Wednesday Crucifixion and Three Baptisms

By Victor Bittner

Victor Behring Bittner grew up in the Lutheran Church He was ordained and installed as a Lutheran pastor and served three congregations of the Lutheran Church from 1959 to 1973. He was in charismatic ministry from 1973 to 1980 when he began attending an Assembly of God Church and began research on the subject of this book. His research was more directed by the leading and guiding of God's Holy Spirit into the Triune God's activity in the prophecies and events relating to the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus from the dead, the outpouring of the Holy Spirit on the church, and the baptism related to the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
• Release date: Jul 28, 2017
• ISBN: 9781635758801

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Dedication Page

I would like to dedicate this book to the following people:

My wife Ruth Ann

My children and grandchildren

My parents

My brothers

I would like to thank my brother Hillmar Ivan Bittner for:

Typing the manuscript

The Hebrew and Greek inserts

Computer know-how

I would like to thank my wife for her:

Computer know-how

Computer corrections

Preface

It always concerned me to read about Good Friday (the fifteenth of the Hebrew month Nisan) that churches chose to remember the death day of Jesus on the cross, especially in the light of many things which point to a different day, some of which are the following items:

Jonah’s and Jesus’s three days and three nights.

Now it was preparation of the Passover… and Pilate said to the Jews, ‘Behold your King’ (John 19:14; Passover was Thursday, fourteenth of Nisan).

In the middle of the weekmy sacrifice and offering shall be taken away. (DAN 9:27; the middle of the week was Wednesday).

The three nights’ encampment of Israel from Passover to the Red Sea resurrection experience.

When the Marys went to see the sepulcher, it says in the end of the Sabbaths (Matthew 28:1; plural and more than the seventh day of Sabbath).

In 1 Corinthians 5:7, it states: Christ our Passover also has been sacrificed. (The Passover lambs were sacrificed, not on Passover, but on the day of preparation of Passover.)

It also concerned me to see the Christian churches divide themselves on three baptisms:

Infant baptism (the traditional churches)

Believer’s water baptism (the Baptist view)

Holy Spirit baptism (the Pentecostal view)

Since baptism is linked to the burial of Christ, were the three baptisms linked to the three days and three nights, or to fewer days and nights? Also in connection with the three baptisms, it occurred to me that the baptism formula Jesus gave in Matthew 28:19 was never mentioned in the book of Acts or elsewhere in the New Testament. Rather three different baptisms are recorded: (1) households were baptized, (2) older converts were baptized in the name of Jesus Christ, and (3) the baptism of the Holy Spirit (usually with the laying on of hands) and the evidence of speaking in tongues.

I decided to do a different type of research using the Hebrew and Greek alphabet numbering values on the above subjects and write a book on my discoveries and to share these discoveries with the Christian church, hoping in some way to bring about the words of Jesus, That they may all be one… that the world may believe (John 17:21).

Good Friday or Good Thursday, or Good Wednesday? Great controversy has raged on this subject, especially in the early years of the Church. Then the controversy died out, and Good Friday became the acceptable day Christ died on the cross. But there is a new tool available to us today to evaluate Bible truths. The new tool is called theomatics. Theomatics is a word derived from theos meaning God and mathematics. Here are some basics of God’s mathematics. Old Testament Hebrew and New Testament Greek express numbers with alphabetical letters, much in the way that Latin letters are used in the Roman numerals (see page on Hebrew and Greek numbers). Every Hebrew and Greek letter of the alphabet has a number value, a place value, and a total value. Number values are one to four hundred for the Hebrew and one to eight hundred for the Greek. Place values are one to twenty-two for the Hebrew and one to twenty-six for the Greek. Total values are found by adding up the number and the place values. By adding up the words in a phrase, we find the phrase value. By adding up the phrases in a paragraph, we find the paragraph value. By adding up the paragraphs, we find whole chapter values. There are also dividing numbers that we call multiples of words, phrases, paragraphs, and chapters.

Major Bible truths are pictured by theomatical numbers. Here are some examples: The Greek letters chi (χ), xi (ξ), and stigma (S) in the Chester Beatty papyri, page 47, total 666, the number of the Antichrist in Revelation 13:18. These three letters are found in the text of Konstantin von Tischendorf’s Novum Testamentum and in the footnote of Eberhard Nestle’s Novum Testamentum Graece. The four locusts in Joel 1:4 gazam (50 = גזם);