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The Torah in Revelation: Source for the 144,000
  By Jack Cascione reclaimnews@earthlink.net
 
The two most enigmatic numbers in the Book of Revelation are 666 and 144,000.  The previous two articles prove that John’s source for 666 is Moses.  This article will explain that John’s application of 144,000 originates from the same source.
 
Repetition in the Bible demonstrates that the Apostle John used the five books of Moses, known as the Torah or the Pentateuch, as a source for his visionary writing and symbolic numbers in the Book of Revelation.
 
Both Moses and John arrange the Hebrew and Greek words we translate as Behold into Hebraic Meter, which is the repetition of key words, phrases, events, genealogies, places, peoples, concepts—all in multiples of 7s, 10s, or 12s. 
 
The previous two articles prove that the source for 666 in Rev. 13:18 is found in the accounts of Pharaoh and Nebuchadnezzar, who are types of the Antichrist.  Pharaoh’s name repeats exactly 216 times in the Torah, which is 6 x 6 x 6.  The measurements of Nebuchadnezzar’s statue are sixty cubits high by six cubits wide followed by the words, worship the golden image, repeated six times (Dan 3:1-18).  Any 4th grade Sunday School or Parochial School student can divide 666 into 144,000 and arrive at a quotient of 216 or divide 216 into 144,000 and arrive at a quotient of 666.  These symbolic numbers were intentionally chosen to produce this result and are now public information.
 
John’s initial audience for the Book of Revelation was 1st Century Jewish Christian readers and is filled with references and images from the Hebrew Bible.  For the past 500 years, millennialist efforts to find a current figure from history whom they could identify with 666 have included Charles I, Napoleon, Hitler, Ronald Wilson Reagan, Barack Obama and many more—all of them are baseless fantasy.
 
The search for dreams, visions, prophetic events, divine pronouncements, and acts of God in the Torah begins with the Hebrew word for behold, the most likely word related to 144,000.  As a vision Revelation presents a well-established genre based on behold such as the phrase, I saw and behold, which John repeats seven times.
 
And behold 12 times in Revelation
Saw, and behold 7 times in Revelation*
                                       and, behold                                     καὶ ἰδοὺ (Rev 1:18)
After these things I saw, and behold      Μετὰ ταῦτα εἶδον, καὶ ἰδοὺ (Rev. 4:1)
                                        and behold                                      καὶ ἰδοὺ (Rev 4:2)
                     And I saw, and behold                     καὶ εἶδον, καὶ ἰδοὺ (Rev. 6:2)
                     And I saw, and behold                     καὶ εἶδον, καὶ ἰδοὺ (Rev. 6:5)
                     And I saw, and behold                     καὶ εἶδον, καὶ ἰδοὺ (Rev. 6:8)
After these things I saw, and behold       Μετὰ ταῦτα εἶδον, καὶ ἰδοὺ (Rev. 7:9)
                                         and behold                                      καὶ ἰδοὺ (Rev 12:3)
                      And I saw, and behold                    Καὶ εἶδον, καὶ ἰδοὺ (Rev. 14:1)
                                         and behold                    Καὶ εἶδον, καὶ ἰδοὺ (Rev. 14:14)
                      And I saw, and behold                                      καὶ ἰδοὺ (Rev 19:11)
                                         and behold                                      καὶ ἰδοὺ  (Rev 22:7)
*TR adds and behold, καὶ ἰδοὺ at 5:6 and 15:5; variants rejected
 
John repeats behold seven more times when he writes that Jesus is coming.  The syncopation of behold (seven times) and quickly (seven times) on either side of the core verb coming (10 times) is a work of Holy Spirit artistry.
 
