Divine Equivocation Overview
(Reprinted from the Doctrine of the Cross)
Divine equivocation (DE) is an analogy that describes a heavenly principle with an earthly example.
JW’s Cipher in the FTV Bible requires an understanding and acceptance of “divine equivocation,” where God uses an animal, an object like a cross, a person, or numbers in the material or time realm to symbolize a spiritual concept in the spiritual realm. Divine equivocation equates the cross to a tree, 666 to a beast, or a lamb to Jesus, or a dove to the Holy Spirit, or 77 to Jesus, or a golden calf or heifer to an unclean man, or the parts of a solar day to the timeless image of God, or 77 77 77 to the 14 14 14 generations of Jesus, or 777 to the numbered image of the Holy Spirit, or a name “God of Thy Father” to Joseph the fourth patriarch of Israel, or the number 40 to fulfillment, or the number 50 to forgiveness, or a cross for the kingdom of God, or a cross for the Hebrew initials of YHWH.
One might ask; why is divine equivocation necessary. Why doesn’t the Bible use straight forward language for its message to humans?
The answer to this is that the Bible is about 6000 years old. God’s message was written down in ancient Hebrew, which was a 22 letter picture alphabet. Even though each picture had two or three meanings, imagine the difficulty of explaining spiritual concepts with only 22 pictures. For this reason divine equivocation was the only method available to convey God’s message using a picture of an earthly thing to represent a heavenly principle. However one thing was, and still is, clear. The last letter of the ancient Hebrew alphabet was a picture of the cross—the destination of the Hebrew alphabet numbered 400 with 100 for each step.
NUMBERS in the Bible originate in the Creation, and structure all scripture as the Bible’s foundation. Biblical numbers are independent of human language differences, but are common to three realms: material, spiritual, and time. Because numbers are common to each realm, biblical numbers bind the three realms together. Biblical numbers are spiritually unique in that 18 and 666 are synonymous, as are 14 and 77, as are 21 and 777, as are 7 weeks and 77. Operations of addition or multiplication are insignificant, if even 7+7 is 77, and 7 x 7 is 77.
Divine equivocation requires an understanding and acceptance of numbers in the Bible that describe a spiritual theme with a number, where angelic or spiritual measurements are like human measurements. Consider the wall around the holy city of Jerusalem in heaven:
And he measured the wall thereof, a hundred and forty and four cubits, [according to] the measure of a man, that is, of an angel. (Rev 21:17, ASV)
What scripture is telling us is that angelic measurements with numbers in heaven are also like human measurements with numbers on earth. However, angelic numbers are spiritual numbers and therefore are not quantitative. A day is not necessarily a 24 hour day in the Creation. The wall is measured with cubits. A cubit is 18 inches, which is 6+6+6 distilled to 666 using divine equivocation. So a cubit that is 18 inches, or 666, is the measure of a man, which is the number of a man.
Here is wisdom. He that hath understanding, let him count the number of the beast; for it is the number of a man: (anthropos in Greek is mankind) and his number is six hundred sixty-six. (Rev 13:18, ASV)
So with divine equivocation six hundred sixty-six is also a cubit, or 18 inches, or 6+6+6, or 666, because spiritual numbers are not quantitative
The source of the number 666 is from the Creation, where evening, morning and day are counted 666 on the sixth day, when man is created. The number 666 marks man as incomplete, because the Creation is incomplete on the sixth day. The 7th day completion count for evening, morning and day is 777. Both 666 and 777 are major themes in the Bible. For example Lamech, the father of Noah, who is the savior of human life in the world, lived to be 777 years. We know that humans do not live that long. The number 777 is a spiritual theme. This number appears again in Noah’s flood when the female dove’s three flights are numbered 777, which is the number of the Holy Spirit. Jacob (Israel) carries this number 777, assigned when he worked 7 years, 7 days and 7 more years for his beloved wife Rachel. Jacob, the father of Joseph appears in Jesus’ genealogy, as the second to last patriarch before Joseph because Jacob carries the Holy Spirit.
But 666 is also 18. Jesus used 18 three times for the first three years in the parable of the fig tree. (Luke 13:1-16) The fig tree is cut down when it does not produce good fruit after three years. So, after three steps of 666 without fruit, the tree (the tree of life) in the fourth year is cut down.
Most people who read the bible would recognize the number seven as the number of completion. The seventh day completes the Creation. The seventh day completes a week of time in the world. Jesus completes man when seven natures of Jesus (seven I-AMs) are inherited. Humans have never understood why there are seven days in the Creation.
There are only six ordered questions one can ask about anything—WHO, WHY, HOW, WHAT, WHEN and WHERE. The seventh question is WHICH; which path? In the Creation there is evening to darkness, or morning to Light and the new day. These seven ordered questions are the root of a hidden cipher. JW’s Cipher is a recurring pattern of seven ordered logic-of-God questions, answered by seven ordered Spirits of God that lead to the Cross through both testaments. This Likeness-of-God theme structures scripture throughout the Old and New Testaments.
The number 77 is another major numerical theme. It is the signature number of Jesus Christ. There are seven Spirits of God for the Son of Man, and seven Spirits of God for the Son of God. The source of the number 77 is from the Creation when evening and morning are counted 77 on the seventh day. But 7 evenings and 7 mornings are also 14 together. The New Testament begins with the natural genealogy of Jesus Christ that is separated into three sets of 14 generations. When the three sets of 14 are distilled to three sets of 77 using divine equivocation, they match the fourth 77 of patriarchs in Luke’s supernatural genealogy that ascends to heaven. Not by coincidence the four sets of 77 form Jesus’ Genealogy Cross.
The number 3 is another major numerical theme in the Bible. Divine equivocation tells us the number three is the first three clockwise steps on the cross beginning at the foot of the cross that represent three spiritual attributes of the human—body, soul and spirit that must be completely sanctified before judgment (1 Thess 5:23).
There is the three year old fig tree (Luke 13:1-16), three measures of leaven in the parable of leaven (Mat 13:33). There are three steps on the tree of life before one can live forever (Gen 3:22). There are three steps of flesh, water and spirit before entry into the kingdom of God (John 3:5-6). There is a count of three for evening, morning and day in the Creation. Just as Jonah was three days in the belly of the whale (Mat 20:49), there were three days in the tomb before the result; Jesus arose from the dead to live forever.
Divine equivocation equates a salvaged human to the Tree of Life Cross, where there are three steps on it before one can live forever. (Gen 3:22)
Jesus was crucified and he was three days in the grave before the resulting fourth step on the cross—Jesus rose from the dead to live forever.
JW Farquhar