Tonight we will continue with our proofs of God's existence and His divinity by considering what mathematics in nature and the Bible shows us. The proof is so vast, that we can only sample a tiny fraction of the evidence available. If anyone in the audience is interested further, there are entire books which have been written on this subject. I would be happy to supply you with a list. See me after the meeting.
THE NUMBER SEVEN IN NATURE:
The number 7 (symbolic of perfection) has been identified by God as His number from the time of creation, while six (symbolic of imperfection and man's number, for man was created on the sixth day) has been Satan's number from the time he sinned. Tonight we will explore the number seven as seen in nature and in the Bible, for it is God's stamp or proof authenticating His works in the universe. But other numbers are also seen. Sometimes one number pattern is dominant, and at other times it is another. I have taken the information from a small book entitled, "Mathematics Prove Holy Scriptures," by Karl Sabiers, which, I believe, is no longer be available.
The number system of God is stamped upon all His works. All departments of nature are based on a system of mathematics—great mathematical laws govern the activities of the entire universe.
For instance, in the sphere of light, there are exactly seven colors. The seven colors merged together to form light. In the sphere of music there are exactly seven whole tones in the scale, while every eighth note begins a new octave and is merely a repetition of the first note. The seven colors correspond to the seven notes in music, and sounds that harmonize correspond with colors that harmonize, while discords in color correspond with discords in music.
The human body is completely renewed or changed every seven years. Every part of the body is constantly throwing off old effete matter, and constantly receiving deposits of new and living matter. In seven years the whole structure is altered down to the minutest particles and becomes essentially a new body. In certain diseases, the seventh, fourteenth, and twenty-first are the critical days. Man's pulse beats slower every seventh day whether he is sick or well. In diseases resulting from physical exhaustion, the pulse (also) changes every seventh day. With the human being the period of gestation is 280 days (7X40). Indeed, seven is stamped upon physiology. Is it not significant that God ordained every seventh day to be a day of rest, and that He declared man's years to be "Three score and ten" (7X10)?
With animals, the period of gestation of the mouse is 21 (7X3) days. The hare and rat 28 (7X4) days. The cat 56 (7X8) days. The dog 63 (7X9) days. The lion 98 (7X14) days. The sheep 147 (7X21) days. With birds the incubation of the common hen is 21 (7X3) days. The duck 28 (7X4) days.
The Creator's law of design for the snow flakes is the number six. All snowflakes are different, yet they are all alike with either six points or six sides.
The number 11 as well as seven is stamped on music. The number of vibrations in a second for each note is a multiple of eleven, and the difference in the number vibrations between each note is also a multiple of eleven. For example, the difference between Do and Re is 33, between Fa and Sol 44, always a multiple of eleven.
The Science of Botany reveals that the different sections of flowers are arranged according to particular numbers and their multiples. For example the basic number of the buttercup is five. There are 5 sepals in the calyx, 5 petals in the corolla, 5 carpous in the pistil, 15, 20, 25, or some other number which is exactly so many fives of stamens in the androecium. Similarly, the basic number of the daffodil is 3, that of the mignonette 4, the wild rose 5, etc. Thus God stamps His creation with a mathematical pattern.
In Chemistry no two substances can unite without observing definite mathematical proportions. The planets of the heavens are governed according to mathematical laws. Indeed, nature does not operate by chance, but by design. God's number system is found throughout the universe much more extensively than is commonly supposed. Volumes could be devoted to showing design in nature. God is the Great Numberer and Mathematician of all creation. Every department of nature bears His mathematical signature.
"He made the stars...And God set them in the firmament of the heaven." Gen. 1:16,17
"He counteth the number of the stars." Ps. 147:4
He "bringeth out their host by number." Isaiah 40:26
God "hath measured the waters in the hollow of His hand, and meted out the heaven with a span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance." Isaiah 40:17
If God placed the stars in their proper order, and numbered them, and measured the waters and weighed the mountains, is it surprising or incredible that He has placed the words and letter of His book in exact order, and numbered them, and guided them into combinations of numbers?
The same God who created the universe and was careful to weave designs and intricate patterns into the smallest detail of creation, has taken the same care with His Word. He has placed the same peculiarity in both.
"The very hairs of your head are all numbered" (counted) Matt. 10:30.
The word "numbered" in Greek is "arithmeo" the very word from which our English word "Arithmetic" is derived. If God counts the very hairs of our heads, is it strange that He has counted the words and letters of His Scripture? (Mathematics Prove Holy Scripture, Karl Sabiers, pp 105-108)
NUMERICAL SCRIPTURAL EVIDENCE:
The witness of mathematics goes far beyond what is seen in nature. The Scripture itself contains such a fantastically complex organization of the number seven and multiples of 7, that it is totally incomprehensible to the mind of man. Its complexity is so overwhelming as to be totally unexplainable, except as something that could have come only from the mind of an infinite God.