I am or He is coming 10 times in Revelation
Behold, I am, or He is coming 7 times in Revelation
Behold He is coming.........................Ἰδοὺ ἔρχεται                 (Rev. 1:7 BNT)
             I am coming quickly to you..........ἔρχομαί σοι ταχύ (Rev. 2:5 BYZ)*
             I am coming quickly to you…......ἔρχομαί σοι ταχύ (Rev. 2:16 BNT)
Behold I am coming quickly.............ἰδού ἔρχομαι ταχύ       (Rev. 3:11 STE)**
Behold He is coming…………….....ἰδοὺ ἔρχεται                  (Rev. 9:12 BNT)
Behold He is coming quickly………ἰδού ἔρχεται ταχύ        (Rev. 11:14 BYZ)***
Behold I am coming..........................ἰδού ἔρχομαι                (Rev. 16:15 BNT)
Behold I am coming quickly….…....ἰδού ἔρχομαι ταχύ       (Rev. 22:7 BNT)
Behold I am coming quickly.............ἰδού ἔρχομαι ταχύ       (Rev. 22:12 BNT)
             I am coming quickly…….…….…ἔρχομαι ταχύ      (Rev. 22:20 BNT)
*Quickly, Rev. 2:5 in BYZ, GOC, SCR, STE, VST.
**Behold, 3:11 only in SCR, STE.
***All texts have these words, but this word order in 11:14 is only found in BYZ, GOC.
 
Repeating behold in Hebraic Meter begins with Moses.  In the approximate 300 pages of the Torah God repeats the words, And behold, I will… exactly seven times.  Only the Book of Revelation and the Torah repeat Behold seven times in relationship to God.
 
And behold, I will 7 times in the Pentateuch
(This phrase is reserved for God in the Pentateuch)
And behold, I will......וַאֲנִ֗י הִנְנִי  (Gen 6:17 WTT)
And behold, I will...... וַאֲנִ֕י הִנְנִ֥י (Gen 9:9 WTT)
And behold, I will......וַאֲנִ֗י הִנְנִ֤י  (Exo 14:17 WTT)
And behold, I will...... וַאֲנִ֞י הִנֵּ֧ה (Exo 31:6 WTT)
And behold, I will...... וַאֲנִ֞י הִנֵּ֧ה (Num 3:12 WTT)
And behold, I will......וַאֲנִ֗י הִנֵּ֤ה  (Num 18:6 WTT)
And behold, I will...... וַאֲנִי֙ הִנֵּ֣ה (Num 18:8 WTT)
 
Moses also repeats the exact phrase used by John 10 times above, saw and behold.  The coordination between Moses and John is astounding.  It is writing like this that led some in the Early Church to fear the Book of Revelation and question its authorship.  To this day, seminaries and denominations will not publish Revelation’s symbolic use of the Hebrew Bible as printed in this article.  The Holy Spirit closed the Bible with the same style with which it began.
 
He saw and behold 10 times in the Pentateuch
He saw and behold......וַיַּ֕רְא וְהִנֵּ֥ה  (Gen 8:13 WTT)
He saw and behold...... וַיַּ֔רְא וְהִנֵּה (Gen 18:2 WTT)
He saw and behold...... וַיַּ֗רְא וְהִנֵּ֤ה (Gen 19:28 WTT)
He saw and behold...... וַיַּרְא֙ וְהִנֵּה (Gen 22:13 WTT)
He saw and behold...... וַיַּ֔רְא וְהִנֵּ֥ה (Gen 24:63 WTT)
He saw and behold...... וַיַּ֗רְא וְהִנֵּ֤ה (Gen 26:8 WTT)
He saw and behold......וַיַּ֞רְא וְהִנֵּ֧ה  (Gen 29:2 WTT)
He saw and behold...... וַיַּרְא֙ וְהִנֵּ֣ה (Gen 33:1 WTT)
He saw and behold...... וַיִּרְא֔וּ וְהִנֵּה (Gen 37:25 WTT)
He saw and behold...... וַיַּ֗רְא וְהִנֵּ֤ה (Exo 3:2 WTT)
 
The only place the prophetic words behold seven are found together in the Bible is in Joseph’s explanation of Pharaoh’s dream, where Moses repeats them exactly 7 times.  With a vocabulary of more than 8,000 Hebrew words and behold as a constant, the odds of this phrase reoccurring at random seven times is 8,000 to the sixth power, or more than 26,214,400,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 to one.  In other words, every word in the text and its precise repetition is intentional.
 
