A Generation according to the Bible: 5a

The bible numbers have caused me to appreciate the beauty and wisdom of a simple walk of faith. Many times I have personally earned the searching rebuke of the risen Messiah to doubting Thomas. With fear and trembling, along with these words from the Gospel of John, I submit to both Jew and Gentile this revelation:

"Yeshua saith unto him, Thomas, because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed: blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed. And many other signs truly did Yeshua in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book: But these are written, that ye might believe that Yeshua is the Messiah, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through his name." (John 20:29-31)

In lesson 1 and lesson 3, we briskly established the obvious thematic link between the names of our bible code (Yeshua and Elijah) found at the call of Moses, as compared with the "Two Witnesses" of Zechariah 3 & 4 and Revelation 11. In lesson 4, we detailed the significance of the particular words where the bible code lands on during its 120-letter skips. We will now begin to detail the meaning of this bible code numerically.

In lesson 2, we charted the several ways scripture denotes a 3-½ year period. We saw that the common phrase used was "time, times and one-half times."

"time" = 1 year	"times" = 2 years	"½ times" = ½ of a year
360 days	720 days	180 days

Using the normal "360" calendar, we saw that this amounted to 360 + 720 + 180 = 1260 days. Furthermore, our bible code revealed a 120 x 3 x 2 letter pattern for "Yeshua" (= 360 x 2 or 720 letters) and a parallel 120 x 3 letter sequence for "Elijah" (= 360 letters). Therefore, we reason that the "Elijah" code depicts a 1-year period, or "a time," and that the "Yeshua" bible code depicts a 2-years period, or "times". The ½ time we will look at later. This, therefore, is the fundament numerical link of our bible code as compared with the 3-½ years of the book of Daniel and Revelation.

There are 720 years between Abraham and the nation of Israel's "birth" at the Exodus. This 720 years conforms to the 720 letters sequence of the Bible code. To Abraham was made the promise (when yet he had no children) that from his offspring this mighty nation would come after they had formed in the womb 'of the land of Egypt' from whence they were delivered.

"Then the LORD said to him, "Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a country not their own, and they will be enslaved and mistreated four hundred years. - - - In the fourth generation you descendants will come back here, for the sin of the Amorites has not yet reached its full measure." (Genesis 15:13, 16)

The first words to Moses at the burning bush echo this promise to Abraham. It therefore shows that the theme of 'Abraham to the Exodus,' is a fitting place for the 720 letter/year bible code to be placed:

" Then he said, "I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob." At this, Moses hid his face, because he was afraid to look at God. The LORD said, "I have indeed seen the misery of my people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their slave drivers, and I am concerned about their suffering. So I have come down to rescue them..." (Ex. 3:6,7,8a)

I have here highlighted in red the last word ("said") that the bible code lands on and thus the 720^th letter. The word ("my people") is highlighted blue because it has a gematria value of 120. (Each Hebrew letter represents a number in Hebrew. Adding them up is called "gematria." We will talk more about the gematria soon.) Remember that the first word that the Yeshua bible code falls upon during its 120-letter skip is also the same word ("said"). This is because the 720 years are designed to be viewed forward and backward even as the Yeshua bible code itself moves forward then backward (YeshuauhseY). I call this phenomenon "scrolling," since "the Scroll of the Lamb" (Revelation 5), as with any scroll, is unfurled forward or backward when opened in the middle. This is important since Messiah is the beginning, ending, and center of time.