March 27, 2025 • 35 mins
The Elton Anomaly. Is this the very fingerprint of God? An ancient mathematical pattern impossible to create without divine guidance? Finally, through modern technology, this Earth-shattering evidence could be the most compelling proof of divine authorship ever found—a revelation that will challenge believers and skeptics alike. New Christian Bible mysteries revealed.
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Strange mysteries, unexplained phenomena.
And the shadows in between.
This is the in-between official podcastwith your host,
Carolyn.
October, 2023.
A researcher opens his inbox to a messagefrom South Africa.
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Its subject line stops his heart.
What follows?
Sleepless nightchasing a truth too vast to fathom.
Welcome to The InBetween.
I'm Carol Ann, and todaywe expose a mathematical impossibility
that shattersthe divide between faith and science
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forever.
The number seven.
It echoes through the worldlike a heartbeat.
Seven colors of the rainbow.
Seven musical notes.
Seven seas and continents.
It transcends culture and religion.
Islam’s seven heavens.
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Hinduism’s seven chakras.
Buddhism’s seven steps of Buddha.
Our seven day workweekhas no astronomical basis,
yet dominates global timekeeping,
stemmingfrom the Judeo-Christian creation story.
And the Bible?
It's dripping with sevens,from Noah's seven pairs of clean animals
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to Revelation’sseven churches, seals, trumpets and bowls.
From Genesis to Revelation,the Bible doesn't just feature seven.
It resonates with it.
You may have heard some of these patternsbefore, and some of them might be new.
But either way, I'm pretty surewhat I'm about to show
you is going to blow your mind.
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Or at least make you think twice.
All right, let's warm up in the shallow
end of the poolbefore we head into deeper waters.
The only book titles in the entire Biblethat contain exactly
seven words are Genesis (”TheFirst Book of Moses Called Genesis”) and
Revelation (”The Revelation of St.
John the Divine”).
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The first book and the last book.
Seven words each.
In Revelation 1:8, Jesus declares,
“I am Alpha and Omega, the beginningand the ending, saith the Lord.”
Alpha and Omega are the firstand last letters of the Greek
alphabet, representing the beginningand the end.
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The first word of Genesis 1:1 is “In”
and the last word of Revelation22:21 is “Amen”.
If you count how many timesthese two words appear in Genesis
and Revelation combined and add them up,they occur
exactly 777 times.
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That's the first and the last books,Genesis and Revelation,
like Alpha and Omega,containing exactly 777
occurrences of the Bible'sfirst and last words.
In fact, just the word Amen,when capitalized, is included 77 times.
And if you take the first and last words
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of both the first and last verse,
so the Alpha and the Omega verses,
you get the wordsin, earth, the, and Amen.
Care to take a
shot at guessing the total countof those four words?
77,777. So.
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Okay, Carol Ann.
One lucky number. Big deal.
Oh, honey, I am just getting started.
What about the entirefirst and last verses?
1:1 reads, “In the beginning,God created the heavens and the earth”.
Revelation 22:21, the last verse
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reads, “The grace of our Lord Jesus Christbe with you all.
Amen.”If you count the letters in each verse,
both have exactly 44 letters.
Okay, But let's break it downeven further.
Genesis 1:1 has 17vowels and 27 consonants.
Revelation 22:21
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has 17 vowels and 27 consonants.
The exact same distribution.
If 17 and 27 seem like random numbers,they might be.
But just be aware that the Great Floodstarted on the 17th day of the month
and ended on the 27th day of the month.
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The odds of this happeningby chance are pretty dang slim.
And there's more.
The seventh wordfrom the beginning of the Bible is heaven.
The seventh wordfrom the end of the Bible is Jesus.
If you count all mentions of heavenand Jesus in the Bible,
they total exactly 1554 or 777
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plus 777.
Feeling warmed up yet?
I hope so,because we are about to go even deeper.
Let's talk about Jesus.
Did you know thatJesus was the 77th generation from God?
And the first timehis name is mentioned in the entire Bible,
by word count, is 77% of the way through?
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If you count all the appearancesof the name Jesus in the Bible,
removing the few instances where it'sreferring to someone else, like Joshua
or Jesus Justus - just the dude himself -
the total comes to exactly 980.
That's 70 x 7 plus 70 x 7.
And for those big Bible fans followingalong, that number might sound familiar.
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In Matthew 18:22, when Peter asks
Jesus how many timeshe should forgive someone, Jesus answers,
“I say not unto thee until seven times,
but until 70 timesseven completion times completion.
Endless forgiveness 70 x 7.”
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The equationJesus gives for complete forgiveness,
70 x 7, is a factor of how many timeshis own name appears in the Bible.
Now, I hope you have your waders onfor this one,
because this not only blows my mind,but also is where the idea
that this could berandom starts to fall apart for me.
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The 980 mentions of Jesus are perfectlybalanced between even and odd
numbered books of the New Testament,490 times in odd-numbered books
like Matthew, Luke, acts, etc.,
and 490 times in even-number of books.
Mark, John. Romans, etc..
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Sounds reasonable right?
Half and half distribution.
Except the odd and even booksare not evenly distributed.
The odd books have way more chapters,verses, and total word count.
If you look at various word countsfrom both sets,
the odd books outweigh the evens by a lot.
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Every time except this one word,
Jesus, that is perfectly balancedbetween the two.
And if you count all mentionsof Jesus and Christ together,
you get exactly 1554 or 777 + 777.
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Okay.
So let's look at mentions of the wordFather.
Just those referring to God,not regular dads.
If you do that, you'll find there areexactly 259 mentions in the entire Bible.
259 equals 7 x 37.
Now hold on to that equation for a minute.
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The seventh verse mentioning Father
in the New Testament is Matthew 6:6.
And the Father mentioned in that verse
is located at exactly word number
613,571 of the Bible.