Behold seven 7 times in the Pentateuch
        and behold, seven other cows                       (Gen 41:3)
        and behold, seven ears came up                    (Gen 41:5)
        and behold, seven ears                                  (Gen 41:6)
        and behold, seven other cows                       (Gen 41:19)
        and behold, seven ears coming up                (Gen 41:22)
        and behold, seven ears                                  (Gen 41:23)
               behold, seven years of great abundance (Gen 41:29)
 
                 וְהִנֵּ֞ה שֶׁ֧בַע פָּר֣וֹת אֲחֵר֗וֹת (Gen 41:3 )
                וְהִנֵּ֣ה׀ שֶׁ֣בַע שִׁבֳּלִ֗ים עֹל֛וֹת (Gen 41:5 )
                         וְהִנֵּה֙ שֶׁ֣בַע שִׁבֳּלִ֔ים (Gen 41:6 )
                 וְהִנֵּ֞ה שֶֽׁבַע־פָּר֤וֹת אֲחֵרוֹת (Gen 41:19)
                 וְהִנֵּ֣ה׀ שֶׁ֣בַע שִׁבֳּלִ֗ים עֹלֹ֛ת (Gen 41:22)
                        וְהִנֵּה֙ שֶׁ֣בַע שִׁבֳּלִ֔ים  (Gen 41:23)
      הִנֵּ֛ה שֶׁ֥בַע שָׁנִ֖ים בָּא֑וֹת שָׂבָ֥ע גָּד֖וֹל  (Gen 41:29)
 
The word behold is so important to Moses that he recorded the three letters that make up this word in exact order, with no prefix or suffix, exactly 100 times in the Torah.  It is fascinating to check and recheck this statistic on a computer.  There isn’t a seminary in the United States that will teach there is any proof we have the original words written by Moses.
 
Behold: 100, הִנֵּה (hinneh, hin-nay') (no prefix or suffix)
Gen. 1:29; 6:2; 12:11, 19; 15:16 (x2); 16:2, 6, 14; 17:4, 20; 18:9, 27, 31; 19:2, 8, 19, 20, 21; 20:15, 16 (x2); 21:23, 29; 22:7, 20; 24:13, 43, 51; 25:32; 26:9; 27:2, 6, 39, 42; 30:3; 31:51; 32:21; 33:6; 34:21; 37:9, 19; 38:13, 23, 24; 41:26 (x2), 27, 29; 42:2, 15, 22, 28; 44:28; 45:5, 8, 13; 48:1, 2, 21; 50:5;
Exod. 1:9, 19; 3:9, 13; 4:14, 23; 7:15, 17, 27; 8:16, 25; 9:3, 32; 19:9; 23:20; 24:8; 31:6; 32:34; 33:21; 34:10; 39:14;
Lev. 18:10, 17;
Num. 3:12; 14:19; 18:6, 8, 21; 22:5 (x2), 11, 32, 38; 23:20; 31:16; 32:23;
Deut. 3:11; 20:15; 26:10;
 
After reading the previous two articles, Rev. Steven Spencer (WELS) suggested that this writer examine Abram’s vision in Genesis 15 in relation to visions in Revelation.  This led to the observation that Genesis 15:13 is the only place in the Hebrew Bible where 144,000 is a symbol for the Church of God.
 
John’s vision presents (1) a symbolic census of the 12 tribes, each with 12,000 men; (2) a symbolic list which is missing the tribe of Dan; (3) a symbolic rearrangement of the birth order; and (4) a symbolic number of 144,000 for the Church.  The answer to John’s source for 144,000 is in the following verse.
 
And God said to Abram, "Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not theirs, where they will be enslaved and oppressed four hundred years. (Gen 15:13 NAS)
The entire chapter, beginning with verse one, is a vision: “The word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision” (Gen 15:1).  We know the vision ended with the last verse (15:21) because Chapter 16 changes the subject to Sarah.  Visions, dreams, and parables cannot be the basis for doctrine because they are not prescriptive or literal, but symbolic.  Jacob’s ladder, Pharaoh’s fat and thin cows, Nebuchadnezzar’s dream about future kingdoms, Christ’s parable about a woman searching for a lost coin, John’s vision about the beast with seven heads, the 144,000, etc., all communicate in symbols.  On the other hand, when God speaks to his people directly in dreams that are not visionary, such as Abimelech, Laban, Joseph, or the Magi there are no symbols.  Prophetic visions and dreams are the word of God, but they must be interpreted just as Pharaoh’s dream required interpretation.
 
