2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 21, 23, 29, 31 37, 41, 43, 47, 53
David circled seven and thirteen in the prime list. Seven was the fourth prime, and thirteen was the sixth. David counted the primes up to forty-one and found that forty-one was the thirteenth prime number. He turned his thoughts back to the inscription in the cave and the list in Matthew 1. It was clear that Matthew had intended to represent forty-one total names, and thirteen of those were in the last column of names on the list. Now it looked as if there was much more to the list of Matthew than scholars had ever realized.
For fun, David added up the sum of the prime numbers to thirteen. He came up with forty-one. So forty-one was the thirteenth prime number, and forty-one was also the sum of all primes up to and including thirteen.
David thought about it for a few minutes and then, out of curiosity, added one back into the prime list. With one included, thirteen became the seventh prime number, and forty-one became the fourteenth. He understood the reasoning as to why mathematicians excluded one from the prime list, but looking at what he had discovered sure made him wonder about that classification.
For the next two hours, David scribbled notes on his paper. Finally, he set the pencil down and rubbed his eyes. He needed to get a few hours of sleep before work tomorrow even if he didn’t feel like it right now. He found himself overwhelmed. Was he just imagining this, or was there really a connection between the biblical evidence for the Messiah, pi, primes, and the Fibonacci sequence? Was what he had found tonight the fingerprint of YHWH? David took one last look at his notes and then lay back down and turned out the lights.
The first seven digits of pi reversed give you 295 14 13
The first occurrence of 7 is in the 13th decimal place
The second occurrence of 7 is at the 29th decimal place and it sits between 2-7-9
The third occurrence of 7 is at the 39th decimal place (3 x 13)
The first occurrence of 13 is in the 29th (10 block of pi)
The sum of the first 13 decimal digits is 65 or (5 x 13)
The sum of the first 26 decimal digits is 126 or (3 x 6 x 7)
The sum of the first 39 decimal digits is 191 or 43rd prime. 43 is the 14th prime.
First occurrence of 295 or 2953 is at the 113th – (10 block of pi)
The sum of 1 to 13 is 91 (7 x 13)
13 is the 7th number in a Fibonacci sequence
33 is the sum of the Fibonacci sequence to 13
233 is the 13th number in a Fibonacci sequence (233 = 3 x 17) (17 is the 7th prime)
377 is the 14th number in a Fibonacci sequence (377 = 13 x 29)
609 is the sum of a Fibonacci sequence up to the 13th iteration (609 = 3 x 7 x 29)
986 is the sum of a Fibonacci sequence up to the 14th iteration (986 = 2 x 17 x 29) (17 is the 7th prime)
13 is the 6th prime number
41 is the 13th prime number
(If 1 was considered a prime number, 13 would be the 7th prime and 41 would be the 14th prime.)
43 is the 14th prime number
The sum of all prime numbers to 13 is 41, or 42 if 1 was still included (42 = 6 x 7)
The sum of primes to 29 is 129 (129 = 3 x 43) 43=14th prime,
or 130 if 1 was still included (130 = 13 x 10)
The sum of primes up to 41 is 238 (238 = 2 x 7 x 17),
or 239 if 1 was still included (239 = 52nd prime, 52 = 4 x 13)
The sum of primes to 43 is 281 (281 = 42nd prime) (42 = 6 x 7),
or 282 if 1 was still included (282 = 2 x 3 x 47)
It was a long time before David fell asleep.
Chapter 80
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Darius stayed at the factory that night. He knew the streets of Dubai would soon become a war zone of deranged people trying to kill each other while the ones who could still think clearly tried to flee. Rumors of an epidemic had already begun to spread throughout the city. These rumors only added to the precipitous fall of AQES stock. In Chicago the previous day it had fallen 19.5 percent. In the past few days, it had fallen almost 50 percent from its high. He was sure that some of those who had loaned him money with AQES stock as collateral were thinking about jumping out a window right now.
