Mike Hoggard Part 2 - The King James Bible Code

I first wrote about Mike Hoggard and various problems that I saw with his teachings back in March, (and I have continued to update it as I heard more things) and that article can be found at http://bibleconundrumsandcontroversy.blogspot.com/2012/03/mike-hoggard-anti-apostasy-teacher-or.html , but I decided that if I were going to be somewhat thorough, I had to take a closer look at Mike Hoggard's King James Bible Code that he has created. Below I am going to put some of his quotes from his book, as well as some of his examples and show some of the problems. I will start by letting Hoggard tell you himself what this Bible Code is all about.

“If I had to describe the King James Code in a nutshell, I would do it this way. The King James Bible contains a system of numbers that are consistently linked with words or phrases in the scriptures. It is understood that the Bible can be comprehended on many levels. The more you study the Scriptures and become accustomed to them, the more you understand the Divine symbols of certain passages that you never saw before. These must always come as a product of Divine Revelation.”

So the first thing you can see is that this comes not from a careful exegesis of the Word by laying precept upon precept, but is a product of Divine Revelation that cannot be had unless God grants you a special dispensation. Now while I agree that the Scriptures say that the Word is only spiritually discerned (this means that those who do not know the Lord as their personal Savior and have the indwelling of the Holy Spirit will not understand the spiritual applications of what they read), I do not agree that only some Christians will be granted this special privilege of understanding hidden things in the Bible that nobody else can ever know. I don't believe God hides things from us, if we study. Any Christian should be able to read and understand the Bible, just as they read and understand any instructional book, for that is what it basically is, if they diligently study it. We need only take it at face value and compare Scripture to Scripture on any subject to get a complete view of what the Bible says. When it comes to Mike Hoggard's Bible Code, you will not understand this code without special Divine revelation, as a simple study of the Word will never show it to you. To me this is the first sign that it is suspect. God does not hide things from our understanding if we study His Word. If I cannot understand it from a simple study of the Word, and can only get it by supernatural revelation revealing this hidden knowledge in a mystical act, which is what is sounds like when Mike describes it (he reads along and BOOM, suddenly he has hidden knowledge revealed), I would treat it with a great deal of apprehension. Hoggard preaches that Satan hides things, but God is very open. Well, he's right. That is how God works, so then why is it that so much of what Hoggard teaches is supposedly hidden and gotten only through this experience of suddenly having it implanted in his mind, rather than being able to find it out via simply reading and studying it?

So now we have a contradiction in his teachings. Oddly enough I find that while he tells people to stay away from people who teach via “special revelation from the Holy Spirit”, as this can lead to all sorts of heretical teachings, he is constantly telling us that this is how he gets much of his information. He also states that you should watch out for and stay away from churches and organizations that use Satanic logos. He spends a lot of time showing what some of these logos are, so that you will spot them. Why then when I went to his HoggBlog to listen to sermons, did I see ads for various companies before the sermon started, and one of these was for Disney World? Walt Disney was a high ranking Mason and Disney movies are filled with occult and phallic symbols. The ad that I saw pop up three different times had the wicked witch's magic mirror on one side of the ad throughout the entire ad. Surely that qualifies as occultic. Hoggard has told us to stay away from ministries that have these symbols. So now if I listen to him, he has told me that I should not be listening to him if I consider his warnings seriously, as he has failed two of his own tests. Is he openly telling us that he is attempting to deceive us, but people are not picking up on it?

Getting back to the subject, these mysterious numbers that Hoggard has come up with can only be understood through special revelation, not through study, as these numbers supposedly have special meanings attached to them that are not laid out in Scripture in an overt way that is readily apparent to anyone. I think anyone who has a fairly good working knowledge of the Bible would honestly say that they do see that there are some numbers that have significance. One cannot miss the fact that there were twelves tribes of Israel, and twelve disciples and apostles, and that the wall of New Jerusalem has twelve foundations and twelve pearls at the twelve gates with twelve angels. There will be twelve manners of fruit that yield their fruit every month (there are twelve months) along the river banks of the city which is twelve furlongs long, wide, and high. Twelve thousand of each of the twelve tribes are sealed in Revelation. Much of the design of the temple incorporates the number twelve. The altar will be twelve cubits long and wide. It goes on and on with the number twelve.

