This is quite amazing because the LORD equated the Restoration of Jerusalem with the plucking of a Brand out of the Fire and the word for Brand, as can be seen in the image below, is the Hebrew word אוּד, that in 1890 was allocated the Strong's Bible Number - 181.

Fast forward to the 29th November 1947 when the United Nations was gathering to vote on a plan to to end the British Mandate in Palestine, by dividing the territory into two independent states—one Jewish and one Arab—while placing Jerusalem under a special international administration. This plan, that was centered on the status of Jerusalem, was officially known as UN Resolution 181, the exact same number (181) that was used in Zechariah 3, in relation to Jerusalem being chosen and restored by God, who described it as a BRAND being plucked from the fire.

Little did the United Nations know, that they were the instrument of God on that day, and that as they voted 33 in favour of the plan (just like Jesus did for us when He died on the Cross at 33 years of Age) they were literally a part of God plucking Jerusalem, as a Brand out of the Fire, by giving International Support to the recreation of a modern Jewish state, centered on Jerusalem. In this way, the UN Resolution 181 was literally, in every understanding of the word, God Himself through the men of that day plucking a "Brand" out of the fire of the Holocaust of WW2.

Importantly, this is just one example of God's hand being upon the Strong's Bible Numbers, to reveal, as He says in Isaiah 46 that He alone knows and declares the future:

⁹ Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me, ¹⁰ declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure: Isaiah 46:9-10

Understanding the potential prophetic application of Strong's Bible numbers is essential for interpreting the subsequent content. However, to fully appreciate this perspective, it is necessary to first elaborate on another connection within the underlying pattern—specifically its relationship to the Psalms (Hebrew:מִזְמוֹרmizmôr)—which, in my view, provides the foundational context for all that follows. Ultimately understanding that the Psalms are prophetic leads to a discussion about the Psalms of Ascent, which will both highlight the end-time significance of the number 120 and point to the convergence of the Hebrew and Gregorian Calendars that started this study.

Finally, we will see how the Strong's Bible Numbers also align with the convergent Hebrew Years, before we discuss their symbolic meanings that point us to the Prophetic alignment of these Strong’s Bible Numbers, that I believe confirms where we are on God’s end-time calendar.

In Summary

No doubt that may have sounded confusing because there are so many layers to it, with each being a topic in itself, but hopefully as we progress through each step it will become clear. Essentially, each step is connected to the next and leads us naturally towards what I believe are some stunning timing clues that God has hidden, not just in His Word, but in a very unique interplay between His Word and two calendars that are used to track time itself, by both believers and non-believers alike. So again, it is my hope that if we follow the topic pathway listed below, we will be able to see clearly what the LORD is saying about these last days:

Topic Pathway

Psalm are Prophetic → Psalms of Ascent → Connection to 120 → The end time connection → Convergence of Calendars (Hebrew and Gregorian) → The Strong’s Word – Hebrew Year Connection → Summary of Symbolic Meanings → Prophetic Alignment with Strong's Bible Numbers →Summary of Meaning → The Full 10-Year Pattern → One Final Numerical Observation → Final Thoughts.

Psalms as Prophecy

 So, our journey begins with the first layer of understanding coming from recognizing that the Psalms are prophetic, and that the greatest object of Prophecy is Jesus, who in Revelation 22 is revealed as both the Root and the Offspring of David:

⁶ “I, Jesus, have sent My angel to testify to you these things in the churches. I am the Root and the Offspring of David, the Bright and Morning Star.” Revelation 22:16

Importantly, the number 22 is the number for the nation of Israel (as detailed further here and here) that Matthew equates with Jesus by quoting Hosea 11:1 that says - ¹ “When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called My son” in Matthew 2:15, where he states:

¹⁵ and was there until the death of Herod, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Lord through the prophet, saying, “Out of Egypt I called My Son.” Matthew 2:15

Therefore, Jesus and Israel, spiritually are one. This biblical truth arguably makes Psalm 22, the Psalm that connects Israel's ultimate purpose, as fulfilled in Jesus, the greatest example of prophecy in the Psalms. It is a prophecy about Jesus fulfilling the Will of the Father, as the embodiment of God’s Son in Israel. Literally, with His last breaths on the Cross, Jesus fulfilled the prophetic utterance revealed in Psalm 22 when He cried the first part of verse 1:

¹ My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me? Why are You so far from helping Me, And from the words of My groaning? Psalms 22:1

In the Gospels, Jesus consistently speaks of God with intimate, familial language:

• “My Father”

• “Abba”

• “The Father who sent me”

But on the Cross, He switches to: “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” This is the only time in the Gospels that Jesus addresses God without calling Him “Father.” As it says in 2 Cor 5:21 “He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us…”. In doing this, we see for the first time in all of Eternity, the Word (Logos) made flesh, the only begotten Son of the Father, though fully divine and fully human, being separated in His humanity from the Father. In that moment, the cry of 'Fallen Mankind', who had been separated from God as Father, in the Garden of Eden, became His cry.  In the most amazing act of love known to man, the pure and perfect, Holy Son of God, became Sin for us. He did this so that He could atone for it with His own death, and make a way for us to be restored to God; but in doing so, Jesus became separated from God and for a time could no longer call Him His Father. In this Psalm of David, that was inspired by the Holy Spirit, it was prophetically being revealed that one day the Root and Offspring of David would be forsaken by God the Father.

He endured an unimaginable separation from God, so that we would never have to be, as it states in Hebrews 13:5:

⁵ … For He Himself has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.” Hebrews 13:5

Psalm 22 also prophetically reveals aspects of the nature of Jesus’ vicarious death, including the fact that He would have His Hands and Feet pierced:

¹⁶ For dogs have surrounded Me; The congregation of the wicked has enclosed Me. They pierced My hands and My feet; Psalms 22:16

And that he would bear the shame of being naked (this will be important later), which is the primary symbol of the curse, as they divide his garments and cast lots for his clothing:

¹⁸ They divide My garments among them, And for My clothing they cast lots. Psalms 22:18

Significantly, God also hid the prophetic nature of the Psalms in the fact that the Book of Psalms is the 19^th book from Genesis and the 48^th Book from Revelation. By doing so, He not only positioned the book to reveal the historic year of Israel’s rebirth in 1948, but He ultimately points us back to 22, in the fact that 1 + 9 + 4 +8 = 22.

The Origin of 22

At this point, one may ask why 22 represents the nation of Israel and then later Jesus, as the embodiment of Israel on the Cross, in the first place. What is its significance?

While I have written on this elsewhere, I will briefly summarize it here, to give this some context. Essentially, following the Fall of Man, God revealed that He would not always strive with Sinful man, yet His years would be 120. I will expand on this below, when I discuss its connection to the Psalms of Ascent, but for now it is sufficient to recognize that the Bible supports that mankind fell when Adam was 99. This is why the promise of the son was given to Abraham when he was 99, it was a picture of God giving His son to redeem humanity. This was seen on the Cross when the ultimate Son, given by God the Father, was crucified at 9 am and died for our sins at the 9^th hour - Here the 99 of Redemption occurred in connection with the second or last Adam to perfectly reverse the curse of the Fall by the first Adam, that had occurred when he was 99. This is also why Jesus would say that the He would leave the 99 to find the one lost sheep because here the 99 represented the Redeemed and by extension, Redemption itself.

The significance of the 99 is that it not only reveals when Adam Fell, but it also shows us that Adam had originally walked in righteousness with God for 98 years, before the Fall. This connection is also numerically confirmed by noting that in the King James Version of the bible (that was God's primary witness to the world for over 400 years) the name of Jesus, the second or last Adam, the one who fulfilled the Law of Sin and Death (so we would not have to) occurs precisely 980 times (98 x 10).

Not only that, but these 980 occurrence are divided into precisely two groups of 490 (490 x 2 = 980), which are ultimately 10 Sabbatical cycles of 49, such that they mirror the 490 (70 weeks - 70 x7 = 490) year prophecy of Daniel, that shows that 490 is God's symbolic number for representing the perfect completion of the redemptive history of humanity. Amazingly, these two groups of 490 mentions of the name of Jesus, occur in connection with the Odd and Even books of the New Testament. Using a standard word-count data for each book (based on the Greek text), the combined word count of the Odd books is almost twice that of the Even books, yet the name of Jesus occurs exactly 490 (49 x10) times in each. This proves that this is not occurring by chance because a listing of all the other words that occur randomly in each group shows that the all the other words appear roughly twice as many times in the Odd books, as in the Even books - it is only the name of Jesus that occurs exactly the same number of times in each group, at 490 occurrences in each, for a total of 980 (98 x 10) instances of His name. 

Ultimately, I believe the 98 reflects two sabbatical cycles of 49 that Adam walked righteously with God in the Garden, for a total of 98 years, before he fell at 99 years of age. In this respect, there was no need for a Jubilee Year (50th year) because nothing had been lost to that point, so the first 49 years was ultimately followed by another 49 years; after which mankind in Adam fell, when he was 99. So only 2 sabbatical cycles were completed and Adam fell in the first year of the third cycle and then God, who always does things in threes because He is a Trinity, would declare the 490 (49 x 10) of Daniel for the purpose of completing the three perfect sabbatical cycles of 49, that began in creation, but were interrupted by the Fall. Ultimately, this is where the 120 and by extension 22 come into it because since the bible supports that man walked with God for 98 years before falling at 99 years of age, and God has put an upper limit of 120 on striving with sinful man, then:

120 - 98 = 22 

So, 22 symbolically represents God's activities to redeem fallen mankind, following the 98 years of righteousness and finishing when His limit of striving with man is reached at 120.  As such, 22 represents God's vehicle of salvation / redemption, which was found in Jesus, who was the ultimate fulfilment and embodiment of Israel, throughout the Age of Grace. In this way, 22 came to symbolize Israel.

The Origin of 120

God's choice of 120 as an upper limit is also explained biblically by noting a few things about Cain and Able. Firstly, they were the first generation of humans because Adam and Eve were both special creations. They were born after the Fall, and after Adam and Eve were expelled from the Garden of Eden. This occurred when Adam was 100 years old, which explains the bible's first reference to a generation being 100, when God told Abraham that his descendants would be strangers in a land that is not theirs and that they would be enslaved for 400 years, as recorded in Genesis 15: 13-16 that states:

¹³ Then He said to Abram: “Know certainly that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them, and they will afflict them four hundred years. ¹⁴ And also the nation whom they serve I will judge; afterward they shall come out with great possessions. ¹⁵ Now as for you, you shall go to your fathers in peace; you shall be buried at a good old age. ¹⁶ But in the fourth generation they shall return here, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete.” Genesis 15:13-16

Significantly, we can know that Cain and Abel were twins from the following verses, where the word for "And again" is actually the Hebrew word וַתֹּ֣סֶף (Strongs h3254. יָסַף yâsap̱), that is a primitive root that means "to add to or augment" or to continue to do a thing:

¹ Now Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and bore Cain, saying, “I have gotten a man with the help of the LORD.” ² And again, she bore his brother Abel. Now Abel was a keeper of sheep, and Cain a worker of the ground. Genesis 4:1-2

In other words, it was all part of the same event. Adam did not know Eve a second time, separately to having Abel, rather she gave birth first to Cain and then she continued to give birth to Abel as his twin. This is important because something unique happens in relation to Cain and Abel that forms the basis of our symbolic number 120.

Essentially, when Adam sinned, God cursed the ground for his sake, as Genesis 3:17 shows: 

¹⁷ And to Adam he said, “because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten of the tree of which I commanded you,
‘You shall not eat of it,’ cursed is the ground because of you; in pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life; Genesis 3:17

However, when Cain sinned, things changed and he became the first human being to be directly cursed by God, as Genesis 4:11 shows:

¹¹ And now you are cursed from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand. Genesis 4:11

This distinction is important because it shows both that God was symbolically no longer striving with man's sin, because Cain was the first person to be cursed directly; and it shows that Cain had reached the age of accountability, where God would judge him for his choices and actions in killing Abel. Later the age of accountability was revealed when it was seen in connection with the Israelites, who had failed to trust that God would give them the Promised Land, after setting them free from Egypt. At that time, God told the people that anyone 20 years and older, who had complained against God in the wilderness, would die there, as Numbers 14:29 shows:

²⁹ The carcasses of you who have complained against Me shall fall in this wilderness, all of you who were numbered, according to your entire number, from twenty years old and above. Numbers 14:29 

So, this suggests that Cain and Abel, as twins, were both 20 years of age, when Cain killed Abel; and that Cain was held accountable for it to effectively become the first person that God directly cursed. Two lives were lost because Abel died and Cain was separated from God, becoming a fugitive and wanderer on the earth. If they were both 20 years of age, then together they accounted for 40 years, which biblically would also be the symbolic source of the bible's use of 40 years as a time of testing and trial. Effectively Cain had been tested, but God had appealed to Him:

⁶ The LORD said to Cain, “Why are you angry, and why has your face fallen? ⁷ If you do well, will you not be accepted? And if you do not do well, sin is crouching at the door. Its desire is for you, and you must rule over it.” Genesis 4:6-7

Unfortunately, Cain did not rule over Sin and allowed his anger to master him, which led him to murdering his brother, which in turn led to him going out into the wilderness, separated from the presence of God.

Numerically, as I have shown above, the bible also supports that Adam was 100 when Cain was born. As such, if Cain killed Abel when they were both 20 years of age (which became the age of accountability), then Adam would have been 120 years old when this happened; and since this event was simultaneously the point in which God cursed Cain directly, the first human to be cursed, the number 120 symbolically became the number that represents the end of God striving with man. 

Psalms prophetic connection to modern history

Hopefully above, we have established that the Psalms are Prophetic, through the greatest and most obvious example of Jesus' use and fulfilment of Psalm 22 on the Cross; and then clarified how the number 22 connects Jesus and Israel together. However, it does not finish there because understanding this prophetic nature of the Psalms leads us to consider another idea by J. R. Church, who originally hosted the TV program “Prophecy in the News”.

A number of years ago, he proposed the idea that each of the Psalms prophetically hid part of Israel’s story, beginning from the 20^th Century onward, such that Psalm 1 would reflect aspects of 1901 and Psalm 48 would reflect 1948 etc.

In this respect, given that Israel became a nation again in 1948, this Psalm certainly seems to declare a shift in the status of Mount Zion (a biblical epithet for Jerusalem), stating that it would become the “joy of the whole earth” and that a time was coming when the Kings (leaders) of the earth would both assemble and pass by it, being both marvelled and troubled after seeing it, with fear taking hold of them, as well as them experiencing pain like a woman in birth pangs:

⁴ For behold, the kings assembled, they passed by together. ⁵ They saw it, and so they marveled; They were troubled, they hastened away.
⁶ Fear took hold of them there, and pain, as of a woman in birth pangs, ⁷ As when You break the ships of Tarshish With an east wind.
⁸ As we have heard, So we have seen In the city of the LORD of hosts, In the city of our God: God will establish it forever. Psalms 48:4-8

Clearly, the Kings (Leaders) of the nations assembled together as part of the League of Nations in June 1919 and marveled at Mount Zion such that they established the Mandate system that would eventually lead to the rebirth of Israel, under Article 22 (no coincidences in God - even the UN Article number would reflect the number God associated with Israel). Then after assembling again in the UN in 1947 to vote on resolution 181 (remembering, as I showed above, that God declared Jerusalem would be like a brand plucked from the fire and the Strong’s Bible Number for ‘Brand’ is the Hebrew number 181) they gave their support for the nation to be established again.

However, when it came into being on the 14^th May 1948, like a woman giving birth in fulfilment of Isaiah 66:8-9, the kings of the earth, as Psalm 48 prophesied, were both troubled and hasted away, leaving Israel to its fate. Ultimately, fear took hold of them, as the Psalm also predicted, as the Arab nations collectively rejected the decision and attacked the newly formed nation.

In spite of all this, Psalm 48:11-14 declares that Israel’s rebirth was to be a source of rejoicing for Mount Zion and its daughters (including Jerusalem) for Israel’s God is their God forever and ever, and He will guide their destiny even unto death:

¹¹ Let mount Zion rejoice, let the daughters of Judah be glad, because of thy judgments. ¹² Walk about Zion and go round about her: tell the towers thereof. ¹³ Mark ye well her bulwarks, consider her palaces; that ye may tell it to the generation following. ¹⁴ For this God is our God forever and ever: he will be our guide even unto death. Psalms 48:11-14

So, Psalm 48 declared a restoration of the land of Israel that would be established as a joy for the whole earth, although the world does not yet understand this. Then it says that the people would declare that they have seen God’s loving-kindness and that His name would be praised to the ends of the earth. All this seems to reflect the rebirth of the nation and both the Jewish and Gentile response to it:

​¹ Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in the mountain of his holiness. ² Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King. ³ God is known in her palaces for a refuge. ⁴ For, lo, the kings were assembled, they passed by together. ⁵ They saw it, and so they marveled; they were troubled and hasted away. ⁶ Fear took hold upon them there, and pain, as of a woman in travail. ⁷ Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish with an east wind. ⁸ As we have heard, so have we seen in the city of the LORD of hosts, in the city of our God: God will establish it forever. Selah. ⁹ We have thought of thy lovingkindness, O God, in the midst of thy temple. ¹⁰ According to thy name, O God, so is thy praise unto the ends of the earth: thy right hand is full of righteousness. ¹¹ Let mount Zion rejoice, let the daughters of Judah be glad, because of thy judgments. ¹² Walk about Zion and go round about her: tell the towers thereof. ¹³ Mark ye well her bulwarks, consider her palaces; that ye may tell it to the generation following. ¹⁴ For this God is our God forever and ever: he will be our guide even unto death. Psalms 48

Similarly, other Psalms, such as 17, seem to reflect 1917, when the British liberated Jerusalem and Psalms 39-45 reflect the years of the Holocaust, while Psalm 46 that would parallel 1946, the first year of peace after the end of WW2 in 1945, speaks about the God that ends Wars:

⁹ He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth; he breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder; he burneth the chariot in the fire. Psalms 46:9

Psalm 56  - 1956 – This is the year Israel fought it enemies, led by Egypt, in the Suez Crisis. It was a war following on from their war of independence in 1948, that was an existential threat by Egypt, who was seeking to cause the newly formed nation to fail by cutting off its major trade route, that supplied the nation with the essentials for life. As such, this Psalm seems to reflect their cry for help at that time:

​¹ Be merciful unto me, O God: for man would swallow me up; he fighting daily oppresseth me. ² Mine enemies would daily swallow me up: for they be many that fight against me, O thou most High. Psalms 56:1-2

 But because God also gave them an unprecedented victory, in terms of land and sovereignty, we also see this aspect reflected there:

¹⁰ In God will I praise his word: in the LORD will I praise his word. ¹¹ In God have I put my trust: I will not be afraid what man can do unto me.   ¹² Thy vows are upon me, O God: I will render praises unto thee. ¹³ For thou hast delivered my soul from death: wilt not thou deliver my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living. Psalms 56:10-13

Then Psalm 67  - 1967 - the year of the 6-day war, that saw God give Israel a miraculous victory over multiple nations and reestablish their sovereignty over the Promised land. This Psalm clearly seems to speak about this judgment over the nations of the earth, who will fear Him:

​¹ God be merciful unto us and bless us; and cause his face to shine upon us; Selah. ² That thy way may be known upon earth, thy saving health among all nations. ³ Let the people praise thee, O God; let all the people praise thee. ⁴ O let the nations be glad and sing for joy: for thou shalt judge the people righteously, and govern the nations upon earth. Selah. ⁵ Let the people praise thee, O God; let all the people praise thee. ⁶ Then shall the earth yield her increase; and God, even our own God, shall bless us. ⁷ God shall bless us; and all the ends of the earth shall fear -- him. Psalms 67

Even Psalm 117, a short Psalm of only two verses seems to mirror the 2017 Jersualem Declaration by the US President Donald Trump, who in the face of constant international disputes about the status of Jerusalem, that the nations wanted to divide up, to give parts of it to the Arabs, he declared to all nations that It was actually the eternal indivisible capital of Israel. As the leader of the most powerful nation in the world, this declaration carried weight. Essentially this was both a blessing to Israel and a declaration that aligned itself with the Truth of God, that Jerusalem belonged to Israel, not to any so-called Palestinian Arabs, just as the second verse of this Psalm states:

¹ O praise -- the LORD, all ye nations: praise him, all ye people. ​² For his merciful kindness is great toward us: and the truth of the LORD endureth forever. Praise ye the LORD. Psalms 117:2

As such, it was also a source for praising God that would be understood one day by all nations, as it says in verse 1:

¹ O praise -- the LORD, all ye nations: praise him, all ye people. Psalms 117:1

For blessed are those that bless Israel and cursed are those that curse Israel, as it states elsewhere in Genesis 12:3.

Psalms of Ascent 

In understanding there is a prophetic dimension to the Psalms this now leads us to consider the Psalms of Ascent.

The Psalms of Ascent, that form the next layer in this revelation, are 15 Psalms that stand out because they form a tightly focused, thematically unified mini‑collection (Psalms 120–134) centered on pilgrimage, communal worship, and “going up” to God—something not found elsewhere in the Psalter. As such, they share a common title, a shared liturgical purpose, and a narrative arc of spiritual ascent that distinguishes them from the broader and more diverse themes of the remaining psalms. They were traditionally sung by Jews as they ascended to Jerusalem. It should be remembered that they were required under the Law to go to Jerusalem three times a year - essentially to "meet with God" the source of their salvation:

Passover (also called the Feast of Unleavened Bread and Firstfruits)

Feast of Weeks (also called Pentecost or Harvest Feast)

Feast of Tabernacles (also called Feast of Booths and Feast of Ingathering)

In this regard, it is worth noting that the theme of "Ascending" or “Going up” to meet with God in Jerusalem was not just a spiritual metaphor, there was a physical and geographical aspect that reinforced it as well. Ancient travelers' always ascended to Jerusalem. The following topographical information supports this:

From the North (Galilee):

• Much of Galilee is low-lying—Nazareth ~350 m, Sea of Galilee –210 m.• 

• Jerusalem sits around 750–800 m.

• So, pilgrims from the north climbed hundreds of meters in elevation.

From the South (Bethlehem, Hebron):

• Bethlehem is slightly higher than Jerusalem in places, but the route into Jerusalem still involves descending and ascending through valleys.

• Hebron is higher (~930 m), but the road dips significantly before rising again toward Jerusalem.

From the East (Jericho):

• Jericho is one of the lowest cities on earth (–250 m).

• The ascent to Jerusalem is dramatic: a climb of over 1,000 meters.

From the West (Coastal Plain):

• The coastal plain is near sea level.

• The Judean hills rise steeply toward Jerusalem.

