Satan's number or the Lord's

According to the evangelists, the Satan is a straw man. Despite the fascination with 666, none of the gospel writers arrange this number to be attached to this title. On the contrary, Matthew makes "LORD" his book word 666 and Luke awards "Elizabeth" with this distinction. This is by design and easily demonstrated with a simple example: the Rabbi calls his friend Lazarus by name (book word 8880) and the "feet" of Lazarus is book word 8888 at John 11:44. The Greek letter numerical value of the six-letter "Jesus" is 888.

That ancient knowledge is the key to unravelling the mysteries of writing biblical narratives. At the end of the nineteenth century, the brilliant Ivan Panin began defining the numerically-based structure of the Greek Testament that is more accurate than our twenty-first century versions. My working copy for this blog is the one that works as it was meant to work by the men who wrote the books that were accepted into the canon.

Resisting the book of Revelation as being too easy to unravel, I was rewarded when I began reverse-engineering my fourth book, the one published as the first of the twenty-six other Greek books (three are actually paragraphs). Following thirty-nine Hebrew books, astute readers may notice a definite pattern of thirteens in the Bible of the Protestants (the first Catholic version was published in 1966).

Having been raised in the Roman religion, it is revealing that my late father's preferred version (Jerusalem) was only available since 1966. Even more personally rewarding is realizing that the most mystical number is nicely displayed in the Catechism of the Catholic Church. Part One, Article 6, is six paragraphs. The summation is three and the middle one is paragraph 666, and I quote only from the first seven words: "Jesus Christ, the head, the church." Just as books are bound with its covers by the spine, Revelation 13:18 is bookended with Matthew 2:13 ("LORD"). Not so mysterious as we imagine it.

In the book of John, "Satan" is used once, but so is the "robber" Bar-Abbas (Aramaic: son of father) and his name is book word 13644 (18:40). Andrew does better as 688 (1:44); Nicodemus is 5688 (7:50); Caesar is 13880 (19:12) and the last use of Mariam (the Magdalene) is book word 14788 (20:18). Continuing the thread of fours and eights, consider that the word "Lord" is used 44 times and twice the Rabbi's name numbers as book words 3988 (6:22) and 7488 (9:41). Twice the title "Christ" merits placement as book word 288 (1:20) and 5388 (7:31). Special mention must be made of hidden numbers, as in this example, three eights are expressed by four figures.

Characters tend to be associated with particular numbers. Three examples are Thomas the doubter, Peter the denier, and Pilate the Roman governor. Thomas is 14966 (20:26); Peter is 13166 (18:17), 13360 (18:27) and his given name Simon is book word 14566 (20:6). Pilate is used 20 times and the fifth is the fifth word of the verse and book word 13555 (18:37), the 12th time it is 13855 (19:12) and even 14055 (19:22). Two honorable mentions are the high priest Caiaphas: used five times, the last is book word 13370 (18:28); and the sister of Lazarus, Martha: used nine times, 8550 (11:24) and last as 9177 (12:2).

There are two men named Judas (the other is at 14:22). The traitor is described in a generic construction by a verb with the definite article such as in 6:64 ("the [one] betraying | ὁ παραδώσων"). That Greek letter "the" is book word 4777 and 66th of these constructions. The name is used the last time as book word 12955 (18:5).

As is demonstrated by these examples, it is not a lack of skill of the evangelists that "Satan" (Hebrew meaning adversary) fails to inspire any significant numbers. If anything, it seems to show that what may be associated with a hierarchy will be accorded significant numbers. Luke signifies Elizabeth's importance as mother of the proclaimer (666 at 1:41) and Matthew affirms that by placing a title identifying her nephew, Rabbi Jesus ("LORD"), as book word 666 at 2:13.

"Serpent" appears 13 times in the original books. John uses it once in the mouth of the Rabbi as the sixth word (3:14) and, significantly, book word 1499 and talk word 66. There's no doubt about John's knowledge that even though "thorns" is also used once it receives great distinction as book word 13666 (19:2). All evangelists deny the Adversary a solitary double-number but one of them is so adamant about triple-six that he bestows it upon "LORD" (Matthew 2:13).

"Satan" has been sold as satanic but according to the numbers, pathetic is a more apt descriptor.