Psalm 37 is a Triple Alphabetic Menorah!

[Richard Amiel McGough]

Praise Be to God Almighty, who has opened our eyes to see the wonders of His Holy Word!

The ways of God are wonderful beyond description! I am utterly astounded. He knocked my socks off today! Praise His Holy Name! Let me tell you what happened ....

I glanced at my bookshelf this afternoon and noticed a wonderful book called In His Own Words: Messianic Insights into the Hebrew Alphabet (http://www.bethtikkunpublishing.com/inhisownwords.htm) by L. Grant Luton. A reader of the Bible Wheel book gave it to me, knowing that I would be blessed by it. I thought I would review it for the "Book Review" forum because it is an excellent book, and it reads like a commentary on the Bible Wheel, as you can see by just glancing at its table of contents:

http://www.biblewheel.com/images/In_His_Own_Words_Contents.jpg

So when my wife asked me what I was up to this afternoon, I showed her the book and told her I was going to write a review. And as she looked at it, her eyes fell on this page:

http://www.biblewheel.com/images/In_His_Own_Words_Series_One.jpg

She asked me what that was about, and I told her that the author saw the 22 Hebrew letters as forming three menorahs, which he called the three "series" in the Table of Contents above. Series One has a Dalet in the middle of the Menorah, Series Two has a Kaph in the middle, and Series Three has a Tsaddi in the middle.

SO .... I sat down and decided to check my email, and opened one I received today from Ian Mallett, a fellow researcher in the field of Gematria. He had sent me the results of his research into Psalm 37. A friend of his had sent him a numerical analysis of all 40 verses of Psalm 37, and Ian mentioned that it would be nice if someone could confirm the numbers. So I sat down with the Gematria software that I wrote six years ago, and quickly went through the Psalm and verified all the numbers. I also took the time to read the Psalm in Hebrew and to let its unique pattern fill my mind.

The alphabetic structure of Psalm 37 is unique. For the most part, there are two verses corresponding to each letter, with the first beginning with the alphabetic KeyWord and the second being an elaboration that usually begins with "ki" (because) or a vav prefix (and). But today I noticed that certain letters have only one verse - and the first two of those letters just happen to be Dalet and Kaph.

And then I saw it.

Psalm 37 is designed on the pattern of the alphabetic menorah that I "just happened" to see again for the first time since I got Luton's book last year! The idea of "mere coincidence" was impossible. God showed me the very key to the design of Psalm 37 just minutes before I discovered it!

Here are the numbers I verified for Iain, with the Three Alphabetic Menorahs highlighted. Note the variation in the third Menorah:


http://www.biblewheel.com/images/Psa37.jpg

Verse 29. the verse that "should" have corresponded to Ayin, starts with a Tzaddi. This is the only verse in the Psalm that does not follow the alphabetic pattern. There is no verses in Psalm 37 corresponding to Ayin. This seems to be by design, because the Third Alphabetic Menorah - with Quph surrounded by 3 pairs on either side, appears only when we ignore the "non-alphabetic" verse. But there is more. Iain mentioned the odd fact that there are exactly seventy occurrences of the letter Ayin in the Psalm, and this is, of course, the numerical value of Ayin.

I don't know what other wonders this Psalm contains, but given the extraordinary synchronicity that God used to emphasize its supernatural design, coupled with the fact that we have another connection between the structure of the Hebrew alphabet and the Menorah, I am convinced it will greatly reward further research.

Praise God from whom all blessings flow!

Richard

[White]

Hi Richard,

Fun ! One of my favorite verses is in PSALM 37 - verse 4:
"Delight yourself also in the LORD and HE will give you the desires of your heart" !
Verse 4 : Value "1999" Words 7 Letters 26 Ayin 2

It is in "1999" that the LORD told me to return to the Catholic Church where I have worshipped exclusively for the last "7+" years, thus I am confident that HE will accomplish all that HE has set before us - Glory to God in the Highest and Peace on Earth among those whom HE loves. And may HIS WORD shine forth and enlighten all people with the triple Menorah - for Father, Son and Holy Spirit - It also reminds me of the 3 Tabernacles Peter wanted to build on the Mountain of Transfiguration for Moses, Elijah and Jesus... Triple Glory!

