The 13th Enumeration Quotes

“Whosoever shall confess that Yeshua (Jesus) is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God. And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him. 1 John 4:15–16   For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. John 3:16”
― William Struse, The 13th Enumeration

“And now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love. 1 Corinthians 13:13   Hear, O Israel: YHWH our God is ONE YHWH. Deuteronomy 6:4”
― William Struse, The 13th Enumeration

“Our great Jewish Rabbi Maimonides set out thirteen principles of our faith. He believed one must acknowledge these thirteen truths as true in order to be considered a true Jew. The thirteenth principle affirms our belief in the resurrection of the dead. I now know both Jews and Gentiles can only have hope of that resurrection by our reconciliation to YHWH, our Creator, through the 13th Enumeration.”
― William Struse, The 13th Enumeration

“That was the Court of the Gentiles there. A wall was built which divided the court from the temple proper. At regular intervals along this wall, inscriptions in both Greek and Hebrew were placed which read, ‘No Gentile is to pass this point on pain of death.’ This is the wall of partition the apostle Paul mentioned in Ephesians 2:13–14. Notice the stairs—in order for anyone to access the temple proper and pass through the wall from that point, they had to climb a set of 14 stairs and enter through one of 13 gates.”
― William Struse, The 13th Enumeration

“Jacob, Jesus paid the price for all our sins, both Jew and Gentile.’ Then she would quote the words of the apostle Paul in Ephesians 2:13–14: ‘But now in Yeshua our Messiah ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of the Messiah. For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us.”
― William Struse, The 13th Enumeration

“Jacob circled the thirteenth and fourteenth priestly courses, which fell during the seventh month. He smiled, clearly aware of what the numbers meant to Zane. “This shows the book of Luke adds further evidence to the symbolism associated with the numbers thirteen, fourteen, seven and Yeshua of Nazareth.”
― William Struse, The 13th Enumeration

“took a green highlighter, and starting at the ninth priestly course, he marked out six months. Then he highlighted the twenty-first priestly course and then another nine months with a blue highlighter. Jacob continued, “If Elisabeth conceived in the fifth month and Mary, the mother of Yeshua, conceived six months later, then this places the birth of the Messiah here.”
― William Struse, The 13th Enumeration

“Yeshua was Hebrew, not Greek.”
― William Struse, The 13th Enumeration

“The story goes on to say that six months later, the angel Gabriel appeared to Mary and told her she was going to bare a son by the Spirit of YHWH. Luke says, just as Gabriel promised, Mary bore a son and they called him Yeshua, which in Hebrew means ‘Salvation of YAH.’” Jacob looked over at Zane and said, “Sorry, Zane, but ‘Jesus’ just doesn’t convey the same meaning to me. I hope you know I mean no disrespect?”
― William Struse, The 13th Enumeration

“he took out a yellow highlighter and highlighted the eighth course of Abijah. “Zane, in Luke 1 in your New Testament, it tells the story of Zacharias’s priestly service at the temple. As the story is told, Zacharias and Elisabeth could not conceive a child, and for some time this had caused them great sorrow. It so happened that an angel appeared to Zacharias as he performed his duties. The angel said Zacharias would have a son and to call his name John. Zacharias doubted the angel Gabriel’s message, so Gabriel said he would not be able to speak until these things came to pass. Well, Luke states that shortly thereafter Elisabeth conceived.”
― William Struse, The 13th Enumeration

“As a historian and an archeologist, he knew the historical Jesus, based on a reasonable interpretation of the evidence, was born in 3–4 BC, and his public ministry as described in the New Testament likely began thirty years later in 26 or 27 AD and ended in 30 AD. What he now read was as if blinders were being taken off his eyes.”
― William Struse, The 13th Enumeration

“the list of Matthew and its relationship to the prophecy of Daniel’s seventy weeks, his hand began to tremble. He saw the symbolism of fourteen and the sacrifices commanded by YHWH through Moses. He saw the symbolism of the countdown from thirteen to seven in the Feast of Tabernacles.”
― William Struse, The 13th Enumeration

