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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="center"><u><b>RUSSIA'S
GIFT TO CHRISTIANITY</b></u><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b> -
2009-10-19</b></span></p>
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I recently received the following note on Galatians 3:14 (1-22)
concerning the Interlinear Bible Numeric Greek NT that I am putting
together based on Ivan Panin's Greek and English Bible Numeric text
publications by Oxford Press, England.</p>
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Here is the notation and here is my brief answer plus a fuller
addition. Because it took some time to find this I Internet
Article, I felt some of you would also be interested in the answer,
so am sending it out as a mailing.</p>
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“Dear Brother Jim - Great is the LORD and greatly to be praised.
Over the years I've noted how Paul at times transposes the
names/titles Christ and Jesus, sometimes writing Christ Jesus and
elsewhere Jesus Christ. I have also heard teaching on this and its
possible meaning. I do note that in verse 14 you have switched what
appears to be Jesus Christ in the Greek text to Christ Jesus. Was
this on purpose or was it a transcription error? I must say that I
have not been paying attention to these when reading your text, but I
happened to note it this time.</p>
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“Continue in His grace and Peace. - Love, W.M.”</p>
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The gist of the article I am sending entitled “Russia's Gift to
Christianity” concerns the 10 years of “Concordance”
preparation on Panin's part before he could commence the actual
putting together of the Greek N.T. As you will note, Bible Numerics
establishes the original Greek text, the order of the books, the
authors, and even the sentence, sub-paragraph, paragraph and sections
(chapter equivalents). Even the word order is established, so that my
friend's note as to whether “Jesus Christ” or “Christ Jesus”
- has its answer here.
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;" align="left">
I discovered the works of Panin the Summer of 1944, two years after
his death in Aldershot, Ontario, and upon purchase of all of his
available books in 1945, discovered the proper context for each Greek
word in the entire NT. I started summarizing the NT then, and doing
Greek Word Studies, and by 1967 had the first rough MS in place. I
had typed up the entire NT in English, and copied out by hand the
entire Greek NT under each phrase and clause of the English. I titled
each sentence, gathering up these titles into sub-paragraph,
paragraph, section and finally Book Summaries.</p>
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The actual format didn't come clear until 2 years ago. My grandson
Keelan felt I should have a place to record any mailings in an
Archive section, and volunteered to completely revise my Website to
make this possible. This turned out to be a major project. As it
required that it be “User Friendly”, everything had to be
undergirded with “Data Processing.” He then helped me develop the
present format for the Interlinear text, by putting Panin's English
text in heavy black, the Greek text in ordinary print, Strong's
numbers in brackets behind each significant Greek word, and the
titles summarized in heavy black. Once this decision was made, I now
have over 100 out of the 260 NT chapters ready to post. The next 80
will be complete the Lord willing by the beginning of next year, and
the last 80 chaptera as soon as possible following.</p>
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Like Panin, what we do is a gift to the Body of Christ. There are
some who have been led to send gifts to help in this, but there have
been no suggestions or requests for such help.</p>
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Now - so you understand that my part, though demanding - yet compared
with the brilliancy and gifting of Panin, is but putting together his
outstanding life's accomplishment into the Interlinear format.
Jehovah's Witnesses offered to do this for him, which he had to
refuse because of their Cultic orientation. We trust that the
Completed Interlinear first posted on the Website and then perhaps
published should God so lead, will fulfill the Title -
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<u>“<font size="3">RUSSIA'S GIFT TO CHRISTIANITY”</font></u></p>
<h4 style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><font size="4">Title: </font>
<strong>BIBLE NUMERICS EXAMINED -- PART 2</strong> Subtitle:
The Bible is proven to be Divinely Inspired By Mathematics -- Story
of Panin and his life's work. Your faith will be dramatically
strenghtened, just in time of the End of the Age trials!
</h4>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="justify">The
New World Order is coming! Are you ready? Once you understand what
this New World Order really is, and how it is being gradually
implemented, you will be able to see it progressing in your daily
news!!
</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;">Learn how to
protect yourself, your loved ones!
</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;">Stand by for
insights so startling you will never look at the news the same way
again.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="center"><font size="4"><b><font color="#ff0000">DR.
IVAN PANIN</font>-</b></font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="center"><b>RUSSIA'S
GIFT TO CHRISTIANITY</b></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;">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 available in the
appendix)</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;">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.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;">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."</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;">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.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;">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 <font color="#ff0000"><b>THE</b></font>
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!)</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;">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 <font color="#ff0000"><b>mathematical relationship</b></font>
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 <font color="#ff0000"><b>amazing numeric
relationships</b></font> 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 "<font color="#ff0000"><b>Bible
Numerics</b></font>."</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;">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 <font color="#ff0000"><b>mathematical</b></font>
<font color="#ff0000"><b>precision inherent to the entire Bible</b></font>
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.
</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;">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 <b>without pay</b>,
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 <b>40,000+
pages</b> of them!</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;">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:</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;">"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.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;">"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."</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br>
</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><font color="#ff0000">GETTING
STARTED</font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;">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.
</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;">Yet, this Herculean
task does not measure up to that task which confronted Dr. Panin! He
had to compile his own unique concordance <b>before</b> 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 at 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.)
</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;">Additonally,
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".
</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;">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.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;">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.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br>
</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><font color="#ff0000">THE
STORY OF THE TWO TESTAMENTS</font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;">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
<font color="#ff0000"><b>religious professionals</b></font> 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.
</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;">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 worshipped a version of the Bible, rather
than the Creator!</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;">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 "<font color="#ff0000"><b>jot
and tittle</b></font>" 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?</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b>What is the
so-called "heptadic" structure that Dr. Panin discovered?
Simply stated it is this: </b><font color="#ff0000">genuine
</font><font color="#ff0000"><b>Scripture</b></font><b>, both Hebrew
and Greek. where the numbers equivalent with the letters are added up
properly. at some point: word, sentence, paragraph, or chapter, will
</b><font color="#ff0000">always be divisible by the number seven</font><b>!
And, beyond this, utilization of "place numbers" determines
punctuation as well as proper chronology of the various books. This
mathematical phenomena occurs and reoccurs </b>only<u> </u><b>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. </b>
</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br>
</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><font color="#ff0000">RE-ISSUING
PANIN'S CHALLENGE</font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;">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 <font color="#ff0000"><b>re-issue
the challenge</b></font> 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.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br>
</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><font color="#ff0000">WESTCOTT
AND HORT --</font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;">"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 analysed 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 <font color="#ff0000">language in which God wishes us to
count is Greek</font>, 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 <font color="#ff0000">have to go to
numerics in Greek </font>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."</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;">"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."</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;">"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).</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;">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.</p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><u>ADDENDUM:</u><span style="text-decoration: none;">
If you are interested in more confirmation, do an Internet Search
under “Ivan Panin”. There you will find an article from “Elijah
List”, - Rick Joyner Endorses “Knowing God by Numbers”. Dr
Michael Brown, a Hebrew Scholar is quoted here, just before August 8,
2008. Larry Jackson refers to him - “Dr. Brown introduced me to
another person I had never heard of named Dr. Ivan Panin. </span><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>He
told me how Dr. Panin had discovered mathematic sequences in the
Bible in the late 1800s and had given his life to Jesus as a result
of his findings.</b></span><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
Panin was known as a firm agnostic - so well known, that when he
discarded his agnosticism and accepted the Christ faith, the
newspapers carried headlines telling of his conversion!” - J.A.W.</span></span></p>
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