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Measurements of Jachin & Boaz

written by Will Schumacher

I have been making a connection between the 2 witnesses standing before God and the 2 pillars standing before the temple. The root of the hebrew word for “pillar” means “to stand”.

The 2 pillars are called Jachin and Boaz and have pomegranates wrapped around their top/head symbolizing God’ laws on their heads.

Notice that God says we are to have our heads crowned with His laws.

Proverbs 1:9 For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.

God says he would put His laws on our hearts.

Jeremiah 31:33 But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the Lord, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.

I used to think of my heart in my chest and see this as the seat of my emotions and this is where God was writing His laws. But what is the Hebraic understanding of the heart in the Bible? According to Jeff Benner (and others), the heart to the Hebrews was the mind and the thoughts, while the kidneys are the seat of emotions.

From Jeff Benner on what the “heart” actually means:

While we, in our modern Western world, associate this word with “emotions,” in the Ancient Hebrew world this word is associated with “thought,” the “mind,” and we can see this in the following passages.

The LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. (Genesis 6:5, ESV)

Oh, let the evil of the wicked come to an end, and may you establish the righteous— you who test the minds and hearts, O righteous God! (Psalm 7:9, ESV)

In this last verse, the Hebrew word לב (lev, Strong’s #H3820) is translated as “minds.” The word “hearts” in this same verse is the Hebrew word כליה (kilyah, Strong’s #H3629), which means “kidneys,” not “heart.” While the “heart” is seen as the seat of thought in Hebrew philosophy, the “kidneys” are seen as the seat of emotion."

When I understood that the heart is actually the mind and the thoughts which originate from the brain in our head it makes perfect sense that the Holy Spirit rested on the top or heads of the believers in Acts 2 and that we/the 144,000 are sealed on our foreheads.

Acts 2:3 And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them.

Revelation 14:1 And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion, and with him an hundred forty and four thousand, having his Father's name written in their foreheads.

And again the pillars standing in front of the temple with pomegranates on their heads is a picture of the God’s laws on our heads through the Holy Spirit. Zechariah 4 which is a type of Revelation 11 and the two witnesses also reinforces this:

Zechariah 4:6 Then he answered and spake unto me, saying, This is the word of the Lord unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the Lord of hosts.

I look at numbers in the Bible and see their root meaning in how they correspond to the 22 letters of the Hebrew alphabet and their positioning and gematria.

They have a circumference of 12 cubits:

1 Kings 7:15 For he cast two pillars of brass, of eighteen cubits high apiece: and a line of twelve cubits did compass either of them about.

The 12th letter of the Hebrew alphabet is the letter “lamed”. It’s pictograph is a shepherd staff symbolizing authority. The word “lamed” means to teach. There were 12 tribes of Israel and 12 disciples and apostles. Jachin and Boaz as a type of the 2 witnesses and Spirit filled church are God’s authority on earth to be His witnesses and teach His commandments and one day we will reign with Him.

Matthew 28:18 And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. 19 Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: 20 Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. Amen.

Acts 1:8 But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.

The 18th letter of the Hebrew alphabet is “tsade”. From Hebrew for Christians, its pictograph is a fish hook. The word tsud means to “hunt or fish”. We are to be fishers of men. A tzaddik is a “righteous one” and the letter “tsade” is said to symbolize the righteous.

So Jachin and Boaz stand 18 cubits tall or “righteous” and their circumference is 12 cubits/ they are God’s authority and teachers.

On the heads of Jachin and Boaz are the chapiters containing the pomegranates. The chapiters are 5 cubits:

1 Kings 7:16 And he made two chapiters of molten brass, to set upon the tops of the pillars: the height of the one chapiter was five cubits, and the height of the other chapiter was five cubits:

Brass symbolizes judgement. The word of God judges.

The word for “top” in the above verse is Strong’s H7218. It also means “head”. These chapiters are the heads of the pillars wrapped in pomegranates.

The 5th letter of the Hebrew alphabet is the letter “hey”. It means “behold” or “to reveal”. Torah in its narrowest sense refers to the 5 books of Moses. More than likely the 5 stones David used to defeat Goliath symbolized the torah or 5 books of Moses. When Jesus was tempted by the devil He quoted from the book of Deuteronomy, the 5th book, exclusively.

So Jachin and Boaz have a head tied to the number 5, the torah, wrapped in pomegranates, tied to the number 613 and the number of commands in the torah. They are sealed with the Holy Spirit and the Laws of God are written on their heads/hearts in Hebraic understanding.

Jachin and Boaz standing 18 cubits refer to them being righteous.

In Matthew 28:18 Jesus says He has power over heaven and earth. We are to be His witnesses with this power. This is verse 24214.

Matthew 28:18 And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.

The 2 witnesses are given power by Jesus in verse 30876:

Revelation 11:3 And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.

The verse jump is 6662. Strong’s H6662 = righteous.

Jachin has a gematria of 90. Tsade, the 18th letter, has a gematria of 90.

Boaz has a gematria of 79. Together their gematria totals 169 which is the cube of 13.

Betemunah.org has an interesting take on the number 13. There were 12 tribes with God as the head so a total of 13. There were 12 disciples with Jesus as the head so 13. Deuteronomy 6:4, the lead of the Shema, saying “God is one” has a gematria of 13 x 86. 86 is the gematria of God.

13 pictures oneness. The 13th letter of the Hebrew alphabet is the letter “mem”. It is linked to water. Water is one.

I believe God is showing Jachin and Boaz are tied to the number 13. They are one with Him through His Spirit. By His power and His power alone are we saved, sanctified, and useful to Him as His witnesses.

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Jachin & Boaz with Pomegranates On Their Heads

by Will Schumacher

In my post about the 6th letter, seal and vial, I made a connection between the 2 witnesses standing before God and the 2 pillars standing before the temple.

The 2 witnesses are the Holy Spirit filled Church. They are called 2 olive trees and are connected to Zechariah 4 and its 2 olive trees.

Revelation 11:4 These are the two olive trees, and the two candlesticks standing before the God of the earth.

Zechariah 4:3 And two olive trees by it, one upon the right side of the bowl, and the other upon the left side thereof.

In Zechariah 4:6 God says “Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the Lord of hosts.”

The names of the 2 pillars standing before the temple/House of God are named Boaz meaning “In strength” and Jachin meaning “He will establish”. Those names seem to coincide with what God says in Zechariah 4:6 that “He will establish His church in His strength”.

I see these 2 pillars as the gateway to God just as the Church through the Holy Spirit is the gateway to God for those unsaved today.

Boaz and Jachin are like trees. They are 18 cubits high and 12 cubits in circumference, like huge tree trunks. Then at the top they have chapiters of pomegranates, like a fruit tree:

1 Kings 7:18 And he made the pillars, and two rows round about upon the one network, to cover the chapiters that were upon the top, with pomegranates: and so did he for the other chapiter.

I recall posting about pomegranates in the past. Pomegranates are connected to God’s laws by the Jewish people. They say there a 613 pomegranate seeds just as there are 613 laws. The seeds look like jewels. God’s laws are considered jewels. Below is part of a post where I made the connection between the trumpets, God’s law, and pomegranates.

Strong’s G3341 = repentance. This verse about trumpets has a matching gematria of 3341:

Numbers 10:8 And the sons of Aaron, the priests, shall blow with the trumpets; and they shall be to you for an ordinance for ever throughout your generations

This is Bible verse 3341. Yes, once we are saved we should love to obey God’s law:

Leviticus 20:22 Ye shall therefore keep all my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them: that the land, whither I bring you to dwell therein, spue you not out.

Numbers 10:8 with a gematria of 3341 is verse number 3997.

This verse has a gematria of 3997 and speaks of a watchman (which is the Church) blowing a trumpet to warn the sinner to repent:

Ezekiel 33:4 Then whosoever heareth the sound of the trumpet, and taketh not warning; if the sword come, and take him away, his blood shall be upon his own head.

The trumpet that is being blown in Numbers 10:8 is one of the silver trumpets. Silver is a picture of redemption. The Church has been redeemed. We are a silver trumpet in God’s hand.

Strong’s H2689 = trumpet

This familiar verse has a gematria of 2689. Once God saves us, we should desire to follow His Law:

Proverbs 6:23 For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:

This is verse 2689. The high priest, a type of Christ, wore a robe with pomegranites on it:

Exodus 39:24 And they made upon the hems of the robe pomegranates of blue, and purple, and scarlet and twined linen.

In jewish tradition, the pomegranate is said to have 613 seeds in it matching the 613 laws of God or written Torah.

The Bride has temples like a pomegranate.

Song of Solomon 4:3 Thy lips are like a thread of scarlet, and thy speech is comely: thy temples are like a piece of a pomegranate within thy locks.

The temple is the side of the forehead. We are to bind God’s laws to our foreheads:

Deuteronomy 6:8 And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes.

In Revelation the 144,000 are sealed on their foreheads with the Holy Spirit who teaches us God’s laws.

Revelation 7:3 Saying, Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads.

So if we are the trumpets of God what are we saying?

The 5th and 6th trumpest are about the battle with “scorpions and serpents” which I have posted about a few times recently. This is the spiritual war we face daily against our enemy. We must be daily prepared for it and we must be edifying others to be prepared for it. When we fall we must pick each other up.

In light of the war we are in as God’s people notice verse 3998:

Numbers 10:9 And if ye go to war in your land against the enemy that oppresseth you, then ye shall blow an alarm with the trumpets; and ye shall be remembered before the LORD your God, and ye shall be saved from your enemies.

This verse has a gematria of 3998:

Deuteronomy 6:7 And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.

So Jachin and Boaz have pomegranates wrapped around their top/head symbolizing God’ laws on their heads. The 2 witnesses and the 144,000 sealed on their foreheads with Gods’ laws/pomegranates are one and the same.

