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And ye shall offer a burnt offering, a sacrifice made by fire, of a sweet savour unto YHWH; 13 young bullocks, 2 rams, and 14 lambs of the first year; they shall be without blemish. David shook his head in amazement and not a little awe. And all this took place in the seventh month. Carefully, he wrote out the number of the sacrifices for the seven days of the feast in a table format on his piece of paper.
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For the first day of the feast there were 13 + 2 +14 for a total of 29 sacrifices. The bullock sacrifices were in descending order or one less every day for seven days. Zane had made a point that the biblical religious calendar was based on the cycle of the moon. The early Israelites watched the waxing light for thirteen or fourteen days and then watched it wane for thirteen or fourteen more days. The total lunar cycle was 29.53 days long. ..
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Next he wrote out the first fifty digits of pi on a piece of paper. Carefully, he circled each seven. The first seven was in the thirteenth decimal place. The second seven was in the twenty-ninth decimal place, and it fell between the two and nine, no less. The third seven was in the thirty-ninth decimal place--three times thirteen. David shook his head in amazement. Had the Creator hidden proof of the Messiah's identity in pi?
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The Fibonacci sequence was clearly evident throughout nature. Some of the best examples of it were the spiral arrangement of the seeds in a sunflower or the nautilus shell. David wrote out the Fibonacci sequence. Each number added to the one proceeding it. 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89 There it was again, David thought--the numbers seven and thirteen. Thirteen was the seventh number in the sequence.
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2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 29, 31 37, 41, 43, 47, 53 David circled seven and thirteen in the prime list. Seven was the fourth prime, and thirteen was the sixth. David counted the primes up to forty-one and found that forty-one was the thirteenth prime number. He turned his thoughts back to the inscription in the cave and the list in Matthew 1. It was clear that Matthew had intended to represent forty-one total names, and thirteen of ..
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to share our democratic ideals with the rest of the world. We fund and train subversive elements to overthrow dictators in nations around the world, and when these groups bite the hand that feeds them, we call them terrorists. We then use those terrorists as an excuse to--
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Without a doubt, many of our founders had great respect for the Roman republican ideal, to the point that they even patterned our government buildings after their architecture. We called upon God to reject the monarchy of Britain but made no mention of God when we codified the legal documents of our own government, instead extolling the virtues of 'We the People.
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Like Rome, we have become a people obsessed with the games played in coliseums. Like Rome, our military is made up of people from all religious backgrounds and nationalities. Like Rome, our national symbol is an eagle with wings spread. Like Rome, as our way of life decays from within, we take our banner and our legions to every corner of the earth. We have political or military outposts in just about every nation on earth.
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a seasonally flowing stream of water and an amazing amount of desert vegetation, trees, and wildlife. Just to the west, the San Pedro River valley and the richest habitat for birds and mammals anywhere in the Southwest. With over eighty different mammals and four hundred species of birds, the San Pedro River Valley was home to more than half the species of birds found in the entire United States. This little section of southern Arizona had ..
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After this I saw in the night visions, and behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth: it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of it: and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it; and it had ten horns. I considered the horns, and, behold, there came up among them another little horn, before whom there were three of the first horns plucked up ..
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And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever. Forasmuch as thou sawest that the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it brake in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great God hath made known ..
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And out of one of them came forth a little horn, which waxed exceeding great, toward the south, and toward the east, and toward the pleasant land. And it waxed great, even to the host of heaven; and it cast down some of the host and of the stars to the ground, and stamped upon them. Yea, he magnified himself even to the prince of the host, and by him the daily sacrifice was taken away, and the place of his sanctuary was cast down. And an ho..
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To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain..
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added one back into the prime list. With one included, thirteen became the seventh prime number, and forty-one became the fourteenth. He understood the reasoning as to why mathematicians excluded one from the prime list, but looking at what he had discovered sure made him wonder about that classification.
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The first seven digits of pi reversed give you 295 14 13 The first occurrence of 7 is in the 13th decimal place The second occurrence of 7 is at the 29th decimal place and it sits between 2-7-9 The third occurrence of 7 is at the 39th decimal place (3 x 13) The first occurrence of 13 is in the 29th (10 block of pi) The sum of the first 13 decimal digits is 65 or (5 x 13) The sum of the first 26 decimal digits is 126 or (3 x 6 x 7) The sum o..
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233 is the 13th number in a Fibonacci sequence (233 = 3 x 17) (17 is the 7th prime) 377 is the 14th number in a Fibonacci sequence (377 = 13 x 29) 609 is the sum of a Fibonacci sequence up to the 13th iteration (609 = 3 x 7 x 29) 986 is the sum of a Fibonacci sequence up to the 14th iteration (986 = 2 x 17 x 29) (17 is the 7th prime) 13 is the 6th prime number 41 is the 13th prime number (If 1 was considered a prime number, 13 would be the ..
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The sum of primes to 43 is 281 (281 = 42nd prime) (42 = 6 x 7), or 282 if 1 was still included (282 = 2 x 3 x 47)
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order to keep the lunar and solar year synchronized, an intercalary month was added every three years or so. This makeup month was called Veadar. So he was stuck with a Jewish calendar that varied and a lunar year which sometimes varied and then had to be recalibrated, so to speak, with the solar yearly cycle. How was he supposed to figure out anything based upon a calendar which had varying year lengths? No wonder Sir Robert Anderson had c..
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