When you break down that number, 613,571,
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that equals 7 x 37
x 2369.
We’re going deeper.
What's that word.
#2369?
It's the first mention of Fatherin the Bible,
which occurs in Isaiah 9:6,where it refers
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to the Messiah as “theeverlasting Father”.
At this point,if your eyebrows aren't raised
just a bit, check your pulse.
But stick with me, because we're about
to tumble deeper into this rabbit hole.
Let's talk about the Bible'smain characters, Moses and Jesus Christ.
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The two people who are the essenceof the Old and New Testaments.
We already know that Jesus’s name appears980 times.
Moses, the guy with the stone tabletswho parted
the Red Sea, appears 847 times.
Christ shows up 555 times.
On their own, these numbers might not makeyou spill your coffee.
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But add them up and you get exactly 2401.
That's
7 x 7 x 7 x 7 or 7 to the fourth power.
Combining Jesus, Christ, God and Father,
you get exactly 5929
mentions - 77 x 77.
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In the Gospelsalone, Jesus and Christ appear
343 times, exactly 7 x 7 x 7.
The name Jesus Christ is mentioned196 times.
That is a 7 x 7 x 7 triangle of sevens.
But it's not just the numbers.
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Yes, given a big enough sample sizeand wide enough
parameters,you can find some pretty fun patterns.
But it's also how the numbers pointdirectly to the structure.
Like John 1:17,
which says, “Forthe law was given by Moses,
but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.”
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This verse is pivotal because it contrast
the old covenant of law of Moses
with the new covenant of gracein Jesus Christ.
And in this verse, Moses
is the 777th mentionof Moses in the Bible.
How do you like them, man?
Even wilder, it'salso the exact middle mention
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of, Moses, Jesus and Christ appearances.
The 1,201st of that 2,401 totalthat we already talked about.
Think about what that means.
The 777th mention
of Moses, occurs in the exact versethat explains
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how Moses’s law givesway to Christ's grace.
And this mention sits at the precisemathematical center
of all mentions of these three names.
It's like the text is winkingat us, saying, “See what I did there?”
Now, obviouslyso far we've been concentrating
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on the number seven,God's favorite number.
But there are plenty of otherinteresting details
about otherrelatively important numbers as well.
The number four is pretty prominentwith the word
GOD in all caps coming up 308 times.
That's 77 x 4.
And the word God in all forms coming up
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4,444 times.
Four Gospels.
The first and last verseseach having 44 letters.
But again, big data sets
can always come up with fun patterns.
But here's a really fun one.
In the Gospel of John, chapter 21,after Jesus's resurrection,
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seven of Jesus's disciplesdecided to go out fishing
and they don't catch anythingall night long.
Jesus appears to them incognito
and tells them to cast their netsone more time.
They do, and catch exactly 153 fish.
That's weirdly specific.
Glossing overthe fact that the middle number between
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1 and 153 is 77,
if you add up the total number of timesthat the five disciples
that were in the boat whose nameswe know, Peter, Thomas, Nathaniel,
James, and John, are mentionedin all the Gospels,
that equals 153.
If you take those 153 fishand make a pyramid,
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you'll get an equilateral trianglewith 17 fish on each side,
which counts up to a perimeter of 48,which just happens
to be the same number of timesthose five disciples are mentioned in
just the Gospel of John,where the story comes from.
And you know,
And here's another one that pointsto not only numbers, but structure.
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The combined appearances of the word Lord,
capital L, plus Lord in all caps,
plus the word God,capital G, plus God in all caps
throughout the Bible totalsexactly 11,989.
The last mention of Jesus
in the book of Revelation 22:21 is word
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for it...
11,989.
And if you go to Psalm 119:89, so 11,989,
which is verse 21,777 in the Bible,
it reads, “Forever, O Lord,thy word is settled in heaven.”
It's like finding Da Vinci'sfingerprints on the Mona Lisa.
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Except the fingerprint itself is a perfectminiature replica of the painting.
Now, as I've said a couple of times,given a big enough dataset,
you can find all kinds of funky things.
However, at some point, all these patterns
become more than just statistical chance.
At least I think so.
But for sure, there are plenty of peoplewho think otherwise.
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Looking at biblical numerology,there have been some notable figures
who've tried to uncover patterns.
Ivan Panin, initially an agnostic,
devoted 52 years of his lifeto finding more codes
after his first discovery in 1890.
Without computers, he manually produced
43,000 pages documenting numeric patterns.
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His methodology,however, was questionable,
sometimes employing a “closeenough” strategy.
Fast forward to 1994,when we get the Bible codes.
Researchers published findingsin Statistical Science magazine
suggesting biographical informationabout rabbis was encoded
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in Genesis centuries before they lived.
Journalist Michael Drosnin ran with this,writing sensationalized books
about these codes before anyone couldreally dig in and see how it was done.
Drosnin's arrogance led him to throw downthe gauntlet, saying, “When my critics
find a message about the assassinationof a prime minister encrypted in Moby
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Dick, I'll believe them.” Brendan McKay,
an Australian mathematician,says, “Challenge accepted,”
and promptly findsnumerous assassination codes
in Moby Dick, effectivelykicking Drosnin in to the curb.
But here's the key difference.
Panin and Drosninwere trying to read between the lines.
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What we're talking about heretoday is observable
patterns in the actual text itself.
The technology to discover these patterns
simply didn't exist until recent decades.
It's like walking aroundthe Nazca Desert in Peru,
not knowing thatif you flew over the area,
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you could see giant drawingsof hummingbirds,
spiders, and this guy.
If intentionally designed,
these patterns were placed knowing they'dremain hidden for centuries.
A message in a bottle sent forwardthrough time.
Waiting for the right technologyto reveal it.
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And now we're here.
And it looks like somebodyfound the bottle.
And it's a big message.
Enter one Bible researcher named BrandonPeterson.
