Beginnings
- Background
- Introduction
- A Model of the Creation
- Creation’s Triangle
- The Creation/Creator Relationship
- A Touch of Euclid
- The Chequerboard
- Conclusions
- Appendix 1 – On the correct reading of Revelation 13:18
- Appendix 2 – On the pivotal nature of Revelation 13:18
- Appendix 3 – On the matter of ‘Wisdom’
- Appendix 4 – On the understanding of ‘Word’
- Appendix 5 – An English scheme of alphabetic numeration
OBC (The Other Bible Code) is a highly integrated structure that exists within God’s Word – as mediated by the Hebrew and the Greek systems of alphabetic numeration. Readers are alerted to the presence of this structure by the ‘riddle’ of Revelation 13:18 (Appendices 1, 2 and 3) which offers wisdom to those who, with understanding, read words as numbers – at the same time indicating which particular numerical features are to be considered significant. Those interested in following truth – no matter where it leads – are thus particularly led to seek multiples of 37 (itself a unique number per se) and instances of numerical geometry (666 being uniquely triangular). These are immediately found in abundance in the Bible’s first verse and in both components of the Lord’s name.
There has been – and continues to be – much controversy regarding the manner by which man, and all he observes around him, came into being. The process described in the Bible’s opening chapter is either denied outright, or otherwise interpreted so as to harmonise with the widely-held belief in evolution. Few understand the words to convey a literal meaning.
Our interest here concerns the bare essentials of the matter as they are reiterated by the Lord on Mt. Sinai (and quoted above). Clearly,
- the creative act was two-dimensional – its products: heaven and earth – and
- the period that followed was different in kind from that which had gone before.
These components are associated with the numbers 6 and 1, respectively.
It is our purpose to develop from these simple beginnings a conceptual model of the Creation. The relevance of this model will emerge as certain of its features are found to coincide with the principal numerical attributes of Genesis 1:1 (detailed elsewhere at this site). In this confidence, we proceed to examine other features of the model in order to further our understanding of the event and of related scriptural fundamentals.
As has been implied above, the Creation may be treated as a three-dimensional event – which suggests that the application of simple principles of coordinate geometry will best lead to a satisfactory conceptual realisation. We proceed accordingly.
Fig.1 depicts a standard left-handed coordinate system in the region of the origin (O). Proceeding from O, the progression of events in time is recorded along each axis: the 6 days of earth’s creation along x, and the 6 days of heaven’s creation along z. The suggestion is that the square OLMN (shaded blue) lying in the xz-plane is a fair geometrical expression of the week’s creative activity.