Russia's Gift to Christianity

[Jim Watt]

“*TWO ARE BETTER THAN ONE” MINISTRIES*

*Jim & Marie Watt*

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*January 22, 2011
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 *DR. IVAN PANIN*



- RUSSIA'S GIFT TO CHRISTIANITY -


 As we attempt to capture the essence of this remarkable man and his
enormous contribution to the cause of Christ, a sense of frustration is
immediately encountered because of unyielding constraints the need for
brevity forces upon us. Many books have been devoted to what we must
condense, but we encourage the reader to further investigate the discoveries
of Dr. Panin through that which has been written by him and about him. (Book
list and ordering information is available on *www.2rbetter.org . *At the
close of the Introduction under “Interlinear”, is a “URL”. Click on Dr.
Keith L. Brooks in this article, and all of this will appear.)


 Ivan Panin was born in Russia on December 12, 1855 and as a young man he
was an active Nihilist. one who was so "turned off" by the inane
circumstances surrounding him that he adopted the attitude that all values
were worthless and nothing was knowable or communicable. He apparently
detested the Czarist government so much that he participated in various
plots against it and eventually was forced into political exile. From there
he moved to Germany where he spent a number of years furthering his
education. When he left Germany he immigrated to the United States and soon
entered Harvard University where he became the personal friend of both the
famous professor William James and the University's President Eliot.


 Mr. Panin was a brilliant scholar and a Master of Literary Criticism. After
graduating from college he became an outstanding lecturer on the subject of
literary criticism and toured the country speaking on Carlyle, Emerson,
Tolstoy, Russian literature, etc., receiving up "top dollar" for each
address; which shows us the caliber of his talent. His lectures were
delivered on college campuses and to exclusive literary clubs in many cities
of the United States and Canada. And during those years of travel and
exposure to the public, Mr. Panin became widely known as a confirmed
agnostic. so well known, in fact, that when he renounced agnosticism and
embraced Jesus Christ, several newspapers carried banner headlines
announcing his conversion! Upon hearing of this remarkable turn of events,
Professor James, who was reputed to be the greatest Metaphysician of his day
remarked, "What a pity that Mr. Panin is cracked on religion. A great
philosopher was spoiled in him."


 Prior to his life-changing encounter with Jesus Christ, Mr. Panin wrote
some three thousand aphorisms (brief statements of principle) and many
outstanding essays, which stand today as a memorial to his days as a Master
of Literary Criticism. He also was an editor of two daily newspapers, a
gifted writer, and an eloquent speaker.

What event made this brilliant and gifted man. one firmly convinced that
absolute truth ("God") was unknowable. change his mind? What so challenged
his intellect and shook him to the very core of his being, that he was left
with no alternative but belief in Jesus Christ as his Lord and Savior? The
answer is this: He made *THE* SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY THAT SHOULD HAVE SHAKEN
THE ENTIRE WORLD! (The fact that it has not yet done so and has been quietly
disregarded by those who should have been its greatest advocates, is one of
the great mysteries of our time!)


 One day in 1890, Mr. Panin was casually reading the first verse of the
Gospel of John in the original Koine Greek. This verse, in the original,
says: "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with the God, and the
Word was God." And as he read this sentence, his curiosity was stirred by
the fact that the definite article "the" preceded "God" in the first
instance, but not the second. Why the difference? To analyze this apparent
discrepancy, he made a parallel list of all verses in the New Testament in
which the word "God" occurs with the article "the" and all those without it.
Then when he compared the two lists he noted that there was a *mathematical
relationship* between the two sums. Next, he went through the same procedure
for the word "Christ" and on through several other words. each time taking
note of the *amazing numeric relationships* hidden beneath the surface of
the text. This "chance" observation would later prove to have been a
life-changing event as Ivan Panin enthusiastically pursued the newly-found
and exciting discovery he later named "*Bible Numerics*."


 As these discoveries began to unfold, one after another, Mr. Panin quickly
came to the realization that they were far more than just coincidence. There
was a *mathematical* *precision inherent to the entire Bible* that no mere
mortal could have devised and his intellectual objections relative to an
unknowable God were overruled! Jesus Christ revealed Himself through His
Word to this "chosen vessel" and, like the apostle Paul and a host of
others, Ivan Panin was never the same man again.


