#God as Judge

[numbersbythebook]

The Number 430

written by Will Schumacher

Strongs H430 = God, “Elohiym”

Its meaning is ruler and judge. It is exclusively used in Genesis 1. God starts off the Bible by declaring He created this world and He is the rightful ruler and judge. He is in charge.

When God makes man in Genesis 2, Strong’s H3068 = LORD (Yahweh) is introduced. Yahweh is God’s personal name and it intimates the relationship aspect of God and His mercy and love in which He relates to us.

I have often thought there is a correlation to Strong’s H430 = God and the 430 years to the exact day of the Exodus:

Exodus 12:40 Now the sojourning of the children of Israel, who dwelt in Egypt, was four hundred and thirty years. 41) And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty years, even the selfsame day it came to pass, that all the hosts of the Lord went out from the land of Egypt.

There are actually three more 430 year periods specifically mentioned in the Bible that all show the same thing. Here they are:

Genesis 11:17 And Eber lived after he begat Peleg four hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters.

Galatians 3:17 And this I say, that the covenant, that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect.

Ezekiel lied on his side for 430 days for the iniquity of the two houses of Israel.

Ezekiel 4:4-7 Lie thou also upon thy left side, and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel upon it: according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon it thou shalt bear their iniquity. 5) For I have laid upon thee the years of their iniquity, according to the number of the days, three hundred and ninety days: so shalt thou bear the iniquity of the house of Israel. 6) And when thou hast accomplished them, lie again on thy right side, and thou shalt bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days: I have appointed thee each day for a year. 7) Therefore thou shalt set thy face toward the siege of Jerusalem, and thine arm shall be uncovered, and thou shalt prophesy against it.

All four time periods of 430 reflect the meaning of Strong’s H430. God is the creator and therefore lone ruler and judge.

When Moses first meets Pharoah and tells him to let the Israelites go because the Lord God said so, Pharaoh asks the question “who is the Lord that I should obey his voice? Notice Moses says both Strong’s H430 and H3068 (Lord and God) but Pharoah uses just Strong’s H3068. Pharoah does not recognize God as ruler and judge.

Exodus 5:1-2 And afterward Moses and Aaron went in, and told Pharaoh, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Let my people go, that they may hold a feast unto me in the wilderness. And Pharaoh said, Who is the Lord, that I should obey his voice to let Israel go? I know not the Lord, neither will I let Israel go.

The Exodus story is about God showing He is the creator, ruler and judge of this world. He is the lone God. He is in charge. Pharoah found out the answer to the question of “who is the Lord that I should obey Him”. Pharoah and his army were judged and God showed His mercy and love to His people and redeemed them.

The time period of 430 is a reflection of God as ruler and judge just as Strong’s H430 implies.

Paul uses the time period of 430 for the giving of the Law:

Galatians 3:17 And this I say, that the covenant, that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect.

God again is the lone authority. He is the creator, ruler, and judge so He alone knows what absolute truth is and He alone distinguishes what is good and what is evil.

The third period of time of 430 is the death of Eber from the birth of Peleg.

Genesis 11:17 And Eber lived after he begat Peleg four hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters.

I have posted on Eber and Peleg before. Eber dies at the age of 464. He is tied to the door closing.

Strong’s H5677 = Eber = means “the region beyond”. From Abarim publications: “The important verb עבר ('abar) means to pass or cross over (a river, border, obstacle or terrain). The derived noun עבר ('eber) describes what or where you end up when you do the verb: the other side or region beyond.”

The birth of Eber is a picture of the beginning of our “crossing over”. We are wandering this earth in this thing called life and God is measuring each of us to see if we are His or not. The death of Eber then is a type of the end of our “crossing over” and we are then put into our eternity by God as He judges us.

Eber died at age 464 and this number is tied to the closing of the door.

This is verse 464, a door being shut:

Genesis 19:6 And Lot went out at the door unto them, and shut the door after him,

In this famous Rapture verse of “closing a door”, the word “door” has a gematria of 464:

Isaiah 26:20 Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast.

Incredibly both verses about doors closing are tied to Eber’s age of death at 464.

So Eber means the region beyond and his age at death after 430 years is tied to the closing of the door. The door is Jesus. When He returns to gather His own the door is closed and the wrath of God begins. This again refers back to God as the one in charge who is ruler and judge of His creation. In love and mercy He has offered a personal relationship and to those who rejected it will come the wrath of God/plagues of Egypt to let the ungodly know “who is the Lord that I should obey Him”.

The final time period of 430 is the number of days that Ezekiel laid on his side for the number of years of iniquity for the 2 houses of Israel. Ezekiel was prophesying the destruction of Jerusalem. Again this number of 430 is assigned to it to show God as the judge and ruler and He judged His people for their sins.

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Me when tragic siblings:

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day 10: love is devotion ♡

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Christopher Judge is the funniest mofo on the planet 😭😭😭🙏🙏🙏

For those who don't understand, Christopher Judge is the Actor of Kratos. He's known in the Game Awards for giving long-as-hell speeches cuz he thanks literally everyone. He got memed in social media for it, and he fully embraced it 🤣

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[siebeobachtetdich]

Before you ask, no I don’t play cod. And no, I don’t plan on playing cod. Did I still watch the campaigns in their entirety just for this man? Yes. Yes of course I did.

[noxcheshire]

HOT TAKE

But I like the idea of the phantom world being reincarnated into very unexpected people.

Like I still love the idea of Danny being Martha or Thomas.

Or Dani being another clone, or her being Damian, and Sam being Poison Ivy and or Martha, etc.

But I also like the unhinged nonsense of Sam being a clone in the dc world — ideally Kon, and Dani (or Dan) being Bruce, while Vlad is gasp Thomas Wayne.

HEAR ME OUT

JUST HEAR ME OUT

I just think the idea of Danny finding out that in an alternate world he married a nicer and age appropriate Vlad and had the son the guy has been demanding for so long in their world is hilarious.

The absolute mental breakdown that boy will go through: this is my son, and I love him, look at him go being a hero and kicking ass, but holy fucking Ancients above I fucked VLAD —

And on the other hand, can you imagine Bruce’s reaction? To his alternate mom being a sassy teenage boy, his alternate dad being an older guy ‘preying’ on this kid that absolutely HATES the guy, and being an absolute creep while his alt self **gestures to your choosing** is either a tiny girl menace or the biggest and meanest growling ghost that is BARELY tolerating being in the same space as the living.

But they also hate his alternate dad and would punch him into next week with Mom! Danny.

This man will being going THROUGH IT.

[wnnwakb]

Part 2 / Part 1

[brother-emperors]

DO NOT BE AFRAID

this is combining Ovid's Heroides and the Excidium Troie because I can't stop thinking of Hermes telling him not to be afraid. what the fuck!! Ares is wearing the crown that Paris gave him.

I have. thoughts. about Paris. he's almost got this Troilos parallel in my mind, that the event that defines him in detail exists in a lost narrative that we don't have (the Cypria), but everyone else knew. the event that defines Troilos is his death (murdered, butchered by Achilles, the violence of which haunts everything after. Achilles, child killer, you can't escape that!), and the event that defines Paris is the Judgement. what's a lost text but a kind of grave!!

idk I don't think that Paris before the Judgement would recognize himself after bc when you become god touched, it rearranges your guts. you become transformed in the worst way possible! how could you recognize yourself! but I also think that all the Parises after the Judgement would recognize each other because that event is so locked into the trauma of war and the scar it leaves on the land, it's like a scar on the narrative too. it exists like this forever, over and over again, so you exist like that forever too. Troy collects grief and despairs.

Troy as trauma: Reflections on intergenerational transmission and the locus of trauma, Andromache Karanika

and Paris is like. a miserable little god/corpse-puppet or something, like a match for the gods to throw onto gasoline.

The Excidium Troie + Ovid's Heroides:

Excidium Troie, trans. Muhammad Syarif Fadhlurrahman

Ovid, Heroides 16 (trans. Harold Isbell)

a collection of things regarding Paris that made me go 😬 but under a cut bc this is getting. very long.

The Divine Twins in Early Greek Poetry, Corolla Torontonensis

Iliad 24 and the Judgement of Paris, C.J. Mackie

Elegy and Epic and the Recognition of Paris: Ovid "Heroides" 16, Elizabeth Forbis Mazurek

Ennian Influence in "Heroides" 16 and 17, Howard Jacobson

Paris/Alexandros in the "Iliad", I. J. F. de Jong

[inkskinned]

it takes a really long time to unlearn but there's no such thing as "cheating" or "half-assing" being a person. if you need to leave the cabinet doors open, leave them open. microwave your tea. sit down in the shower. buy the eggmaker. use your phone to calculate tip.

it's mostly fake posterity rules. who cares if you microwave your dinners. who cares if you use instant coffee. who cares if you stop watching the show that got boring. we all have a different set of skills and a different life and taking care of yourself is fucking hard.

at the end of your life there will be no final scoreboard. nobody is going to judge you because you brushed your teeth in the shower. there will be no final count of the number of times you had the same meal five nights in a row. there will be no fanfare or party because you won at being a person - and no one will be disappointed that you never understood the point of using paper towels to dry your hands off after washing them.

yeah, in this world, people will put up a fuss. i've noticed some of the biggest fusses are over what you'll put in/on your body. the fact that i will regularly eat deli meat straight out of the bag makes a lot of people genuinely concerned for me. but here's the thing: sometimes that's the only way i'm getting any protein. my doctor says i am doing fine. i'm sticking to my weird snacks and calling it deconstructed charcuterie.

they'll say they're horrified because you take a shortcut. that's fine. it's just that it looks like a shortcut to them because they're on a different life path. these kinds of things stand out to them as important. that's fine too. but for you? you've got other things that already make you pretty hard working. and these tiny things - well, they're just clutter on your journey.

[signanothername]

He’s not impressed with your self destructive behavior

[welcometogrouchland]

I've been binging Batman Beyond recently (Terry ily so much) and thought about how- bc of the JLU twist which I think isn't even canon to the comics BB verse but shhh bare with me- he'd technically be Damian's half brother??? Which is just so ridiculously soap opera to me. I need them to interact in a silly time travel adventure so bad you don't even understand (ID in alt)

[heart-of-the-morningstar]

Don’t let this picture fool you, I also want him in a way that’s concerning to feminism :)

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