Many scholars have struggled with the apparent discrepancy in Gen. 15:13 that Israel will be oppressed 400 years, while Exodus 12:40, 12:41 and Galatians 3:17 all state 430 years.  Luther writes: “When in this passage Scripture mentions only 400 years, it does not reckon the time accurately;” (Luther’s Works, Vol. 3, CPH, St. Louis, 1961, page 35).  Luther, Kiel-Delitzsch, Henry Morris, Leopold, Mitchel, and many others say 400 years is a rounded number, but they do not say why.  All numbers in visions are symbolic.  We submit 400 is not merely a rounded number, but in the context of a vision it is intentionally symbolic, just as the literal seven nations whom Israel will annihilate (Deut. 7:1, Acts, 13:19) are symbolized by 10 nations in Abram’s vision instead of seven nations. 
 
All too often visionary numbers are interpreted as literal or vice versa.  The language of visions is its own symbolic genre.  For example, John did not use the literal number of 216, the repetitions of Pharaoh’s name, in the Book of Revelation.  Rather he symbolized the number as 6 x 6 x 6.  Even the images of Christ and the Holy Spirit are symbolized in Revelation.
 
The 400 years in Genesis 15:13 are neither a contradiction in the Bible nor a scribal error as some have suggested but 400 does serve a specific purpose.  In the context of visions and apocalyptic literature a month is always 30 days and a year is 360 days as in seven times or time, times, half a time in Daniel; and time, times, half a time, 42 months, 3 ½ years, or 1,260 days in the book of Revelation.  In Revelation, these are the same symbolic period of time being expressed four different ways. 
 
Moses places the concept of God multiplying His people and increasing Abram’s descendants in Hebraic meter with the following two examples.
 
fruitful and multiply 10 times in Genesis
fruitful and multiply 12 times in the Pentateuch
        And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful and multiply (Gen 1:22)
                   and God said unto them, Be fruitful and multiply  (Gen 1:28)
                                                     and be fruitful and multiply on the earth. (Gen 8:17)
                           and said unto them, Be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth. (Gen 9:1)
                                                            be fruitful and multiply; Populate the earth  (Gen 9:7)
       I will bless him, and will make him fruitful and will multiply him exceedingly. (Gen 17:20)
God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and multiply you, (Gen 28:3)
                                                            be fruitful and multiply (Gen 35:11)
                                                 and were fruitful and multiplied exceedingly (Gen 47:27)
                        Behold, I will make thee fruitful and multiply you (Gen 48:4)
               But the children of Israel were fruitful and increased greatly, and multiplied, a (Exo 1:7)
                                         and make you fruitful and multiply you, (Lev 26:9)
                          יְבָ֧רֶךְ אֹתָ֛ם אֱלֹהִ֖ים לֵאמֹ֑ר פְּר֣וּ וּרְב֗וּ                         Gen 1:22)
                          וַיְבָ֣רֶךְ אֹתָם֮ אֱלֹהִים֒ וַיֹּ֙אמֶר לָהֶ֜ם אֱלֹהִ֗ים פְּר֥וּ וּרְב֛וּ       Gen 1:28)
            וּפָר֥וּ וְרָב֖וּ עַל־הָאָֽרֶץ                                                         Gen 8:17)
   וַיְבָ֣רֶךְ אֱלֹהִ֔ים אֶת־נֹ֖חַ וְאֶת־בָּנָ֑יו וַיֹּ֧אמֶר לָהֶ֛ם פְּר֥וּ וּרְב֖וּ וּמִלְא֥וּ אֶת־הָאָֽרֶץ  Gen 9:1)
         וְאַתֶּ֖ם פְּר֣וּ וּרְב֑וּ שִׁרְצ֥וּ בָאָ֖רֶץ                                                  Gen 9:7)
        וְהִפְרֵיתִ֥י אֹת֛וֹ וְהִרְבֵּיתִ֥י אֹת֖וֹ בִּמְאֹ֣ד                                            Gen 17:20)
                         וְאֵ֤ל שַׁדַּי֙ יְבָרֵ֣ךְ אֹֽתְךָ֔ וְיַפְרְךָ֖ וְיַרְבֶּ֑ךָ                            Gen 28:3)
                         פְּרֵ֣ה וּרְבֵ֔ה                                                          Gen 35:11)
                   וַיִּפְר֥וּ וַיִּרְבּ֖וּ מְאֹֽד                                                        Gen 47:27)
                      הִנְנִ֤י מַפְרְךָ֙ וְהִרְבִּיתִ֔ךָ                                                Gen 48:4)
                          וּבְנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל פָּר֧וּ וַֽיִּשְׁרְצ֛וּ וַיִּרְבּ֥וּ                               Exo 1:7)
              וְהִפְרֵיתִ֣י אֶתְכֶ֔ם וְהִרְבֵּיתִ֖י אֶתְכֶ֑ם                                          Lev 26:9)