He's just a regular guy who startedlooking into some of the number patterns
in Hebrew and Greek texts around 2019,
and in the Bible in English around 2020.
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He got pretty deep into the research, too.
Enough that he started
in a YouTube channelto talk about every thing he was finding.
Brandon'sYouTube community started to grow,
and his viewers startedlooking for patterns on their own.
So in October of 2023 wasn'treally a surprise for him to see an email
in his box about another possible patternfrom a guy named Elton from South Africa.
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It's what was inside the emailthat was the surprise.
An extraordinary claimthat would send Brandon down
the rabbit hole of all rabbit holes.
But the proper response to extraordinaryclaims
is to demand extraordinary evidence.
Brandon needs to verify Elton's claim.
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Now he's able to verify the claimdigitally almost right away.
But he can't know for sure until heverifies it in the physical Bible itself.
Now Brandon is, aboveall, a devout and faithful servant,
but the idea of counting every word onevery page is not high on his fun list.
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So he tries reaching out to CambridgeUniversity to see if they could
provide him a digital copy of the actualprint file they use for publishing.
But, no go.
So, a hand count it is.
For over a month, several hours every day,
he and his wife, Laura, She's a keeper.
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go through a physical Bible
with a clicker counterin one hand and a pencil in the other.
Word by word. Page by page.
Clicking and counting.
To ensure accuracy, they turn to anotherally in the Bible research community,
a software developer named Donna,who created
the Pure Bible Search software.
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Donna turns Elton's Bible text file
into a giant numbered listthat allows Brandon and Laura
to cross-check every 100th wordagainst their physical count.
If they miss count, they go back tothe previous checkpoint and start again.
Not exactly a weekend project.
But in the end,they confirm Elton's discovery.
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Elton had counted not just the wordsof the Bible, but absolutely everything.
Every word on the cover,every chapter number, verse number,
book title, and every single word fromin the beginning to the final.
Amen. And the total count?
Exactly 823,543.
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Sounds like a pretty random number, right?
Well, you'd better set your mug downbefore you spill your coffee,
because 823,543 is precisely7x7x7x7x7x7x7.
Seven
to the seventh power.
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If you're reaching for your calculatorright now, I'll save you the trouble.
That's exactly 823,543.
In a book where seven represents divine
perfection, that's not just a coincidence.
That's a mathematical sledgehammerto the cerebral cortex.
Now, I don't know about you,but right away, my skeptical brain
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says, “Okay, but couldn'tthat just be a coincidence?” Maybe.
But the odds of this happening, by chanceare about the same as you winning
the Powerball,while being struck by lightning, twice,
on your birthday, while being attackedby a shark, in Kansas.
Or maybe someone engineered thisat some point.
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It was written by men after all, right?
Try again.
This Bible's text has been standardized
and hasn't changed for hundreds of years.
Brandon and Laura weren'tcounting a recent digital version
someone could have tweaked.
They were counting a physical Biblewhose text
has remained unchanged for centuries.
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And which Bible would that be?
Therein lies the secret.
All of these patternsonly work out in one particular Bible.
The Cambridge Concord edition of the KingJames Bible,
unchanged since 1769.
The King James Bible has shapedWestern civilization for four centuries.
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It has given us phrases like “thewriting on the wall,”
“a drop in the bucket,” “the blindleading the blind,” “a labor of love,”
“salt of the earth,” and countless others
that have become embedded in our languageand culture.
Billions of copies have been printed,
making it the most widely distributedbook in human history.
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Now I hear you.
Why this version?
Well, the answer to that questionis a superfast biblical genealogy lesson.
A week agoI would have said A Bible is a Bible.
But au contraire, mon frere.
The Bible family treeactually has two different root systems.
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The first takes the Old Testament writingsstraight from Jewish text
written in Hebrewthat originated in Jerusalem.
The Jews have an entire tribe,the Levites, whose sole job
was to preserve that Old Testament history
which they call the Masoretic text.
So that seems like a logical choice.
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But after Jesus was crucified,Christians pretty much got chased
out of Jerusalem and landed in Antioch,where they wrote down
what became the New Testament in Greek,now known as the Textus Receptus.
Makes sense.
The closestyou can get to the original source.
The other line of biblical rootscomes from Alexandria and Rome.
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Alexandria is the historical hoodfor the Gnostics,
who were fairly influential,but not exactly Christians,
and may have had a hand at influencingsome of the transcriptions.
Their Old Testament came from Greek text,which are known to have mistakes
in the translation, and by the timeyou're finished with the New Testament,
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there are 3000 discrepancies
with the Textus Receptusin the four Gospels alone.
Some are just small thingslike spelling or word choices,
but there are also entire verses missing.
So the KingJames Bible comes from the Masoretic
and Textus Receptus line of texts.
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The more boots on the ground versions.
Then it goes through severaldifferent major translations.
How many?
Say it with me. Seven.
The seventh translation, the KingJames Bible, happening in a seven year
period from 1604 to 1611.
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Then it goes throughseven rounds of standardization,
bringing us up to the 1769 versionwe have today.
And for those of you more Bibleliterate than I,
you might recall that Psalm12: 6-7 states,
“The words of the Lord are pure words,
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as silver tried in a furnace of earth,
purified seven times.”
And by the way, we're not even crackingthe nut that is
the 1611 patterns, the yearthe King James Bible was finished.
Like Deuteronomy 16:11
is the 1,611th mention of the wordLord in all caps,
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where he talksabout where his name will be written,
Or that Acts 16:11
is when Paul first stepped foot in Europe,spending the night before on an island
in the shadow of a mountainthat is 1611m high,
and whose path trajectory, setby that verse, points straight to London,
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where the KingJames Bible would later be published.