So geographically, the phrase “going up to Jerusalem” is a literal description of the journey from every direction. Then as God often does, the physical becomes a pointer to the greater spiritual reality. This was the case with Jacob's physical wrestling with God that saw his name changed to Israel (God's vehicle of Salvation and Redemption fulfilled in Jesus) to reflect his spiritual victory of God that we see his descendants inherit all the promises of God originally given to Abraham.

Psalm of Ascent - Connection to 120

Aside of that aspect of these Psalms, most end-time watchers should be alerted to the fact that there is something else that is special about these Psalms of Ascent because they start with Psalm number 120. As I showed above, 120 represents the end of God striving with man. As such, it is an end-time number that God uses as a transitional flag, for events connected to His end-time purposes. It is first seen in Genesis 6 in connection with the Flood of Noah, which to date is God’s greatest judgement against the wickedness of man:

³ And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be a hundred and twenty years. Genesis 6:3

However, that this association between the number 120 and the 'limit of God' striving with the ‘wickedness of man’ is not meant to be understood as being restricted to just the days of Noah, can be seen from the following. Essentially, Hebrew does not use numbers, rather it uses words for numbers, and the words that represent the number 120 are  עֶשְׂרִ֖ים מֵאָ֥ה. Importantly, the letters that form these two words have a gematria value as follows:

עֶשְׂרִ֖ים מֵאָ֥ה

מֵ - 40

אָ - 1

ה – 5

עֶ - 70

שְׂ - 300

רִ֖ - 200

י - 10

ם - 40

Total = 40 + 1 + 5 + 70 + 300 + 200 + 10 + 40 = 666

This is significant because it connects the number 120 with the 666 that represents the name of the Beast / Antichrist, who will be revealed at the time of the Rapture and Tribulation.

Notably, the end-times were foreshadowed in the Days of Moses and Joshua, in conjunction with this number 120. Essentially, Joshua’s name in Hebrew is written in two forms - יְהוֹשׁוּעַ (Yehoshua) and an abbreviated form in ישֵׁוּעַ (Yeshua) that connects him with Jesus, who had the same name in Hebrew. The shorter form of Yeshua was ultimately transliterated into Greek as  Ἰησοῦς which was then transliterated into English as Jesus. So, Joshua and Jesus have the same name in Hebrew and when Israel reached the edge of the Jordan river, ready to go into the Promised Land, Moses was 120:

⁷ And Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated. Deuteronomy 34:7

Even though he was not weakened, or his eyes dimmed, his age had reached the end-time number of 120, that ultimately points to the transitional time in human history when Jesus would come in the Rapture, to take His people to the greater Promised Land of Heaven. This was pictured by Joshua, as a type of Jesus, taking God’s people into the Promised Land – it was an appointed time.

So now the focus shifts to the Psalms of Ascent that are also associated with this number because they begin with Psalm 120, indicating that these Psalms are uniquely connected with the end-times; and they also hint at the prophetic fact that this too will be a time when God's people will "ascend" or "go up" to meet with God, in the event called the Rapture. Only this time it will be into the clouds where the LORD will meet with us, before, as John 14 states, He takes us back to His Father's House in Heaven.

Psalms of Ascent – the end-time connection - 2020 -2034

Understanding both that the Psalms are prophetic and that they have a connection to the end-time, through the Psalms of Ascent (Psalm 120 to Psalm 134) that start with Psalm number 120 (God’s special end time number), we can now arguably suggest, by linking them with the idea of J.R. Church (as discussed above), that these particular Psalms represent the years 2020 to 2034. 

This is fascinating because it is essentially highlighting another transitional period in history when God, in conjunction with the number 120, will no longer strive with 'sinful man'. As above, the first was in connection with Noah and the Flood and the second was in connection with Moses and Joshua (a type of Jesus), who would take God’s people into the Promised Land, in fulfilment to the Promises God gave to Abraham.

However, if it is now appearing in connection with the year 2020, we could literally be looking at a 15 year period (2020 – 2034) that will involve the greater Joshua, in Jesus (remembering they have the same name in Hebrew), taking God’s people into the greater Promised Land of Heaven in the Rapture.

Convergence of Calendars (Hebrew & Gregorian)

In an amazing confirmation of this idea — that the Psalms of Ascent point to God’s timeline at the 'end of days' — we will now consider another completely unique occurrence, that forms the next layer in our hidden prophetic revelation of God, that actually forms the central idea of what I believe God is revealing to us because it revolves around timings clues.

Essentially, it involves a convergence between the Hebrew Years and the Gregorian years, that literally align with the Psalms of Ascent by starting with the year 2020, that is arguably associated with Psalm 120, the first of the Ascent Psalms.

To this end, I examined a 478‑year period from 1937 to the year 2415 (Hebrew Years 5697 to 6175), and created a spreadsheet showing that in all that time there is only one 10‑year period, that begins at 2020 (Hebrew Year 5780) and goes through to 2029 (Hebrew Year 5789), in which the digits of the Hebrew year add up to the decade of the Gregorian year, in which that particular Hebrew year ends.

For example - we are currently in the Hebrew Year 5786 and these 4 digits, 5786, add up as follows:

5 + 7 + 8 + 6 = 26, which is the decade portion of the year 2026.

Notably, this takes into account that the Hebrew civil year begins and ends around September / October each year and therefore spans two Gregorian years, with the number always aligning to the final Gregorian year. This is stunning because it absolutely confirms we are living in one of the most unique periods in modern history that spans from 2020 to 2029

The full Spreadsheet that covers the 478 years I examined can be viewed by clicking on the download link below:

However, hopefully the image below, that just shows the portion of the spreadsheet where the convergence actually occurs, will clarify this, by showing how the convergence that begins with the year Hebrew Year 5780 aligns with the Gregorian year 2020 (because 5 + 7 + 8 + 0 = 20, which corresponds to the decade portion of the Gregorian Year when that particular Hebrew Year finishes) and similarly the convergent period ends when the Hebrew Year 5789 aligns with the Gregorian year 2029, (because 5 + 7 + 8 + 9 =29 and again this corresponds to the decade portion of that Gregorian Year) etc.

So we are truly in a unique period in history and notably because it involves a period of 10 years, that align with 10 of the 15 Psalms of Ascent (that start at Psalm 120), being Psalm 120 – Psalm 129, that also correspond to the years 2020 – 2029, we now have another numerical indicator revealing the nature of this period.

As the following image of a calculator shows, this is because if you divide 10 (representing the 10 years of convergence) by the number 15 (representing the full number of the Psalms of Ascent) we get a number that reveals that this period is all about God’s sovereign actions with mankind, whose number has always been 6 from the 6^th day when God created him in Adam, whose name in Hebrew literally means man, or mankind:

The Strong’s Word – Hebrew Year Connection

Now I will discuss what I believe is the significance of all this is.

In the Introduction, I said that I had originally asked a question about whether there was any link between the Hebrew Years and the Strong's Bible numbers. I started by looking at what the Strong’s Bible Dictionary word was, in Hebrew, for the current Hebrew Year 5786, which as I have suggested above not only aligns with our current Gregorian year of 2026, but would also align prophetically with Psalm 126, that as we now know also falls into the middle of the Psalms of Ascent, that start at 120 and end at 134.

Interestingly, I not only found that it was the Hebrew word עָוַר (‘āvar), but I found that there were actually 6 forms of that word that utilize the three Hebrew letters ayin - ע, vav - ו and resh - ר  as I will detail in the next section. Amazingly, each form of the word has a Strong's bible number that corresponds exactly with a number in our unique period of convergence, being both the Strong's numbers and the Hebrew Years from 5782 to 5787, that also (as explained above) match Psalm numbers that fall into the Psalms of Ascent.

Intriguingly, each form of the word associated with the numbers in this series, both reflects and reveals the progressive condition of man (who is represented by the number 6), from the Fall in the Garden of Eden, unto God’s final dealings with him in the Tribulation.

The 6 variations of this word, that have been allocated the Strongs numbers from 5782 to 5877, can be seen in the screenshots below, taken from within a Strong's Bible Dictionary App, available from the Apple App store - these images include a brief description of the general meaning of each word:

As stated, they begin at Strong’s Hebrew Number 5782 (top-left) and conclude withStrong's Hebrew Number 5787 (bottom-right), and it is my contention that there is both a spiritual and a prophetic correlation between them that mirrors the Fall and history of man, as the definitions in the images above suggest.

Additionally, I believe that the meanings associated with these words conclude with a hidden confirmation of God’s end-time plans for the corresponding Hebrew Years from 2022 (5782 = 5+7+8+2= 22) to 2027 (5787 = 5+7+8+7= 27).

The 6 Forms of עור from Strong’s 5782-5787

However, before I make the case for this, I will now provide some further support for the meaning of each of the 6 forms of the word, with the following image that details the meanings of each word being taken from the book: Strong, James. The New Strong’s Dictionary of Hebrew and Greek Words. Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1996.

I have also listed all of these meanings below to show the number of times a particular meaning is applied to a specific form of the word in the King James Bible; and additionally I have underlined the primary meanings to make it very clear how I have joined the individual meanings of these 6 words into a sequence of meaning, that I believe God has placed there, to emphasize the spiritual progression of man from the Fall in the Garden of Eden through to the coming Rapture and Tribulation; that will ultimately climax with the Battle of Armageddon, that ushers in the Second Coming of Jesus as described in Revelation chapter 19:

Hebrew Strong’s Number: 5782 - עוּר

HebrewWord:  עוּר
Transliteration: ʿûr
Phonetic Pronunciation: oor
Root: a primitive root [rather identical with <H5783> through the idea of opening the eyes]
Part of Speech: verb
Usage Notes - English Words used in KJV:

(stir / lift.…) up 40

awake 25

wake 6

raise 6

arise 1

master 1

raised out 1

variant 1

[Total Count: 81]

It is a primitive root [rather identical with <H5783> (`uwr) through the idea of opening the eyes]; to wake (literal or figurative):- (a-) wake (-n, up), lift up (self), × master, raise (up), stir up (self)

Hebrew Strong’s Number: 5783 - עוּר

Hebrew Word: עוּר
Transliteration: ʿûr
Phonetic Pronunciation: oor
Root: a primitive root
Part of Speech:  verb
Usage Notes - English Words used in KJV:

naked 1
[Total Count: 1]

It is a primitive root; to (be) bare:- be made naked.

Hebrew Strong’s Number: 5784 - עוּר

Hebrew Word: עוּר
Transliteration: ʿûr
Phonetic Pronunciation: oor
Root: chaff (as the naked husk)
Part of Speech:  noun - masculine
Usage Notes - English Words used in KJV:

chaff 1

[Total Count: 1]

(Chaldee); chaff (as the naked husk):- chaff.

Hebrew Strong’s Number: 5785 - עוֹר

Hebrew Word: עוֹר
Transliteration: ʿôr
Phonetic Pronunciation: ore
Root: from <H5783>
Part of Speech: noun - masculine
Usage Notes - English Words used in KJV:

skin 96

hide 2

leather 1

[Total Count: 99]

From <H5783> (`uwr); skin (as naked); by implication hide, leather:- hide, leather, skin.

Hebrew Strong’s Number: 5786 - עָוַר

Hebrew Word: עָוַר
Transliteration: ʿāwar
Phonetic Pronunciation: aw-var’
Root: a primitive root [rather denominatively from <H5785> through the idea of a film over the eyes]
Part of Speech: verb
Usage Notes - English Words used in KJV:

put out 3

blind 2

[Total Count: 5]

a primitive root [rather denominative from <H5785> (`owr) through the idea of a film over the eyes]; to blind:- blind, put out. See also <H5895> (`ayir)

Hebrew Strong’s Number: 5787 - עִוֵּר

Hebrew Word: עִוֵּר
Transliteration: ʿiwwēr
Phonetic Pronunciation: iv-vare’
Root: intensive from <H5786>
Part of Speech: adj

Usage Notes - English Words used in KJV:

blind 25

blind men 1

[Total Count: 26]

intensive from <H5786> (`avar); blind (literal or figurative):- blind (men, people).

Summary of Symbolic Meanings

As I said above, I wanted the meaning of the words to be made very clear, so there would be no possibility of thinking that I had manipulated them in any way, to artificially create a message out of my own musings, rather that people would clearly see that God, who is in all and over all had predetermined what they would be and clearly guided the creation of the Strongs Bible Concordance as described above before hiding them in a stunning convergence of numbers within the Bible (Psalms); Two calendars (Hebrew and Gregorian) and a 19th Century Bible resource (Strongs Concordance), that only the Omniscient; Omnipotent and Omnipresent Creator of our Universe could coordinate. 

So now to reveal the next layer of what I believe is a hidden message by God to those of us that are looking for and hoping for the Blessed Hope of His Return in the clouds, I will begin to put the meaning of these 6 Strong Words, that match the numbers of the Hebrew Years that also correlate to Gregorian Years from 2022 to 2027, all together to show how they form an overview of mankind's spiritual condition from the Fall of Man through to the coming Tribulation.

To this end, see below for a Table summarizing these words, along with their Strong's Numbers / Meanings/ and Symbolic Meanings:

So essentially, as the summary Table above shows, the Hebrew roots spelled with the letters ע–ו–ר, form a fascinating symbolic sequence when their meanings are viewed through a theological lens. When arranged in the order of their Strong’s numbers (H5782–H5787), they create a narrative arc that mirrors the spiritual journey of humanity—from the serpent’s temptation in Eden to the final judgment, when God's Wrath will be poured out upon the wicked, who through their rejection of God and His Truth, will have their part in what the Bible calls Daniel's 70th week / the Time of Jacob's Trouble / or the Tribulation.

The following will expound on this a little further and hopefully clarify the sequence, remembering that these are all words that numerically correspond with our convergent period:

1. Awakening and Elevation (H5782 – עוּר) - The Fall

The root meaning of the first word, Strong's H5782, is “to awaken, rouse, stir up, lift up,” parallels the serpent’s temptation of Eve. The serpent offers a counterfeit awakening: “your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God.” This false elevation becomes the doorway to humanity’s Fall. Symbolically, H5782 represents the moment when humanity is stirred toward a deceptive enlightenment. In this way, it is akin to the Fall of Mankind in the Garden of Eden.

2. Nakedness Revealed (H5783 – עוּר) - The Physical Consequence

The next word, Strong's H5783, conveys the sense of being “bare” or “naked.” After eating the fruit, Adam and Eve’s eyes are opened, and they perceive their nakedness. This symbolizes their sudden awareness of vulnerability, guilt, and exposure. Humanity moves from the false awakening offered to them by Satan, through the Serpent, to the painful self-realisation of what listening to his lies really meant. It was a Physical Consequence for their disobedience to God's Words that pointed to an even greater consequence, yet to be understood by the first man and woman, as they grabbled with what had just occurred.

3. Chaff and Spiritual Emptiness (H5784 – עוֹר) - The Spiritual Consequence

The meaning of this next word, Strong's H5784 can refer to “skin,” “husk,” or most significantly “chaff.” Psalm 1 describes the ungodly as chaff blown away by the "wind", with the Hebrew word here for wind being Strong's Hebrew Word 7307: רוּחַrûaḥ, which is the same word used for the Spirit of God, the Holy Spirit. So symbolically, this reflects the Spiritual Consequence of the Fall. This was the greater penalty than their initial awareness of their physical nakedness because it involved their spiritual death and separation from God, that would ultimately require an atoning sacrifice that only God could provide. At this point, in the Garden, humanity represented by the first Adam had become spiritually dead, hollow and weightless, easily scattered like chaff. This is evident in the fact that immediately after the Fall, Adam hides from God, when he hears His voice walking in the Garden. Adam and mankind are now driven by a spirit of fear, rather than the intimate fellowship that they had once enjoyed, prior to their disobedience to God's Words.

4. Covering and Temporary Atonement (H5785 – עוֹר) - God's Covering, pointing to His Atonement

God immediate solution to all of this was to clothe Adam and Eve with skins. This act becomes the first symbol of the atonement — it was a temporary covering, pointing forward to the ultimate covering in Christ. The root meaning of this next word Strongs H5785 is “skin”, which becomes a symbol of God’s mercy in the midst of judgment; and it is actually Strong's H5785 that is used in Genesis 3:21 to describe this inaugural event related to the redemption of humanity.

²¹ Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make coats of skins and clothed them. Genesis 3:21

In this way, it is the Atonement for Sin that was now required to satisfy the Law that states that "the wages of Sin is Death". Essentially, an innocent party had to die to provide the covering that was given to Adam and Eve, as an act of Grace. Ultimately though, because the death of an animal cannot provide atonement for humanity's sin, it remained only a symbol that pointed to the true atonement in the Lamb of God in Jesus Christ. As it says in Genesis 22 (God's number for Israel and Jesus again), in the King James Bible Version - God would provide Himself a lamb for a burnt offering: 

⁴ Then on the third day Abraham lifted up -- his eyes, and saw -- the place afar off. ⁵ And Abraham said unto his young men, Abide ye here with the ass; and I and the lad will go yonder and worship, and come again to you. ⁶ And Abraham took -- the wood of the burnt offering, and laid it upon Isaac his son; and he took -- the fire in his hand, and -- a knife; and they went both of them together. ⁷ And Isaac spoke unto Abraham his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here am I, my son. And he said, Behold the fire and the wood: but where is the lamb for a burnt offering? ⁸ And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering: so they went both of them together. Genesis 22:4-8

This was the sacrifice that started the Age of Grace that to date has extended from AD32 to 2026 (or Hebrew Year 5786)

5. Blindness and Deception (H5786 – עָוַר) - The Deception of the End - Times

The meaning of the next Strongs H5786 word means “to blind” or “to make blind.” It symbolizes the progressive spiritual blindness that Scripture warns will characterize the end of the Age of Grace. Humanity, who were once falsely awakened in the Garden of Eden were offered God's Grace and Forgiveness in the middle of human history, when Jesus (God incarnate) died on the Cross vicariously for our Sins. However, since the Strong's H5786 word means to make blind in the sense of a skin being formed over the eyes, (as shown in the Strong's Dictionary descriptions above) it is perfectly describing our current age where people are increasingly unable to perceive truth and no longer comprehend the Gospel, believing that they are 'not sinners', so why would they need a Savior.  Therefore, while people are not totally blind yet, they are being deceived because they cannot discern the truth. In fact, Jesus not only warns about this end-time deception, saying:

⁴ And Jesus answered and said to them: “Take heed that no one deceives you. Matthew 24:4

but then inspires Paul, through the Holy Spirit, to record the fact that God will actively cause those who did not believe the Truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness, to come under a delusion, essentially being deceived as a judgement:

¹¹ And for this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie, ¹² that they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness. 2 Thessalonians 2:11-12

6. The Blind Ones and Final Judgment (H5787 – עִוֵּר) - The Destiny of the Wicked in the Tribulation

The final form of this word Strong's H5787, refers to “the blind person” - this is someone that is fully blind, not just someone who is being made blind by skin forming over their eyes, this is someone who is totally blind. Symbolically, this is no longer just deception that can be turned around, rather his represents the culmination of an extended spiritual blindness that results in a hardened rejection of God, leading into judgment. The narrative that began with a false awakening, ends in total darkness. I believe that this is the Judgement that leads people into the Tribulation, a time when God's wrath is poured out upon the wickedness of people on the earth. This is reflected in Revelation 14, a chapter that describes two harvests of souls. The first is an obvious reference to Jesus who is described as one like the Son of Man (Jesus' favorite title for Himself in the Gospels) seated on a cloud and reaping those that are His in Revelation 14:14-16

¹⁴ And I looked, and behold a white cloud, and upon the cloud one sat like unto the Son of man, having on his head a golden crown, and in his hand a sharp sickle. ¹⁵ And another angel came out of the temple, crying with a loud voice to him that sat on the cloud, Thrust in thy sickle, and reap: for the time is come for thee to reap; for the harvest of the earth is ripe. ¹⁶ And he that sat on the cloud thrust in his sickle on the earth; and the earth was reaped. Revelation 14:14-16

However, the second one reflects the imagery found in Isaiah 63:1–6, where God says:

³ I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the people there was none with me: for I will tread them in mine anger, and trample them in my fury; and their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments, and I will stain all my raiment. ⁴ For the day of vengeance is in mine heart, and the year of my redeemed is come. Isaiah 63:3-4

This is a judgement that results in the wicked being cast into the second-half of the Tribulation, that Jesus said in Matthew 24:21 would be a time of Great Tribulation, that is so bad that it will be the worst time in human history:

 ²¹ For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be. Matthew 24:21

Ultimately, it results in the wicked people being cast into the great winepress of the wrath of God

¹⁷ And another angel came out of the temple which is in heaven, he also having a sharp sickle. ¹⁸ And another angel came out from the altar, which had power over fire; and cried with a loud cry to him that had the sharp sickle, saying, Thrust in thy sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth; for her grapes are fully ripe. ¹⁹ And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it into the great winepress of the wrath of God. Revelation 14:17-19

These are all people who have been completely blinded to the Truth and have become both hard hearted and as it said in 2 Thessalonians above, they are sent a delusion by God because they "did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness" . So, this spiritual blindness leads them to believe the lie and to ultimately be condemned in the Great Tribulation. 

Prophetic Alignment with Strong's Bible Numbers

So now we will begin to bring it all together to see how this all relates the current period we are in...

The following will attempt to expound further on how the sequence of meaning connected to the 6 Strong's Words, that we have been considering here, correlates to our current age and in particular the events of God's Redemptive history from 2022 - 2027, that correspond to the Hebrew Years and Strong Numbers from 5782 to 5787.

We have already seen how the Psalms are prophetic and that the Psalms of Ascent in particular, starting at Psalm 120 (an end time number) corresponds under our theory to the year 2020, which is the first year of a unique 10-year period of convergence that goes from 2020 to 2029 (inclusively), where the numbers in the Hebrew Calendar and the Gregorian Calendar align numerically.

We have also now highlighted 6 Strong's Hebrew Bible Numbers that also numerically align with the 6 of the Hebrew Years in this convergent period, and that add up to 6 numbers from 22 to 27, that point to the Gregorian Years that end in those numbers, as follows:

Strong's:H5782 - Hebrew Year 5782 → 5 + 7 + 8 + 2 = 22 → 2022

Strong's:H5783 - Hebrew Year 5783 → 5 + 7 + 8 + 3 = 23 → 2023

Strong's:H5784 - Hebrew Year 5784 → 5 + 7 + 8 + 4 = 24 → 2024

Strong's:H5785 - Hebrew Year 5785 → 5 + 7 + 8 + 5 = 25 → 2025

Strong's:H5786 - Hebrew Year 5786 → 5 + 7 + 8 + 6 = 26 → 2026

Strong's:H5787 - Hebrew Year 5787 → 5 + 7 + 8 + 7 = 27 → 2027

Since the numbers 22 - 27 are very significant numbers in the bible, in their own right, we can now overlay some meanings to the years that the numbers point to, both from the perspective of the Strong's Numbers and the generic Biblical meaning of the numbers from 22 to 27, to see how they reinforce each other. Uncoincidentally, these numbers include our current Hebrew year 5786 that began in September 2025 and will continue until September 2026, so I believe in the midst of all of this, God is confirming where we are on His end-time calendar:

As such, the following will highlight another layer of revelation, in that the numbers from 22 to 27 inclusively, that represent the Strong's Bible Numbers from 5782 to 5787 also have their own original meanings in the bible, that both add to and confirm the meanings of each of the 6 Strong's words that they are associated with. In this way, we will add some prophetical context to the years that are connected to the convergent period of Hebrew and Gregorian Years, that symbolically seem to be aligning God's purposes for both the Jews and the Gentiles.