What is seemingly bizarre about this is that while the number twelve stands out overtly for anyone studying the Bible to see its importance, Hoggard says about this particular number “Although I am very aware of the importance the number 12 plays in the scriptures, I do not have as yet very much to report as far as the codes are concerned. Remember, all of this information that you see before you, has been the process of revelation, and not education. The Lord would tap me on the shoulder and tell me what to look for.” Is that not just a little strange? This number is not hidden at all, it is very visible to simple study, but therein lies the rub. He says that all of this hidden information comes from revelation, not education or in other words, study. It has been someone tapping him on the shoulder. Hoggard has assumed it is the Lord, but as none of this comes via Scripture but by special revelation, one needs to be careful to make sure one knows who is tapping him on the shoulder. One of the most obvious numbers, the one everyone sees as having importance and meaning is the one he can't understand? Does that not strike you as somewhat puzzling? It does me. Why would God not show him the importance of this number that is so overtly there to see?

As this number is so obvious to everyone, he does attempt to give some meaning to the number for he says, “The number 12 is understood clearly from the scriptures to be a number that is associated with the Church, both of the Old Testament, and of the New. Those who are in the New Testament Church are those whom God has quickened, or brought back to life and given a new beginning in His Kingdom. This gives them the association both with the number 12 and with the number 8. They are called the "saints". They are called saints exactly 96 (12x8) times in the scriptures.”

Now Hoggard needs to start creating numeric games since he does not know what else to do with the number 12. Since he has assigned the number 8 the meaning of new beginnings, he multiplies it by 12, which he says must stand for the church (as it represents both the tribes of Israel and the 12 disciples/apostles) to come up with the number 96 which is how many times he says the church (old and new) are called “saints”, therefore giving validation to his process. The problem with this? Well, I spent a lot of time, many hours in fact, painstakingly going over the number of times the word saints in all its forms (singular, plural, and possessive) is used. I used two different sources and counted three different times in all the following tallies of all the words and phrases listed below to check his numbers and in this case I found that the word “saint” and its forms actually occur 101 times, not 96. but who's counting, right? What's a discrepancy of five times between friends. Besides 101 doesn't divide by anything. Which brings up the question, how do we know when to add, subtract, multiply, or divide these numbers? Does that come by revelation too? I notice Harold Camping did the same thing. Shouldn't the math always be consistently the same? Does the meaning change when we add numbers rather than multiply? What is the criteria for using a different mathematical operation?

Besides the number 12, another number that is very noticeable in the Bible to the person who lacks special revelation is the number 7. Of this number Hoggard says, “As you study, you begin to see also that numbers seem to have a certain relevance in the Bible. Each number will have its own symbolic meaning. Things associated with completion or perfection will be linked with the number 7. An example of how this works is found in the phrase "Holy Spirit". This phrase is found exactly 7 times in the King James Bible. This not only reveals the Divine nature of the Holy Spirit, but also reveals to us that the Bible is a very unique Book .”

One would think from that statement, that he is assigning the number 7 to represent the Holy Spirit, but in fact, he makes the number 50 the number that represents the Holy Spirit. But let us first take a look at the overt use of the number 7 that we uninitiated folks have to use, due to lack of revelation. The first significance is found in that God rested on the seventh day. This is the day that we know God sanctified and blessed and later told Israel to observe as the Sabbath. When God took animals on the ark, he took the clean animals by sevens, not just twos. God warned Noah seven days before He would flood the earth. Jacob agreed to serve seven years for Rachel, then was given Leah by deceit and ended up serving another seven years for Rachel. In Pharoah's dream he saw seven fat kine followed by seven lean ones, then seven full ears of corn and seven bad ones. There were seven years of famine in the land of Egypt. Israel is to eat unleavened bread for seven days during the Passover festival. The Feast of Tabernacles also is seven days. The seventh month of the Jewish year has the most important holy day in their calendar, Yom Kippur on the tenth, but the first day of that month is the Feast of Trumpets, and speaking of trumpets, we find seven trumpets in Revelation, along with seven churches, seven seals, and seven vials of God's wrath. There are many other examples of the use of seven in Scripture that is easily discerned from simple study of the Word. Clearly the number 7 represents perfection or completion. In fact, the Holy Spirit is found to be a seven-fold spirit in Isaiah 11:2. Does that not make the Holy Spirit's number 7, not 50, if he has a number?

