The Meaning of 53

By Louis Armand Paulin

Louis Armand is an engineer, and he holds a master's degree in economic sciences. In 1994, when he was enrolled at the university to become an engineer, he was the fifty-third student. He has been keeping that number for two decades and for no apparent reason. On September 7, 2014, during a very moment of prayer, he saw

• Language: English
• Publisher: Book Vine Press
• Release date: Mar 25, 2022
• ISBN: 9781957781372

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Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1: God Reveals Himself in Two Life Events

Chapter 2: The Meaning of the Numbers

Chapter 3: Life’s Secret Explained by 53

Chapter 4: Faith in God

Chapter 5: Today’s World and Sins

Chapter 6: God Is Love

Chapter 7: Heaven and Life on Earth

Chapter 8: Make a Step

Final Words

Let’s Pray

Acknowledgments

I thank my wonderful wife and my three kids, who show me love every day. I thank them for their patience, their support, their loyalty, and, more importantly, their unconditional love. My hope is that this book would inspire my kids and, perhaps, the next generation of my family to follow their dreams. And most importantly, I hope this book would inspire them to follow Jesus Christ.

I thank my mother, my brother, my sister, and my extended family for their love and their support. Now I understand we are not a family by accident. God chose our family for a reason, which he can explain, and he will. My late father would have been proud of this book. In many ways, I am my father’s second chance.

I thank everyone who has contributed to this project. I thank you for your support, and I thank you for your love.

I thank God for his Holy Spirit, who inspired me to write this book. Before September 7 of 2014, my life had nothing to do with writing books. After that date, I understood my life would never be the same. And for the rest of it, I will write books for the glory of God.

This book is my contribution to the world.

With love and always,

Louis Armand Paulin

Author

Introduction

On September 7 of 2014, during a moment in prayer and for the second time in my life, I experienced a very deep spiritual moment in which an incredible light completely blinded my eyes. For about ten seconds, I literally left this world. I was conscious, but I could not control the event until I was momentarily brought back. Shortly thereafter, I recalled feeling an incredible sense of love, followed by fear. And I woke my wife to tell her what happened, and I remembered telling her, My life will never be the same because I saw the glory of God. From that experience, everything about me for the last thirty-nine years of my existence on earth was revealed and explained. And after that date, I was revealed the explanation of a number that I have been keeping with me with for two decades: the number 53. For some reason, after I saw that light, it became natural to me to ask God to seek for an explanation of that number. That explanation and the facts that come with it completely blow my mind. My personal life has been changed. To know that God has planned my life the way he did it and to know his involvement in our lives is so deep, today I am living a fearless life precisely for that reason. We are deeply loved by God. We are indivisible with him.

The Purpose of This Book

The purpose of this book is to prove that God can reveal the secrets of our lives using the most common and basic tools of our time: numbers and letters. This book will also prove that God is much closer than we might think, and his involvement in our lives is much deeper than we can possibly imagine.

The purpose of this book is not to prove the existence of God. His existence is no longer a discussion. Our conscience is the ultimate proof of his existence. That conscience is in all of us. Whether we try to rely on that conscience or bury it, it is there nonetheless. It’s impossible for us as human beings with all the limitations to prove the existence of an infinite being, who is God. The purpose of this book is more about bringing awareness of the presence of God in our lives and his actions in our daily lives. Based on what I was revealed, I truly believe that we are indivisible with God. His spirit will always be with us regardless of how our spiritual life looks. The Spirit of God resides within us. Some of us might ignore that spirit and even try to bury him, but God will be always there. As for me, it completely blows my mind knowing that every step of my life has been planned and directed by the Holy Spirit of God. Today, I know that I am loved and cherished by the infinite power, the infinite intelligence, and, more importantly, the infinite love. The purpose of this book is to tell everyone that God did not create us and then gave up on us. We are loved by God, and we are indivisible with him regardless of what our spiritual life looks like. I truly believe that every life has a secret behind it, and to discover that, we need to have faith in God and spend time in prayer and meditation. And when the secret is revealed, it will eliminate fear in this life. Personally, you and I have nothing to fear in this life. I believe that we are eternal beings, and our destiny is to be reunited with God, who created us. God created life only for his glory. Whatever happens to human beings is to finally show the glory of God. God has a very strong ownership over his creation, and he is in perfect control of our destiny.

This book is to bring more awareness about life. Life is not just what we see and understand. There is a secret behind every life. But to know the secret, we need to pray and ask God to reveal it to us. I was living with all the facts before, but I was not aware of them until I decided to pray a little longer on my knees. I truly believe that there is a secret behind every life and that it needs to be uncovered. I spent almost two decades trying to uncover mine. It was revealed to me only when I decided to act upon my faith.

This book is also my contribution to the world. My best hope is that people will pay more attention to life, as it does not happen by accident. I know that a lot of people may have some kind of experience telling them that life is not an accident. I will tell these people to pray and ask God to reveal the secret to them. God has been very patient with me; he kept sending the signal for two decades. I truly believe he can do the same for anyone who puts his faith in God.

And finally, I am writing this book to help the foundation that I have founded. Part of the profit will be used to finance the activities of Perspective, which is a Christian foundation for education and leadership. I am called to go around the world to bring the message that God loves and cares about each and every one of us. I will motivate everyone, especially those who were neglected and written off by human systems, to give them hope and to encourage them to believe in God.

The Revelation

For more than two decades, I have been keeping the number 53 with me. I used it within my e-mail as if something told me to save that number. For no apparent reason, I had to keep that number with me. It was obvious that my life had something to do with it, but I had absolutely no clue. The first time I acknowledged that number was in 1995, when I was enrolled to a state university to become an engineer. I was the fifty-third student. Since that time, I have been carrying the number 53 as if it were a baby. It turns out that the number 53 has hidden a secret that completely changes my life today. All the explanation came to me the moment I decided to spend time in deep prayer and meditation.

Like most human beings, I always think there is a personal number attached to my life. All my life, I have been shown the number 3. Everything I do is related to that number. It was clear to me that my life had something to do with it. I thought the number 3 was that number, and I did not know if there was a hidden secret behind that number.

All my life, I have been fascinated by the number 3. In almost everything I am and do, that number kept showing up. I am the third of a family of three. I have three kids. My first kid was born on the third of January. At school, most of the time, I was the third in my classes. It presents itself in trivial things, like going to a gas station, being called to make a statement, waiting in line to pay for groceries at Walmart, the number on my jersey in my soccer team. I am always number 3. In numerous occasions, I could almost predict I would be the number 3. To me, it was obvious that my life had something to do