The Bible's 4:23 Verses point to God's Holy Spirit being among us -- Mark 4:23 "If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear."

In another post I explain how the Bible's chapter and verse numbers are divinely appointed as much as the text is (http://amazingword.blogspot.com/2010/01/like-referenced-verses-have-thread-of.html). As we are approaching the 23rd of April 2014, I thought I would look up what common thread of theme I would find in the Bible's 4:23 verses...

There are a total of 24 Bible verses with chapter and verse equal to "4:23". The ten I show below are pretty good evidence these verses often speak of God's Holy Spirit (or Jesus himself) coming to us or having been with us. In breaking down the chapter and verse number; number 23 is about God being with us (where two or three are gathered, he is in our midst (http://amazingword.blogspot.com/2010/01/like-referenced-verses-have-thread-of.html); and number four points to men, places or things of earth.

How do you use this information?

Be watchful of every Bible number and be aware that by examining verses with like chapter and verse numbers, you can often observe clues as to interpretation of scripture you are studying.

A selection of 10 of all 24 verses with chapter and verse 4:23

• Philp 4:23 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit.
• Eph 4:23 and that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind,
• Mrk 4:23 "If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear."
• Prov 4:23 Watch over your heart with all diligence, For from it flow the springs of life.
• Dan 4:23 'In that the king saw an angelic watcher, a holy one, descending from heaven..
• Matt 4:23 Jesus was going throughout all Galilee, teaching..proclaiming the gospel..healing every kind of disease…
• John 4:23 "an hour is coming.. when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth..
• Josh 4:23 "For the LORD your God dried up the waters of the Jordan before you until you had crossed…
• Deu 4:23 "So watch yourselves, that you do not forget the covenant of the LORD your God which He made with you...
• Gal 4:23 ..and the son by the free woman (was born) through the promise (spirit).

 

A quick look at the Bible's Redemption Pattern and Numeric Map…

What is this "Redemption Pattern" God left us to find in his Word?

Every list (numbered or not); every numbered Book, verse and chapter, and virtually the entire Bible is written in what I refer to as "God's Redemption Pattern". The basic repeating numerical pattern of things arranged in one to ten sequence always line up with that I believe are God's Guide to the Ten steps we take in being redeemed. It's God's way of constantly reminding us, through his word, how we grow in him. This post explains a bit about the Redemption Pattern and how it works.

As an example of the Redemption Pattern; Take the list of "I AM" statements made in the Book of John. These statements tell us who Jesus is. Because their meanings line up with the symbolism of the numbers in the redemption pattern, we know we have an accurate/complete list of Jesus Ten statements about who he is. Below I've noted each of the 10 "I Am" statements in John and show the redemption pattern symbolism for the numbers 1-10 beside them.

Ten "I am's" of John

1 - bread of life (God is)

2 - bread that came down… (God sent a deliverer - Jesus)

3 - the living bread… (He is Holy/Righteous, we need a way to be with him)

4 - I am the Light of the world (Jesus came to our wilderness (world) to teach/save us)

5 - ...testifiy about Myself (We must learn/accept God's plan/covenants)

6 - door of the sheep (The only way to heaven is to repent/cross over via The Cross)

7 - the good shepherd (Once we accept Jesus, he is faithful to teach/guide us in growing)

8 - resurrection and the life (When we learn God's way is only good way, we become Godly)

9 - the way.. the truth ...the life (future, Jesus will return to take his people with him)

10 - the true vine (The End - Truth... end of story)

More about the Bible's Redemption Pattern

Wherever the digits or numbers one to ten in the Bible are found you will also somehow observe associated with them a progressive set of symbolic meanings that each number represents. I believe this progressive set of meanings describes God's ten step plan of redemption. Following is a list of these ten basic themes. Below is a chart that shows how some well known parts of the Bible follow these meanings. Use these examples to get an idea of how the numbers are associated with different topics and then use this knowledge to observe this pattern in your own Bible study.

• #1-God--Creator of all things--Beginnings, first things, things counted, set apart by kind, self, pride, God, leaders, Kings
• #2-Jesus-God hears and sends a redeemer to save--relationship, sons, daughters, love
• #3-Holy Spirit-God in us--Righteousness, Purity, Power of God
• #4-Wilderness Trials, testing--A time of preparing the heart--things of the world
• #5-Instructions for entering the land--Covenants, rules...choices for blessings & curses
• #6-Crossing over & turning from Sin--repentance, taking strongholds of sin
• #7-Becoming Complete--The Good Shepherd leads with rod and staff, conflict, adultery, turning away and turning back.
• #8-The Godly & New Beginnings--Faithful Servants, receiving the Holy Spirit, abundance, the remnant, baptism, circumcision
• #9 Watching for Jesus return--Persevering in service, future events and plans
• #10-The End - Last & Final Things-Commands, Day of the Lord, final judgment, last things & End Times

