Tonight, I first read Barbie Marrs "Noah, Nov 1st, and 1111"
http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/oct2006/barbiem109.htm
Then read Ian's Numberbite:
http://www.fivedoves.com/numberbite/NUMBERBITE_0004.htm
Loved the 555 finding! Which inspired me to find out the English Gematria of the famouse Rapture verse I Thessalonians 17-18, which is attached in Excel format.
Which after doing so I found out that Chuck Holler did close to the same thing to find the number 17 but just with the verses name:
http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/oct2006/chuckh109.htm
And then this was remarkably similar with Tom Heinitz's post:
http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/oct2006/tomh109.htm
Hopefully people can reuse the spreadsheet to make it easier to do these English Gematria's themselves. Just remember one has to break up each sentence of a verse into 12 letter segments or less.
Well, the results of I Thessalonians 4:17-18:
For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
First of all the number 17 means "Victory" according to "The Arithmetic of God". Jesus was the first to have Victory over Death, Hell, and the Grave on Resurrection Day, the 17th Day of the Month on Nisan. He is the first to rise from the dead as in I Thessalonians 4:17, and the first to ascend into Heaven as in I Thessalonians 4:18.
O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? I Corinthians 15:55
Well, the grand total for summing all the numbers for the letters in I Thessalonians 4:17-18 is 17629.
And, of course the number starts with the number 17.
This leaves 629. Which is divisible by 17. When 629 is divided by 17 it leaves only 37 which is 20 + 17. Ignoring the 0 in 20 (as it is nothing) we have TWO and 17, (2nd month, the 17th day of the month).
What about 17,629? Well, believe it or not, of all numbers from one to 60, 17,629 is only divisible by 17, ....TWICE.
Shalom,
Ted Porter