Number 22 - (Hebrew Year 5782 - 2022) - Israel, God's Solution to Sin

This can be understood as 5 + 7 + 8 + 2 = 22.

Starting with the number 22, this aligns with the Hebrew Year 5782 - and the Gregorian year 2022 - as well as Strong's: H5782 - which as shown above arguably relates to the Temptation of Man that leads to the Fall of Mankind and God's creation of Israel as His solution to this. In this respect, 22 is the number for Israel, a fact that is supported in numerous ways, including the following:

• Jacob, whose name was changed to Israel, was the 22^nd generation from Adam;

• the Hebrew Language of Israel has 22 letters in it;

• since the bible supports the Fall of man occurring when Adam was 99 years old, this means that Adam walked with God for 98 years before falling, after which God said He would only strive with sinful man for a symbolic 120 years, which means the 22 years between 98 and 120 symbolically represent God's ultimate solution for the Fall of Man, which is Israel;

• notably also Israel was reborn in 1948 and 1+9+4+8= 22

• when Jesus, who Matthew 2:15 equates with the Nation of Israel by quoting Hosea 11:1 (see verse below), died on the Cross, He quoted from Psalm 22 to show that He was the prophetic fulfilment of it;

• in this regard, the Psalms are positioned as the 19^th book from Genesis and the 48^th book from Revelation in the bible, with these numbers, as shown above, adding up to 22.

​¹ “When Israel was a child, I loved him, And out of Egypt I called My son. Hosea 11:1

There are numerous other connections between 22 and Israel, but the important point is that Israel, as fulfilled in Jesus, became God's ultimate solution to mankind's sin, after being tempted by Satan, the event of which I believe is encapsulated in the meaning of the Strong's Hebrew Word 5782 that numerically adds to 22. 

Notably, the Hebrew Year 5782, that highlights Israel's existence again, after 1,878 years, aligns with 2022, which acts as the start of our hidden end-time sequence, from 2022 to 2027. 

2022

Interestingly Israel's 37^th Government was formed in 2022 and is still in power, possibly until Jesus returns. 37 is a significant number that represents God Himself. It is basically like His personal Seal, which is why Genesis 1:1, which declares that the source and cause of all that exists is God, is in Hebrew numerically equivalent to 37 x 73 = 2701 and the atomic weight of the 20 amino acids that biologically are used to create every protein (that forms every cell in your body), when put into a table 4 columns wide (4 = the world) by 5 rows deep (5 = God's Grace) you get the number 2738.0169, as the following image compiled by the mathematician Peter Bluer, whose work can be found at  http://www.biblemaths.com/, shows:

Importantly, if you round 2738.0169 to the nearest number you actually get the integer 2738 which is 37 x 73 + 37 = 2738. So every cell in our body carries the Seal of God who created us, based upon the number 37, that represents the personal nature of God, who is both (3) persons (God the Father (the Ancient of Days); God the Son (the Logos - Word of God); God the Holy Spirit), with a (7) fold Spirit, as described in Isaiah 11:

² And the spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD; Isaiah 11:2 

And 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. Revelation 4:5

And amazingly this number that defines our very being, as creatures made in the Image of God, actually equals the value of:

Genesis 1:1 (37 x 73) + 37.

Further to this, God also concealed His personal number (37) in the Mitochondria, that are often called the "powerhouses" of the cell because they produce energy in the form of adenosine triphosphate (ATP). Without these functioning we quickly would get sick and die.

Key Points About Mitochondrial DNA:

• Distinct DNA: Mitochondria have their own circular DNA (mtDNA) that is separate from the nuclear DNA found in the cell's nucleus.

• Gene Count: Mitochondrial DNA contains 37 genes, which are crucial for its function - Spiritually, there is no life apart from God.

• Maternal Inheritance: This DNA is inherited only from the mother, as mitochondria are passed down through the egg cell during fertilization - Spiritually this seems to be a pointer to the "Seed of the Woman" (Jesus) who was promised in Genesis 3:15 as the one who would crush the head of the Satan.

• Energy Production: The 37 genes within mitochondria are primarily involved in the processes of energy production and the metabolism of nutrients - Spiritually this seems to be pointer to the power that God promises us as believers, noting such verses as

2 Timothy 1:7, which states: "For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind."

Mitochondrial DNA plays a vital role in cellular respiration and energy metabolism, which is essential for the proper functioning of the cell and, ultimately, the entire body. As Psalm 139:14 states, we are truly Fearfully and Wonderfully Made:

¹⁴ I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Marvelous are Your works, And that my soul knows very well. Psalms 139:14

So, the core of our very being reflects the very nature of God, as revealed by the number 37 throughout the bible.

Prophetic Significance of 37 in 2022

Ultimately though, the point of discussing this in relation to the year 2022 is, as stated above, because it was in that year, in Israel's modern history, that Benjamin Netanyahu was able to form its 37^th Government - it is like God's seal on the nation in these last days. There is no doubt that even his haters acknowledge that Benjamin has functioned superbly as a Wartime Prime Minister and because of his resolute determination not to divide the Land, God has clearly allowed his government to stand strong in the last days, in spite of the enemy's attempts to divide it internally. In this way, this 37^th government, that began ruling in 2022, will possibly be the one that leads the nation of Israel into the time of temporary peace and safety that Thessalonians speaks about, in relation to it ushering in the Rapture / Harpadzo.

Red Heifers:

Given also that Bible prophecy declares the Antichrist will stand in the Holy Place of the Temple, in Israel, there needs to be a third Temple rebuilt for this to happen. For this to be a fully functional Temple, in line with biblical requirements (Numbers 19), the ashes of a pure Red Heifer are required to ritually purify those who will be serving in it.  According to Jewish Rabbinical tradition, the Red Heifer sacrifice has officially only been conducted nine times in history, from the time of Moses, until the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 AD. As such, it is notable that in modern history, the first shipment of Red Heifers, that came from the United States to Israel, occurred in September 2022.

These heifers were brought by a group of religious Jews associated with the Temple Institute in Jerusalem, for the express purpose of preparing for a Third Temple. The shipment included five heifers, that were brought with the hope that one of them would meet the strict Biblical requirements for use in the purification process. According to Byron Stinson, the Texan Rancher who bred these Red Heifers, the sacrifice of one of these Heifers on July 1^st 2025, that is 'officially' being called a practice run, was actually the real thing being conducted by officially sanctioned Temple Priests.

Either way, starting in 2022, we saw an Israel that has been nationally far from God, beginning to awaken to the spiritual identity of who they are and what their purpose is; and with the arrival of these Red Heifers 2022 became a significant year prophetically for Israel and the end-times. Events such as these remind us of how God is stirring in the hearts of the people, creating the desire to turn to God. I believe this is the first stop that will ultimately end in a national revival, as prophesied in Ezekiel 37, that will eventually result in a recognition of Jesus, or Yeshua, as their Messiah. Then, at that time, as Matthew 23:39 states, they will say "... Blessed is He who comes in the name of the LORD!’ and then Jesus will return.

Essentially, as I have shown elsewhere in more detail, God is the God who reverses the Curse. Scripture often takes symbols associated with the curse or rebellion and flips them into instruments of grace, such as:

• The cross (a Roman execution device) becomes the symbol of salvation

• The serpent (Genesis 3) becomes a symbol of healing in Numbers 21

• Death itself becomes the doorway to resurrection

A numerical example of God reversing the curse can be seen in relation to the number 13 that was initially only associated with Rebellion, through such things as noting Nimrod, who is associated with the founding of Babel, and organized human defiance against God to become one of the original rebels, and who is often seen as an archetype of the Antichrist, was the 13th in Ham's genealogical line. In Genesis 14:4 it records that several kings served Chedorlaomer for twelve years, and “in the thirteenth year they rebelled.” Also Judas effectively became the 13^th disciple after betraying Jesus; hanging himself; and being replaced. 

Notably the curse of 13 was reversed when God sent Jesus, the second Adam after 3900 (13 x 300) years. Please note that this is based upon Biblical genealogies that place Abraham's birth 1948 years after Adam + 75 year (age at calling of Abraham by God, when he was given the promises) + 430 years (from Promises to Exodus, according to Galatians 3:17) + 480 years (to the 4^th year of Solomon when he began building the Temple, which most Academics place in 966 BC) + 966 years (from 4^th year of Solomon to time of Jesus)  = 3899  - then adjust for no year zero = 3900 (13  x 300 - the exact length of Noah's ark in cubits, which was a type of Jesus).

So, the curse was reversed when Jesus (the second Adam, the perfect Son of God - called Israel by Matthew), God's solution to reverse the curse of Sin, came into the world exactly 3900 years after Adam caused the curse to enter the world. Also, the Old Covenant, that pointed to Jesus - God's Solution in Israel was completed and revealed in 39 (13 x 3) books of our bible, before it rolled over to the New Covenant that show showed Jesus + 12 disciples = 13 people taking the Gospel of Grace to the world. 

As I have shown, the Strong's Hebrew number 5782 that points to Fall of Man, ultimately points to its Redemption through Israel that is associated with the number 22 and in 2022 it showed signs of an end-time awakening. While Israel had seeming failed as a nation, being dispersed for nearly two thousand years, one needs to remember that God stated in Romans that this was just a blindness that He allowed in part to happen to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles be come in (Romans 11:25). Israel is now being revived by God with the Fig Tree now being in its 78^th year since its rebirth in 1948. Therefore in 2022 we saw a nation that was beginning to be awakened to its true purpose in God, and that process is still continuing today.

Ultimately ISRAEL always was and always will be God's Solution to the Fall of Man in the Garden, just as Strong's H5782 suggests was needed and the false awakening of the enemy is being turned today into an awakening of God that is going to lead us to the Rapture and the Tribulation...

Number 23 - (Hebrew Year 5783 - 2023) - Physical Consequence of Sin

This can be understood as 5 + 7 + 8 + 3 = 23.

This aligns with the Hebrew Year 5783 and the Gregorian year 2023 - as well as Strong's Word: H5783 - Following the Fall of Man and the entrance of Sin, scripture highlights the physical consequence of Adam and Eve's Sin, in that both of them recognized that they were naked, just as is described in the meaning of the Strong's Bible Word - Hebrew 5783, which means to be naked and exposed. This comes upon them as God's Judgement for their sin, that is also connected with the standard biblical meaning of the number 23, that comes when God will no longer strive with sinful man.

As we have discussed above, Gen 6:3 places a limit on how long God will strive with sinful man before judgement would come - it was represented symbolically by the number 120 (98 +22) where 120 was seen as the addition of the 98 years of walking with God prior to the Fall, when Adam was 99, and God's solution in Israel (as represented by 22), following the Fall.

Ultimately though, this limit is broken by 23 because it exceeds 120 by becoming 121 (98 + 23).  Numerically, this represents a transition from grace to judgement; just as when Moses reached the limit of 120 and had to die, even though his physical strength and eyes were not weakened; and Noah before him was a preacher of righteousness for 120 years, while he built the Ark, prior to the flood of Judgement coming:

³ And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be a hundred and twenty years. Genesis 6:3

Understanding the connection between the number 23 and God striving with man, we then see Genesis 32 (the same numbers in reverse) that talks about Jacob as someone who has striven with God and man and prevailed:

²⁸ Then he said, “Your name shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel, for you have striven with God and with men, and have prevailed.” Genesis 32:28

The term striven here corresponds to Strongs H8280 - שָׂרָה, which is also the word used for the name Sarah - שָׂרָה. As illustrated in the screenshots below, it’s the identical word, distinguished only by different Strong's numbers_—either H8280 or H8283—depending on the context. The meaning doesn’t change; rather, in one case, it serves as a name, while in another, its significance as a verb (strive or struggle) is employed within the text.

The intent here is to demonstrate that the number 23, associated with the 23^rd chapter of Genesis—the section describing Sarah’s death—symbolically signifies the end of striving. Since Sarah's name translates to "Striving" and she dies in this chapter, both the chapter and its number become emblematic of the conclusion of striving. This interpretation matches the meaning attached to her name.

Here are several examples in GENESIS that show how connecting the content of a Bible chapter to its chapter number can be considered a legitimate way to interpret scripture:

22 is the number for Israel, the nation that is promised to Abraham. Notably this promise was only confirmed when Abraham did not withhold his son, a fact that was recorded in Genesis chapter 22:

¹⁴ And Abraham called the name of that place Jehovah-jireh: as it is said to this day, In the mount of the LORD it shall be seen.
¹⁵ And the angel of the LORD called unto Abraham out of heaven the second time, ¹⁶ And said, By myself have I sworn, saith the LORD, for because thou hast done -- this thing, and hast not withheld -- thy son, -- thine only son: ¹⁷ That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply -- thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess -- the gate of his enemies; ¹⁸ And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because thou hast obeyed my voice. ¹⁹ So Abraham returned unto his young men, and they rose up and went together to Beer-sheba; and Abraham dwelt at Beer-sheba. Genesis 22:14-19

4 is the number of the World  - its foundational story that involves it being populated; the entrance of Sin and Evil between man (not just man and God, as in chapter 3), and its affect upon the world (Cain separated from God and went into the world and built cities), is all dealt with in the opening story of Cain and Abel, as recorded in Genesis Chapter 4

5 is the number of Grace—this concept reflects God's unearned favour and fruitfulness granted through the Holy Spirit. Genesis Chapter 5 introduces the Messianic Seed Line, representing God's intention for humanity to thrive and be fruitful. This lineage, which ultimately leads from Adam to Jesus, is outlined through the genealogy of Adam via Seth, who was given by God as an act of Grace to take the place of Abel, after Abel's murder.

6 is the number of man - man from the time of the Fall became increasingly wicked, such that Genesis chapter 6 details the judgement of man by God in the Flood of Noah that destroyed all of mankind except for 8 people because it says that the wickedness of man was so great that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart were only evil continually:

⁵And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. Genesis 6:5

8 is the number associated with Jesus; salvation and new beginnings - so again Genesis Chapter 8 details the end of the Flood and a new beginning for Noah and his family, comprised of 8 people (Noah and his wife; and his 3 sons and their wives) and ultimately for all of mankind.

33 - this is connected with the sacrifice of Jesus, when He died at the age of 33 for the sin of mankind, to save and restore us to God's favour. In Genesis 33 we see the account of Jacob who had fled away from Esau for over 20 years, afraid that he would kill him because he deceived him out of his blessing (symbolic of fallen man). In fearing what Esau would do, he prayed to God in Chapter 32 as per below:

⁹ Then Jacob said, “O God of my father Abraham and God of my father Isaac, the LORD who said to me, ‘Return to your country and to your family, and I will deal well with you’: ¹⁰ I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies and of all the truth which You have shown Your servant; for I crossed over this Jordan with my staff, and now I have become two companies. ¹¹ Deliver me, I pray, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau; for I fear him, lest he come and attack me and the mother with the children. ¹² For You said, ‘I will surely treat you well, and make your descendants as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.’ ” Genesis 32:9-12

Then after organising for many gifts to be sent ahead of himself and his family, Jacob whose name had just been changed to Israel by God, confirming that the covenant originally cut with Abraham now extended to him and his seed as well, he began the final part of the journey home, which is recorded in Genesis 33. 

Just like the story of the Prodigal Son, who returns home to his Father, after taking his inheritance while his father is alive, and expects to be at best treated as a servant, but receives his love and favor, God our heavenly Father intervened in Jacob's situation so that he too would be received with love and favor. When Jacob, still fearful of how Esau would react to him, looked up, he saw him approaching with 400 men and so he began to try to manipulate and control the situation, just as we often try to work our way into God's favor:

¹ Now Jacob lifted his eyes and looked, and there, Esau was coming, and with him were four hundred men. So he divided the children among Leah, Rachel, and the two maidservants. ² And he put the maidservants and their children in front, Leah and her children behind, and Rachel and Joseph last. ³ Then he crossed over before them and bowed himself to the ground seven times, until he came near to his brother. Genesis 33:1-3

However, just as the Prodigal’s Father ran to meet his lost son and showed him undeserved grace and forgiveness, Jacob, as a type of the son who had sought to return home, was also met with undeserved grace and favour by Esau:

​⁴ But Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck and kissed him, and they wept. Genesis 33:4

Essentially, it all reflects how God the Father runs toward us, after sending His own Son to die in our place on the Cross at the age of 33. Ultimately, Jacob had prayed for deliverance and after both wrestling and prevailing with God, his name was changed to Israel to reflect that it is God who is providing the solution to our sin problem. Then, the remainder of the chapter details how Jacob and Esau could live together in a restored relationship, which is again a powerful reminder of the Grace of God towards us through his Son Jesus, that enables us also to live in right - relationship with our Father.

23 continued - The point of all this is to highlight that the historical events recorded in the different chapter numbers of Genesis do reflect aspects of the biblical meanings of numbers in general and so chapter 23, that is associated with the death of Sarah, means that the number 23 and by extension the year 2023 are also connected with the end of God striving with fallen mankind (because this is the inherent meaning of her name) and the beginning of God's Judgement.

Other factors that support this, can be understood by noting that in the Messianic Line from Adam to Jesus, the 22^nd generation from Adam was Jacob, who was renamed Israel, which as above is associated with the number 22. Importantly, it was a straight uninterrupted line, apart from Seth replacing Abel at the beginning, but this all changed when the line got to the 23^rd generation because of God's Judgement. It should have been Reuben, Jacob / Israel's firstborn, but because Reuben slept with one of Israel's concubines, he was judged and disqualified.

Then the birthright should have passed to Simeon, Jacob's second born, but he along with Jacob's third born son were disqualified, being judged because of an incident that they were involved in, surrounding their sister Dinah, who had been raped by Shechem, the son of Hamor the Hivite, a prince of a foreign neighboring land. Enraged, they went to kill him, but Shechem's father pleaded for his son's life, saying that Shechem loved and desired Dinah for a wife. Simeon and Levi deceitfully agreed to this, on the condition that all the men of the land would first need to be circumcised, so that they could all live together. However, they waited a few days until all the men were effectively sore and incapacitated by the process, and then simply went and killed them all. This displeased God, so they were judged and disqualified from the Seed Line to the Messiah and the 23^rd generation fell to Judah, the 4^th Son of Jacob / Israel, through whom the ultimate Son in Jesus Christ would be born, as the Lion of the Tribe of Judah.

Importantly, as the 23^rd generation, the judgements continued with the line to the Messiah being stalled for a time, in connection with Judah. Scripture states that Judah's firstborn son, whose name was Er עֵר, was evil and that God killed him. Intriguingly, his name carries two of the three consonants in the word עוּר that we have been discussing in this article, that has 6 forms. Like the first word in this sequence Er's name also means to watch; awaken and stir up, which we saw as symbolic of Satan's temptation. Clearly you cannot get a greater judgement than being killed by God and just as the LORD warned Adam not to eat of the Tree of the Knowlege of Good and Evil because in the day that he did so he would die, Er, who would have been in the line of the Messiah was judged to have been evil, and died.

Ultimately though, God's judgements are always for the purpose of restoring righteousness and so He is always looking for hearts that are towards Him. In this respect, following the disqualification of the three older brothers (Reuben, Simeon, Levi) due to their grave sins, Judah is considered to have emerged as the leader through his willingness to substitute himself for Benjamin, echoing the future sacrifice of Jesus. Unlike his brothers, Judah showed a dramatic shift in character. He initially suggested selling Joseph, but later offered his own life to save his younger brother Benjamin from slavery, demonstrating a self-sacrificial heart.

After the death of his first son, Judah was meant to offer his next son Onan אוֹנָן, as a husband to his first son's widow Tamar, under the Levirate marriage laws. However, scripture again says that Onan was evil and that God killed him. This left Judah with only one son Shelah. Initially not wishing to lose his only remaining son, he asked Tamar to wait until Shelah was older. However, while Tamar agreed to wait, Judah did not keep his word and ultimately Tamar desperate for a husband covered herself and waited on the highway where Judah would be passing. As Judah's wife Shua had died by this time, he was clearly desiring some physical intimacy. So when he saw Tamar all covered up, he did not recognise her and thinking she was a harlot he asked to come into her for a price. She agreed, but knowing he was not necessarily a man of his word, she asked for a pledge to confirm that he would pay the price. These included his signet ring, bracelets, and staff, that he was carrying with him at that moment, but when his servants later returned with a baby goat, that was also to be a part of the price, they could not find the woman, not knowing that it was Tamar, Judah's daughter in law.

About 3 months later, when Judah heard that Tamar was pregnant by harlotry, Judah was at first self-righteous declaring that she should be burnt for such an act. Again, this was a very harsh judgement in connection with the 23^rd generation. However, when Tamar said the child's father was the owner of the things that Judah had pledged, and he realized he was the father; and that this had only occurred because he had failed to provide his son Shelah to Tamar, out of fear of losing him, he acknowledged that she had been more righteous than him. Thus, in time he became the father of Tamar's twin boys Perez and Zerah.

Initially, during the birth process, Zerah had extended his hand out of the womb. Thinking he was going to be the firstborn, the mid-wife tied a scarlet thread around his hand to identify him. However, he then pulled his hand back into the womb and Perez was born first, as a reminder that God's choices will always stand, not just the natural order of things. This made Perez the 24^th generation in the Messianic Seed line from Adam to Christ, but only after a lot of Judgement had occurred in connection with the 23^rd generation, to ensure God's purposes were fulfilled.

One final example of 23 and Judgement

In connection with Israel's history and the number 23 - Paul was recounting in 1 Corinthians 10:8 that 23,000 people had died in one day, as a judgement of God. It was related to an incident recorded in Numbers 25:1-9, that occurred while the Israelites were wandering in the wilderness and had joined in sexual immorality with the People of Baal-Peor. This had angered God and incurred His Judgement:

⁸ Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand. 1 Corinthians 10:8

Significantly, this was a Judgement of God on His own people in connection with the number 23, and so in line with scripture, it is my belief that the Judgement of God always begins in the House of God, which includes those that claim to be His in the Church. If one is tempted to suggest that this was simply an Old Testament example that can have no current equivalence in modern times, because of Jesus incurring God's Wrath on our behalf, then noting the context of Paul's example in the following verses will put that thought to rest:

⁹ nor let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed by serpents; ¹⁰ nor complain, as some of them also complained, and were destroyed by the destroyer. ¹¹ Now all these things happened to them as examples, and they were written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the ages have come. ¹² Therefore let him who thinks he stands take heed lest he fall. 1 Corinthians 10:9-12

Clearly, the Holy Spirit through Paul is warning us not to tempt Christ, as some of God's people did in the days following the Exodus, and He is giving us an admonition, which is a mild rebuke or warning, that if we follow the example of the Israelites at the time they were in the wilderness and both lust after evil things and engage in what the God calls sexual immorality, then we who live after Jesus, at the ends of the ages, and think we still stand in right relationship with God, can actually fall. 

