Babble To Babel : Acts 2:1 - 13

1  When the day of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place.   2  Suddenly a sound like the blowing of a violent wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting.   3  They saw what seemed to be tongues of fire that separated and came to rest on each of them.   4  All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues [ a ]  as the Spirit enabled them. 5  Now there were staying in Jerusalem God-fearing Jews from every nation under heaven. 6  When they heard this sound, a crowd came together in bewilderment, because each one heard their own language being spoken. 7  Utterly amazed, they asked: “Aren’t all these who are speaking Galileans?   8  Then how is it that each of us hears them in our native language?   9  Parthians, Medes and Elamites; residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia, [ b ]  ...
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Genesis’ Antediluvian Genealogy


Each name represents an entire generation of people who lived between the 2 major prophets in the text, Adam & Noah.   These names have meaning, & each letter is translatable to a number.    Add up the numbers for a name based on the gematria number assigned to each letter.  You can also subtract them from one another. 

Each number has a meaning individually as well as in aggregate.  


The genealogy is a record of God’s covenantal activity in each generation.     

Different generations have different points of view. 



The genealogy itself is also applicable to each generation between Noah & Abraham; Abraham & Moses; Moses & Samuel; & Samuel to John the Baptist; & John to the present day. 


It also functions as a quasi chronological as well as a quasi-cyclical reference guide to all of human history up to the present day very like the 7 churches in Revelation.   


Each of the 7 churches corresponds to a specific covenant that emanates from God from the Apostolic Era to the present day & each individual church also represents all the others, so that that what the text says about one applies to some of the churches in each representative generation more specifically.   For example, just because the Ephesian church represents the Apostolic or Subapostolic Era that doesn’t mean each & every church was an Ephesus.  Some were also Pergamums & Philadelphias & so on.



Adam: 


Gematria of 1 + 4 + 40 =45; Meaning : Ox, Bull; Strength, leader, first, pathway, door, enter; water, massive, overpower, chaos


Noah: 50 + 8 = 58; Gematria of fish (moving) activity, life; fish, hedge, chamber, private; to separate 


So the story begins with the creation of Adam, an ox/bull of a leader,  associated with a door, water, capable of conquest & chaos 


Noah, at the end is associated with the many chambered ark & the Flood through his name.  


If you take the time to work out the gematria of each name, you can discern the meaning of each name put together a coherent story about life during tge Antediluvian Covenant.  


O LORD, Hear Our Prayer(s)! 

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