The Bible reveals God's plan to bring a people to Himself from among the Jews and from among Gentiles. God won't patch up and slowly improve this fallen world. He will replace it. God will bring His people together in Jesus. And, when it's done, Jesus will hand over the Kingdom to the Father. Jesus joined to His people, Jew and Gentile. We in Jesus, and He in us. Jesus in the Father. The Father in Him. One. The Bible reveals God's plan. And the last three chapters of the last book of the Bible picture the accomplishment of His goal. Satan is bound and judged, and Jesus reigns with His people. There is a new heavens and a new earth. And Jesus declares He is "the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end." When the Apostle John wrote these words, he was moved by the Holy Spirit. Every word John wrote was given to him in precise placement. The open text of the Bible states God's intentions. But that doesn't mean we understand everything right away. Everyone who reads the Bible has had the experience of reading and saying, "Why didn't I see that before?" Jesus said we need "eyes to see and ears to hear". In other words, there are things revealed in the plain text which not everyone grasps right away. Also there are hints of spiritual mysteries which may take time for us to grasp, and there are even hidden things waiting to be revealed, for those with "eyes to see". Here's another thing. Every letter of the Hebrew alphabet of the Old Testament and every letter of the Greek alphabet of the New Testament has a numeric value. So every word and every passage in the Bible has a numeric value. Go to this website, and you have the Greek text, restored, like the original upright script, with numeric values attached. Chapter 20 has a numeric value, as does chapter 21 and chapter 22. Total for the three chapters is a number that breaks down to 26 times 8 times 8 times 8 times 3 times 7 times 3. Why is this significant? The name of Jesus in English comes from the Greek word IESOUS. The numeric value of IESOUS is 888. 888. Also, the Bible says that Jesus is "the Word" (in Greek, LOGOS). The numeric value of LOGOS is 373. In the string of numbers 8 8 8 ... 3 7 3, if just one letter anywhere in these last three chapters in Revelation was changed, or was missing, or if anything was added, then we wouldn't have this result. It is precise. It was arranged this way a long time ago. Why? Because there is a last days deception about the name of God, and the numbers are there to confirm truth for those "with eyes to see". The Bible says that the only way to God is through Jesus. The Bible says that "there is only one name given among men by which we must be saved", and that name is Jesus, the Christ, the Messiah. There is only one name for salvation ... Jesus. And that brings us to the significance of this ... 26. 26 is the numeric value of this word spelled YUD HEH VAV HEH in Hebrew. The word occurs more than 6,800 times in the original text of the Old Testament. To Jews, this word is unpronounceable. When reading and they come to this word, they say "Ha Shem" (the name), or "Adonai" (the LORD). The word represents the name of the LORD. It is a hint of the name of Jesus. To Jews before Jesus it was a mystery. It is not THE name of the LORD. The LORD is Jesus, and Jesus is the Living Word of God, the LOGOS. And that confirms the plain text of the Bible, "If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is the LORD, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved". That is the clearest statement in the Bible for salvation. It is a promise. To be saved, you must confess that Jesus is the LORD. "Whoever will call on the name of the LORD will be saved." When Jews translated the Hebrew Scriptures into Greek in the years before Jesus, and this word was in the text, they used KYRIOS. KYRIOS means "LORD" in Greek. When the Jewish disciples of Jesus wrote the New Testament, and they quoted from the Old, and this word was in the text, they used KYRIOS. KYRIOS is "LORD" in Greek. It is a modern perversion to substitute English alphabet letters and transform YUD HEH VAV HEH to J H V H and add made-up vowels and come up with a word like Jehovah. The error started in the late 1800s. That's when the group that was to become the Jehovah's Witnesses first emerged. Up to that time, there was never any variation in Bible translations into English. YUD HEH VAV HEH was rendered as "the LORD" with the letters L O R D all in capitals. And the LORD is Jesus. The King James Version of the Bible translated it that way. Also English Bibles like the Authorized, the New King James Version, the RSV, the Amplified, the ESV, the NASB, the NIV, and almost every significant translation in English, shows this as "the LORD". But one translation, the American Standard Version (the ASV), published in 1901, did something different. The ASV rendered it as "Jehovah", and the ASV came into prominent use in theological seminaries. However, you won't find many Bible believing Christian churches using the name Jehovah today. The Jehovah's Witnesses are probably responsible for that. The Jehovah's Witnesses have become an exclusive sect. They don't want to be associated with mainstream Christianity, and churches don't want to be linked to them. So now look what has happened in just the last twenty years. People have substituted other English alphabet letters and come up with YHWH and they have added made-up vowels, and have invented the word "Yahweh". It possibly started with the World English Bible, which is a revision of the ASV, and then through the Lexham English Bible published in 2012, it has been incorporated into popular online bible software. So its use has spread rapidly. Its dangerous. There is only one name to call on for salvation. Jesus. Yahweh isn't a substitute. Yahweh isn't the name of the Father. Yahweh is an invention. A very recent invention. And God sends us a message in the numeric structure of the last three chapters of the Bible. 26 ... "the LORD". The Lord is Jesus. And Jesus is the Word. There it is. The matter is settled, if you have "eyes to see and ears to hear".
