Created according to the pattern

David writes in Psalm 139: 15-16: "My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
[16] Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them."

“Your book of DNA is made up of 46 chromosomes and it wasn’t a mistake that God hung 46 boards around the tabernacle Moses built,” explains Preacher Richard Jordan. “God knew something about how you were made in secret when He first made you and you’re literally built in a way that demonstrates who He is.

“DNA is literally a book written in the nucleus of your cell. Your cell has a cell membrane around it. It has a gate that comes in. It has an altar to burn. The reason you’ve got 98.6 temperature today is that cell burns glucose. You’ve got a part of that cell that burns sugar; that makes energy in that nucleus. The cytoplasm floats around out here.

"The more you study that the tabernacle has a gate, and only the right people got in and the wrong people were kept out . . . you’ve got a gatekeeper called insulin that lets the right amount of sugar in.

“By the way, in that Ark were three things: the tablets, and then later on, as the Bible began to be written, the book was in there, and there was a pot of manna and ‘Aaron’s rod that buddeth.’

"Now, you remember how manna was given to Israel? Every day. They were told, ‘Get just what you’re going to need for today, because if you get too much it’s going to breed worms and stink.’ So they went out and got their daily bread. On Friday, they could collect enough for Saturday because that was the Sabbath and no work was permitted.

“In the Ark, the pot of manna didn’t rot. That’s a picture of the fact God’s going to preserve Israel. Malachi 3:6 says He has provisions for their preservation. Then there’s Aaron’s rod that buddeth. There’s an old dead stick that sprang forth into life. And even though Israel becomes a nation that’s scattered among the nations and becomes dead, God’s going to resurrect them back to life.

“They have all that message in those symbols in that Ark. But the book had everything in it that God ever was going to do and that book, eventually, became that Book you have in your lap.

“So the whole thing is designed to demonstrate the connection, the fitting together of what God’s doing. Because when God created things, He just kept creating according to the pattern. In Genesis 1:2, when ‘the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters,’ what happened? ‘[3] And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.’

“When God’s Spirit wants to work, He uses His tongue. He speaks. His Word is what works. And the connection in your Bible, everything that is created has a common connection to the Word of God. That’s what I’m trying to get across, okay?

“EVERYTHING is going to be connected. Just like everything in you starts in that DNA book, everything God does He’s put together in a Book for you to understand.

“By the way, if you look in Genesis 2:23-24, Adam says, ‘This is now bone of my bone, flesh of my flesh,’ and the rib is taken out of him. I won’t swear to this in court, but that’s a woman’s DNA and that’s the man’s. What’s missing? A rib. I’m just making the point.

“God brings Eve to Adam. You know, ‘Hey babe, where you been all my life?! Woah, I never saw anything like you!’ and he’s all excited and says, ‘She’s mine; she shall be called Woman,’ because she’s the only woman in the world for me!’ No, it says, ‘Because she was taken out of Man.’

“Verse 24 says, [24] Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. Now, if you just happened to count the words in verse 23 and 24 that Adam actually spoke, do you know how many words you would come up with? 46.

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“In that tabernacle is a lamp stand, a center piece, and then a bowl for a flame and three arms that go out from each side. Three on one side and three on the other and with each one of these are a set of decorations. There’s a bowl, a knop and a flower. The bowl is where the flame is, the knop is a little doo-dad and then the flower is an almond. Those three decorations are on each of these.

“So there’s three here, here and here, on each side. Three times nine is 27. How many books in your New Testament? So now there’s 27 times two because there’s two sets of them and that’s 54. And then on the main stem there are 12. Sixty-six decorations on the source of light in the ‘holy place.’

“Exodus 25:32-33: [32] And six branches shall come out of the sides of it; three branches of the candlestick out of the one side, and three branches of the candlestick out of the other side: [33] Three bowls made like unto almonds, with a knop and a flower in one branch; and three bowls made like almonds in the other branch, with a knop and a flower: so in the six branches that come out of the candlestick.

“You’ve got these decorations. There’s a bowl, a bowl and a bowl. They are going to come up in the candlesticks as they go through there. So if there are 3, 6, 9 bowls, that’s 18. In the middle one, in verse 34, it says, [34] And in the candlestick shall be four bowls made like unto almonds, with their knops and their flowers.

“If you add 18 and four what do you get? 22. In your Bible, 22 is the number associated with light; with revelation. For example, the word Light. John 8:12 says, ‘I am the Light of the world.’ Do you know how many times the word ‘light’ appears in the Book of John? 22 times.

“The first perfect number in the Bible is three. What’s three times 22? 66. That’s just a fascinating thing. Because where does light come from? Out of the Bible.