 From that day in 1890 until he died on October 30, 1942, Ivan Panin
literally devoted his life (over 50 years) to fully developing this
discovery and preserving it for the world. It is said of him that he worked
tirelessly for 12-18 hours each day counting letters and words, compiling
hand-written concordances, and working out mathematical problems. He worked
with such zeal that on several occasions his health completely failed. But
in spite of the tremendous mental and physical strain this placed upon him,
he labored *without pay*, giving himself entirely to this labor of love. At
one point he was offered the very tempting position as president of a
college, but he turned it down trusting God to provide for his needs. This
man whom the world would gladly pay "top dollar" for a lecture, chose a life
of frugality in order to serve his Master by counting words, letters,
syllables, and Bible numbers. preserving his findings in neat, hand-written
notes now yellowed with age, all *40,000+ pages* of them!

The following is a description of Dr. Panin by Mr. Karl Sabiers, in his book
"Mathematics Prove Holy Scriptures." It was originally published in 1941,
while Mr. Panin was still alive:


 "This distinguished person is a man of extra-ordinary resources in
scholarship. He is keen-minded and alert and possesses amazing analytical
and dissecting ability. He is eminently open and scientific. He assumes
nothing, but bases all on observed facts: facts of a positive, irrefutable,
unparalleled sort. He pursues his way with calmness and is positive of the
ground he covers. He is a complete master of himself and of the facts at his
command.

"Mr. Panin is an ardent and devout Christian, a 'born again' child of God.
His pleasing personality radiates the abiding presence of the Christ within.
This refined gentleman and his lovely wife live quiet, humble lives on a
small Canadian farm, far removed from the busy city activities. Mr. Panin is
very modest and conservative. He prefers to be called Mr. Panin rather than
Dr. Panin, and is reluctant about publicizing facts concerning his own life
story. He points out that the Apostles left little or no life stories of
themselves, but exalted Christ instead. Incidentally, Mr. Panin is a citizen
of the United States."


 GETTING STARTED

In order to gain a proper understanding of the enormity of Dr. Panin's work,
we must realize that he "started from scratch", so to speak. The
mathematical precision required of his labors necessitated reference works
that for all intents and purposes were non-existent! The first thing he had
to do was compile a library of "tools" with which to work and he had to make
them himself. Try to imagine if you can, the extreme difficulty that Dr.
James Strong encountered in compiling his "Exhaustive Concordance of the
Bible," where each and every word of consequence in the entire Bible was
carefully noted, recorded, collated, etc., while corresponding Hebrew and
Greek definitions (with assigned numbers) were given as well.


 Yet, this Herculean task does not measure up to that task which confronted
Dr. Panin! He had to compile his own unique concordance *before* he could
begin work! Not only did the words of the original Greek texts have to be
arranged into a systematic and workable concordance, but a very special
concordance as that one in which each letter of the respective language was
meticulously recorded, along with its numerical equivalent. The Hebrew and
Greek cultures did not have a separate alphabet and numbering system as we
do today. Their alphabet was also their numbering system, each letter having
a corresponding number associated with it. So their calculations were
actually manipulations of the various letters of the alphabet. (We will not
attempt to give illustrations of these alphabets, or tables reflecting their
respective values, deferring instead to the various authors' books which
list them.)


 Additionally, vocabularies and other Bible analyses had to be compiled with
a special view to absolute accuracy, down to the smallest detail. The first
result was a thousand-page concordance listing every one of the 137,903
occurrences of the New Testament Koine Greek words. They are all in
alphabetical order and every reference to chapter and verse is neatly listed
beneath each word in hand-written entries. The reason this was made
necessary was the fact that the very best Greek concordances in print at
that time were just too inaccurate for Dr. Panin' s purposes! Next, Dr.
Panin felt the need for a concordance listing all of the various forms of
the Greek words, so he created another concordance of 2000 pages. twice as
large as the first! Six years of tedious and time-consuming labor were
required for these two "tools".