Further there are a total of 400 pomegranates on Jacin and Boaz combined.

1 Kings 7:42 And four hundred pomegranates for the two networks, even two rows of pomegranates for one network, to cover the two bowls of the chapiters that were upon the pillars;

400 is the gematria of the 22nd letter of the Hebrew alphabet, the letter Tav. Tav is considered the covenant letter. The word “tav” is Strong’s H8420 and means “mark”.

Ezekiel 9:4 And the Lord said unto him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof.

So Jachin and Boaz are “marked/sealed” by the pomegranates/laws/covenant of God.

Praise be to God.

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The 6th Letter, 6th Trumpet, 6th Vial

written by Will Schumacher

The 6th letter

Revelation 3:7 And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write; These things saith he that is holy, he that is true, he that hath the key of David, he that openeth, and no man shutteth; and shutteth, and no man openeth;

8 I know thy works: behold, I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it: for thou hast a little strength, and hast kept my word, and hast not denied my name.

9 Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee.

10 Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.

11 Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown.

12 Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name.

13 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.

The 6th trumpet

Revelation 8:13 And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God,

14 Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.

15 And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men.

16 And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand: and I heard the number of them.

17 And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone.

18 By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.

19 For their power is in their mouth, and in their tails: for their tails were like unto serpents, and had heads, and with them they do hurt.

20 And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk:

21 Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.

The 6th vial

Revelation 16:12 And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.

13 And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet.

14 For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.

15 Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.

16 And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.

The 6th letter, trumpet, and vial are about staying true to God’s word in a world of lies and false prophets.

The 6th trumpet repeats the word “mouth” 3 times. Fire, smoke, and brimstone comes from their mouth in verses 17 and 18. Verse 19 says their power is in their mouth.

The 6th trumpet is the false prophet/ beast from the land of Rev 13. This is spiritual warfare again just like the 5th trumpet. They have a lying or false mouth. Their tails are like a serpent. Genesis 3 and the fall of man is about the serpent lying/deceiving man to sin. Jesus called the Jewish leaders/false prophets of His days serpents in Matt 23. They were leading astray the people of Israel with their hypocrisy and false understanding of true worship and discipleship in following God.

Matthew 23:33 Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?

The 6th vial directly says John sees “3 unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, beast, and false prophet”.

In the 6th letter Jesus calls Himself “true”. He is not false. Jesus speaks of an open door that only he can open and shut. We know from John chapter 10, He is the door. While He is speaking of Himself as the door and the Good Shepherd in this chapter He also speaks of the wolf and thief trying to steal or lead astray His sheep, but His sheep do not follow because they know the voice/mouth of the Good Shepherd.

John 10:5 And a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him: for they know not the voice of strangers

In the letter Jesus also speaks of the “synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie”. Again, they are false prophets.

The letter to Philadelphia also repeatedly uses the phrase “new name” or “name of God”. In the Hebrew mindset someone’s name represents their character. So if we get a new name we are getting a new character. God’s name is His character, it is who He is. If we will get God’s name written upon us we will get His character. He is a God of truth.

Deuteronomy 32:4 He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.

The overcomer will also be given the name of New Jerusalem. The character of New Jerusalem is that she is a virgin bride. The high priest could only marry a virgin. She is in contrast in revelation to the harlot church mystery Babylon.

The river Euphrates is mentioned in both the 6th trumpet and 6th vial. The ancient city of Babylon was located on the Euphrates. God is connecting the false prophet/beast from the land/mystery Babylon.

He that overcometh will also be made a pillar in the temple.

In our English language a pillar is something that supports or signifies strength. The Hebrew word for “truth” comes from the Hebrew word for “faith” which also means “to support”. So there is a similarity between being a pillar and being true.

Further there were two pillars “standing” in the entrance to Solomons temple. Their names were Boaz meaning “In strength” and Jachin meaning “He will establish”.

1 Kings 7:21 And he set up the pillars in the porch of the temple: and he set up the right pillar, and called the name thereof Jachin: and he set up the left pillar, and called the name thereof Boaz.

Strong’s H5982=”pillar”. It’s root is Strong’s H5975=”stand”

You could say there are “2 witnesses standing” at the entrance/door to the temple, the door way to God, which the church is a type of.

Ephesians 2:20 And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone; 21 In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord: 22 In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.

Revelation 11 says there are also “2 witnesses standing before God”.

Rev 11:3 And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth. 4 These are the two olive trees, and the two candlesticks standing before the God of the earth.

The 2 witnesses are likened to trees. The 2 pillars of the temple are also like trees. They had pomegranates at the top mimicking a pomegranate tree.

1 Kings 7:20 And the chapiters upon the two pillars had pomegranates also above, over against the belly which was by the network: and the pomegranates were two hundred in rows round about upon the other chapiter.

The false prophets of the 6th trumpet produce “fire, smoke, and brimstone out of their mouths.”

Revelation 9:18 By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.

The 2 witnesses standing before God also produce fire out of their mouths.

The fire that the 2 witnesses produce is the Word of God.

In context Jeremiah is speaking about the false prophets who are telling the people the exact opposite of what Jeremiah is saying.

Jeremiah 5:12 They have belied the Lord, and said, It is not he; neither shall evil come upon us; neither shall we see sword nor famine: 13 And the prophets shall become wind, and the word is not in them: thus shall it be done unto them.

Jeremiah prophesied to his fellow brothers Judah. There was impending destruction coming from Babylon and the city and temple would be destroyed. The false prophets were his fellow brothers, jews, who were saying peace and safety, God will not destroy us.

In each letter so far there appears to be a link to the city the church is located in and the theme running between the letter, trumpet and vial. Philadelphia means “brotherly love”. The link I believe is that we love our brother by being true. Jesus was crucified by His brothers, the jews. He was betrayed by His brother Judah Iscariot. The only people Jesus lashed out at were His brothers, the Jewish leaders, who were leading the people astray with their false worship. We are repeatedly told in scripture to love our brother and lift him up in his time in need.

Armageddon is mentioned in the 6th vial. This is translated as “hill of Megiddo”. The number “666” is Strong’s G5516. It is synonymous with Revelation 13 and the beast from the land and sea. Strong’s H5516 = Sisera. Deborah and Barak defeated Sisera at Megiddo.

Judges 5:19 The kings came and fought, then fought the kings of Canaan in Taanach by the waters of Megiddo; they took no gain of money. 20 They fought from heaven; the stars in their courses fought against Sisera.

From prior posts Deborah =Word. She is synonymous with the Word of God, which we know is truth.

John 17:17 Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.

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The 5th Letter, 5th Trumpet, 5th Vial

written by Will Schumacher

The 5th letter:

Revelation 3:1 And unto the angel of the church in Sardis write; These things saith he that hath the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars; I know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou livest, and art dead.

2 Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die: for I have not found thy works perfect before God.

3 Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard, and hold fast, and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come on thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee.

4 Thou hast a few names even in Sardis which have not defiled their garments; and they shall walk with me in white: for they are worthy.

5 He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.

6 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.

The 5th trumpet:

And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth: and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit.

2 And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit.

3 And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power.

4 And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads.

5 And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a man.

6 And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.

7 And the shapes of the locusts were like unto horses prepared unto battle; and on their heads were as it were crowns like gold, and their faces were as the faces of men.

8 And they had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth were as the teeth of lions.

9 And they had breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron; and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots of many horses running to battle.

10 And they had tails like unto scorpions, and there were stings in their tails: and their power was to hurt men five months.

11 And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon.

The 5th vial

Revelation 16:10 And the fifth angel poured out his vial upon the seat of the beast; and his kingdom was full of darkness; and they gnawed their tongues for pain,

11 And blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores, and repented not of their deeds.

The fifth, sixth and seventh trumpets are set apart by calling them the three woes.

Revelation 8:13 And I beheld, and heard an angel flying through the midst of heaven, saying with a loud voice, Woe, woe, woe, to the inhabiters of the earth by reason of the other voices of the trumpet of the three angels, which are yet to sound!

The fifth trumpet is also unique since it is not on 1/3 of something but only on “only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads.”

Those who have the seal of God on their foreheads are the church/bride. In Christ, this world can not take away our citizenship in heaven.

The 5th trumpet refers twice to “five months” twice. The flood was 150 days or five months. Noah and his family were safe in the ark/Christ for those 5 months.

Genesis 8:3 And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated.

The fifth letter, trumpet, and vial seem to pull out different ideas from the first four but seems to be centered on our love, hope, and faith in God or have we given our love to the world.

At Sardis the minting of standardized gold and silver coins was invented. The Croeseid was minted in Sardis, named after King Croesus. It was the world’s first true monetary system.

This fact leads me to think of Jesus statement on mammon/money/treasure. Who are we serving? Have we left our first love and turned our love to worldy things?

Matthew 6:19 Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: 20 But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: 21 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. 22 The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light. 23 But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness! 24 No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

Sardis was surrounded by steep cliffs and considered almost impenetrable because of its position yet was taken by both Cyrus and Alexander the Great. Much like how Jesus said they were dead and they thought they were alive, Sardis thought they were impenetrable but they found out twice they were not.

The church in Sardis thinks it is alive but is “dead”. They are to strengthen the things which remain that are ready “to die”.

Have we put our faith in Jesus and then went off to attend to other worldly things and forgotten to daily put on the full armour of God?

Ephesians 6:11 Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. 12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

If anyone overcomes he will not be blotted out of the book of life. We overcome by daily walking with Christ. Faith is not a one time decision but a life habit.

The 5th trumpet is about spiritual warfare against the beast from the sea/this worldly Babylon system we live in. This is the fiery furnace we walk through with Jesus at our side.

Just as Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego came out of the fiery furnace without “their coats changed” those in Sardis who don’t defile their garments will walk in white and shall be clothed in white raiment.

