I imagine that you, like me, are intrigued by the many different messages God has hidden in His Word through the use of all sorts of different kinds of codes. One of the easiest to look for is the Hebrew meanings for names that are in the scriptures. We discussed briefly a few of them in Unlocking God’s Secrets. A simple one is the story conveyed by the meaning of the name Barabbas, which is “son of the father,” with Bar being “son of” and abba being an intimate name for father, kind of like Daddy. In that one name we saw that Jesus was crucified so that the “sons of the Father” could be set free.

        Sometimes entire sentences are formed by looking at the names in a list. For instance, in our book we found that the ten names in the first genealogy in the Bible phenomenally translate into the message, “Man is appointed mortal sorrow, but blessed God shall come down, teaching that His death shall bring the despairing comfort.”

        Let’s therefore look at what message God hid for us to uncover in the entire genealogy of Jesus. The first genealogy of Jesus is found in Matthew, but it begins with Abraham. So lets add to that the missing names from Adam up to Abraham that are found in the genealogy listed in Luke. At the end of this article I will give you the definitions of each of those individual names, but rather than keeping you in suspense I will now just write for you the astounding and glorious hidden message:

 

        “Man is appointed mortal sorrow, but blessed God shall come down, teaching that His death shall bring the despairing comfort. The fame of the stronghold of Babylon (representing evil) and its boundaries extend like a plant beyond the region of division at the tower of Babel. A Friend branches out, snorting with fury. The Exalted Father, the Father of a great multitude, laughs triumphantly as He outwits His enemy. Praise breaks forth into an area surrounded by a wall of great height where the people of the Prince (representing Jesus) are safe from the false prophet (representing Satan), being clothed with strength. A Servant (Jesus) there is, One well loved, peaceful, who enlarges the people! My Father is Lord, the healer of the One whom the Lord judged and whom the Lord raised up! My strength and help are in the Lord. The Lord is perfect! I took hold of the strength of the Lord, and God made me forget my misery. The Master Builder, whom the Lord healed, and whom the Lord appointed, did uphold, and will uphold! I have asked God about the seed in Babylon. My father is majestic! God will raise up a Helper! The Just One will the Lord raise up! God is my praise! God is the Helper! May the gift of Israel increase, for God is with us!”

 

        Wow!!! The deeper we dig into the treasure we possess known as the Bible, the more we find that we uncover the same message over and over; Jesus is our Savior. That plan was put in place before the beginning of the world.

        What an incredible book is our Bible. We find the same message in the surface text and in all of the other hidden messages, whether they are shadows, types, name or number codes, ELS codes, or any of the other myriad of coding devices we now know are within the body of the scriptures. With no pun intended, I submit that we are only now beginning to scratch the surface of how intricately woven throughout the Bible is the main theme; Jesus is our Savior and Lord. How unbelievably fortunate we are.

        As promised, I will now list the names in the genealogy of Jesus, along with their meanings that form the spine tingling message we read above. Some names, of course, have two or three meanings, such as Adam meaning both  man and first blood. Naturally we took the meaning that seemed the most obviously have been intended by God in His hidden message to us.

        Adam means man, Seth - is appointed, Enosh - mortal, Kenan - sorrow, Mahalalel - blessed God, Jared - shall come down, Enoch - teaching that, Methuselah - His death shall bring, Lamech - the despairing, Noah - comfort. Shem - the fame of, Arphaxad - the stronghold of Babylon and its boundaries,  Shelah - extend like a plant, Eber - beyond the region, Peleg - of division at the tower of Babel, Reu - a friend, Serug - branches out, Nahor -snorting, Terah - with fury, Abram/Abraham - the exalted father, the father of a great multitude, Isaac - laughs triumphantly, Jacob/Israel - he outwits his enemy, Judah - praise, Perez - breaks forth, Hezron - into an area surrounded by a wall, Ram - of great height, Amminadab - where the people of the prince are safe, Nahshon - from the false prophet, Salmon - being clothed, Boaz -strength, Obed - a servant, Jesse - there is, David - one well loved, Solomon -peaceful, Rehoboam - who enlarges the people, Abijah - my father is Lord, Asa - the healer, Jehoshaphat - of the one whom the Lord judged, Jehoram -and whom the Lord raised up, Uzziah - my strength and help are in the Lord, Jotham - the Lord is perfect, Ahaz - I took hold of, Hezekiah - the strength of the Lord, Manasseh - God made me forget my misery, Amon - the master builder, Josiah - whom the Lord healed, Jeconiah - whom the Lord appointed, did uphold, and will uphold, Shealtiel - I have asked God about, Zerubbabel -the seed in Babylon, Abiud - my father is majestic, Eliakim - God will raise up, Azor - a helper, Zadok - the just one, Akim - will the Lord raise up, Eliud - God is my praise, Eleazar - God is the helper, Matthan - may the gift of, Jacob - Israel, Joseph - increase, Jesus - God is with us.