Not Bible Codes

Certainly by now, you have already visually scanned or flipped through this book; and, you have glanced at the profusion of diagrams which seem to resemble Bible codes.  But, resemblances can be deceiving.  What is presented in this study better reveals God’s hidden teachings than anything that has been offered heretofore.  This is because God Himself is supplying the message; your author simply delivers it.

There are enormous differences between God’s embedded teachings and what is being offered to the public as Bible Codes. Because these differences are so great I am hesitant to even use the term ‘Bible code’ when referring to the material in this book. 

Nonetheless, what I present herein better reveals God’s hidden and embedded teachings than anything that has been offered heretofore. 

Our study is about God and is not some fanciful attempt to predict the future. These are revelations about God Alone; His Nature, His Being and His Will as regarding His creation and our human understanding about Who He Is and What He wants us to know about Him.   Also we focus upon His revelations which He abundantly makes regarding His great gift to humankind, the Messiah.

As I see it, the differences between this study and the so called ‘Bible Codes’ are as follows:

1.      unlike ‘high tech’ Bible Code research modalities – our study does not require computers to locate God’s secrets embedded in the scriptures – we may use them from time to time but they are not essential to our work

2.      unlike Bible Code enthusiasts ‘emphasis’ on predicting the future we make no attempt to predict the future - i.e., practice divination

3.      unlike Bible Code results which often broadly develop across  several books of the bible, we require the results we find to be razor sharp, being contained within one chapter or even a few verses of text AND the ‘findings’ must be harmonious with the context of the text being analyzed

Computers are not needed

Surprising to most Bible Code enthusiasts is the fact that Jewish Sages and Rabbis have been ‘mining God’s embedded revelations’ from the text of the Bible for millennia – without computers! The tools of their trade did not include fancy computer programs and logarithms but rather their tools included patience and a soul refining knowledge of the text which can only be had via a life lived in Love of the Lord and absolute commitment to the study of His Word.

Two such contemporary ‘non-computerized’ miners are Yacov Rambsel and Joel Young. I owe a debt of gratitude to both these men for their outstanding work[1].  They, following the traditional methods of Torah study, bequeathed to them by their own teachers, have each painstakingly hand counted millions of Hebrew letters in the original texts looking for any ‘letter skip patterns’, called ELS,[2] which emerge.  Their efforts have paid off as these faithful men have uncovered spiritual jewel after spiritual jewel ‘embedded’ in God’s Word. 

Throughout history other faithful ones, in every generation, have studied and been blessed to find the soul enlivening evidences which the Almighty One has so graciously placed into His Book. Study, faithfulness, laborious and love driven efforts, these are the true characteristics of those who would seek out the hidden revelations of the Most High God.

Our reinterpretation their work and the work of the rabbis of so many past generations utilize the cryptological methods of patterns recognition, pictographic Hebraic letters representations as well as ELS.  Unique to this work is the employment of ‘boxed text’ alignments.  This is the missing link which pulls it all together.

The use of box text alignment does not require computer programs and was certainly within the abilities of the ancient Jewish people.

Boxed text alignment methods dramatically display texts which are embedded as ELS and as patterns and as Hebraic letters pictographs.  It allows for these multiple types of ‘embeddings’ to be revealed ‘all at once’ thus presenting the concise dogmatic revelations which God is now bringing to our attention.

We make no attempt to predict the future

The most important difference between this work and the Bible coders ‘findings’ has to do with the very allure touted by  Bible Codes enthusiasts themselves; namely, they promise the possibility of  predicting ALL future events by using computers to de-cipher the text of the Bible. 

 The Old Testament – (Tanach- תנך - in Hebrew)  refers to ‘future telling’ as being the practice of ‘divination’; and, this practice is absolutely forbidden by God.

The Hebrew word for divination is  מקסם ‘miqcam’, meaning, to practice divination or divine the future.  This word shares the same root with the word witchcraft קסם ‘qecem’., hence ‘future telling’, divination, is at it’s very root connected to the practice of ‘witchcraft’.  Concerning witches God’s word is clear,

“Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.” Exd. 22:18.

also, “There shall not be found among you [any one] that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, [or] that useth divination, [or] an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch”. Deu. 18:10

Shamefully, the coders also compound their ‘sin’ by crediting God with their forbidden discoveries.

”Have ye not seen a vain vision, and have ye not spoken a lying ‘divination’, whereas ye say, The LORD saith [it]; albeit I have not spoken”? Ezk. 13:7

“But the prophet, which shall presume to speak a word in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak…,  even that prophet shall die”.  Deu. 18:20

Its particularly sad that people who are otherwise strong in their faith have fallen so deeply into the trap of trying to use God’s Word to engage in the practice of ‘future telling’.  Some quibble saying, that a machine and not a human ‘prophet’ is the agent of the their predictions.  This is nothing more than ‘splitting hairs’. The point is they – the humans - do seek to predict the future, to practice divination and they do credit God with the implanting of the encoded prophecy. 

