Near the beginning of this PowerPoint, the number seven is said to have something to do with the idea of perfection. This claim is true; or at least the number seven is accorded special favor in the Bible. The number seven is clearly emphasized to manifest a pattern. There are seven days, seven seals, seven angels, seven trumpets, seven thunders, seven vials, seventy times seven, and so on. All of this is valuable because it is biblical. After mentioning that the number seven is prominent in Scripture, however, my friend did not draw attention to the sevens that are found in Revelation or something obvious like that. Here are some of the number patterns that he chose to focus on. “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” This verse contains seven Hebrew words, consisting of twenty-eight letters collectively. Twenty-eight divides itself into four sevens. The first three words have fourteen letters; and fourteen just happens to be seven times two. The three nouns add up to a value of 777, or 111-7s. That, in part, is the teaching. But what value is this information to us? People are supposed to believe that the Bible is the word of God because of this? What about the second verse? What about the third? Indeed, what about verse number seven? That one should be loaded with sevens, right? But what if the seventh verse contains more than seven Hebrew words? In fact, it contains seventeen words. I looked it up. Yes, seventeen has the number seven in it. But seventeen is not exactly the perfect number, is it? Nor is it divisible by seven. Does this mean that the Bible is imperfect? Does this mean that it is fallible? If we were to believe in Gematria numerology, and at the same time believe in consistency, is that not what might be suggested to our mind? How can verse number seven fail us like that?
Not only do the first three words of his chosen verse have fourteen letters, which is double the amount of seven, but the other four have fourteen as well, which is double the amount of seven again. Fine, but does this not mean that the number fourteen should be special? Well, at least fourteen is twice as many as seven, I guess. But why not count the letters of the first four words together, and then the letters of the other three? Is it not because the values would not amount to fourteen that way? Then it says that the fourth and fifth words have seven letters, and that the fifth and sixth have seven letters too. Notice how selective this is. Why take the fourth and fifth and then the fifth and sixth? Why not the fourth and sixth? Or why not the first and third? Is it not because the number seven might not rear its magical head through those combinations?
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