Bless and Multiply 10 times in the Pentateuch
  And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply,                                          (Gen 1:22)
  And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply,              (Gen 1:28)
  And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply  (Gen 9:1 )
  behold, I will bless him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him               (Gen 17:20 )
  I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed                                       (Gen 22:17)
  And I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven, and will give your seed
   all these lands; and by your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed;         (Gen 26:4)
  I will bless you, and multiply your seed,                                                                      (Gen 26:24)
  And God Almighty bless thee, and make thee fruitful, and multiply thee,                   (Gen 28:3)
  And He will love you and bless you and multiply you;                                                (Deu 7:13)
  And that you may live and multiply, and that the LORD your God may bless you     (Deu 30:16)
 
     וַיְבָ֧רֶךְ אֹתָ֛ם אֱלֹהִ֖ים לֵאמֹ֑ר פְּר֣וּ וּרְב֗וּ                         (Gen 1:22 WTT)
       וַיְבָ֣רֶךְ אֹתָם֮ אֱלֹהִים֒ וַיֹּ֙אמֶר לָהֶ֜ם אֱלֹהִ֗ים פְּר֥וּ וּרְב֛וּ      (Gen 1:28 WTT)
       וַיְבָ֣רֶךְ אֱלֹהִ֔ים אֶת־נֹ֖חַ וְאֶת־בָּנָ֑יו וַיֹּ֧אמֶר לָהֶ֛ם פְּר֥וּ וּרְב֖וּ (Gen 9:1 WTT)
       הִנֵּ֣ה׀ בֵּרַ֣כְתִּי אֹת֗וֹ וְהִפְרֵיתִ֥י אֹת֛וֹ וְהִרְבֵּיתִ֥י                 (Gen 17:20 WTT)
       אֲבָרֶכְךָ֗ וְהַרְבָּ֙ה אַרְבֶּ֤ה אֶֽת־זַרְעֲךָ                             (Gen 22:17 WTT)
       הִרְבֵּיתִ֤י אֶֽת־זַרְעֲךָ֙ ...וְהִתְבָּרֲכ֣וּ בְזַרְעֲךָ֔ כֹּ֖ל גּוֹיֵ֥י הָאָֽרֶץ  (Gen 26:4 WTT)
       וּבֵֽרַכְתִּ֙יךָ֙ וְהִרְבֵּיתִ֣י אֶֽת־זַרְעֲךָ֔                                (Gen 26:24 WTT)
       וְאֵ֤ל שַׁדַּי֙ יְבָרֵ֣ךְ אֹֽתְךָ֔ וְיַפְרְךָ֖ וְיַרְבֶּ֑ךָ                          (Gen 28:3 WTT)
       וַאֲהֵ֣בְךָ֔ וּבֵרַכְךָ֖ וְהִרְבֶּ֑ךָ                                         (Deu 7:13 WTT)
       וְחָיִ֣יתָ וְרָבִ֔יתָ וּבֵֽרַכְךָ֙ יְהוָ֣ה אֱלֹהֶ֔יךָ                           (Deu 30:16 WTT)
In the context of Genesis 15:13, the symbolic 400 years multiplied by the symbolic 360 days in a year arrives at the symbolic 144,000 descendants of Abram who will leave Egypt.  It is also the symbolic number for the 12 tribes in the Book of Revelation.  The same group leaving Egypt for the promised land will now enter the New Jerusalem through 12 gates.  Here we see the number 144,000 in Gen. 15:13 and Rev. 14:1 and 3 are the decedents of Abraham, a more Israelite church than envisioned by the Early Church.
If the symbolism of 144,000 based on Genesis 15:13 is not the work of the Holy Spirit, the writer of the Book of Revelation is the most brilliant Hebrew scholar of his era.  We cannot close this article without listing another series of repetitions based on behold found in the Torah in the priest’s examination of leprosy. 
 
The priest will come and see or see and behold the leprosy.  Twenty-four times the words the priest will see are repeated together in the Torah, exactly 12 of them are followed by the word behold.  It was the priest’s duty to announce who was clean and who was unclean, an image of Christ’s declaration at the Judgment.  Christ told the 10 lepers whom He cleansed that they should show themselves to the priests, but only one was saved by faith.  This is a microcosm of God declaring the world righteous in Christ but only a minority are saved.
 