What's particularly unbelievableabout these patterns
is that they don't all appear at once,when the King James Bible was first
printed in 1611, but as these seven rounds
of tweaking happened,each one making little corrections
and modernizationsin spelling here and there, until 1769,
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when everything comes togetherlike focusing a camera.
Could human beings have engineered this?
Highly unlikely.
We're talking about 47 scholarsworking from different locations from 1604
to 1611, translating from ancient
Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek texts.
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They didn't have computers.
They didn't have calculators.
They didn't even have consistentspelling of English words.
Think about how hard it would be to encodejust one of these patterns.
Say, making sure that Jesus, Moses,and Christ
appeared exactly 2401 times combined.
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You'd need to track every mention
throughout the entire text.
If you found yourself at 2402,
you'd have to find a wayto get rid of one mention.
If you found yourself at 2400,you'd need to add one more mention.
And you'd have to do thatwhile maintaining the integrity
of the text, it's readabilityand its theological accuracy.
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Now multiply that challenge
by dozens of interlocking patterns.
The complexity of that is staggering.
That would be impossibleto do in that time,
especially without computersand text communication.
So what do we left with?
Random chanceseems mathematically impossible.
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Human design seems practically impossible.
And that leaves.
Well, I'll let you connect those dots.
And just to add one more piece of pie
It's only a water thing.
to this smorgasbord,that it's the King James Bible
that is the perfect, pure version of God'sWord.
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Let's talk about somethingcompletely different.
Cross-references.
Cross-references connect versesacross the Bible with similar
meanings or topics,acting like a map to trace ideas.
For example, linking a prophecyin Isaiah to its fulfillment in Matthew.
An easy example of this idea is Psalm23:1.
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“The Lord is my shepherd.
I shall not want.”That verse is cross-referenced to
John 10:11, “I am the good shepherd.
The good shepherd giveth his lifefor the sheep.” In Psalm 23:1,
God is described as a shepherdwho cares for his people.
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John 10:11 connects this to Jesus,
who calls himself the good Shepherd,who protects and dies for his flock.
So, according to Chris Harrison and Pastor
Christoph Römhild on ChrisHarrison.net,
there are 63,779 recognized
cross references in the King James Bible.
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Here is a visualization
of what they look likefrom beginning to end of the Bible.
I don't care who you are,
that is just a stunning visual.
Using any different version of the Biblewith different wording and missing verses
severs lots of these references,
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and references from those references.
The whole colorful balletstarts to break down.
Do you lose them all? No.
But you lose a chunk of them and you losethe complex number patterns as well.
For believers, this offers stunning,
mathematically precise evidencethat God's hand guided
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not just the original text,but their preservation and translation
through history, culminating in the KingJames Bible.
For skeptics,you got a giant puzzle on your hands.
How could a book compiled overthousands of years,
translated through multiple languages,end up
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with such precise mathematical patternsthat can't even be discovered
until 400 yearsafter it was originally printed?
So many numerical patternswoven into the most printed book
in human history, in the most widelyspoken language in human history,
like an invisible watermarkwaiting centuries to be discovered.
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I don't know about you, but finding sevensperfectly embedded at every level,
feels less like a coincidence
and more like somebody signing their work.
Think about it.
What are the odds that a bookassembled across millennia,
written by dozens of authors,translated through multiple languages,
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would containsuch precise mathematical harmony?
That its total wordcount would be exactly 7^7?
That the
words Jesus and Christ together
would appear exactly 777 plus 777 times?
That the first and last wordswould appear exactly
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times?
Not to mention that a)Seven is not a random number.
It's the most biblicallysignificant number.
b) The patterns highlight and connecttextually significant passages.
And c) These patternsinvolve structural elements
that could not have been tweaked laterto create the patterns.
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Of course, some will saythe Bible is a pretty big sandbox
and that given enough search criteria,you can find any pattern.
Maybe that's true.
I mean, it's much easierto get search results
that look significantwhen you have a bigger pool.
If you have a big box of donutsin front of you, and you say, I want a
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raspberry filled donut, your chancesof finding one are much smaller
than if you say,I want any flavor of filled donut.
Which is why the patternswith just one word,
Jesus, are so amazing.
Not only do we have the number of mentionsof Jesus at (70 x 7) + (70 x 7),
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but if you search for just the word Jesuswith the space, so no punctuation
of any kind afterwards, just Jesus,you will find his name
777 times.
At some point, the mathematician in methrows up her hands and says,
okay, I give.
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This isn't random.
This isn't human design.
This is something else entirely.
And maybe that's the point.
In our digital age, where we demand hardevidence and data, perhaps these patterns
are exactly the kind of verificationour analytical minds need.
A divine signature hidden in plain sight,
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waiting for the exact moment in historywhen we'd have the technology to find it.
As it turns out,some things really do get better with age.
And sometimes the truth has beenright there on our bookshelves all along,
patiently waiting for us to count it up.
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If you want to dive deeper into this,
check out Brandon Peterson's YouTubechannel, @TruthIsChrist or his book,
“Sealed by the King,” which documentsthese patterns in much greater detail.
If you go to his website,SealedByTheKing.com,
you can actually download the bookfor free.
or offer a small donation.
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Or buy the physical paperback version,which I recommend.
Seeing everything in print and feelingthe literal weight of this research
just addsan extra level of wow to the whole thing.
Links to both Brandon's websiteand the book's website will be in
the description, as willa link for PureBibleSearch.com
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where you can downloadthe free King James Bible search engine
and see for yourselfthe proof of some of these patterns.
Also, a big thank you to Brandon Petersonfor allowing us
to use all of his wonderful graphicsand information.
If we have managed to lure you down
into the King James Bible rabbit hole,and you want to keep digging.
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Click right here for one of Brandonexcellent videos.
Or if you want to go downa different rabbit hole
in the same garden, click right here.
Be careful out there.
And I will see youhere again, on The InBetween.
Thanksfor tuning in to the In-between podcast.
