I've recently been introduced to gematria, and I'm looking to learn more. How it is used, what is its meaning, if there is anything to it. Thanks in advance
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This is the right take! Gematria is never to be used to prove something by itself, in the rare cases that it's rightly used it's to supplement a proof given by other means. Matthew knew Jesus was Messiah and Son of David, but he supplemented that by emphasizing the fourteens in their genealogy because daleth-waw-daleth (Dawid) equals fourteen. He was saying, look, this is the "right" generation for Messiah to appear.
So if Trump is standing in front of seventeen flags, that's supplemental. If Q says look at this watch I posted and look at what later happened at that time, that's supplemental, and other coincidences of the same kind may also be admissible. But if the digital sum of a couple of numbers taken together happens to be 45 because you fudged it to work out, you're making it up out of whole cloth. Short version.