"It is He who reveals the profound and hidden things; He knows what is in the darkness, and the light dwells with Him" (Daniel 2:22).
Engraved on the Rosetta Stone are three inscriptions, in two languages, that were key to deciphering ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs. The Bible, likewise, was written in two distinct languages: Hebrew and Greek, with a limited number of verses written in Aramaic, a Hebrew-related language. It's the combination of these scriptural languages that act as a Biblical Rosetta Stone, decoding a modern symbolic mystery of an alphanumeric end-times enigma. Once deciphered, they reveal the extraordinary prophetic significance of a symbol I was shown during my near-death experience (NDE) and of a timeworn message, fully restored and renewed, that is without a doubt from the very heart of God. What it clearly speaks to and boldly declares is nothing short of revolutionary! It's an astonishing message whose time has come, once again, to be heard and taken to heart.
When the Rosetta Stone was discovered in Rashid, Egypt, in 1799, the race to decode it was all but inevitable. In THE WRITING OF THE GODS, author Edward Dolnick states: "At the top of the stone were fourteen lines of hieroglyphs, drawings of circles and stars and lions and kneeling men... In the stone's middle section was a longer section of simple curves and curlicues, thirty-two lines altogether. These looked like letters from some unknown script or perhaps symbols from a code, certainly not like the pictures in the hieroglyphic section... The third set of marks, below the other two, posed no such riddles. This was Greek, fifty-three lines of it (with a bit broken off at the bottom right), and instantly recognized... The first guesses were that it might take two weeks to decipher the Rosetta Stone. As it turned out, it took twenty years."
While twenty years seems like forever to solve a puzzle, it was understandable in light of history and the 1,405 years since hieroglyphs had last been inscribed on a temple wall at Philae, an island located in Egypt's Nile River. With the advent of Christianity, followed by the Roman emperor Constantine's conversion to the new faith, and the monotheistic belief in one true God becoming the official religion of Rome, the fate of hieroglyphs was sealed. "In 391 AD, the Roman emperor Theodosius the Great ordered that all Egypt's temples be torn down, as affronts to Christianity. (The penalty for worshipping the old pagan gods, even in the privacy of your own home, was death.)" This cultural shift, or cancel culture, resulted in the demise of a unique picture language, leaving hieroglyphs a mystery for over a thousand years, with no one knowing how to read them.
In my November 2, 2019, post titled Beyond Believing, I explained what happened during my NDE after the Holy Spirit explicitly instructed me to "Look and remember." Subsequently, I was shown the symbols you see in this picture. They are not unlike hieroglyphs, as they too communicate through a symbolic picture language. Initially, I likened deciphering their symbolism to playing the board game Scrabble without knowing the alphabet—it seemed to be game over!
However, at the time, what I failed to understand was that I needed something similar to the Rosetta Stone, or a codebook, to decipher them. I first thought of the Bible as a resource, but none of the symbols matched anything in Scripture that I was aware of, so I ruled it out. Years later, having read the Bible time and again, I realized I'd made an error in judgment. Upon reexamining God's Word, the symbols began to reveal their secrets, including what I discovered in this astonishing sequel to my July 25, 2020, post titled Turn the Corner at https://www.beyondbelieving.online/post/turn-the-corner
In my earlier post, I demonstrated how the illuminated face of the corner's turning digital clock with a time of 11:21 a.m., as seen in the picture above, was the symbolic equivalent of turning to face God in repentance. I illustrated this about-face turn as depicted in these next two profile pictures. The left profile represented the prodigal son from Jesus' parable before repenting, and then with a change of mind after coming to his senses, he is seen in the reverse mirror image where he is facing right—it's a complete 180-degree turnaround.
The profile picture with the title LUKE 15:11 PRODIGALS corresponds to the exact chapter and verse in Luke where Jesus' parable begins. The clock above the title matches the corner's 11:21. These two numbers, 1511 and 1121, in digital form, are mirror images of each other. They are part of the alphanumeric combination that unlocked the mystery explaining how the clock face represents turning from sin and turning to God in repentance.
This was only made possible because each letter of the Hebrew alphabet, used to write the Old Testament, has a numeric value. This technically means that each word also has a numerical value. The two words that correspond to the numbers 1511 and 1121 are listed in Strong's Hebrew Lexicon. The word matching the number 1511 is Gizriy. The outline of Biblical usage lists the Gezrites, who were inhabitants of Gezer, as equal to "a piece: a portion (as cut off)." With the profile or digital clock facing the dark corner, it represents spiritual darkness, the prodigal son being dead in his transgressions before repenting. He is thus, essentially "cut off" from God, which is shown as the number 1511.
Then, according to Strong's Hebrew Lexicon, the word matching the number 1121 is Ben. In Hebrew, the word Ben means "son." Think about how amazing this is! The illuminated clock face is symbolically turning in repentance away from sin. It's turning away from the dark corner, turning away from spiritual darkness, turning away from being cut off (1511) from God. When it does turn the corner with a 180-degree about-face turnaround, it is then recognized as a son (1121). If we, too, repent and turn the corner back to God, He says, "And: I will be a Father to you, and you will be My sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty" (2 Corinthians 6:18). "In the same way, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of God's angels over one sinner who repents" (Luke 15:10).
This sequel to Turn the Corner remarkably continues as we turn the page from the Old Testament written in Hebrew to the New Testament written in Greek. The only difference to our investigative tools is that I'll be using Strong's Greek Lexicon to discover the second meaning for our two numbers, 1511 and 1121. Now, according to our new Lexicon, the outline for Biblical usage for the number 1511 means: "to be, to exist, to happen, to be present." When I first discovered this, my first thought was the famous line from William Shakespeare's play, Hamlet: "To be, or not to be, that is the question?" Hamlet is asking whether it is better to live or die. My second thought was, to be—what? I could see this clue had potential.
When I turned the 1511 digital number around 180 degrees to see what its reverse mirror image revealed, I was hit with what I thought was a dead end. Strong's Greek Lexicon lists the outline for Biblical usage for the number 1121 as follows: "a letter, any writing, a document or record, (a letter, an epistle)..." This second clue didn't leave me with much to work with. On one side, the side facing the corner, there was 1511 meaning "to be," and on the other side facing away from the corner, 1121 meaning "a letter." Individually, they didn't work. Combining them, or so I thought, made even less sense. Whoever thought to be—a letter? If you've read the Bible, like I had at this point, you still may be wondering what this could possibly mean. That's exactly how I felt at first. It meant nothing! Until, that is, I read the Bible once again and discovered what I'd missed, and how the Apostle Paul had the answer all along!
In 2 Corinthians 3:1-3, Paul writes, "Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? Or do we need, as some, letters of commendation to you or from you? You are our letter, written in our hearts, known and read by all men; being manifested that you are a letter of Christ, cared for by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone, but on tablets of human hearts."
The Tony Evans Bible Commentary for these verses clarifies what Paul was saying: "Paul makes it clear that he needs no human validation for his ministry, like some false teachers sought. They praised themselves with letters of recommendation, but Paul didn't need to engage in self-promotion (3:1). His ministry had received divine validation. The Corinthians themselves—won to the gospel from pagan idolatry—were Paul's letter of recommendation. This evidence was available for everyone to read (3:2). Just as the new covenant was greater than the old covenant (with God's law written on human hearts rather than on tablets of stone; see Heb 8:8-10, so Paul's commendation is greater than any false teacher's because of the visible effect the Spirit of the living God had on the lives of the Corinthians through Paul's ministry (3:3)."
"To be—a letter" finally made sense. We are called to be a letter of Christ read by all or, in other words, Living Letters, as the title of Pastor Greg Laurie's following devotion suggests. After you've read Greg's short devotion further explaining what it means to be—a letter, I'll put the pieces together for what turns out to be a revolutionary, head-turning, prophetic message!
Christians are walking epistles, written by God and read by men. That means we’re the only Bible some people ever will read. They’ll form an opinion about God based on what they think of us.
Yes, that’s a lot of pressure, but we are His representatives. We can’t escape the fact that we’re examples. All that we determine is whether we’re good examples or poor ones. So we are to be examples to those who are watching us.
One thing that seems to permeate our society today is a sense of hopelessness. But as Christians, we have that hope. And we need to deliver it. We need to tell others there is hope in this world. There is purpose. There is meaning.
Writing to the church in Thessalonica, Paul said, “We loved you so much that we shared with you not only God’s Good News but our own lives, too” (1 Thessalonians 2:8 NLT). Paul understood that God called him not only to preach the gospel but to live it as well.
What’s more, Paul shared the entire gospel, not just part of it. He said, “I have fully presented the Good News of Christ from Jerusalem all the way to Illyricum” (Romans 15:19 NLT).
The problem we have today is that we sometimes edit the gospel. We leave out things that we think will offend people. But if we are going to share the gospel, we need to give the entire gospel.
Any gospel that promises the hope of Heaven without a warning about Hell is not the gospel. And any gospel that offers forgiveness from God without saying that we need to repent of our sins is not the gospel. The essential message of the gospel is Jesus Christ—Jesus Christ and Him crucified. That is the message we need to convey.
Deciphering this modern symbolic mystery of an alphanumeric end-times enigma and revealing its hidden message "to be—a letter" was remarkable in and of itself. But let's make sure we don't edit the gospel by leaving out something important. For that not to happen, we need to look at these different digital clock combinations for 1511 and 1121 in union with their lexicon meanings. Here's a look at what we have:
The clock facing the corner is represented as 1511: The Hebrew lexicon for 1511 means "cut off," and the Greek lexicon means "to be."
The clock facing away from the corner is represented as 1121: The Hebrew lexicon for 1121 means Ben, i.e., "son," and the Greek lexicon means "a letter."
With the digital clock, or prodigal son, facing the corner as represented by 1511, and in combination with the meaning for both the Hebrew and Greek lexicons on that same side, we have "to be-cut off." This is what will happen to those who do not turn the corner in repentance. Without repenting, they will be cut off from God. This is a powerful warning about Hell! And with the prophetic clock also representing time, it's by His design to match exactly what Jesus proclaimed: "The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe in the gospel" (Mark 1:15 NAS).
To be, or not to be, that is still the question. "For I have no pleasure in the death of one who dies," says the Lord God. "Therefore, turn and live" (Ezekiel 18:32 NKJV). And if we do turn, just as the clock or prodigal son turns, then we are facing away from the corner as represented by 1121. We then become a "son" and "a letter" of Christ, "written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone, but on tablets of human hearts."
In my earlier post Turn the Corner, I quoted Author and Messianic Jewish Pastor, Jonathan Cahn from his book, The Paradigm. At the time, I didn't realize there would be this sequel, which now makes what he said even more relevant: "One could seek to explain away a few facts, but what we are about to open up will not be a matter of a few facts, or even several facts. It will be overwhelming in its scope, in its breadth, in its consistency, and in the magnitude of its details. It is something no human being could have orchestrated or woven together."
This has certainly been confirmed after assembling these additional facts and developing a complete picture of what God wants us to see and understand about the importance of turning to Him in repentance and faith. This is also in preparation for the hope and future coming our way, Right Around The Corner! This means that we'll finally be moving out of the corner to review the mystery of the other symbols I was shown during my NDE and what secrets the Bible reveals about them.
As a final note, if you are newcomer to Beyond Believing, make sure to check out my post titled Like Him! to see what happens after turning the corner in repentance. It is then that a full-length mirror fills in the corner's dark, empty void, representing the body of a symbolic standing figure of a man reflecting the image and likeness of the glory of God. Here is a link to the post: https://www.beyondbelieving.online/post/in-his-image
Then, in A True Tale About Two Bobs, God, and Big Ideas, he gets a new heart, just like the Tin Man in The Wizard of Oz. Here is a link to the post: https://www.beyondbelieving.online/post/a-true-tale-about-two-bobs-god-and-big-ideas
"All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness; that the man of God may be adequate, equipped for every good work" (2 Timothy 3:16-17).
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