888 - THE NUMBER
OF JESUS
By Aristeo
Canlas Fernando, Peace Crusader and Echo
CONTENTS
Many
people are aware that the number of the beast or the anti-Christ is 666. This
number is found in the Holy Bible, Revelation 13:18. But what is the number of
Jesus? The Bible does not explicitly or implicitly give His number. Some say it
is 1 or 7 or 777 or 8888 or what have you.
Would you
believe that the number of Jesus is 888 and that this can scientifically be
proven? Would you believe that the hands of God worked to show to the world
this fact? Would you believe that it has taken thousands of years before this
fact is proven to mankind? And would you believe that this is made manifest in
Since
this web page is 13 pages long, I just would like to give a summary of how God
confirmed that the number of Jesus is 888 and that the crucifixion happened
some 2000 years ago. If you wish to know the details of how I found these out,
I encourage you to read the whole web page.
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SUMMARY
The number of Jesus is 888. Using the Greek Ionic
Ciphered Numeral System scientifically proves this. In this system, each letter
of the Greek alphabet is assigned a numerical value. The name of Jesus in Greek
is spelled I H S O U S (iota, eta, sigma, omicron, upsilon, sigma).
Substituting in the Greek numeral system the equivalent numerical values to
each letter in the name of Jesus and adding them up, the total is 888. The
values of each letter are: iota, 10; eta, 8; sigma, 200; omicron, 70; upsilon,
400; sigma, 200. The sum of 10 + 8 + 200 + 70 + 400 + 200 is 888.
This fact is made manifest at the Campbelltown City
Post Office in Metropolitan Sydney, New South Wales, Australia located 50 km to
the southwest. At the post office are boxes. In a set of boxes of nine columns
and eight rows, box number 888 is found on the fifth column and on the fourth
row from above. It is right in the middle of a cross. There are four boxes on
the right of
Aside from this configuration,
Are all these mere coincidences? If you will read the
details below, you would find more. Why are they concentrated on me? They are
beyond my control. They are facts. I did not fabricate them. You can prove to
yourself the authenticity of what I say if you come and visit
My wife, Florentina, and I applied for immigration to
About July 1986, after working in
On February 21, 1987, I went back to work in
We received the approval to come to
When I arrived in
On August 18, 1988, my wife and I and our two children
left the
It was August when we arrived in
Since arriving in
The Campbelltown
City Post Office Building at the corner of
We inquired about renting a post office box at the
Campbelltown Post Office in late February 1993 when we were certain that we
would be moving to Campbelltown. We were given a list of about 30 available
numbers. From the list, I looked for a number that was going up like 1-2-3,
2-4-6, 3-6-9, 5-6-7, 3-5-7, or any number which is increasing (because I am an
optimist) and regular in the series (because I like order and uniformity).
However, I did not find any. On the list is number
888. Although I saw this number, I was not keen about it because I find the
number 8 like wringing or twisting, which to me signifies hardship. My wife suggested
888 because, according to her, it signifies our arrival in
So, on March 3, 1993, we went to the Post Office and
applied to rent
Why was post office
On January 28, 1994 and after working with the company
since July 1989, I took the redundancy offer of BHP Steel under the Voluntary
Retirement Scheme. From of the proceed of the
redundancy payout, my wife and I bought one of the cars from her company, a
1991 Holden model Apollo. We registered it on April 8, 1994 ordering special
number plate FAF-888. FAF stands for Florentina Alvarez Fernando -- Alvarez
being my wife's maiden family name. The number 888 signifies our arrival in
I was tuned in to SBS (Special Broadcasting Service)
Radio listening to the Pilipino Language Program during the second week of May.
I was not a regular listener of the program but it just happened, maybe a coincidence, that during that afternoon program I was tuned in, Anthony Castelo
was interviewed. Anthony is a popular singing personality in the
I was glad to learn that Anthony was in
After the program, I phoned the announcer and my
friend, Ms Richie Valencia-Buenaventura, to inquire where Anthony could be contacted.
Through her kind assistance, I was able to contact him. Within two days,
Anthony and I met in person at the place where he was staying, about 25 km from
where I live. It is just incredible that it will be in
During our conversation, Anthony was enthusiastic to
show me the book that he had been reading. The title of the book was A Scientific
Approach to Biblical History by R. W. Faid. Anthony is a born-again
Christian and was interested in knowing scientific proofs about his Christian
faith. Before we parted, Anthony lent the book to me to be returned the
following day.
At home, I browsed through the book, and found out
that the number of Jesus is 888. The book illustrated how this came about using
the Greek Numeral System. I was surprised because the number is the number of
our post office box. I was not able to photocopy the page but just remembered
how 888 was derived. The next day, I went to see him
because I was to drive him around. I returned the book and thanked him for
lending it to me.
b. OUR 25th
WEDDING ANNIVERSARY
My wife and I planned a simple celebration of our 25th
Wedding Anniversary and invited some close friends and relatives. Since May 17,
1994 fell on a Tuesday, we decided to hold the celebration on Sunday, May 15. I
invited Anthony to come to the celebration, which he gladly accepted. His
concert in
Two months passed since my discovery of the
significance of the number 888. On July 31, 1994, as I was to get the mail from
our post office box, I noticed that box 888 seems to be somewhere in the
middle. The set of boxes consists of nine columns and eight rows. When I
counted the boxes on the left, right, above and below
I had been sharing this discovery to friends and work
colleagues, and sketching how the pattern looked like. Later, I decided to take
photos of the boxes to show how it looked like. That was much better than
making a sketch each time. It made my explaining much easier. Here is one of
the photos that I took of box 888.
And here is the schematic
diagram of that set of boxes I did on MS Word in March 1999.
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POST OFFICES BOXES
AND CRUCIFIXION
Five more months later after discovering that
What came to my mind with this formation of the three
sets of boxes was the crucifixion scene at
Another thing that struck my mind in about 1999 was
the placement of the three sets of boxes. They all face the street and are
located between two niches or recesses. This is as if to emphasize that the
formation is for the three sets of boxes only. Here is the photo of the post
office boxes along
Is this formation at the Campbelltown Post Office mere
coincidence or God’s design? I firmly believe that this is God’s design. God is
confirming that the number of Jesus is 888 and that the crucifixion really
happened some 2000 years ago.
Here is the photo I took in 1994 showing the three sets of
boxes and the schematic
diagram I did on MS Word in March 1999.
In school, we learned about the ancient Roman Numeral System which we
still use for certain limited purposes, as in some pagination, dates on
buildings, etc. Under this system, seven letters of the Roman alphabet are used
as basic symbols to represent values, namely: I (=1), V (=5), X (=10), L (=50),
C (=100), D (=500), and M (=1000). Thus, for example, XVI is 16 and
DCCCLXXXVIII is 888.
Unlike the Roman Numeral System, the Greeks in their Ionic Greek
Ciphered Numeral System used all the 24 capital letters of the Greek alphabet
plus three foreign symbols, vau, koppa, and sampi (6, 90,
and 900), to represent values as shown in the following table:
|
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
6 |
7 |
8 |
9 |
|
A |
B |
G |
D |
E |
F |
Z |
H |
q |
|
alpha |
beta |
gamma |
delta |
epsilon |
vau |
zeta |
eta |
theta |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
10 |
20 |
30 |
40 |
50 |
60 |
70 |
80 |
90 |
|
I |
K |
L |
M |
N |
X |
O |
P |
q |
|
iota |
kappa |
lambda |
mu |
nu |
xi |
omicron |
pi |
koppa |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
100 |
200 |
300 |
400 |
500 |
600 |
700 |
800 |
900 |
|
R |
S |
T |
U |
F |
C |
Y |
W |
S |
|
rho |
sigma |
tau |
upsilon |
phi |
chi |
psi |
omega |
sampi |
vau and koppa are of
Phoenician origin. vau is shaped like the
letter F, while koph, qoph, or koppa is shaped somewhat like Q. A
character known in modern times as sampi is shaped somewhat like the
Greek letter pi, P, but tipped about 45 degrees to the right, and represented in the table
by S. The small letters of the Greek alphabet, by the way, is just a recent
introduction.
Aside from the Greeks, the use of letters of the
alphabet for the numeral system was also used in the Hebrew Numeral System and
the Arabic Alphabetic Numeral System.
In January 1999, I realized that this Greek numeral
system came into use in
In Greek, the name of Jesus is spelled I H S O U S (iota, eta,
sigma, omicron, upsilon, sigma). Substituting in the
Greek numeral system the equivalent numerical values to each letter in the name
of Jesus and adding them up, the total is 888. This value is represented as W P H (omega, pi, eta) and does not look like 888.
|
|
|
I |
iota |
= |
10 |
|
|
|
|
|
H |
eta |
= |
8 |
|
|
|
|
|
S |
sigma |
= |
200 |
|
|
|
|
|
O |
omicron |
= |
70 |
|
|
|
|
|
U |
upsilon |
= |
400 |
|
|
|
|
|
S |
sigma |
= |
200 |
|
|
|
|
|
W P H |
Total |
= |
888 |
|
|
It was only in the 12th century A.D. that the sum
would look like 888 when the Arabic numerals using the characters 0, 1, 2, 3,
4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 came into general use in
During the time of Jesus, the Arabic Numeral System
was not used yet. The number 8 did not even look like 8 now. The Romans were in
control of
It would need two different numeral systems and
fifteen centuries apart before this amazing revelation of 888 would be
discovered in the Arabic Numeral System. And it would be another eight
centuries later before the number of Jesus and the crucifixion would be
manifested and confirmed in humble post office boxes!
Is it a coincidence that the name of the Son of Man in
Greek would be Jesus and be spelled I H S O U S? Is it a coincidence that the Greek would be using all the letters of
their alphabet in the Ionic Greek Ciphered Numeral System, which gave values to
each letter in the name of Jesus? Is it a coincidence that eventually, using a
newer, modern numeral system, the number of Jesus would be revealed as 888?
After having shown that the number of Jesus is 888,
does the number 8 signify anything? Why had the number of Jesus been 111 or 777
instead? I firmly believe that the number 8 has been chosen by God to emphasize
to us about the infiniteness of God, and the veracity of the Trinity.
The number 8 is like the mathematical symbol for
infinity (∞) in a vertical position. From Webster’s Third New
International Dictionary, infinity means the quality of being infinite. And
being infinite means being without limits of any kind, having no end, having no
limit in power, capacity, knowledge, or excellence: immeasurable or
inconceivably great; boundless, vast, immense, endless, inexhaustible, not
finite: extending or lying beyond any preassigned value however large.
And this is what God is. He is infinite. He is the
Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last. He is
The Infinite. Immeasurably grand, exceedingly great,
boundless.
The number of Jesus is composed of three 8s. This is
as if to emphasize that Jesus is infinite, that Jesus is God. The number 8 is
repeated three times which means very truly. Very truly, He is infinite. Infinity. Infinity. Infinity.
On February 10, 2002, it came to my mind that 888 is
infinity for each of the three persons in the Trinity. For
truly, each of these persons in the Trinity--Father, the Son Jesus Christ, and
Holy Spirit--is God and is infinite. Because Jesus,
the Father and the Holy Spirit are one and the same God manifesting in three
different persons.
|
Month |
Day |
Year |
Event |
|
|
|
300 BC |
Greeks started using the Greek Ionic
Ciphered Numeral System |
|
May |
23 |
33 BC |
Birth of Jesus Christ |
|
Aug |
17 |
1 BC |
Crucifixion of Jesus Christ |
|
|
|
1100 |
Arabic numerals using the characters 0, 1,
2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 came into general use in |
|
June |
7 |
1976 |
Campbelltown City Post Office Building
inaugurated |
|
|
|
1985 |
Family applied for immigration to |
|
|
|
1986 |
Application for immigration approved with
condition of confirmed employer |
|
Jul |
|
1986 |
Applied for tourist visa to |
|
Feb |
21 |
1987 |
Returned for work in |
|
Mid |
|
1987 |
Wife went to Australian Embassy in |
|
3rd Quarter |
|
1987 |
In |
|
Apr |
|
1988 |
Was interviewed at Australian Embassy in |
|
Jul |
7 |
1988 |
Received approval of application to
immigrate to |
|
Jul |
31 |
1988 |
Left |
|
Aug |
18 |
1988 |
Family left the |
|
Aug |
21 |
1988 |
Family arrived in |
|
Sep |
30 |
1988 |
Deadline of immigrant visa to enter |
|
Jul |
|
1989 |
Started work at BHP Steel in |
|
Dec |
|
1992 |
An untoward incident on our son triggered
decision to move out of |
|
Feb |
28 |
1993 |
Moved to Campbelltown |
|
Mar |
3 |
1993 |
Applied to rent |
|
Mar |
5 |
1993 |
Received approval to rent |
|
Mar |
8 |
1993 |
Paid fees for rental of |
|
Jan |
28 |
1994 |
Took redundancy offer of BHP Steel |
|
Apr |
8 |
1994 |
Registered car bought with plate number
FAF 888 |
|
May |
|
1994 |
Heard over radio Anthony Castelos
interview; contacted him |
|
May |
|
1994 |
Met Anthony for first time in more than 35
years; he lent me the book he was reading; at home, read that 888 is the
number of Jesus |
|
May |
15 |
1994 |
Our 25th Wedding Anniversary |
|
Jul |
31 |
1994 |
Discovered that |
|
|
|
1994 |
Between Jul and Dec, I took photos of the
set of boxes |
|
Dec |
|
1994 |
Discovered that there are three sets of
boxes portraying the crucifixion scene |
|
|
|
1999 |
Noticed that the three sets of boxes all
face the street |
|
Feb |
10 |
2002 |
Thought that 888 is infinity for each of
the three persons in the Trinity |
|
1. |
We could have entered |
|
2. |
Why was I not allowed to enter Australia
in July 1986 while I was in Singapore when my purpose was to find an employer
who would hire me to satisfy the requirement for immigration? |
|
3. |
Approved for immigration, why was a
deadline of September 30, 1988 set for us to enter |
|
4. |
Why did we have to arrive in |
|
5. |
Why did I have to accept the job at BHP
Steel, which is 100 km away from home? |
|
6. |
Why had an untoward incident have to
happen to our son in December 1992, which triggered us to move out of |
|
7. |
Why was |
|
8. |
Why did I not find a box number to my
liking when we were to rent a box? |
|
9. |
Why did we choose to buy a house seven km
south of Campbelltown? Is it because Campbelltown Post Office would be the
logical post office to rent a box because of its accessibility from the train
station where I pick my wife up in the evening? |
|
10. |
Why did I have to be tuned in SBS Radio
that afternoon when Anthony Castelo was interviewed? |
|
11. |
Why did Anthony Castelo have to be reading
that book where it shows that 888 is the number of Jesus? Why did he have to
lend it to me? |
|
12. |
Why did Anthony Castelo have to be in |
|
13. |
Why have post
office |
|
14. |
Why are there three sets of boxes? |
|
15. |
Why is it that |
|
16. |
Why is it that a cross can also be formed in
the first set of boxes? Why is this set on the right of the middle set? |
|
17. |
Why is it that a cross cannot be formed in
the third set of boxes? Why is this set on the left of the middle set? |
|
18. |
Why have the three sets
of boxes be facing the street? |
|
19. |
Why was the Son of God have
to be named Jesus? Why not Immanuel? |
|
20. |
Why did the Greeks have to invent their
system of notation using all the letters of their alphabet 300 years prior to
the birth of Jesus? |
|
21. |
Why was the Arabic numerals as we know it
today not used during the time of Jesus? |
|
22. |
Why has the number of Jesus to contain 8
only? |
|
23. |
Why has the infinity symbol be like the
number 8 in a horizontal position? |
|
24. |
Why has the number of Jesus be three 8s? To represent the Trinity? |
|
25. |
Why do all these strange coincidences have
to happen in my life? Why me? |
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SIGN OF THE CROSS
Before I put the key in the keyhole of our post office
box to get our mail, I make the sign of the cross in the following manner:
1. With my right fingers, I touch box 879 on top of the cross and say, In the
name of the beloved Father.
2. I move my hand down to
3. I move my hand to
4. I move my hand across to
5. I move my hand back to the top of the cross on
6. I move my hand down to
7. Then I say a short prayer like Thank you, Jesus, for bringing me home to
Campbelltown safely. or Thank you, Jesus, for looking
after us.
I do this in recognition, acknowledgement, and
appreciation that this configuration is the work of God.
Now that
you know that 888 is the number of Jesus, maybe you would like that your
vehicle plate number has 888 or that your house number be 888 or that you live
in unit 8 of building number 88, or that your phone number has 888, etc. Just
remember, what is important are you let Jesus live in your heart always and you
follow His commandments, and you will be righteous.
I
hope these "coincidences" will prove to you that God is confirming to
us that the number of Jesus is 888 and that crucifixion event really happened
2000 years ago. I guess God has made me to be His instrument for this
affirmation. I cannot boast. I am just His humble servant.
I invite
you to visit and see this wonderful and marvellous work of God for yourself at
the Campbelltown Post Office. You may call this manifestation of God as a
miracle.
If you
have further questions or comments, please send me an email. I will be glad to
answer them.
The peace
of God reign in our hearts now and forever.
With
love, your brother in Jesus Christ,
Aristeo Canlas Fernando, Peace Crusader
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