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“Think of 22. The first chapter 22 in the Bible, and one of the ways to figure out what numbers mean in the Bible, just go back to Genesis and each chapter, there are 50 chapters, and you can take that number of the chapter and study it and find out some things about what’s associated with that number.

“In Genesis 22, you have the first real full picture of the Crosswork of Christ. Abraham takes Isaac up on the mount to sacrifice him and he says, ‘We’re going to come back,’ and Hebrews says he ‘received him as from the dead.’

“Psalm 22 is a prophetic picture. It starts out, [1] My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?

“That’s a quote from Jesus on the Cross. That’s what’s in His mind as He dies. How many chapters in the Book of Revelation? There’s revelation associated with that number 22. Come with me to John 19.

“Do you know how many bones are in a human skull? 22. John 19:17: [17] And he bearing his cross went forth into a place called the place of a skull, which is called in the Hebrew Golgotha:

“Where was He crucified? Right where Genesis 22 and Psalm 22 talk about Him being crucified, the place of a skull. The place of yours and my deadly thinking. He goes and takes the curse.

“By the way, if you go back to Genesis 3 you see Satan says to Eve, ‘Yeah, hath God said?’ If you go down through those first six verses and you take just the words Satan speaks in that passage, you know how many words there are in a King James Bible? 46.

“You understand, folks, sin has been imprinted into your nature that you got from Adam. And it has to do with some rebellion connected with some words that God spoke and that the Adversary spoke, and you carry them forward as you’re made in the image of Adam and that’s why we looked at Genesis 5, ‘the book of the generation of Adam.’

“What do the first four letters in the word Genesis spell? There’s a connection to the genetic structure you received from Adam. What does everybody in Adam’s genealogy do? They die, die, die. Adam died at 931 years.

“You remember what the 931^st chapter of the Bible was? The Book of Matthew. When you start in chapter 1 of Matthew, it says, ‘The book of the generation of Jesus Christ.’ And what does everybody in His generation do? They begat, begat, begat. They gave life. You see you needed a new book so God gave us a new book because He was going to give us a new body with a whole new structure of ALL of that.

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“When you come to the issue of the skull, we’re ready to talk about Ephesians 4:16 because Paul says Christ is the head ‘from whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.’

“None of this works if you take a piece of it out. Every joint supplies to it. Your joints are part of the bone structure of your body.

“II Samuel 5 gives an illustration about the bones. Verse 1 says, ‘Then came all the tribes of Israel to David unto Hebron, and spake, saying, Behold, we are thy bone and thy flesh.’

“They’re going to come and make David their king. Saul’s dead and they come to David and speak, saying, ‘Behold we are thy bone and thy flesh.’ Verse 2 says, [2] Also in time past, when Saul was king over us, thou wast he that leddest out and broughtest in Israel: and the LORD said to thee, Thou shalt feed my people Israel, and thou shalt be a captain over Israel.

“The illustration of the reality of how the Body of Christ functions is that we’re bone of His bone, flesh of His flesh. He’s the source of the information and we’re the body that carries out the information.

“Ephesians 5:30-32 says, [30] For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.
[31] For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.
[32] This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church..

“The only way that ‘one flesh’ happens is when those 23 and 23 chromosomes come together and form that new life; that new one flesh.

“If you want to think about what bones do in the Bible just look up the word ‘bones’ in the Bible and study them. II Kings 13:20-21 says, [20] And Elisha died, and they buried him. And the bands of the Moabites invaded the land at the coming in of the year.
[21] And it came to pass, as they were burying a man, that, behold, they spied a band of men; and they cast the man into the sepulchre of Elisha: and when the man was let down, and touched the bones of Elisha, he revived, and stood up on his feet.

“This dead dude touches Elisha’s bone; Elisha’s dead, his body’s gone, and he touches his bones and he comes back to life! In your Bible, bones can give life to people and they do. If you go to Ezekiel 37, the valley of dry bones, verse 5 says, [5] Thus saith the Lord GOD unto these bones; Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live:

“They can come back together. You know that Southern spiritual song, ‘Dem bones, dem bones, dem dry bones,’ is this passage here and that’s where ‘the neck bone connected to the head bone,’ and all that stuff comes from. I know, you thought that was about a BBQ place but it wasn’t. It’s about God putting Israel back together.

“We looked at the backbone of the bible. How many bones in a human spine? 33. It holds your body together. There’s a bundle of nerves that come out each side of that vertebrae.

"You know how your head communicates with all the members of your body? Through that nervous system. Thirty-three vertebrae that connects two sides like that. What’s two times 33? You’ve got 66 communication systems from your head to communicate with your body.”

(to be continued)