“introduction concerning the prophecy of Daniel and the current generally accepted Christian interpretations. As he continued to read, he was surprised to find that Zane Harrison, instead of confirming the Christian consensus, seemed to be undermining it with clear contextual arguments based on the chronology of the Old Testament. So far, Zane had made a compelling argument why not to believe Yeshua had fulfilled the prophecy of seventy weeks. Then he had summarized a biblical understanding of time in relation to the biblical festivals as given by YHWH to Moses.”
― William Struse, The 13th Enumeration

“As a daughter of a Christian mother and Jewish father, she had insight into the struggle that many Jewish people had concerning the Christian Messiah. For so long, Christianity had tried to distance itself from the Hebraic context of the Scripture. She understood that part of this stemmed from the persecution of early messianic believers by the Jewish rabbinic authority, but unfortunately, early Christianity had often gone to the other extreme. They embraced many pagan practices that were abhorrent to Torah-observant Jews and condemned by the Old Testament. When a Christian came preaching a messianic message wrapped in the clothing of ancient paganism, many Jewish people turned away in disgust.”
― William Struse, The 13th Enumeration

“sacrifices of bullocks, rams, and lambs for those seven days equaled 182 sacrifices (13 x 14). Also interesting was the fact that on the first day there were thirteen bullocks, two rams, and fourteen lambs for a total of twenty-nine—the same numbers which made up the monthly lunar cycle. This all took place on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, as described in Numbers 29:13. There were also thirteen or fourteen days of waxing light followed by thirteen or fourteen days of waning light for a total of just over twenty-nine days.”
― William Struse, The 13th Enumeration

“during the first day of the Feast of Tabernacles, thirteen bullocks are sacrificed. Then, every day for the next six days, one less was sacrificed until on the twenty-first there were only seven bullocks sacrificed. This countdown from thirteen to seven gave a total of seventy bullocks during those seven days. Thirteen, seven, and seventy—they had already seen how a combination of those numbers gave the year of the Messiah’s birth. This symbolism added credibility to those who believed that Yeshua was born during the Feast of Tabernacles. What did the Gospel of John say concerning the Messiah—“And the Word was made flesh, and tabernacled with us.”
― William Struse, The 13th Enumeration

“The Passover lamb was sacrificed on the fourteenth of Nisan. During the seven days of the Passover feast from the fifteenth to the twenty-first, two lambs were sacrificed each day for a total of fourteen. During the Feast of Tabernacles, fourteen lambs were sacrificed every day of the feast from the fifteenth until the twenty-first. Even more curious was the fact that”
― William Struse, The 13th Enumeration

“throughout the Scripture that the idea of sacrifice and atonement was associated with the numbers thirteen and fourteen. She had read this same information a hundred times, but until now it had never been placed in this context.”
― William Struse, The 13th Enumeration

“picture showing the congruency of the biblical message. She read over his notes with growing excitement. There were pictures opening up in the Scripture that had never made sense before. Matthew 1, long considered a mistake, was turning out to be one of the most amazing passages of prophetic symbolism in the Scripture.”
― William Struse, The 13th Enumeration

“The sum of primes to 43 is 281 (281 = 42nd prime) (42 = 6 x 7), or 282 if 1 was still included (282 = 2 x 3 x 47)”
― William Struse, The 13th Enumeration

“233 is the 13th number in a Fibonacci sequence (233 = 3 x 17) (17 is the 7th prime) 377 is the 14th number in a Fibonacci sequence (377 = 13 x 29) 609 is the sum of a Fibonacci sequence up to the 13th iteration (609 = 3 x 7 x 29) 986 is the sum of a Fibonacci sequence up to the 14th iteration (986 = 2 x 17 x 29) (17 is the 7th prime) 13 is the 6th prime number 41 is the 13th prime number (If 1 was considered a prime number, 13 would be the 7th prime and 41 would be the 14th prime.) 43 is the 14th prime number The sum of all prime numbers to 13 is 41, or 42 if 1 was still included (42 = 6 x 7) The sum of primes to 29 is 129 (129 = 3 x 43) 43=14th prime, or 130 if 1 was still included (130 = 13 x 10) The sum of primes up to 41 is 238 (238 = 2 x 7 x 17), or 239 if 1 was still included (239 = 52nd prime, 52 = 4 x 13)”
― William Struse, The 13th Enumeration

