Jack777
February 13th 2005, 05:58 PM
The Bible Codes are Important to Creation, Cosmogony and Cosmology as well as Eschatology
The Revelation of Jesus Christ to John the Apostle was given to Jesus by the Father and delivered to John by a Holy Angel. The Beginning, the very first of the Bible is the statement that God created the Universe. The first sentence in the Bible is key to the rest of the Bible. There is a great deal of direction to understanding the rest of Scripture in Genesis 1:1. It is the first sentence in the narrative of the Torah which is called "Law" and also means "Instruction."
The Hebrew term torah often means "law," but it can also be used in the broader sense of "instruction." The Law was more than a reciting of the covenant; it was compiled for the "instruction" of the people of God as they attempted to live faithfully under the Mosaic covenant.
W. A. Criswell, Believer’s Study Bible [computer file], electronic ed. , Logos Library System, (Nashville: Thomas Nelson) 1997, c1991 by the Criswell Center for Biblical Studies.
A song came out with the acronym for the BIBLE as Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth. It is that and more. We can understand from Genesis that the End was known from the Beginning and that Jesus is the Beginning and the End. We can also affirmations of this in the last book of the Bible. Part of the bankruptcy of the Higher Critics is evidenced in the commentaries some produced. In a study of Isaiah 18, one critic of the Bible that produced a commentary on Isaiah completely skipped the whole chapter 18 of Isaiah. It is likely because he did not understand the Bible. The rest of the commentary on Isaiah is nattering chatter, flitting from this to that. Johnny Cash said that the Bible throws a considerable amount of light on the commentaries, no doubt after reading the vacuous Higher Critics. The Bible takes a high view of itself, regardless of its critics. God thought to give of His Revelation and it is shameful that Higher Critics were taken serious in the first place. Their main theme is to say "hath God said." Yes, God hath said is the only appropriate answer.
Revelation 21:5a
"And he that sat upon the throne said,
'Behold, I make all things new.'"
God says that He makes all things new, that He restores and so He did as recorded in Genesis in what some think is a creation account taking place over six days.
Revelation 21:5b
"And he said unto me,
'Write: for these words are true and faithful.'"
John was instructed to write down the following words. God tells us that His words are True and Faithful, that His Word can be trusted. Jesus is the True and Faithful Witness.
Revelation 21:6a
"And he said unto me,
'It is done.'"
Jesus said on the Cross, "It is done." His words come back to us in reference to the end of time and tie together the whole of Scripture. He completed the restoration of the earth and He completed prophecy as well as fulfilling it.
Revelation 21:6b
"'I am Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and the End.
I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely.'"
Revelation 21:7
"'He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.'"
One of the criticisms of people that take the Bible seriously is that we are fideistic as if being faithful is something to avoid. Scripture does not agree that we should be unfaithful.
I Timothy 5-6
"Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned: From which some having swerved have turned aside unto vain jangling"
The contention is made that people who think the Bible is inerrant are somehow less Christian, or wrong for thinking so. Maintaining the inerrancy of Scripture purportedly drives people from being Christians. It is odd to me that stating the Bible is inerrant would by itself thwart the will of God. In my opinion, God's will can be done despite my stance on the inerrancy of Scripture. Maintaining the Bible is true is described as being "drivel." I disagree strongly.
Believing the Bible to be true allows us to learn from it. It has practical application. People need to know what it says and understand it. Many people will be deluded in the last times because they will fall away and not believe the Bible, rejecting its teaching. This is happening now and people are criticized with a new mantra that we are exclusive. God is exclusive. If people reject Him, they have made a decision to be rejected by Him. Why is that so unfair? The reason is that people want to have things their way, not God's Way. Jesus is the Way. People are opposing God and exalting themselves above His Word and in some cases, above Him.
II Thessalonians 2:3-4
"Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God."
The Lord Jesus Christ has said in the Book of the Revelation of Jesus Christ to the Apostle John that a group of people in a mighty place will prosper and grow in iniquity, forsaking the One God. They will lose awareness of God and believe that there is no God, or if there is that they will always be happy in the power of the dark world system. Then, one day destruction shall come upon the people suddenly and finally as Scripture says in Revelation 18:7-8
"How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow. Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the Lord God who judgeth her."
Being arrogant and haughty has happened in the past to countries and leaders as Isaiah 47:8 records
"Therefore hear now this, thou that art given to pleasures, that dwellest carelessly, that sayest in thine heart, I am, and none else beside me; I shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I know the loss of children."
