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Pentecost
Feast of Pentecost

Tabernacles
Feast of Trumpets
Day of Atonement
Feast of Tabernacles

Observing that Yahweh has established this pattern of numbers in the creation to denote that which
is full and complete, is there a similar testimony to be observed in the earth? After all, man’s flesh
was formed of the dust of the earth. Should we not then expect to find the numbers one, three, and
seven to have as clear an association to the earth as it does to humanity? The answer is a resounding
“Yes!”

I first came across this tertiary (three fold) and septenary (seven fold) design of the earth when I was
in my early twenties. A sister of mine was attending LeTourneau College (now LeTourneau
University) in Texas. This is an engineering school founded by a Christian man. I remember my sister
saying, “I don’t care if I get a Bachelor of Science, or a Bachelor of Arts, as long as I get a bachelor.”
My sister was single at the time, and LeTourneau’s student body was about 90% male. She was
successful in her aim, marrying an engineering student from the College.

More important to this study, however, is that my sister’s curriculum included Bible classes. An Old
Testament Survey course she took was taught by a man by the name of Kenneth F. McKinney. Mr.
McKinney had written a book titled Scanning the Plan. My sister showed me the book, and I soon
acquired a copy for myself. Mr. McKinney taught the Ruin/Restoration view of Genesis, also known
as “the Gap Theory.” Inside the cover of the book was a fold out banner showing the seven stages of
the earth, and displaying three separate creations of the earth.