The priest will see 24 times in the Pentateuch
The priest will see and behold 12 times in the Pentateuch
             And the priest will see                                 וְרָאָ֣ה הַכֹּהֵ֣ן           (Lev 13:3 WTT)
             And the priest will see it                                 וְרָאָ֥הוּ הַכֹּהֵ֖ן       (Lev 13:3 WTT)
             And the priest will see it           וְרָאָ֣הוּ הַכֹּהֵן֘                             (Lev 13:5 WTT)
             And the priest will see          וְרָאָה֩ הַכֹּהֵ֙ן                                  (Lev 13:6 WTT)
             And the priest will see and behold          וְרָאָה֙ הַכֹּהֵ֔ן וְהִנֵּ֛ה        (Lev 13:8 WTT)
             And the priest will see and behold          וְרָאָ֣ה הַכֹּהֵ֗ן וְהִנֵּ֤ה        (Lev 13:10 WTT)
             And the priest will see and behold          וְרָאָ֣ה הַכֹּהֵ֗ן וְהִנֵּ֙ה        (Lev 13:13 WTT)
             And the priest will see                                   וְרָאָ֧ה הַכֹּהֵ֛ן         (Lev 13:15 WTT)
             And the priest will see it and behold      וְרָאָ֙הוּ֙ הַכֹּהֵ֔ן וְהִנֵּ֛ה        (Lev 13:17 WTT)
             And the priest will see and behold        וְרָאָ֣ה הַכֹּהֵ֗ן וְהִנֵּ֤ה          (Lev 13:20 WTT)
         And if the priest will see and behold         וְאִ֣ם׀ יִרְאֶ֣נָּה הַכֹּהֵ֗ן וְהִנֵּ֤ה  (Lev 13:21 WTT)
         And if the priest will see and behold          וְאִ֣ם׀ יִרְאֶ֣נָּה הַכֹּהֵ֗ן וְהִנֵּ֤ה (Lev 13:26 WTT)
             And the priest will see it                             וְרָאָ֥הוּ הַכֹּהֵ֖ן           (Lev 13:27 WTT)
             And the priest will see                                 וְרָאָ֙ה הַכֹּהֵ֜ן            (Lev 13:30 WTT)
   And when the priest will see                                    וְכִֽי־יִרְאֶ֙ה הַכֹּהֵ֜ן    (Lev 13:31 WTT)
             And the priest will see    וְרָאָ֙ה הַכֹּהֵ֣ן                                         (Lev 13:32 WTT)
             And the priest will see                                      וְרָאָה֩ הַכֹּהֵ֙ן        (Lev 13:34 WTT)
             And the priest will see it and behold       וְרָאָ֙הוּ֙ הַכֹּהֵ֔ן וְהִנֵּ֛ה        (Lev 13:36 WTT)
             And the priest will see and behold           וְרָאָ֣ה הַכֹּהֵ֗ן וְהִנֵּ֧ה        (Lev 13:39 WTT)
             And the priest will see                                      וְרָאָ֥ה הַכֹּהֵ֖ן        (Lev 13:50 WTT)
          And if the priest will see and behold          וְאִם֘ יִרְאֶ֣ה הַכֹּהֵן֒ וְהִנֵּה   (Lev 13:53 WTT)
             And the priest will see                                    וְרָאָ֙ה הַכֹּהֵ֜ן          (Lev 13:55 WTT)
          And if the priest will see and behold          וְאִם֘ רָאָ֣ה הַכֹּהֵן֒ וְהִנֵּה    (Lev 13:56 WTT)
             And the priest will see and behold           וְרָאָה֙ הַכֹּהֵ֔ן וְהִנֵּ֛ה         (Lev 14:3 WTT)
 
While this article focuses on just a few examples of Hebraic Meter in the Book of Revelation and its relationship to the Old Testament, we have only scratched the surface.  Even just a superficial reading of the book reveals imagery from Ezekiel, Zachariah, Psalm 2, Daniel, Moses, and more.  Therefore, the Book of Revelation cannot be read nor understood apart from the Old Testament.  Biblical prophecy is a closed loop around Jesus Christ.

Repetition in the Bible
by Gioacchino Michael Cascione
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