J. Vernon McGee says that:
"Babylon was arrogant, lifted up, and careless, not believing that a frightful fall was coming. Nebuchadnezzar, the Babylonian king, looked over the beautiful and glorious city of Babylon, and said, "This is great Babylon that I have built," giving no credit to God. God sent him out to the field like an ox to eat grass, having a form of amnesia—probably the psychiatrist would call it hysteria today. For a long time he did not know who he was, and he lived like an animal. It was God’s judgment upon him."
J. Vernon McGee, Thru the Bible Commentary [computer file], electronic ed., Logos Library System, (Nashville: Thomas Nelson) 1997, c1981, J. Vernon McGee.
The Amorites became filled with evil in their ways and were destroyed because of it. The Torah or Pentateuch is important in that the Revelation of God to us shows the Memra, the Logos, the pre-incarnate Christ known as Yahweh active in the Salvation of mankind from the first. He appears to Abram and makes a covenant with him for the sake of mankind, but first with the Hebrews and the seed of Abraham. God reveals to Abram that his seed will be captive and afflicted for 400 years and that the Amorites’ iniquity will grow to the point that He will execute judgment upon the Amorites by way of the seed of Abram whom is re-named Abraham after the covenant is made. The Bible contains many prophecies and this is an important one.
Genesis 15:13-16
"And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years; And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance. And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age. But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full."
Genesis 15:13-- In this strategic revelation Abram learned of God’s plan for the Egyptian bondage of "four hundred years" (an approximate figure—cf. Ex. 12:40). This revelation is a thematic stitch sewing the Book of Genesis to the rest of the Pentateuch.
W. A. Criswell, Believer’s Study Bible [computer file], electronic ed. , Logos Library System, (Nashville: Thomas Nelson) 1997, c1991 by the Criswell Center for Biblical Studies.
In the latter days spoken of in Revelation, people will forget God, lose self-awareness, and lose awareness of the order of the universe as regards God and the lower elements of the universe that oppose God. In so doing the people will not know God and follow after beings that are not gods at all, thinking them gods as Babylon did. This has happened before and will be repeated in the latter days as Jesus says. In Isaiah 4:1-3; That Day, the Day of the LORD it will be that:
"In that day shall the branch of the LORD be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the earth shall be excellent and comely for them that are escaped of Israel. And it shall come to pass, that he that is left in Zion, and he that remaineth in Jerusalem, shall be called holy, even every one that is written among the living in Jerusalem"
Many people want to think that the Book of the Revelation of Jesus Christ to the Apostle John has no significance to this Age. The same minimization of Genesis will be accomplished by the elite intelligentsia at some time. Perhaps it is solely due to unbelief and maybe it is because people do not read the Bible, or they look and do not see, listen and do not hear. The word in Hebrew translated as listen is shama and means to listen intelligently with an ear to the LORD. In places in the Bible it is plain that we are to hear spiritually. This hearing comes by the Holy Spirit and is spiritual discernment. We are told by the Apostle Paul that the Gospel is foolishness to those that are perishing. In
Matthew 11:15, it is recorded that Jesus said:
"He that hath ears to hear, let him hear."
The Bible Codes are important because they validate the inerrancy of the Torah and by extension, affirm the reliability of Scripture. They validate the importance of Genesis 1:1. I have glossed the original statistical work done to prove them true and admit it is above my head. My little stint with statistics in several courses in college did not scratch the surface on the level this work was done at. We had a great deal of fun with statistics in Geophysics and some math courses, did trend surface mapping, and statistical correlations but I again want to make a full disclosure that the level the cryptology in the Bible Codes is proven mathematically is above my head. As you may or may not know, cryptology is a very special field of mathematics. The work that Turing did in World War Two was thought to have been impossible by the Germans. Oppenheimer and others were working on the development of the atomic bomb in the Manhattan project and discussed using it. They noted that even though their wives were not intimately aware of all that goes on with combustion engines they were able to drive automobiles. Even though I do not have a clue as to how to go about doing my own cryptography, it can be understood. Newton noticed something going on with the Torah. The Jewish Sages were able to calculate the periodicity of the new moon in the 1st century A.D. to a degree of accuracy not matched until a satellite was launched by NASA that measured it. They did this from their knowledge of the Bible Code. I would recommend the book by Jeffrey Satinover on the codes, Cracking the Bible Code. I have read it 3 times so far. Interesting. People have appropriated them to prove things that are not provable by the codes. Kabbalists take the tack that God is unknowable and mystical in contradiction of Scripture. One assertion is that it is childish to think God would appear to people and while they arrived at some interesting things, they botch Scripture. They also go against admonitions by the LORD. Simply, Doron Witztum, Eliyahu Rips and Yoav Rosenberg of Jerusalem College of Technology and Hebrew University, discovered words encoded in the Genesis text that is impossible for a human to do.