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Enjoy the full visual experiencewith me over on YouTube.
Just search for at the invite Queen tales.
I'm Carolyn.
And until next time, be careful out
there. You.
Strange mysteries, unexplained phenomena.
And the shadows in between.
This is the in-between official podcastwith your host,
Carolyn.
October, 2023.
A researcher opens his inbox to a messagefrom South Africa.
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Its subject line stops his heart.
What follows?
Sleepless nightchasing a truth too vast to fathom.
Welcome to The InBetween.
I'm Carol Ann, and todaywe expose a mathematical impossibility
that shattersthe divide between faith and science
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forever.
The number seven.
It echoes through the worldlike a heartbeat.
Seven colors of the rainbow.
Seven musical notes.
Seven seas and continents.
It transcends culture and religion.
Islam’s seven heavens.
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Hinduism’s seven chakras.
Buddhism’s seven steps of Buddha.
Our seven day workweekhas no astronomical basis,
yet dominates global timekeeping,
stemmingfrom the Judeo-Christian creation story.
And the Bible?
It's dripping with sevens,from Noah's seven pairs of clean animals
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to Revelation’sseven churches, seals, trumpets and bowls.
From Genesis to Revelation,the Bible doesn't just feature seven.
It resonates with it.
You may have heard some of these patternsbefore, and some of them might be new.
But either way, I'm pretty surewhat I'm about to show
you is going to blow your mind.
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Or at least make you think twice.
All right, let's warm up in the shallow
end of the poolbefore we head into deeper waters.
The only book titles in the entire Biblethat contain exactly
seven words are Genesis (”TheFirst Book of Moses Called Genesis”) and
Revelation (”The Revelation of St.
John the Divine”).
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The first book and the last book.
Seven words each.
In Revelation 1:8, Jesus declares,
“I am Alpha and Omega, the beginningand the ending, saith the Lord.”
Alpha and Omega are the firstand last letters of the Greek
alphabet, representing the beginningand the end.
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The first word of Genesis 1:1 is “In”
and the last word of Revelation22:21 is “Amen”.
If you count how many timesthese two words appear in Genesis
and Revelation combined and add them up,they occur
exactly 777 times.
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That's the first and the last books,Genesis and Revelation,
like Alpha and Omega,containing exactly 777
occurrences of the Bible'sfirst and last words.
In fact, just the word Amen,when capitalized, is included 77 times.
And if you take the first and last words
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of both the first and last verse,
so the Alpha and the Omega verses,
you get the wordsin, earth, the, and Amen.
Care to take a
shot at guessing the total countof those four words?
77,777. So.
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Okay, Carol Ann.
One lucky number. Big deal.
Oh, honey, I am just getting started.
What about the entirefirst and last verses?
1:1 reads, “In the beginning,God created the heavens and the earth”.
Revelation 22:21, the last verse
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reads, “The grace of our Lord Jesus Christbe with you all.
Amen.”If you count the letters in each verse,
both have exactly 44 letters.
Okay, But let's break it downeven further.
Genesis 1:1 has 17vowels and 27 consonants.
Revelation 22:21
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has 17 vowels and 27 consonants.
The exact same distribution.
If 17 and 27 seem like random numbers,they might be.
But just be aware that the Great Floodstarted on the 17th day of the month
and ended on the 27th day of the month.
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The odds of this happeningby chance are pretty dang slim.
And there's more.
The seventh wordfrom the beginning of the Bible is heaven.
The seventh wordfrom the end of the Bible is Jesus.
If you count all mentions of heavenand Jesus in the Bible,
they total exactly 1554 or 777
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plus 777.
Feeling warmed up yet?
I hope so,because we are about to go even deeper.
Let's talk about Jesus.
Did you know thatJesus was the 77th generation from God?
And the first timehis name is mentioned in the entire Bible,
by word count, is 77% of the way through?
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If you count all the appearancesof the name Jesus in the Bible,
removing the few instances where it'sreferring to someone else, like Joshua
or Jesus Justus - just the dude himself -
the total comes to exactly 980.
That's 70 x 7 plus 70 x 7.
And for those big Bible fans followingalong, that number might sound familiar.
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In Matthew 18:22, when Peter asks
Jesus how many timeshe should forgive someone, Jesus answers,
“I say not unto thee until seven times,
but until 70 timesseven completion times completion.
Endless forgiveness 70 x 7.”
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The equationJesus gives for complete forgiveness,
70 x 7, is a factor of how many timeshis own name appears in the Bible.
Now, I hope you have your waders onfor this one,
because this not only blows my mind,but also is where the idea
that this could berandom starts to fall apart for me.
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The 980 mentions of Jesus are perfectlybalanced between even and odd
numbered books of the New Testament,490 times in odd-numbered books
like Matthew, Luke, acts, etc.,
and 490 times in even-number of books.
Mark, John. Romans, etc..
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Sounds reasonable right?
Half and half distribution.
Except the odd and even booksare not evenly distributed.
The odd books have way more chapters,verses, and total word count.
If you look at various word countsfrom both sets,
the odd books outweigh the evens by a lot.
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Every time except this one word,
Jesus, that is perfectly balancedbetween the two.
And if you count all mentionsof Jesus and Christ together,
you get exactly 1554 or 777 + 777.
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Okay.
So let's look at mentions of the wordFather.
Just those referring to God,not regular dads.
If you do that, you'll find there areexactly 259 mentions in the entire Bible.
259 equals 7 x 37.
Now hold on to that equation for a minute.
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The seventh verse mentioning Father
in the New Testament is Matthew 6:6.
And the Father mentioned in that verse
is located at exactly word number
613,571 of the Bible.
When you break down that number, 613,571,
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that equals 7 x 37
x 2369.
We’re going deeper.
What's that word.
#2369?
It's the first mention of Fatherin the Bible,
which occurs in Isaiah 9:6,where it refers
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to the Messiah as “theeverlasting Father”.
At this point,if your eyebrows aren't raised
just a bit, check your pulse.
But stick with me, because we're about
to tumble deeper into this rabbit hole.
Let's talk about the Bible'smain characters, Moses and Jesus Christ.
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The two people who are the essenceof the Old and New Testaments.
We already know that Jesus’s name appears980 times.
Moses, the guy with the stone tabletswho parted
the Red Sea, appears 847 times.
Christ shows up 555 times.
On their own, these numbers might not makeyou spill your coffee.
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But add them up and you get exactly 2401.
That's
7 x 7 x 7 x 7 or 7 to the fourth power.
Combining Jesus, Christ, God and Father,
you get exactly 5929
mentions - 77 x 77.
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In the Gospelsalone, Jesus and Christ appear
343 times, exactly 7 x 7 x 7.
The name Jesus Christ is mentioned196 times.
That is a 7 x 7 x 7 triangle of sevens.
But it's not just the numbers.
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Yes, given a big enough sample sizeand wide enough
parameters,you can find some pretty fun patterns.
But it's also how the numbers pointdirectly to the structure.
Like John 1:17,
which says, “Forthe law was given by Moses,
but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.”
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This verse is pivotal because it contrast
the old covenant of law of Moses
with the new covenant of gracein Jesus Christ.
And in this verse, Moses
is the 777th mentionof Moses in the Bible.
How do you like them, man?
Even wilder, it'salso the exact middle mention
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of, Moses, Jesus and Christ appearances.
The 1,201st of that 2,401 totalthat we already talked about.
Think about what that means.
The 777th mention
of Moses, occurs in the exact versethat explains
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how Moses’s law givesway to Christ's grace.
And this mention sits at the precisemathematical center
of all mentions of these three names.
It's like the text is winkingat us, saying, “See what I did there?”
Now, obviouslyso far we've been concentrating
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on the number seven,God's favorite number.
But there are plenty of otherinteresting details
about otherrelatively important numbers as well.
The number four is pretty prominentwith the word
GOD in all caps coming up 308 times.
That's 77 x 4.
And the word God in all forms coming up
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4,444 times.
Four Gospels.
The first and last verseseach having 44 letters.
But again, big data sets
can always come up with fun patterns.
But here's a really fun one.
In the Gospel of John, chapter 21,after Jesus's resurrection,
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seven of Jesus's disciplesdecided to go out fishing
and they don't catch anythingall night long.
Jesus appears to them incognito
and tells them to cast their netsone more time.
They do, and catch exactly 153 fish.
That's weirdly specific.
Glossing overthe fact that the middle number between
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1 and 153 is 77,
if you add up the total number of timesthat the five disciples
that were in the boat whose nameswe know, Peter, Thomas, Nathaniel,
James, and John, are mentionedin all the Gospels,
that equals 153.
If you take those 153 fishand make a pyramid,
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you'll get an equilateral trianglewith 17 fish on each side,
which counts up to a perimeter of 48,which just happens
to be the same number of timesthose five disciples are mentioned in
just the Gospel of John,where the story comes from.
And you know,
And here's another one that pointsto not only numbers, but structure.
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The combined appearances of the word Lord,
capital L, plus Lord in all caps,
plus the word God,capital G, plus God in all caps
throughout the Bible totalsexactly 11,989.
The last mention of Jesus
in the book of Revelation 22:21 is word
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for it...
11,989.
And if you go to Psalm 119:89, so 11,989,
which is verse 21,777 in the Bible,
it reads, “Forever, O Lord,thy word is settled in heaven.”
It's like finding Da Vinci'sfingerprints on the Mona Lisa.
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Except the fingerprint itself is a perfectminiature replica of the painting.
Now, as I've said a couple of times,given a big enough dataset,
you can find all kinds of funky things.
However, at some point, all these patterns
become more than just statistical chance.
At least I think so.
But for sure, there are plenty of peoplewho think otherwise.
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Looking at biblical numerology,there have been some notable figures
who've tried to uncover patterns.
Ivan Panin, initially an agnostic,
devoted 52 years of his lifeto finding more codes
after his first discovery in 1890.
Without computers, he manually produced
43,000 pages documenting numeric patterns.
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His methodology,however, was questionable,
sometimes employing a “closeenough” strategy.
Fast forward to 1994,when we get the Bible codes.
Researchers published findingsin Statistical Science magazine
suggesting biographical informationabout rabbis was encoded
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in Genesis centuries before they lived.
Journalist Michael Drosnin ran with this,writing sensationalized books
about these codes before anyone couldreally dig in and see how it was done.
Drosnin's arrogance led him to throw downthe gauntlet, saying, “When my critics
find a message about the assassinationof a prime minister encrypted in Moby
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Dick, I'll believe them.” Brendan McKay,
an Australian mathematician,says, “Challenge accepted,”
and promptly findsnumerous assassination codes
in Moby Dick, effectivelykicking Drosnin in to the curb.
But here's the key difference.
Panin and Drosninwere trying to read between the lines.
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What we're talking about heretoday is observable
patterns in the actual text itself.
The technology to discover these patterns
simply didn't exist until recent decades.
It's like walking aroundthe Nazca Desert in Peru,
not knowing thatif you flew over the area,
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you could see giant drawingsof hummingbirds,
spiders, and this guy.
If intentionally designed,
these patterns were placed knowing they'dremain hidden for centuries.
A message in a bottle sent forwardthrough time.
Waiting for the right technologyto reveal it.
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And now we're here.
And it looks like somebodyfound the bottle.
And it's a big message.
Enter one Bible researcher named BrandonPeterson.
He's just a regular guy who startedlooking into some of the number patterns
in Hebrew and Greek texts around 2019,
and in the Bible in English around 2020.