 After that, other books containing the vocabulary words of the Greek New
Testament were also compiled, in which each word was listed along with 16
columns of numeric data related to that word. Four columns containing the
order number, place value, numeric value, etc. precede each word. Behind
each word are 12 columns containing the number of occurrences, number of
forms, syllables, letters, writers, books, diphthongs, etc. The completion
of the vocabulary required an additional two years. But through all of the
years of tedious and mentally taxing labor, Dr. Panin was not the only one
who did not receive a salary; all of the secretarial assistance he received
was done voluntarily as well.


 The result of this lifetime of effort was a "NUMERIC GREEK NEW TESTAMENT"
and a "NUMERIC ENGLISH NEW TESTAMENT", both of which are commendable and
scholarly pieces of work. The concise text of both testaments were
established by means of the numeric designs discovered by Dr. Panin. designs
that completely and literally permeate the whole of Scripture.


 THE STORY OF THE TWO TESTAMENTS

At this point we probably need to explain why this would have been deemed
necessary in the first place. And why just the New Testament? Wouldn't the
Old Testament require this same type of revision as well? Let's answer the
question about the Old Testament first. The Old Testament Scriptures were
given by God through the pens of various men chosen by Him and were confined
to the nation of Israel. The copying and transmission of these writings were
handled, for the most part, by *religious professionals* and done under the
most rigorous rules imaginable. Each line and each page had a numerical
equivalent attached to it, the sum of the individual letters, and absolutely
no mistakes were tolerated. If, for any reason a single line or page did not
"add up" properly, it was discarded and burned. The task was approached with
the greatest of reverence and it has been said that if the scribe
encountered any of the numerous names of God, he would put down his pen,
take a bath, change clothes, get a new quill pen and then very reverently
write down the name. If the name of God came up in the same verse, he would
go through the whole procedure again! With such scrupulous and meticulous
care taken by professional scribes, we can see how the Old Testament was
passed down to us with only a very few, and relatively minor, errors.


 However, the New Testament is another matter entirely. Most of the original
manuscripts were sent as letters to various individuals and churches, where
copies were often made and passed on to others. Those who wished to have
copies for their own use, either paid semi-professional copyists to do it,
or often did it themselves. Little care was taken to maintain strict
accuracy and many times just the kernel of the information was recorded.
Persecution of Christians was commonplace and therefore any copying done had
to be done quickly. Some copies were the result of personal recollection
being written down, while others were made from the recitations of those who
had heard the words spoken by a preacher. Because of this desire for and
love of the Word, over a period of time quite a hodge-podge of manuscripts
were floating around the Christian world. And at some point along the way,
the original "autographs" the actual documents penned by the apostles and
others were lost entirely. This was obviously God's intent, because depraved
men would doubtless have given an inordinate amount of attention to them
(bordering on worship)! They would have worshiped a version of the Bible,
rather than the Creator!

To determine the exact wording of the originals, their chronology, and even
if they were Scripture or not, educated and godly men had to compare the
available texts with each other and against the Old Testament Scriptures
quoted by them, to determine authenticity as well as accuracy of text. They
did such a wonderful job, that over the years the New Testament Scriptures
were settled with a very high degree of confidence and no doctrine left in
doubt. Yet, the scholars still could not come to 100% agreement and a few
relatively minor places in the Old Testament were debatable. To a certain
degree this problem still exists today, but according to the findings of Dr.
Panin, all question has been removed and the bickering should cease
immediately! The whole of Scripture, down to the last "*jot and tittle*" has
been determined through Bible numerics and as it turns out, precious little
needed to be changed anyway! What is so amazing is that this final
determining factor was published nearly sixty years ago, but Protestant
leadership have ignored it. Yes, I know that "the powers that be are
ordained of God" and God can certainly open their eyes any time He chooses
to do so. Perhaps this is the time?