Finally, the coders assert God fully intends for modern man to use the very letters of the Holy Bible to practice their computerized divinations.  Using His Holy Things, His Holy Letters and His Holy Words in the performance of these forbidden activities, is a most abominable blasphemy.

Faithfulness to the Biblical context

Traditional biblical exegesis[3] demands faithfulness to the text being studied in regard to contextual relevancy.  This means, that for any and every scriptural passage studied, traditional biblical exegesis demands every comment, analogy and application the student  develops must, in some fashion, be directly relevant to the text read. If it does not relate it fails the traditional, and modern, tests for proper exegesis.  So highly developed is this concept in Jewish scholasticism that they have, over time, developed and systematized four levels of exegesis with each sequential level deepening the students understanding of the passage being read. 

The coders , however, place zero importance upon ‘relevancy’.   For them the Bible is no more than a massive collection of letters – one letter next to another letter.  Furthermore, they are not investigating key words and key phrases within contextual parameters – their findings therefore, result in having no scriptural context whatsoever. Their computers do not analyze content, they simply look for ‘word spelling patterns’ in skipped letters.  The letters patterns can be as tightly packed as a two letter skip or as far apart as many thousands of letters between each ‘next letter’ found.  One letter can be found in Genesis the next in Job perhaps the next in one of the minor prophets.  Relevancy congruency is impossible when the text is handled like this.[4]  Correct Biblical exegesis demands congruency with the text.  In God’s revelations we see absolute congruency to the text.  It is precisely this congruency with the text that takes the ‘findings’ which have been revealed to us out of the realm of mathematical coincidence into the hard cold world of ‘factual information.

Traditionally, Jews employ four levels for Bible study, with each level deepening the students understanding regarding the text under consideration. Understandably, as a student progresses from level to level, thus probing deeper and deeper into the scripture, it can be inferred, the student is gaining a full grasp on its teachings and hidden mysteries.  Relevancy and congruency are key features of correct scriptural exegesis.

As I go through this study I will try to employ this ‘rabbinic method’ to present as full an exposition of God’s many revelations as is possible. I will also draw upon Christian hermeneutics[5] to expand upon these discoveries and to learn where God will have us go in our study.

God’s guarded teachings, which are deeply embedded into the text, are pure revelations and should not be confused with Bible codes. God’s revelations are clear, razor sharp and relevant to the very passage being read.   

In comparison, the Bible Codes computer programs are designed to do keyword searches only.  Also coders ‘findings’ usually require generous interpretation to be applied and make sense of them sometimes they are downright obscure. 

But what can be said about the very few but much ballyhooed accurate prophesies?  We can’t say too much except beware, they who are impressed by divination are being drawn into the practice of witchcraft.  And yes, the evil one would find a way to twist the very word of God to divert even the people of God from the safe pathway home to their Father.

Finally, the very goal of Bible coders, i.e., to use the letters of the Bible to predict the future, countermands the clear teachings of the Bible itself and blasphemes God and desecrates His Book, the Holy Bible. 

Also, the distinguishing characteristic of a false prophet is that his prophecy fails to happen.   At this writing, hundreds of key ‘coder prophecies’ have failed ( the Battle of Armageddon has not happened, the start and end of WWIII via atomic holocaust failed many times and for many prophesized dates,  Hilary Clinton being elected to the presidency of the US was wrong) – being illustrative of such failed prophecies.[6]

In contrast, God’s revelations do not fail. 

The reader will see, time after time, as each box aligned text is ‘unwrapped’, theologically sound teaching is revealed.  Perhaps the reader may not like what he sees, but most readers know the connections made about the person of the Messiah and the claims regarding Him by the Christian Church has been around for thousands of years. 

The claims are not novel and the fact that what is revealed in the text of scripture is supportive of these ancient claims, at least, obligates the reader to take notice.  Again, the reader may not like what he sees but what he sees is there, clearly revealed in the text.

In a sense what is presented to the reader is God’s Own footnotes to His text, the Holy Bible.  These are true footnotes in that they are instructive to us and clarify the very text in which they are contained.  They reveal insights into the Nature, Mind and Will of God. 

One can either accept what is being revealed or one can reject the revelation.  In either case little doubt will be left in the mind of the reader that the revelation is there, it is in context to the passage studied and does not need much, if any, interpretation to be clearly understood and recognized as having as it’s origin, God Himself.