Kyle wrote: Sun Mar 22, 2026 3:36 pm
RAMcGough wrote: Sun Mar 22, 2026 2:35 pm
When you mentioned "ironically, ~14 years or so" I'm guessing you're talking about the fact that I too was backslidden and "eating grass" like Nebuchadnezzar for 14 years. I tell this story of how God woke me up and restored my faith and my soul and my understanding of His Word in
this post.
Yes this is exactly what I was referencing. I was following your work around 2011 and at the time when you fell away from God I was confused as to why and saddened at the same time. However after reading your recent story it has brought great joy to hear about your return.
Kyle,
It's a bittersweet blessing to hear your story. It's hard knowing that I failed the Lord so dramatically, and may have caused doubt in the hearts of those who saw me fall away so publicly. But God is faithful and I know He had a purpose when He sent me out to "eat grass" for 14 years. He taught me a lesson I doubt I'll ever be able to forget. I feel like Nebuchadnezzar:
Daniel 4:37 wrote:Now I Nebuchadnezzar praise and extol and honour the King of heaven, all whose works are truth, and his ways judgment: and those that walk in pride he is able to abase.
The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases.
Kyle wrote: Sun Mar 22, 2026 3:36 pm
Also thank you for the further connections with the number 15. The way I was looking at it was from the point of view that God takes every form of His name as significant and often weaves his name as a signature in His creation. You are right though that many words in scripture sum to 15 and really it is not unique in it self. However we could say the same for 26 and 86 as there are ~6569 occurrences of the number 26 and ~1689 occurrences of 86 in the entire Bible. With that said though the top occurrences of 26 in the Hebrew is YHWH and the top occurrences of 86 in the Hebrew are Elohim. If we apply this same logic to 15 the top occurrences in the Hebrew is YH.
I've always struggled with finding the absolute significance of certain numbers in God's mathematics as there seems to be an underlying structure connecting everything together with many connecting parts. Numbers such as 26, 86, 27, 37, 73, 373, etc. once examined in scripture are self promoting in significance and can stand alone however numbers such as 15 or say 113 still puzzle me.
It is indeed difficult to discern the "absolute significance" of certain numbers. One thing I try to remember is that if there is any meaning intended in a number, it will depend also on context, just like the meaning of words. But some numbers have an innate archetypal meaning that is easy to discern. For example, I think of the Number 2 as the numerical category that subsumes the concepts of duality, division, image, reflection. Thus we see God divided the waters on the 2nd day and again in the second book (Exodus). And the second horseman was given a great sword (instrument of division) to cause war (social division). And the second commandment prohibits graven images. Similar simplicity seems common in the numbers up to 10, though there is a lot of confusion about 6 because it is simultaneously the number of day's God worked to produce His "very good" creation, but also the number of man who mucked it all up.
Some numbers larger than ten (e.g. 12, 40, 70, 1000) are used with sufficient clarity in Scripture to make it pretty easy to discern their meaning. But others have no clear attestation. Take for example, the number 13. It seems many people have mapped the common distrust of that number onto its "biblical" meaning. That is a great error. The meaning of the number is established by its use in the Shema and the primary name of God, YHVH. Look at these nested identities (see
The Unity Holograph):
13 = Echad (one)
13 x 2 = 26 = YHVH
13 x 3 = 39 = YHVH echad = The LORD is ONE = 3 x 13 (ONE) => Trinity
13 x 86 = 1118 = Sum of Shema and so sum reiterates the whole message 1118 = 13 (ONE) x 86 (GOD).
Then then next verse commands we must LOVE (AHAVAH) the LORD and LOVE = 13 = ONE and that's the nature of love as we all know. And then God memorialized these facts in the famous LOVE CHAPTER = 1 Corinthians 13 which has 13 verses with the last verse being structured on three (faith, hope, love) and one (but the greatest of these is love. This is why I call these structures HOLOGRAPHS. Each part reflects, amplifies, reinforces and echoes every other part. This is how I know the meaning God intended. Jesus and the Jews agree that the Shema is the "Greatest Commandment."
Kyle wrote: Sun Mar 22, 2026 3:36 pm
Edit:
The above got me thinking about the significance of top occurrences of number values and I came across this. The number 73 occurs 377 times in the Hebrew and the top occurrence is the word for wisdom (choch-mah / hokmah) which occurs 51 times out of the 377 occurrences of 73. I thought this interesting as it directly relates to your page on the number 73 and it's relation to wisdom.
https://www.biblewheel.com/GR/GR_73.php
When you say "the number 73 occurs 377 times in the Hebrew" what do you mean exactly? Did you search the entire Hebrew text for all words that have the value 73? On my search page, I only list the number of unique values for each word, not the total number of times they all occur. I plan on updating it with full search capability that would enable that, and make it fully interlinear too (as time permits).
Great chatting Kyle! I am so glad you came and shared your story and are growing in the Lord once again.
God bless,
Richard