Rest = dom / Because = Ki / Wait = qavah
Rest and trust... Because Faith must endure... And wait to the end...

Shalom
White

[Richard Amiel McGough]

Hi Richard,

Fun ! One of my favorite verses is in PSALM 37 - verse 4:
"Delight yourself also in the LORD and HE will give you the desires of your heart" !
Verse 4 : Value "1999" Words 7 Letters 26 Ayin 2

It is in "1999" that the LORD told me to return to the Catholic Church where I have worshipped exclusively for the last "7+" years, thus I am confident that HE will accomplish all that HE has set before us - Glory to God in the Highest and Peace on Earth among those whom HE loves. And may HIS WORD shine forth and enlighten all people with the triple Menorah - for Father, Son and Holy Spirit - It also reminds me of the 3 Tabernacles Peter wanted to build on the Mountain of Transfiguration for Moses, Elijah and Jesus... Triple Glory!

Rest = dom / Because = Ki / Wait = qavah
Rest and trust... Because Faith must endure... And wait to the end...

Shalom
White

Yes, Psalm 37:4 has been one of my favorite verses too. Actually, the whole Psalm is amazing. And that's the thing about all these different levels to God's Word - they satisfy every aspect of what it is do be human!

Talk more soon,

Richard

[Richard Amiel McGough]

Hey folks,

The image below shows the whole Psalm as a Triple Menorah. Note the red words are found ONLY on paired branches of the Menorah! I have only just begun the research on the symmetry of this Psalm, but wanted to provide a schematic for others so they can use it in their study. Email me if you want the spreadsheet of Psalm 37. Here is a pic of it:

http://www.biblewheel.com/images/Psa37_Menorah.jpg

Of utmost significance is the 22 verses correspond to the 22 bowls of the Menorah, which the Rabbis have long recognized as corresponding to the 22 letters. This means we now have a witness from the very structure of an alphabetic Psalm which was designed by God Himself! Praise His Name! What an overwhelming revelation!

RAM

Edit to add: I updated the table so now it displays all seven words that are symmetrically placed on the paired branches of the Menorah.

[Rose]

Awesome Richard :bounce::bounce:

The first thing that jumps out at me from the highlighted words is........

The Lord upholds the man who delights himself in the Lord , and his seed shall inherit the earth.

Rose

[Richard Amiel McGough]

Awesome Richard :bounce::bounce:

The first thing that jumps out at me from the highlighted words is........

The Lord upholds the man who delights himself in the Lord , and his seed shall inherit the earth.

Rose
Nicely stated Rose!

[Richard Amiel McGough]

Here's another alphabetic correlation with the Menorah I found here (http://borndigital.com/tree/esa/menorah.htm):

http://borndigital.com/tree/esa/ag/menorah.jpg

[Rose]

Here I am again :yo:

1) The Lord upholds us

2) When we delight in Him

3) Though we have little faith (as a child)

4) We are the children of God "seed"

5) God will direct our steps

6) Christ will not forsake us

7) He will come again

This is fun :D

Rose

[Richard Amiel McGough]

I just googled "Psalm 37 menorah (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22psalm+37%22+menorah&btnG=Google+Search)" and found other folks who have analysed the structure of this amazing Psalm. The two most significant are well-known academic folks who dared to push against the scholastic prejudice that rejects any study of the numerical structure of Scripture. Let me introduce them:

Duane L. Christensen: His homepage (http://www.bibal.net/01/01-index.html) describes him as follows:


Professor Christensen received his doctorate from Harvard in 1975 and for fifteen years served as Professor of Old Testament Languages and Literature at the American Baptist Seminary of the West and the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California. He is currently Professor of Biblical Studies and Near Eastern History at William Carey International University of Pasadena. He is the author of numerous articles and books, some of which are for sale here. You may contact him at Bibal Corp.