2023

In other words, we are open to the possibility of God's Judgement, and during 2023 there were a number of incidences that arguably fits this category. One well known example was the First Congregational Church in Spencer, Massachusetts, that was an LGBTQ affirming church that was destroyed by fire, after being hit by lightning on June 23^rd. The following two videos highlight and discuss this issue:

As is pointed out in the first video, God clearly states in Isaiah 45:7 that His actions upon the earth include the creation of calamity:

⁷ I form the light and create darkness, I make peace and create calamity; I, the LORD, do all these things.’ Isaiah 45:7

His purpose for doing this is stated in the next verse as being for the establishment of righteousness and salvation:

⁸ “Rain down, you heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness; Let the earth open, let them bring forth salvation, and let righteousness spring up together. I, the LORD, have created it. Isaiah 45:8

Then in the next verse, He includes a warning, that directly connects to our discussion here, about Fallen Man striving with God:

⁹ “Woe to him who strives with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth! Shall the clay say to him who forms it, ‘What are you making?’ Or shall your handiwork say, ‘He has no hands’? Isaiah 45:9

Clearly, scripture describes Jacob striving with God, but in a good way, as he sought God's blessing and His righteousness, and as such he prevailed. This pleased God, and He changed Jacob's name, that means 'Deceiver; Supplanter and Heel Grabber' that represented his fallen state, to Israel to reflect his saved state. This all took place in the context of Jacob wrestling with a man who he came to realize was actually God Himself, in a human form (that we now understand to be the pre-incarnate Jesus). In this way, Jacob / Israel's physical wrestling with God is a picture of every human being, who at some point in their life, need to wrestle with God spiritually (no longer physically), to receive salvation. However, those that choose to remain in their Sin and strive with their Maker by declaring something as righteous, that God has clearly revealed in His Word to be an "abomination to the LORD", are in danger of judgement, as Isaiah 45:9 states ⁹“Woe to him who striUves with his Maker!". Basically, as the verse also states, we are the clay and God is the one that formed us, and therefore He is the only one who can inform us about what is righteous and what is not. 

In this respect, there could be a connection to the Hamas war of 2023, remembering that Israel was judged many times, as recorded in the book of Judges when they were disobedient and turned their back on God. Essentially, in those days, God gave them over to their desires and their false gods and His protection for a time was withdrawn. It was all designed to remind the people of the blessings of God, when they were in right relationship with Him; and ultimately, it caused the people as a nation to cry out to God for a deliverer, just as they had in the days of Moses when God rescued them from their slavery in Egypt.

Similarly, as a nation, modern Israel had been living in disobedience and unbelief with Tel Aviv being well known as one of the most LGBTQ+ friendly cities in the world, prior to Oct 7 2023. In the years leading up to the attack by Hamas, the city would welcome hundreds of thousands of international visitors and revellers for Tel Aviv Gay Pride Month, that was held in June of each year. It has been described as an "epic and unsurpassed daytime street party" along the shores of the Mediterranean Sea, that based upon scripture would one day incur God's judgement. However, as stated, it is always judgement for the purpose of restoration. Therefore, while God had restored the physical nation in 1948, the spiritual restoration remained future. So arguably the events of October 2023 may have been a judgement that was meant to trigger a national revival. Either way, it is notable that the annual event in Tel Aviv is currently cancelled due to security concerns.

Prophetically, this two-stage restoration is revealed in Ezekiel chapter 37, that speaks about the 'dry bones'; for while this passage showed that there would be a sovereign move of God to restore his people to the Land (1948), Ezekiel 37:7-8 then states that when this happened there would be no breath in them:

⁷ So I prophesied as I was commanded; and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and suddenly a rattling; and the bones came together, bone to bone. ⁸ Indeed, as I looked, the sinews and the flesh came upon them, and the skin covered them over; but there was no breath in them. Ezekiel 37:7-8

Then Ezekiel 37:9-10 states that this event would be followed by another one, when God would begin to pour His Spirit out onto His people:

⁹ Also He said to me, “Prophesy to the breath, prophesy, son of man, and say to the breath, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD: “Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe on these slain, that they may live.” ’ ” ¹⁰ So I prophesied as He commanded me, and breath came into them, and they lived, and stood upon their feet, an exceedingly great army. Ezekiel 37:9-10  

This has begun, but will not be completed until the end of the 'Time of Jacob's Trouble' aka the Tribulation, when as Scripture says in Romans 11:26 - All Israel will be saved.

Number 24 - (Hebrew Year 5784- 2024) - The Spiritual Consequence

This can be understood as 5 + 7 + 8 + 4 = 24.

This aligns with the Hebrew Year 5784 - and the Gregorian year 2024 - as well as Strong's: H5784 - Following on from the Physical Consequence of Sin and its associated Judgement, we see that people can respond in either of two ways. Some will cry for deliverance and seek to return to God, like Adam's son Abel, who brought a sacrifice that was pleasing to the LORD, while others such as Adam's other son Cain will double down in their Sin, which ultimately led to the murder of his brother Abel and his separation from God.

Essentially, the Physical Consequence of the Fall of Man, led to an awareness that they were naked, but there was also a Spiritual Consequence, with Adam and Eve's relationship with God being broken. Instead of running toward Him when they heard His voice, as He walked in the Garden, they were now hiding from Him. Like the associated Strong's Bible Word Hebrew 5784 they were now naked spiritually, being like chaff that is driven away by the wind, as stated in Psalm1:4, noting again, that the word translated here as 'wind' is in Hebrew רוּחַ rûaḥ, which is the same word used when describing the Holy Spirit (רוּחַ קֹדֶש):

⁴ The ungodly are not so, But are like the chaff which the wind drives away. Psalms 1:4

Here the wind (a picture of God in the Holy Spirit) drives the ungodly away because Holiness cannot abide in the presence of Sin, it must be covered and atoned for. This is the same picture God created when He instructed Noah to build the Ark, which was a symbol of Jesus. God told Noah:

¹⁴ Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make -- in the ark, and shalt pitch -- it within and without with pitch. Genesis 6:14

Here, the word for 'pitch' in Hebrew is כָּפַר (kāp̱ar), which means to cover and atone for, as the following image taken from the OliveTree Bible Dictionary shows:

It is actually the word used in the Day of Atonement, which is the Holiest Day on the Hebrew Calendar. In Hebrew, it is written as יוֹם הַכִּפֻּרִים (Yom Hakippurim), or יוֹם כִּפֻּרִים (Yom Kippurim). The term breaks down as “Yom”  יוֹם, meaning “day”, and “Kippur”  כִּפֻּר, meaning “atonement” or “covering”, the exact same word used for the Pitch covering the Ark.

Since the Ark is a picture of Jesus it shows that He is our covering and the atonement for our Sin. So, when God covered Adam and Eve with the skins, that is represented by one of the 6 forms of our Hebrew word עוֹר, in Strong's Hebrew Word H5785 (that we will discuss next), we can truly see how God made a way for us so that He would not have to drive us away spiritually.

Ultimately, being spiritually naked like chaff that is driven away from God, all aligns with the meaning behind the Hebrew Year 5784 - Gregorian year 2024 - and Strongs: H5784 - Spiritual Consequence of Sin that addresses how God and mankind both act as a result of being spiritually separated. While mankind becomes like "chaff in the wind", that is spiritually driven away from God, becoming afraid, such that they now flee and hide from Him, God's response is to immediately seek for man, as He did with Adam, when the omniscient God called to Adam asking where are you?

In this way, 2024 was all about God seeking those who having been separated from Him in the past, but now want to dwell with Him in Eternity, before the final Judgements of this Age occur. While He has always been seeking to save the Lost, both scripture and the events around us show that He has reached the appointed time, in the Timeline of Redemptive History, where He is no longer striving with Sinful Man (as symbolized by the events of 2023), but is beginning to look at those alive at the end of the Age of Grace, to see who wants to be part of the Bride of Christ, who is soon to be caught up to be with the Groom, and will participate in the Marriage of the Lamb.

As such, God the Father, has been searching in earnest for those that were seeking His righteousness, having cleaning hands and a having a pure heart that has not sworn falsely or deceitfully, as stated in Psalm 24:

⁴ He who has clean hands and a pure heart, Who has not lifted up his soul to an idol, Nor sworn deceitfully. ⁵ He shall receive blessing from the LORD, And righteousness from the God of his salvation. ⁶ This is Jacob, the generation of those who seek Him, Who seek Your face. Psalms 24:3-6

However, while the call for Salvation is to all people, the following verse in Matthew 7 speaks to those who have sworn falsely because here Jesus is talking to people who believe they are saved, yet He states that He never knew them and therefore they will be forever separated from Him, unless they repent and truly seek Him with all of their Heart, before that day:

²² Many will say to Me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?’ ²³ And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!’ Matthew 7:22-23

Underlying all of this is the number 24, which is all about the restoration of our relationship with God such that we can dwell and walk with Him forever. As such, through its factors of 12 (12 x 2 = 24), it is connected with the Body of Christ, the 'Seed of the Woman' (which are both 12); and through its multiple of 48 (24 x 2 = 48), it is connected to God's Presence.

Notably, the 'Seed of the Woman' is 12 because not only does a girl become a woman at the age of 12, at her Bat Mitzvah in Israel, but Jesus was the fulfilment of Genesis 3:15, where God declared that the 'Seed of the Woman' would crush the head of the Serpent (Satan), and His first words in that capacity, were recorded in scripture when He was 12 years old: 

⁴⁹ And He said to them, “Why did you seek Me? Did you not know that I must be about My Father’s business?” Luke 2:49

Symbolically, this is why there were 12 Tribes of Israel, because Jesus is equated as Israel by Matthew, when he quotes Hosea 11:1 about God calling His Son out of Egypt, and 12 would always represent the fulness of the body of Christ (the 'Seed of the Woman'). This is also why there were 12 Apostles, that again represented the fullness of the 'Seed of the Woman' in Christ. Together, they represented both the Old and New Covenants that would ultimately be reflected in Heaven, as recorded by John, who revealed the 24 (12 + 12) Elders who were seated on Thrones round about God's Throne:

⁴ Around the throne were twenty-four thrones, and on the thrones I saw twenty-four elders sitting, clothed in white robes; and they had crowns of gold on their heads. Revelation 4:4

Here we have the Body of Christ (the 'Seed of the Woman') fully represented in Heaven, as reflected in the 24 elders.

Then, as I have shown in other articles, God's presence is connected with the number 48, that can be understood from scripture as follows:

• Starting from the 50th day (the first Pentecost) of the Exodus, when God descended on Mt Sinai to meet with the People face to face and to give them the Law, and working backwards towards the 48^th day since leaving Egypt, we find a sequence in the following verse:

¹⁰ Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go to the people and consecrate them today [48^th day] and tomorrow [49^th day], and let them wash their clothes. ¹¹ And let them be ready for the third day [50th day - first Pentecost]. For on the third day the LORD will come down upon Mount Sinai in the sight of all the people. Exodus 19:10-11

• When Moses was talking with God in this verse, the reference to 'today' represented the 48^th day after leaving Egypt, and the 'tomorrow' was the 49^th day. Importantly, it was on the 48^th day that Moses, when standing in the presence of God, told Him that the people had agreed to be obedient to the LORD, such that He would be their God and they would become unto Him a Special Treasure; a  Kingdom of Priests; and a Holy Nation (Exodus19:5-6):

⁵ Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep -- my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine: ⁶ And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and a holy nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel. ⁷ So Moses came and called for the elders of the people, and laid before them all these words which the LORD commanded him. ⁸ Then all the people answered together and said, “All that the LORD has spoken we will do.” So Moses brought back the words of the people to the LORD. ⁹ And the LORD said to Moses, “Behold, I come to you in the thick cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with you, and believe you forever.” So Moses told the words of the people to the LORD. Exodus 19:5-9

In this way, the 48^th day involved a seminal event in the relationship of God and His people Israel. It was the beginning of the nation because the individual tribes of Israel had collectively agreed to obey God. In confirming this with the LORD, it triggered a 3 day sequence, 48^th day → 49^th day → 50th day, that culminated with God giving the people the Law, so that once they reached the Promised Land this would establish them as a nation, the nation of Israel, the very nation that God had promised to Abraham 430 years earlier.

This was all so God could offer fallen humanity redemption through Jesus the Son of God, the Seed of the Woman, who would embody the nation of Israel and completely fulfil God's purposes on earth; and again allow God to walk and dwell with humanity, who had fallen in the Garden of Eden and had been separated from Him.

In this way, 48 - which is 12 x 4 and 24 x 2 - all reveals God in the 'Seed of the Woman' (12), as symbolised by 12 Tribes; 12 Apostles and 24 Elders (representing the 12 Tribes of the Old Covenant and the 12 Apostles of the New Covenant). It is all about God's Presence and His desire to dwell with His people. This is why scripture records that it was exactly 480 (48 x 10) years after the Exodus from slavery in Egypt that Solomon began to build the Temple; and prior to that Moses was commanded to build the Holy of Holies in the Tabernacle in the Wilderness—where God's presence would dwell with His people—out of 48 boards.

In this way, 24 is numerically connected through factors and multiples with the people of God (12) and His presence (48). This is interesting because Psalm 24 also indicates an association with this theme when it asks the question:

³ Who may ascend into the hill of the LORD? Or who may stand in His holy place?

As stated above, in reference to describing those that want to be a part of the Bride of Christ, the answer is two-fold:

⁴ He who has clean hands and a pure heart, Who has not lifted up his soul to an idol, Nor sworn deceitfully. ⁵ He shall receive blessing from the LORD, And righteousness from the God of his salvation. ⁶ This is Jacob, the generation of those who seek Him, Who seek Your face. Psalms 24:3-6

Essentially this mirrors the Law of God that Jesus said could be summarised in two commandments that were to:

• To love God with all of your Heart and Soul and Mind, and 

• To love your neighbour as yourself 

In Psalm 24, having a pure heart is akin to 'loving God' and having clean hands relates to 'loving your neighbour' because it is our actions towards them, through what we do (as symbolised by our hands), that determines this. So 24 is primarily about our covenant relationship with God and being in His presence; which by extension involves God seeking who that will be. 

Similarly Genesis 24 through typology is about the Father seeking a Bride for His Son, remembering that the God of Abraham; Isaac and Jacob is a way of understanding God the Father; God the Son; and God the Holy Spirit, and in this 24^th chapter, we see Abraham seeking a Bride for the 'promised son' in Isaac, which is a type of God the Father seeking who will be part of the Bride for His Son - the Bride of Christ. Clearly, as Psalm 24 states, it will be those who have clean hands and a pure heart, which is all those who put their faith in the only begotten of the Father and are obedient to His commands, Loving God with their whole heart; and Loving their Neighbour as themselves.

2024

So most Importantly, what we are seeing in relation to 24 and by extension what we saw in 2024, was a separation of people. There were and still are, those who want to be restored to God, to ascend into the hill of the LORD, to stand in His Holy Place; and those who don't because like chaff they are spiritually driven away and they are no longer seeking Him - it is like in the final Harvest, when God separates the Wheat from the Tares.

In this regard, 2024 probably became one of the most significant years to date, in terms of end-time events, because after the world's initial sympathy for Israel in relation to the events of Oct 7 2023 and the massacre by Hamas, the world very quickly began to turn on Israel, and we saw a rise in anti-Semitism that the world has not seen since WWII. The public demonstrations in the universities and on the streets against Israel, that we are still seeing around the world today, all began in 2024. Essentially, people began to be separated over Israel, who will always remain God's Chosen People, with eternal promises tied to His covenant with Abraham.

Even previously solid right-wing conservatives, who had once stood for Truth and Biblical values, such as Tucker Carlson; Candace Owens; and Megan Kelly etc; are now being classified as a new-Right movement, after being divided over the central issues based upon their views of Israel. It is a spiritual division and much of the Church is also being divided because many within it embrace 'Replacement Theology', the belief that 'God is finished with Israel and that the promises now belong to the Church'. It is a mind numbing thought to contemplate how people can believe this and not for a second question their own salvation, for if God cannot be trusted to fulfil all of His eternal covenantal promises to Abraham, that were to be fulfilled in His chosen people Israel, on what basis do they trust Him for anything else, let alone their own eternal salvation.

Essentially, as I said above, I truly believe that in 2024 we saw the start of the separation of the Wheat and the Tares. Clearly from the parable in Matthew 13 the Wheat represents the good seed, those who hear the good news of the Gospel and respond, giving their hearts to the LORD, while the Tares come from the seed that the enemy has sown.

Notably Wheat and Tares (specifically darnel, Lolium temulentum) look extremely similar, almost identical, when they are young, making them indistinguishable until they mature and produce fruit, at which point the poisonous tare stands out, often taller and darker, while the wheat bends and turns golden as it ripens.

Spiritually I believe this is what we are seeing with this new-Right movement, that is entertaining commentary from far-right neo nazis, such as Nick Fuentis, and is embracing anti-Israel rhetoric and conspiracies, while all the time denying that they are anti-semitic. Essentially, the period preceding the Hamas War was like when the Wheat and the Tares were both young, they looked the same and they sounded the same as other conservatives, but post Oct 2023 they have matured and the poisonous Tare is now standing out, being seen for what it is.

Importantly though, in this parable, when the servants of the Owner (a picture of the LORD) recognised there were Tares amongst the Wheat they were confused and came to Him to as follows:

²⁷ So the servants of the owner came and said to him, ‘Sir, did you not sow good seed in your field? How then does it have tares?’ Matthew 13:27

This seems to mirror the confusion of many true conservatists, as they ask the question what has happened to these people in the myriad of videos that exist on this topic. However, the Owner or the LORD is clear why the Tares are there, He simply says:

²⁸ He said to them, ‘An enemy has done this.’ Matthew 13:28

Now at this point, I want to make clear that I am not making an absoulute judgment about the any of the people that are currently being classified as the new-right because like any of us, in a single breath or heart beat, the Holy Spirit can come in and change our hearts and in a moment we can be saved. This is evident from two passages about the two thieves that were crucified alongside Jesus. The first shows both Thieves railing off against Jesus:

³⁸ Then two robbers were crucified with Him, one on the right and another on the left. ³⁹ And those who passed by blasphemed Him, wagging their heads ⁴⁰ and saying, “You who destroy the temple and build it in three days, save Yourself! If You are the Son of God, come down from the cross.” ⁴¹ Likewise the chief priests also, mocking with the scribes and elders, said, ⁴² “He saved others; Himself He cannot save. If He is the King of Israel, let Him now come down from the cross, and we will believe Him. ⁴³ He trusted in God; let Him deliver Him now if He will have Him; for He said, ‘I am the Son of God.’ ”   ⁴⁴ Even the robbers who were crucified with Him reviled Him with the same thing. Matthew 27:38-44

Then the second one shows only one thief blaspheming Jesus:

³⁹ Then one of the criminals who were hanged blasphemed Him, saying, “If You are the Christ, save Yourself and us.”
⁴⁰But the other, answering, rebuked him, saying, “Do you not even fear God, seeing you are under the same condemnation? ⁴¹ And we indeed justly, for we receive the due reward of our deeds; but this Man has done nothing wrong.” ⁴² Then he said to Jesus, “Lord, remember me when You come into Your kingdom.” ⁴³ And Jesus said to him, “Assuredly, I say to you, today you will be with Me in Paradise.” Luke 23:39-43

So clearly, in a breath, in the last moments of his life, the second thief had had an epiphany and had given his heart to Jesus. So only God truly knows who the true Tares are. However, I truly believe this separation of peoples is currently occurring and just like the Servants in the Parable, who asked the Owner (Jesus):

²⁸ ... ‘Do you want us then to go and gather them up?’ Matthew 13:28

The owner (Jesus), who does not want us to judge and treat others differently, but to love our neighbour as ourselves, says:

" ^{29 ...}  ‘No, lest while you gather up the tares you also uproot the wheat with them." Matthew 13:29

Then He makes another important statement, when He defines three steps in dealing with them - (Gather; Bind; and Burn), saying:

³⁰ Let both grow together until the harvest, and at the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, “First gather together the tares and bind them in bundles to burn them, but gather the wheat into my barn.” ’ ” Matthew 13:27-30

Prophetically, I believe that we are currently seeing the first step (the Gathering) where God Himself is identifying who the real Tares are, such that the Reapers, who are the Angels, will know who to Gather. This aligns with seeing who will ascend into the Hill of the LORD and stand in His Holy Place and identifying who wants to be a part of the Bride of Christ. Only God knows who the true believers are and who will be taken in the Rapture. As Luke 21:36 states, we all should be praying always that we will be accounted worthy to stand before the LORD when He comes:

³⁶ Watch therefore, and pray always that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man.” Luke 21:36

The rest will enter the Tribulation, where they will be given another opportunity to give their heart to the LORD, through the ministry of the Two-Witnesses and the 144,000 sealed believers from the tribes of Israel. This is when I believe that the second step, that involves the Binding of the Tares will occur, toward the end of the Tribulation. At that time, unbelievers will be bound and ultimately in the third step they will be cast into the Lake of Fire.

Interestingly, with regard to this idea of separation, when we consider Perez, the son of Judah, who became the 24^th generation in the 'Messianic Seed Line' from Adam to Christ, we saw something that I believe is prophetically significant because the narrative shows that the 24^th Generation was originally going to be Zerah, as he was the first one to put his hand out of the womb allowing the mid-wife to tie a Scarlet Thread around it. However, in a event that affirms God's sovereign timing, Zerah pulled his hand back in the womb and Perez, whose name means 'Breach' or 'Burst Forth' was born. Symbolically, this suggests that in 2024 God was marking and sealing those who would come in the Rapture (as the Bride of Christ) with the Scarlet Thread on Zerah's hand being a picture of those who will be saved from the wrath to come in the Tribulation; just as Rahab was saved from the destruction of Jericho, when she placed the Scarlet Thread that represents the 'Blood of Christ' in the window of her home, when God's people were capturing and destroying it.

