Hidden Message

Hidden messages in the Bible are numerous.  To find and understand them all you need to be Jewish.  The Jewish people do not accept the Christian Bible and few Christians study the Hebrew language or customs.  This gives us a mystery - actually many mysteries.  I can only imagine the understanding and increase in faith if Christians spoke Hebrew and Jewish people accepted the Bible.  

Numbers reveal vast amounts of knowledge throughout old and new testaments.  Names, are another way of reading more meaning.  Let's take just one example:  the "Begats" in Genesis 5.  There is a significance to any statement the first time it appears in the Bible.  The first listing of Begats is no exception.


First, let us interpret the names in order they appear:
NAME                    MEANING
Adam     -                 Man

Seth     -              appointed

Enosh     -              mortal

Cainan     -            sorrow

Mahalalel     -     blessed God

Jared     -           descending

Enoch     -             teacher 

Methuselah     -     death will bring

Lamech      -        despairing 

Noah     -                 rest 

Put it together:  
Man was appointed mortal sorrow. The blessed God descended as teacher.  His death will bring despairing rest.

Translation:
Man sinned and was punished.  Jesus came down as teacher.  His death will bring sorrowful rest.

I cannot say that I understand the "sorrowful" rest unless it refers to the disappointment of many people who did not understand His returning.  Or maybe it is sad, what has happened to the world that He is going to return. 

However, there is a definite message here and it is about "the blessed God" who "came down".  That is Jesus!  Do you see the significance here?  It is a prophecy.  Jesus is coded into a message in the fifth chapter of the first book of the Bible.  (By the way, the number five represents the grace of God; which Jesus brought to man kind.)  Jesus is not born as a man for another 5,000 years.

How many other "hidden" meanings are there?  I would guess thousands.  What an amazing journey to find them !  What an amazing God to code His word for those who will seek and find.  This is the "Divine Order" of God's language in the Bible.

Amen