Professor Christensen's contribution to this site includes overall guidance and, in particular, the prosodic analysis pages of our New Methodologies in Biblical Research section, especially including our Psalms Project.
I own his book called The Unity of the Bible: Exploring the Beauty and Structure of the Bible (http://www.amazon.com/Unity-Bible-Exploring-Beauty-Structure/dp/0809141108). Its a very good read. It analyzes the numerical structure of Scripture and uses gematria. Here is a pic from his PDF (http://www.bibal.net/04/proso/psalms-ii/pdf/dlc_ps037-001-b.pdf) where he states some observations concerning the structure of Psalm 37 as a 3-level nested Menorah:

http://www.biblewheel.com/images/christensen_Ps37.jpg

So my discovery of the Menorah in Psalm 37 wasn't new. I guess I "reinvented the wheel" yet again! :lol:


Casper J. Labuschagne: His homepage (http://www.labuschagne.nl/) has links to various studies, most notably his online study Numerical Features of the Psalms: A Logotechnical Quantitative Structural Analysis (http://www.labuschagne.nl/psalms.htm). His highly detailed numerical analysis of Psalm 37 is found here (http://www.labuschagne.nl/ps037f.pdf). I own his book called Numerical Secrets of the Bible: Rediscovering the Bible Codes (http://www.amazon.com/Numerical-Secrets-Bible-Rediscovering-Codes/dp/0941037673/ref=sr_1_1/102-6349673-4582526?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1183222927&sr=1-1). In it, he has a "Personal Note" that is very enlightening as to the darkness that reigns over the minds of almost all "modern academic biblical scholars." You see, Casper Labuschagne is himself a serious academic biblical scholar. But he was caught completely unawares by his colleagues visceral and fundamentally irrational response to his studies. Here is how he put it:


When I began to carry out my scholarly investigations into the numerical aspects of the Bible from approximately 1981 onwards, I was not sufficiently aware of the recent upsurge in kabbalistic mathematical exercises, number speculations, and other types of numerological practices and number juggling. Neither did I realize how deeply sceptical the biblical scholarly world was about numerical matters in general. What I could not sense either, was the danger of be associated with such unscholarly practices and having my work rejected out of hand. With hindsight, one of th mistakes I made in the beginning was that I failed to demarcate my numerical research at the outset clearly from these dubious numerological activities. It was only ten years later, in the Dutch version of the present book, that I dissociated myself explicitly from such practices. It is hard to say where that would have changed the course of events. [RAM: No, it is not hard to say at all. Take my word for it Casper, it would not have helped one iota! The academic rejection is not based on reason, evidence, or logic. It is nothing but a visceral and irrational rejection of the Bible as the Word of God.]

What I did not realize and could not possible foresee, was the plain fact that my embarking on numerical research would put my scholarly reputation at risk and that I would be sidetracked from the inner circle of serious biblical scholarship. Knowing what happened to the Austrian orientalist and biblical scholar Claus Schedl during the sixties and seventies, whose numerical investigations were greeted with ridicule on the part of colleagues and summarily rejected, I was naively confident that the evidence I presented would enjoy favorable acceptance. However, I was faced with a very different reality from the outset by the totally unexpected negative reaction by two British scholars, P. R. Davies and D. M. Gunn, to my presentation of the numerical patterns of the Divine Speech Formulas in the Pentateuch in 1982.

I was sobered up particularly by the adverses response on the art of the majority of my colleagues to the two papers I read in the summer of 1983. ... In Louvain I was rather rudely reproached by the chairman of the session: "Do you want to lead us back to the Kabbalah?" After the lecture, only one Deuteronomy scholar, Duane Christensen [see above], approached me to discuss my paper. Another colleague shook my hand saying: "Thanks for the lesson in mathematics, but I don't believe you!"

During my lecture in Salamanca, my wife and son, who were in the audience, counted no less than eleven attendants at the session who left the hall rather demonstratively. Some of them crumpled up my handouts and threw them on the floor [RAM: like snotty adolescents, I might add!] The tone of the discussion following the presentation of the paper was set by a colleague who expressed his disappointment that a reputed scholar could get himself involved in such futile activities. My work was greeted with such disbelief and contempt [RAM: Yep! That's the root problem, alright!] that I began to realize that it was destined to be ridiculed and dismissed.

After the session, I found myselfcompletely alone, standing there on the square, out of earshot surrounded by groups of gesticulating colleagues obviously discussing the problem of Labuschagne. Nobody wanted to talk to me or to be seen in my company. There was one exception: the next day, during an excursion it Avila, a Jewish scholar laid his hand gently upon my arm and whispered the following words, which I would cherish during the years to come: "The ways of the Almighty are wonderful. To think that, after goys like Wellhausen and his followers had dissected the Torah, He once again uses a goy to open our eyes to its unity."