Redemption Pattern Examples

The Redemption Pattern is a set of ten parts of God's overall plan for redeeming men. The ten step pattern is infused into every aspect of scripture as a constant reminder of our walk with God. The chart below shows the ten parts and the numbers God associates with them. Also shown are eight different aspects of the Bible that reveal how the pattern is found virtually everywhere in the bible. Each column in this chart contains a set of ten sequential parts of different Bible passages matching the pattern. Looking across the rows of the chart for each of the ten steps you will find the theme of each one represented in the corresponding part of each passage. For more evidence you can use this chart with your own Bible to find more examples of the pattern throughout the scriptures.

#	Theme	First Ten Books	Genesis 1-10	Lords Prayer	Ten I am's	Ten Genera-tions	Beatitudes	23rd Psalm	Full Armor of God
1	God-sin-separates us	Genesis—Separated by kind	Creation...the beginning	Our Father in heaven	bread of life	Adam-- man	poor in spirit	Jehovah is my shepherd…	the full armor of God
2	Jesus – the redeemer	Exodus--- Israel  led out of Egypt	Man and woman created	Holy be thy name…	bread that came down…	Seth-- a substitute	those who mourn (cry out to God)	...leads me to waters of rest;	Girded your loins with Truth (Jesus)
3	Holy Spirit  - righteousness	Leviticus--- a righteous god	The fall of man –  Great Sin…	thy will be done	the living bread…	Enosh-Mortal	the gentle	guides in paths of righteousness	Breastplate of righteousness
4	Wilderness wandering…	Numbers---desert years separate & prepare	Cain is forced to wander	On earth as it is in heaven	I am the Light of the world	Kenan –Sorrow	who hunger and thirst…	I walk through the valley of death	Feet shod with Gospel of Peace
5	Preparing to enter the land	Deuteronomy--- have faith and obey	Generations of blessings	Give us...our daily bread	...testifiy about Myself	Mahalalel-blessed	the merciful	I will fear no evil; for …	Shield of Faith
6	Sin and Repentance	Joshua--- Leads in taking the land…	God sorry he made man	Forgive us our sins	door of the sheep	Jared-Shall come down	the pure in heart	You are with me;	Helmet of Salvation
7	God makes us compete	Judges -- Israel repeatedly fails…	The Flood, saves, cleanses	As we forgive others	the good shepherd	Enoch-Teaching	peacemakers (learning)	Your rod and Your staff comfort me.	Sword of the Spirit--word of God
8	The Godly- new covenant	Ruth--faithful servant & the kinsman redeemer	flood subsides, Godly saved	Lead us from temptation	resurrection and the life	Methuselah-death brings	persecuted for righteousness…	...You anoint my head with oil…	with prayer / petition in the spirit
9	Persevering until his return	Samuel---David sins but seeks God's way.	Sign of the rainbow	Deliver us from evil	the way.. the truth ...the life	Lamech- the despairing	insulted, evil said about them…	goodness and mercy follow me…	make known the mystery--persevere
10	Last things, Judgment	Kings---Israel turns from God—results in captivity	Reviewing Noah's life	thy is the kingdom…	the true vine	Noah- Rest or comfort		will dwell with the Lord forever

This single chart reveals the concept of the Redemption Pattern and how numbers associated with various parts of scripture are appropriately associated with each progressive part of God's plan. Numbers are very important to the Redemption Pattern but at the same time they are only symbols or pointers to the themes that tell us about each step in the plan. Unlike Bible codes or other complex numerical studies, God's numbers are easily understood and put to use at their most basic level, but the numbers also create a perfect DNA like web of interrelationships of scripture that provide many useful values once you understand them. Every number in the Bible from numbers in the text, to unnumbered lists and book chapter and verse numbers all line up with the text to; Reveal God's ten step plan of redemption; validate the supernatural construction of the Bible; provide valuable insights to interpretation; are a built in numeric cross reference to related passages; as well as showing us how God's numbers in our world reflect his plan of redemption.  In addition to these numbers mentioned, there are also perfectly aligned cross Bible verse numbers; cross book verse numbers; numbers associated with word usage patterns and much more. God's Redemption Pattern and Numeric Map is a wonder beyond our capability to comprehend and shows what an awesome and amazing God we have. Praise God!

Most Easy to Confirm Compelling Evidences for a Perfectly Structured Bible

It is impossible for anyone to at first believe the Bible is perfectly numbered and organized in Book, Chapter and Verse. From our human understanding there is no rational way to comprehend that God would have created his word in a supernaturally perfect way. I certainly did not believe it was possible for many months after I first began seeing the clues that I could not easily dismiss as coincidence.  History as we understand it says the Bible was written by 40 or so authors over a period of 1500 years and that all the books were taken from separate manuscripts that were later canonized in the 300s and then arbitrarily numbered still hundreds of years later. The numbering was thought to be an addition solely so men could reference and share the scriptures. The history we know declares men numbered the Bible, but the mathematically verifiable perfection of numbers can only be explained by being the work of a supernatural creator. This article reveals some of the most compelling evidences anyone can verify for themself that the numbering perfection could very possibly be real.

I’ve been writing about the perfection in Bible numbering (The Numeric Map) and the Redemption Pattern (a perfect plan of salvation and a progression of number and symbol patterns found throughout the Bible) since 2004 (more than seven years) and still today, to my knowledge, there’s less than a handful of people that believe I’m likely correct in my analysis, and none of these is excited enough to bother to try and use the numbering to help them better understand the scriptures. I believe this is as God intended. God will reveal this perfection when he is ready.

I believe God has an accepted time when he will reveal the mathematical perfection of his word.  My personal guess is that it may be part of the reason Jews will one day come to believe Jesus is the messiah and the Only Son of God. Just one example that might lead to this conclusion is that this perfect pattern and numbering can find in the Old Testament and Torah and is also found just as perfectly in the New Testament. When this realization one day becomes commonly discussed public knowledge, the entire world will have an opportunity to know that the Old Testament and the New Testament are two parts to the entire volume of God’s Word and they both point to Jesus as Savior of the World.

Before listing the compelling evidences for the Bible’s numbering I’ve listed some of the major ways I believe the Bible is perfectly structured. This list shows an incredible list of numbers that can be found associated with every verse in the Bible. Only God knows how deep this perfection goes but one way to imagine it is to consider that there are ten or more different sequence numbers associated with every verse of the Bible and when you compare the symbolism related to each of these numbers, you can find the text of the verse somehow also related to all ten numbers. Impossible for men, but nothing is impossible with God. Consider the following ways the Bible is numbered…I believe one day every Bible will be printed with many of these numbers associated with each verse. I have such a Bible available on my website (http://www.amazingword.com/awbible_43_john.htm#John%203 is a link to John chapter 3, the 1000^th chapter of the Bible).

•  The numbers one to ten each have symbolic meaning that can be found everywhere they appear in scripture
• The text of every verse is directly related to the many numbers associated with the verse. Impossible thought: I can imagine that if we could understand the DNA-like algorithm of God’s numbering, the verses of the Bible might actually be reconstructed through numeric patterns.
• Chapter and Verse numbers have a direct symbolic relationship to the contents in their text
• The number of verses in a chapter in some way reflect a message in the chapter
• The number of chapters in a book in some way reflect a message in the book
• The number of the book in the Bible (1-66 & 1-57 full books) symbolically related to a theme found in the book
• Just a few of the numbers that intersect perfectly in every book, chapter and verse are:

• The Sequence number of books in the Bible (1-66) (39^th book last of OT, (40-1=39) Jews not done with wilderness wandering

• The sequence number of full books in the Bible (1-57 that count books like 1^st and 2^nd Kings as a single book)

• The chapter sequence number in every book (In Genesis 8 the Ark rested with the remnant of 8 saved)

• The cross-bible chapter sequence number (1-1189)   #1000 is John chapter 3 “for God so loved the World”

• The verse number in every chapter (Lev 8:8 and Deu 33:8 both refer to spirit of God (Urim and Thummin)

• The cross book verse numbers – The 666^th verse of Matthew is Mt 20:18 “they will condemn him (Jesus) to death” (sin)

• The cross Bible verse numbers (1, 31,102) --- The 7200^th verse is the 72^nd verse of Ruth that is in the 236^th chapter (2x36=72)  Ruth 4:9 “you are witnesses”

• The numbers found in the text throughout the Bible – Rev “12:6” …woman fled into wilderness for “1260”days…
• The position number in every list in the Bible The 6^th commandment “you shall not murder”
• And on and on…The perfection of Biblical numbering seems endless

Some of the most compelling evidences for a perfectly numbered Bible

Before I was absolutely convinced the Bible has a structural and numerical perfection, I would have to remind myself I was not crazy for thinking such an impossible thought. I would go through a mental list of some of these evidences to quiet my doubts. I also use items in this list to help others consider the possibility of the Bible’s perfection of numbers and patterns.

1.  The Center of the Bible -- Psalm 117 is the 595^th and exact center chapter of the Bible and is also the shortest and only two verse Bible chapter declaring “Praise the LORD”. An impossible to contrive significance of this chapter and should be pretty difficult for any reasoning person to assume it simply occurred due to coincidence.
2. The 1000th Bible chapter -- John chapter 3 who many would agree might be the most popularly read chapter of the Bible and the one that has the primary verse on Salvation – John 3:16 “for God so loved the Word…”. This is the exact 1000^th chapter and Josephus said number one thousand was God’s number of perfection. Another significance of a key Bible chapter that you would think would be difficult to quickly dismiss as coincidence.
3. The 24,000th verse of the Bible is Matthew 24:42 “be on the alert, you do not know the Day”. Six different intersections of number 24 symbolism regarding the “Day of the LORD” (24 hours). . This count can be verified by anyone that cares to, and has been confirmed by a mathematician that the chances of all these number 24 items lining up on a single verse is less than one chance in 12,000,000,000 (12 billion. Statistically impossible.
4. The 7200th Bible verse -- Number 72 and Witnesses -Ruth 4:9 -- Number 72 is associated with witnesses in scripture and two times 72 = 144 a number also associated with witnesses. In the 7200th verse of the Bible Boaz declares all with him are witnesses that he has purchased Naomi, Ruth and all their possessions. This verse directly about witnesses is the 7200th verse; the 72nd verse of the book of Ruth; is in the 236th bible chapter and 2*36=72; and is verse reference 4:9 which is 36 a multiple of 72. An incredible lining up of so many 72 related numbers in a single verse.
5. Daniel 12:6 and 1260 days is 3.5 years or 42 months which is a time related to tribulation. There are many scriptures related to #1260 and #126 that seem to point to this period of time. The two examples I most often quote are Revelation “12:6” the woman fled into the wilderness for 1260 days and Daniel 12:6 “how long until these things…times, time and a half of time (3.5 years). Pretty amazing coincidences.
6. The 500th Bible chapter -- The Jubilee chapter, Psalm 22 the 500th where Jesus pays for our sins--The year of Jubilee is every 50th year and 500 is an intense form of the number 50 thus pointing out with the cross bible chapter number that Jesus has freed us through his action on the cross. Jubilee is explained in Lev 25:10 'You shall thus consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim a release through the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee for you, and each of you shall return to his own property, and each of you shall return to his family. Psalm 22 is one of the most famous chapters in the Old Testament that point to Jesus on the Cross. Not likely coincidence that it is the 500^th Bible chapter.
7. 144,000 who go before Jesus -- The verse at Revelation 14:3 tells of the 144,000 who will be purchased from the earth at the Lord's return but it is the next verse that's more important and describes who these 144,000 are. Is it coincidence the verse is Revelation 14:4 (144) whose verse number matches those who it describes? These are the ones who have not been defiled with women, for they have kept themselves chaste. These {are} the ones who follow the Lamb wherever He goes. These have been purchased from among men as first fruits to God and to the Lamb.
8. The 70 weeks prophecy found in the 770th chapter - Jerimiah 25 is the 770th chapter of the Bible and the entire chapter is centered around the famous 70 week prophecy. Verses 11 and 12 specifically mention the 70 weeks.--Jer 25:11-12 'This whole land will be a desolation and a horror, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon seventy years. v12 'Then it will be when seventy years are completed I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation,' declares the LORD, 'for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans; and I will make it an everlasting desolation.(NASB)
9. The two exact center verses of the Bible are the first two verses of Psalm 103 both declaring “Bless the LORD”. In a similar way that the exact center chapter of the Bible Psalm 117 declares “Praise the LORD” twice, these 15551^st and 15552^nd verses are the exact center of the Bible’s 31,102 verses. Psa 103:1 “Bless the LORD, O my soul, And all that is within me, bless His holy name”. Psa 103:2 “Bless the LORD, O my soul, And forget none of His benefits;”. That exact center verses of the Bible are the first two verses of a chapter that declares over and over again “Bless the LORD” is another impossible to contrive coincidence of the Bible.
10. The 10,110th Bible verse - God turns time back 10 steps - To prove he is God, in a well known Bible passage God turns back time by moving a shadow on the steps back ten steps. The cross Bible verse number 10110 (10-1-10)  is 2Kin 20:11 where Isaiah the prophet cried to the LORD, and He brought the shadow on the stairway back ten steps by which it had gone down on the stairway of Ahaz. Given all the evidences shown on this page, do you suspect it coincidence this 10,110th verse happens to mention he turned back exactly 10 steps? The cross Bible verse number begins with 10, ends with 10, and has a 1 in the middle.

As I mentioned, I use this list of verifiable facts to help remind myself and others that the numerical perfection of the Bible should not be an idea so easily dismissed. I have 1000s of other evidences that I can also cite, but these are good starter evidences if you are curious at all if my claim the Bible is perfectly numbered might be true. These evidences will not convince anyone of the perfection, but I think they should give every believer a reason to seriously consider the possibility.