I’m not talking about a dress size but a supernatural act of God.

Recently much information has come out about the biblical numerology and hidden codes.  Although I think much of this information is out of balance numbers are very important to God.  After all He named the fourth book of Bible Numbers.  God makes extensive use of numbers in order to be exact.

A single number defines absolutely, quantitatively and qualitatively like no other word can.  Anybody can observe if someone has hair or not but when Jesus said my Father knows the exact number of hairs, He got peoples attention.  Why?  There is great power in numbers.  It establishes an absolute truth.

Understanding the biblical use of numbers helps us delve deeper into the meaning of the Word of God.  If we are careful not to read in something where there is nothing we can observation how the use of numbers ads significantly to our understanding of the Bible.

A case in point:  The number Six denotes the number of man (Rev 13:18).  His creation fell on the sixth-day.  The first occurrence of the number makes it and all multiples of it the hallmark of all connected with man.  He works six days a week and the hours of his day are multiples of six.  This number emphatically marks the great men who have stood in defiance of God like Goliath and the Anti-Christ and others whose names add up to 6 or some multiple there of.  (In Hebrew and Greek the letters of their alphabet also represent numbers.  Imagine if in English ‘A’ meant 1 and ‘J’ meant 10 and ‘T’ meant 100.)

An interesting note is that the bricks used to construct the tower of Babel were all stamped 666.  Many of those Bricks are still around today.  Alexander the Great excavated the tower with the expectation of rebuilding it.  He died suddenly before construction could begin.  In Iraq there is a 120’ deep pit where the tower once stood.  Around which is a small community whose houses are constructed with the tower bricks; which still bear the seal.

Six did not start has a ‘bad’ number however it simply identified man.  When he fell he changed his sonship to Satan and six then identified him with rebellion and death.

Eight denotes resurrection, regeneration, a new beginning or commencement. The eighth really means a new first.  Hence the octave in music, color, days of the week etc.  Eight or its multiple is impressed on all that has to do with the Lord’s names, the Lord’s people and the Lord’s work.  The name of Jesus adds up to 888.  He rose on the eighth or the new first day.  Old Testament circumcision took place on the eighth day as a sign of His future resurrection.

Six hundred sixty six absolutely, quantitatively and qualitatively means dead in spirit, soul and body where as Eight hundred eighty eight means resurrected or regenerated in spirit, soul and body.  We have not just recovered what Adam lost when he sinned we have taken on even greater dimensions in Christ.  We have been promoted from a 6 to an 8.  Mathematically speaking an increase of two dimensions would be equal to infinity x 12 x 2.  Jesus walked through walls, on water and flew into the clouds.  I wonder if Adam could do all of that?  He was only a six.

Rocky J.  Malloy

This isn’t just a child’s question, even though it’s usually a child who ventures to ask it.   Almost without exception, when a child hears that God made everything they think, “Well then who made God?”

Children have an awareness of time.  They will later discover that the universe and everything in it is confined to a single, finite line of time that is moving forward and can never be reversed or stopped.  Grownups call this fourth dimension a time/space continuum or a time line.

Even the simple logic of a child understands there is cause and effect associated with time.  Parents use that understanding to explain to their children that if they do bad there is consequence and if they do good there is reward.  But when we tell them about God we break the chain of logic by saying, “He just was.”

It is easy to see why a child recognizes the ‘poor’ logic immediately.  And the old question arises, “If God (the cause) created the universe (the effect) what caused God to be effected?

The necessity of God having a beginning, however, would apply only if He, too, were confined to the same time dimension as we are.  But according to Titus 1:2 and the theory of general relativity, He is not.  (General relativity says that the space and time dimensions of the universe had the origins as matter and energy.)  Titus 1:2 says however that God existed before there was matter and therefore He existed before our time continuum.

Our time continuum is one of the four dimensions that we live in.  (The other three are height, width and depth.)  Time is the realm in which cause and effect rule.

Because God created the dimension of time that we live in, He must operate in a time dimension that is independent of us, one existing before the creation of the universe.