It was in Salamanca that I fathomed the significance of the word outcast, and during the years that followed, I would also perceive what it means to he held up as an object of ridicule behind one's back. However, there was no doubt in my mind that if this was the price I had to pay for a scholarly discovery I believed in and considered significant, I was fully prepared to pay dearly. Any alternative would mean sacrificing my scholarly conscience. Therefore, despite the expectation among some of my colleagues that I would come to my senses and stop such activities, I confidently persisted in pursuing my numerical research, encouraged by what I discovered all along.

What I am presenting in this book is only a fraction of my discoveries, and merely the tip of the iceberg of undetected secrets of the biblical text. I have no illusions about any immediate effect my pleas may have on biblical scholars, but I do have confidence in the convincing power of truth on the basis of the massive amount of evidence i hereby lay on their desks.

It looks like the "principalities and powers" know what will happen when the "secrets" of the Bible's supernatural design are revealed on a planetary scale. Let us labor to bring that day closer!

RAM

Habakkuk 2:2 And the LORD answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it.

Habakkuk 2:14 For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.

[shalag]

Here's another alphabetic correlation with the Menorah I found here (http://borndigital.com/tree/esa/menorah.htm):

http://borndigital.com/tree/esa/ag/menorah.jpg

:bounce: I LOVE this

What do the blue letters vertically say - as well as the banner on the bottom?

[shalag]

Here's another alphabetic correlation with the Menorah I found here (http://borndigital.com/tree/esa/menorah.htm):

http://borndigital.com/tree/esa/ag/menorah.jpg

:bounce: I LOVE this

What do the blue letters vertically say - as well as the banner on the bottom?

[Richard Amiel McGough]

:bounce: I LOVE this

What do the blue letters vertically say - as well as the banner on the bottom?
Yeah, it is very pretty.

The text in the right circle is the first three words of Genesis 6:16 "A window shalt thou make to the ark." They are pronounced "tzohar ta'aseh latevah". The connection is the fact that Tzohar = 295 = Menorah as discussed in the menorah thread (http://www.biblewheel.com/forum/showpost.php?p=276&postcount=12).

I'm not sure what the blue letters say.

Richard

[Richard Amiel McGough]

As mentioned above, Casper Labuschagne said that the only scholar who would even talk with him after his presentation of his work at Louvain was Duane Chirstensen. While reading various articles by Christensen this afternoon, I found - by "chance" no doubt - his account of the acrimony at that meeting of "highly intellectual biblical scholars." Here is his brief description of the events found his paper called Theological Reflections on an International Colloquium on Deuteronomy (http://www.bibal.net/04/proso/psalms-ii/pdf/christensen_gtu-news83.pdf):


Perhaps the best way to illustrate the 'division in the ranks' is to describe a simple incident that took place at Louvain during the presentation of a paper on the redactional history of Deut. 5–11
by Prof. Vermeylen. A prominent European scholar handed a note to an American colleague sitting in front of me on which were written only two words, 'SCIENCE FICTION'! The most extreme position against the redaction critics was presented by Prof. Labuschagne who was
greeted by 'Unglaublich' ('unbelievable') from virtually all sides. Acrimony slipped in even to one of the major addresses where arguments came perilously close to ad hominem use of innuendo and sarcasm. But for the most part the lively and sometimes heated debate remained
on a healthy and stimulating level.It is quite telling that modern academic biblical scholars have to resort to adolescent methods of mockery, innuendo, and sarcasm to coerce people to shut down their minds and quench God's Spirit so they can conform to institutionalized unbelief.

And no ... I'm not the least bit frustrated with such "scholars"! :smash:

RAM

[Richard Amiel McGough]

Praise Be to God Almighty, who has opened our eyes to see the wonders of His Holy Word!

The ways of God are wonderful beyond description! I am utterly astounded. He knocked my socks off today! Praise His Holy Name! Let me tell you what happened ....

