“The way things have gotten now numbers are really everywhere and everything is numbered. If you go back 50 years ago it wasn’t this way. The advent of computers numbers everything and has made numbering systems for identification ubiquitous.
Part of what that’s a
precursor to is Revelation 13:18: [18] Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding
count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is
Six hundred threescore and six.
“My point to you is there’s going to come a time where it’s
going to be extremely important to be able to identify numbers and the fact
that everything in life today has come to a place where it is numbered is just demonstrating
that these kind of passages show we’re just kind of moving toward that.
“Now the Bible is a book of numbers and, in fact, has named
an Old Testament book the Book of Numbers. The Bible’s full of numbers. I read
a commentary one time where one in five verses in the Bible on average has
something to do with a number in it. The point is there’s just a lot of
numbers.
“Numbers are basic to the structure of the Bible. When you study the Bible you can’t miss the fact that the Bible is set out with a basic structure that is numeric in its structure and its arrangement . . .
(To be continued later today. In the meantime here's an old post that had wide readership:
The nation Israel was conquered about 1,000 B.C.
by the Philistines. I Samuel 4:21 reports, [21] And she named the child
I-chabod, saying, The glory is departed from Israel: because the ark of God was
taken, and because of her father in law and her husband.
I Samuel 5 says, “And the Philistines took the ark of God, and brought it from Eben-ezer unto Ashdod. [2] When the Philistines took the ark of God, they brought it into the house of Dagon, and set it by Dagon."
“You ever sing that song, ‘Here I raise my Eben-ezer, hither by thy grace I come’?" says Richard Jordan. "That’s a Bible term; a place of significance in the Bible. They took it from a place of blessing, where God’s blessing resided, and took it to Ashdod. Why there? When the Philistines took the ark of God they brought it into the house of Dagon and set it by Dagon.
“The name Dagon, that god, the first part of that name means ‘fish.’ Dagon was the fish god. You ever see the pope when he comes in with that hat (called a mitre) where the top looks like a fish mouth? That’s the hat of Fish-god Dagon. Get the book ‘Two Babylons,’ by Alexander Hislop, and he’s got wood carvings and pictures of it from 1,000 B.C.
“What Catholicism does is, when Rome would take over a country, they would do what Israel did. They would assimilate all their gods and all their paraphernalia into the worship of Christ. That’s why I keep telling you that modern Christendom is just a plagiarized form of Old Testament Judaism. They’ve made all the mistakes Israel made and they assimilate that.
“That’s why when you study Baal worship in the Bible, you see over and over and over and over and over again what you see in Catholicism, whether it’s Roman Catholicism, Eastern Catholicism or the Protestant versions of Catholicism. The symbols, so the pope wears the fish god’s hat in his ceremonies.
“Now, it’s important to understand who Dagon was because Dagon, the god of the Philistines . . . they take the ark of God and place it before Dagon. They’re adding them together. They’re ecumenicists. They’re going to put Israel’s ark in with their god and they’re all going to be TOGETHER.
"Watch what happens: ‘[3] and when they of Ashdod arose early on the morrow, behold, Dagon was fallen upon his face to the earth before the ark of the LORD. And they took Dagon, and set him in his place again.
“Dagon has hit the ground and he’s bowed down to the earth before the ark of God! I don’t know about you, but if I had set my god in front of the ark and now he’s bowed down to Him, I might get the idea that my god, the stone, thinks that’s who I should be worshipping. Right?
“Verse 4: [4] And when they arose early on the morrow morning, behold, Dagon was fallen upon his face to the ground before the ark of the LORD; and the head of Dagon and both the palms of his hands were cut off upon the threshold; only the stump of Dagon was left to him.
“I mean, the dude’s done come to pieces! The guy’s fallen apart--his head, his hands. They loved, they served, they took his advice (his counsel, his thinking) and did what he said, and it’s all gone to pieces!
“You know what happens when you follow Dagon? Everything’s going to go to pieces before the ark of God. Now, while you’re all by yourself and don’t have the truth of God around, it might be okay. That’s why men love darkness rather than light.
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“Dagon was the Babylonian god of fertility and nature. He was said to be the son of Baal; the son of God. He was the personification of the primordial waters, or the primordial soup, that man evolved, or emerged out of. That’s why he’s represented in idolatry as half-human, half-fish.
“You can go on the internet and look up pictures of Dagon that look like what Walt Disney animates as the Little Mermaid. You know what they’re doing? They’re inculcating into the minds of people—children and adults . . . You have this lovable little half-fish, half-woman, and you don’t know where it came from.
“Listen to me, Dagon was the god of evolution. The teaching, the idea behind Dagon was the religion of evolutionism that’s taught in the government schools and in religion all over the world.
“When you hear atheists protest over somebody teaching Jesus Christ in the government schools, they’re literally pulling their tongue out of their own mouth because what they want taught as fact is the ‘theory,’ they call it, of evolution, which is really the religion.
“The Epicureans and Stoics they had the rudimentary suggestions of the Darwinian Theory whereby things are adapted to a certain end by a sort of natural selection. That didn’t start with Darwin. Darwin took the Greek philosophy, looked for it in nature and applied it to it.
“You come to guys like Plato and Aristotle and they used the Teleological addition. They say it didn’t just mechanically get done but it was overridden by a deity and they came in with the theistic evolution.
“Anaximander taught life originated from the moisture that covered the earth before it dried up. It was dried up by the sun. The primordial soup man emerged from—you know, first he was a tadpole swimming in the sea, then he . . . you know the stuff.
“Bodies come into existence out of atoms and ultimately entire worlds appear and disappear from and to eternity, over and over and over. Organic beings from what is inorganic moisture, earth, or slime.
“You read that stuff and say ‘Wow,’ but the Greek philosophers are the people who set the tone for Western culture and they had the idea that all living organisms lived in an evolutionary hierarchy.
“You know what it is? Dagon falls down before the God of the Bible and his head falls off. It’s mindless, brainless, religious fanaticism. That’s all it is. The worship of the ‘host of heaven’ didn’t stop two millenniums ago; it permeates the world out there and comes right in to where you are today.”
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