Psalm 37 is a Triple Alphabetic Menorah!

[shalag]

Here's another alphabetic correlation with the Menorah I found here:

I LOVE this

What do the blue letters vertically say - as well as the banner on the bottom?

[Richard Amiel McGough]

I LOVE this

What do the blue letters vertically say - as well as the banner on the bottom?

Yeah, it is very pretty.

The text in the right circle is the first three words of Genesis 6:16 "A window shalt thou make to the ark." They are pronounced "tzohar ta'aseh latevah". The connection is the fact that Tzohar = 295 = Menorah as discussed in the menorah thread.

I'm not sure what the blue letters say.

Richard

[Richard Amiel McGough]

As mentioned above, Casper Labuschagne said that the only scholar who would even talk with him after his presentation of his work at Louvain was Duane Chirstensen. While reading various articles by Christensen this afternoon, I found - by "chance" no doubt - his account of the acrimony at that meeting of "highly intellectual biblical scholars." Here is his brief description of the events found his paper called Theological Reflections on an International Colloquium on Deuteronomy:

Perhaps the best way to illustrate the 'division in the ranks' is to describe a simple incident that took place at Louvain during the presentation of a paper on the redactional history of Deut. 5–11
by Prof. Vermeylen. A prominent European scholar handed a note to an American colleague sitting in front of me on which were written only two words, 'SCIENCE FICTION'! The most extreme position against the redaction critics was presented by Prof. Labuschagne who was
greeted by 'Unglaublich' ('unbelievable') from virtually all sides. Acrimony slipped in even to one of the major addresses where arguments came perilously close to ad hominem use of innuendo and sarcasm. But for the most part the lively and sometimes heated debate remained
on a healthy and stimulating level.

It is quite telling that modern academic biblical scholars have to resort to adolescent methods of mockery, innuendo, and sarcasm to coerce people to shut down their minds and quench God's Spirit so they can conform to institutionalized unbelief.

And no ... I'm not the least bit frustrated with such "scholars"!

RAM

[Richard Amiel McGough]

Praise Be to God Almighty, who has opened our eyes to see the wonders of His Holy Word!

The ways of God are wonderful beyond description! I am utterly astounded. He knocked my socks off today! Praise His Holy Name! Let me tell you what happened ....

I glanced at my bookshelf this afternoon and noticed a wonderful book called In His Own Words: Messianic Insights into the Hebrew Alphabet by L. Grant Luton. A reader of the Bible Wheel book gave it to me, knowing that I would be blessed by it. I thought I would review it for the "Book Review" forum because it is an excellent book, and it reads like a commentary on the Bible Wheel, as you can see by just glancing at its table of contents:



So when my wife asked me what I was up to this afternoon, I showed her the book and told her I was going to write a review. And as she looked at it, her eyes fell on this page:



She asked me what that was about, and I told her that the author saw the 22 Hebrew letters as forming three menorahs, which he called the three "series" in the Table of Contents above. Series One has a Dalet in the middle of the Menorah, Series Two has a Kaph in the middle, and Series Three has a Tsaddi in the middle.

SO .... I sat down and decided to check my email, and opened one I received today from Ian Mallett, a fellow researcher in the field of Gematria. He had sent me the results of his research into Psalm 37. A friend of his had sent him a numerical analysis of all 40 verses of Psalm 37, and Ian mentioned that it would be nice if someone could confirm the numbers. So I sat down with the Gematria software that I wrote six years ago, and quickly went through the Psalm and verified all the numbers. I also took the time to read the Psalm in Hebrew and to let its unique pattern fill my mind.

The alphabetic structure of Psalm 37 is unique. For the most part, there are two verses corresponding to each letter, with the first beginning with the alphabetic KeyWord and the second being an elaboration that usually begins with "ki" (because) or a vav prefix (and). But today I noticed that certain letters have only one verse - and the first two of those letters just happen to be Dalet and Kaph.

And then I saw it.

Psalm 37 is designed on the pattern of the alphabetic menorah that I "just happened" to see again for the first time since I got Luton's book last year! The idea of "mere coincidence" was impossible. God showed me the very key to the design of Psalm 37 just minutes before I discovered it!

Here are the numbers I verified for Iain, with the Three Alphabetic Menorahs highlighted. Note the variation in the third Menorah:




Verse 29. the verse that "should" have corresponded to Ayin, starts with a Tzaddi. This is the only verse in the Psalm that does not follow the alphabetic pattern. There is no verses in Psalm 37 corresponding to Ayin. This seems to be by design, because the Third Alphabetic Menorah - with Quph surrounded by 3 pairs on either side, appears only when we ignore the "non-alphabetic" verse. But there is more. Iain mentioned the odd fact that there are exactly seventy occurrences of the letter Ayin in the Psalm, and this is, of course, the numerical value of Ayin.

I don't know what other wonders this Psalm contains, but given the extraordinary synchronicity that God used to emphasize its supernatural design, coupled with the fact that we have another connection between the structure of the Hebrew alphabet and the Menorah, I am convinced it will greatly reward further research.

Praise God from whom all blessings flow!

Richard

I'm looking through the archives and found this post from June 28, 2007 (a few weeks after opening this forum). I think it demonstrates where I was coming from at that time. Look at the hyper-enthusiastic language:

Praise Be to God Almighty, who has opened our eyes to see the wonders of His Holy Word!

The ways of God are wonderful beyond description! I am utterly astounded. He knocked my socks off today! Praise His Holy Name!"

I now see how subjective religion really is. Why was I so thrilled? Because I had found another alphabetic pattern in the Bible. I attributed my discovery to God and thought he had opened my eyes to see it. But such patterns are studied every day by unbelieving scholars. It's basically just a chiastic structure which is very common in the Bible. Modern scholars understand them as having been deliberately designed by the Hebrew scribes, and I can't see any reason to reject that assumption. So why my overblown enthusiasm? Because I attributed the work of men to God. I thought it confirmed all my beliefs about God and the Bible.

And now I see why so few serious thinkers ever responded to my work. It is filled with overblown enthusiasm. Pages filled with bold italics and many exclamations!!! I was bursting with religious fervor that probably looked more like a fever to most people.

Reviewing my old writings is very enlightening.