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Dr. Vallowe has suceeded in making numerics accessible to and meaningful for Bible students. This book not only presents God's use of key numbers in the Bible in layman's terms, but also provides a basis for further investigations. Although one may disagree with Dr. Vallowe's conclusions about the meaning of certain numbers, his methods derive solidly from the Biblical context in which the numbers are used. Through this timely book, God releases a long-awaited blessing to His people so that in these last days His Word may be understood in greater fullness and detail. Move over, E. W. Bullinger; Ed Vallowe has written the seminal introduction to the subject of Biblical numerics.

It's very honest of the author to admit several times that he hadn't finished studying this topic before publishing his book, but this doesn't help my confidence in what he had to share!

I do believe that Biblical numbers serve a secondary purpose, and I think the author has some excellent points with regard to the single-digit numbers. But he has some very vague and confusing things to say later on: "When TWENTY-THREE for DEATH is added to THIRTY for BLOOD of Christ, the sum is FIFTY THREE. When THIRTY-SIX for the ENEMY (the one overcome) is subtracted from FIFTY-THREE, the remainder is SEVENTEEN for VICTORY." Huh?! (Capitalization is the author's, and it gets very annoying throughout the text).

And sometimes, when he can't find what he wants in the Bible, he just counts the number of times a word or a name occurs, for example, "The number THIRTY-TWO is associated with a COVENANT. The THIRTY-SECOND time Noah's name is found is where God made a COVENANT with him." The modern-day arrangement of the Bible is not chronological ... and so the "nth" occurance of any specific word or name is really more coincidence than anything else.

Sometimes he counts the number of words in a verse using either the Greek/Hebrew or the English translation, whichever will serve his purpose and make his point. I'm very disappointed in what feels like a forced conclusion to his theory on numbers in the Bible.

The recent passing of Dr. Vallowe was a sad day for many people who knew him. I was glad over the years to be able to sit and talk to this God fearing man. If you have ever doubted the true validity of who the author is of the Bible, you will not doubt that God is the Author and the only Author of the Bible. I have studied his mathematics for years, and it is breath taking. For example, look at page 43 the last two paragraphs. The number 1 is used 1898 times. Add these numbers together and you get 26. 26 means the Gospel of Christ. I have used Dr. Vallowe's numbering in the last chapter of my book entitled Who is Running America Today? and it scares me to see just how Gods hands are on America too. If you don't shout "Thank You God" after studing this book with the Bible, check your pulse, you might just be dead already.

I don't doubt Ed Vallowe's love for God or his fervor to serve him, but I think that his focus on numerology is at best misguided and at worst potentially damaging to less discerning Christians. The book's purpose is to "prove" that God wrote the Bible because all the numbers in the Bible somehow line up according to the numerical framework Vallowe describes. The problems with this are twofold:

1) You could never "prove" such a thing. At best, you could provide evidence for or against it. And...

B) It doesn't work.

While you'd get little argument from most scholars that some of the numbers in the Biblical text have symbolic meaning (12 tribes, 12 disciples, 40 days in the desert, 40 days and 40 nights of rain, etc.) but it's hardly obvious that every number up to 40 has some specific meaning, or that compounding them yields a compounded meaning, or that these meanings are consistent throughout scripture.

Furthermore, Vallowe's assertion that not just the numbers in the text, but the chapter and verse numbers themselves have this meaning, is just preposterous. For example, the number 13 is, in many places, symbolic of evil or a bad omen or whatever. Vallowe says it means "Depravity and Rebellion", but the famous "love Chapter" is in I Corinthians 13, and verse 13 of that chapter reads:

"And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love."

Sounds pretty depraved and rebellious, doesn't it? How Vallowe justifies that, not to mention the hundreds of other examples of inconsistencies you could imagine, is beyond me.

Worse yet, he says that his "system" only works in the King James Version of the Bible, not in other translations. Fair enough, but rather than deducing from that fact that perhaps his numerology theory is flawed, or at best, limited to the KJV, he instead concludes that any other translation of the Bible is somehow faulty!

Imagine the gaul you have to have to dismiss hundreds of years worth of Biblical scholarship because his half-baked theory doesn't mesh with their translations! And with all the older texts that have been found in the last 400 years, his insistence upon using an outdated translation based on outdated texts is both ignorant and selfish.

Unfortunately, Christians who don't understand how to actually study the Bible often see this kind of stuff and think they're finding some kind of hidden meanings, while really they're missing out on the real beauty of scripture: The words.

What a wonderful way to know what the numbers in the Bible mean. Gives it a whole new way at looking at it. Just a real blessing when you're reading your Bible and you come across a number ( for instance the number 7 it means completion). Just fantastic.

I think this book will be very helpful in knowing how God speaks through
dates and numbers as He did in the Bible!
I would highly recommend this book to others

I sit in on a week of teaching by Ed F. Vallowe about 30 years ago. His Knowledge of the scriptures was unforgettable. He seemed to have had a God given insight that was very believable. I thank his exhaustive efforts and research was for the benefit of all mankind that will seek Gods truth.

Received book timely and in good shape. Thanks. My friend, for whom I ordered it, loves having it so we can read it together and share the information inside.

Excellent book, I recommend this to everyone, especially to believers. This book is not about the Holy Bible codes with equal distance spacing (that alone shows the glory of the Lord God Almighty), it's about the meaning of individual numbers in the Holy Bible. The glory of the Lord God Almighty is shown once again.

I love this book for I do a lot with it for my everyday life in God and that is why I brought three because I had one copy and I lost it. So now I should not lost three copies