He couldn’t help but smile. AQES, the stock everyone wanted to own, the stock which for almost an entire year had done nothing but climb, was now crashing. He had finally told the switchboard operator to tell everyone who called for him that he was not available. By the end of today, Darius knew, AQES would for all intents and purposes be worthless. A pyramid of debt and promises built upon an incredible invention. Trillions of dollars evaporated into an electronic world of ones and zeros.
Darius smiled in satisfaction, thinking about the pain he was causing those he had sworn vengeance on. He doubted a single one of them was sleeping well tonight. He looked at his watch—just six more hours until he left. His final acts of preparation consisted of loading his entire collection of personal files onto a 500GB removable hard drive, which he placed in his pocket, and then sending an e-mail to the account his brother had given him at the beginning of all this, giving him the details of his arrival in Iran. Next, Darius texted all employees of AES and told them that he wanted them to go home and stay there until they recovered.
Two hours later, the sprawling Aquarius Elemental Solutions facility was deserted.
Finally, at one p.m., Darius left the administration building and walked down to the pier behind the main assembly building. Inside the large building at the end of the pier was his thirty-five-million-dollar yacht. He walked past it, reached down, and removed the rope holding a dilapidated one-engine speedboat to the pier. He fired up the engine and pushed a remote on the console to open the door to his boathouse. Darius gunned the engine of the speedboat and left the coast of Dubai behind. Three miles away, he dialed a number on his cell phone and watched as the coastline where his factory stood exploded in brilliant flashes of orange and yellow light. As the miles of ocean slipped behind the hull, Darius periodically looked back at the columns of black smoke billowing behind him.
* * *
Anton woke the next morning and decided to take a ride down to the post office. On his way out, he noticed the hotel lobby was deserted except for a few employees who didn’t seem very happy to be there. Two of them looked extremely ill, in fact. Handing the valet his ticket for the rental car, he waited for two minutes. Anton noted very few cars on the normally busy streets. After his car arrived, he programmed the GPS device for the post office and followed the directions it gave. As he drove along the deserted streets, the only people he saw outside were acting abnormally. One woman just walked in a small circle. Two men stood flat-footed and beating each other with wooden poles.
At the post office, he found the facility empty. The doors were locked, and no one was around. Parking in the lot, he pulled out his location device and found his package was in fact there. Putting his locator away, he turned the car around and headed back to the hotel.
The way back was even more surreal. The people he saw were acting as deranged as a B-rated horror movie. He was by nature a violent person, but what he saw was homicidal insanity on a very different level. His unease growing, Anton returned to the hotel, leaving his car with the valet. He walked up to the front desk and asked the attendant, “Do you know why the post office in town is closed?”
“Sir, most facilities in the city are closing early today. Everyone seems to be getting sick. No one knows what it is. They say all government buildings and nonessential facilities will be closed at five p.m. today until further notice.”
Anton looked at his watch. It was nine a.m. With the post office closed, there was no way for him to track the package, and he sure as hell did not want to be trapped in Dubai. Hurrying up to his room, he grabbed his bag and headed for the airport. He reached the airport at ten and found all but one flight booked. The flight was bound for New Delhi, and he was glad to have it, even going in the opposite direction from where he’d
intended.
After getting through security, he boarded with just a few minutes to spare. As they were taxiing, he noticed there was only one other airplane on the runway. That was close, he thought. Whatever was going on back in Dubai, he didn’t want anything to do with it.
After takeoff, the plane circled and headed for New Delhi. His unease dissipating now that he was in the air, his frustration at not finding his quarry took its place. His bloodlust had been thwarted and his time wasted. He was in a foul mood.
Chapter 81
Phoenix, Arizona
The next morning, Sam received Zane’s e-mail. With anticipation, he opened the brief note and then the attached file. With interest, he started to read. Over the past couple of months he had brought himself up to speed on the prophecy of seventy weeks. He had read several commentaries on the prophecy and felt he understood the current general consensus. Sam had already read Zane’s earlier version of the research on the prophecy and understood why Zane believed that current consensus was flawed.
Sam read through the first few pages, going over the information he had already understood from Zane’s earlier research. Three-quarters through the paper, he sat up a little straighter in his chair. He had gotten to the part where Zane and Rachael found the lineage of Yeshua engraved in the cavern. As he read Zane’s explanation of the list and the coded phrase, he began to get goose bumps. This was incredible stuff. So much for the naysayers who had questioned the accuracy of Matthew 1 for the past several centuries! Right here in black and white was an incredible explanation: Matthew 1 was a coded key which unlocked Daniel’s prophecy of seventy weeks and provided proof that Yeshua was the Messiah promised in the Scriptures. Thirteen and fourteen were the Messiah factors. “Incredible!” he said out loud.
Sam sat back in his chair. Yeshua was the thirteenth generation at his birth. Symbolically, he could be considered the fourteenth generation after his death and resurrection. Quite an amazing symbolic picture.
Sam sat straight up in the chair with a jerk, his feet crashing down on the floor. Speaking of symbolic pictures, from the Old Testament to the New Testament the Messiah was pictured as a chief cornerstone or capstone. Sam knew many scholars had misinterpreted these Scripture verses to mean that the Messiah was just one of many cornerstones of the building. This view fit well with the modern idea that Yeshua was just a great man among other great men. But an accurate reading of both the Greek and Hebrew conveyed the idea of a finishing stone or capstone, a completed work. Yeshua, the Messiah, finished or completed the plan of YHWH for the reconciliation of mankind. He was the Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. Sam knew Ephesians 2:20–31 by heart:
And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone; in whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord.
Sam stood up and pulled his wallet out of his back pocket. He opened it and removed a one-dollar bill.
Sam shook his head in amazement as another piece of the puzzle fell into place in his mind. The Great Seal of the United States had an unfinished pyramid whose capstone had not been placed. Symbolically, a stone which the builder rejected, hanging suspended over the unfinished work. An unfinished pyramid with thirteen courses. The capstone, a single stone, was the fourteenth course—the stone which the builders rejected, a stone which they portrayed as not fitting the intended structure. This stone hung perpetually over the unfinished pyramid, covered with the symbol of an open eye. The same symbol which for millennia had represented the open eye of mankind’s enlightenment. The same enlightenment promised to the original man and woman way back in Eden:
And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: for God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. (Genesis 3:4–5)
In his years of interest in conspiracy theory, Sam remembered reading a quote by Manly P. Hall, a respected member of the Masonic order, in his work The Lost Keys of Freemansonry, which explained a picture of an unfinished pyramid with man in place of the capstone:
In this picture is concealed the allegory of the Lost Word. The master Mason, having completed his labors, becomes a worker on a higher plane than the one in which the ordinary builder is permitted to work. The Master Mason becomes the capstone of the Universal Temple.
And so the evidence of the struggle between the will of YHWH and the promise of the serpent again surfaced in the pages of history. This was a struggle between the reconciliation YHWH offered through the promised Messiah and the supposed enlightenment offered by the great deceiver. YHWH promised the restoration and completion of mankind through the work of Yeshua. The serpent promised the eventual evolution of mankind to godhood through their own efforts and the power of enlightenment he offered.
Sam’s thoughts turned back to the number thirteen. This number had for so long been associated with bad luck, rebellion, and evil. Zane and Rachael’s discovery would call into question many of those superstitions. What better way to hide the truth than to mix it with a little falsehood and a good measure of myth, assumption, and superstition? For almost two thousand years, the pages of history had been silent about the truth of the 13th Enumeration. Did its discovery now, at this point in history, have wider implications? Was this new information, which strengthened the credibility of the Bible, a counterbalance to the growing darkness of a secular age? Was it a warning that time was running short?
Sam looked again at the unfinished pyramid on the one-dollar bill. Was the claim of conspiracy researchers true—that Adam Weishaupt had originally created the symbol as the Seal of the Illuminati and it was this symbol which was borrowed by the founding fathers? Sam had found no proof of this claim. To the contrary, based on his research it was Charles Thomson who was responsible for the Great Seal. Thomson was a most unusual individual. He was part of Benjamin Franklin’s philosophical club, Junta, but after retiring from service as secretary of the Continental Congress, he spent twenty-five years working on the first English translation of the Septuagint. He was also responsible for the first American English translation of the New Testament. If anyone had the knowledge to hide a messianic symbol in the Great Seal, it was Charles Thomson. After all, he’d spent over one-quarter of his life translating the Scriptures. He would have been aware of Matthew’s list of Yeshua’s genealogy and the representation of thirteen and fourteen. The work of Yeshua was represented by the thirteen-level, incomplete pyramid. The capstone, the completion, the finished work, the fourteenth level, was held in abeyance under the watchful eye of enlightenment. It was the open eye of mankind’s enlightenment superseding the capstone, Yeshua, the stone which the master builders had rejected.
Sam had another thought. What if the seal was not a blatant attempt to show the enlightened philosophy of the new republic but was instead a symbolic warning by Charles Thomson of certain individuals’ intention to use the new republic for such a nefarious purpose? Few people would have been in a better position to see the undercurrents and intrigues of the early United States. Maybe Thomson’s symbol was a warning similar to the one Reverend Snyder addressed to George Washington concerning the Illuminati in that famous letter of October 24, 1789.
Sam wondered, did the American experiment represent a battlefield between the forces of secular enlightenment and the stone which the builders rejected? It appeared Charles Thomson thought so.
The idea shook him. There might be more at stake here than anyone had ever realized.
Chapter 82
Jerusalem, Israel
The next morning, Rachael read Zane’s e-mail and then opened the attached file with his updated notes on the prophecy of seventy weeks. Zane had been busy. A bigger picture was emerging, a picture showing the congruency of the biblical message. She read over his notes with growing excitement. There were pictures opening up in the Scripture that had never made sense before. Matthew 1, long considered a mistake,
was turning out to be one of the most amazing passages of prophetic symbolism in the Scripture.
As she continued to read, she could see throughout the Scripture that the idea of sacrifice and atonement was associated with the numbers thirteen and fourteen. She had read this same information a hundred times, but until now it had never been placed in this context. The Passover lamb was sacrificed on the fourteenth of Nisan. During the seven days of the Passover feast from the fifteenth to the twenty-first, two lambs were sacrificed each day for a total of fourteen. During the Feast of Tabernacles, fourteen lambs were sacrificed every day of the feast from the fifteenth until the twenty-first. Even more curious was the fact that during the first day of the Feast of Tabernacles, thirteen bullocks are sacrificed. Then, every day for the next six days, one less was sacrificed until on the twenty-first there were only seven bullocks sacrificed. This countdown from thirteen to seven gave a total of seventy bullocks during those seven days. Thirteen, seven, and seventy—they had already seen how a combination of those numbers gave the year of the Messiah’s birth. This symbolism added credibility to those who believed that Yeshua was born during the Feast of Tabernacles. What did the Gospel of John say concerning the Messiah—“And the Word was made flesh, and tabernacled with us.”
Zane also noted that the total commanded sacrifices of bullocks, rams, and lambs for those seven days equaled 182 sacrifices (13 x 14). Also interesting was the fact that on the first day there were thirteen bullocks, two rams, and fourteen lambs for a total of twenty-nine—the same numbers which made up the monthly lunar cycle. This all took place on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, as described in Numbers 29:13. There were also thirteen or fourteen days of waxing light followed by thirteen or fourteen days of waning light for a total of just over twenty-nine days.
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