The Divine Code
By Pastor Steve Cioccolanti
Numbers make us human. Life would be impersonal without numbers. Numbers tell us our age, height, size, address, phone details, health, pay, portfolio performance, track record, anniversaries, appointments – overall some very personal things.
Yet reducing everything to numbers makes it all so…. ah, impersonal. Yes, we seem to have a love-hate relationship with numbers! We memorize numbers, quote numbers, calculate numbers. But we also want to run away from numbers on our bills, race against numbers on our clocks, fight against numbers of passing years on our calendars, and sometimes ignore numbers on our evaluations or report cards.
But I want to tell you why we cannot ignore numbers for too long. Creatures in the animal kingdom can do it. But we can’t… for one simple reason. Numbers also make us divine. No numbers don’t make us god, but numbers elevate us above the animal kingdom and connect us to an intelligent Creator who knows the future!
Dr. Peter Plitcha explained it this way in God’s Secret Formula: “It was a decisive mistake that science began to interpret numbers as a human invention approximately 100 years ago, just so that mysticism could be expelled from science and mathematics. In this way God was also expelled from nature…There is a divine structural plan behind this world.”
If you want to know the future, you must know numbers. If you want to know the projected population of your country, you can by knowing her birth rate, migration rate and mortality rate. If you want to forecast the weather in May, you can by searching the historical temperatures and precipitation in previous Mays.
If you want to know how a business will perform long term, you can make a sound projection based on the company’s fundamentals, the bank’s interest rates, the government’s tax rates, the nation’s growth rate. If you want to make an educated guess which sports team will most likely win the championship, you need to keep its scores from previous games and seasons.
God’s Numbers – The Divine Codes
If you want to know the future of God’s plan, you will have to know God’s numbers – the divine codes.
Our understanding of numbers is necessary to predict the future, which we are inclined to do regularly whether we deal with the weather, the stock market, insurance policies or the state of our own health.
We are the unique part of God’s creation that is innately preoccupied with the future. My dog does not think about his future. Yes, beavers may build dams for future winters and bears may eat up before they hibernate, but these behaviors are followed out of mechanical necessity.
We, on the other hand, long for the future. Given a moment of solitude, our thoughts soon turn to the prospects of tomorrow. You can put a man in prison by robbing him of his future. You can set a man free from prison by giving him hope of a better tomorrow. When we don’t get to ponder or plan our future, we literally feel stuck and shackled – burdened by our past regrets or stressed out about our present situation.
When the future cannot be predicted, we feel a sense of uncertainty. We want to know the future. We need to know our future. And numbers open a divine portal into that future!
Numbers Open a Divine Portal into the Future
There are “prophets” in nearly every field of work and knowledge. Many people are highly sought after and highly paid to make some sort of educated prediction about the future. Nearly all of them do it by numbers. Political analysts use polling numbers to calculate popularity and project an election result. Meteorologists plug numbers into computer models to forecast the weather days, weeks, and months ahead of time. Actuaries are employed to calculate the risk of possible events that could impact insurance claims.
Watch the financial pundits on TV. Little do they report the present. Most of the time they are speculating about the future. Investors analyze the history of price patterns to project potential returns on investments. Listen to sports commentators. Have you noticed how much of their commentary is not about the actual game? How often it’s about future games, future outcomes and future champions.
Sports analysts use statistics to rank a player’s or team’s past performance and project who will enter the finals and win. Numbers have a way of opening a portal into the future for humans. In 1927, W.D. Gann published a book that correctly predicted Japan’s attack on America. He also predicted the stock market crash of 1929. He predicted the Great Depression would end in 1932. No one knew exactly how he did it, but two things are certain: 1) he used numbers, and 2) he prospered when many others did not, either because they did not know about numbers or did not believe the numbers.
There is no mysticism about it. No man, including Gann, knows everything. “For we know in part and we prophesy in part,” Paul wrote 2000 years ago (1 Corinthians 13:9). Only when the Perfect comes will our imperfect knowledge be done away. Meanwhile the “prophets” of the world can study probability. We don’t “know” what a single coin toss will yield, but we “know” that if you flipped a coin 100 times, 50 percent of the time it will turn out to be heads, 50 percent tails.
God Invented Numbers, Beautiful Patterns
King Solomon tells us the value of studying probability, “That which HAS BEEN is what WILL BE, that which is DONE is what WILL BE DONE, and there is nothing new under the sun” (Ecclesiastes 1:9). I’m sure W.D. Gann as a Christian thought about these Biblical words many times as he sought to forecast the probability of the world’s markets turning up or down. In the vernacular, we say it this way, “History repeats itself.” If it didn’t, there wouldn’t be any value to studying history! This leads me to the uniqueness of the God of the Bible. Our God invented numbers, repeats beautiful patterns, and likes to work in cycles.
God is into patterns and prophecy. His Book is the premier book about numbers and the future. Many numbers recorded in the Bible are only beginning to make sense now. Many things recorded in the Bible are repeating themselves. Much of the public doesn’t even know about this numeric aspect of God’s Word. Patterns are prophetic. History is prophecy. God is far from mythical, He’s mathematical. God counts!
One piece of evidence that tells me the Bible is not intended to be myth is the preponderance of specific numbers and numerical patterns contained in it. There is nothing mythical about a population or military census taken by tribes, clans and families. Anyone who asks, “Isn’t the Bible a collection of myths?” can find his answer by studying the numbers in the Bible. Numbers tells us concrete facts about reality in a countable way.
