament exceeds
that because there are no disputed references of slight differences in ancient manuscripts
since Numerics proves every text to the letter.

Publisher’s Note: The reader will notice a few rare occasions where verses are skipped. This is in keeping with Dr. Panin’s original work. Over time, men have added verses that do not have a numeric pattern and are not a part of the original Greek.

Important Note: Dr. Ivan Panin’s original work has not been changed except for a few
typographical errors and a few select words where the spelling was modernized and
standardized. This upgraded only the spelling and did not change the numeric Greek
pattern behind it. Since few know the value of the numeric blank spaces sometimes found
between chapters and verses, which are explained in Paper I, they have been left out in
favor of readability, easier typesetting, and lower printing costs. These can be found in the
original NENT. A very few Notes were left out because they had already been
incorporated into the text of the Second Edition making them unnecessary. Dr. Panin's
numeric materials may be found on our website at UnleavenedBreadMinistries.org.
Your servants at UBM

Hey? Hey?! Is that not amazing? And that's just one example! The entire Bible, both old and Most importantly, the New Testament, is one giant numbers game! No other writing on earth has this! None!

I believed in God by faith many years ago and He just keeps rewarding my trust with evidences like this. To not believe in Jesus Christ after reading his stuff is just pure satanic rebellion at this point, and unless you repent of your sin and change you ways, there's not much hope for you. I'm so sorry for anyone who could reject the only hope we have in this world.

May God richly bless you, Hidden Mountain