Of these nouns, 35 (5x7) are names of people and seven are ordinary nouns. Of these names 28 (4x7) are male ancestors of Christ and seven are not. Thus, an elaborate system of sevens occurs in these few short verses of Bible. If Matthew was not writing under inspiration of Holy Spirit, what a headache he must have had trying to figure out how to arrange all those sevens.

There is also a system of elevens in Greek and Hebrew texts of Scriptures and so wonderful is this that chance of these figures occurring by accident rather than design (this is by inspiration of God) is 1 in a number followed by 30 zeros, billion million taken a million times. No one in his right senses therefore could argue that all these happened by accident or by human cleverness. Mathematics says it could not do so. This marvelous system of numbers occurs right throughout Scripture from Genesis to Revelation. Attempts have been made to find same thing in human authors, especially those who lived about same time as writers of Bible but no such system has been discovered; it is only found in Word of God.

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