Updated 9/25/2024
I hope everyone had a good New Year. Something I noticed about the numbers for 2022 was that if you view the zero as a separator, it could be seen as 2.22, which reminds me of what True Love means to God. Number triplicates mean a full amplification of what the number means, which is why 666, a triplicate of the number for man (6), means a full corruption of man[1].
222, though, means full or perfect love, since two means love[2] (see a testimony affirming God's definition of 222...). You might think that all number triplicates have a bad meaning, but that is not so. Numbers are like words that can be used in different contexts - they can have good, bad, or neutral meanings.
For example, Christ’s name in Greek ( Ἰησοῦς ) has a value of 888, which means “full or absolute renewal/resurrection,” since the number eight means renewal and resurrection[3]. And Christ’s English name, Jesus, as well as one of His titles, Messiah, both have Old English values of 444, and since four means hope, 444 would mean “full or absolute hope”[4].
However, 444 is also the Old English value for Lucifer[4]. Why should God work language so that Lucifer, another name for Satan, has the same value of 444? We’ll have to remember that Satan was first an archangel of God and Lucifer means “light-bearer, shining one, or morning star”[5]. The name refers to being bright and shining as we often imagine angels to be, and they are also messengers for God who bring or bear His light by bearing messages from God.
In fact, the Greek word for “angel” (ángelos) in the New Testament means “messenger”[6]. So you might view Lucifer’s 444 as the reverse of Christ’s 444 to mean “full corruption of hope” in the case of Satan.
Now that you can see how number triplicates can have different meaning in different contexts, we’ll go back to True or Perfect Love with 222. I also want to say that “love” in this context is more than romantic love. It refers to a more general sense of “agape” love for everyone, which is better stated as “love and charity.”
It was many years ago that the Lord guided me to Genesis 2:22 and its link to 222 and love. That verse is the first occurrence of the 222 triplicate for “full or perfect love” in the Bible. It’s where God makes Eve to be with Adam after seeing he needed a wife and companion. Genesis 2:22’s link to 222 shows God’s full love for Adam, which he did not need to do anything to receive.
The full love shown in Genesis 2:22 is only half the picture of what true love means to God, though, as it also goes with the next time the 222 triplicate occurs in the Bible with Genesis 22:2. That verse is the very first occurrence of the word “love” in the Bible and shows that faithful obedience to God completes true love for Him – acting in obedience to God’s commands as Abraham did in Genesis 22:2 is a part of true, full love for God.
In recent weeks, the Lord has given me some very big reminders that I am overworked and need to remember my past, many years ago, when being an artist and romantic were big parts of my personality. Being a minister in the last 13 years took me farther away from making art and especially from unrealistic romantic ways of seeing the world. However, God notes in Ecclesiastes/Kohelet 3 there is a time for everything – “a time to plant and a time to uproot... a time to tear down and a time to build, a time to weep and a time to laugh... a time to embrace and a time to shun embracing” (Ecclesiates/Kohelet 3:2-5).
And in spiritual guidance related to more numbers recently, God told me again to stop self-neglect and focus on art and personal happiness. You’ll be amazed at how God did this. In years past, He had the number 272 pop up in a young Christian’s life many times until he asked me what it meant. I told him it meant “love and obey” (from 2) “me” as a minister (from 72), since two means “love and righteous obedience” and I was born in 1972, so the 72 referred to me and my counsel.
This young Christian had problems with getting rid of sin and darkness, from both the ways of the world and the church that taught incorrectly. But then in later years, the Lord also popped up 272 in my own life to tell me to "love myself" - stop working so hard and taking care of others while I neglect myself.
And in recent weeks, God gave me a very big reminder that goes with this 222 full love guidance. He had 272 pop up some more times that reminded me not to work so much. Then I saw a new PBS Nova episode that showed a galaxy cluster named ARP 273 (image below).
Now having had a lot of guidance with 272 and some also with 273, the galaxy cluster caught my interest. It is called the Rose Galaxy, which is actually two colliding galaxies that form the outline of a rose blossom. But what’s even more amazing is that the style of the rose shown in ARP 273 closely matches how I used to draw roses since my young years as an artist. Compare the rose on the left below, which I drew from a freehand drawing, with another image of the ARP 273 cluster scaled to the same size. It's not hard to see the similarities.
It was a year or two ago that I noted God guiding me with 273 as the logical sequence from 272. It represented coming out of my self-neglect in 272 and finding personal happiness. Combining this with ARP 273’s numbering to go with this personal guidance, I saw that God gave me a very big reminder to stop self-neglect and focus on personal happiness. This goes along with the 222 in Genesis 2:22 and God’s love for us as individuals as opposed to as a People.
So since I got these very big reminders, after all, no one but the Lord could move whole galaxies in a personal message like this, I’ve tried to do less work and more things for enjoyment. However, I have to admit I haven’t been very successful, because something always comes up I need to handle, like now I’m in Florida helping my mother with her retirement home.
But while I’ve been here, the Lord has given me things to wonder and joy in, like the Christmas Star constellation I’m tracking now (see Following God’s 2021 Christmas Star), and just yesterday, when I was worshipping at a small beach in Sarasota, I was led to yet another reminder of romantic things.
After I had finished worship, a young married couple with a newborn baby, talked to me, and the man told me I shouldn’t miss seeing Marina Jack while I was there. I made a note to go see the giant statue, which I imagined to be something like our Minnesotan Paul Bunyan and Babe, the Blue Ox.
The couple wanted me to water baptize their baby, but I told them baptism is for people that understand Who Christ is and believe in Him, it doesn't do much for someone who has no faith, but I did dedicate their child to Christ through prayer, which is what should be done for children that do not yet understand Christ or faith.
My meeting this couple also appeared to be God’s orchestration, because the husband noted to me that he had a fortune cookie that didn’t have a fortune in it. He wanted me to replace it with a prayer. I did that for them and told them how I don’t like fortune cookies because they can invite divination, which is a sin.
Seeking prophecy and guidance from sources other than God are sins related to idolatry, because we are being unfaithful to God by seeking guidance from sources that are not of Him, like divination done in tarot cards, Ouija boards, by fortune tellers, astrologists, mediums, and spiritualists. God doesn’t want His People to use those things, as He said, "When men tell you to consult mediums and spiritualists, who whisper and mutter, should not a people inquire of their God? Why consult the dead on behalf of the living?" (Isaiah/Yeshayahu 8:19).
God gave the couple an empty fortune cookie in preparation to meeting me and what I’d say about it. Praise Him for that!
Now, I also said God reminded me of Ireland in recent time as well. It was shown in the IMEI number for a new business phone I recently got (photo below), which goes with my creative works and symbolizes a connection my ministry and creative work have to the world.
If you’ve seen what I’ve shared about how God has moved the world to give and affirm spiritual guidance (see the Testimonies for more examples), you’ll know this is a regular occurrence for me. This time, if you look at the phone's IMEI number, you'll see it starts with 353, which has reminded me of Ireland since I found out years ago that their phone area code is 353.
God even had me link the Christmas Star I saw this Christmas to Kings Bay here in Florida, in which He connected to my creative work and Ireland (see Following God’s 2021 Christmas Star for more). The many connections He gave me conveyed the state of Ireland and other nations are in a decay or "anbobracht," an Irish medical term for a wasting sickness or wasting away, because of their bad focuses and sins.
Many years ago, when I worked on my creative projects which included much Irish culture, I had not intentionally orchestrated these links to sin and ways that are destroying the peoples everywhere. God did it through extraordinary means, and obviously, because of His bringing up romance, God is also reminding me of a love story that is similar to His own love story for people everywhere; that He is trying to guide and move people who believe and live in the wrong ways, including Christians and other believing sects, to try and save them from the anbobracht or real-life decay they're in because their morals have erroded too far.
The bad focuses people have on the wonder and romance of love and God was reaffirmed to me by the Marina Jack monument the husband in Sarasota urged me to see. When I went there, I was surprised it was a giant 3D depiction of an image most of us are familiar with (see photos below).
1945 Photo of the Times Square Kiss by Victor Jorgenson
Marina Jack was a huge sculpture of the famous kiss photo between a sailor and apparent nurse on V-J Day[7] (Victory over Japan Day) in 1945 at announcement of the end of World War II. The photo is a famous depiction of an incredibly romantic rejoicing for a war battered soldier and his nurse who was also returning from the war. Or was it?
As I grew up, that was the image popular media gave of the iconic photo. It was life renewed to America after years of horrible war, and many Americans imagined that sailor and nurse go on to live a happily-ever-after in the years afterwards. However, it wasn't until recent years that I heard a radio show segment about a researcher who investigated the true identities of the sailor and nurse and told about the real story behind the photo that day.
What I found out about the iconic photo came to be a disappointment. The sailor, George Mendonsa, kissed the nurse or actually dental hygienist, Greta Zimmer, because he was on a drunken escapade in Times Square, kissing many women until Life Magazine's photographer snapped the famous photo[7, 8].
George and Greta didn't know each other, and in fact, I remember the researcher said both had romantic partners at the time. George's girlfriend was trying to follow him in Time's Square as he ran about grabbing and kissing all kinds of women. The instant captured in the iconic end of war photo turned out to be a very unromantic drunken romp through a massive crowd. Definitely not the sentiment I grew up with that photo.
And so, God reminds me, and all you, too, once again, as He has throughout my many years in ministry, that the world and believers, too, are always hyping up love and romance when the reality of things is often very different. That translates directly to God's love story with the peoples and His own people. Believing sects everywhere focus so much on the wonder and romance with renewal in God that they completely dismiss and cannot see that they are very much like that drunken sailor who was celebrating the end of war, though inappropriately, and their "picture perfect" moment really isn't perfect or what they thought it was.
Real life and love with God and God's love work very differently than is told by popular preachers, churches, and sects. So may you remember the lessons that God gave with the number 222 that includes much more than the incorrect romantic notions people have about spiritual things. They do much more harm than everyone realizes. See the Valentine's Countdown and other Testimonies for more about what God gave with 222.
References
[1] Huynh, Ty Alexander. "The Meaning of Numbers: 666". Christ Hephzibah Church - 3rd Compass. 2020 Nov. 11. Retrieved 2022 Jan. 2.
[2] Huynh, Ty Alexander. "The Meaning of Numbers: 2". Christ Hephzibah Church - 3rd Compass. 2020 Nov. 11. Retrieved 2022 Jan. 2.
[3] Huynh, Ty Alexander. "The Meaning of Numbers: 888 ". Christ Hephzibah Church - 3rd Compass. 2020 Nov. 11. Retrieved 2022 Jan. 2.
[4] Huynh, Ty Alexander. "The Meaning of Numbers: 444". Christ Hephzibah Church - 3rd Compass. 2020 Nov. 11. Retrieved 2022 Jan. 2.
[5] "Entry for Strong's #1966 - הילל (heylel – Lucifer/light-bearer, shining one, morning star)". Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon. BibleSoft, Inc. 2002, 2003, 2006.
[6] "Entry for Strong's #32 - ἄγγελος (ángelos - a messenger, envoy, one who is sent, an angel, a messenger from God)". Thayer's Expanded Greek Definition. BibleSoft, Inc. 2002, 2003, 2006, 2011.
