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BIBLE
contains SECRET CODE!
ANOTHER
HOLOCAUST IN ISRAEL?
NEW YORK (Reuter)
With reviewers and experts not allowed an advance look, a book was published
around the world claiming that the Old Testament contains a secret code
that 3,000 years ago foretold the Holocaust and the assassination of lsraeli
Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. The book says the code, found in the Bible
by an Israeli computer expert, also foretold many other of history's major
events and warns of an atomic war that could bring the end of the world
in 2000 or 2006. Trumpeted with full-page advertisements in publications
such as the New York Times, "The Bible Code" has been snapped up in Hollywood
by Warner Brothers, which sees it as a perfect vehicle for those who like
their "Raiders of the Lost Ark" flavored with large doses of Nostradamus-style
predictions.
Experts were caught off guard by the book, which was kept secret until
copies were in stores, the sort of treatment publishers give works they
think will generate news. Its author, Michael Drosnin, a former reporter
who wrote a bestselling biography of Howard Hughes, said he expected a
full debate over his work and was not afraid to confront critics, some
of whom are already complaining.
Critics say the Torah, the first five books of the Old Testament, which
religious Jews believe was dictated by God to Moses, is Holy Writ and
not to be used like a Ouija board.
Drosnin said even he did not really believe in the code until the day
Rabin was assassinated.
"1 had found his murder encoded in the Bible more than a year before it
happened and I flew to Israel to warn the prime minister. I gave a letter
warning of this to a close friend who gave it to Rabin:" he said. "Then
on Nov. 4th, 1995, I was at a train station talking to a friend on a pay
phone. He told me Rabin had been murdered. I slid to the floor. The air
went out of me. Up until then I thought the code was real intellectually,
but then I knew in my heart."
THE BIBLE CODE
- - A BOOK REVIEW
Simon, -- Japan.
This is about The Bible Code, a book by Michael Drosnin, which is currently
on the bestseller list and apparently causing quite a stir. In case you
haven't heard much of this book, here is a summary of the main points
as well as few excerpts. Michael Drosnin, the author, is a secular Jew,
an investigative reporter who wrote a best-selling biography of Howard
Hughes. About five years ago, someone told him that a world-famous Israeli
mathematician, Dr. Eliyahu Rips, had discovered a secret code in the Bible
that had enabled him to accurately predict the day the Gulf War would
begin two months in advance.Drosnin was skeptical, but went to see him
to check it out.
RABBI FOUND A SKIP
CODE
 Rips
told him that a rabbi in Prague, H.M.D. Weissmandel, had found the first
hint of the code 50 years ago. He noticed that if he skipped 50 letters,
and then another 50, and then another 50, the word "Torah" was spelled
out in the book of Genesis. The same skip sequence again spelled out the
word "Torah" in the books of Exodus, Numbers and Deuteronomy. This gave
Rips the idea to write a computer program that would search the Torah,
the first five books of the Bible that God gave to Moses, for words that
were similarly hidden.
When Rips applied the computer program, he found words encoded far more
than statistics allowed for by random chance, and he realized that he
was on to something of real importance. Working together with another
world-class mathematician, Doron Witztum, they developed a mathematical
model that, when implemented by a computer program, confirmed that the
Old Testament is, in fact, encoded.
Rips and Witztum submitted their findings to a leading American math journal,
Statistical Science.
SCIENTISTS CONFIRM
THE DISCOVERY
Their paper was entitled
"Equidistant Letter Sequences in the Book of Genesis." The editor was
skeptical, so he had their findings checked out by other scientific experts,
who could find no fault with the math and confirmed that the code existed.
The code was also examined by a skeptical top secret code breaker at the
Pentagon who, to his amazement, also confirmed that the code was real.
Drosnin decided to approach this story like any other news story, as a
skeptical reporter, and thoroughly check it out, which took him five years.
He learned Hebrew and checked the code on his own computer. He went to
Harvard, Yale and Hebrew University to meet with the world's most famous
mathematicians, who all confirmed that there is a code in the Bible that
reveals the future.
One of these, Robert J. Aumann, is Israel's most famous mathematician.
At first he had been skeptical, and could not believe that a code in the
Bible revealed the future. But after following Rips' work for years, last
year he told a meeting of the Israeli Academy of Science, "The Bible code
is an established fact." He said, "Psychologically it is very difficult
to accept, but the science is impeccable. Rips' results are wildly significant,
beyond anything usually seen in science. Statistically it is far beyond
what is normally required. It's very important to treat this like any
other experiment--very cold, very methodical. You test it, and you look
at the results. As far as I can see, the Bible code is simply a fact.
There has been nothing like it in all the hundreds of years of modern
science."
Here is a portion of the book that clearly explains how the Bible code
works:
(Note: When Drosnin says "Bible," he is usually referring to the Torah,
the first five books given to Moses on Mt Sinai.)
BIBLE
FULL OF CROSSWORD PUZZLES?
Crisscrossing
the entire known text of the Bible, hidden under the original Hebrew of
the Old Testament, is a complex network of words and phrases, a new revelation.
There is a Bible beneath the Bible.
To find the code, Rips eliminated all the spaces between the words, and
turned the entire original Bible into a continuous letter strand, 304,805
letters long. The computer searches that strand of letters for names,
words, and phrases hidden by the skip code. It starts at the first letter
of the Bible, and looks for every possible skip sequence--words spelled
out with skips of 1,2,3, all the way up to several thousand. It then repeats
the search starting from the second letter and does it over and over again
until it reaches the last letter of the Bible.