Above Hoggard said that the phrase “holy Spirit” (Holy Spirit (all caps) is only found once) is found exactly seven times in the KJV Bible. That is true, but why does he only mention this phrase? Does not the phrase “Holy Ghost” refer to the same person, and should not God have put it in a special number of times also, if the number of times something is mentioned is so important and codified in the Bible? It turns out the phrase “Holy Ghost” occurs 88 times. Oh, dear, that is a multiple of 8 times 11 and while 8 means new beginnings according to Hoggard, the number 11 means judgment and disorder, or chaos. Ooh, that doesn't sound too good for the whole numbers game he is playing. Maybe I divided by the wrong numbers, let's see. 4 times 22? Well, 4 supposedly means “world, worldliness, or creation”, and 22 means “light, revelation, or spiritual knowledge” according to him. So how do we marry revelation to worldliness? That still doesn't sound too good to represent the Holy Spirit. Maybe we should divide 22 again to break it down further. But then we are back to 11 and chaos multiplied by 2 which means “union, division, and witnessing.” Okay, I can get behind witnessing, for that is what the Holy Spirit does, is witness to us about Christ, but what about the other two meanings? How can the same number mean two entirely opposite things? How can it mean both union and division? Isn't that contradictory? I guess it helps to have contradictory meanings, so that when you need to divide a number (and every other number is divisible by 2), if you need it to be something bad you can use division as its meaning, but if you want the number to be something good you can use union? Is that how this works?

Let's continue to look at the Holy Spirit and a few other names He's given for a moment. We find that the phrase Spirit of the Lord is in the Bible 32 times, and Spirit of God 26. Unfortunately Hoggard didn't come up with meanings for those numbers, so I guess we divide and conquer? Let's see what I can come up with. 32 is 16 times 2, or 4 times 4 times 2, or 8 times 4. Well, 16 supposedly means love, that's good. And if we use the good definition of 2 (union or witnessing) that will work all right. A witness that loves us? What about 4 x 4 x 2. Well, a double dose of 4 as worldliness isn't too good, but if we use the meaning “creation” that could work, as long as we stick with witnessing. To use union would mean to have union with worldliness and that wouldn't do at all. How about 8 x 4. Well, 8 means new beginnings, times 4 meaning creation? A new creation? There, we've got it. See, if you work at it long enough you can come up with something that works. The Holy Spirit makes us a new creation. See how easy this is when you play the game right? I can do it too. So in my Bible code, (if I were creating one) the phrase “Spirit of the Lord” appearing in the Bible 32 times shows us that the number 32 means we become a new creation in Christ. 26 is a harder sell, that's 2 x 13 and 13 is a bad number. It stands for depravity, rebellion and the beast according to Hoggard. That would indicate union with the beast. Ugh, heaven's no. I think we'll do what Hoggard does in cases like these, just not mention it and drop it, because it doesn't fit our game.

Are you beginning to see how this game of his works?

Hoggard says, “Numbers are constant. They never change.” That is perfectly true. But numbers can be manipulated, as I just showed. To show how randomly meanings are assigned to numbers, let me quote him as to how he came to assign meanings to these numbers.

“Listed below is a quick reference guide to the symbolic meanings of various numbers that are used in the Bible. This list is compiled from two of these books, plus my own research into biblical numbers. In a few instances, I depart from previously published material on Bible numerics, as to meaning and usage of certain numbers, but for the most part, there is a general agreement concerning a majority of these numbers. Notice that some higher numbers are the sum of other numbers, while others are the product, and others are “repeated” or the “multiple” of other numbers. Notice that when one is a multiple, it is often convenient to ignore the other number in the equation, which is why it is not called a product. What constitutes the reasoning between adding, multiplying, repeating, or dividing to find the multiple? Except that it is convenient for one's theory of course. Also he used some previous people's meanings, but when they did not work for him, he departed from them. Wait, then anyone can assign their own meanings? Wouldn't a number either have to mean something or not if God made it so? How can different people make it mean different things if God is the one who is telling them all what these numbers mean? Can't God remember what He told the others before Hoggard? Is God confused?

Here is Hoggard's list of meanings.

1 - Unity, Beginnings

2 - Union, Division, Witnessing

3 - Resurrection, Divine Completeness

4 - Creation, World, Worldliness

5 - Grace, God’s Goodness, Redemption (a number associated with the Rapture)

6 - Weakness of Man ญ Evils of Satan ญ Manifestation of Sin

7 - Completeness, Spiritual Perfection

8 - New Birth, New Creation, New Beginning

9 - Fruit of the Spirit, Fruit bearing

10 - The Word of God, Law and Responsibility, Kingship

11 - Judgment and Disorder

12 - Governmental Perfection, The Gentile Church and the Jewish Church

13 - Depravity and Rebellion, The Beast

14 - Deliverance or Salvation, Multiple of 7

15 - Rest, The Sum of 8 and 7, the Product of 3 and 5

16 - Love

17 - Victory

18 - Bondage

19 - Faith, Sum of 10 and 9.