Amazingly, the name Zerah comes from the verb זרח (zarah), to rise or break out, and as a name Zerah (zě·rǎḥ) is associated with the concept of “dawn” or “rising of light”. This seems to be an apt description of those who will rise into the clouds to meet the LORD and Saviour in the Air, in the Rapture event, noting that Malachi 4:2 equates Jesus with the Sun saying He shall arise:

² But to you who fear My name the Sun of Righteousness shall arise with healing in His wings; And you shall go out and grow fat like stall-fed calves. Malachi 4:2

and 2 Peter 1:19 states that the day is coming when Jesus, who is described in Revelation 22:16 as the "Bright and Morning Star", will one day arise like the Dawn in our hearts, with the word until indicating that this is an occurrence at the end of the age:

¹⁹ And so we have the prophetic word confirmed, which you do well to heed as a light that shines in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts; 2 Peter 1:19

Hosea also suggests that this will be on the third day, or after two days, or after two thousand years, since He ascended to Heaven, noting that 2 Peter 3:8 reminds us that a day unto the Lord is as a thousand years:

² After two days He will revive us; On the third day He will raise us up, That we may live in His sight. Hosea 6:2

So essentially 2024 appears to have been a prophetic time, following on from God's judgements of 2023, that was aligned with God identifying those who wanted to be part of the Bride, who is soon to be Raptured. Zerah with the Scarlet Thread was a picture of these Saints who are in Christ, who are to be Raptured; and the withdrawing of His hand was like God saying not yet, but soon. In Perez, who broke forth, before Zerah, God was demonstrating that He was still seeking others, before it is too late, just as 2 Peter 3:9 states:

⁹ The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance. 2 Peter 3:9

Number 25 - (Hebrew Year 5785- 2025) - God's Covering, pointing to His Atonement

This can be understood as 5 + 7 + 8 + 5 = 25.

This aligns with the Hebrew Year 5785 - and the Gregorian year 2025 - as well as Strong's: H5785  - The number 25 is connected with God's promises, as seen in the life of Abraham, the man with whom God established all of His covenantal promises (in relation to the nation of Israel) and blessings with. Essentially, his whole life was based upon multiples of 25:

• Abraham called when 75 (25 x 3) years old.

• Abraham given promised son when 100 (25 x 4) years old.

• Abraham walked with God for another 75 (25 x 3) years.

• Abraham lived until he was 175 (25 x 7) years old.

All the key stages of his life involved multiples of 25, including having to wait for 25 years after being called to receive the Promised Son, through whom all the promises to Abraham, that extend down to our generation, would come.

Additionally, when the apostle John was caught up in his vision of God's Throne room in Heaven, as recorded in the book of Revelation, he saw not one, but 25 thrones - God's and those of the 24 elders. This reflects God's promises that one day believers who overcome will rule with Jesus:

²⁶ And he who overcomes, and keeps My works until the end, to him I will give power over the nations— ²⁷ ‘He shall rule them with a rod of iron; They shall be dashed to pieces like the potter’s vessels’— as I also have received from My Father; ²⁸ and I will give him the morning star. Revelation 2:26-28

And

²¹ To him who overcomes I will grant to sit with Me on My throne, as I also overcame and sat down with My Father on His throne. Revelation 3:21

Significantly, since God's promises are based upon His covenants, and they were in turn established by God to provide a covering (atonement) for the Sin that separated mankind, made in His image, from His Holy presence, we can now see the link to Strong's Bible Word Hebrew 5785. This word was all about how God temporarily provided the skin of an innocent life, to cover Adam and Eve's Sins, as a pointer to the perfect eternal covering of Jesus' vicarious death. As such, it was the promise of Redemption that would be provided for by the New Covenant that was founded on the 'blood sacrifce' of God Himself in Jesus.

2025

Historically in 2025, this saw a focus on the Gospel message, with many revivals appearing around the world that were seemingly another fulfilment of Joel 2:28-29, where God promised to pour out His Spirit in revival in the Last Days, that began immediately after Jesus ascended, when the Holy Spirit was sent on the Day of Pentecost, such that Peter in Acts 2 declared that events that followed were a fulfilment of the prophecy in Joel:

¹⁴ But Peter, standing up with the eleven, raised his voice and said to them, “Men of Judea and all who dwell in Jerusalem, let this be known to you, and heed my words. ¹⁵ For these are not drunk, as you suppose, since it is only the third hour of the day. ¹⁶ But this is what was spoken by the prophet Joel: ¹⁷ ‘And it shall come to pass in the last days, says God, That I will pour out of My Spirit on all flesh; Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, Your young men shall see visions, Your old men shall dream dreams. ¹⁸ And on My menservants and on My maidservants I will pour out My Spirit in those days; And they shall prophesy. ¹⁹ I will show wonders in heaven above And signs in the earth beneath: Blood and fire and vapor of smoke. ²⁰ The sun shall be turned into darkness, And the moon into blood, Before the coming of the great and awesome day of the LORD. ²¹ And it shall come to pass That whoever calls on the name of the LORD Shall be saved.’ Acts 2:14-21

See the following videos, that provide an insight into the scale of the spiritual revival, that God took to a new level in 2025: 

As I showed in my last article, I believe that these spiritual awakenings are happening since 2025 because we are so close to the end of the Age, which is something that God, with a hidden mathematical clue, affirmed numerically in relation to the number 9 on the Cross.

Essentially 9 represents the Finality of Redemption, seen when Jesus at the age of 33 was crucified at 9 a.m. (3^rd hour) and died at the 9^th hour (3 p.m.), two 9s and two 3s, perfectly reflecting both the 99 (hours of redemption - that also reflect Him leaving the 99 Redeemed for the 1 lost sheep) and the 33 (age emphasizing his divinity because God is a Trinity, 3 in 1, and 33 x 3 = 99). Additionally, it points to the Finality of Sin as well because Sin is represented by the number 11, that sees man numerically and spiritually elevating himself above the Law of God (which is represented by the number 10), and 11 is a factor of both 33 and 99.

Daniel 7:8 and Daniel 7:24-25 reveal the greatest example of this in the Antichrist, the Lawless man of Sin being the 11^th horn that comes up amongst the 10 horns, which are the final 10 kings of the age. He is the greatest and final rebel of humanity that God in His divinity, represented by the number 3, judges at the age of 33 (3 x 11 = 33), to bring the redemption of humanity to its final conclusion, when He died in our place at the 9^th hour (9 x 11 = 99), crying out with His Last breath, as seen in both the Gospels of Luke and John - "It is Finished" (John 19:30) and, “Father, into Your hands I commit My spirit” (Luke 23:46).

Not only has the number 9 been encoded into Scriptur,e to represent God's 'final things', but He has also woven it into the foundation of mathematics itself, with every number, once connected, or multiplied by 9, actually reducing to 9, as follows:

1 x 9 = 9

2 x 9 = 18 and 1+8 = 9

3 x 9 = 27 and 2 + 7 = 9

4 x 9 = 36 and 3 + 6 = 9

5 x 9 = 45 and 4 + 5 =9

6 x 9 = 54 and 5 + 4 = 9

7 x 9 = 63 and  6 + 3 = 9

8 x 9 = 72 and 7 + 2 = 9

9 x 9 = 81 and 8 + 1 = 9 

Amazingly, He has even encoded into our calendar, into time itself, such that from the beginning of creation, God had a hidden numerical pointer to 2025. This can be seen by taking each of the digits 1 to 9, that form every number that exists, and then raising them to the power of 3, to reflect the Trinitarian God, who made everything there is, before you add them together to get 2025.

1³ = 1 x 1 x 1 = 1

2³ = 2 x 2 x 2 = 8

3³ = 3 x 3 x 3 = 27

4³ = 4 x 4 x 4 = 64

5³ = 5 x 5 x 5 = 125

6³ = 6 x 6 x 6 = 216

7³ = 7 x 7 x 7 = 343

8³ = 8 x 8 x 8 = 512

9³ = 9 x 9 x 9 = 729

Total = 1 + 8 + 27 + 64 + 125 + 216 + 343 + 512 + 729 = 2025

Literally every factor of 2025 (1, 3, 5, 9, 15, 25, 45, 75, and 225) when connected to 9, which is the Finality of Redemption, reveals some aspect of our Redemption.

For example:  Abraham was called at 75 (a factor of 2025) years of age to establish God's Covenant People Israel, and when connected to a multiple of 9, such as 27 (which also represents the number of books that God inspired to reveal the New Covenant / New Testament that would be established in the Blood of Jesus, who is equated by Matthew quoting Hosea 11:1 as Israel), we see how it all reveals God's Hidden Timings because 75 x 27 = 2025

27 is also seen as the Last or Final Things in connection with Noah, where 3 times the number 27 appears in connection with 

- the end of the rain on the 27^th day of the month.

- the end of God's wrath, as symbolized by the Dove returning with a leaf from an Olive branch on the 27^th day of the month.

- the end of the flood / judgement on the 27^th day of the month.

Therefore, 27 has also been connected in numerous ways with Transitional Periods that end Judgement and lead to new beginnings with God.

Ultimately, I believe this is suggesting that God is saying, that as of 2025, the Church Age, the Age of Grace, was coming to an end and that we are now transitioning to a Period of God's Sovereignty prior to the Rapture, as God begins to gather His people together ready for this event. 

Clearly the alignment of meaning with Strong's H5785, that numerically adds up to the number 25, also affirms that the Age in which the Covering of God, that is still available to all who put their Trust in Jesus as Lord and Confess Him with their mouths (Romans 10:9), is coming to an end because the next number that adds to 26, being Strong's H5786, alludes to an Age of Deception, as the following section will show. So, all of this adds a new urgency to the command of Jesus who said in Luke 21:36 to be both watching and praying that we may be counted worthy to escape all the things that are about to come to pass: 

³⁶ Watch therefore, and pray always that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man.” Luke 21:36

Number 26 - (Hebrew Year 5786- 2026) -The Deception of the End - Times

This can be understood as 5 + 7 + 8 + 6 = 26.

This aligns with the Hebrew Year 5786 - and the Gregorian year 2026, which is our current year on two different Calendars - as well as Strong's: H5786  - This makes its message, which is ultimately about Deception to be of particular importance to us, but prior to discussing that aspect, we will consider the most significant aspect of the number 26, in that it points to the solution for Deception by pointing to God Himself. 

In this regard, the number 26 is actually the value of the Personal Name of God, as seen in the Tetragrammaton  יְהוָֹה

So 26 is about the Sovereignty of God, which makes 2026 a year in which many of His Appointed Times could find their resolution.

In terms of the sequence of the convergent numbers that we have been examining, we can now see that this next step involves the Hebrew Year 5786 that numerically adds to 26. This acts as a pointer to the Gregorian Year 2026, that is characterised by the Strong's Hebrew Word Number 5786, that means “to blind", or "to make blind with Skin that forms over the eyes", which suggests a spiritual blindness, or deception.

Here we have a follow-up to the meaning of Strong's Hebrew Number 5785, that was about Atonement (God providing a Covering for our Sin) in the Age of Grace, because while many will receive the gospel message and repent and be saved, many others will be deceived by the Lies of the World. As the meaning of this next number Strong's Hebrew number 5786 suggests, they will become blind as a skin forms over their eyes, making them spiritually unable to see or discern the Truth clearly. Importantly, in relation to the end-times, this aligns with the warning that Jesus gave when He said in Matthew 24:4:

⁴ And Jesus answered and said to them: “Take heed that no one deceives you. Matthew 24:4

While this was predominantly a warning to believers, because Jesus was speaking to His disciples, the Holy Spirit ultimately revealed to Paul that in the last days God would also send a delusion to all the unrighteous, that could involve both believers and unbelievers, such that they should believe the Lie, effectively being deceived. The rationale behind this is that God classifies people as unrighteous, if in their heart they do not receive the 'love of the truth':

¹⁰ and with all unrighteous deception among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved. ¹¹ And for this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie, ¹² that they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness. 2 Thessalonians 2:10-12

In this way, I believe this year could actually be the conclusion of God looking to see who would be part of the Bride of Christ, a process that began in earnest with the rise of antisemitism in 2024, when people began to come against Israel for defending itself against the horrific attack by Hamas in October 2023. Clearly people, even Christians that fail to recognize that Israel's rebirth on 14^th May 1948 was the fulfilment of Isaiah's prophecy, about the nation being reborn in a day, and do not recognize the Land as the eternal inheritance of the nation promised to Abraham (noting that Gaza was originally part of the land allotted by God Himself to the tribe of Judah, as stated in Joshua 15:47) are already deceived. Then, when they embrace and support the so-called Palestinian Arab cause, that seeks to take away this Land from the Jews and even take control of Jerusalem (the only City that God has put His name upon) and the Temple Mount, they are clearly not being led by the Holy Spirit.

So, I believe that one could argue that people, including many that are in the church, are already receiving Judgement by God, as indicated in 2 Thessalonians above, because they are believing the Lie and unless something changes in their heart, prior to the Rapture, they could be among those being left behind.

Essentially, unlike most nations on the earth, Israel have the title deed to the Land. It was written down and revealed in the Word of God 3,900 years ago when God called Abram in 1876 BC and promised Him a Land and a Nation when He said:

​¹ Now the LORD had said to Abram: “Get out of your country, from your family and from your father’s house, to a land that I will show you. ² I will make you a great nation; I will bless you and make your name great; and you shall be a blessing. ³ I will bless those who bless you, And I will curse him who curses you; And in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.” Genesis 12:1-3

Then, when Abram wanted to be certain about what God was promising him, he asked God how he could know that he would inherit it. God sealed the Promise as part of an unconditional Covenant, which He made by putting Abram to sleep and passing between the Cut pieces of Animals and Birds, which meant that God Himself would bear the cost of establishing the Covenant, which was essentially looking forward to when the New Covenant founded on the Blood of Jesus would be inaugurated.

⁸ And he said, “Lord GOD, how shall I know that I will inherit it?” ⁹ So He said to him, “Bring Me a three-year-old heifer, a three-year-old female goat, a three-year-old ram, a turtledove, and a young pigeon.” ¹⁰ Then he brought all these to Him and cut them in two, down the middle, and placed each piece opposite the other; but he did not cut the birds in two. ¹¹ And when the vultures came down on the carcasses, Abram drove them away. ¹² Now when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and behold, horror and great darkness fell upon him. ¹³ Then He said to Abram: “Know certainly that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them, and they will afflict them four hundred years. ¹⁴ And also the nation whom they serve I will judge; afterward they shall come out with great possessions. ¹⁵ Now as for you, you shall go to your fathers in peace; you shall be buried at a good old age. ¹⁶ But in the fourth generation they shall return here, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete.” ¹⁷ And it came to pass, when the sun went down and it was dark, that behold, there appeared a smoking oven and a burning torch that passed between those pieces. ¹⁸ On the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying: “To your descendants I have given this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the River Euphrates— ¹⁹ the Kenites, the Kenezzites, the Kadmonites, ²⁰ the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim, ²¹ the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.” Genesis 15:8-21

Then, when Abram was 99 years old, the LORD appeared to him again and reiterated that His Covenant was with Abram and that He was going to make this an everlasting covenant that would also involve Abram and his descendants, which are all the Tribes of Israel (Abram's Grandson, through Isaac the promised Son), inheriting all the Land of Canaan, as an everlasting  possession: 

 ¹ When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am Almighty God; walk before Me and be blameless. ² And I will make My covenant between Me and you, and will multiply you exceedingly.” ³ Then Abram fell on his face, and God talked with him, saying: ⁴ “As for Me, behold, My covenant is with you, and you shall be a father of many nations. ⁵ No longer shall your name be called Abram, but your name shall be Abraham; for I have made you a father of many nations. ⁶ I will make you exceedingly fruitful; and I will make nations of you, and kings shall come from you. ⁷ And I will establish My covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you in their generations, for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and your descendants after you. ⁸ Also I give to you and your descendants after you the land in which you are a stranger, all the land of Canaan, as an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.” Genesis 17:1-8

Finally, if all this is not clear enough to convince us that God has given Israel all of the Land, that is now in contention, as an eternal possession, then God again through the Prophet Jeremiah states that only if the Sun; the Moon; and the Stars cease to exist, will Israel cease from existing as a nation before Him:

³⁵ Thus says the LORD, who gives the sun for a light by day, the ordinances of the moon and the stars for a light by night, who disturbs the sea, and its waves roar (The LORD of hosts is His name): ³⁶ “If those ordinances depart From before Me, says the LORD, then the seed of Israel shall also cease from being a nation before Me forever.” Jeremiah 31:35-36

So I believe the antisemitic delusion, in both unbelievers and the believers in the Church, that we have been currently witnessing, could be the beginning of Judgement, prior to God's Wrath, that is going to be poured out during the Tribulation. It is essentially a hardening of people's hearts, which is just God's way of saying that He gives them over to their own choices and decisions because they are no longer seeking Him, just as He says in Romans 1:

²⁴ Therefore God also gave them up to uncleanness, in the lusts of their hearts, to dishonor their bodies among themselves, ²⁵ who exchanged the truth of God for the lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.
²⁶ For this reason God gave them up to vile passions. For even their women exchanged the natural use for what is against nature. ²⁷ Likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust for one another, men with men committing what is shameful, and receiving in themselves the penalty of their error which was due. ²⁸ And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a debased mind, to do those things which are not fitting; Romans 1:24-28

Number 27 - (Hebrew Year 5787- 2027) - Total Spiritual Blindness - Possible Tribulation

This can be understood as 5 + 7 + 8 + 7 = 27.

This aligns with the Hebrew Year 5787 - and the Gregorian year 2027 - as well as Strong's: H5787  - As discussed above, 27 is a multiple of 9 and so is associated with the 'final things' of God. While I gave examples of this being connected to the Finality of Redemption and Sin on the Cross; and the Finality of Judgements associated with Noah's Flood; and how Abraham's Calling at 75 was connected with the year 2025 (75 x 27) suggesting that 2025 was the closing of the current age that is now leading into a sovereign time of God, there is also an interesting biblical example that was found by Brandon Peterson (who has a great YouTube site), as follows.

After noting that Jesus declared that He is the 'Alpha and Omega', the 'First and the Last', Brandon found that the First and Last Verse of the Bible actually had a hidden numerical structure emphasizing this very thing, given that all Scripture is ultimately a revelation of Jesus Christ. Essentially, the first verse of the bible (Genesis 1:1) and the last verse of the bible (Revelation 22:21), as recorded in the King James Version Bible, that was God's primary witness for over 400 years, both have 44 characters in them, noting that this is 22 x 2, which emphasizes Israel (represented by the number 22), God's solution to man's Sin, is spiritually Jesus (the 2^nd person of the Godhead) who is God's Solution to mankind's fall from Grace. Significantly, in both verses these 44 characters are comprised of 17 vowels and 27 consonants. Amazingly, this parallels Noah's Flood that began on the 17^th day of the month and ended on the 27^th day of the month. So here the 17^th is the beginning, which corresponds with the new beginning of Jesus, when He rose from the grave on the 17^th of Nisan, and the 27^th is the end. Notably, 27 also represented Jesus on the Cross, when we factor in the prayer that occurred at the 9^th hour, prior to going to the Cross; that subsequently involved a further two 9s, being the hour of his crucifixion and the hour of His death, for a total of three 9s, or 27.

So within the First and Last verses of the bible, that contains the full revelation of Jesus Christ, who is the First and the Last of Creation, we have a hidden grammatical structure that numerically represents the First of things (17) and the Last of Things (27)  - Interestingly, the 17^th triangular number is 153, which is the number of fish representing salvation that is spoken of in John 21:11, so 17 that was the day of Jesus' resurrection is mathematically connected to 153, that represents salvation that only comes because Jesus was resurrected. As Paul stated in 1 Corinthians 15:14:

¹⁴ And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain. 1 Corinthians 15:14

2027

With all of this in mind, and the fact that the last of our 6 aligned words ends with Strong's Hebrew Word number H5787, that numerically adds to 27, and that speaks of a totally blind person, not just someone being made blind as was the preceding Strong's number H5786, it seems clear that this is now prophetically referring to the destiny of people that have rejected God and have no love of the Truth in 2027. This progression is emphasized by the Olive Tree Bible Dictionary Definition, that as the image below shows, involves having one's eyes put out, such that the person is living in a state of 'total spiritual darkness'. 

Essentially there is no light and as it also says God is the ultimate cause of the blindness that is so complete at this time, as Exodus 4:11 states:

¹¹ And the LORD said unto him, Who hath made man’s mouth? or who maketh the dumb, or deaf, or the seeing, or the blind? have not I the LORD? Exodus 4:11

In context though, while there are many causes of physical blindness, the whole sequence of meaning related to the Hebrew word עור is about an increasing Spiritual blindness that starts with deception and progresses to total blindness unless the person repents and turns back to God. As such, it only occurs as a judgement of God, when, as detailed above, people reject the 'Love of the Truth'. Sadly, this is an increasing reality that is particularly noticeable today, as one watches the truth being regularly being inverted, both in our society and on the social media, that is used to promote the 'new values'. Essentially, we are now seeing people calling Evil Good and Good Evil, just as the following scriptures said would happen:

So, the obvious conclusion is that the Strong's Hebrew Word number H5787 could be talking about people that in 2027 are in the Tribulation. As I have suggested elsewhere this does not mean that they are without hope because Revelation 14 seems to suggest that many of those that miss the pre-tribulation Rapture will come to the LORD under the ministry of the Two Witnesses and the 144,000 Jewish Believers, who will spread the Gospel throughout the first 3.5 years of the Tribulation, and will be raptured at the midpoint, by one like the Son of Man (Jesus' favourite title for Himself in the Gospels), who is seated on a cloud and personally reaps the earth:

¹⁴ And I looked, and behold a white cloud, and upon the cloud one sat like unto the Son of man, having on his head a golden crown, and in his hand a sharp sickle. ¹⁵ And another angel came out of the temple, crying with a loud voice to him that sat on the cloud, Thrust in thy sickle, and reap: for the time is come for thee to reap; for the harvest of the earth is ripe. ¹⁶ And he that sat on the cloud thrust in his sickle on the earth; and the earth was reaped. Revelation 14:14-16

Even as late as Revelation 18, during God's judgement of Babylon, that is occurring deep into the second half of the Great Tribulation, God is still appealing to His people that have been born again and are still alive not having suffered death or imprisonment under the rule of the Antichrist:

⁴ And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues. Revelation 18:4 

If this is so, then clearly 2026, the preceding year that we are currently in, that appears to be a time related to the Sovereignty of God because 26 is the value of God's personal name Yehovah (יְהוָֹה) - (Jehovah)  or Yahweh to some, could be a possibility for the Rapture. Additionally, as I showed in my last article Elohim (אֱלֹהִים) - the general name for God also has the value of 86 (which aligns with the current Hebrew year 5786); and it has 2600 (occurrences) reinforcing this idea.

However, regardless of whether this is the year of the Rapture, or not, it is certainly clear that we are so close to the end that it could happen at any time from now on. So, people definitely need to ensure that they are right with God and are walking with Jesus as Saviour and LORD.

