Spoke 16

Nehemiah, Zechariah, 1 Peter

For behold the stone that I have laid before Joshua; upon one stone shall be seven eyes: behold, I will engrave the graving thereof, saith the LORD of hosts, and I will remove the iniquity of that land in one day.

Zechariah 3.9

The name of the sixteenth letter of the Hebrew alphabet, Ayin - - has two fundamental meanings: eye and fountain. In the ancient script it was drawn simply as O, an obvious hieroglyph of both the organ of sight and a fountain, or well, of water. The Rabbinical tradition understands its modern form - - as representing two eyes and their optic nerves that meet and cross in the optic chiasm before entering the brain.

God frequently uses this word in the Alphabetic Verses, so its name and meaning are established beyond all doubt. Here are a few examples:

Psalm 25.15:	Mine eyes are ever toward the LORD; for he shall pluck my feet out of the net.
Psalm 119.123:	Mine eyes fail for thy salvation, and for the word of thy righteousness.
Psalm 145.15:	The eyes of all wait upon thee; and thou givest them their meat in due season.

The Lord's use of this letter is particularly striking in the alphabetic structure of Psalm 34, where He used the Ayin verse to define one of the major themes of Spoke 16:

The eyes of the LORD (, ayini YHVH) are upon the righteous, and his ears are open unto their cry.

This verse is quoted in one and only one book of the Bible, I Peter (vs. 3.12):

For the eyes of the Lord (, opthalmoi Kuriou) are over the righteous, and his ears are open unto their prayers:

The Greek word opthalmoi () relates to God's Wisdom and His ability to discern as explored on Spoke 2 with regards to the Logos Holograph. 

The perfection of the placement of 1 Peter on Spoke 16 is especially evident for two reasons:

1. In all the Bible, only 1 Peter quotes the "Ayin" verse of Psalm 34.
2. In the all New Testament, only 1 Peter uses the phrase "the eyes of the Lord."

The divine intent could not be more obvious and its significance cannot be overstated. Few, if any, biblical scholars would argue that the alphabetic Psalms were not designed with the conscious intent to follow the pattern of the alphabet. To find the Christian Canon following the same pattern, to the extent that it uniquely quotes the verse used in this alphabetic Psalm, necessarily carries the same implication raised to the level of divinity since no human could have supervised the entire process that led to the overall structure of the Holy Bible.

Though Peter's quote differs slightly from the verse given is Psalm 34, the link between these verses manifests in the distribution of the key words in the verse. Searching the entire King James Bible for all verses which contain the phrase "eyes of the Lord" in conjunction with the word "righteous" yields but two verses, 1 Peter 3.12 and Psalm 34.15 - the "Ayin" verse. We have therefore the following keylink:

	Spoke 16 KeyLink: 'The eyes of the Lord' and righteous
	1 PeterPsalm 34( )

The beauty of this KeyLink is that its content reveals both the name and the meaning of the letter that governs Spoke 16!

Here is an image of what's going on here in terms of the Three Levels:

Yet there is more. Of the 22 occurrences of the phrase "eyes of the Lord" in the King James Bible, the last occurrence  prior to 1 Peter comes from Zechariah, where we read:

Then he answered and spake unto me, saying, This is the word of the LORD unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the LORD of hosts. Who art thou, O great mountain? before Zerubbabel thou shalt become a plain: and he shall bring forth the headstone thereof with shoutings, crying, Grace, grace unto it. Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house; his hands shall also finish it; and thou shalt know that the LORD of hosts hath sent me unto you. For who hath despised the day of small things? for they shall rejoice, and shall see the plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel with those seven; they are the eyes of the LORD, which run to and fro through the whole earth.

This is not a KeyLink because the phrase occurs elsewhere in Scripture, but it is a strong thematic link between Zechariah and 1 Peter:

Thematic Link: The Eyes of the Lord

Zechariah1 Peter

The phrase translated as "headstone" is Aven HaRashon. It identifies with Jesus Christ, the eternal Stone, the Word of God.

The Seven Eyes or Facets of the Stone identify with God's Spirit and link to the seven divisions of the Spirit-breathed Scripture which symmetrically divide the Wheel, engraved by God Himself.