20 - Expectancy, 2 Compounded by 10

21 - Product of 7 and 3, Fullness

22 - Light, Revelation, Spiritual Knowledge, 2 Compounded and Repeated

30 - Multiple of 3 and 10, Compound of their meanings

33 - 3 Compounded and Repeated

40 - Probation, Testing, Purification

42 - Product of 7 and 6, A number of Completion

49 - Compounded Perfection, 7 times 7.

50 - Holy Spirit, 5 Compounded by 10

55 - 5 Compounded and Repeated

60 - Pride

66 - The Earthly House of God, 6 Compounded and Repeated

70 - Compounded Perfection, 7 times 10

Often, numbers above 12 will carry several different meanings, usually dependant [sic] on the context of the verse or chapter they are located in, or by what numbers they are compounded by or by what they are the sum of.”

Notice that he says that the numbers will carry different meanings depending upon what you do to them or what chapter or verse they are in. Well, isn't that the whole point of this game? Making them mean what you want when you need them to? Notice also that he says that the verse or chapter number can dictate the meaning. Hold it a minute. The verse and chapter numbers dictate meanings? According to Hoggard, while the original manuscripts in Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek contained no chapter or verse numbers, God incorporated chapter and verse numbers in the KJV Bible for the express purpose of creating these hidden numeric meanings. Really? I thought when He said that we were not to add or subtract from His Word that He meant it. That we were not to add anything to His Word. Isn't that what Hoggard is doing by putting meanings upon these chapter and verse numbers? Except for Camping and Hoggard, and probably some others, nobody has ever assumed that these chapter and verse numbers were for anything other than enabling people to find passages and particular verses in the Bible with greater ease. It's an organizational structure that was applied to make it easier to read, especially when everyone began to have Bibles and wanted to follow along when someone was reading. This was something man added, not in the sense of adding to the Word to give new revelations, but simply as an editorial structure for literary ease. To use this to find new hidden revelation from the Bible is simply ludicrous. If these numbers were added for any other reason, would they not do the very thing God commanded us not to do, add to His Word? That is exactly what Hoggard is doing when he uses verse and chapter numbers in this way. He is adding to God's Word, for these things are not in the original manuscripts which God declared complete. But then again, Hoggard says that you cannot get revelation from the original manuscripts, as they aren't as good as the KJV, because for one thing, the chapter and verse divisions and numbers are missing. Is anyone besides me seeing some very bad logic here?

Again, let's mention that Hoggard preaches against hidden knowledge, as that is a Satanic thing, but look what he says in this book about his Bible code. “I am amazed each day as I open up God’s word and uncover the hidden treasures that are contained in the Authorized Version.”

One of his first examples is the following:

“First of all, it is noted that the book of Genesis contains 50 chapters. This is by design. It has the stamp of inspiration placed on it by the Holy Spirit himself, for 50 is the number for the Holy Spirit.”

I discussed this above. Exactly who decided the number of the Holy Spirit is 50? And why? If God's number is 7, and the Spirit of the Lord is a seven-fold Spirit according to the Word of God (Isaiah 11:2 “And the spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD”) would not the number of the Holy Spirit logically be 7? What on earth does the number 50 have to do with anything? And why should there be a connection between how many chapters are in Genesis and the Holy Spirit? If this is showing the stamp of approval, then should not every book in the Bible have 50 chapters? After all, was not the entire Bible written by men inspired by the Holy Spirit? His reasoning is inconsistent.

Another example of some playing loose with information is the following:

“Nine is the number for fruit bearing. It can be assumed that since there were 7 of each clean animal and 2 of each unclean animal on the ark, that the total number of animals on the ark was a multiple of 9.” There is no way one can conclude that the total number of animals on the ark was a multiple of 9 from this. Let's use an example. Say there are 10 unclean species of animals. That would make 20 animals. Now let's add 4 species of clean animals. That would be 28 animals. All together that makes 48 animals, which is not divisible by 9. Nowhere are we told that there are an equal number of clean and unclean animals, nor was a complete list given of the animals taken so that one could count them to see if they were equal in number. In fact if I were to guess, I would say that there are far more unclean animals than clean. His statement is nonsensical, as is also the following:

“Eleven is the number for judgement [sic] and disorder. In Genesis chapter 11, we have the story of Babel. Need I say more?” No, he doesn't need to say more. If I were to go to every chapter 11 of every book would I find chaos or judgment? How absurd. It happened to work out that way, it wasn't by design. If it were design, I should be able to go to every chapter 11 and find disorder, judgment, and chaos. It can't be done. Why isn't the number 11 about faith? Hebrews 11 is the famous “faith” chapter. Isn't that as valid as Genesis 11? If I wanted 11 to be about faith could I not make the same case for it as Hoggard does for chaos, only substituting Hebrews for Genesis and faith for chaos? According to Hoggard in the mouth of two witnesses a thing is established. In my other article (see link at beginning of this article) I show that Hoggard teaches that the word “folly” meant a sexual sin or crime (which is does not). He found at least two passages that he could use to make that connection, thereby having “two witnesses.” Well, I am about to show you why the number 11 should mean faith (this is tongue in cheek of course). The entire 11^th chapter of Hebrews does nothing but talk about faith for starters. So the number of verses there are overwhelmingly more than just in the mouth of two witnesses. But I will present even more verses, although not all the verses I could. Mark 11:22 “And Jesus answering saith unto them, Have faith in God.” Acts 11:24 “For he was a good man, and full of the Holy Ghost and of faith: and much people was added unto the Lord.” Romans 4:11 “And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had yet being uncircumcised: that he might be the father of all them that believe, though they be not circumcised; that righteousness might be imputed unto them also:” Romans 11:20 “Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear:” Galatians 3:11 “But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident: for, The just shall live by faith.” This of course definitely shows that the number 11 should be about faith, right? Is it becoming clear yet how this game is played?

Here are a few more examples. Hoggard says, “This phrase "resurrection from the dead", is found exactly 3 times, all of them in the New Testament. A few years ago, Dallas Holm sang a song that became one of the best loved songs in modern Christianity. The title of his song was "Rise Again". He took this title directly from the scriptures. It was a song about the resurrection of Jesus Christ. This phrase is to be found 9 (3x3) times in the New Testament.” Okay the phrase “resurrection from the dead” is found 3 times. The phrase “resurrection of the dead” is found 11 times. Oooh. That means chaos and disorder. The phrase “resurrection of Jesus Christ” is found 2 times. Does that mean union or division? What about the simple term “resurrection”? That occurs 41 times. Do you see how he is very selective in his phrases and numbers to try to prove his point? He ignores those things which do not work, and as nobody except someone like me, who gets so annoyed by this nonsense that I am willing to spend hours going through ferreting out this ridiculous information, is going to know the difference. He pulls the wool over people's eyes, because nobody ever checks up on him.

Just because I want to show that this is not just a few miscounts on his part, I will list some more.

Hoggard says, “These two words, "heaven" and "earth" are found together in the same verse a total of 156 times. This breaks down to 4x39. When we search for the exact four word phrase that is used in Genesis 1:1, we find that it is found exactly 4 times in the Authorized Version.” Here is actually how it breaks down. The exact phrase is given, and then the number of times it occurs.

“The heaven and earth” - 1 time

“heaven and earth” - 26 times

“the heavens and the earth” – 5 times

“heaven” and “earth” in same verse over 200 times (I got tired of counting) not the 156 he says.

Hoggard says, “Noah’s name is found exactly 48 (8x6) times in the Old Testament. His name in both forms (Noe and Noah) is found exactly 8 times in the New Testament. When you combine them together you end up with a total of 56. Here we find that the name of Noah is the product of Completion (7) and New Beginnings (8). What an amazingly perfect Book!”

The problem is, Noah's name is not found 48 times in the Old Testament. I counted three times to make sure, and it is found 46 times. 41 times in Genesis, 1 time in 1 Chronicles, 2 times in Isaiah, and 2 times in Ezekiel. The last time I added, 41 + 1 + 2 + 2 = 46. Noe is found 5 times, and Noah 3 times in the New Testament. So he is right in the New Testament number. Noah's name is 8 times there. How did he arrive at the erroneous number? Because he counted the daughters of Zelophehad whose daughters were named Noah (but they are not the Noah of the Flood, so they should not count), and he ignored the number of times Noah's name was given in the possessive, which should count. So the number of times the actual Noah of the Flood's name is mentioned is in total for the Old and New Testament, 54 times.

So what math calculation are we doing again?

Hoggard says, “The number 8 is the product of 2 and 4. When you multiply the number for division with the number for the creation, you realize that there will be 2 creations, the old and the new. This is the essential idea behind being born again. The number 8 is also the sum of 5 and 3. When you add the number for redemption, with the number for resurrection, you still have new life, no matter how you look at it.” What if we add 4 and 4, or 6 and 2, or 7 and 1? How about multiplying 8 by 1? or 2 x 2 x 2? Can you see the problem here?

Why does Hoggard add sometimes, multiply others, and divide yet others? And why choose certain numbers over others for the addends or multiplicands? Is it merely to come up with the numbers and meanings he wants? Of course. If God were really doing this, would He not be consistent with his mathematical calculations? Would he not always have us either add or multiply? How are we supposed to know when to do which? How are we to know which numbers to multiply or divide or add. It is completely arbitrary.

Hoggard says, “The number 9 is the number for fruits or fruitbearing We are admonished in the Scriptures, as Christians, to bear fruit. When we look in the scriptures, we find this principal exactly 9 times.” I have listed the verses he gives, so that you can take note of something. In this case to come up with the 9 times, he couldn't use the same words “bear fruit.” He had to resort to also combining it with “bare fruit.” A little manipulation there? He wouldn't combine Holy Spirit and Holy Ghost before.

(2 Ki 19:30) "And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall yet again take root downward, and bear fruit upward."

(Isa 37:31) "And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall again take root downward, and bear fruit upward:"

(Ezek 17:8) "It was planted in a good soil by great waters, that it might bring forth branches, and that it might bear fruit, that it might be a goodly vine."

(Ezek 17:23) "In the mountain of the height of Israel will I plant it: and it shall bring forth boughs, and bear fruit, and be a goodly cedar: and under it shall dwell all fowl of every wing; in the shadow of the branches thereof shall they dwell."

(Luke 13:9) "And if it bear fruit, well: and if not, then after that thou shalt cut it down."

(Luke 8:8) "And other fell on good ground, and sprang up, and bare fruit an hundredfold. And when he had said these things, he cried, He that hath ears to hear, let him hear."

(John 15:4) "Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me."

(John 15:8) "Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples."

(Rev 22:2) "In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations."

Hey wait a minute. If we are not looking for exact words or phrases, but only the “principle” this time, what about the following verses?

John 15:2 “Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.

Matthew 13:23 “But he that received seed into the good ground is he that heareth the word, and understandeth it; which also beareth fruit, and bringeth forth, some an hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.

Hosea 9:16 “Ephraim is smitten, their root is dried up, they shall bear no fruit: yea, though they bring forth, yet will I slay even the beloved fruit of their womb.

What about the terms “bring forth fruit”. That happens 5 times in the New Testament in regard to bearing and three times in the Old Testament. Once speaking of the land, once speaking of the righteous, and once speaking of the wicked. Even if we leave off the verse about the wicked, the “beareth not fruit” in John, and the verse above in Hosea because they won't bear fruit, what about the other two verses and the 5 verses about bringing forth fruit. It's the same “principle” right? Shouldn't they be included in the count? That would bring it to 16. Not a great number when you are looking to make 9 the number of fruitfulness, is it?

But then Hoggard futher proves the point by showing that there are 9 fruits of the spirit.

“(Gal 5:22-23) But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.....Would it be possible then that the fruit of the Spirit be associated somewhere else with the number 9? Lets take a look and see. (Eph 5:9) For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;”

Hoggard shows that there are 9 fruits of the spirit in Galatians and that the fruits of the spirit are spoken of in verse 9 of Ephesians 5, so that seals the deal. But wait, verse 9 lists two more fruits. Goodness is a repeat, but righteousness and truth are listed as two more fruits bringing the number to 11. After all those two are fruits of the spirit, right? But oh, no, not again. We are back to that nasty old 11, the number of disorder and chaos. Well, that won't work at all.

Hoggard takes this concept of fruit being 9 further.

“Hell is literally the reward and the fruit of those who remain in their sin. God even established a pattern for hell. The word hell is found exactly 54 times in the scriptures. This is the number for the wickedness of man (6) times the number for fruit (9).”

Well, yes, it does occur 54 times. In the Old Testament the Hebrew word is “Sheol” which is the same as the Greek word “Hades” which in both cases means the abode of the dead. In both cases the word is a little more encompassing than just hell, as Hades actually originally had two compartments (as Christ explained in the parable of Lazarus and the rich man). It contained both Paradise and Hell. After Christ's resurrection, Paradise was emptied and now only Hell remains in Hades. In the New Testament the word “hell” is translated from three different words. It is translated from “Hades” 10 times, “Gehenna” 12 times, and “Tartarus” 1 time. Gehenna was the Valley of Hinnom, a place of sacrificing children in the fire to Baal outside Jerusalem and was used as a reference to eternal punishment of the wicked, as opposed to Hades which is a general reference to the abode of the dead. The word translated from “Tartarus” is found in 2 Peter 2:4. Tartarus, is a special place in the deepest pit in hell that was created for the angels. This is where the angels who sinned by marrying humans were put in chains. Now I realize that Hoggard says that no revelation can be had from the original manuscripts and that a person shouldn't even listen to someone who refers to the original languages when trying to make things more clear, and one can see why he says this. In the originals his little game would not have worked, as there are four different words being used and they would not add up to that lovely multiple of 9 he so needed to verify his claim that 9 stands for fruitfulness (even if it means the fruit of the wicked).

The following is a deduction he comes up with that makes no sense to me whatsoever.

“As I mentioned earlier, it is very clear that the words, phrases, verses, chapters and books of the scriptures have been arranged in a perfect order. It would be impossible for men to manipulate a group of documents in this manner, especially men who, in many cases, lived thousands of years apart. One pattern that I discovered about the Divine arrangement of the Scriptures was revealed to me as I read Genesis 1:1. This verse details the beginning of the creation of God. Notice it is in the first book of the Bible, the first chapter, the first verse. The first things always belong to God. I remembered that there was another place where there is a similar passage. It is in John 1:1. Notice that it also begins with "In the beginning", that it is in chapter 1, and verse 1, but what about the book. It is not the first book of the New Testament. However, from Genesis to Luke, there are exactly 42 (7x6) books. This makes John the first book of a whole new set!” First of all, the arrangement of the Christian Bible differs from the Judaic arrangement of the books in the Tanakh. The Tanakh is what Jesus used, so does that not present a problem with this “perfect order”? Second, my question is, what exactly is this “new set” of which John is the first book? It is the last book in the grouping of the gospels. It isn't an epistle, which all the rest except Revelation are. What is he talking about? There is no “set” that starts with John. He's not making sense. And as to men being able to manipulate a group of documents in this manner. They did not have any need to. Men like Hoggard and Camping manipulate them very well on their own.

Here are some more numbers games.

“The phrase "word of God" is found exactly 49 times (7x7) in the Authorized Version of the Bible!”

And the phrase “Word of the Lord” is found 258 times, which is divisible by 1, 2, 3, 6, and 43. There's no seven there and it should mean the same thing. Did God mess up?

“The Bible itself states that the Word of God is a book of parables. The word "parable" is found 49 times.”

Actually the singular and plural forms of the word parable are found 65 times. Should we not include the word “parables” when it says Christ spoke in parables as well as by a parable? I think plural usage of the word counts as much as a singular usage in this case, don't you?

“It was Paul who warned us about a false gospel. (Gal 1:8-9) "But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. As we said before, so say I now again, If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed." Notice that this warning was so strong that he mentions it twice to get the point across. There is a difference between the real Word of God, and the false gospel. Paul and Peter made sure that we understood this, because they spoke of The gospel of God. This phrase is found exactly 7 times in the scriptures. The 7th time it is used is an indication of what will happen to those who do not obey the real gospel. (1 Pet 4:17) "For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?"”

If Hoggard is so concerned about us not accepting a false gospel, then why is he feeding everyone a great deal of it along with the truth that he does preach? Is he not afraid of what 1 Peter 4:17 says?

“Jesus’ title of "Son of God" in its various forms is found 49 (7x7) times in the New Testament. It is found only one time in the Old Testament, recorded in the book of Daniel.”

No it is found 46 times in the N.T. and once in Daniel.

“Our Savior is also given the title of "Son of Man". This phrase is found 196 times in the AV. This number breaks down to 49 (7x7) x 4! The last place that this phrase is used is in Revelation 14 verse 14! Check your modern translations for this same pattern. Is this title found exactly this many times in any other translation? I do not believe that it exists outside the King James Version.”

Actually it is not found that many times in the KJV. Or actually it is, plus a couple more. The phrase “son of man” (Son of man) is found 198 times in the Bible. Of those times, 87 times in the N.T. and once in the O.T. it specifically refers to Christ. Other times it refers to people such as Ezekiel. If we only want the times it refers to Christ, we get 88 times. 11 times 8. Oh, no. There's that 11 (chaos) again.

“There is a two-word phrase that is used repeatedly in the scriptures to describe the total authority and power of Almighty God. It is the phrase "most high". Truly, our God is the Most High God. He is given this title exactly 49 times in the Scriptures. Listed below, are the places where this title is either mentioned in the 7th chapter, the 7th verse, or one of its multiples.”

I did not feel the need to list these, as I have already shown that what verse and chapter something occurs in is irrelevant. The phrase “most high” is found 48 times in the Bible, not 49. “The most high God” is found 11 times, the “most High” is found 32 times, and “most high” is found 5 times. (Note the lower and upper case letters). That adds up to 48. I have counted three times (as I have done to all of these checks on his numbers) to be sure.

“As we saw earlier, Jesus’ title of "Christ" is found 555 times in the Bible.”

After painstakingly counting three times, and this was a very difficult thing to do given the number of times it is mentioned, I found that the word “Christ” is used 554 times, the words “Christs” as in false Christs is used 2 times and the word “Christ's is used 16 times for a total of 572 times (or 570 if you want to leave out the false christs.) And he thought nobody would every actually count and catch him. The following are a list of words he gives and how many times he says they are mentioned.

“Thunders (God’s voice) 7 times”

Actually it is mentioned 4 times unless you count words like thunderings, in which case it still doesn't add up to 7.

“"It is Written" 63 times (7x9) in the New Testament”

Hey, what about the Old Testament? Why do we sometimes include it and sometimes not? It is found 3 times there.

“Jesus Christ 196 times (49x4)”

Wrong again. It happens 198 times. The phrase Christ Jesus occurs 58 times and paired together in a single verse they occur 4 times.

“Kingdom of God 70 times, found only in the New Testament”

Okay, but how about the phrase “kingdom of heaven” It is found 33 times. Wow 33, like the 33rd degree of the Masons? What if we divide?  Oh no, not that 11 again. By the way, if you check my other article linked at the beginning of this article, he said that the number 3 stands for sin. That was when he needed it to, while here he makes it mean “resurrection” or “divine completeness”. Now how can it mean both of those things? Same thing with the number 4. In one of his sermons (which I discussed in the other article) the number 4 was all about the fact that it stands for the spiritual realm, as it is the fourth dimension. He needed it to mean that, as his whole point centered on 4 meaning the spiritual world, yet he also makes it mean the world which is our realm of three dimensions. So which is it, Mike?

“Bride 14 times “

Yes, Bride is found 14 times, but only 5 of them are in the New Testament, actually referring to the church. How about the word Bridegroom. That is Christ, right? Well it is found 24 times, 16 of which are in the New Testament. So where does that leave us? I love this next one.

“Daughters of Jerusalem 7 times (all in the Song of Solomon, found only one other time in Luke 23:28)”

Okay, so the “Daughters of Jerusalem” occurs 7 times, (as long as you don't count the one in Luke making it 8?). He's even admitting he's fudging it?

“Firstfruits 7 times in the New Testament”

Yes, but it occurs 32 times in Bible.

“Children of Israel 644”

Make that 645 times, Mike. (And this took me forever to count.)

“The Word of the Lord 245 times (49x5)”

No, as stated above it is 248 times.

I think all this goes to show that Mike is manipulating the numbers for his own purposes, just as Harold Camping did. After all, who on earth is going to be so anal retentive, so as to actually count these things and catch him on them? ;-)

So as it can be seen, this King James Code of his exists only in his imagination, or rather in the imagination of the one tapping him on the shoulder and giving him the revelation, for I have some doubts about God being the one giving this information to him, since it is not accurate.  Now ask yourself, why is he deceiving you on this? Is he aware he is so wrong on all this?  Or is he so into listening to this spirit that is tapping him on the shoulder that he is oblivious to the discrepancies?   And if that is the case, should we not all be very cautious of what he might say, as this spirit might be able to convince him of anything, since he believes it is God? Anybody can go and count this stuff to check it out.  It is just that nobody (well, except me) does, because they trust Mike.  That is what Satan is counting on.  Do you really want to trust everything that he says now, knowing that he (or someone) makes up stuff like this for his new and novel theories? 

Part 3 in this Hoggard series is about brainwashing techniques and can be linked here.

http://bibleconundrumsandcontroversy.blogspot.com/2012/05/mike-hoggard-part-3-are-you-being_23.html