Scripture tells us that time, as we know it, has a beginning.  And that God operated in cause and effect before that time dimension began (Titus 1:2; 2 Timothy 1:9; Ephesians 1:4; 1 Peter 1:20).  Bible evidence backed up with general relativity revels that there must be at least one other time dimension in which God exist.

We also know that there must be at least one other time continuum for God because both science and mathematics teach us that anything on a single time continuum must have a starting point or a beginning, like our universe for instance.  And if there were only one time continuum that too would mean that God had a beginning, but he didn’t.

God operating in two or more dimensions of time has no need of a beginning.  Simply stated a duel-dimensional Being exists not on a time line but on a time plane where an infinite number of times lines running in an infinite number of directions would be possible.

God moves and operates along an infinite number of time lines independent of the time/space continuum of our universe.  He therefore has no beginning and will never have an end (John 1:3 and Colossians 1:16,17).  That is why He told Moses, “I Am that I Am” or “I am the cause that put all things into effect therefore I Be” (Ex. 3:14).

Anyway, that is why we just tell our children, “He was!”

Rocky J. Malloy

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge, rejecting the very truth that can save them (Hosea 4:6a).  Bad things happen to us because we are ignorant of the wiles, the diabolical plots, of the devil.  Instead of learning how to defeat the devil, we blame God, saying that He allowed some kind of sickness or calamity to befall.  We have created great religious excuses for the devil’s victories in our lives, when most of the time we are at fault.

Jesus said in Luke 21:34-36 that we should be cautious or our lives would be destroyed by gluttony, drunkenness or the cares of this world.  Any doctor would tell you that these three things account for almost all known diseases.  Gluttony is more than being overweight.  It is a life style that is out of balance, out of harmony with the needs of our body.  Drunkenness is selfishness personified caused by a deficiency of the soul.  The cares of the world, or worry, are simply doubt and unbelief, which is sin.

Jesus outlined our destruction as a lack of knowledge concerning the proper care of our spirit, soul and body.  Our bodies need a balanced diet; our souls need giving and loving relationships and our spirit needs the word of God so that it may operate in faith.

Jesus told us that we could escape all the demonic plots of the devil if proper attention was given to the areas he outlined in Luke 21.

John said the devil could not even touch us if we could avoid sin (I Jn. 5:18) understanding that sin is doubt or unbelief in the word of God.

Hearing God will keep us from being in the wrong place at the wrong time, will keep us from making wrong or hasty decisions and will alert us to demonic traps (Jn. 10:4-10).

Look at what happened to Job.  His kids were drunken gluttons (Job 1:1-5).  Job was so ‘worried’ about them that he was constantly making sacrifices for them.  His greatest fear being that something would happen to them (Job 3:25).  So the devil told God that Job’s fear had broken down the hedge of protection that his prayers had made.  (Fear is of the devil and he uses it like God uses faith.  Worry is the result of fear and peace is the result of faith.)  The Bible calls fear a trap of the devil (Prov. 10:24).

God did not give the devil permission to harm Job but be could not deny that the actions of Job’s children had put them in harms way nor could He deny that Job’s worry had cancelled his faith.

After Job had repented for saying things like “the Lord gives and the Lord takes away”, for accusing God and for saying things he didn’t understand, he was able to defeat the devil (Job 42).  God was able to bless Job with twice as much as he had before he fell, once he got back in faith and put his trust in the Lord.

People use the book of Job out of context when trying to explain ‘the will of God’ and why bad things happen.  In doing so they put the blame on God, when we are the ones out of balance with nature, living selfishly without concern for others and in constant sin because we have little confidence in the word of God.

So ignorant saying like, “in every life a little rain must fall” or “God gives the devil permission to harm us” or “bad things happen to teach us or punish us” all sound religious but they are contrary to the word of God.  Bad things happen to ‘good’ people because they are ignorant of the word of God and fall prey to the devil.

If you want to enjoy a life that has a lot less demonic hassles: eat right, love your enemies, live in peace and don’t sin.  You can do that by reading your Bible, living generously and praying.

The just shall live by faith (Romans 1:17).

Rocky Malloy