Daniel 3:27 And the princes, governors, and captains, and the king's counsellors, being gathered together, saw these men, upon whose bodies the fire had no power, nor was an hair of their head singed, neither were their coats changed, nor the smell of fire had passed on them.

This section below was from a post in 2020 connecting Numbers 21 and Revelation 9:

I watched a video on AlephBeta about the fiery serpents in the wilderness.

In Numbers 21 we read that God “sent” fiery serpents.

Numbers 21:6 And the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died

Aleph Beta quotes a Rabbi commenting on the Hebrew word for “sent”. The rabbi says the way it is written in hebrew is special and should rather mean “let go” or “release” and not “send”. So God released the fiery serpents. They were always there in the wilderness but God had beforehand protected the Israelites from them.

The video goes on to the connection to Deuteronomy 8 where God says there were serpents and scorpions in the wilderness where they traveled before they entered the promised land.

Deuteronomy 8:15 Who led thee through that great and terrible wilderness, wherein were fiery serpents, and scorpions, and drought, where there was no water; who brought thee forth water out of the rock of flint;

In this same chapter God warns the people not to forget Him:

Deuteronomy 8:12 Lest when thou hast eaten and art full, and hast built goodly houses, and dwelt therein;

Deu 8:13 And when thy herds and thy flocks multiply, and thy silver and thy gold is multiplied, and all that thou hast is multiplied;

Deu 8:14 Then thine heart be lifted up, and thou forget the LORD thy God, which brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage;

So the video says the serpents and scorpions were always there in the wilderness with Israel but God protected His people from the serpents and scorpions. The people complained against God because they were forgetting Him and not seeing His protection. It wasn’t about the food. God saw the best way to show the people how much He was protecting them, was to take away His protection and release the serpents and scorpions and let them come near His people so they would realize His goodness. God then provided a way of “salvation” for His people by looking at the serpent of brass raised up by Moses.

Numbers 21:9 And Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon a pole, and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived.

Christ was the serpent of brass.

John 3:14 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up:

So if you looked upon Christ, or trusted in Him for your salvation, you were healed and the serpents could not hurt you anymore. Serpents and scorpions are interchangeable definitions of the enemy of God.

The scorpion-like figures in Revelation 9 who are released just like God released the serpents in Numbers 21 can not hurt the believer sealed by God just like the serpents in Num 21 can not hurt the person who looked upon the serpent of brass lifted up-a picture of Christ taking on our sin on the cross.

Revelation 9:4 And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads.

Both the scorpions and serpents of Revelation 9 are prepared for war.

v 9:7 And the shapes of the locusts were like unto horses prepared unto battle; and on their heads were as it were crowns like gold, and their faces were as the faces of men

Rev 9:9 And they had breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron; and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots of many horses running to battle.

Rev 9:16 And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand: and I heard the number of them.

They both have breastplates on them in this war.

Rev 9:9 And they had breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron; and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots of many horses running to battle.

Rev 9:17 And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone.

When I read the above post from 2020 I thought it matched the church at Sardis. God warns His people not to become complacent when life is good. Sardis became complacent and became a “dead” church.

Revelation 9 gets some of its language from the book of Joel if you care to compare. They are both about warfare, both physical and spiritual.

The 5th vial is poured onto the seat of the beast. The “seat of the beast” is from the wording of the beast from the sea who got his seat from the dragon.

Revelation 13:2 And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.

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The 4th Letter, 4th Trumpet, & 4th Vial

written by Will Schumacher

The 4th letter -

Revelation 2:18 And unto the angel of the church in Thyatira write; These things saith the Son of God, who hath his eyes like unto a flame of fire, and his feet are like fine brass;

19 I know thy works, and charity, and service, and faith, and thy patience, and thy works; and the last to be more than the first.

20 Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols.

21 And I gave her space to repent of her fornication; and she repented not.

22 Behold, I will cast her into a bed, and them that commit adultery with her into great tribulation, except they repent of their deeds.

23 And I will kill her children with death; and all the churches shall know that I am he which searcheth the reins and hearts: and I will give unto every one of you according to your works.

24 But unto you I say, and unto the rest in Thyatira, as many as have not this doctrine, and which have not known the depths of Satan, as they speak; I will put upon you none other burden.

25 But that which ye have already hold fast till I come.

26 And he that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations:

27 And he shall rule them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers: even as I received of my Father.

28 And I will give him the morning star.

29 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.

The 4th trumpet -

Revelation 8:12 And the fourth angel sounded, and the third part of the sun was smitten, and the third part of the moon, and the third part of the stars; so as the third part of them was darkened, and the day shone not for a third part of it, and the night likewise.

The 4th vial -

Revelation 16:8 And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun; and power was given unto him to scorch men with fire. 9 And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, which hath power over these plagues: and they repented not to give him glory.

The 4th letter, trumpet, and vial are about rulership.

Thyatira was known for its purple dye. Purple is the color of royalty in the Bible. Kings and queens rule over their people.

Jesus is called the Son of God in the letter. God is the ruler, not us.

Jesus searches the hearts. In the Bible the heart is the center of everything we do and think and therefore the “ruler” of the body.

Jezebel is mentioned in the letter. She was a queen of Israel.

He that overcometh will have power over nations-rulership.

He will rule with a rod of iron-rulership.

I will give him the morning star. Venus is the morning star and is known as the queen of the skies, again rulership.

The 4th trumpet is on the sun, moon, and stars, and the 4th vial is on the sun.

In the Bible the sun, moon and stars rule the skies.

Genesis 1:16 And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.

In Joseph’s dream his father and mother, the rulers over him were depicted as the sun and moon and his brothers as the stars.

Genesis 37: 9 And he dreamed yet another dream, and told it his brethren, and said, Behold, I have dreamed a dream more; and, behold, the sun and the moon and the eleven stars made obeisance to me.

10 And he told it to his father, and to his brethren: and his father rebuked him, and said unto him, What is this dream that thou hast dreamed? Shall I and thy mother and thy brethren indeed come to bow down ourselves to thee to the earth?

Jezebel is mentioned in the letter. As I said she was a foreign queen of Israel. One of the biggest stories within her story in the bible is about Elijah and the question of “Who is God-the God of the bible or the false gods she serves”. Elijah’s name means “God is the Lord”.

If you recall from the story it is about rulership,Who is God and therefore who is in charge.

1 Kings 18:21 And Elijah came unto all the people, and said, How long halt ye between two opinions? if the Lord be God, follow him: but if Baal, then follow him. And the people answered him not a word.

The people will know who is the true God and who is in charge because the answer will be by fire.

1 Kings 18:24 And call ye on the name of your gods, and I will call on the name of the Lord: and the God that answereth by fire, let him be God. And all the people answered and said, It is well spoken.

In the 4th vial the men were scorched with fire. They repented not. They didn’t recognize God is in charge and it explicitly says God is in charge of this plague.

Revelation 16:8 And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun; and power was given unto him to scorch men with fire. 9 And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, which hath power over these plagues: and they repented not to give him glory.

In the 4th letter unless they repent they will have great tribulation.

In the story of Elijah when God answered in fire the people repented.

1 Kings 18:36 And it came to pass at the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice, that Elijah the prophet came near, and said, Lord God of Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel, let it be known this day that thou art God in Israel, and that I am thy servant, and that I have done all these things at thy word.

37 Hear me, O Lord, hear me, that this people may know that thou art the Lord God, and that thou hast turned their heart back again.

38 Then the fire of the Lord fell, and consumed the burnt sacrifice, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench.

39 And when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces: and they said, The Lord, he is the God; the Lord, he is the God.

Last, Jesus describes Himself two ways. One is with “eyes like a flame of fire” and the other as “with feet like fine brass”. “Feet like fine brass” is from Revelation 1:15 where it is expanded to say “as if they burned in a furnace”.

Revelation 1:15 And his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and his voice as the sound of many waters.

Strong’s G4448 =”burned”. It also can mean “to be on fire”.

So Revelation 1:15 could read “as if they were on fire in a furnace”.

Jesus walked in a fiery furnace in 1 story in the Bible and He is called the “Son of God” in it just as He called Himself in the 4th letter.

Daniel 3:25 He answered and said, Lo, I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire, and they have no hurt; and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God.

Of course this is Jesus walking with Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego in the fiery furnace.

Daniel 3:23 And these three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, fell down bound into the midst of the burning fiery furnace.

They were there because of rulership. They would only bow down and worship the one true God. And after Nebuchadnezzar saw the three men saved he repented and said there is only one God.

Daniel 3:29 Therefore I make a decree, That every people, nation, and language, which speak any thing amiss against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, shall be cut in pieces, and their houses shall be made a dunghill: because there is no other God that can deliver after this sort.

I have posted on this in the past. The fiery furnace that Jesus walks with His servants in is a type of the “great tribulation” that we walk in now. It is the trials of this life. Notice that in the letter to the 4th church those who follow Jezebel and don’t repent will also be cast into great tribulation.

Glory be to God! He is amazing.

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The Third Letter, Trumpet, & Vial of Revelation

written by Will Schumacher

Revelation 2:12 And to the angel of the church in Pergamos write; These things saith he which hath the sharp sword with two edges;

13 I know thy works, and where thou dwellest, even where Satan's seat is: and thou holdest fast my name, and hast not denied my faith, even in those days wherein Antipas was my faithful martyr, who was slain among you, where Satan dwelleth.

14 But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balac to cast a stumblingblock before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed unto idols, and to commit fornication.

15 So hast thou also them that hold the doctrine of the Nicolaitanes, which thing I hate.

16 Repent; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will fight against them with the sword of my mouth.

17 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it.