Because the evolutionist lacks hard evidence for their theories, in order to refute the creation account they have had to attack the credibility of the Scripture. This is unfortunate for them, for God has provided scientific, mathematical proof from the Scripture itself that this is the Word of God, proof which it is impossible to legitimately argue against.
God designed into the original Old Testament Scripture written in Hebrew, and into the New Testament written in Greek, a mathematical pattern which would have been utterly impossible for any human to have conceived or designed. God has provided in the Bible, incontrovertible proof that He is who He says He is, and that the Bible is His Word to humankind. As a consequence, the creation account as recorded in the book of Genesis cannot be refuted or argued away.
This most amazing discovery about the Scriptures was found in 1882 by a young Russian immigrant by the name of Ivan Panin. What he found is so complex and astounding that critics of the Bible, after examining the evidence were left without any recourse but to acknowledge that the Bible could only be the inspired Word of God, and that the creation account in Genesis is true to the letter. In his youth, Ivan was converted and experienced the saving power of Jesus Christ, after being an avowed atheist. Sometime after his conversion, he discovered (led by the providence of God) in the Scriptures a mathematical pattern which changed the direction the rest of his life would take. From the time of that discovery, for over 60 years, Ivan used every working moment to painstakingly write out over 43,000 pages of data (no computers in those days), proving his discovery of an intricate matrix revolving around the number 7 and prime factors of 7.
This information I share with you tonight about Ivan Panin was obtained from another small book by Karl Sabiers' "Mathematics Prove Holy Scriptures," and put into a tract—
"The Holy Bible—Wholly True," by Pratney, Last Days Ministry, Box 40, Lindale, Texas.
Panin became one of the top ten mathematicians in the United States, taught in universities, and read seven languages fluently (he knew up to fourteen). Panin began to study the Scriptures as a Christian, but knowing Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek, he began to read them in the original languages. Now both Hebrew and Greek are unique languages. They are the only two languages in history that do not have a number system. In other words, they do not use special symbols for their numbers (like our Arabic numerals 1, 2, 3, etc.) but use instead the letters of their alphabets to represent numbers (each letter is actually used as a number).
Aware of the numerical values of the Greek and Hebrew alphabets, Panin experimented one day by replacing the letters with their corresponding numbers in Scripture. Here is Panin, a mathematical genius, a Hebrew and Greek scholar, and he loves playing with numbers. Suddenly, his trained mind saw a mathematical pattern! As he studied more intensely, his excitement grew. A few short hours of work had him utterly amazed. The verses he had studied bore unmistakable evidence of an elaborate mathematical pattern, far beyond random chance, or human ability to construct. This discovery marked the turning point in His career, and from that time until his death in 1942, he devoted his entire life to the study of Bible numeric.
He showed, first of all, that the Bible, in its original language, is a skillfully designed product of a mathematical mastermind—far beyond any human possibility of deliberate structuring. He later supplied a representative of the NOBEL RESEARCH FOUNDATION with over 43,000 sheets of his studies accompanied by his statement that this was his evidence that the Bible was the Word of God. Their reply was, "as far as our investigation has proceeded...we find the evidence over-whelmingly in favor of such a statement." He then issued A CHALLENGE throughout leading newspapers of the world to offer a "natural explanation" or refute the facts; not a single person has been able to do so.
WHAT DID PANIN FIND?
"The words of the Lord are pure words; as silver tried in a furnace on the earth, refined 7 TIMES." (Ps. 123:6) Panin found that patterns of prime numbers, such as 11, 13, 17, and 23, but ESPECIALLY 7, were found in great clusters. He would add up the sum of all numerical values for different words, sentences, paragraphs, passages, and whole books, and he found the same patterns in each of these forms! He found that the number of words in a vocabulary divides by 7. The number of proper names, both male and female divides by 7. The number of words that begin with a vowel divides by 7, likewise the number of words that begin with a consonant. The number of letters in a vocabulary divides by 7, and those letters, those that are vowels and those that are consonants also divide by 7. Words that occurred more than once divide by 7, and also words that appeared only once! The number of nouns is divisible by 7, also the words that are not. Even the number of words beginning with each letter of the alphabet! And on and on...Panin only stayed on a passage long enough to confirm beyond reasonable doubt the statistical evidence for supernatural design. But he stated that the longer you stayed on one, it would continue to yield further and further evidences of patterns until the mind reeled!
