After my post about Exploring Biblical Triangular Numbers I’m going to have to update my Math Path page. It seems this will be the final destination on the Math Path.
As I was driving for work today, I kept thinking about how to change it, and here’s my new analogy of the Math Path. I think of it as starting with my discovery of the number 153 during one of my first passes through reading the whole Bible. My main path was reading the Bible, but got sidetracked by a shiny thing along the path – at least it was shiny to me.
I spent a lot of time figuring out my version of previous lists of 153 people that were blessed by Jesus in the Gospels.
Then I learned what a triangular number was, which lead to many other mathematical connections that seemed to fit with the Bible. Not numerology, just using the math that God had created.
I kept getting stuck once I learned that there were 3 other large triangular numbers in the Bible. 276 was my stumbling block for awhile. When I couldn’t find any correlation between those numbers, I prayed about them and within a week had the thought that maybe there’s a correlation with which triangular number each one was. 120 is the 15th, 153 is the 17th, 276 is the 23rd, and 666 is the 36th.
Now I had to figure the correlation between 15, 17, 23, and 36. Google was no help in this case. Then, as I mentioned in my previous post, Psalm 91 was read in church. I immediately had the thought to check the Psalms for those 4 numbers. As my post explains, each of those Psalms had a connection with the verse that the original number was in. I tried checking other Psalms – mainly the previous Psalm and the subsequent Psalm – but the connection was gone as there was no logical way to match those Psalms with the triangular verses.
It was like on my Math Path I was just walking through the forest and occasionally seeing something that caught my eye. A pretty flower, a unique rock formation, a brook, some wildlife, etc. I meandered here and there but kept returning to the path. Now when I look back, I can see this. These triangular numbers are the glue that holds the Math Path together. Why else would God use triangular numbers in seemingly random places that have no obvious explanation? He wants us to search in the scriptures to learn His Word.
It is the glory of God to conceal a matter, and it is the glory of a king to search out a matter. Proverbs 25:2
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