Summary Of Meaning

Understanding all of this, we can now hopefully understand that the LORD has concealed an amazing convergence of Hebrew Years with Gregorian Years that is a completely unique period in modern history; and that is occurring in a 10-year window that we are currently living in, being Hebrew Year 5780 / Gregorian Year 2020 to Hebrew Year 5787 / Gregorian Year 2027.

As my spreadsheet showed, I looked at 478 years from 1937 to 2415 and only once in nearly 5 centuries does this occur. However, not only has God highlighted this time period in all of modern History, but He has clearly shown us why, by sovereignly coordinating an associated alignment of 6 Strong's Bible Numbers (that are allocated to every word in the Bible), within this 10-year window. Literally the same numbers within this narrow window that form the Hebrew Years on the Calendar (5782 to 5787) are the same numbers for 6 Strong's Bible Numbers, that are 6 forms of a biblical word using the letters עור, that together, through their related meanings, define a prophetic history of humanity from the Temptation in the Garden of Eden unto the Tribulation.

This is absolutely stunning because there are so many factors that have to be aligned for this to occur, that I do not believe that anybody in their right-mind could sincerely argue that this is all by chance. God truly has established and hidden a prophetic pattern that is being played out in history, right now, from 2022 -2027.

Below is a quick summary of the meanings of the 6 Strong's words along with a brief overview of how each applied to their associated Year: 

Summary of Strong's Meanings

• H5782 – עוּר – “to awaken, rouse, lift up” → Symbolic of the serpent’s “awakening” temptation.

• H5783 – עוּר – “to be naked, bare” → Symbolic of Adam and Eve’s physical awareness of nakedness - its physical consequence.

• H5784 – עוֹר – “skin, hide; chaff” → Symbolic of spiritual nakedness and the “chaff” imagery of Psalm 1 - its spiritual consequence.

• H5785 – עוֹר – “skin, hide” → Symbolic of God covering Adam and Eve with skins (Gen 3:21) - pointing to Jesus' atonement.

• H5786 – עָוַר – “to blind, to make blind” → Symbolic of spiritual blindness and end‑times deception.

• H5787 – עִוֵּר – “blind person” → Symbolic of final, hardened blindness leading into judgment for those who will enter the Tribulation.

And a quick summary of how the Strong's Meanings apply to the corresponding years:

2022 (22) - Strong's H5782 עוּר → Satan's Temptation and Fall → this is countered by God's Solution in the establishment of the nation of Israel - In 2022 there was an advancement prophetically of Israel's purpose, as God's solution to Sin that entered through the Fall of Man as God enabled Benjamin Netanyahu to form the 37^th Government (37 is the number that represents God's personal Seal) that is still currently ruling and to date is standing strong against all of Israel's enemies, that includes all the nations that surround it in the middle east as well as the western world antisemites; and against all attempts by the world to divide the Land in a two state solution). Significantly, this was also the year that the Red Heifers needed for the building and functioning of a third Temple (that is prophesied will be inhabited by the Antichrist halfway through the Tribulation) were transported to Israel. So, Satan's awakening is countered by God's awakening of His people that are returning in fulfilment of prophecy that they are also progressing as they seek to reestablish their divinely given purpose as a people to be a witness of God to the nations.  

2023 (23) - Strong's H5783 עוּר → Nakedness, the Physical Consequence of Sin → The Fall of Man led to God's Judgement - The first sign of this judgement in the Garden was when Adam and Eve knew that they were physically naked. It was a physical sign of their separation of God that would show mankind was now Separate In Nature (Sin) from God because they had lost His covering and since God had told Adam, that in the day they ate of the tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil they would die, their nakedness revealed that death was now functioning in their life - it was a judgement of God. In 2023 this was mirrored when God brought a Judgement, that also started in the House of God, including the War of October 7 2023 by Hamas; and in liberal churches around the world that were not preaching the Gospel, as revealed in His Word. God who is the same Yesterday; Today; and Forever IS LOVE and so Judgement is always for the purpose of bringing people back to Himself. So in these last of the last-days (that began in the days of Jesus and that were attested to by Peter on the day of Pentecost) we have now see some visible signs that we have entered a new prophetic time characterized by it being the end of God striving with sinful man and the beginning of God seeking righteousness. There is no doubt that since 2023 that we are seeing God's end-time purposes, that are always centered on Israel, beginning to materialize as the nation of Israel is more united than it has ever been in its modern history because of the Hamas War and the Hostage Crisis that resulted.

2024 (24)  - Strong's H5784  עוֹר → Naked like Chaff: the Spiritual Consequence of Sin → As the consequences of the Fall of Mankind deepened, this led to Adam and Eve being afraid of God and trying to hide from Him, as if this is possible. Spiritually, they became like Chaff that gets blown away by the wind, reflecting that the wicked are always separated from the righteous. So, in 2024 this was mirrored by God who in following on from 2023, that was about God beginning to Judge and reveal sinful practices in those claiming to belong to the LORD, God began to separate people on the basis of identifying those who truly want to draw near to Him and be a part of the Bride of Christ and who doesn't. One of the significant ways that this process manifested was in how Christians responded to the exponential rise of Antisemitism in that year, following on from the events of the Hamas war at the end of 2023. The Gentile Christians that showed support for Israel, in line with God's expressed desire in Isaiah 49, began to stand apart from those who increasingly became critical of Israel:

²² Thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I will lift up mine hand to the Gentiles, and set up my standard to the people: and they shall bring thy sons in their arms, and thy daughters shall be carried upon their shoulders. Isaiah 49:22

Clearly God wants the Gentiles to support His people, who had suffered much for bringing the world the bible and the Messiah, as He calls them home from the four corners of the earth as Isaiah 11 states:

¹² And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth. Isaiah 11:12

Many Christians who are critical of Israel often point out that nationally Israel does not acknowledge Jesus and suggest that this is evidence that the modern state is not the work of God and has nothing to do with the ancient people; but in doing this they completely ignore passages such as the following one in Ezekiel 36 that states that God will bring them back to the Land first before doing a work in them spiritually:

⁴ “‘For I will take you out of the nations; I will gather you from all the countries and bring you back into your own land. ²⁵ I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean; I will cleanse you from all your impurities and from all your idols. ²⁶ I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. ²⁷ And I will put my Spirit in you and move you to follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws. ²⁸ Then you will live in the land I gave your ancestors; you will be my people, and I will be your God. Ezekiel 36:24-28

So notably there started to be a division amongst Conservatives (many of whom claimed to be bible believers) that began slowly in 2024 and grew rapidly throughout 2025 and that mirrored the Parable about the 'Wheat and the Tares'. In this respect, the Tares seemingly represent those that looked like the true Conservatives until they became divided over the Status of Israel in God's prophetic plans and began to display their true antisemitic and anti-zionist nature, that was reflected in various forms of Jew hatred by attributing blame to the Jews for many of the evils in the world. As such, they biblically represent the Wicked, that unless they repent will one day soon be gathered together and cast into the Lake of Fire, to be forever separated from God, who in Jesus entered the world as a Jew (becoming the Lion from the Tribe of Judah) to save them.  

2025 (25) - Strong's H5785 עוֹר → God's provision of a Skin covering for Sin → This points to Jesus' atonement on the Cross - the Age of Grace  - and the end-time outpouring of His Spirit. Following Man's physical awareness of his imminent death and his spiritual separation from God, it was only the Love and Mercy of God that saw Him graciously pour Himself out to pay the price of our sin. The Law of Holiness demanded death for Sin and for us that would have been eternal separation from the presence of God, who is Holy, such that Sin cannot exist in His presence. It is a metaphysical and spiritual reality, that Sin (Separation in Nature from God) needs to be covered and atoned for, to destroy it affects in our life and to pay the price it required in death. The only one who could pay this price of death and still live is one and only, perfect and holy, infinite God. So God chose from the foundation of the World that He would sacrifce Himself for those that would be made in His Image, who He foreknew would fall short of His glory when He gave them Free Will because as created beings we are not God - as is says in Psalm 103:14:

¹⁴ For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust. Psalms 103:14

This atoning sacrifice would be offered as an act of Grace by God, who IS LOVE, to all who would freely choose to accept it as a payment for their sin; and in their heart would desire for the Spirit of God to indwell them, such that spiritually they would be born again and would begin a process of sanctification. In this respect, beginning at a verse number that reflects God's personal number 37, Jesus said in John 7:37

³⁷ -- In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink.
³⁸ He that believeth on me, as the Scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. ³⁹ (But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified.) John 7:37-39

Prior to God's sacrifice in Jesus on the Cross, God temporarily provided a covering for Adam and Eve by killing an innocent animal to provide the skin that would symbolically point to the ultimate death of God Himself in Jesus, who became the sacrificial Lamb of God and started the Age of Grace, where the Good News (Gospel) of God's sacrifice would go into all of world, looking for those that would turn back to God and put their faith in Jesus, as being the full payment of their sins.

In 2025 this went to a new level with many examples reflecting the millions that were now turning to back to God, accepting Jesus Christ as the Lord and Saviour; and prophetically this became a sign that we were getting closer to the end of the Age of Grace, when Peter on the day of Pentecost stood up and declared that the outpouring of the Spirit was the fulfilment of the prophecy in Joel 2:28-32:

²⁸ And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out -- my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions: ²⁹ And also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out -- my spirit. ³⁰ And I will show wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.
³¹ The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.
³² And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the LORD shall be delivered: for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as the LORD hath said, and in the remnant whom the LORD shall call. Joel 2:28-32

The Issue of Zion 

Notably in 2025 there was an increasing attack on Zionism, which is largely misunderstood, and so as an aside it will be considered here because it is directly related to God's atonement and salvation, as the full prophecy in Joel reveals, when it is put into its proper context.

Essentially, with its closing statement, it speaks about the deliverance or salvation (Hebrew word יִמָּלֵ֑ט) that the people shall receive, when they call on the name of the LORD:

³² And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the LORD shall be delivered: for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as the LORD hath said, and in the remnant whom the LORD shall call." Joel 2:32

The word used for delivered in this KJV passage is the Hebrew word malat (מָלַט mālaṭ) and notably in the text it is written as יִמָּלֵ֑ט which actually means "he shall be saved" or "shall escape" or "shall be delievered", depending upon the version you are reading and in many translations it is translated as saved as the version below from the ESV shows:

³² And it shall come to pass that everyone who calls on the name of the LORD shall be saved. For  in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there shall be those who escape, as the LORD has said, and among the survivors shall be those whom the LORD calls. Joel 2:32

Importantly, the word for "saved" is grammatically followed by a conjunction, in the hebrew word כִּי, which in context means "for" or "because". This indicates that the subsequent clause provides the reason, cause, or justification for the preceding clause, which means that the reason that salvation or deliverance comes is because it is found in Mount Zion and Jerusalem. So those that have increasingly criticized what they call Christian Zionism and do not see Israel and Jerusalem as still being God's Covenant People, adhering to tenets of Replacement Theology, scripturally have a problem, because while salvation ultimately comes from the sacrifice of Jesus on the Cross, it is also tied inextricably to Zionism, which is really all about everthing that belongs to God.

Essentially, all nouns in Hebrew come from verbs because God revealed Himself as the great "I AM" which is the verb "to Be" that describes His eternal nature. So the noun Zion צִיּוֹן comes from the verb Tsiyen צִיֵּן meaning “to mark, to set up a sign, or to designate.” The related noun צִיּוּן (tsiyun) means:

• a marker,

• a monument,

• a signpost,

Essentially, it is something that identifies a location or boundary. This is the same consonantal root as Zion (ציון), so the linguistic connection is as follows:

What this implies is that since Zion is connected to the idea of "marking", then Zion is literally “the place God has marked out as His own.” This is why Zion biblically was later expanded from its initial designation that was connected to the City of David, the original part of Jerusalem that was previously named Jebus, after the Jebusites (a Canaanite Tribe), who somehow acquired the city centuries after Abraham interacted with Melchizedek (meaning King of Righteousness) in that same location. Melchizedek was King of Salem the earliest name for what became Jerusalem, that grew when King David established his city and reign there. So, as Jerusalem (that is the only City that God says He has put His name on) grew, so did Zion; and it came to include the Mountain range that Jerusalem is built upon.

This fits perfectly with biblical theology:

• God chooses Zion (Psalm 132:13).

• God sets His name there (1 Kings 8:29).

• God marks Zion as the place of His presence (Psalm 48:1–2).

• Zion becomes the place from which God identifies His people (Isaiah 4:3).

As such, the name itself carries the idea of:

• designation

• ownership

• identity

• divine marking

This means that Zion is the marked place, and those who belong to God are the marked people.

How Zion + Marking + God’s People Fit Together

Understanding the idea of Zion and Marking and that it extends from places to people is important:

1. Zion = the place God marks as His own.

Root: צ־י־ן Meaning: to mark, designate, set apart.

2. God marks His people with signs (אוֹת), seals (חוֹתָם), and marks (תָּו).

Those who are “marked” belong to the God of Zion

3. Those who are “marked” belong to the God of Zion.

This is why Scripture repeatedly links Zion with:

• The REMNANT (פְּלֵיטָה / she’erit / peleitah) - These are those who escape, survive, or are left by God’s preserving action.

Key Scriptural Examples

• Isaiah 4:2–3 — “He who is left in Zion and remains in Jerusalem will be called holy.”

• Isaiah 10:20–22 — A remnant of Jacob will return to the Mighty God.

• Joel 2:32 — “In Mount Zion… there shall be those who escape (פְּלֵיטָה), and among the survivors shall be those whom the LORD calls.”

• Micah 4:6–7 — God gathers the lame and makes them “a remnant” in Zion.

• Romans 11:5 — Paul speaks of “a remnant chosen by grace,” echoing the prophets.

• The SEALED -Those marked or sealed by God for protection, identity, or ownership.

Key Scriptural Examples

• Ezekiel 9:4–6 — A mark is placed on the foreheads of those who sigh over Jerusalem’s sins.

• Revelation 7:3–8 — The 144,000 are sealed on their foreheads from the tribes of Israel.

• Revelation 14:1 — The Lamb stands on Mount Zion with those who have His Father’s name written on their foreheads.

• 2 Corinthians 1:22 — God “sealed us and gave us the Spirit in our hearts as a guarantee.”

• Ephesians 1:13; 4:30 — Believers are “sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise.”

• The CALLED - Those summoned by God into covenant relationship.

Key Scriptural Examples

• Isaiah 41:9 — “You whom I have taken from the ends of the earth… and called from its farthest corners.”

• Isaiah 48:12 — “Hear me, O Jacob… whom I called.”

• Joel 2:32 — “Everyone who calls on the name of the LORD shall be saved… among the survivors shall be those whom the LORD calls.”

• Romans 8:28–30 — The called according to His purpose.

• 1 Corinthians 1:2, 9 — Believers are “called to be saints.”

• The CHOSEN - Those selected by God for covenant, mission, or salvation.

Key Scriptural Examples

• Isaiah 65:9 — “My chosen shall inherit it, and my servants shall dwell there.”

• Isaiah 28:16 — The cornerstone in Zion is laid for the chosen.

• Psalm 132:13 — “The LORD has chosen Zion.”

• Matthew 24:22, 24, 31 — The elect gathered by the Son of Man.

• 1 Peter 2:9 — “A chosen race… called out of darkness.”

• The SURVIVORS / ESCAPEES - Closely related to the remnant, but often emphasizing deliverance from judgment.

Key Scriptural Examples

• Isaiah 37:31–32 — “A surviving remnant will take root… for out of Jerusalem will go forth a remnant, and out of Mount Zion survivors.”

• Obadiah 17 — “On Mount Zion there shall be those who escape.”

• Zechariah 14:16 — Those who survive the nations’ judgment go up to worship the King in Jerusalem.

• Joel 2:32 — Survivors in Zion whom the LORD calls.

• The REDEEMED - Those purchased, rescued, or ransomed by God.

Key Scriptural Examples

• Isaiah 35:9–10 — “The redeemed shall walk there… they shall come to Zion with singing.”

• Isaiah 51:11 — “The ransomed of the LORD shall return and come to Zion with singing.”

• Psalm 74:2 — “Remember your congregation… which you have redeemed; Mount Zion, where you have dwelt.”

• Revelation 14:3–4 — The redeemed stand with the Lamb on Mount Zion.

• Titus 2:14 — Christ “gave Himself… to redeem us.”

The New Testament completes the pattern

The New Testament picks up the same theme:

A. Believers are “sealed” (σφραγίζω) by the Spirit

• Ephesians 1:13

• Ephesians 4:30

• 2 Corinthian 1:22

B. The 144,000 are “sealed on their foreheads”

• Revelation 7:3

• Revelation 14:1

C. The Lamb stands on Mount Zion with the sealed

• Revelation 14:1

Ultimately this is the climax of the entire biblical pattern that shows:

• Zion is the place God marks.

• The sealed are the people God marks.

• Zion and the sealed belong together.

See Table below for summary of these various connections:

Zion Summary

The linguistic and theological threads converge beautifully showing that Zion is the place that God marks and that the Redeemed are the people God marks. This makes Zion the home of the marked ones. Essentially 'everything that belongs to God is marked by God — His city, His people, His covenant, His salvation'. So, the attack on Christian Zionism is not only an attack on Israel it is an attack that fundamentally undermines Christianity itself, which involves being marked and sealed by the Holy Spirit to identify as being in Christ.

2025 continued - Finally in relation to 2025, the idea that we were getting close to the end of the Age of Grace, which is at the heart of the Strong's Bible number H5785 that pointed to God's atoning sacrifice, when He covered Adam and Eve with Skins, seems to be confirmed with 2025 being numerically connected in unique ways to the number 9, that is God's number for the Finality of Redemption. This is something that was attested to when Jesus at the 9^th hour cried "It is Finished..." and gave up his Spirit, on our behalf, to God. Additionally, there were so many other signs, that I won't enumerate here because they can be read in some of my other articles on this site, that many prophecy watchers got excited about the possibility of Jesus returning last year, with many even thinking that it would occur on the Feast of Trumpets, last September. I saw a number of issues with that, which I have written about elsewhere, but I am clearly in the camp that believe it could occur anytime soon.

2026 (26) - Strong's H5786 עָוַר → The Skin that forms over the eyes  → highlights the End-Time Deception that is taking place at the end of the Age of Grace and so follows on beautifully in God's hidden sequence of Strong's numbers. One of the most significant prophetic advances in relation to this occurred in connection with AI (Artificial Intelligence) that became mainstream from around April 2025 with the public advent of ChatGPT. Essentially while still only driven by computers behind the scenes, the computing power of the machines driving these systems are such that they can emulate a form of intelligence by taking human input and searching its vast databases and then formatting its responses into answers that can mimic human language or speech. through the use of grammar and syntax rules. Many are deceived by this, believing the secularist lie that we are actually advancing to a point where the machines driving all of this will become self-aware and sentient, possessing the ability to feel, perceive, or experience subjectivity. As such, they suggest that we are close to what they refer to as the Singularity, which is effectively a tipping point where they believe that AI machines will evolve beyond human control and understanding.

Essentially, it is Satan trying to copy God's supreme creation in making man in His own image, but it is a counterfeit and will never reach that level, not even close. However, because AI can simulate 'human voices' and even recreate someone's face in a video, many are being deceived, and because of its access to 'millions of databases' around the world, the knowledge it can process is unprecedented. Without doubt, this is the ultimate fulfillment of the prophecy in Daniel 12:4 about the increase in knowledge:

⁴ But you, Daniel, shut up the words and seal the book, until the time of the end. Many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall increase.” Daniel 12:4

There is literally no knowledge that is held back from people now, even poor people can access the internet on a basic smart phone and gain access to the world's accumulated store of knowledge.

Significantly, it is also becoming increasing clear that AI was the missing link for the Globalists building the 'Beast System', that Revelation 13 talks about, in relation to having a system that will be able to track everyone on earth, and to control who has access to their Bank Accounts, determining whether they can buy or sell: 

¹⁶ Also it causes all, both small and great, both rich and poor, both free and slave, to be marked on the right hand or the forehead, ¹⁷ so that no one can buy or sell unless he has the mark, that is, the name of the beast or the number of its name. ¹⁸ This calls for wisdom: let the one who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man, and his number is 666. Revelation 13:16-18

Essentially, all countries need a Digital ID for every person, so that they can be entered into the system, and that is currently being rolled out in many places. Then, when the time comes, in the middle of the Tribulation, this ID will be linked to a mark on your right-hand or your forehead (for amputees) and this ID will be uploaded into the 'global beast system' that is already built and being powered by AI, such that it will be able to instantly monitor everything about you; and like China that already has a Social Credit System that monitors your social media posts and your behavior via scores of cameras that utilize facial recognition systems etc., you will either be flagged as compliant, or any enemy of the state and dealt with accordingly.

Significantly, just like God who marked and sealed those that were His, as we discussed in relation to Zion, Satan will be marking those that are his and because this is ultimately about him replacing God, to fulfil his desire to be worshipped (as he revealed when tempting Jesus), he will through the False Prophet enforce a system of worship (of the Image of the Beast) by using the AI controlled 'Beast System'. In this way, Satan and the Antichrist will identify those who are refusing to worship the Antichrist and they will be killed:

 ¹⁵ And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed. Revelation 13:15

Many saw the roll-out of mandatory COVID-19 shots as a test run by Globalists and history now shows the majority of people were very quick to comply. Anyone raising genuine questions was flagged as a dangerous 'conspiracy theorist' who was to be considered as a danger to society. So, it is clear that many people are already under a delusion believing the Lie and as discussed above, this could already be a sign of the Judgement God warned about in 2 Thessalonians, that He would send to those who refuse to 'love the Truth and be saved': 

⁹ The coming of the lawless one is by the activity of Satan with all power and false signs and wonders, ¹⁰ and with all wicked deception for those who are perishing, because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. ¹¹ Therefore God sends them a strong delusion, so that they may believe what is false, ¹² in order that all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness. 2 Thessalonians 2:9-12

Clearly all of 2026 is yet to play out, but I believe very much that it will involve an interplay between God's Sovereignty, given the numerical connection to His names and titles, and the judgement and consequences of Deception that is increasing in the world, noting that many videos are now being produced claiming to be Christian messages and Testimonies, but they are pure evil deception being generated by AI, just as Jesus warned:

²⁴ For false christs and false prophets will arise and perform great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, even the elect. Matthew 24:24

So, we need to remain in Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, so that the enemy cannot lead us astray, as we get closer to the end.

