God's Fingerprints: Building Up of the Numbers
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To James Anderson, the number twenty-three was only a birthday number, until God opened his mind and awareness to other important dates of the number twenty-three as well. God also gave him a fresh revelation of other numbers and stories behind those numbers, which would change his understanding of numbers forever.
James L. Anderson
James Anderson believes he is qualified to write God's Fingerprints: Building Up of the Numbers simply because he has witnessed and lived this book in his life. Everything is true, nothing is fiction. He also believes that God put a burden on his heart to write God's Fingerprints.
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God's Fingerprints - James L. Anderson
God’s Fingerprints: Building Up of the Numbers
Copyright © 2023 James L. Anderson
This is a work of creative non-fiction. All of the events in this book are true to the best of the author’s memory. Some names and identifying features have been changed to protect the identity of certain parties. The author in no way represents any company, corporation, or brand, mentioned herein. The views expressed in this book are solely those of the author and his co-authors.
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without prior written permission from the publisher or author, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical reviews and certain other noncommercial uses permitted by copyright law.
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgments vii
Introduction ix
chapter one 1
Highway 35: The Beginning 1
A Shortcut off Highway 35 3
Highway 80, Highway 21 4
Las Vegas 10
Surviving the Fire for the Next Six and a Half Months 15
chapter two 25
The Land Deal of the Century 25
A Dream of Humility 27
Financing and Building the House 30
The Third Church 34
Hiding in Plain Sight 37
A Word from the Lord 39
A Warning to Pray on Interstate 15 41
Blessings of the Lord 43
Seven Words 45
The Numbers and Life on Sharon Road 47
chapter three 59
A Word from the Lord 59
A Sign from the Book of Revelation 63
Hezekiah in a Book 64
The Experience of a UFO 65
Fire Is Hard to Get Started 67
God’s Victory Number the Hard Way 68
A Great Fire in the Mountain 69
A Great Fire in the Plains 70
chapter four 73
Death of a Wonderful Pastor 73
A Variety of Different Churches 75
Behind Door Number 5 79
Dreams of Retirement 82
The Faith of a Gentile Woman 83
A Shocking Biopsy Report 84
A Visit from the Lord 85
chapter five 89
God Had Already Planned Everything 89
My Name Called Out 95
A Visit from a Dead Aunt 96
God Spoke the Number Forty 97
Retirement 98
Seven Holes in the House 99
A Giant Serpent 103
The Thirty-Fifth Year of the Cadillac Seville 103
The Dream 106
A Glorious House 107
The New Church 108
God’s Numbers 110
Acknowledgments
Thanks to all my loved ones who were there when I was too little and too sick. I thank my grandmother, Caroline Anderson, who passed away in 1975. Without her, there wouldn’t have been a way out. I thank her for her strength and determination and, above all, her warm and loving arms.
Thanks to my Aunt Gladys who passed away a few years ago. She was always a source of provision and love, and she is greatly missed. Thanks to Aunt Mag, who was there when everyone else left town. Thanks to Aunt Joyce. When I came to New Mexico, she welcomed me with open arms.
Thanks to Joshua Johnson who brought my mother to pick me up and take me back to California, who tried to give me advice, and who advised me to go to Las Vegas. Joshua passed away two years ago and has been greatly missed. Thanks to his sister, O. Brown, and her family who were always cousins to me.
Thanks to the Moore family: Brother Moore and Mother Moore have always been more than cousins to me. Thanks to Pluck: oh, what a friend! Thanks to the Morgan family who offered their home to me.
Thanks to my dear mother, Jean. She was not there when I was young, for she was young herself. But later in life, the Lord knew that she wanted to make a difference in my life, and she did. When I went through a divorce, she was there with words of encouragement and finances.
Thanks to my wonderful wife, Pat, whom the Lord sent to me. She was and is always there for me. I thank her for her encouragement and support. Besides Jesus and the heavenly Father, she is the love of my life.
Introduction
When I first came to Christ, I recognized his peace and his sweet sleep. He was the Spirit to belong to, someone and something special. As I grew closer to the Lord, I began to recognize His ways and attributes and who he was. I began to experience his faithfulness, patience, forgiveness, authority, omniscience, justice, righteousness, agape love, sovereignty, and grace. As I grew and matured in his Word, I also noticed that God is a God of order. Nothing takes God by surprise. His plan, His will, and His purpose are outside of time. Everything that happens regarding salvation, the rapture and resurrection, and the second coming was prepared outside of time.
God judges and executes in His perfect time. He is a fair and righteous God, all-knowing (omniscient), all-powerful (omnipotent), and everywhere (omnipresent) (Isa. 40:12–15; 45:5–7). He chastens those whom He loves (Heb. 12:6). He does not answer our prayers according to our will but according to His will (Isa. 1:15).
As I began to observe the Holy Spirit, I said, "Show me your ways, O Lord. He began to show me His numbers for my life: one (1) through thirteen (13) and other numbers, as well as twenty-three (23), which seemed to be my number. Number 5 is the number of grace. Number 7 is God’s number of totality, perfection, completeness, and universality. The number 12 is God’s government. You get the idea. There are other ways to come to these numbers. For instance, Thursday is the fifth day of the week, and October is the tenth (10) month.
These numbers have been in my life, and they have a story to tell.
chapter one
Highway 35: The Beginning
I was born off Highway 35, which was where a lot of things took place in my life. My mother was only fourteen when she was pregnant with me. It didn’t start out right from the very beginning. My mother was bitten by a snake in the outhouse while she was pregnant with me, which was a terrible thing.
The numbers on my mother’s birthday were the year thirty-three (33), which is the victory number twice however, three (3) is also the number of conclusions, and there were more conclusions than victories. The month of October, the tenth month, which is the number for perfection and completion in the Bible, and day five (5), which is the number for grace in retrospect, my mother had the numbers of victory, conclusion, completeness, perfection, and grace.
As I recall, we were very poor but happy. We lived in the poorest state in the union, in Forest, Mississippi.
In retrospect, God was always there. There were times when my cousin and I, along with other neighborhood children, almost drowned in the many ponds and creeks. When my grandmother came looking for us, we could always hear her calling in the distance. She knew we were doing something we should not have been doing, like swimming in someone’s pond. She had reason to be worried, for one of our schoolmates drowned. We had some close calls, but thank God that by His grace nothing bad ever happened.
My grandmother took us to a church called Mars Hill. It was right next to Highway 35. There were times during the summer months when, after a service, everyone brought food, and we got under the shade trees and had a picnic. We needed fellowship and spiritual food as well, for life was not easy at times.
One very rainy night, two of my aunts and a male friend of theirs were traveling home from a visit to my grandmother’s house. I was staying with them for a few days during the summer and we were headed to their house in the truck, as we prepared to stop and turn left, the pickup truck was hit from behind. My aunt and I sat in the middle and I was fast asleep in her lap when we were hit. To this day, I don’t know how I ended up under the truck in a puddle of water. Other than being wet, skinned up, and shaken up, I was okay on the outside, but on the inside, it was a different matter. I had a pebble in my right ear that stayed there for many years before it disappeared. The nightmares were the worst. I don’t know how long it lasted, but again I thanked God for his grace.
My aunties talked for a long time about the weird way that I ended up under the truck.
Life was not easy off Highway 35. My father was murdered when I was about four. I was born out of wedlock, so I didn’t know him and never saw him alive or dead. Years later, I got a picture of him in the Airforce. As a child, I heard others describe how he had been murdered. Many years later, I came back to town, and as we passed the old house by the railroad tracks where we’d once lived, someone pointed out to me the man who had murdered my father.
Life is so strange, so unpredictable. This man did twenty years in prison—and then renovated the very house we’d once lived in. I was thinking the other day that if I had that same opportunity again, I would approach him and ask him if he knew Jesus.
A Shortcut off Highway 35
Highway 35 had a lot of grace in it for the things we went through. The last bad thing that happened off 35 was when I accompanied my cousins, we were coming back from the store. We had decided to take a shortcut off the main dirt road. As we went through the woods, we saw two guys standing there. As we passed them, they grabbed our cousin and threw her to the ground. We ran home and told what had happened to her. Nothing was ever done about it.
The number 35 represents victory (3) and grace (5). After