 *What is the so-called "heptadic" structure that Dr. Panin discovered?
Simply stated it is this: **Bible** * *Scripture**, both Hebrew and Greek.
where the numbers equivalent with the letters are added up properly. at some
point: word, sentence, paragraph, or chapter, will *always be divisible by
the number seven*! And, beyond this, utilization of "place numbers"
determines punctuation as well as proper chronology of the various books.
This mathematical phenomena occurs and reoccurs **only** **in Holy Scripture
and thus rules out all that is spurious. For instance, the "Apocrypha", the
fourteen books written during the 400 year "inter-testament" period between
Malachi of the Old Testament and Matthew of the New, have no numerics
whatsoever and are thereby revealed as being merely of man. Numerous Greek
classical writings have also been checked with no evidence of Bible numerics
found. Thus Dr. Panin determined that Scripture and only Scripture has this
numeric "signature of Divinity" within it. *


 RE-ISSUING PANIN'S CHALLENGE

To his credit, Dr. Panin actively sought men whose academic credentials
would qualify them to serve as his critics, but few even bothered to respond
and those who did offered no rebuttal whatever. To this day, no one has come
forward with any substantive rebuttal arguments and if any were possible, we
feel that Satan would have rolled them out long before now! For that reason
we are constrained to *re-issue the challenge* made by Dr. Panin three
quarters of a century ago. The importance of this subject dictates that it
should be totally acknowledged by the Christian academic community or else
conclusively proven false and discarded. If it is valid, (and we believe
that it is) to continue to ignore it would be unthinkable because the
harmful division now taking place in the body of Christ over textual issues
has gone on entirely too long.


 WESTCOTT AND HORT -- OCCULTISTS

Interestingly enough, one of the main issues that keeps on surfacing in the
"Which Bible is Scripture" debacle centers on the persons of Wescott and
Hort. the nineteenth century mystical editors of the Greek text that
provides the foundation for what some are calling the "modern perversions of
the Bible". About these men's work, Dr. Panin had nothing but praise! Here
is what he had to say about the value of their work:


 "Without the aid of Wescott and Hort I could not have really done my work,
because the text of the Authorized Version from my point of view -- not from
the point of view of salvation or doctrine even, but from the textual point
of view -- the text of the Authorized Version was useless to me, and for
this reason: it has too many inaccuracies for my special purpose. Erasmus,
for example, who was the Editor of the first Greek text in print was very
anxious to get ahead of the Roman Catholic scholars who were issuing a Bible
of their own; and he was in such a hurry that he used one MS. [manuscript]
for the Book of Revelation and the last page of Revelation was missing in
that MS. So what do you suppose Erasmus did? He simply concocted his own
Greek for that page; he took the Latin Vulgate and translated it into his
own Greek! So that the last page of the Authorized Version is a translation
of Erasmus into Greek of a Latin inaccurate translation itself! Now, you and
I wish to have an inspired page of the Bible, not one man's mere guessage.
The Received Text has a great many suspicious readings of that kind. They do
not affect doctrine or conduct seriously, because the great blessing of the
Word of God is like the Lord Himself; if you only touch the hem of His
garment, you can be made whole. God has seen to it that His blessed Book, no
matter how distorted it is in any language sometimes the missionaries are at
their wits end to know how to translate the word "God" nevertheless, the
Word of God is so full of spiritual power, that if we only get the fringe of
it to them, those dear heathen can be converted by it. But you and I wish to
have the last page of Revelation as it was truly the inspired Word of God.
Wescott and Hort based all their work largely on the Vatican and Sinai MSS.,
and decided that wherever the two MSS. agreed, that should generally settle
the reading. Well, you know, there has been some doubt cast upon the Sinai
MSS., because a very shrewd Greek copied a great many MSS. and tried to
foist his own MSS. on the folk, so that has left a cloud on the Sinai MSS.,
and some people see fit to cast doubt on it even now, when there is the
question as to whether the British Government did wisely to take part in its
acquisition ... I have analyzed the Greek words for the Sinai and Vatican
Codexes. I have here page after page of the numerics of those words in
Greek. Whenever we wish to study numerics relating to our own affairs or
life or anything else, we must always remember that the language in which
God wishes us to count is Greek, because He left the name of the anti-christ
in Greek. You and I will have to stand the test when anti-christ comes. The
Holy Spirit has given us warning. "Be sure not to receive this mark of the
beast upon you," because it will be the number of the beast upon ourselves.
The Holy Spirit warns us that he is 666, that is, in Greek. You and I have
to go to numerics in Greek when we wish to prove the correctness of a
passage. The three words show striking numerics. There is a system there of
sevens and nines at once on the blackboard. I have here page after page of
the numerics of those three words. The Sinai Codex has a separate scheme of
its own and the Vatican Codex has a separate scheme of its own."


