Bookmarks in the Torah, and history?

After I distributed my recent report titled, "Where are we on God's time line of history," containing information about the current Jewish year 5760, a friend reminded me of an amazing discovery published in January 1998. It is an article by Gary Stearman in J.R. Church's Prophecy in the News magazine, and it is titled, "There is a Prophecy in Abraham's Name." I had forgotten the article.

My original article reported: Verse number 5760 in the Bible is Deuteronomy 32:7: "Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations…" But that's not all: This verse exactly follows 50 verses from Deuteronomy 30:5 which speaks of Israel's rebirth in 1948, and the year 5760 exactly follows 50 years from Israel's rebirth! This is truly amazing.

With pages of more explanatory and scholarly detail than I can include here, Stearman describes two anomalies in the Hebrew Masoretic Text of the Torah (first five books of the Bible). Both involve the Hebrew letter "hay" (cannot reproduce here), equivalent to our letter H, the fifth letter of the Hebrew alphabet, and also the number five. It is considered the number for grace in the Bible. It is pronounced by the exhalation of breath, signifying the breath of the Spirit. It is the letter God added to the new names of AbraHam and SaraH, to whom grace through faith alone was first revealed ("He believed the Lord and He counted it to him for righteousness," Genesis 15:6).

The letter "hay" appears throughout the Scriptures, but there are two occasions where it is distinctive and unique. It appears one time in MINIATURE form (Genesis 2:4), and it also appears one time in ENLARGED form (Deuternomy 32:6). Stearman suggests these may be BOOKMARKS of history. The first time, in Genesis 2:3, is at the beginning of creation. The second time is in the 5759th verse of the Bible. .

With illustrations from the Hebrew text and about the first, miniature "hay," Stearman says, "Highlighted above is the Hebrew word 'behibaram' in Genesis 2:4. It translates into the phrase "…when they were created…" Note the miniature letter 'hay,' which calls attention to God's work of grace. This small 'hay' appears to be sort of a bookmark denoting the beginning of man's pathway to redemption."

Then Stearman says, "Note the enlarged 'hay'… It is the first letter in Deuteronomy 32:6, creating the phrase, 'Do ye thus requite the LORD…?' It signals the Lord's tempering of grace with judgment. This enlarged 'hay' appears to be another bookmark, this time alluding to the judgments of the 'day of the Lord.'"

There is more evidence of verse/year equivalency than I have described the above excerpt of my article. If valid here, this would put the second and final bookmark of man's history at 5759, just before Jewish year 5760, for which we found so much other prophetic implication (see my referenced report). Year 5759 ended and year 5760 began in the fall of 1999