Spoke 18 - Tsaddi - Three Witnesses for 1 John 5.7

For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.

1 John 5:7 (Spoke 18, Cycle 3)

And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.

Matthew 28:18ff (Spoke 18, Cycle 2)

But if he will not hear thee, then take with thee one or two more, that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established.

Matthew 18:16 (Spoke 18, Cycle 2)

The rejection of 1 John 5.7 by the vast majority of modern scholars was pretty much settled over a hundred years ago. But the mystery of God is this - the Johannine Comma, as 1 John 5.7 is commonly called - is linked with two extremely significant KeyLinks to texts from the Book of Matthew. I will discuss the implications of this after establishing the validity of the pattern. I begin with the verse that forms the foundation of all biblical hermeneutics:

But if he will not hear thee, then take with thee one or two more, that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established.

Matthew 18:16 (Spoke 18,. Cycle 2)

Searching all seven versions for all verses that contain the set (one, three, word) ^[Verify] yields exactly two verses in the KJV and NKJV, and but one or none in each of the others. We have therefore, this Spoke 18 KeyLink based on the content of 1 John 5.7, unique to the KJV text form:

	KeyLink: Three Who Bear Witness LinkSet (One, Three, Word)
	Matthew1 John

This is internal evidence to the validity of 1 John 5.7. To really appreciate its significance, we must meditate upon the text to which the Johannine Comma is linked, which declares that "in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established". If this is a mere coincidence, it is a very strange one indeed. It is self-reflective and self-supporting because its content reiterates the underlying reason why we should believe it. This is very much like the phrases every word of God and that ye may know and believe which also constitute KeyLinks unique to the KJV text form. This KeyLink is especially strong because it is actually a double KeyLink that also links the Inner Cycle of Matthew to Spoke 18 of the Bible Wheel, as discussed in the article [Inner Cycles] > Matthew 18. Yet there is more. There are two other words - heaven and witness - that also appear in the immediate context of both linked verses. This means that the KeyLink is actually based on a five word set. The correlation is very deep, linking both the wordsets and the concepts, as shown here:

The context of 1 John 5.7 tells us what is going on here. I believe that these KeyLinks are God's own witness to the validity of 1 John 5.7. This fits perfectly with the supernatural design that governs the overall structure of Scripture. It should also be noted that the KeyLinks between 1 John and Matthew 18 are actually double KeyLinks because they also form links to Spoke 18 of the Inner Cycle of Matthew, as discussed in the article .

Yet there is still more. The Comma is also linked to another Scripture of primary significance, the Great Commission, which itself is fundamentally integrated with the meaning of Tsaddi. As it turns out, Matthew 28.16 and 1 John 5.7 are the only verses in all the Bible to use the names of all three members of the Holy Trinity in a single verse. Searching all seven version for all verses that contain the set (Father, Son/Word, Holy Ghost) ^[Verify] yields but two verses in the KJV/NKJV and but one in the each of the other five. We have therefore another fundamentally significant Keylink between Matthew and 1 John 5.7:

	KeyLink: The Witness of the Holy Trinity LinkSet (Father, Son/Word, Holy Ghost)
	Matthew1 John

Again, why would God do such a thing? Doesn't this make the "scholars" look incredibly foolish? Indeed it does, and this is what God declared He would do:

For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God. For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent. Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe. For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom: But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness; But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God. Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.

1 Corinthians 1.18f

Indeed, the witness and wisdom of God is infinitely greater than that of men. And what are the rebellious scholars if not men who set themselves over and above the very Word of God? I praise God for His supernatural wisdom that reveals the foolishness of such men! Praise Him for His Wisdom and Truth!

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