The third trumpet:

Revelation 8:10 And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters;

11 And the name of the star is called Wormwood: and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.

The third vial:

Revelation 16:4-7 And the third angel poured out his vial upon the rivers and fountains of waters; and they became blood. 5 And I heard the angel of the waters say, Thou art righteous, O Lord, which art, and wast, and shalt be, because thou hast judged thus. 6 For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink; for they are worthy. 7 And I heard another out of the altar say, Even so, Lord God Almighty, true and righteous are thy judgments.

The underlying theme of the third letter, third trumpet, and third vial is the Word of God.

At Pergamus parchment was invented. Parchment was a much more durable use for ancient writings like the word of God. Paul asked for the parchments, the word of God, when he was imprisoned:

2 Timothy 4:14 The cloke that I left at Troas with Carpus, when thou comest, bring with thee, and the books, but especially the parchments.

Jesus describes Himself as having “the sharp sword with 2 edges”. This sword is the word of God. He will fight them with the “sword of His mouth” which is the word of God. To him the overcometh, he will eat of “hidden manna”. Manna was the bread from heaven which was Jesus who is called the Word of God who taught and embodied the word of God. Manna/bread is highly symbolic of the Word of God and the daily feeding we need form it.

Hebrews 4:12 For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

Revelation 1:16 And he had in his right hand seven stars: and out of his mouth went a sharp twoedged sword: and his countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength.

The third trumpet is a great star from heaven “burning as it were a lamp”. The first burning lamp in the bible made a one sided covenant with Abram back in Genesis 15.

Genesis 15:17 And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold a smoking furnace, and a burning lamp that passed between those pieces.

Genesis 15 is also the first time the Word of the Lord appears in the Bible, and it does twice:

Genesis 15:1 After these things the word of the Lord came unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward.

Genesis 15:4 And, behold, the word of the Lord came unto him, saying, This shall not be thine heir; but he that shall come forth out of thine own bowels shall be thine heir.

It is also interesting that the 4 living creatures/cherubim who I have posted on in the past as the Spirit filled Word of God are described the same way as the burning lamp in Genesis 15:17.

Ezekiel 1:13 As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was like burning coals of fire, and like the appearance of lamps: it went up and down among the living creatures; and the fire was bright, and out of the fire went forth lightning.

Jesus also has eyes that burn like lamps, the same as the burning lamp of Genesis 15:17.

Daniel 10:6 His body also was like the beryl, and his face as the appearance of lightning, and his eyes as lamps of fire, and his arms and his feet like in colour to polished brass, and the voice of his words like the voice of a multitude.

Revelation 1:14 His head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire;

The Holy Spirit is also like a “burning lamp” in the NT.

Revelation 4:5 And out of the throne proceeded lightnings and thunderings and voices: and there were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God.

Genesis 15 is also the first time God compared the seed of Abram to the stars:

Genesis 15:5 And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be.

The “great star from heaven” in the third trumpet that is likened to the burning lamp that passed through the pieces of Genesis 15 fell on the “rivers and fountains of water”.

The word of God in the Bible is compared to water. Fresh water is essential to life. The Word of God powered by the Spirit is like fountains of living water:

Isaiah 55:10-11 For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater: 11 So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.

John 4:14 But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.

Ephesians 5:26 That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,

The name of the star is Wormwood which is a bitter plant. Wormwood is synonymous with judgement in the Bible .

Wormwood is used first in the Bible with a person who turns from the Lord:

Deuteronomy 29:18 Lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from the Lord our God, to go and serve the gods of these nations; lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood;

Notice this passage using wormwood and a strange/adulterous woman.

Proverbs 5:3-5 For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil: 4 But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword. 5 Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.

The lips of the strange/adulterous woman are like honeycomb. The word of God is like honeycomb.

Psalm 19:10 More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.

Her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword. The word of God is like a sharp two-edged sword:

Hebrews 4:12 For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

The waters were made bitter by the star called wormwood. The adultery test of Numbers 5 used bitter water.

Numbers 5:27 And when he hath made her to drink the water, then it shall come to pass, that, if she be defiled, and have done trespass against her husband, that the water that causeth the curse shall enter into her, and become bitter, and her belly shall swell, and her thigh shall rot: and the woman shall be a curse among her people.

The word of God is also called sweet and bitter:

Revelation 10:9 And I went unto the angel, and said unto him, Give me the little book. And he said unto me, Take it, and eat it up; and it shall make thy belly bitter, but it shall be in thy mouth sweet as honey.

Just as the bitter water of the adultery test of Numbers 5 can judge us so can the word of God be bitter and judge our sin. It is also sweet to those who love Him and life giving just as the adultery test of Numbers 5 allowed the woman to be free and “conceive seed”/bring forth life.

Twice in the letter to Pergamos it is said that “where satan dwelleth” and where “satan’s seat is”.

Just as the star is burning like a lamp, satan is described as being an impostor as a messenger of light.

2 Corinthians 11:13-14 For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ. 14 And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.

In the third vial, the phrase “true and righteous are thy judgements” is used. This phrase is from Psalm 19:9. -

Psalm 19:9 The fear of the Lord is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.

Notice the next verse comparing God’s Word to honey and fine gold.

Psalm 19:10 More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.

Again notice God’s Word is true and His judgements righteous -

Psalm 119:60 Thy word is true from the beginning: and every one of thy righteous judgments endureth for ever.

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The Second Letter to Smyrna, the Second Trumpet & the Second Vial

by Will Schumacher

This is the second in the series showing the connection through the book of Revelation. Each letter, trumpet and vial is connected to the 7 messengers.

The second letter to the church at Smyrna:

Revelation 2:8 And unto the angel of the church in Smyrna write; These things saith the first and the last, which was dead, and is alive;

9 I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan.

10 Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.

11 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; He that overcometh shall not be hurt of the second death.

The second trumpet:

Revelation 8:8 And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea: and the third part of the sea became blood; 9 And the third part of the creatures which were in the sea, and had life, died; and the third part of the ships were destroyed.

The second vial:

Revelation 16:3 And the second angel poured out his vial upon the sea; and it became as the blood of a dead man: and every living soul died in the sea.

The reoccurring theme of the second letter, the second trumpet, and the second vial is “life and death”. In the trumpet judgement the 1/3 part of the creatures in the sea which had life died. In the vial judgement “every living soul which had life died”. In the letter to Smyrna Jesus describes Himself as “was dead and is alive”. The church is commanded to be faithful unto death and they will get a crown of life. He that overcometh won’t be hurt by the second death.

It’s all about life and death. What is the “great mountain burning with fire”. It is a reference to Mt Sinai.

Exodus 19:18 And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the LORD descended upon it in fire: and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly.

Hebrews 12:18 For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest,

God gave Israel His laws at Sinai. They are a guide of how to live this life for Him. They are an expression of God Himself. Love thy God and love thy neighbor just as God loves us.

God’s laws are “life and death”.

Deuteronomy 30:15 See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil; 16 In that I command thee this day to love the Lord thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply: and the Lord thy God shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it. 17 But if thine heart turn away, so that thou wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them; 18 I denounce unto you this day, that ye shall surely perish, and that ye shall not prolong your days upon the land, whither thou passest over Jordan to go to possess it. 19 I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live: 20 That thou mayest love the Lord thy God, and that thou mayest obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him: for he is thy life, and the length of thy days: that thou mayest dwell in the land which the Lord sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.

We obey God’s laws not to receive salvation but as evidence of it.

James says Faith without works is dead:

James 2:17 Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone.

James says these tribulations increase our faith.

James 1:2-3 My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; 3 Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.

James also talks of the crown of life to those who endure tribulation of this age.

James 1:12 Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.

How do we show God that we love Him? By following his commands/laws.

John 14:15 If ye love me, keep my commandments.

Why are 1/3 part of the ships destroyed? In the Bible there are two major stories about ships. The first is Noah’s ark. It is a means of salvation. The second is found in Acts 27. There were 276 souls saved as long as they remained on the ship. Again it is a means of salvation.

Acts 27:31 Paul said to the centurion and to the soldiers, Except these abide in the ship, ye cannot be saved.

Ships are for safe passage over the seas. The seas symbolize peoples and nations. Ships symbolize methods of safe passage or salvation.

Isaiah 17:12 Woe to the multitude of many people, which make a noise like the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations, that make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters!

Revelation 17:15 And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.

Matthew 2:11 And when they were come into the house, they saw the young child with Mary his mother, and fell down, and worshipped him: and when they had opened their treasures, they presented unto him gifts; gold, and frankincense and myrrh.

John 19:39 And there came also Nicodemus, which at the first came to Jesus by night, and brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about an hundred pound weight.

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Shavuout, the Judgement of the Trees & the First Letter, Trumpet & Vial of Revelation

By Will Schumacher

I have been studying the connection between the letters to the 7 churches in the book of revelation and how they connect to the trumpet and vial judgements.

So the first letter to the Ephesian church is connected to the first trumpet and the first vial.

Here is the letter to the church at Ephesus:

Revelation 2:1 Unto the angel of the church of Ephesus write; These things saith he that holdeth the seven stars in his right hand, who walketh in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks;

2 I know thy works, and thy labour, and thy patience, and how thou canst not bear them which are evil: and thou hast tried them which say they are apostles, and are not, and hast found them liars:

3 And hast borne, and hast patience, and for my name's sake hast laboured, and hast not fainted.

4 Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love.

5 Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of his place, except thou repent.

6 But this thou hast, that thou hatest the deeds of the Nicolaitanes, which I also hate.

7 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God.

Here is the first trumpet:

Revelation 8:7 The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.

Here is the first vial:

Revelation 16:2 And the first went, and poured out his vial upon the earth; and there fell a noisome and grievous sore upon the men which had the mark of the beast, and upon them which worshipped his image.

The first connection between the first letter and the first trumpet is about trees. The first trumpet burns up 1/3 of the trees. In the first letter the promise Jesus gives is that the overcomer will eat of the tree of life. Jesus also describes Himself as walking in the midst of seven golden lampstands or menorahs. A menorah built like and described like a tree.