Some Examples:
Here is an example from the Old Testament. Just the very first sentence in the Bible. 'In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.' Genesis 1:1. That's the way it comes out in English; in Hebrew it's exactly 7 words, 28 (4X7) letters. There are 3 nouns (God, heavens, and earth). Taking the letters of these, substituting their number equivalents and adding them up, you get a combined total of 777 (111X7)! There is one Hebrew verb—created. Its total numerical value is 203 (29X7). The first three words contain the subject with exactly 14 (2X7) letters, likewise the other four are the object with exactly 14 letters. The Hebrew words for the two objects (heaven and earth) each have 7 letters. The value for the first, middle, and last letters in the sentence is 133 (19X7). The numeric value for the first and last words in the sentence is 1393 (199X7); the value of the first and last letters of the verse is 497 (71X7). The value of the first and last letters of each of the words between is 896 (128X7). And so on, and so on....in this verse alone there are 30 different features of 7. I have listed only 11 of them! The chance of this happening accidentally is 1 in 33,000,000,000,000 (33 trillion).
And now an example from the New Testament: Matthew 1:1-11. The vocabulary has 49 words (7X7). 28 words begin with a vowel (4X7), the remaining 21 with a consonant (3X7). 7 end with a vowel, 42 with a consonant (6X7). The 49 words have 266 letters (38X7). Out of the 266 letters, 140 are vowels (20X7). 126 are consonants (18X7). Also, of these 49 words, 14 occur only once (2X7), 35 occurred more than once (5X7), 42 (6X7) are nouns, 7 are not. These remaining common nouns have exactly 49 letters (7X7). Male names occur in all 56 times (8X7). The names of only 3 women appear in the passage, and the Greek letters of their names add up to 14 exactly.
Panin said it would have taken Matthew several months, working 8 hours a day to construct the genealogy, even if it were possible. But the names were chosen BEFORE Matthew was born!
One (Divine) Author:
The whole Bible is like this. I have taken just one small chunk of it and doing it in detail. Every paragraph, passage and book in the Bible can be shown to be constructed in the same marvelous way. What kind of fantastic collaboration between the disciples could have produced this structure without computers? How could mere fishermen and tax-collectors produce this kind of incredible structuring and design? What is crazy, is that Mark is a Roman, Luke a Greek, and Matthew a Jew, but they all wrote with the same pattern. Each one wrote with their own unique flavor. Mark's flavor is different, but the pattern is the same right through! So who wrote it? One Mind, one author—one God—many different writers, but one Writer. Can you imagine what kind of Mind would do this and not even care if you ever found out!
hat I want you to see is how smart God is! These are not just words, it's an incredible mathematical pattern. It dances with its own poetry in mathematics. A computer would go into rapture over this! It's like a building where every piece joins perfectly into each other. And what is wild is, you can't pull even one word out without damaging the whole pattern. The Bible carries within itself, a self-checking, self-verifying protection factor. If a person comes along and says, I don't like this one, the whole pattern falls apart. This cannot be found in any other religious holy book in the world!
So, dear Friends here we have yet another most powerful witness, more irrefutable proof that the Bible is the Word of God and every word inspired. In the next few weeks left in this series of lectures, we will, as it were, put the lid on the coffin of the theories of evolutionists and "no God" proponents. God has already knocked any props out from under them, and has more to come in the near future. He has provided ample evidence for anyone who wants to believe. You will remember that at the beginning of this series we made the statement that "FOR THOSE WHO WANT TO BELIEVE NO PROOF IS NECESSARY, FOR THOSE WHO DO NOT, NO PROOF IS POSSIBLE." The ball is, as they say, in your court. You must make up your mind what the truth is.
We are living in the last days of this earth's history, which fact we will address before this series ends, no man will ever be able to accuse God of not providing the evidence necessary to believe in Him. All will be accountable for the opportunities afforded them to know the truth. Each will be judged by the opportunities which were either accepted or rejected.
We have three more lectures before we rest our case. In two weeks we will consider yet more astounding evidence from the Hebrew and Greek Scriptures newly discovered through the use of computers. But, rather than number patterns, we will look at what has been found with word and letter patterns. The principles are very similar to Panin's. If he had had a computer, what took him 60 years to do could have been done in weeks, probably days.
But before that lecture, next week we have asked Ron Wyatt to return and share his equally profound and wonderful discoveries, for which he gives the Lord all the credit, regarding Israel's history. Any of you who heard Ron before will not want to miss his next presentation. Thank you all again for coming and goodnight!