Numbers keep us honest. We may say we are watching our weight, but the number of kilograms on the scale don’t lie. We may feel we put a lot of effort at work and deserve that promotion, but our sales figures show our true performance. We may assume that the Bible has been changed by copyists’ errors, but numbers tell a different story. Every handwritten Torah scroll contains 79,847 words or 304,805 Hebrew letters. Yes, they count the number of words and the letters before sanctioning every copy!
Not only were Jewish scribes meticulous in counting the total number of words and letters, they also counted the number of each individual letter of their alephbet. The first letter aleph appears 27,057 times in the Torah. The second letter bet appears 16,344 times. And so on. The last letter tav appears 17,949 times.
Dead Sea Scrolls Disproved Allegations of Biblical Corruption
On a purely mathematical basis, allegations of textual corruption are untenable and were proven so by the “Dead Sea Scrolls.” Discovered from 1946 to 1956, this treasure of 972 documents is so called because they were found in clay jars hidden in 11 caves at Qumran near the Dead Sea. Why is it considered one of the greatest archeological findings of modern times?
Let me give you three reasons. First, fragments of every book of the Hebrew canon were found except for the Book of Esther. Second, out of 22 copies of the Book of Isaiah found, one copy was so well preserved you could read it from Isaiah 16 through Isaiah 66. Third, this “Isaiah Scroll” is 1000 years older than any previously known copy of Isaiah, and much to scholars’ surprise, it reads virtually the same as our 1611 King James Bible! The minor differences were in spelling and tense errors, but no change to the overall message was found. Counting those 304,805 letters ensured the Bible was transmitted precisely to us!
By simple math, anyone with a Bible could have calculated or predicted the exact day the Messiah was to come! There are many amazing prophecies in the Bible, but the most startling is the one in Daniel chapter 9. It is the most mathematically precise prophecy ever recorded both in Scripture and in all world literature. Who knew about this mathematical prophecy? Those who read the Bible did!
Their knowledge of numbers is the reason they came to see the Messiah when He was a baby. How else did Simeon the devout man and Anna the prophetess show up at the right time to worship Jesus, whereas Joseph and Mary still hadn’t fully grasped what Child was this who was born to them! These believers came and started worshipping the Savior before He ever preached a sermon. How did they know?
Math Led Magi’s to the Savior of the World
Undoubtedly, they had read Daniel chapter 9. (You will read about it in ‘70 Sevens’ and ‘2020’.) Who else in the first century knew the Savior was coming to earth? The magi’s of Persia! How did they know? Daniel was in captivity in Babylon-Persia for 70 years, during which time this Jewish prophet became the highest advisor to the various kings. His prophecies became well known and studied among the educated, who were called ‘magi’s’ (a Persian word from which we get ‘magistrates’). By trusting in Daniel’s math, these Persians arrived in Bethlehem at the right time to see the Child Jesus.
Can you imagine that… math leads educated people to the Savior of the world! Skeptics who claim the Gospel of Jesus Christ was made up by Paul or a collusion of third-century Christians not only fail to understand the Old Testament prophecies, but they are also unaware of the most basic math contained in it!
Can numbers help you find meaning in life and reveal more about the divine plan of God? Can the knowledge or ignorance of numbers affect your future? You’re about to find out! This guide to divine numbers will open to you the meaning of the most significant numbers.
This article is an excerpt from Pastor Steve Cioccolanti’s new books, The Divine Code: A Prophetic Encyclopedia of Numbers, Vol. I & II.
Editor’s Note: This is our Amazon review of The Divine Code: “Exceptional! The Magnum Opus of Divine Meanings of Biblical Numbers. Throughout human history, great minds have recognized that the universe is in essence a mind-boggling mathematical equation. Plato once said, “Mathematics is the language in which the gods speak to people.” In THE DIVINE CODE, Pastor Steve Cioccolanti explores the “divine codes,” numbers and patterns in Scripture that reveal the Bible truly is the Word of God. One of the greatest proofs of God is that all is an exquisite symphony composed by a mathematical genius beyond human comprehension. But even more than delving into the mathematical mysteries of life and God, THE DIVINE CODE is a practical book about numbers and how we can apply them to ourselves to have richer and more meaningful lives.”
Steve Cioccolanti, Pastor of Discover Church and Youtuber with over 250,000 subscribers, made waves in the last election cycle when his videos about Donald Trump, predicting a Trump victory, broke a million views. His latest video about Donald Trump, also breaking a million views, lists the President’s Pro-Christian Accomplishments like you have never heard before: https://youtu.be/HI1jKBDwsxE. He is the author of five books, including his critically-acclaimed From Buddha to Jesus, a valuable tool to bridge the divide between Buddhism and Christianity, and his latest, The Divine Code: A Prophetic Encyclopedia of Numbers, Vol. I & II, the fruit of 20 years of Biblical study and research. Cioccolanti, BA, M.Ed., was born in Thailand to a family of Buddhists, Catholics, Methodists and Muslims, has a unique perspective on world religions and biblical prophecy. He has traveled to 45 countries and been interviewed by Stephen Strang, Kim Clement Ministries, and Daystar. Here is an interview on Daystar which aired in March 2018: https://youtu.be/pJyCmPgXduI. He is a Christian author, prolific teacher of God’s Word, and pastor of Discover Church in Melbourne, Australia. He has created Discover Church Online, where you can network, receive mentoring, and express your gifts for God. Subscribe at www.Patreon.com/Cioccolanti. Learn more at www.Discover.org.au.