A menorah has branches, flowers and fruit like a tree.

Exodus 25: 31 And thou shalt make a candlestick of pure gold: of beaten work shall the candlestick be made: his shaft, and his branches, his bowls, his knops, and his flowers, shall be of the same. 32 And six branches shall come out of the sides of it; three branches of the candlestick out of the one side, and three branches of the candlestick out of the other side: 33 Three bowls made like unto almonds, with a knop and a flower in one branch; and three bowls made like almonds in the other branch, with a knop and a flower: so in the six branches that come out of the candlestick. 34 And in the candlesticks shall be four bowls made like unto almonds, with their knops and their flowers.

So Jesus walks among the trees/candlesticks and gives the overcomers the tree of life and 1/3 of the trees are burned up.

In the Bible people are likened to trees. We produce fruit. We are either a good tree producing good fruit or a bad tree producing bad fruit.

Psalm 1:3 And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.

Matthew 7:17 Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit.

Mark 8:23 And he took the blind man by the hand, and led him out of the town; and when he had spit on his eyes, and put his hands upon him, he asked him if he saw ought. 24 And he looked up, and said, I see men as trees, walking.

The Hebrew word for tree is Strong’s H6086. It is a parent root spelled ayin-tsadi. The word for bones as in the bones of our body is derived from the parent root for tree. It is Strongs H6106 spelled ayin-tsadi-mem. Jeff Benner has an article on this.

So in Hebrew our bones are structurally like trees. Our works are the fruit and flowers. The letter to the Ephesian church emphasizes our works or fruit. Jesus knows their works and tells them to return to their first works.

We should understand the “1/3 of trees burnt up” as referring to people. The 3rd letter of the Hebrew alphabet is the letter gimel. It means “reward” and “recompence”. One third is a fraction based on the number 3. We should understand that 1/3 means “partial reward or recompense” or “partial judgement”. The trumpets are the church age. The church age is about separating those that are His and those that are not and sanctification. The Father is lovingly calling His bride and correcting and guiding us to become like Him. We are sanctified through the work of the Holy Spirit and the tribulation of this world.

The second connection between the first letter and the first trumpet is the phrase “thou hast left thy first love”.

God Himself says He is married to Israel. Israel’s first love was God.

Jeremiah 3:14 Turn, O backsliding children, saith the Lord; for I am married unto you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion:

God married Israel at Sinai in a blood covenant.

Exodus 24: 6-8 And Moses took half of the blood, and put it in basons; and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar. And he took the book of the covenant, and read in the audience of the people: and they said, All that the Lord hath said will we do, and be obedient. And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, Behold the blood of the covenant, which the Lord hath made with you concerning all these words.

The people said “I do” and Moses cast blood on the people as the “blood of the covenant”.

We have been covered/sprinkled in the blood covenant of Jesus.

Hebrews 12:24 And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.

Revelation 1:5 And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood,

At the first trumpet blood is cast on the earth/land, hearkening back to the marriage covenant at Sinai which is repeated in the marriage covenant of Christ. It is mingled with hail and fire signaling a Father’s correction to their children for forgetting their first love.

Trumpets were used in the old testament to call to war or danger, to assemble, and call to repentance.

When God marries Israel at Sinai and sprinkles the blood of the covenant on them and He then shows Himself to the leaders of Israel and they eat and drink together.

Exodus 24:8 And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, Behold the blood of the covenant, which the Lord hath made with you concerning all these words. 9 Then went up Moses, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel: 10 And they saw the God of Israel: and there was under his feet as it were a paved work of a sapphire stone, and as it were the body of heaven in his clearness. 11 And upon the nobles of the children of Israel he laid not his hand: also they saw God, and did eat and drink.

It is almost like a return to the Garden of Eden. God fellowships/walks with His people face to face again as He did with Adam. The reference to the tree of life in the letter to the Ephesian church should make us think about the Garden of Eden. The Garden of Eden is the first story of trees (the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil) and of marriage.

You could also say Adam and Eve’s first love was God and they ate of the tree of knowledge of good and evil and left their first love.

Marriage between the man and woman was introduced in the garden of Eden. The book of Ephesians lets us know that we are spiritually in a covenant of marriage with Christ. Marriage between man and woman here on earth is symbolic of the marriage between Christ and His bride.

Ephesians as 5:23 For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.24 Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing. 25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; 26 That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, 27 That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.

We ultimately return to Garden of Eden and the church as the woman marries the man Christ.

Revelation 19:7 Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready.

The first trumpet and first vial affects the earth or land. In the Jewish mindset the land represents Israel/God’s people while the seas represent the nations. This makes sense since only Israel/church are married to Him.

God married Israel at Sinai on Shavuout/Pentecost. The Holy Spirit came to dwell in the bride in the new testament on Shavuout/Pentecost.

Shavuout is also known as the day of the judgement of the trees. It therefore makes sense that the first letter and trumpet refer to marriage and trees, since shavuout is related to both.

Strong’s H7620 = shavuout.

The first verse in the NT with a gematria of 7620 is verse number 23215. (I don’t fully see a connection to shavuout in the verse other than maybe it’s the first use of temple in the NT?).

Matthew 4:5 Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city, and setteth him on a pinnacle of the temple,

But if you were to add 7620 verses to the above verse you get the first trumpet judgement of the trees. SO there is some connection.

Revelation 8:7 The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.

Further John the Baptist refers to this judgement of the trees.

Matthew 3:10 And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.

The verse jump from Matthew 3:10 to and the judgement of the trees to Revelation 8:7 is 7632.

There is one verse in the old testament with a gematria of 7632:

Judges 1:15 And she said unto him, Give me a blessing: for thou hast given me a south land; give me also springs of water. And Caleb gave her the upper springs and the nether springs.

This is about Caleb and his daughter Achsah. Notice the three prior verses of what Caleb just did.

Judges 1:11 And from thence he went against the inhabitants of Debir: and the name of Debir before was Kirjathsepher:

12 And Caleb said, He that smiteth Kirjathsepher, and taketh it, to him will I give Achsah my daughter to wife.

13 And Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother, took it: and he gave him Achsah his daughter to wife.

14 And it came to pass, when she came to him, that she moved him to ask of her father a field: and she lighted from off her ass; and Caleb said unto her, What wilt thou?

Caleb promised Debir which is also called Kirjathsepher and his daughter to whoever took it. Othniel takes it. Othniel is the Lion, Jesus who takes Kirjathsepher=”city of the books” and marries Achsah. This is portrayed in Revelation 5 where Jesus takes the book of life/city of books and thus His bride. Debir also means “word”. As in “word of God”.

Here is the first and only verse in the old testament with a gematria of 7620 matching shavuout. Again it is about Debir.

Joshua 10:39 And he took it, and the king thereof, and all the cities thereof; and they smote them with the edge of the sword, and utterly destroyed all the souls that were therein; he left none remaining: as he had done to Hebron, so he did to Debir, and to the king thereof; as he had done also to Libnah, and to her king.

Shavuout is about the marriage covenant. Debir/Kirjathsepher is the book of life/the bride.

Matthew 3:10 has a gematria of 7852.

Matthew 3:10 And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.

If you were to add 7852 inclusive verses to Matthew 3:10 you find all the people/trees not written in the book of life are thrown into the lake of fire.

Revelation 20:15 And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.

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7666 & the Parallel Between the 7 Years of Good & Bad and the Splitting of the 70th Week

written by Will Schumacher

The 6th seal ends with this verse:

Revelation 6:17 For the great day of His wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?

Chapter 7 of the book of Revelation is an interruption in the sequence to the 7th seal. It actually answers the question of who can stand before God. The 144,000, the church sealed with the Holy Spirit can stand before God.

Chapter 8 of the book of Revelation restarts the sequence of the seals and begins the 7th seal:

Revelation 6:17 is verse 7666 of the New Testament.

Revelation 8:1 And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour.

Revelation 8:1 has a gematria of 7666.

I find that extremely fascinating.

This “half an hour” of Rev 8:1 or “half a time period” is the second half of Daniel’s 70th week. It is the Church Age. The 7th seal is the 7 trumpets. Trumpets are an instrument that makes noise due to wind being blown through them. We are supposed to be vessels of the Holy Spirit/wind blowing through us and speaking through us. Strong’s H7307 = Spirit or wind.

Daniel 9:24-27 is written as a chiasm.

Daniel 9:24 Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.

A) Daniel 9:25 Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem (REBUILD JERUSALEM)

B)-unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks (MESSIAH)

C)-the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.(REBUILD JERUSALEM)

D) Daniel 9:26 And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself (MESSIAH)

C)-and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.(DESTROY JERUSALEM)

B)-Daniel 9:27 And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease (MESSIAH)

A)-and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate. (DESTROY JERUSALEM)

Christ confirms/strengthens the covenant for the final 70th week. His first coming marked the beginning of the 70th week. His second coming will mark the end of the 70th week. The first half of the 70th week ended with His death, resurrection, ascension to the Father, giving of the Spirit to the jew and gentile, and the destruction of the temple. The second half of the 70th week is this Church age of the Spirit building His spiritual temple in the “wilderness” during a time of tribulation.

Strong’s H7666 =”buy” or “sell” grain. It is used 21 times in the Bible and 14 times in the story of Joseph and the 7 years of plenty and 7 years of famine.

Genesis 41:56 And the famine was over all the face of the earth: and Joseph opened all the storehouses, and sold unto the Egyptians; and the famine waxed sore in the land of Egypt.

The 7 years of plenty and 7 years of famine I believe parallel the 2 halves of the 70th week.