 "That is how God has set His seal on His book; so that by the aid of the
text presented to us by Wescott and Hort, I was able to verify everything
they stated, and verify all the doubtful readings, so that those two great
MSS. can be established in such a way that no one can attack their
authenticity. This is the testimony of numerics as to any aspersion on the
Sinai Codex."


 "My prayer is simply this. That God may make that blessed Book of His as
precious to you as He has made it to me. It has been an inexpressible joy in
my life to work these things out, simply because of the testimony of the
majesty and the marvel of the loving-kindness of God vouchsafed in this Book
unto our charge. Pray for me, and may the Lord bless you." (Ivan Panin,
"Bible Numerics", pp.25-27, emphasis in the original).


 From these statements made by Dr. Panin himself, he expresses an
indebtedness to Messrs. Wescott and Hort for their work in editing a Greek
text that, for the most part, stands up to the test of Bible numerics.
However guilty these two men may have been in their involvement with the
occult, that involvement should not. in and of itself. mean that the Greek
texts they edited were thus rendered unacceptable. "The proof of the pudding
is in the eating" and Dr. Panin testifies that their work stands the numeric
test! A diamond is still a diamond even if it is found in a mud-hole.


 *NOTE**: A year or so ago I was seeking more information on Ivan Panin, and
uncovered the above article while doing a “Google Search”. It wasn't till
yesterday, January 21, 2011, that I discovered the article came from a
Baptist group in South Caroline, of which David Bay of “Cutting Edge
Ministries” is the Director. I have not reproduced the entire article, but
you will have no difficulty doing so yourself.*


 *I have read the books mentioned in the article, and can verify that the
research of the author is accurate, though he is not named. I assume ,
however, that it is probably the the Director himself. I have had this
article on our Website under Archives, dated 2009-10-19.*


 *As many of you are aware, I believe that God has placed the completion of
an “Outlined, Bible Numeric Interlinear Greek NT for these last days. It is
complete on our Website - www.2rbetter.org under “Interlinear”, as of
December 31, 2010.*


 *I will follow this article up with “Bible Numerics and Evangelism”
shortly, including the 7 Component parts of “God's Automated
Laser-Telescope”, allowing the Lord to use a City Presbytery to eliminate
Satan's principalities and powers over cities, regions and nations - in a
“Spiritual Star Wars” effect. The first and key component part to this
activation - is “God's Bible Numeric Outlined Interlinear Greek NT”. Dr.
Ivan Panin prepared the Greek and English texts prior to his death in 1942.
The placing of these into an Interlinear format started in 1944 by the
introduction of Panin to me by a Russian Jew. The two texts remain
substantially as prepared by Panin, except for the transliteration of his
Greek text. The sentence, subdivision, paragraph and section outlines are
mine, and are not inspired. Please substitute your own summaries at any
point you wish. You will gain more from the NT by doing so,*


 *Likewise the NOTES on the Website are mine, and will not be present when
the NT is printed.*


 *Oswald Chambers came to the Lord as a lad following a meeting in London.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon was speaking in the Metropolitan Tabernacle.
Chamber's life dramatically changed in Dunoon, Scotland on his 27th year.
>From then until his home-going in 1917 during his 43rd year, it was a
focusupon Jesus. “My Utmost for
His Highest” was indeed the theme of his life. “Personal, Passionate
Devotion to Jesus” further expressed this theme. This is the seventh
component part of “God's Laser Telescope” - and was revealed December 7,
2009. A man from Minnesota with his prayer group, released this insight on
this date. - Jim Watt*














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