"Bible Chronology" (published in April, 1974). Part III – Bible Numerology

Lesson 137A

 

"Ye have compassed this mountain long enough: turn you northward."
Deut. 2:3
 

 

The cited God's command was given to Moses near the end of the forty years of the wandering of Israelites on the desert. These words enlivened greatly the chosen nation, as the time of their entering to the land promised them by God approached. Their whole journey, from leaving Egypt till the encampment on the Moab fields – the last stop before entering the Canaan land, represents the earthly pilgrimage of the Church, ending with entering to Heavenly Canaan.

This is the numerical value of the first letters of all localities, from Rameses to the lowlands of Moab, according to their names given in the Hebrew language of the Old Testament in Num. 33:5-49:
 

 

 

 

The number "3596" represents the quantity of years, since leaving Egypt by Israelites (1615 B.C.), till the end of the earthly course of the Church (spring 1981 A.D.).
 

 

1615  +  1981  =  3596

 

 

 

Lesson 137B

 

"TURN YOU NORTHWARD"

 

"God told these words to Moses when the generation that went out from Egypt already extincted. Also long, lasting forty years punishment already ended, during which Israel spent the time on the wilderness on the northern coasts of the Red Sea. The Lord gave electrifying command to the whole camp, enlivening their hopes relating to the Divine promises (...) Now, to this new generation, born at the desert, accustomed to the difficult and severe conditions, grown up in the atmosphere of the religious cult which permeated all matters of their life, free from idolatrous influences of Egypt, willing to work, came the call: 'Ye have compassed this mountain long enough: turn you northward!' In the northward there was Canaan, the promised land, the aim of their dreams and hopes; the golden land of all their dreams, the land where they were to become the great nation that is to inherit Abraham's promise". BSM 1970 (the periodical of the British Brothers); Lublin’s Reprints, 29.12.1972, page 11 (Poland)

 

 

Lesson 138

"The Mystery of God " – this are the outlines of the Divine Plan relating to the Church and the establishment of God's Kingdom on the earth.

 

 

Lesson 139

The Mystery of Christ and the Mystery of God is the same (Col. 2:2; 4:3). This Mystery is the choice of the wife for Christ (Eph. 5:31, 32). This Mystery is to be finished in the time appointed by God (Rev. 10:6, 7), when Christ takes his Church to oneself.

 

 

Lesson 140

 

 

Lesson 141

After "eating" "the little book opened," God's people are to carry out their last task: they will give the testimony to the nations about impending destruction of the antitypical Babylon. The people of God today, similarly as once Daniel, will explain the words of the Divine judgment that have weighed heavily over the world (the old state of affairs) because the kingdom of the antitypical Cyrus (the Sun – the Christ) approaches.

 

 

Lesson 142

 

 

 

(Look Volume III, page 208 and Volume IV, page 544)

 

Lesson 143

 

 

Once again God's people is to fulfill the duty of the "watchman," standing atop "the watchtower."