Joseph as a type of Christ is put in charge at the beginning of the 7 years of plenty at the age of 30. Jesus began His ministry at the age of 30. Manasseh was born first, this is the Jewish church. Ephraim was born second, this is the gentile church. It is a time of plenty, miracles were being performed left and right. The power and glory of God were on full display for all to see and witness, both jew and gentile.

Then great persecution arose, the temple was destroyed and there was a splitting of the jew and gentile church. Israel’s eyes were blinded. This is the 7 years of famine. Famine in the Bible typically symbolizes a spiritual famine.

Grain is used to make bread and Jesus is the bread of life. If we want spiritual food we must come to Joseph/Jesus to buy. Salvation is found in no other.

At the beginning of the famine the sons of Israel go to buy food and they did not recognize Joseph/Jesus. He takes away Simeon, meaning “hearing”. After 2 years/2000 years Joseph/Jesus restores Simeon/their hearing and reveals Himself to them. At the end of the 70th week Jesus will restore Israel’s hearing and reveal Himself as their Messiah.

Romans 11:25 For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.

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Peleg, (Part 7)

written by Will Schumacher

Peleg and his son Reu both die at age 239. I interpret that to mean that they are the same or somehow intertwined. When Peleg “dies “ or is taken so is Reu.

This intertwined relationship reminds me of the 4 living creatures and the 24 elders of Revelation. Whatever the 4 living creatures do the 24 elders mimic.

Revelation 5:8 And when he had taken the book, the four beasts and four and twenty elders fell down before the Lamb, having every one of them harps, and golden vials full of odours, which are the prayers of saints.

Revelation 19:4 And the four and twenty elders and the four beasts fell down and worshipped God that sat on the throne, saying, Amen; Alleluia.

The 4 living creatures, I believe, is the Holy Spirit filled Word of God which Peleg is a type of. The 24 elders are the Bride/Church. Thus Reu would be a type of the 24 elders if my theory is correct.

Strong’s H7466 = Reu. This is the first verse in the Bible with a matching gematria of 7466:

2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

Strong’s 4245 =”elders”. It is used for the first time 7466 verses from the end of the Bible (not the 7466th but from the end) matching Reu’s Strong’s number.

Matthew 15:2 Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they wash not their hands when they eat bread.

Peleg is the Holy Spirit filled Word of God that comes from the region beyond (Eber) and makes a new creation in Christ (Reu).

So what I see is at 239 both Peleg and Reu die, meaning that when the Holy Spirit leaves so do we. This begins the fall of Babylon/Mystery Babylon which is concluded with Christ’s return and His completion of judgement.

Strong’s G239 =”alleluia” is only used in chapter 19 of the book of Revelation with the fall of the whore, Mystery Babylon and the return of Christ.

Revelation 19:1 And after these things I heard a great voice of much people in heaven, saying, Alleluia; Salvation, and glory, and honour, and power, unto the Lord our God:

Revelation 19:2 For true and righteous are his judgments: for he hath judged the great whore, which did corrupt the earth with her fornication, and hath avenged the blood of his servants at her hand.

Revelation 19:3 And again they said, Alleluia. And her smoke rose up for ever and ever.

Revelation 19:4 And the four and twenty elders and the four beasts fell down and worshipped God that sat on the throne, saying, Amen; Alleluia.

Revelation 19:5 And a voice came out of the throne, saying, Praise our God, all ye his servants, and ye that fear him, both small and great.

Revelation 19:6 And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thunderings, saying, Alleluia: for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth.

In Chapter 239 of the Bible God calls Samuel and reveals that He will judge the House of Eli the high priest of Israel, because his sons were evil. They are a type of the religious whore, Mystery Babylon.

1 Samuel 3:13 For I have told him that I will judge his house for ever for the iniquity which he knoweth; because his sons made themselves vile, and he restrained them not.

Peleg is tied to the Word of God which is sweet and bitter. It is bitter to the sinful/Mystery Babylon, but sweet to the Bride of Christ who is taken before the wrath of God comes on the sinful.

So if my theory is correct on Peleg and Reu I had wondered about the verse jump to 2 Thessalonians 2:7 that seems to indicate that something will be taken out of the way and when the wicked or lawless ones will be revealed.

2 Thessalonians 2:7 For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.

2 Thessalonians 2:8 And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:

The verse jump from the only mention of Peleg in the NT to 2 Thess 2:7 is 4608 (29669 - 25061 = 4608).

Strong’s G4608 =”strong drink” is used one time in the NT.

Luke 1:15 For he shall be great in the sight of the Lord, and shall drink neither wine nor strong drink; and he shall be filled with the Holy Ghost, even from his mother's womb.

The above verse is about John the Baptist filled with the Spirit. He is the forerunner to the first coming of Christ. The Church filled with the Spirit is the forerunner to the second coming of Christ. The Holy Spirit is commonly used in reference to wine and strong drink. The Spirit is a power that overtakes you just like wine and strong drink. Strong’s G4608 is derived from Strong’s H7941 meaning “strong drink”.

This verse begins Acts 2 and the coming of the Spirit on Pentecost which is tied to the fall of Babel which I explained in post 3.

Acts 2:1 And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place.

I find that fascinating. I believe the rapture/resurrection also happens on Pentecost.

Strong’s 7943 is also part of the same root verb group of Strong’s H7941. This resurrection/rapture verse has a gematria of 7943:

1 Corinthians 15:52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.

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Peleg, (Part 6)

written by Will Schumacher

Peleg is tied to the Cherubim through the number 239. Recall from my first 2 posts that the cherubim guard the Tree of Life which has a gematria of 239 the first time it is used. Verse 239 from the end of the Bible dealt with the little book that tastes like honey but is bitter to the mouth. This is a reference to Ezekiel who is shown the cherubim and then is given a scroll to eat that tastes like honey but is bitter to the mouth.

The haftarah reading on the first day of Pentecost is Ezekiel 1 which again is a revealing of the cherubim to Ezekiel. The giving of the Spirit on Pentecost and the divided tongues of fire parallels the dividing of the tongues at Babel which is tied to Peleg dying at 239. The Cherubim is the Holy Spirit filled Word of God living and active just as the Word of God is (Hebrews 4:12). Peleg is tied to the Holy Spirit and the Word of God also.

Back in 2014 there was a plane that tragically disappeared with 239 on board. The serial number of the plane was 28420.

This is verse 28420 of the Bible:

1 Corinthians 3:9 For we are labourers together with God: ye are God's husbandry, ye are God's building.

The above verse is 3359 verses after the only mention of Peleg in the New Testament.

Strong’s G3359 = forehead.

Revelation 7:3 Saying, Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads.

The sealing of the servants in their foreheads is another way of saying we have been sealed by the Holy Spirit which began at Pentecost which the Bible parallels to the separating of tongues at Babel which happened when Peleg died.

SO, to me I always felt verse 28420 is somehow tied to Peleg. Here is another confirmation:

Verse 28420 is verse 2683 from the end of the Bible.

Strong’s G2683 is only used 1 time in the NT with the only time Strong’s G5502 =”cherubim” is used in the NT:

Hebrews 9:5 And over it the cherubims of glory shadowing the mercyseat; of which we cannot now speak particularly.

The verse jump from the only mention of Peleg to the only mention of the cherubim in the NT is 5050 (30111 - 25061).

Strong’s H5050 =”shine” or “lighten”

It is used for the first time in this verse. This is a form of Hebrew poetry restating the same thing twice:

2 Samuel 22:29 For thou art my lamp, O Lord: and the Lord will lighten my darkness.

The gematria of the above verse is 1130. Peleg’s gematria is 113.

The Word of God is also a lamp.

Psa 119:105 Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.

Verse 5050 from the end of the Bible is also about Light. Jesus is the Light:

John 1:8 He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light.

Jesus is the Light of the World as the Word of God.

John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

Peleg is Strong’s G5317. If you were to see the Bible as a continual circle (the Jewish people do. They read the torah in a continual cycle/circle) and add 5317 inclusive verses to John 1:1 you get the first mention of Peleg in the Bible:

Genesis 10:25 And unto Eber were born two sons: the name of one was Peleg; for in his days was the earth divided; and his brother's name was Joktan.

John 1:1 in which Jesus is called the Word has a gematria of 3627.

Strong’s H3627 =”jewels”, the first time it is used in the Bible:

Genesis 24:53 And the servant brought forth jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment, and gave them to Rebekah: he gave also to her brother and to her mother precious things.

This is of course about the servant/Holy Spirit giving Rebekah/the bride “jewels” of silver and gold. Silver and gold are compared to the Word of God repeatedly in the Bible.

Psalm 19:10 More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb. (Peleg verse, verse 239, Strong’s H5317 = honeycomb)

Psa 119:72 The law of thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of gold and silver.

Proverbs 3:14 For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold.

I believe the “jewels” of silver and gold the Holy Spirit gives the bride is the Word of God/wisdom/redemption/eternal life/ all that is contained within it.

The gematria of Genesis 24:53 is 2501. This is verse 2501 with a gematria of 5317 matching Peleg’s NT Strong’s number:

Exodus 34:4 And he hewed two tables of stone like unto the first; and Moses rose up early in the morning, and went up unto mount Sinai, as the Lord had commanded him, and took in his hand the two tables of stone

The first commandments were written on tables of stone. Our hearts are like stone without the Spirit. The Spirit came to write the Word of God on our new hearts:

Ezekiel 36:26 A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.

2 Corinthians 3:3 Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.

This is the last verse with a gematria of 2501. Ezekiel sees the cherubim and is given a roll to eat that is sweet as honey but bitter to the stomach and then God tells him He is sending Ezekiel to Israel and his forehead will be like flint. He is to receive the Word of God in his heart:

Ezekiel 3:10 Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, all my words that I shall speak unto thee receive in thine heart, and hear with thine ears.

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Peleg, Part (5)

written by Will Schumacher

The Hebrew language is unique in comparison to our language. Each letter of the Hebrew alphabet has its own meaning and a word’s meaning is seen in the letter’s meanings. For instance the word for father in Hebrew is spelled aleph-beit. The letter aleph means “strength” and the letter beit means “house”. The father is the strength of the house.

Peleg is spelled peh-lamed-gimmel. The letter peh means “mouth”. The letter lamed means “ to teach” or “authority”. The letter gimmel means “reward” or “recompence”. When you put each letter’s meaning together you have the mouth of authority rewarding for good and bad.

Peleg is associated with the Word of God which is the mouth of God and the authority of God telling you of the benefits of trusting in God and curses of disobeying God. It is sweet and bitter. The Word of God is seen in the meaning of the Hebrew letters making up the name Peleg.

Peleg dies at age 239. This is a Peleg number. It is also associated with the fall of Babel. Strong’s G239 =”alleluia” is only used in chapter 19 of the book of Revelation with the fall of the whore, Mystery Babylon and the return of Christ.

Revelation 19:1 And after these things I heard a great voice of much people in heaven, saying, Alleluia; Salvation, and glory, and honour, and power, unto the Lord our God:

Revelation 19:2 For true and righteous are his judgments: for he hath judged the great whore, which did corrupt the earth with her fornication, and hath avenged the blood of his servants at her hand.

Revelation 19:3 And again they said, Alleluia. And her smoke rose up for ever and ever.

Revelation 19:4 And the four and twenty elders and the four beasts fell down and worshipped God that sat on the throne, saying, Amen; Alleluia.

Revelation 19:5 And a voice came out of the throne, saying, Praise our God, all ye his servants, and ye that fear him, both small and great.

Revelation 19:6 And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thunderings, saying, Alleluia: for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth.

How does the Bible say Jesus is returning? He is called the Word of God and He has a sword in His mouth which we know is the Word of God.

Revelation 19:13 And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and His name is called The Word of God.

Revelation 19:15 And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.

Ephesians 6:17 And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:

So in Revelation 19 and the only use of Strong’s G239 we can also see the meaning of the name Peleg. In the mouth (Peh) of Jesus the ruler (Lamed) is the Word of God bringing righteous judgement on the nations (Gimmel).

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Peleg, Part (4)

written by Will Schumacher

Peleg is tied to the Word of God.

This is verse 239 of the Psalms about the Word of God. There are 3 hits to this verse dealing with Peleg numbers.

Psalm 19:10 More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.

The Word of God and wisdom are synonymous with each other in the Bible . Jesus is called the Word of God and He is called the wisdom of God.

This is verse 239 of Proverbs. It is about wisdom which again is synonymous with the Word of God:

Proverbs 9:1 Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars:

The gematria of the above verse is 1965 matching this verse using the root verb of Peleg meaning “to divide”. Recall also when Peleg died Babel’s tongues were divided.

Psalm 55:9 Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongues: for I have seen violence and strife in the city.

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Peleg, Part (3)

written by Will Schumacher

I have done 2 previous posts on Peleg. He seems to be a picture of the Word of God and part of me believes more specifically the living, breathing Word of God filled with the Holy Spirit. From post 2 the number 239 is used in close proximity to the cherubim/4 living creatures in Genesis and Ezekiel.

Peleg is highlighted in the Bible since he and his son die at the same age of 239. When he dies at 239 the Tower of Babel falls. He would seem to be a type of what “dies” or “ends” at the end of this age that coincides with the fall of end times Babylon.

Many people have seen a link between the story of the Tower of Babel and Acts 2 Pentecost. In the story Babel in Genesis 11 God descended, the tongues were divided (the meaning of Peleg), and the languages were confused. At Pentecost the Holy Spirit descended and divided (Peleg) tongues of fire rested on the people and the people were able to speak in other languages so everyone could understand. At Babel an earthly kingdom was divided. At Pentecost the spiritual kingdom of God was begun.

So you can see through the relationship of these two stories that Peleg has some type of relationship to the Holy Spirit.

Pentecost is the covenant/marriage feast. Pentecost is historically when God made a covenant with Israel at Mt Sinai and Israel said “I do”. He gave His bride the Law and God is said to have taken His bride that day. In the NT in Acts 2, God sent the Holy Spirit to get His covenant bride and write the law on her heart.

Jeremiah 31: 31-33 Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah: 32 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the Lord: 33 But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the Lord, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.

The Bible, the Word of God, is God’s message to His bride, it is His covenant.

The first time Peleg is mentioned in scripture in Genesis 10:25 the running verse total gematria to his name is 1285.

Genesis 10:25 And unto Eber were born two sons: the name of one was Peleg; for in his days was the earth divided; and his brother's name was Joktan.

You can see it here if you like:

The Bible Wheel

Full Text Hebrew/Greek Bible Gematria Database

Strong’s H1285 = covenant.

The Hebrew word for covenant has its root in the idea of cutting or dividing a piece of meat or animal in two and walking between them saying “If I break my agreement with you may I become like this divided animal.” Its meaning is similar to the meaning of Peleg.

When God made the covenant at Mt Sinai with Israel it was a 2 way covenant. Israel agreed to follow the law and its curses and blessings. The new covenant God has made with us is a one way covenant much like Genesis 15. God alone went through the divided pieces. There is nothing we can do to earn our salvation.

Genesis 15:17 And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold a smoking furnace, and a burning lamp that passed between those pieces.

This “burning lamp” is the Holy Spirit, just like God said in Jeremiah 31 that He would send His Spirit to live within us and write the law/His Word on our hearts in the new covenant.

Peleg is the 15th generation. Genesis 15 is the 15th chapter of the Bible. The 15th book of the Bible is Ezra. Ezra means “to help” or “to support”. The work of the Holy Spirit is to help and support us. The 15th letter of the Hebrew alphabet is Samekh. It means to uphold or support. This is all tied together numerically.

Strong’s H5564 =”samekh”, the word, meaning “to support”.

There are 2 verses in the Bible with a gematria of 5564. The second verse with that gematria is verse 3056. Strong’s G3056 =”Word” as in the “Word of God”.

5564 = 26 x 214. 26 is the well known gematria of “Jehovah”, the “yod-hey-vav-hey” in Hebrew. 214 is the gematria of “Spirit”. So you have 5564 = “Jehovah” x “Spirit”.

This is just so fascinating, Praise God.

Strong’s H5664 is used many times about the priest laying his hands on the animal sacrifice. Jesus is the Lamb of God who provided the sacrifice for the Genesis 15 type unilateral covenant God made with us.

The gematria of Strong’s H5664 = the word Samekh is 120. The letter Samekh is the 15th letter. The 15th triangular number is 120. The number of disciples in Acts 1 verse 15 (yes 15) is 120. They were waiting for the promised Spirit that came at Pentecost in Acts 2. There is debate on whether or not the Spirit fell on all 120.

Acts 1:15. And in those days Peter stood up in the midst of the disciples, and said, (the number of names together were about an hundred and twenty,)

Numerically this all ties together between Peleg, the Holy Spirit, the covenant, and the Word.

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Peleg, Part (2)

written by Will Schumacher

Per my prior post Peleg seems to be a type of the Word of God. There are two hits and a verse jump from Peleg in the NT that tie to Psalm 19:10 speaking of the Word of God as honey.

Psalm 19:10 More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.

I actually used this verse when I posted on the cherubim and the Spirit-filled Word of God. Hebrews 4:12 , which I used as the verse jump in my last post, was also the verse that led me to start thinking about the cherubim who are called living beings, being the living, breathing, Holy Spirit filled Word of God.

Further when posting on the cherubim and the Spirit filled Word of God I stated the gematria of “Let there be light” and “the word of the Lord” are 232.

Verse 232 from the end of the Bible is about a “little” book that will be like honey. This is the “word of the Lord”.

Revelation 10:9 And I went unto the angel, and said unto him, Give me the little book. And he said unto me, Take it, and eat it up; and it shall make thy belly bitter, but it shall be in thy mouth sweet as honey.

Notice what is verse 239th verse from the end of the Bible, the introduction of the little book that we see in verse 232 from the end tasting like honey.

Revelation 10:2 And he had in his hand a little book open: and he set his right foot upon the sea, and his left foot on the earth,

This little open book that tastes like honey but is bitter to the mouth should make one think about Ezekiel chapters 1-3.

In Ezekiel 1 we see among other things the four living beings/Cherubim/Living, breathing Word of God. In Chapter 2 Ezekiel is given a book containing lamentations, warning and woe. In chapter 3 Ezekiel eats it and it is sweet as honey but bitter to the mouth.

God’s word is both sweet and bitter. The blessings of the Word are sweet. The curses of the Word are bitter.

So verse 239 from the end of the Bible ties back to Ezekiel and the sweetness/ bitterness of the Word of God and a deeper introduction to the Cherubim.

We meet the Cherubim for the first time in Genesis guarding the Tree of Life.

Genesis 3:24 So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the Tree of Life.

The first time in the Bible that “the tree of life” is used it has a gematria of 239. Peleg and his son both die at 239.

Genesis 2:9 And out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

God’s Word is also called a tree of life in Proverbs.

Proverbs 3:18 She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is every one that retaineth her.

Verse 239 of the Bible is interesting in relation to the Word of God:

Genesis 10:4 And the sons of Javan; Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.

Javan is the Hebrew name for Greece. Greece with Alexander the Great had conquered the known world in its time and translated the Hebrew Old Testament writings of the time into Greek called the Septuagint. Greek was also the language the NT was written in and facilitated its spread across the world.

Peleg and the Word of God have a sweetness and bitter to them. Peleg is tied to the salvation of the righteous, but also the fall of Babel/ Babylon. The same is true for Greece. It greatly aided the spread of the Gospel and the ability to read the OT writings of the day, but the Greek culture also had a negative influence, the Hellenization of the Jewish people or the culture of the world influencing negatively the peoples’ love for God.

