CORRECTION TO ERCIAN TESTAMENT CHAPTER 21

In chapter 21 of my book Ercian Testament, “The Number 444, the Key,” on pages 150 through 152 a correction is necessary. In those pages, I relate a 444 incident that occurred back in April 1995 while working at the Sunset Branch post office in Miami. I will reproduce that account here, and make the correction after you read it.

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I recorded this event about a month after it happened, but by that time, I was not sure of the exact date of dates. That is why I am only giving you the month and the year.

This event really starts in 1986. Back then, I had rented an office for a few months (I think it was four months before my savings ran out) to try to get people acquainted with some of my ideas. This was the year after I had finished writing my first manuscript The Eternal Testament and Station Earth. Anyway, my office was located at 14050 SW 84 Street Suite 202, Miami Florida 33183. I rented in that building because it was near home and less expensive than other places I had seen. The yearly rate was $8.50 a square foot.

One day in April 1995, I was sorting mail at the Sunset Branch, located at 7501 SW 117th Avenue. I had gotten a bid there as a distribution clerk. As I was working the mail, I came across a letter addressed to the ‘Campus Crusade for Christ’ located at the same address where my office was back in 1986. Something else in the address caught my eye right away, but I will keep you in suspense for now as to what it was. Anyway, I went to the letter carrier in charge of that mail route and asked him if the organization ‘Campus Crusade for Christ’ occupied Suite 202 (the particular office I had rented years before). He told me they occupied all of the office space in the second floor including suite 202.

What I am about to tell you now is the “eye-opener.” If I remember correctly, the Postal Service did not start the “Zip-plus-Four” campaign until sometime after 1986, because I do not remember using it in my address when I had the office. As you may know, the four digits that were added to the old five digit zip code allows the Postal Service to improve the automation and routing of mail, because it identifies a unique delivery unit. Now guess the four-digit code assigned to the building where I had my office back in 1986, the four-digit code added to the ‘33183’ I had used. The four-digit code for that building is “-4440.”

Out of all possible four-digit combinations for that delivery unit, the one assigned to it contains the sequence 444, the number sign I consider my connection to God-Conscious. Extremely weird and fantastic, do you not think so? I did and still do, on top of the fact that an organization crusading for 'Christ' was using the office I had occupied.

The next day after I had questioned Roberto L.(the route’s letter carrier), I brought with me and showed him a newspaper page, page 21 from the West Kendall Gazette dated August 7, 1986, where my advertisement appeared inviting the public to a free seminar at the address I have mentioned.

Roberto had inquired about my ‘444’ connection prior to this incident. He had asked what the ‘444’ on my baseball cap meant. Yes, I had a few of them printed back then. I was gung-ho about the number. Anyway, I wanted to show Roberto I was not lying about having rented that office space and, considering this 444 sighting, especially about having experienced very unusual coincidences with that number.”

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The correction I need to make is this: the Postal Service atarted the Zip-plus-Four campaign back in 1983. How do I know that? I know it because a couple of days ago it occurred to me to use the Internet to find out for sure. I typed on the browser “Zip plus four inception date” and hit “Search.” I had never done that search before, because I thought I was right in assuming Zip + four took place after 1986.

Therefore, there you have it. The Zip plus Four year of inception was 1983 not 1986. Consequently, some people may question whether (as a postal worker) I had the opportunity to search for an address containing the 444 sequence before choosing a place to rent back in 1986. All I can tell you is I did not do that, as God is my witness. As I say in the book, I do not remember using Zip-plus-Four for that office address ever. Even for my own residential address, I cannot recall using it until some time in the 90’s.

Anyway, I just wanted to set the record straight. I hope publishing this article on my blog and on my website page, “The World According to Joseph” achieves that goal. Furthermore, to those who may put my integrity in question, I confess in my book that I am not a saint but a sinner like everyone else. However, the 444 incidents and everything else I relate in Ercian Testament is the truth as it happened. You have my word. Read Ercian Testament - Part Three, chapter 20 “My Testimony under Oath.”

Joseph Marchante