2027 (27) - Strong's H5787 עִוֵּר → The total Blindness that is occurring  → The final word and number in this sequence follows closely to the Word that God gave in relation to those being deceived (Strong's 5786), which is also the number of the current Hebrew Year that corresponds with 2026. So, as discussed above, if the current deception in the world is ultimately leading us towards the prophetic events of the Tribulation, when Satan through the Antichrist and the False Prophet will establish his rule and reign upon the earth, then Strongs H5787 that follows this with a higher level of blindness could represent the hardened hearts of people entering the Tribulation, because they have rejected a 'love for the Truth' that would have saved them, as God says in 2 Thessalonians:

¹⁰ And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. 2 Thessalonians 2:10

Summary - So importantly, this sequence of 6 Strong's Hebrew Words; is a sequence of 6 Numbers that match with the Hebrew Years that occur within a unique 10-year window, in which the numbers in the Hebrew Years add to the decade portion of their corresponding Gregorian Years. This makes them numerically equivalent, such that we can apply the meanings of each of the related Strong's Bible Dictionary Words, with the same numbers, to its corresponding year. Amazingly, as has been shown, there is a sequence of meaning that seems to take us prophetically on a journey from the Fall of Man unto the end-time Tribulation, that biblically is preceded by the Rapture. Significantly this sequence begins with 5782, which equals 22, that as shown above is equivalent to Israel, God's Solution for Sin, with Jesus being equated to Israel—God's perfect Son—by Matthew when he says:

¹⁵ And was there until the death of Herod: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying, Out of Egypt have I called my son. Matthew 2:15

Importantly, God provided the Solution in Jesus, as the fulfilment of Israel, before Creation and the Fall even happened, as it states in 1 Peter 1:20:

²⁰ He indeed was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you 1 Peter 1:20

So, throughout history we see that God; Jesus and Israel remain our focus. The salient point here is that Israel is not only identified as God Himself in Jesus but exist as both a physical nation and a spiritual body, representing those who are in Jesus, being grafted into the Olive Tree that represents Israel. In this regard, Paul shows in Romans 11, that all Believers (Jews and Gentiles) will ultimately be grafted into Israel and then All Israel will be saved:

²⁴ For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and wert grafted contrary to nature into a good olive tree: how much more shall these, which be the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree? 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 fullness of the Gentiles be come in. ²⁶ And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Zion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob: Romans 11:24-26

Then, with Israel elevated to be the head of all nations, throughout all of eternity, Jesus will rule on a 'new earth' from a New Jerusalem in the Land of Israel. This New Jerusalem will descend from Heaven and be built on foundations named after the 12 Jewish apostles and will have 12 Gates named after the 12 tribes of Israel. To this end, Revelation 21:24 states:

²⁴ And the nations of those who are saved shall walk in its light, and the kings of the earth bring their glory and honor Revelation 21:24

The Full 10-Year Pattern

As I described earlier, this 10-year alignment between Hebrew years and Gregorian years also began with a connection to the Psalms of Ascent, which start with God’s end-time transitional number, 120.

120 is a pointer to the ‘end-times’ because in scripture, this number is written as two words (as Hebrew does not have numerals), and these words carry a gematria value of 666, the number of the Antichrist, suggesting their significance is for the end of our current Age.

120 also symbolizes transition because it was first established as the “limit of God striving with sinful man” when Cain killed Able.” Later it marked the transition from Moses to Joshua when Moses reached 120 years of age and was told his death was imminent, despite remaining healthy and strong. This enabled Joshua, as a type of Jesus (even having the same name in Hebrew) to lead God’s people into the Promised Land, foreshadowing Jesus bringing believers into the greater Promised Land of Heaven at the appointed time.

Then arguably, Psalm 120, as the first Psalm of Ascent, was also shown to align with the year 2020, which deepens the meaning of this whole 10-year period, as the Psalms of Ascent were traditionally sung by God’s people on their way up to Jerusalem, to present themselves before God in the Temple. This was an event that they observed three times a year:

 •  Passover - commemorating their freedom from Egypt and ultimately looking forward to the Sacrifice of Jesus as the true Passover Lamb, for all of humanity.

 • Feast of Weeks (Pentecost) at the time of the Barley Harvest - ultimately looking forward to the Harvest of Souls (salvation) that would follow on from Jesus, who was the First Fruit of the Harvest. 

 • Feast of Tabernacles - this was when people constructed temporary booths, or tents, that were attached to their homes, and celebrated the goodness of God, as they dwelt in His presence. 

In these 3 Festivals the salvation of all of humanity is represented along with its ultimate goal being to dwell in the presence of God. Therefore, in connecting these themes with the hidden convergent years, from 2022 to 2027, with their hidden prophetic messages, we can see God tying this all together as a final encouragement and warning for those living in this age because it is suggesting that we are about to ascend to meet Him in the Rapture.

The additional Numbers

So, at this point, it is also worth remembering that the convergence between the Hebrew and Gregorian Years was actually a 10-year period starting at Hebrew Year 5780 (2020) and continuing to Hebrew Year 5789 (2029).

While we obviously looked at the middle portion of that window because the middle numbers pointed to 6 Strong's Hebrew Words, that all used the same three letters ע - ו - ר and that started with Strong's H5782 (that correlates to 2022) and ended with Strong's H5787 (that correlates to 2027), we have to date left the words and numbers of 4 of the convergent years (2020, 2021, 2028 and 2029) unexamined. As such, we will do this now because as will be seen they strengthen the hypothesis of what I believe God is showing us through all of this.

The remaining 4 words - along with their primary meaning, and the years and the numbers that they numerically align with, are below: 

Hebrew Year 5780 corresponds to Gregorian Year 2020 (5 + 7 + 8 + 0 =20) - Strong's Hebrew Word 5780:  עוּץ  - translated Uz

Hebrew Year 5781 corresponds to Gregorian Year 2021 (5 + 7 + 8 + 1 =21) - Strong's Hebrew Word 5781:  עוּק- translated Pressed

Hebrew Year 5788 corresponds to Gregorian Year 2028 (5 + 7 + 8 + 8 =28) - Strong's Hebrew Word 5788:  עִוָּרוֹן- translated Blind

Hebrew Year 5780 corresponds to Gregorian Year 2029 (5 + 7 + 8 + 9 =29) - Strong's Hebrew Word 5789:  עוּשׁ- translated Assemble

Strong's Hebrew Number 5780 (Gregorian Year 2020) - Uz (עוּץ)- Satan's back-story - part 1

This can be understood as 5 + 7 + 8 + 0 = 20.

Beginning with the number 20 we note that it can be understood as the age of accountability or responsibility, as shown above, in connection with the number 120. Therefore, by starting this convergent period with a number that corresponds to a time in our lives when God is holding us accountable for our choices, He is emphasizing that time is running out to receive the Gospel of Grace and make Jesus our LORD before the Rapture, which will be both the blessed hope for believers, as Paul states in Titus 2:

¹³ Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Savior Jesus Christ Titus 2:13

and a day of judgement as Amos 5 states:

¹⁸ Woe unto you that desire -- the day of the LORD! to what end is it for you? the day of the LORD -- is darkness, and not light. ¹⁹ As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him. ²⁰ Shall not the day of the LORD be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it? Amos 5:18-20

Then interestingly, we have Strong's H5780, that is the Hebrew word עוּץ  that is translated as "Uz". The most significant meaning of Uz comes from understanding that as a noun it was the name of the homeland of Job, as described in Job 1:1

¹ There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil. Job 1:1

As such, we are invited by this very first word, that is connected to the first number in our 10-year convergent window, to examine the story of Job, that reveals something more about the nature and motives of Satan, who tempts Eve and causes the Fall of Man, that is pointed to by the first of the 6 Strong's numbers that form a sequence of meaning in the middle of this convergent window.

Firstly, it is important to note that God is totally sovereign and that Satan is not His equal, rather he is merely described as one who is among the 'sons of God', who are all created beings: 

⁶ Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them. Job 1:6

As Satan is a created being, who is now in the presence of the Omniscient; Omnipotent and Omnipresent God, he must wait until he is given permission to speak. This occurs in Job 1:7, where we see the LORD directly addressing him. At this point, Satan is required to give a response:

⁷ And the LORD said unto Satan, Whence comest thou? Then Satan answered -- the LORD, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it. Job 1:7

These two verses alone begin to put things into perspective about our enemy, showing he is not free to do whatever he wills, and he comes under the sovereignty of God. From this point on, in the story, we can see God bring Job to Satan's attention, as an example of one, who unlike Satan, maintained a right-standing relationship with God and shunned evil:

⁸ Then the LORD said to Satan, “Have you considered My servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, one who fears God and shuns evil?” Job 1:8

This emphasized the free-will God gave to all of His creatures, and it was an example that showed Satan that it was possible to choose the good and remain blameless and upright, which is something Satan could have done prior to his fall. However, Satan who no longer had any reverence to God, launched into a mini tirade that was somehow meant to diminish God. Essentially, he was accusing God of being deceitfully manipulative to obtain Job's loyalty and devotion, but ultimately in describing what God actually does for those who trust Him, it was one of the rare times that Satan was telling the Truth. His accusation actually brings glory and honour to God because it reveals Him as our protector and provider:

⁹ So Satan answered the LORD and said, “Does Job fear God for nothing? ¹⁰ Have You not made a hedge around him, around his household, and around all that he has on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his possessions have increased in the land.  Job 1:9-10

Clearly God, who is rich in mercy, does put a hedge of protection around those who love and obey Him and around that person's household, even if all the individual members may not be walking with God. There is a 'special grace' that protects them while God, by His Spirit, is calling them to Himself. Additionally, I believe this verse is suggesting that there is a 'special grace' that is extended to a believer's neighbour (being a part of all that he has on every side); as well as there  being a blessing and favor for our place of work and in our home, in relation to all that He provides us. However, Satan's motives for these words quickly become clear, as he continues to speak from his own heart with words that essentially say that no one could possibly love God, unless He blessed them. The inference here is that God has not acted out of real love, but "Cupboard love" which is an insincere form of affection or friendliness shown by someone (often a child or pet) to gain a reward, typically food or a selfish advantage, rather than from genuine love:

¹¹ But now, stretch out Your hand and touch all that he has, and he will surely curse You to Your face!” Job 1:11

You can hear the venom in these words from Satan, who in a later encounter with Jesus revealed that his greatest desire is to be 'worshipped as God'. Sadly, he only envied God's power, and never understood His Love, that by its very definition is self-sacrificing because Love always seeks to elevate others, as we saw above in 1 Peter 1:20, where the Holy Spirity revealed that God had already decided before He created the world to send His only Son to die as a payment for the Sin that so easily besets us. As such, Satan's words go to the heart of who he thinks God and lay an unprecedent challenge to His very nature. However, because God is not just loving by nature, rather He IS Love, with each person of the Godhead continually seeking to elevate another, we have in the book of Job an amazing insight into the very nature and character of God.

In general-biblical terms, love functions internally within the Trinitarian Godhead as follows:

• The Father loves, glorifies, and honours the Son.

• The Son loves, obeys, and glorifies the Father.

• The Spirit glorifies the Son, proceeds from the Father, and shares in divine honour.

Here’s the fascinating thing about the Book of Job: while it never gives a systematic doctrine of the Trinity, it contains remarkable hints—“whispers,” you might say—of God’s triune nature long before the New Testament makes it explicit. Early Christian theologians loved Job for this reason. They saw in it a kind of proto‑Trinitarian revelation.

Below is an outline of how Job gives us hints about the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

How the Book of Job Hints at the Trinity

1. God the Father — The Sovereign Creator

Job is saturated with references to God as the transcendent Creator and Sustainer.

Key themes

• God speaks from the whirlwind with absolute authority (Job 38–41).

• He governs creation, sets boundaries for the seas, commands the morning, and oversees all creatures.

• Job repeatedly calls Him “God Most High” and “the Almighty”.

Why Christians see the Father here

The New Testament identifies the “Almighty Creator” as the Father (e.g., 1 Corinthians 8:6). Job’s portrayal of God as the transcendent, sovereign Creator aligns naturally with the First Person of the Trinity.

2. God the Son — The Redeemer and Mediator

This is where Job gets surprisingly rich.

Job longs for a divine Mediator

Job expresses a need for someone who is:

• fully divine (“one who can lay his hand on both God and man” — Job 9:33)

• an advocate in heaven (Job 16:19–21)

• a Redeemer who lives (Job 19:25)

These are some of the most striking proto‑Christological statements in the Old Testament.

Key passages

Job says God is not a man like him and wishes for a “mediator” (Hebrew: mokhiach, an arbiter). Job 9:32–35

“Even now my witness is in heaven; my advocate is on high.” Job 16:19–21

Job imagines a heavenly intercessor—exactly the role the New Testament assigns to Christ (Hebrews 7:25; 1 John 2:1).

“I know that my Redeemer lives…” Job 19:25

Christians have always seen this as a prophetic anticipation of Christ, the living Redeemer.

Why Christians see the Son here

Job’s longing for:

• a divine‑human mediator

• a heavenly advocate

• a living Redeemer

…matches the identity and mission of Jesus Christ with uncanny precision.

3. God the Holy Spirit — The Breath of God Who Gives Life and Wisdom

Job contains some of the clearest Old Testament references to the Spirit’s divine activity.

Key passages

“The Spirit of God has made me; the breath of the Almighty gives me life.” Job 33:4

This is one of the strongest statements in the Old Testament about the Spirit’s role in creation and life‑giving power.

“By His Spirit He adorned the heavens.” Job 26:13 

The Spirit is portrayed as active in ordering and beautifying creation.

Why Christians see the Spirit here

These passages align perfectly with New Testament teaching:

• The Spirit gives life (Romans 8:11)

• The Spirit is active in creation (Genesis 1:2; Psalm 104:30)

Job’s language is unusually explicit for such an early text.

Putting It All Together: A Triune Pattern in Job

While Job never uses the word “Trinity,” it presents the essential nature of each person within it:

• God above us (Father)

• God with us and for us (Son)

• God within us and sustaining life (Spirit)

That’s the Trinity in seed form and that is how Love, that functions naturally within the Godhead, is extended to humanity. In a sense, because God’s very nature is Love, creation becomes the natural overflow of who He is. And when He formed us in His image—free to choose, free to love—He understood that such freedom would also open the way for darkness to touch our souls. Yet even then, Love saw the cost and God knew that to restore what freedom would break, He Himself would become the sacrifice that brings us back into the light. That Love in it all of its 'fullness' is so completely self-sacrificing, that it could result in one laying down His life for another is something that Satan could never understand because his hunger for power only resulted in him thinking that the elevation of self is everyone's prime motive. This is why he thought that the challenge he had presented to God, in relation to Job, would vindicate him, believing that once Job had his hedge of protection removed, he would simply do what anyone would do and curse God. Little did Satan know that God understood that Job had true Love and reverence for Him, and as a witness to the powers of darkness, and all of humanity that would follow him throughout history, God allowed Satan access to Job's Life. So, while Job never understood what was happening to him, when Satan unleashed his multi-front attack, he ultimately exposed Satan to what true power is, the power of Love that would eventually save millions of souls. For in the midst of the attack, that would destroy many, Job made a wonderful declaration:

²⁵ For I know that my Redeemer lives, and He shall stand at last on the earth; ²⁶ And after my skin is destroyed, this I know, that in my flesh I shall see God, ²⁷ Whom I shall see for myself, and my eyes shall behold, and not another. How my heart yearns within me! Job 19:25-27

That Satan could not understand this kind of Power is evident in the fact that his tactics have never changed. Even though he knows the scriptures, he truly does not understand them. This explains why, even though he knew from the writings of Moses that the Passover Lamb that was sacrificed on the 14^th Nisan (at the time of the Exodus) was a foreshadowing of the sacrificing of the greater Passover Lamb, who as the Messiah and the Seed of the Woman, that God had told Satan would one day crush his Head, he was still literally Hell-bent on having Jesus (who clearly identified Himself as both the Messiah and Seed of the Woman) crucified. Not only that, he actually helped God fulfill prophecy by entering Judas on the eve of Passover effectively ensuring that Jesus was actually crucified on exactly the 14^th of Nisan, literally dying at the same time as the symbolic Passover Lambs were being sacrificed in the Temple. Clearly, we should fear and revere God as he is the one that holds our life, not the enemy, whom Jesus defeated fully on the Cross.

2020

So how does all this fit in relation to our convergent years?

The answer lays in understanding that before Job was tempted by Satan to curse God, just as he told him to do when he spoke through Job's wife, who said:

⁹ Then his wife said to him, “Do you still hold fast to your integrity? Curse God and die!” Job 2:9

Satan devised a scheme to make this happen, which involved the unleashing of some unexpected attacks on someone that had been living fully under God's blessing, hoping to weaken his resolve and unleash fear and anger toward God.

Essentially this parallels our 10 convergent years that started in 2020, with the enemy unleashing an unprecedented attack on a global scale vis a vis, the COVID-19 Pandemic. For the first-time in modern history, not only were there world-wide lockdowns, but churches everywhere were being forced to close their doors, and the singing of hymns was being banned because it was argued by some governments that "singing" could propagate the disease.

At the same time as this was happening, Supermarkets, where hundreds of people mingle and touch goods and breath on each other remained open, as did most Pubs and Clubs, including Adult Entertainment sites. This revealed its true nature, but fortunately one Pastor in America - John MacArthur, who has since gone home to be with the LORD and who feared God and not Man, launched a legal battle arguing that it was unconstitutional, and he was correct. Ultimately, he and his congregation remained open, while he accrued fines for supposedly defying a legal order, until it was shown for what it was. I remember standing with my wife in an Australian Pub ordering a meal. I was required to wear a mask, while I was at the counter placing the order for our meals, otherwise they would not have served us. Yet 3 feet away, were unmasked people drinking beer, and once seated in the crowded environment, the masks that were supposed saving our lives had to come off to allow us to eat. The absurdity of all of this revealed it was never about a health issue, it was ultimately about compliance, a foretaste of the Beast system that the book of Revelation talks about.

Satan had unleashed his physical attack, like he did with Job to first weaken the resolve of God's people, and then the temptations came to question where God was in all of this and many stopped attending church, once they reopened after the Lockdowns. So in many respects, by God pointing us to the paradigm of Job, in the first of the convergent years (that aligned with the Strong's Hebrew Number 5780), that corresponds to the number 20, and that symbolically represents the age when God holds us accountable, He is emphasizing to us, that at this time in history, we had a choice to be like Job and trust His character and purposes. We had to decide whether like John MacArthur we trusted God or not, and whether we believed His Word or not. As the first of the convergent years, I truly believe this was a seminal event that would determine many people's eternal destinies. Just like those 20 years and older, who did not trust that God would give them the Promised Land that was full of Giants, and they had to die out in the wilderness, God was giving all believers the opportunity to fully trust Him in an uncertain time, when things were becoming difficult in many ways and were definitely hard to understand.

However, while most of us will not suffer physically to the same extent as Job, the typology is still valid; and like with Job as the year rolled over from 2020 to 2021, things began to escalate, as is indicated by our next Strong's Hebrew Word 5781.   

Strong's Hebrew Number 5781 (Gregorian Year 2021) -Pressed (עוּק) - Satan's back-story - part 2

This can be understood as 5 + 7 + 8 + 1 = 21.

Firstly, as a number 21 is 3 x 7, which is Divinity (3) and God's oath to fulfil His Promises (7). In this regard, it is worth noting that all the events that happened to Job were initiated by God, who gave Satan permission to act, so God at all times remains sovereign. Importantly, while none of us like the times when we are in the valley, rather than on the mountain in God's presence, we should always remember God is Love, and that He acts from eternity. There are always reasons for difficult times, they are never arbitrary. Whether they come like they did for Job, who God knew He could trust to endure a level of suffering that would be a witness to billions of Christians down through the ages, or if it comes because we open the door to the enemy ourselves, God's word reminds us that:

²⁸ And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose. Romans 8:28

With that said, if we now consider the second word in our 10-year convergent window, Strong's Hebrew Word 5781, we find it is עוּק (‘ûq), which is translated as "Pressed". As a verb, it means "to be weighed down", or "to be crushed". As such, it is used of a heavy weight pressing down on something. Biblically, it is used in a figurative way to speak of the weight of Israel’s rebelliousness pressing down on God, but contextually, with regard to our convergent years, I believe it perfectly speaks of the escalation of the Satanic Trial (in the form of Covid-19) that came upon the world to test and tempt it.

2021

In this respect, it is notable that while 2020 saw the arrival of COVID-19 and world-wide restrictions and lockdowns, 2021 saw the introduction of COVID-19 Vaccines. Now while much could be said in relation to this, I will simply say that for many the pressure to question God increased with the introductions of mandatory vaccinations in many areas, as well as vaccination passports. The unvaccinated were starting to become a class of people to be shunned, and many who did not wish to take it, for health reasons of their own, were for an extended period unable to work. This was the case for myself and many thousands of others in Australia and in some states, such as Victoria, we even had curfews, that meant if you were found on the streets after about 9pm and before 5 am, you could be arrested.

Since all churches that I am aware of were closed in 2021, church attendance was restricted to online activities only, and even gatherings in homes, along with spacing guidelines, were restricted to a maximum of 10 people at any one time. They were Draconian laws that I believe all speak to what God was hinting at with the numbers that pointed to the Strong's Hebrew Word 5781, that means 'pressure' or something 'spiritually weighty'.

Ultimately, these two Strong's Hebrew Words: 5780 and 5781, that precede our 6 form Hebrew words, that are defined by the numbers 5782 to 5787, lay the foundation for our response in the convergent period.

Brief Summary - of the first 8 numbers of our 10-year Convergent Period

So, Satan begins his attack, like he did on Job (5780) and the attacks increase in intensity, testing us and weighing us down heavily both emotionally and spiritually (5781) and then like Adam and Eve we are tempted to trust the words God gave us prior to Satan's test (5782). However, since as God says in Romans, "all have sinned and fallen short of the Glory of God", we all fail at one level or another, and then have both a physical consequence to Sin (5783) and a spiritual consequence to Sin (5784) to deal with. Fortunately though, God, who is rich in mercy and knows our weaknesses, has provided a solution, a way to be restored into 'right relationship' with Him, so long as we still trust Him (5785). For those of us that repent and ask for forgiveness, this leads us back into a process of sanctification, where we learn to walk and dwell with God again. However, those that "reject the love of the Truth" will begin to be deceived by the enemy (5756) and just as God began to appeal to Cain, who was struggling with Sin and Anger, if they fully and absolutely reject Him, then He will cause a delusion to come upon them, such that they will be spiritually blind and will believe the Lie and be judged accordingly (5787).

The final 2 Numbers of our 10 year Period

All that now remains is the final 2 numbers of our 10-year convergent period, that involve 5788 and 5789, and that correspond with Hebrew Years 5788 / Gregorian years 2028 and Hebrew Years 5789 / Gregorian Years 2029, and the numbers 28 and 29 respectively. It is hoped that this will add some prophetic clarity to the coming years in 2028 and 2029, that could also add to our understanding of what God may be saying through this pattern, in relation to our current time, and what will follow. 