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He got pretty deep into the research, too.
Enough that he started
in a YouTube channelto talk about every thing he was finding.
Brandon'sYouTube community started to grow,
and his viewers startedlooking for patterns on their own.
So in October of 2023 wasn'treally a surprise for him to see an email
in his box about another possible patternfrom a guy named Elton from South Africa.
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It's what was inside the emailthat was the surprise.
An extraordinary claimthat would send Brandon down
the rabbit hole of all rabbit holes.
But the proper response to extraordinaryclaims
is to demand extraordinary evidence.
Brandon needs to verify Elton's claim.
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Now he's able to verify the claimdigitally almost right away.
But he can't know for sure until heverifies it in the physical Bible itself.
Now Brandon is, aboveall, a devout and faithful servant,
but the idea of counting every word onevery page is not high on his fun list.
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So he tries reaching out to CambridgeUniversity to see if they could
provide him a digital copy of the actualprint file they use for publishing.
But, no go.
So, a hand count it is.
For over a month, several hours every day,
he and his wife, Laura, She's a keeper.
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go through a physical Bible
with a clicker counterin one hand and a pencil in the other.
Word by word. Page by page.
Clicking and counting.
To ensure accuracy, they turn to anotherally in the Bible research community,
a software developer named Donna,who created
the Pure Bible Search software.
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Donna turns Elton's Bible text file
into a giant numbered listthat allows Brandon and Laura
to cross-check every 100th wordagainst their physical count.
If they miss count, they go back tothe previous checkpoint and start again.
Not exactly a weekend project.
But in the end,they confirm Elton's discovery.
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Elton had counted not just the wordsof the Bible, but absolutely everything.
Every word on the cover,every chapter number, verse number,
book title, and every single word fromin the beginning to the final.
Amen. And the total count?
Exactly 823,543.
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Sounds like a pretty random number, right?
Well, you'd better set your mug downbefore you spill your coffee,
because 823,543 is precisely7x7x7x7x7x7x7.
Seven
to the seventh power.
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If you're reaching for your calculatorright now, I'll save you the trouble.
That's exactly 823,543.
In a book where seven represents divine
perfection, that's not just a coincidence.
That's a mathematical sledgehammerto the cerebral cortex.
Now, I don't know about you,but right away, my skeptical brain
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says, “Okay, but couldn'tthat just be a coincidence?” Maybe.
But the odds of this happening, by chanceare about the same as you winning
the Powerball,while being struck by lightning, twice,
on your birthday, while being attackedby a shark, in Kansas.
Or maybe someone engineered thisat some point.
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It was written by men after all, right?
Try again.
This Bible's text has been standardized
and hasn't changed for hundreds of years.
Brandon and Laura weren'tcounting a recent digital version
someone could have tweaked.
They were counting a physical Biblewhose text
has remained unchanged for centuries.
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And which Bible would that be?
Therein lies the secret.
All of these patternsonly work out in one particular Bible.
The Cambridge Concord edition of the KingJames Bible,
unchanged since 1769.
The King James Bible has shapedWestern civilization for four centuries.
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It has given us phrases like “thewriting on the wall,”
“a drop in the bucket,” “the blindleading the blind,” “a labor of love,”
“salt of the earth,” and countless others
that have become embedded in our languageand culture.
Billions of copies have been printed,
making it the most widely distributedbook in human history.
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Now I hear you.
Why this version?
Well, the answer to that questionis a superfast biblical genealogy lesson.
A week agoI would have said A Bible is a Bible.
But au contraire, mon frere.
The Bible family treeactually has two different root systems.
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The first takes the Old Testament writingsstraight from Jewish text
written in Hebrewthat originated in Jerusalem.
The Jews have an entire tribe,the Levites, whose sole job
was to preserve that Old Testament history
which they call the Masoretic text.
So that seems like a logical choice.
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But after Jesus was crucified,Christians pretty much got chased
out of Jerusalem and landed in Antioch,where they wrote down
what became the New Testament in Greek,now known as the Textus Receptus.
Makes sense.
The closestyou can get to the original source.
The other line of biblical rootscomes from Alexandria and Rome.
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Alexandria is the historical hoodfor the Gnostics,
who were fairly influential,but not exactly Christians,
and may have had a hand at influencingsome of the transcriptions.
Their Old Testament came from Greek text,which are known to have mistakes
in the translation, and by the timeyou're finished with the New Testament,
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there are 3000 discrepancies
with the Textus Receptusin the four Gospels alone.
Some are just small thingslike spelling or word choices,
but there are also entire verses missing.
So the KingJames Bible comes from the Masoretic
and Textus Receptus line of texts.
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The more boots on the ground versions.
Then it goes through severaldifferent major translations.
How many?
Say it with me. Seven.
The seventh translation, the KingJames Bible, happening in a seven year
period from 1604 to 1611.
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Then it goes throughseven rounds of standardization,
bringing us up to the 1769 versionwe have today.
And for those of you more Bibleliterate than I,
you might recall that Psalm12: 6-7 states,
“The words of the Lord are pure words,
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as silver tried in a furnace of earth,
purified seven times.”
And by the way, we're not even crackingthe nut that is
the 1611 patterns, the yearthe King James Bible was finished.
Like Deuteronomy 16:11
is the 1,611th mention of the wordLord in all caps,
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where he talksabout where his name will be written,
Or that Acts 16:11
is when Paul first stepped foot in Europe,spending the night before on an island
in the shadow of a mountainthat is 1611m high,
and whose path trajectory, setby that verse, points straight to London,
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where the KingJames Bible would later be published.
What's particularly unbelievableabout these patterns
is that they don't all appear at once,when the King James Bible was first
printed in 1611, but as these seven rounds
of tweaking happened,each one making little corrections
and modernizationsin spelling here and there, until 1769,
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when everything comes togetherlike focusing a camera.
Could human beings have engineered this?
Highly unlikely.
We're talking about 47 scholarsworking from different locations from 1604
to 1611, translating from ancient
Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek texts.
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They didn't have computers.
They didn't have calculators.
They didn't even have consistentspelling of English words.
Think about how hard it would be to encodejust one of these patterns.
Say, making sure that Jesus, Moses,and Christ
appeared exactly 2401 times combined.
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You'd need to track every mention
throughout the entire text.
If you found yourself at 2402,
you'd have to find a wayto get rid of one mention.
If you found yourself at 2400,you'd need to add one more mention.
And you'd have to do thatwhile maintaining the integrity
of the text, it's readabilityand its theological accuracy.
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Now multiply that challenge
by dozens of interlocking patterns.
The complexity of that is staggering.
That would be impossibleto do in that time,
especially without computersand text communication.
So what do we left with?
Random chanceseems mathematically impossible.
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Human design seems practically impossible.
And that leaves.
Well, I'll let you connect those dots.
And just to add one more piece of pie
It's only a water thing.
to this smorgasbord,that it's the King James Bible
that is the perfect, pure version of God'sWord.
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Let's talk about somethingcompletely different.
Cross-references.
Cross-references connect versesacross the Bible with similar
meanings or topics,acting like a map to trace ideas.
For example, linking a prophecyin Isaiah to its fulfillment in Matthew.
An easy example of this idea is Psalm23:1.
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“The Lord is my shepherd.
I shall not want.”That verse is cross-referenced to
John 10:11, “I am the good shepherd.
The good shepherd giveth his lifefor the sheep.” In Psalm 23:1,
God is described as a shepherdwho cares for his people.
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John 10:11 connects this to Jesus,
who calls himself the good Shepherd,who protects and dies for his flock.
So, according to Chris Harrison and Pastor
Christoph Römhild on ChrisHarrison.net,
there are 63,779 recognized
cross references in the King James Bible.
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Here is a visualization
of what they look likefrom beginning to end of the Bible.
I don't care who you are,
that is just a stunning visual.
Using any different version of the Biblewith different wording and missing verses
severs lots of these references,
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and references from those references.
The whole colorful balletstarts to break down.
Do you lose them all? No.
But you lose a chunk of them and you losethe complex number patterns as well.
For believers, this offers stunning,
mathematically precise evidencethat God's hand guided
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not just the original text,but their preservation and translation
through history, culminating in the KingJames Bible.
For skeptics,you got a giant puzzle on your hands.
How could a book compiled overthousands of years,
translated through multiple languages,end up
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with such precise mathematical patternsthat can't even be discovered
until 400 yearsafter it was originally printed?
So many numerical patternswoven into the most printed book
in human history, in the most widelyspoken language in human history,
like an invisible watermarkwaiting centuries to be discovered.
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I don't know about you, but finding sevensperfectly embedded at every level,
feels less like a coincidence
and more like somebody signing their work.
Think about it.
What are the odds that a bookassembled across millennia,
written by dozens of authors,translated through multiple languages,
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would containsuch precise mathematical harmony?
That its total wordcount would be exactly 7^7?
That the
words Jesus and Christ together
would appear exactly 777 plus 777 times?
That the first and last wordswould appear exactly
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times?
Not to mention that a)Seven is not a random number.
It's the most biblicallysignificant number.
b) The patterns highlight and connecttextually significant passages.
And c) These patternsinvolve structural elements
that could not have been tweaked laterto create the patterns.
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Of course, some will saythe Bible is a pretty big sandbox
and that given enough search criteria,you can find any pattern.
Maybe that's true.
I mean, it's much easierto get search results
that look significantwhen you have a bigger pool.
If you have a big box of donutsin front of you, and you say, I want a
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raspberry filled donut, your chancesof finding one are much smaller
than if you say,I want any flavor of filled donut.
Which is why the patternswith just one word,
Jesus, are so amazing.
Not only do we have the number of mentionsof Jesus at (70 x 7) + (70 x 7),
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but if you search for just the word Jesuswith the space, so no punctuation
of any kind afterwards, just Jesus,you will find his name
777 times.
At some point, the mathematician in methrows up her hands and says,
okay, I give.
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This isn't random.
This isn't human design.
This is something else entirely.
And maybe that's the point.
In our digital age, where we demand hardevidence and data, perhaps these patterns
are exactly the kind of verificationour analytical minds need.
A divine signature hidden in plain sight,
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waiting for the exact moment in historywhen we'd have the technology to find it.
As it turns out,some things really do get better with age.
And sometimes the truth has beenright there on our bookshelves all along,
patiently waiting for us to count it up.
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If you want to dive deeper into this,
check out Brandon Peterson's YouTubechannel, @TruthIsChrist or his book,
“Sealed by the King,” which documentsthese patterns in much greater detail.
If you go to his website,SealedByTheKing.com,
you can actually download the bookfor free.
or offer a small donation.
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Or buy the physical paperback version,which I recommend.
Seeing everything in print and feelingthe literal weight of this research
just addsan extra level of wow to the whole thing.
Links to both Brandon's websiteand the book's website will be in
the description, as willa link for PureBibleSearch.com
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where you can downloadthe free King James Bible search engine
and see for yourselfthe proof of some of these patterns.
Also, a big thank you to Brandon Petersonfor allowing us
to use all of his wonderful graphicsand information.
If we have managed to lure you down
into the King James Bible rabbit hole,and you want to keep digging.
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Click right here for one of Brandonexcellent videos.
Or if you want to go downa different rabbit hole
in the same garden, click right here.
Be careful out there.
And I will see youhere again, on The InBetween.
Thanksfor tuning in to the In-between podcast.
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Enjoy the full visual experiencewith me over on YouTube.
Just search for at the invite Queen tales.
I'm Carolyn.
And until next time, be careful out
there. You.
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