Readers -
If Isaac is the best "type" of Jesus in the OT, then perhaps his wife, Rebecca, is the best "type" of the Bride.
Rebecca means " ensnarer". it has a Greek gematria value of:
153
It is Strong's Greek number 4479.
Jesus is the Beginning, so subtract His full gematria 2368 from 4479 =
2111
That is probably a cross-number system match, that being John 21:11, the verse that contains the number of fish the Lord Jesus commanded to be in the last catch, that being 153. Also, Rebecca's name meaning seems to imply this.
My personal take on the 153 (mega) fish is, and has been for years, that they represent the Bride, that is, the Leadership group. So, that would also match Rebecca as Bride type via the 153.
now go here for all the verses that have a total verse value of 4479:
http://www.biblewheel.com/GR/GR_Database.php?SearchBy_Gematria=4479
the first two have to do with women, but it is the last one that I think is most noteworthy:Â
Daniel 12:4
"But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased."
note the phrase, "the time of the end".
This seems to match. The Bride is the last "catch". All triangle numbers added through 153 ( the 17th) = 969. This is Methuselah's lifespan, the longest in the Bible - he represents the End of the Age. This also makes sense as John's gospel is last, his book, the Revelation, is last, and one gematria for his name is 969, and the last catch (153) is in his gospel.
Also noteworthy is the Strong's Hebrew 4479 bookend. go here for a list of all the verses that contain 4479h:
http://www.biblewheel.com/GR/GR_Database.php?SearchBy_Strongs=4479&Lang=H
That word appears in 10 verses and seven of them are in Daniel! that implies a last days connection.
Rebecca's Greek word comes from the Hebrew Strong's 7259h. first appearance of 7259 is in Genesis 22:23.
this is verse number 571.
This is a new number for me, and I was shocked to see it.
571 is part of a base conversion string I'm currently working on whose source Bible character is Dorcas, the woman raised from the dead after Peter prays in Acts 9:40.
Dorcas' Greek Strong's number is 1393. her name means gazelle.
here is the base conversion string:
1393 decimal = 2561 octal = 571 hexadecimal.
The great mysteries of the Bible are tied to people, and I think Dorcas is one of them. she was raised from the dead, and her Greek gematria is 395, a known resurrection number. I think it not strange that verse 571 is tied to Rebecca, the Bride.
Should any of the above info actually prove correct, then I hope the will of the Lord Jesus was done, amen.
Jesus is Lord.