BIBLE NUMERICS
The Number FIVE
We now come to the number Five. The number Five can be located much
easier, and it is very conclusive. Strangely enough, this one number
is probably more conclusive than any number in the Bible outside of
the number Thirteen, but you won't find it defined properly in any
book on numerology or Bible numerics. The standard interpretation of
the number Five according to Bible scholars, Christian scholars, and
unsaved scholars is "grace." And the peculiar confusion connected with
this number lies in the fact that Christ's death has connected with it
five wounds (as the song writer Charles Wesley wrote), and also five
pieces of garment (one whole and the four divided among the soldiers
and the other piece shot dice for). This five shows up in connection
with Christ's death, and of course the word "Grace" itself has five
letters in it, and the word "Death" has five letters in it; so it is
taken for granted that the number five is "the number of Grace." As a
matter of fact, the number five only signifies grace in one death out
of the several billion deaths that have taken place on this earth, and
every other time the number five is connected with anything, it is
connected with death without grace. As a matter of fact, the only
reason Christ's death could be connected with five is because it was
death, not grace. The fact that one death of grace happened to be
connected with five would alter the number five is ridiculous.
Christ's death was the death of a man, as men have died on this
planet, and He is called the "Son of Man," who as a man died and who
as a man said, "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" And Who,
as a Risen Saviour, said, "I was dead and am alive ever more," and of
whom the writer of Hebrews said, "he tasted death for every man."
There is no doubt about His dying at all and that is where the number
five is. The fact that, in His particular case, it was an act of the
grace of God toward sinners doesn't affect the number at all. The
number stands. The number five is death any place you find it, any
time, anywhere. That's abundantly clear from the scriptures.
Now, there is some phenomena that are connected with this that go
unnoticed by Bible scholars. For example: "May-Day" is a plane crash
signal, and while various reasons are offered for choosing the month,
May is the fifth month. Somebody said, "That's an accident. That's
coincidence." Is it any accident that the S.O.S. signal is put out on
one frequently and that is 500 kilocycles? Is it any accident that
breakdown #5 is a breakdown of a ship in water? Didn't you know that
every animal that ever died, died on an altar that was five by five in
the Old Testament? That's why they think of it as grace. They think
the lamb, being a type of Christ, died; therefore five is grace.
Brother, there may be grace in the lamb, but there is no grace in the
altar. The altar is a type of hell, and it was five cubits by five
cubits. That isn't all.
The first man who ever died, died in Genesis 5:5, and don't tell me
the King James translators planned that thing. They couldn't have
known what the number meant because the best Bible scholars today
don't know what it means. The proof is in the pudding. The best Bible
writings you can get today by Eric Sauer, Bullinger, Larkin, Pink, and
Stamm have no idea what the number means. Why would the King James
translators accidentally put it in chapter 5, verse 5? You say, "Well,
Abel died." He did not, he was killed! The first man who ever died on
this planet died in the fifth verse of the fifth chapter of a King
James Bible. Somebody said, "Well, they were added later." Well,
whoever added them sure knew how to add, brother!
That isn't all. Did you see that man die over there in Acts 5:5?
Didn't you read that whole death chapter on Adam and Christ in Romans
5? You know there is more there than meets the eye, Brother. Did you
notice when you got in that Bible, that the man who replaced Abel when
he was killed was Seth, and the number five occurs for the first time
in your Bible as such in Genesis 5:6 where it says Seth lived 105
years (so forth and so on), and he died. Did you notice in Genesis
43:34 and Genesis 45:22 that Benjamin got five times as much as his
brothers? Why? Grace? Not by a sight. His mama died when he was born.
Did you notice that no life shows up on this earth until the fifth
day, because Christ doesn't die until after 4,000 years. That is
something to think about, isn't it? The first time life shows up in
your Bible is in Genesis 1 and on the fifth day. Why? Because "One day
with the Lord is as a thousand years and a thousand years is as one
day." There are 4,000 years before the first coming of Christ,
therefore there has to be four days before there is any life. "For he
that hath the Son hath life, and he that hath not the Son of God hath
not life," and "except a kernel of wheat fall on the ground and die."
Five is death.
You can't beat five. Every man on this earth who is normal has five
fingers on each hand, and they've been killing each other ever since
they came on the scene. Why, the man who got off the cross was a
murderer, Barabbas, and the Prince of Life took his place, and they
pounded those nails in. Do you know how many wounds Christ had on him
when they got through? He had five of them: one on each hand, one on
each foot, and one through the side. Five is death! It is not grace.
It never has been grace and never will be grace.
Didn't you read about all of those fellows who got killed in 1 Samuel
that got hit in the fifth rib? Fifth is kin to five just like fourth
is kin to four.
Read over there in II Samuel 2:23; 3:27; 4:6; 20:10. It says there
four times when those fellows were killed that they were smitten in
the fifth rib, right where Eve came out of Adam, Brother. Eve was
death for Adam. Didn't Adam die for her? That's what he says over in
II Timothy; that's what he says over in Ephesians 5. Five is death;
five is death.
Didn't you read about the five sons of Michal that David killed and
strung up in II Samuel 21:8? Don't you know that when the plague hit
the Philistines in I Samuel 6, and they were dying like flies, they
had to get five golden emerods and five golden mice to atone for their
sins. There were five lords of the Philistines throughout that fought
against the children of Israel right straight along all the time they
were there. And you know about the five kings whom Joshua chased and
put his foot on and slew. Five is death; five is death.
Isn't it five loaves that Christ feeds them with in Matthew 14:17?
Didn't He say, in less than thirty minutes after that, that it wasn't
the bread of life, and that they'd eat of that bread and die. Five is
death.
Paul got five good whippings from the Jews in II Corinthians 11:24. He
said he bore in his body the marks of Christ. There is just no doubt
about the number five; five is death.
If every numerics book in the world said it was "grace," it wouldn't
mean anything except that it was grace in one case out of 155 million,
give or take a few. Five is death.
Man is mortal; he is subject to death. He has five toes on each foot;
he has five fingers on each hand. He's death; he's death! As a matter
of fact, the last great Gentile world kingdom that is on this earth
before the Second Coming of Christ is like a man, Daniel 2, with five
toes on each foot, and when the smiting stone falls and drops and
tears up that image, when that smiting stone lands on 200 million of
the United Nation's troops in the book of Revelation, when the blood
comes up on the horse's bridles, it is said to land on five toes on
one side and five on the other. It is death, Brother, and Gentile
death at that. Ten (five times two) is the number of the Gentiles.
Having located Five, we now go on to the number Six.
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