I glanced at my bookshelf this afternoon and noticed a wonderful book called In His Own Words: Messianic Insights into the Hebrew Alphabet (http://www.bethtikkunpublishing.com/inhisownwords.htm) by L. Grant Luton. A reader of the Bible Wheel book gave it to me, knowing that I would be blessed by it. I thought I would review it for the "Book Review" forum because it is an excellent book, and it reads like a commentary on the Bible Wheel, as you can see by just glancing at its table of contents:

http://www.biblewheel.com/images/In_His_Own_Words_Contents.jpg

So when my wife asked me what I was up to this afternoon, I showed her the book and told her I was going to write a review. And as she looked at it, her eyes fell on this page:

http://www.biblewheel.com/images/In_His_Own_Words_Series_One.jpg

She asked me what that was about, and I told her that the author saw the 22 Hebrew letters as forming three menorahs, which he called the three "series" in the Table of Contents above. Series One has a Dalet in the middle of the Menorah, Series Two has a Kaph in the middle, and Series Three has a Tsaddi in the middle.

SO .... I sat down and decided to check my email, and opened one I received today from Ian Mallett, a fellow researcher in the field of Gematria. He had sent me the results of his research into Psalm 37. A friend of his had sent him a numerical analysis of all 40 verses of Psalm 37, and Ian mentioned that it would be nice if someone could confirm the numbers. So I sat down with the Gematria software that I wrote six years ago, and quickly went through the Psalm and verified all the numbers. I also took the time to read the Psalm in Hebrew and to let its unique pattern fill my mind.

The alphabetic structure of Psalm 37 is unique. For the most part, there are two verses corresponding to each letter, with the first beginning with the alphabetic KeyWord and the second being an elaboration that usually begins with "ki" (because) or a vav prefix (and). But today I noticed that certain letters have only one verse - and the first two of those letters just happen to be Dalet and Kaph.

And then I saw it.

Psalm 37 is designed on the pattern of the alphabetic menorah that I "just happened" to see again for the first time since I got Luton's book last year! The idea of "mere coincidence" was impossible. God showed me the very key to the design of Psalm 37 just minutes before I discovered it!

Here are the numbers I verified for Iain, with the Three Alphabetic Menorahs highlighted. Note the variation in the third Menorah:


http://www.biblewheel.com/images/Psa37.jpg

Verse 29. the verse that "should" have corresponded to Ayin, starts with a Tzaddi. This is the only verse in the Psalm that does not follow the alphabetic pattern. There is no verses in Psalm 37 corresponding to Ayin. This seems to be by design, because the Third Alphabetic Menorah - with Quph surrounded by 3 pairs on either side, appears only when we ignore the "non-alphabetic" verse. But there is more. Iain mentioned the odd fact that there are exactly seventy occurrences of the letter Ayin in the Psalm, and this is, of course, the numerical value of Ayin.

I don't know what other wonders this Psalm contains, but given the extraordinary synchronicity that God used to emphasize its supernatural design, coupled with the fact that we have another connection between the structure of the Hebrew alphabet and the Menorah, I am convinced it will greatly reward further research.

Praise God from whom all blessings flow!

Richard
I'm looking through the archives and found this post from June 28, 2007 (a few weeks after opening this forum). I think it demonstrates where I was coming from at that time. Look at the hyper-enthusiastic language:
Praise Be to God Almighty, who has opened our eyes to see the wonders of His Holy Word!

The ways of God are wonderful beyond description! I am utterly astounded. He knocked my socks off today! Praise His Holy Name!"

I now see how subjective religion really is. Why was I so thrilled? Because I had found another alphabetic pattern in the Bible. I attributed my discovery to God and thought he had opened my eyes to see it. But such patterns are studied every day by unbelieving scholars. It's basically just a chiastic structure which is very common in the Bible. Modern scholars understand them as having been deliberately designed by the Hebrew scribes, and I can't see any reason to reject that assumption. So why my overblown enthusiasm? Because I attributed the work of men to God. I thought it confirmed all my beliefs about God and the Bible.

And now I see why so few serious thinkers ever responded to my work. It is filled with overblown enthusiasm. Pages filled with bold italics and many exclamations!!! I was bursting with religious fervor that probably looked more like a fever to most people.

Reviewing my old writings is very enlightening. :winking0071: