mention of “God” in the verse, but not the second. Why would there be a difference? To
analyse this apparent discrepancy, he made a list in which he collected all verses from the New
Testament in which the word "God" occurred with the article "the" and all those without it. When
the two lists were compared, he noted that there was a remarkable mathematical relationship.
He repeated this exercise for the word “Christ” and followed this with several other words. He
noted that in each case there was an amazing numeric relationship hidden in the structure of
the text. This apparent discrepancy in the first verse of the Gospel of John would later provide
scientific proof of the numerical structure underlining the entire text of the scripture. Panin
discovered that these anomalies were not just there by chance, but that they were actually
required for perfecting the underlying structural design of the text, which became evident as his
studies continued. During the next 50 years, Panin would devote up to 18 hours a day
painstakingly counting letters, numbers, sentences and syllables and performing calculations to
mathematical problems and then recording his findings in hand-written notes. He was so
devoted to this task that his health frequently suffered as a result. He did not receive any
compensation for his work and even though he was offered a prestigious post as President of a
College, he turned it down and continued in his labour of love, trusting that God would provide
for him.13
In order to gain a ful understanding of the dedication and involvement that Panin„s work
required, we must realise that he started off with only the bare essentials. Before his discovery
no previous studies had been performed in this field and he was about to embark on some
ground-breaking work, without the tools and technology that we have available today. This
enormous task also required mathematical precision of a level never before encountered. His
work also depended on reference works, which for all intents and purposes, were non-existent
then! He had to first compile a set of tools for himself with which he could attack the task at
hand and only when these were completed, could he start with his analyses. The extreme
difficulty that dr. James Strong encountered while compiling his "Exhaustive Concordance of the
Bible" (where each and every word of consequence in the entire Bible was carefully noted,
recorded, numbered, collated and corresponding Hebrew and Greek definitions were provided)
was dwarfed by the tasks that Panin had to perform in his studies.
Before he could start, he had to compile his own unique concordance. Not only did Panin have
to focus on the words of the original Greek texts, but also on their arrangements, positions,
numeric values, the syllables they contained and the letters that they consisted of. These had
to be arranged into a logical and ordered system which served as a concordance. This was not
just any concordance. In it, he would record the intricacies of each letter, its position and its
value in great detail. Both the Hebrew and Greek cultures made use of a numbering system
that was incorporated in their alphabet. There was no separate numbering system, as we have
in ours today - in Hebrew and Greek each letter would also represent an associated number.
Not only did Panin require a very detailed concordance, but he also had to compile accurate
vocabularies to address the required detail in the text. The first concordance that Panin
produced was around 1,000 pages and listed every one of the occurrences of the 137,903 New
Testament Greek words. The words are listed in alphabetical order and every reference to
chapter and verse is neatly written beneath each word in his hand-written notes. At the time,
there were no reliable Greek concordances available to the standard that Panin required and so
it was necessary to create these from scratch. The second product that resulted from this
exercise was a second 2,000-page concordance, which listed the various forms of the Greek
words used. This took six years to compile, was tedious and time-consuming, but provided
Panin with the tools with which an in-depth analysis could be performed. The next project that
took another two years was that of compiling a reference containing the entire vocabulary of the
New Testament. Each word had 16 attributes that were described, each in its own column next
to the word. These would include order number, numeric value, place value, number of
occurrences, syllables, letters, writers, books, number of forms etc. During this time, Panin
never received a salary and any assistance he got, was from volunteers.14
Let us look at some of the examples from Panin‟s findings:
Staggering Precision in Structural Design:
If we consider the first chapter in Matthew, the first Book of the New Testament, we find the first
17 verses of this book deal with a single principle subject: The genealogy of Jesus Christ from
a Jewish perspective - starting with Abraham. Below is the English translation from the Greek
and it reads as follows:
Mat 1:1 -17 The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of
Abraham. Abraham begat Isaac; and Isaac begat Jacob; and Jacob begat Judas
and his brethren; And Judas begat Phares and Zara of Thamar; and Phares begat
Esrom; and Esrom begat Aram; And Aram begat Aminadab; and Aminadab begat
Naasson; and Naasson begat Salmon; And Salmon begat Booz of Rachab; and
Booz begat Obed of Ruth; and Obed begat Jesse; And Jesse begat David the king;
and David the king begat Solomon of her that had been the wife of Urias; And
Solomon begat Roboam; and Roboam begat Abia; and Abia begat Asa; And Asa
begat Josaphat; and Josaphat begat Joram; and Joram begat Ozias; And Ozias
begat Joatham; and Joatham begat Achaz; and Achaz begat Ezekias; And Ezekias
begat Manasses; and Manasses begat Amon; and Amon begat Josias; And Josias
begat Jechonias and his brethren, about the time they were carried away to
Babylon: And after they were brought to Babylon, Jechonias begat Salathiel; and
Salathiel begat Zorobabel; And Zorobabel begat Abiud; and Abiud begat Eliakim;
and Eliakim begat Azor; And Azor begat Sadoc; and Sadoc begat Achim; and Achim
begat Eliud; And Eliud begat Eleazar; and Eleazar begat Matthan; and Matthan
begat Jacob; And Jacob begat Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom was born
Jesus, who is called Christ. So all the generations from Abraham to David are
fourteen generations; and from David until the carrying away into Babylon are
fourteen generations; and from the carrying away into Babylon unto Christ are
fourteen generations.
At first glance, in English, this would seem to be just an ordinary genealogy, something that is
often found in the Bible. Few people would entertain any thoughts about the structure of the
text whilst reading through it and often a reader would just skip over it, since it could be tedious
to read through a lengthy genealogy that does not provide any meaningful information.
It is however, incredible when realising how precisely this passage was put together, when you
delve to deeper levels of analysis in the Greek. Not only is there staggering evidence of design
in this passage, but it seems that even the names were designed and s omehow inspired to be
given at the time of their births. The names also had to be in a specific order, so that this
passage, as it was written in Greek sometime after 30 AD, would conform to an underlying
design. It also seems as if the knowledge of the structure of this passage was known to the
author in a dimension outside of time, since the names given to the children when they were
born, would have had to be inspired, to meet the requirements of the design that is found in the
text at the time it was penned. Further to this, the designer had to anticipate the languages that
would emerge, as well as the numbering system that would be associated with the letters of the
alphabet that would be used. How could the parents have known that their genealogies would
someday be recorded in a book that would have a very specific design to it? All of this - the
specific names; the attributes of each name i.e. length of the name in letters; number of vowels;
number of consonants and many other properties used in this genealogy that stretches from
Abraham all the way to Jesus Christ; the language and numbering system that would be
employed - would finally fit like small pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, that would only reveal a
masterly constructed design, once the final piece was fitted.
To provide more detail and insight into the attributes hidden in this passage: Imagine you were
asked by a client to write a work of literature in such a way that it would meet very specific
requirements and conform to his detailed design specifications. If you were required to write a
paragraph consisting of letters, syllables, words and sentences and were requested to make
use of a number of words that are evenly divisible by 7, most people would not see this as an
issue and would agree that this can easily be achieved. On top of this however, you also have
to make use of words for which vowels and consonants, respectively could be evenly divided by
7. This adds a level of difficulty that would take some time to achieve, but it is do-able. You are
also asked to ensure that the number of nouns you use, are evenly divisible by 7; the number of
words that appear in more than one form should be exactly 7; words starting with either a vowel
or a consonant should be divisible by 7. At this point most people would begin to think that
these requirements are just too complex to achieve realistically, while you also have to keep the
information meaningful at the same time. This is only a small part of the complexity that is
contained within this piece of scripture. Below is a list of attributes that are associated with this
passage, which contains 72 words in the Greek vocabulary, as found by Ivan Panin:
1. -- The number of words that are nouns is exactly 56, or 7 x 8.
2. -- The Greek word "the" occurs most frequently in the passage: Exactly 56 times, or 7 x 8.
3. -- Also, the number of different forms in which the article "the" occurs, is exactly 7.
4. -- There are two main sections in the passage: verse 1-11 and 12-17. In the first main
section, the number of Greek words used, is 49, or 7 x 7.
5. -- Of these 49 words, the number of those beginning with a vowel is 28, or 7 x 4.
6. -- The number of words beginning with a consonant is 21, or 7 x 3.
7. -- The total number of letters in these 49 words is exactly 266, or 7 x 38.
8. -- The number of vowels among these 266 letters is 140, or 7 x 20.
9. -- The number of consonants is 126, or 7 x 18.
10. -- Of these 49 words, the number of words which occur more than once is 35, or 7 x 5.
11. -- The number of words occurring only once is 14, or 7 x2.
12. -- The number of words which occur in only one form is exactly 42, or 7 x 6.
13. -- The number of words appearing in more than one form is also 7.
14. -- The number of 49 Greek words which are nouns is 42, or 7 x 6.
15. -- The number of words that are not nouns is 7.
16. -- Of the nouns, 35 are proper names, or 7 x 5.
17. -- These 35 nouns are used 63 times, or 7 x 9.
18. -- The number of male names is 28, or 7 x 4.
19. -- These male names occur 56 times or 7 x 8.
20. -- The number of non-male names is 7.
21. -- Three women are mentioned - Tamar, Rahab, and Ruth. The number of Greek letters in
these three names is 14, or 7 x 2.
22. -- The number of compound nouns is 7.
23. -- The number of Greek letters in these 7 nouns is 49, or 7 x 7.
24. -- Only one city is named in this passage, Babylon, which in Greek contains exactly 7
letters.
25. -- The 72 Greek words add up to a gametrical value of 42,364, or 7 x 6,052 from the Greek
letters.
26. -- The 72 words appear in 90 forms, some appear in more than one form. The numeric
value of the 90 forms is 54,075, or 7 x 7,725.15
Each result that is obtained is divisible by 7 exactly. It becomes immediately obvious that this
underlying structure in the numerical qualities of the passage, when compared to the definitions
of “design” and of “chaos”, would have to fall under that of being designed. There is a notable
and a comprehensible structure, patterns that are repeated and the number 7 is found as the
foundation for construction of the text. What makes this phenomenon even more mind-boggling
is the fact that we are working here with a genealogy – people‟s names. This limits the flexibility
one would have in fitting words into the passage that would suit the requirements as mentioned
above. Furthermore the information contained in the passage also spans multiple centuries in
which each person‟s given name fits perfectly into this design. People‟s names are what they
are and can normally not be written in different forms or be adjusted to fit design requirements.
Another dilemma would be: Putting something like this together also would require pre-existent
knowledge of various aspects long before they actually occurred. These include the design
constraints that have to be met once the information is penned; the language and its properties
that will be used when it is captured, including numerical associations with characters of the
alphabet that will be used. From a human point of view, it would be necessary to somehow
guide the parents over centuries, without failing once, in how to name their children, so that they
would eventually form part of the genealogy, according to specific design criteria. The only
logical way in which one would be able to accomplish something as elaborate as this, would be
to enjoy total freedom from our dimensionality - to exist outside of time altogether and be able to
influence every person in such a way that they would be swayed to carry out the requirements
for the design.
It is not just coincidence that a passage would have unintentional structured and patterned
properties. If we now turn our attention to the Old Testament, where we have a different
language (Hebrew) would we see similar design qualities evident in the text? Considering just
the first verse of Genesis for a similar analysis, we find the following: Genesis 1:1 reads as
follows: ―In the beginning God Created the heaven and the Earth.‖
In English, once again, nothing special seems to jump out. If one considers the same verse in
the original Hebrew however, the sentence contains 7 words that are made up of 28 letters. We
also find the following interesting features that are hidden in the structure of the text:
1. -- The 7 words have exactly 28 letters (4 x 7).
2. -- There are 3 nouns (God, heaven, and earth) with a gamatria of exactly 777 or (111 x 7).
3. -- There is one verb (“created”) with a numeric value of 203 (29 x 7).
4. -- The first 3 words contain the subject and have exactly 14 letters (2 x 7); the other four
contain the object and also have exactly 14 letters.
5. -- The Hebrew words for the two objects (heaven and earth) each have exactly 7 letters; the
value of the first, middle and last letters in the sentence is 133 (19 x 7).
6. -- The numeric value of the first and last words in the sentence is 1,393 (199 x 7).
7. -- The value of the first and last letters of the verse is 497 (71 x 7).
8. -- The value of the first and the last letters of each word in between is 896 (128 x 7).
9. -- The Hebrew particle “eth” is used with the article “the” twice; its total value is 406 (58 x 7).
10. -- The last letters of the first and last words are valued at 490 (70 x 7).
11. -- The 4th, 5th, and 6th words have 7 letters each…and so it goes on!
Panin found more than 30 different numeric features in this one verse alone, showing the
number 7 once again forming the foundation of the design that is used in just this one sentence.
This phenomenon is found throughout the Bible, in both the Old and New Testament.
Many sceptics will argue that they can find the same characteristics in any given sentence. This
may seem true at first, but this is considering only one aspect of the design in isolation –
ignoring other aspects of design that are interconnected with the numerical structure of the
Bible. The numerical structure is only one level of a number of interlocking levels of design,
which are also incorporated within the same text, interdependent on each other. These
interconnected relationships between different levels of design in the Bible, incorporate not just
numerical structures, but also other particular qualities that are seamlessly interwoven into the
overall design of the entire framework that makes up the Bible. Without being exhaustive, we
will also discuss a number of the others in a little more detail. We recommend that you do some
of your own study in this field, should it interest you.
Consider the following: The original sequence of the Books of the Bible differs somewhat from
the sequence that is presently found in the English Bible. The most original or oldest text that
was known at the time, had the following order:
Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, I Samuel, II Samuel, I
Kings, II Kings, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum,
Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi, Psalms, Proverbs, Job, Songs of Solomon,
Ruth, Lamentations, Ecclesiastes, Esther, Daniel, Ezra, Nehemiah, I Chronicles, II Chronicles,
Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Acts, James, I Peter, II Peter, I John, II John, III John, Jude,
Romans, I Corinthians, II Corinthians, Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, I
Thessalonians, II Thessalonians, Hebrews, I Timothy, II Timothy, Titus, Philemon, Revelation.
Some of the Books assign themselves total y or in part to a particular scribe„s name, while
others are anonymous. The Books, which reveal the Scribe„s identity (in part or total y), are:
1. -- Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy are ascribed to Moses in other
Books of the Bible.
2. -- Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel and the 12 Minor Prophets ascribe themselves to the scribes
whose name the Book bears.
3. -- Psalms is ascribed to David.
4. -- Proverbs and Song of Solomon ascribe themselves to Solomon.
5. -- Ecclesiastes ascribes itself only to the "Son of David", which most believe to be Solomon.
6. -- Daniel, Ezra and Nehemiah ascribe themselves to these respective scribes.
7. -- James, 1 and 2, Peter and Jude bear the names of their respective scribes.
8. -- Epistles of Paul ascribe themselves, with the exception of Hebrews, to Paul.
9. -- Revelation ascribes itself to John.
The anonymous Books therefore are:
Genesis, Judges, I Samuel, II Samuel, I Kings, II Kings, Job, Ruth, Lamentations, Esther, I
Chronicles, II Chronicles, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Act, II John, III John, Hebrews.
Moses has 5, Solomon 3, Peter 3, and Paul 13. The other identified scribes have one Book
each.
If we now look at these collectively and consider the properties as we did for Matthew and
Genesis we find the following:
1. -- The sum of the number of Books in the Bible is 66 (6x11).
2. -- The anonymous Books are 22 (2x11). The non-anonymous Books are 44 (4x11).
3. -- Of these 44, 22 (2x11) belong to writers of more than one Book and 22 (2x11) belong to
writers of only one Book.
4. -- We can divide the number of Books in this manner: the 22 Books of the writers of more
than one Book have a sum of 946 (86x11), while the other 44 Books have a sum of 1,265
(115x11).
5. -- Of the 66 Books, 21 are Epistles and 45 are Non-Epistles. The names of the Epistles are
James to Philemon and their numbers are 45 to 65. The sum of the 66 numbers,
(1+2+3+…+66), is 2,211 (201x11) and this sum can be divided between Epistles and Non-
Epistles. The Epistles have a sum of 1,155 (105x11) and the Non-Epistles have a sum of 1,056
(96x11).
6. -- Moses, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Hosea, Joel, David and Daniel are expressly quoted in the New
Testament. The numbers of their respective Books are 2, 3, 4, 5, 12, 13, 15, 16, 27, and 35. The
sum of these Books is 132 (12x11).
7. -- The Numeric Values of the Bible writer„s names are:
Moses – 345, Isaiah – 401, Jeremiah – 271, Hosea – 381, Joel – 47, Amos – 176, Jonah – 71,
Micah – 75, Nahum – 104, Zephaniah – 235, Zechariah- 242, Malachi – 101, Solomon – 375,
Daniel – 95, Ezra – 278, James – 833, Haggai – 21, Paul – 781, Ezekiel – 156, David – 14,
Peter – 755, I John – 781, II John – 1069, Obadiah – 91, Habakkuk – 216, Nehemiah – 113,
Jude – 685
The sum of these Numeric Values is 7,931 and can also be expressed as (721x11), while the
sum of the factors of 7, 11, and 103 is 121 (11x11).16
This is just another example of numeric structure found in the Bible, but it is a level higher than
the actual compositional structure of the text, but it is nevertheless fully integrated and fully
dependent on the structural composition. The names of the books and their numeric values
conform to specific design specifications that become evident in the number 11 that forms the
foundation for its design. If the number of books were different and if one book was left out, the
entire structure would be void. The value of 11 would no longer be valid for looking at the
numerical structure, with which the placement of books in the Bible and numeric values, with
regards to the authors, was designed. Taking away or adding one book will break the pattern
which exists in the structuring of various interdependent design aspects that are visible in the
Bible.
When studied and analysed, these structures show remarkable complexity also in the use of
very specific design criteria. This relates to the physical text and the message it conveys. It
contains information that is hidden in the structure through equidistant letter sequences or
(ELSs), but also accurate information (both in surface text and hidden messages about events
that took place in the past). This provides authenticity of the reliability of the text and also of
events that are yet to happen. All of these are reliant upon a structure where every letter that is
used, would have a designated position. The way in which the letters are ordered form part of
the structural design, which can be analysed by looking at the numerical, alphabetical,
chronological and other qualities which form the foundation. Moving up to higher