“The first seven digits of pi reversed give you 295 14 13 The first occurrence of 7 is in the 13th decimal place The second occurrence of 7 is at the 29th decimal place and it sits between 2-7-9 The third occurrence of 7 is at the 39th decimal place (3 x 13) The first occurrence of 13 is in the 29th (10 block of pi) The sum of the first 13 decimal digits is 65 or (5 x 13) The sum of the first 26 decimal digits is 126 or (3 x 6 x 7) The sum of the first 39 decimal digits is 191 or 43rd prime. 43 is the 14th prime. First occurrence of 295 or 2953 is at the 113th – (10 block of pi) The sum of 1 to 13 is 91 (7 x 13) 13 is the 7th number in a Fibonacci sequence 33 is the sum of the Fibonacci sequence to 13”
― William Struse, The 13th Enumeration

“added one back into the prime list. With one included, thirteen became the seventh prime number, and forty-one became the fourteenth. He understood the reasoning as to why mathematicians excluded one from the prime list, but looking at what he had discovered sure made him wonder about that classification.”
― William Struse, The 13th Enumeration

“2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 29, 31 37, 41, 43, 47, 53   David circled seven and thirteen in the prime list. Seven was the fourth prime, and thirteen was the sixth. David counted the primes up to forty-one and found that forty-one was the thirteenth prime number. He turned his thoughts back to the inscription in the cave and the list in Matthew 1. It was clear that Matthew had intended to represent forty-one total names, and thirteen of those were in the last column of names on the list. Now it looked as if there was much more to the list of Matthew than scholars had ever realized. For fun, David added up the sum of the prime numbers to thirteen. He came up with forty-one. So forty-one was the thirteenth prime number, and forty-one was also the sum of all primes up to and including thirteen.”
― William Struse, The 13th Enumeration

“The Fibonacci sequence was clearly evident throughout nature. Some of the best examples of it were the spiral arrangement of the seeds in a sunflower or the nautilus shell. David wrote out the Fibonacci sequence. Each number added to the one proceeding it.   1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89   There it was again, David thought—the numbers seven and thirteen. Thirteen was the seventh number in the sequence.”
― William Struse, The 13th Enumeration

“Next he wrote out the first fifty digits of pi on a piece of paper. Carefully, he circled each seven. The first seven was in the thirteenth decimal place. The second seven was in the twenty-ninth decimal place, and it fell between the two and nine, no less. The third seven was in the thirty-ninth decimal place—three times thirteen. David shook his head in amazement. Had the Creator hidden proof of the Messiah’s identity in pi?”
― William Struse, The 13th Enumeration

“For the first day of the feast there were 13 + 2 +14 for a total of 29 sacrifices. The bullock sacrifices were in descending order or one less every day for seven days. Zane had made a point that the biblical religious calendar was based on the cycle of the moon. The early Israelites watched the waxing light for thirteen or fourteen days and then watched it wane for thirteen or fourteen more days. The total lunar cycle was 29.53 days long. David looked at the first seven numbers of pi again. Then he wrote the numbers in reverse, separating them into three groups:   295 14 13”
― William Struse, The 13th Enumeration

“And ye shall offer a burnt offering, a sacrifice made by fire, of a sweet savour unto YHWH; 13 young bullocks, 2 rams, and 14 lambs of the first year; they shall be without blemish.   David shook his head in amazement and not a little awe. And all this took place in the seventh month. Carefully, he wrote out the number of the sacrifices for the seven days of the feast in a table format on his piece of paper.”
― William Struse, The 13th Enumeration

“3.141592   Next, he turned on his computer and opened his BibleWorks software, looking up the reference for the instructions of the Feast of Tabernacles during the seventh month. He remembered Zane telling him about the number of sacrifices: there were thirteen, fourteen , and he thought he remembered seven, but he wanted to make sure of the number and their order. He finally found the reference, and with incredulity he muttered, “Oh, come on, you have got to be kidding me!” The reference was Numbers 29:13. “Numbers 29:13!”
― William Struse, The 13th Enumeration

“You know, we live in a day of so-called higher critics who question the credibility of passages like Matthew 1 and Daniel 9. This new information will provide a new basis to challenge those critics and encourage believers to have faith in the biblical record. Faith that in fact Jesus did come in the ‘fullness of time’ according to the plan of YHWH, a plan that even the cycles of the moon have testified to for thousands of years.”
― William Struse, The 13th Enumeration