The Octave Principle

By Richard Govier

The Holy Bible is divided into two covenants: the Old Testament and the New Testament. They represent the evolution of God's purpose in dealing with His chosen people. Jesus brought in a higher order built upon better promises. The Old Testament contains a wealth of types and shadows that serve as a foundation for the New. When we delve into the subject, we discover that even the numerical values in the Old Testament speak a language of their own. It is to this language that we now turn our attention, for it is this numerical language that portrays, in a figurative way, the higher order brought in by the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

Richard O. Govier (1928-2018) was a Protestant pastor and missionary and travelled the world in that capacity. He planted a number of churches as well as training pastors who served in Brazil, Chile, Argentina and across the United States.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Richard Govier
• Release date: Jul 26, 2019
• ISBN: 9780463879986

Richard Govier

Richard O. Govier (1928-2018) was a Protestant pastor and missionary and travelled the world in that capacity. He planted a number of churches as well as training pastors who served in Brazil, Chile, Argentina and across the United States.After his marriage to his lifetime sweetheart, Christine Ann Golfis, at the Bethesda Missionary College in Portland, Oregon, he attended extension classes at Pierce College and the Portland State college. Touched by the Latter Rain revival that began in the Northwest, the call of God rested continually on their hearts and they were forever seeking means of preaching the Gospel to their generation. They bought a small trailer and began an evangelistic trek across the United States, preaching in small churches that were open to the work and moving of the Holy Spirit. They criss-crossed the United States from Los Angeles to New York and finally settled down in Los Angeles where they both got jobs and attended a church in Long Beach, California. While serving in that church their son, Jeffrey Lee, was born on November 4, 1963.God had spoken through prophetic words that they would be going to a land whose language they would not understand. Going through a dry period in their lives, Richard loaded up a small tent and made a trip to Mount Palomar, to wait on God. After a week of prayer and fasting, the Holy Spirit spoke to his heart that it was time to fulfill the call to a foreign land. Richard, Christine, and Jeff, set out for Brazil. They had no financial support for this until the night they boarded the ship. God sent a local Christian businessman who committed himself to their support for two years, just enough time to attend language school.It was while attending the Brazilian language school that a missionary visited and introduced Richard to one of Brazil's most notable guitar players, who had recently converted to Christianity. Richard played with him on the banjo and the two began a ministry together that took them to Brazil, Argentina, and Chile. Richard taught pastors in afternoon meetings, while accompanying his Brazilian friend in large city-wide evangelistic campaigns in the evenings.After serving for ten years in South America, Richard and Christine returned to the United States, primarily to get Jeff into an English-speaking school. Richard pastored churches in York, Pennsylvania, and later in Brooksville, New Jersey. The family eventually moved to Florida where Richard went to work for Piper Aircraft and Page Avjet.Richard loved studying the word of God and, in his retirement years, wrote over thirty books about the unfolding revelations of God in human history. His son, Jeff, published these books one year after his father passed away.

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THE OCTAVE PRINCIPLE

Patterns in the Prophecies

Richard O. Govier

Copyright © 2019 by Jeff Govier

Bible quotations unless otherwise identified are taken from

the King James Version with emendations by the author.

Scripture taken from the New American Standard Bible®,

Copyright © 1960,1962,1963,1968,1971,1972,1973,1975,1977,1995

by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission.

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Jeff Govier, 5511 Lorraine St., Lakeland, FL 33810.

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Contents

Introduction

A System of Sevens and Twelves

The Octave Principle

The Great Jubilee of Daniel

The Conclusion

Acknowlegements

About the Author

God gave this, and the prophecies of the Old Testament, not to gratify men’s curiosities by enabling them to foreknow things; but that after they were fulfilled, they might be interpreted by the event, and his own providence, not the interpreters, be then manifested thereby to the world. For the event of things, predicted many ages before, will then be a convincing argument, that the world is governed by Providence.

—Sir Isaac Newton

INTRODUCTION

The Holy Bible is divided into two covenants: the Old Testament and the New Testament. They represent the evolution of God's purpose in dealing with His chosen people. Perhaps the most accurate picture that we get of the relationship between these two covenants is found in the Book of Hebrews, chapter nine. The writer likens these two covenant communities to the Mosaic Tabernacle in which the Holy Place is portrayed as the Old Testament community of Israel with its repetitious offering of sacrifices. The Holy of Holies is portrayed by the once and for all offering of Jesus Christ on the cross and the initiation of the New Testament community, the Church. There exists, therefore, a relationship between the Old Testament community of Israel and the New Testament community of the Church. Had there not been a remnant of Israel who maintained their integrity with God, there would, perhaps, be no Church and no New Testament community. It was through this faithful remnant that the Church was founded. This faithful remnant was, in a sense, the umbilical cord for the birthing of the New Covenant community.

Just as in the birthing of a baby there is a membrane separating the baby's blood from its mother's, so likewise there is a membrane or veil separating the Holy Place from the Holy of Holies. For the New Covenant believer, this veil has been removed. For the Old Testament believer the veil remains. One thing that happens when the veil is removed is to see the unfolding of God's purpose in Jesus Christ. Jesus brought in a higher order built upon better promises. The Old Testament contains a wealth of types and shadows that serve as a foundation for the New.

When one studies the history and the sacred festivals of Israel, one becomes aware that they are more than a ritual - they are an oracle. Had Israel known what they represented, they would never have crucified the Lord of Glory. Yet, even here, they helped fulfill God's purpose in killing the sacrificial Lamb of God which their laws of sacrifice portrayed. When we delve into the subject, we shall discover that even the numerical values that they represent speak a language of their own. It is to this language that we now turn our attention, for it is this numerical language that portrays, in a figurative way, the higher order brought in by the resurrection of Jesus Christ.