Strong's Hebrew Number 5788 (Gregorian Year 2028) -Blind (עִוָּרוֹן)

This can be understood as 5 + 7 + 8 + 8 = 28.

As a multiple of 7 and 4, the number 28 is again about God's oaths to fulfil all His Promises, to people in the world. So in this respect, it could be that God is broadening the scope of His actions to include the nations, not just the messianic Jews, or Christian believers.

Following on from Strong's H5787 – עִוֵּר – “blind person” that I saw as being symbolic of a final blindness that could be leading people into the judgment of the Tribulation, Strong's H5788 –  עִוָּרוֹן – seems to be talking about a whole new level of Blindness that is possibly beyond the possibility of Redemption. It occurs 3 times in scripture, twice in relation to animals and once in relation to people, so its meaning can validly  be applied in the context of our discussion.

Essentially, the following verse describes it as a judgment, a curse, for those who do not "... hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes": 

²⁸ The LORD shall smite thee with madness, and blindness, and astonishment of heart: Deuteronomy 28:28

As a type or level of blindness, described in the verse below in relation to sacrificial animal, it could be argued that in the context of our 10-year convergent period, it could be symbolically saying that the blindness of the people is so severe that it is beyond redemption, as no offering unto the Lord could be made for it: 

²² Blind, or broken, or maimed, or having a wen, or scurvy, or scabbed, ye shall not offer these unto the LORD, nor make an offering by fire of them upon the altar unto the LORD. Leviticus 22:22

As such, since Strong's H5787 – עִוֵּר – “blind person” seemed to be symbolic of a blindness that could lead people into judgment in the Tribulation, while still allowing them to retain the hope of salvation, under the ministry of the Two Witnesses and the 144,000 sealed Jewish believers, who will bring the Gospel to those alive in the first half of the Tribulation; Strong's H5788 –  עִוָּרוֹן - Blind seems to be speaking of those that go into the second half of the Tribulation, as part of their final judgment that leads them to damnation because of their wickedness, as spoken about in 2 Thessalonians:

¹¹ And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: ¹² That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness. 2 Thessalonians 2:11-12

Strong's Hebrew Number 5789 (Gregorian Year 2029) -Assemble (עוּשׁ)

This can be understood as 5 + 7 + 8 + 9 = 29.

Finally, in relation to these 10 convergent numbers, we have the Hebrew Year 5789 that adds to 29 and correlates with Gregorian Year 2029, that takes it meaning from Strong's Hebrew Word 5789:  עוּשׁ- translated in the KJV as Assemble.

Firstly, the number 29 ties all this together because mathematically it is 20 + 9 which, as shown above, biblically represent both the Age of Accountability (20) when God holds people accountable for whether they trust Him or not, and the Finality of Redemption (9) achieved by Jesus who was crucified at 9 am before dying in our place, for our Redemption at the 9^th hour. As such, this is a transitional number that points to an appointed time whereby God will begin to judge and punish those who have rejected Him. Prior to this, unbelievers were given time to repent, being covered by Grace, either until they cried out to Him for Salvation, or until their appointed time came.

Amazingly, this connects directly with Strong's Hebrew Word 5789, that appears in one verse of the bible only in Joel 3:11, that speaks about the actions of the wicked just prior to the Return of Jesus at the end of the Tribulation. It is a verse that contextually bridges the Wrath of God with the Second Coming of Jesus Christ, so you could not get a greater transitional event than this, in the context of completing our 10-year convergent window, in connection with the number 29, that corresponds to 5789.

It is interesting to note here that the KJV uniquely translates Strong's H5789 as two words, not one, translating it as "assemble yourselves...", as follows:

¹¹ Assemble yourselves, and come, all ye heathen, and gather yourselves together round about: thither cause thy mighty ones to come down, O LORD. Joel 3:11

However, the Hebrew verb עוּשׁ (ʿûš) does not actually mean “assemble”, rather the core meaning is:

• hurry

• hasten

• come quickly

• stir yourself

This means that it has zero lexical connection to gathering, convening, or assembling. As such, the KJV’s “assemble yourselves” is not a dictionary translation, which is why all the other modern versions use some form of hasten; or come quickly. This is important because now we can understand it as an issue of emphasis, for while most modern translations stick to the lexical meaning, the KJV translators saw that the overall scene was one of the nations gathering themselves in defiance against God, so they rendered עוּשׁ in a way that they believed matched the narrative movement. In other words, while the lexical meaning is “hurry”, the contextual meaning is “hurry to gather” and so the KJV chose to express the contextual meaning of a 'hurried assembling of rebellious nations' directly.

I believe that this better reflects the spirit of the passage that is about the rebellious posture of the nations. In this way, the KJV puts the emphasis back onto the idea of the People gathering from all nations to come against God, as they prepare for battle in the Valley of Jehoshaphat, where God will judge them, trampling upon them like grapes in a wine press.

Essentially, the central idea of H5789 that I believe the KJV reflects so well is about the hardness of the people's Hearts that cause them to assemble or gather, to come against God, it is not about how quickly this is done. Rather, I think the use of the word עוּשׁ that normally carries the sense of doing something quickly, is ultimately about a betrayal of Christ, because this is who the nations in this verse are prophetically gathering against. It is a foreshadowing of when Jesus says to another betrayer in Judas to do what he has to do quickly:

²⁶ Jesus answered, “It is he to whom I shall give a piece of bread when I have dipped it.” And having dipped the bread, He gave it to Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon. ²⁷ Now after the piece of bread, Satan entered him. Then Jesus said to him, “What you do, do quickly.” John 13:26-27

Then in another lexical connection, the Greek word used for Judas to act quickly is ταχύ, which happens to be the same word when Jesus says the following, at the end of bible, in relation to His Second Coming:

²⁰ He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming quickly.” Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus! Revelation 22:20

Here the meaning being emphasized is again not speed, as in being quick, but being on time and without delay - in other words, the Holy Spirit could be telling us that this is an appointed-time. So just like all the Feasts of the LORD, in the Old Testament, that are the moedim or 'appointed times' that have a set date and time, I believe the LORD could be telling us that Joel 3:11, which includes the final Hebrew Word of our 10-year convergent window, that points to Strong's Hebrew Word 5789, is actually an appointed event. Since Joel 3:11 is a prophetic pointer to the Battle of Armageddon that involves Jesus' return in His Second Coming to end the Tribulation, then I believe that this could be God suggesting to us that the events that follow our current Hebrew Year 5786, will ultimately all be a part of the Tribulation. So symbolically, it could be a pointer to how close we are.

An important point about all of this is that there is only one verse of the Bible that contains this last Strong's Number (5789), that corresponds with the Hebrew Year 5789, or the Gregorian Year 2029. This makes the context of that verse very significant. As above, we had been looking at a 6-word sequence that seemed to be pointing to those who had become so blind that they would be cast into the Tribulation, although there was still hope for their redemption - this was in connection with Strong's H5787 that corresponded to 2027. Then we considered Strong's H5788 that carried the idea of a person being so completely blind, that there was no possibility of redemption, and if they didn't die beforehand, they would go all the way through the Tribulation, until their final Judgement. In this way, this final Strong's word 5789 brings us to a natural conclusion for this sequence, in that the verse this word points to it essentially the last action that these wicked spiritually blind people can take, as they gather to fight against the LORD at the battle of Armageddon, just prior to Jesus' Second Coming.

Essentially, if the Rapture were to occur this year - 2026, or sometime during Hebrew Year 5786 (that adds to 26), and that ends in September of this year, then this final Hebrew year 5789 (2029), in the context of our convergent window, would be in the heart of the Tribulation. While 2029 would actually be in the middle of the Tribulation (if and only if the Rapture occurred in 2026), I believe that the context of the Strong's Hebrew Word #5789 is simply pointing to the spiritual condition of the rebellious nations near the end of the Tribulation (that more literally would be in 2033 if any of this was valid), when the people who have become so blind to the Truth; and so hard in their hearts; as the previous words in this sequence show, that they actually gather together to fight against the LORD in the 'Battle of Armageddon', just prior to the LORD's Return.

As such, this final word, is the ultimate conclusion to the prophetic sequence shown by the 10 numbers in our 'convergent window' from 5780 to 5789 that represent:

• the Hebrew Years from 5780 to 5789.

• the corresponding Biblical numbers 20 to 29 - obtained by adding the 4 digits in each of the 10 numbers in the sequence above.

• the corresponding Gregorian Years from 2020 to 2029 - that also align with the numbers from 20 to 29.

• the Strong's Bible Hebrew Words also from 5780 to 5789.

One Final Numerical Observation

In one final observation, that ties this all together, it is intriguing to note that the word at the centre of our 10-year convergent window –– that numerically points to 6 forms of the three Hebrew letters  ע - וּ - ר that relate to Strong's Hebrew Bible Numbers - 5782 to 5787 –– it has a very significant numerical value, that shows what God's heart toward us, through all of this, is all about.

As such, it reveals the core reason for God concealing this unique period of time that numerically aligns on two calendars and provides a message, through the all the associated numbers, that both encourages us to understand that we are near the end of the Age of Grace, and that we are to remain diligent, so as not to be deceived, while we look up and wait for His Return.

The following gematria table shows how this value is calculated:

So the value of the main word we have been analysing is 276.

While this may not seem significant at first, it quickly becomes so when we realise that this is one of God's Triangular numbers that He uses in His word to emphasize certain aspects of Redemption.

Triangular numbers - can be calculated using the following formula - T_n = n × (n+1)/2 

 For example - the 4^th Triangular number is 4 x (4 + 1) / 2 = 10

Here the 4^th Triangular number is 10 - and these numbers two numbers reveal the following → 4 is the number of the World and 10 is the number for the Law that governs our world. This is one of the reasons why Jesus came into the World and died on the 14^th (4 + 10) Nisan, fulfilling the Law of Sin and Death, that states that the wages of Sin are death. So, He died the death that we could never come back from, on our behalf, so that when He rose to life again, He would become the Resurrection and the Life for all who would put their Trust in Him. However, before He rose, His sacrifice that fulfilled the Law (10) on behalf of mankind (6) was waved as an Offering before the Father. It was accepted and in this way, Jesus fulfilled the Feast of First-Fruits on the 16^th (10 +6) Nisan and became the First Fruit of all of humanity that would rise from the dead. This then cleared the way for Jesus to rise on the 17^th (10 +7) which represent the fulfilment of God's Promise to both meet the requirements of the Law and to save all of Abraham's spiritual descendants (Jew and Gentile), just as He promised Abraham in 1876 BC, nearly 4,000 years ago.

A couple more examples

- the 15^th Triangular number is 120 → So 15 (5 x 3) is the divine Grace we need as fallen people and 120 is the limit of that Grace, after which God will no longer strive with fallen humanity. 

- the 17^th Triangular number is 153 → So 17 is new resurrection life, seen in Noah's Flood and the day Jesus Resurrected and 153 is the symbolic number of fish, seen in John's Gospel that represent the large number of souls that would be saved through Jesus' disciples.

Importantly, the Triangular number ties two numbers together into a relationship that can be very revealing. As above, the numbers for the World and the Law that govern it were connected, as were the numbers for God's Grace and His limit before Judgement; and the new resurrection life that leads to the Salvation of humanity. Therefore, from this perspective, it is significant to note that the 23^rd Triangular number is 276. This ties the two numbers 23 and 276 together. 

From our discussions above we have seen that 23 was connected with Judgements of God, when He would no longer strive with Sinful man we saw this in numerous ways with God often judging his own people first, such as in the Messianic Seed Line from Adam to Jesus that stalled at the 23^rd Generation, until God eventually chose Judah (the 4^th son) out of the sons of Jacob to carry the Messianic Seed, when normally it was the first son; and then a number of Churches around the world, in 2023, received judgements. 

Therefore, as with other Triangular numbers, 23 (Judgement) and 276 are connected, but what is 276 in the bible? 

Acts 27 reveals the answer - Here we see a passage describing one of the Apostle Paul's journeys to Rome by ship. AmazingluOn the way, Paul and everyone on board were shipwrecked because of a violent storm that drove the ship uncontrollably toward land. Eventually they were forced onto a sandbar, where the pounding surf tore it apart. Amazingly, the very first reference to this particular ship occurs in Acts 27:6 - again God is a God of the details. Anyhow, the chapter makes it clear that the disaster was caused by severe weather, not human sabotage or enemy action, but important to this discussion, there were exactly 276 souls on board (verse 37); and as the passage also emphasises, not one soul was lost. They were all saved being able to safely escape to land (verse 44), as the following shows:

³⁷ And we were in all in the ship two hundred threescore and sixteen souls. ³⁸ And when they had eaten enough, they lightened the ship, and cast out the wheat into the sea. ³⁹ And when it was day, they knew not the land: but they discovered a certain creek with a shore, into the which they were minded, if it were possible, to thrust in the ship. ⁴⁰ And when they had taken up the anchors, they committed themselves unto the sea, and loosed the rudder bands, and hoisted up the mainsail to the wind, and made toward shore. ⁴¹ And falling into a place where two seas met, they ran the ship aground; and the forepart -- stuck fast, and remained unmovable, but the hinder part was broken with the violence of the waves. ⁴² And the soldiers’ counsel was to kill the prisoners, lest any of them should swim out, and escape. ⁴³ But the centurion, willing to save Paul, kept them from their purpose; and commanded that they which could swim should cast themselves first into the sea, and get to land: ⁴⁴ And the rest, some on boards, and some -- on broken pieces of the ship. And so it came to pass, that they escaped all safe to land. Acts 27:37-44

So, 276 is directly related to the Salvation of people caught in the storms of life, which is all of humanity, and through its connection to 23 we see that God is emphasizing that He is reversing the curse of His Judgement by pouring out His Spirit to bring Salvation. Importantly though, this dichotomy of Judgement and Salvation is also being reflected in the timeframe of when Jesus returns.

Firstly, John in his vision of our risen LORD reveals Him as wielding a two-edged sword: 

¹⁶ He had in His right hand seven stars, out of His mouth went a sharp two-edged sword, and His countenance was like the sun shining in its strength Revelation 1:16

We know that the 'Sword of the Spirit' is the Word of God from Ephesians 6:

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

and we know that it has two edges such that it can divide soul and spirit and discern (a form of Judgement) the thoughts and motives of the heart, from Hebrews 4: 

¹² For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. Hebrews 4:12

And then we see Jesus returning in His Second Coming with a Two-Edged Sword coming out of His Mouth

¹³ He was clothed with a robe dipped in blood, and His name is called The Word of God. ¹⁴ And the armies in heaven, clothed in fine linen, white and clean, followed Him on white horses. ¹⁵ Now out of His mouth goes a sharp sword, that with it He should strike the nations. And He Himself will rule them with a rod of iron. He Himself treads the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God. Revelation 19:13-15

Clearly this will be a time of both Salvation for those that are alive and have put their Trust in Jesus and a time of Judgement when the Wicked will be struck down in their Sins. In an amazing connection to the theme of the word we have been discussing, with 6 forms that emphasize the theme of being naked from Sin and needing to be covered, we see Hebrews 4:13, that follows on from its description of the two edged sword (as shown above), literally pointing to this nakedness, that is a spiritual exposure of our Sin that has to be accounted for

¹³ And there is no creature hidden from His sight, but all things are naked and open to the eyes of Him to whom we must give account. Hebrews 4:12-13

The whole sequence we have been examining emphasizes that our nakedness can either be covered by the sacrifice of Jesus, as the perfect Lamb of God, whereas believers we spiritually put on Christ, so that we are clothed in His Righteousness, or we stand in our own strength and give an account for our Sins on Judgement Day before, in compliance of the Law that states the wages of sin is death, we are eternally separated from God. This is the Second Death, the first being the death of our physical body. 

So, in summary, the Sword of the Spirit, identified as the Word of God, functions as a powerful, double-edged weapon that both judges human hearts and saves believers through spiritual truth. Key verses describe it as living, active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, able to pierce, divide, and judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart. 

Key Bible Verses on the Two-Edged Sword/Word of God

• Hebrews 4:12 (KJV/NIV): "For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart".

• Ephesians 6:17 (KJV/NIV): "And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God".

• Revelation 1:16 (ESV): "In his right hand he held seven stars, from his mouth came a sharp two-edged sword, and his face was like the sun shining in full strength".

• Revelation 2:12 (ESV): "...The words of him who has the sharp two-edged sword".

Psalm 149:6 (KJV): "Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, and a two-edged sword in their hand".

• Isaiah 49:2 (ESV): "He made my mouth like a sharp sword; in the shadow of his hand he hid me...". 

Significance of the Two-Edged Sword

•  Judge and Reveal: The Word acts as a "surgeon's scalpel," cutting through rationalizations to reveal the true state of a person's heart and motives.

•  Save and Empower: While it convicts of sin, it is also the mechanism by which the Spirit imparts truth for salvation and defends against deception in spiritual warfare.

•  Offensive Weapon: It is the only offensive weapon in the Armor of God, used to fight temptation and spiritual error.

•  Christ's Authority: In Revelation, the sword proceeds from Christ's mouth, representing the ultimate authority of His judgment. 

Importantly, remembering that the number 276 is the value of the Hebrew word עור with 6 forms in the middle of a 10-year Convergent Window, that provide us with a sequence from the Fall of Man in the Garden of Eden to possibly the Tribulation, God is clearly saying that while we are still in the Age of Grace, we should be doing our best under the power of the Holy Spirit to bring the Gospel to as many souls as possible because His Heart is to save everyone, as 2 Peter 3:8 says He does not want anyone to be lost:

⁹ The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance. 2 Peter 3:9

Clearly, He is pouring His Spirit out in these last days, as seen by the many revivals that began occurring in 2025. However, the sequence of numbers also emphasize that time is short because it is all connected to a unique 10-year window from 2020 to 2029, and given that we are currently in 2026, we are nearly at the End. The message of this period also shows a level of spiritual blindness, starting in 2027, that one could arguably suggest, could only occur withing the Tribulation. Therefore, we need to have some urgency about us, as we share Jesus with others.

Final Thoughts

Ultimately none of this is Random  - if anyone thinks that all of these numerical alignments–—a one-of-a-kind 10-year period found only once during the five centuries I've studied–—are just coincidences, and that it's merely accidental for related words to form a sequence mirroring humanity's spiritual history (from the Fall in the Garden, through its physical and spiritual impacts, all the way to God's solution, then the current era's deception leading some into blindness and missing the pre-tribulation Rapture, followed by even greater blindness linked to God sending a delusion that causes many to be judged and lost, including those who assemble to oppose Jesus before His Return), and they still claim it's all down to pure chance, then there's probably nothing else that could convince them. God is genuinely good, and loving, and amazingly, as the all-powerful (Omnipotent) creator of the world, He had the power to orchestrate all of this for their benefit. Most importantly, I believe He wanted us to understand that this is all occurring in connection with the time-period that we are currently in, to shout out a warning that His Return is close.

Confirmation of God’s end-time Calendar

While the LORD can delay because He does not want any to be lost, it is also a very real possibility that all of this is just as it appears, a pointer to a Rapture in 2026. At the very least, given the uniqueness of this convergence and the message that it is conveying, I believe that it is a confirmation of us being very advanced in God's End-Time calendar. In this regard, I believe in one last observation that God's hidden Intent is very clear.

Essentially, the number 276 in numerically comprised of the following Prime Factors:

• 2

• 3

• 23

Those three primes multiply to give the full value:

22 x 3 x 23 = 276

The meanings of the numbers are consistent and the message of 276 is as follows:

Israel (22) x God (3) x Judgement (23) = Salvation (276)

So, Israel fulfilled in Jesus, who was God incarnate was judged on the Cross when He bore our sin and died as an atonement for it so that that we could be saved simply by putting our faith in His finished work.

All Factors of 276

Additionally, the full set of positive factors is:

• 1

• 2

• 3

• 4

• 6

• 12

• 23

• 46

• 69

• 92

• 138

These are all significant, but just to highlight a few that demonstrate the themes of Judgement and Salvation that underlie the number 276 that is the value of the 6 Form Word we have been examining, that in turn forms the heart of the 10-year convergent window:

The Factor 138 = 23 × 6 

• 23 → Judgement - that involves both death / and salvation

• 6 → man → Man is either delivered to death, or from death

and 100 +38

• 100 → represents the fallen generation that started with Cain and Able

• 38 → could be a hidden connection to the impending Ezekiel 38 War

Together these numbers could be saying the 10-year period that is defined by the word that carries the value of 276 is actually connected to the Ezekiel 38 war, that as I have written elsewhere, I believe will be tied to the Rapture, such that it will either be triggered by the Rapture, or will be the trigger for the Rapture. Either way, it will be the next major war that will involve Israel against many nations simultaneously.

The Factor 92 = 4 × 23

• 4 → creation, world

• 23 → Judgement - death and salvation in the world (starting with and connected to the Fall)

Together, in the context of Acts 27, it becomes: → God’s salvation in the world and His judgement of the Wicked.

The Factor 69 = 3 × 23

• 3 → divine action

• 23 → Judgement - death and salvation → God acting to overcome death which is exactly what happens in Acts 27.

Together they point to the 69^th week of Daniel's 70 Week Prophecy that aligns with the Death of Jesus on the Cross, which is where Judgement of Sin and Death and Salvation for those who put their Trust in Jesus' sacrifice all occurs.

The Factor 46 = 2 × 23

• 2 → Jesus as the second person of the Godhead

• 23 → Judgement - death and salvation in the world (starting with and connected to the Fall)

Together they point to the Jesus as the Son of Man represented by the number 46, that reflects the 46 chromosomes of man. Given that Jesus was also symbolically represented by the Tabernacle and later by Solomon's Temple, it is significant that the Temple included 2 Columns that one needed to pass between to enter God's presence (reflecting that Jesus is the Way to the Father), that were 18 cubits high (representing the 666 = 18 of Sin) that were topped by a Capital of 5 Cubits (Representing that our Sin is covered by God's Grace) for a total of 23 cubits each, representing the judgement of Sin. However, because there were 2 columns 23 x 2 = 46, this Sin was mankind's and Jesus as the Son of Man (46) paid the price. In this way, when we pass through Jesus, as symbolized by passing between the two columns in the Temple entrance, we are covered by the Grace upon each column (18 + 5) and can enter the presence of God.

In this way the number 23, which also connected to our 6-form word עור, that has the value of 276 (23 x 12) that is mathematically the 23^rd Triangular number, we can see the message is all about Judgement and Salvation by Jesus whose name in Hebrew literally means "God saves those who cry for help". So essentially, while the hidden intent is the same as the plainly revealed Gospel of Salvation, it is just that through all of these numbers, God has revealed a hidden 6-year window that suggests we are at the end of the Age of Grace, as of 2026.

Factor Pair View

Sometimes it’s helpful to see them as Multiplicative pairs: