Readers -

some one posted me about whether personal numbers showing up in Bible
number analysis are coincidence or not.

here is my response (right or wrong) which might be of interest to
others.

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your post is interesting and you ask the fundamental question all ask
when looking at numbers and seeing alignments.

what is coincidence and what isn't.

the question might better be phrased, what amount of 'seeming
alignments' is random chance, statistically speaking.  i'm sure there
is an amount of it that is. i believe Del Washburn's book goes into
this, and i'm not smart enough to understand it.

i'm sure about certain things though.

seeing a lot of alignment of numbers in one's personal life is evidence
of the hand of God on a person's life, start to finish. God created
people, and He numbers their days. if God created all things "after
their own kind", then this principle probably carries over to numbers
God uses in families. the blood line carries down thru generations,
maybe numbers do also. i'm of the flexible opinion that numerically, a
person could trace their heritage back to certain Bible characters of
which they, in their lifetime, are based on. all christian people
possibly having their Bible counterpart. maybe i'm wrong.

i am confident of this: a solid Rapture timeline cannot be BASED on
personal numbers. i think that God would reveal the correct Bible
interpretation of certain scriptures and Bible persons, types etc that
show where the correct info is in His Word, just as the Lord did with
the disciples on the road to Emmaus. He was right in their midst, but
hidden, until He revealed Himself. He semi-chastised them, though, for
being slow to believe what the prophets had said about Him. Luke 24:25,
holding them accountable for what He knew was "knowable" and yet
unbelief had kept them ignorant.

also, a convincing Resurrection/Rapture argument can't be BASED on
license plates, flashing clocks, dates of birth, death etc. these
arguments have no witness to the world, though i know that God
sometimes uses peculiar happenings to speak to us, and i have seen it
many times.

people reach the wrong conclusions because they connect the wrong
things together. emotions end up driving the study, and they study
study study, which is good, but they fail to be objective enough to
sort the wheat from the tares, so to speak. that which is mainline,
from that which is extraneous, or less pertinent. the correct parts
must be placed in their proper setting. like a dot-to-dot picture, all
the dots are there, but if i do not connect them in the correct order,
then i have no hope of seeing the picture complete.

only God can reveal these things.

the person or person who eventually gets it right (correct) got it from
God, and correctly understood it, or worked the problem correctly using
a series of checks and balances and clues only God can give. if God
considers it a 'puzzle', then He wants it put together a piece at a
time. the picture will be revealed at the end of the time God allowed
it to be worked on. for a long time, Noah's boat probably didn't look
like a boat, but as the work progressed, it took shape. the last thing
that has to be done is something that only God can do.

shut the door

which condemns the world and saves the eight.

cmc  <><