After it finds the key word, the computer can then look for related information.
Time after time it finds connected names, dates, and places encoded together--Rabin,
Amir, Tel Aviv, the year of his assassination, all in the same place in
the Bible.
Rips explained how it works, using the Gulf War as an example. "We asked
the computer to search for Saddam Hussein!" he said. "Then we looked for
related words to see if they came together in a way that was mathematically
significant. With the Gulf War, we found Scuds with Russian missiles,
and the date the war would begin encoded with the name Hussein."
The words formed a crossword puzzle. Consistently, the Bible code brings
together interlocking words that reveal related information. With Bill
Clinton, president. With the moon landing, spaceship and Apollo 11. With
Hitler, Nazi. With Kennedy, Dallas.
NO
CODE IN ANY OTHER BOOK
In experiment after experiment, the crossword puzzles were found only
in the Bible. Not in "War and Peace:' not in any other book, and not in
ten million computer-generated test cases.
According to Rips, there is an infinite amount of information encoded
in the Bible. Each time a new name or word or phrase is discovered in
the code, a new crossword puzzle is formed. Related words cross vertically,
horizontally and diagonally.
We can use the Rabin assassination as a case study. First we asked the
computer to search the Bible for the name "Yitzhak Rabin." It appeared
only once, with a skip sequence of 4772.
The computer divided the entire Bible--the whole strand of 304,805 letters--into
64 rows of 4772 letters. If "Yitzhak Rabin" were spelled out with a skip
code of 10, then each row would be 10 letters long. If the skip were 100,
then the rows would be 100 letters long. And each time the rows are rearranged,
a new set of interlocking words and phrases is created.
Each code word determines how the computer presents the text of the Bible,
what crossword puzzle is formed.
IT WAS ENCODED 3000
YEARS AGO!
Three thousand years
ago, the Bible was encoded so that the discovery of Rabin's name would
automatically reveal related information.
I [Drosnin] asked Rips if there was any limit to the information that
was in the code, how much of our history was hidden in the Bible. "Everything:'
said the mathematician. How could that be possible? The original text
of the Old Testament was only 304,805 letters long.
"Theoretically there is no limit to the amount of information that could
be encoded,' said Rips. Even with a limited data base, there could be
an endless number of combinations and permutations.
"At least 10
or 20 billion," said Rips. "And that is only the first, crudest level
of the Bible code. It is probably less like a crossword puzzle and more
like a hologram--it looks different when you look at it from a different
angle. We are only looking at two-dimensional arrays, and we probably
should be looking in at least three dimensions, but we don't know how
to."
According to Rips, the whole Bible code had to be written at once, in
a single flash. It is the history of the human race recorded 3000 years
ahead of time. It does not tell the story sequentially, but all at once.
Modern events overlap ancient events, the future is encoded in verses
that tell of the Biblical past. And no one can explain how the code was
created. Every scientist, every mathematician and physicist who understands
the code, agrees that not even the fastest supercomputers we have today--not
all the Crays in the war room of the Pentagon, or all of the mainframes
at IBM, not all of the computers now in the world working together--could
have encoded the Bible in the way it was done 3000 years ago.
NO LIMIT TO ENCODED INFORMATION
"I can't even imagine
how it would be done, how anyone could have done it:" says Rips. It is
a mind beyond our imagination.
"Even what we
do know how to find, we can probably never finish decoding:" says Rips.
Even on that level, the information is probably infinite."
Apparently every major figure, every major event in world history, can
be found with the level of encoding we already do know.
All of the leaders in World War II--"Roosevelt," "Churchill," "Stalin,"
"Hitler"--are there. "America" and "revolution" and "1776" appear together.
"Napoleon" is encoded with "France," but also with "Waterloo" and "Elba."
The revolution that changed the twentieth century, the communist "revolution"
in "Russia" is encoded with the year it triumphed, "1917."
Great artists and writers, inventors and scientists from ancient to modern
times are also encoded in the Bible. "Shakespeare" is foretold in a single
code sequence that spells out not only his name but also his deeds: "Shakespeare"--"presented
on stage"--"Hamlet"--"Macbeth ."
Every major advance in modern technology appears to be recorded. The "Wright
Brothers" are encoded with "airplane." "Edison" is encoded with both "electricity"
and "light bulb." "Marconi" is encoded with "radio." "Newton" and "Einstein"
are both encoded in the Bible, each with his major discovery.
DOES
THE CODE PROVE THERE IS A GOD?
For Eli Rips, the answer is yes. "The Bible code is firm scientific proof,"
the mathematician states. "No human being could have encoded the Bible
3000 years ago and accurately foretold the future." (End of book excerpt.)
Much of the rest of
the book worries about a holocaust, that The Bible Code, in numerous places,
warns will engulf Israel, starting a worldwide conflagration that will
bring on the final apocalypse and Armageddon. The hidden code prophecies
fit hand in glove with the plain prophecies in the Bible regarding the
invasion of Israel and the next World War, as well as the huge earthquakes
and other Endtime events.
Some latest news also is that since the publication of The Bible Code,
they've found the code exists under the entire Old Testament, and not
just the Torah.
EARTHQUAKE
COMING IN JAPAN
Incidentally, the code predicts an earthquake of cataclysmic proportions
for Japan in the year 2000 or 2006, triggering a worldwide economic collapse.
It's certainly been enough to motivate me to press in to do whatever more
I'm going to do here within two years. To assume that we have any more
time than that, I think could be a sad mistake, I think. Much love, prayers
and appreciation for all you do for us,
Simon.
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