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Peleg, Part (1)

Written by Will Schumacher

God has told the end from the beginning per Isaiah 46:10.

The Genesis 5/Adam lineage includes 10 patriarchs and ends with the 10th generation Noah and his story. However, special attention is paid to Enoch. Instead of just saying who they fathered and how long they lived, Enoch is said to have walked with God and was taken. He is singled out by the author of the Bible , the Holy Spirit, for a reason. Enoch means “to train up” or “to dedicate”. He is a type of the Church trained up and dedicated to God “taken” or “raptured” at the end of the age per 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17.

The Genesis 10-11/Shem lineage is also 10 generations and ends with Abram and his story, just as the Gen 5/Adam lineage did with Noah. There is also one person singled out in the Genesis 10-11/Shem lineage just like Enoch was in Genesis 5. It is Peleg.

Genesis 10:25 And unto Eber were born two sons: the name of one was Peleg; for in his days was the earth divided; and his brother's name was Joktan.

Genesis 6-9 tells of Noah and his story. Gen 10 is the “table of nations” as my Bible calls it. It contains the verse that in the days of Peleg the earth was divided. Genesis 11 then begins with the story of the tower of Babel and then goes into the Genesis 11 lineage.

Peleg is not only highlighted by the fact that in his days the earth was divided but he and his son Reu both live to the exact age of 239. They are the only father and son to die at the same age. Further the completion of the Gen 11 lineage is Abram who is born 239 years before Peleg’s father Eber dies. It seems the Holy Spirit is highlighting the number 239, Peleg, and the dividing of the earth.

Rashi wrote that the destruction of Babel happened in the year Peleg died. Recall from previous posts on Peleg that Strong’s G239 =”alleluia”. It is used 4 times, all in Revelation 19 about the judgement of the whore Babylon before the return of Christ.

Peleg means “to divide”.

Strong’s H6389=Peleg

There are 3 verses in the Bible with a gematria of 6389 matching Peleg’s Strong’s number.

Joshua 24:7 And when they cried unto the Lord, he put darkness between you and the Egyptians, and brought the sea upon them, and covered them; and your eyes have seen what I have done in Egypt: and ye dwelt in the wilderness a long season.

2 Kings 23:6 And he brought out the grove from the house of the Lord, without Jerusalem, unto the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and stamped it small to powder, and cast the powder thereof upon the graves of the children of the people.

2 Chronicles 26:6 And he went forth and warred against the Philistines, and brake down the wall of Gath, and the wall of Jabneh, and the wall of Ashdod, and built cities about Ashdod, and among the Philistines.

In all 3 verses there is a clear pronouncement of judgement on the wicked. If you read each verse in context there is also clearly a leader led by God and walking with Him.

Joshua as a type of Christ was leading Israel in the promised land and was guiding Israel in renewing the covenant with God. Josiah brought out the book of the Lord and read it and made a covenant with Him to follow the Lord and His ways in 2 Kings 23. Uzzaiah did “right”in the eyes of the Lord and as long as he “sought” God, God made him prosper in 2 Chronicles 26.

In the New Testament Strong’s G5317=Peleg.

There are 2 verses in the Bible with a matching gematria of 5317:

Exodus 34:4 And he hewed two tables of stone like unto the first; and Moses rose up early in the morning, and went up unto mount Sinai, as the Lord had commanded him, and took in his hand the two tables of stone

Ezekiel 6:11 Thus saith the Lord God; Smite with thine hand, and stamp with thy foot, and say, Alas for all the evil abominations of the house of Israel! for they shall fall by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence.

The first verse in Exodus 34 is about the 2 tables of stone or the 10 commandments. The 10 commandments are a “summary” of all of God’s Law, love God and love your neighbour. The Law also contains the idea that following them you will be blessed and not following them you will be cursed. The curses are the sword, famine, and pestilence as the second verse Ezekiel 6 states:

So within all 5 of these verses tied to Peleg’s numbers is the idea of judgement of the wicked according to the law and blessings on the righteous who follow the Law. We know now that Christ has come that God sees those of us covered by Jesus’ blood as righteous based on what He has done not on our ability to follow the law. Praise God!

So the question is who or what is Peleg? What I mean by that is in the Genesis 5 lineage we can clearly see what Jared to Enoch to Methuselah clearly symbolize and who they type. Jared means “to descend”. Enoch means “to train up” or “dedicate”. Methuselah means “man sent out”. You have a descending to training up to sending out. Jesus and the Holy Spirit descended to train up/build a Church/acquire a bride and then sent the Church out into the world to be missionaries.

Just as the lineage of Genesis 5 tells the gospel story more than likely so does the lineage of Genesis 11 and Shem-meaning “name”. God is called HaShem, The Name.

Shelah means “sent”. It is the same root that is part of the name of Methuselah.

I have written quite a bit about Eber meaning “the region beyond”.

Peleg is the son of Eber and means “to divide” or something that divides.

No one knows the meaning of Arpachshad, the son of Shem and the father of Shelah.

Therefore, you have The Name (Shem) bringing forth Arpachshad (?) bringing forth someone sent (shelah) from the region beyond (Eber) to divide or that divides (Peleg).

So what divides that is sent from the region beyond by God?

As I stated earlier there are 5 verses tied to Peleg’s Strong’s numbers that are all tied to judgement of the wicked but also the righteous one walking with God saved.

There is no Strong’s Greek number 6389 matching the Hebrew. There is a Strong’s Hebrew matching the Greek though. Strong’s H5317 = honeycomb.

It is used for the first time about God’s Word. It is sweet like honey.

Psalm 19:10 More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.

This is the 239th verse of Psalms. That is 2 Peleg number hits on 1 verse.

There is a verse in the NT that speaks of God’s Word dividing, the meaning of Peleg. This verse actually started me on my journey of looking at the Cherubim which I believe is God’s Spirit empowered Word.

Hebrews 4:12 For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

Hebrews 4:12 is verse 30027. Peleg has only one mention in the NT at verse 25061. The verse jump is 30027-25061 =4966.

Strong’s H4966 = sweeter. It is used in Psalm 19:10, the verse tied to Peleg 2 times already.

Psalm 19:10 More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.

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The Church "Beheaded" for Christ

written by Will Schumacher

John the Baptist was filled with the Holy Spirit as the forerunner to the first coming of Jesus and the Church filled with the Spirit is the forerunner to the second coming of Christ. John the Baptist is a type of the Spirit filled Church.

In Mark 6 Jesus sends out His disciples and right in the middle of the story of sending them out, the Holy Spirit has Mark tell the story of John the Baptist beheaded. This is to show the connection of the Church losing its life in obedience to being a disciple of Christ while sent out on mission to the world around us. This “losing of life” not only means our life is now Christ’s to use as He pleases but also that we will sometimes actually be killed for what we believe.

Matthew 10:38-39 And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me. 39 He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it.

The first time John is mentioned as beheaded is in verse 23608:

Matthew 14:10 And he sent, and beheaded John in the prison.

The Church, who is resurrected in Revelation 20, is said to have been “beheaded” for Christ. Again the Spirit is equating John the Baptist and the giving of his life with the Church who must give up their life.

Revelation 20:4-5 And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years. 5 But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.

Revelation 20:4 mentioning the Church “beheaded” is verse 31043.

The verse jump from John the Baptist first mentioned as beheaded and the Church “beheaded” is 7435. The first verse in the Bible with a gematria of 7435 is a perfect match to the concept of the Church giving up its life and following Jesus:

Daniel 3:27 And the princes, governors, and captains, and the king's counsellors, being gathered together, saw these men, upon whose bodies the fire had no power, nor was an hair of their head singed, neither were their coats changed, nor the smell of fire had passed on them

It is the story of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego. They did not bow down and serve the king of Babylon and were thrown into a fiery furnace heated 7 times. One like the Son of God is seen walking with them. This is Jesus. Not a hair of their head perished and their garments aren’t changed.

In Luke 21 Jesus tells his disciples some of the terrible things that will happen to the Church in the future and says.

Luke 21:16 And ye shall be betrayed both by parents, and brethren, and kinsfolks, and friends; and some of you shall they cause to be put to death.

Luke 21:17 And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake.

Luke 21:18 But there shall not an hair of your head perish.

This directly correlates the tribulation of the Church to the fiery furnace of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. Not one hair of the Church’s head will perish just as not one hair of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego’s hair perished. Jesus was with them just as Jesus is walking with the church. Yes sometimes there are people who are killed for their beliefs but their eternal reward does not perish, this life is just the pregame warmup to eternity.

Coming out of the tribulation with their coats not changed refers to the Church coming out of the Great Tribulation with their coats still white. This “great tribulation” is the Church age.

Revelation 7:14 And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they which came out of Great Tribulation , and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

While Rebekah is the virgin bride, our position in Christ, Rachel is the bride that goes through this life and its tribulation and sanctification. Rachel is first mentioned in verse 802. I have posted in the past how Rachel is strongly tied to Revelation 7:14.

Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego’s real names are: Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah.

They are first named in Daniel 1:6 and their gematrias add up to 802, matching the first mention of Rachel who is the bride that goes through great tribulation.

Daniel 1:6 Now among these were of the children of Judah, Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah:

The in-text gematria of Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah is 802 (123 + 381 + 298).

The names Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego have a combined gematria of 1029 (524 + 370 +135).

Verse 1029 is about Rachel going into hard labour/ tribulation:

Genesis 35:17 And it came to pass, when she was in hard labour, that the midwife said unto her, Fear not; thou shalt have this son also.

Recall the verse jump from Matthew 14:10 to Revelation 20:4 is 7435.

Strong’s H7435= ”Ramathite” or an inhabitant of Ramah.

The only mention of Rachel in the NT is where Rachel is weeping at Ramah:

Matthew 2:18 In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation, and weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not.