The Bible's Torah is correct, information theory notwithstanding, in spite of Barney the Dinosaur and Chester the Chimp. It is Scripture as God's Revelation to us that is important, not all of these theories. Maybe there were dinosaurs living with people and maybe not. Maybe some people have Monkey for an uncle. I don't know. Do you?
Another interesting aspect of the Bible is that it tells us things that are key to understanding physics and astrophysics. I proposed a concept in short form that states the Universe is only understandable from a Biblical principle. The Universe has a Beginning and an End. Jesus is the Beginning and the End. Not only that, all of the Universe is held together by Him. Harm is restrained by the Holy Spirit. We call harm, "evil." I am convinced that quantum mechanics can only be understood in terms of the Bible. If mankind figures it out, it will be because of the Bible. Basically, the Universe has a Beginning and an End, a start and a finish. Jesus is the Local Boundary Condition in all directions. He defines the Universe so to speak. There is an astrophysicist in Jerusalem that seems to have an apprehension of this same thing, although not in terms of Jesus. In the Bible, Genesis 1:1 says that "In Beginning created Elohiym the Heaven and the Earth." This matches with John's Gospel account. God decided to let us have more information about His work in which He created the Universe. That was 2,000 years ago and people have not done a lot with it since. Many people do not accept the Bible as true in the surface text and until we do, the Bible Codes may not yield any results. People want to make up mystical things and spiritualize the Bible sometimes as an emotional reaction that overwhelms us when we see the Truth plainly.
Alan Turing wrote on a postcard something interesting:
"messages from the unseen world
III. The Universe is the Interior Light Cone of the Creation.
IV. Science is the Differential Equation.
Religion is a Boundary Condition."
see:
Alan Turing: The Enigma, Andrew Hodge, NY, NY: Simon and Schuster, Copyright 1983 Andrew Hodge, 1984.
Do you see what he meant?
Someone once said, "God's will, our choices." How we view Scripture matters. The Higher Critics had a field day hooting down people like me who think the Bible is true and their heirs continue. It is a shame that the narrow focus of supposed theologians took hold and people who are called Fundamentalists are called narrow. Original thought that has any scientific validity will be conformable to the Bible. People choose to ignore it today or to reformulate it to meet their felt needs, stroke egos, or justify what we do--either rightly or wrongly.
On the Bible Codes
"We conclude that the proximity of ELS's (Equidistant Letter Sequences) with related meanings in the Book of Genesis is NOT DUE TO CHANCE."
("Equidistant Letter Sequences in the Book of Genesis", Statistical Science, August 1994, p.434 )
"The phenomenon cannot be attributed to ANYTHING within the KNOWN PHYSICAL UNIVERSE, human beings included."
("Divine Authorship?", Biblical Review, October 1995, p.45)
Only someone who knows the future could have placed them there and that person is God.
They submitted their work to Statistical Science and Editor Robert Kass said
"Our referees were baffled: their prior beliefs made them think the Book of Genesis could not POSSIBLY contain meaningful references to modern day individuals, yet when the authors carried out additional analyses and checks the effect persisted." ("Equidistant Letter Sequences in the Book of Genesis", Statistical Science, August 1994, p.306 )
See the links below
Research (http://www.torahcodes.co.il/research.htm) modified December 16, 2000
The Refutation of the Attempts to Invalidate the Torah Codes (http://www.torahcodes.co.il/debate1.htm)
modified April 10, 2002
What's New (http://www.torahcodes.co.il/whatsnew.htm)
modified April 10, 2002
Eight papers refuting MBBK's Statistical Science paper claims. (http://www.torahcodes.co.il/whatsnew.htm#march2002)
"Personalities of Genesis and Their Dates of Birth". (http://www.torahcodes.co.il/genesis/gen_hb.htm)
"A Replication of: The Second Sample of Famous Rabbinical Personalities". (http://www.torahcodes.co.il/ben/ben_hb.htm)
or write
Doron Witztum
P.O. Box 16409
Jerusalem, Israel
also look for updates
See:
Cracking the Bible Code, Jeffery Satinover, William Morrow and Company Inc., New York, New York, 1997.
I own personal copies of the books I have cited by the way. No, I did not include page numbers.
The Revelation of Jesus Christ to John the Apostle was given to Jesus by the Father and delivered to John by a Holy Angel. The Beginning, the very first of the Bible is the statement that God created the Universe. The first sentence in the Bible is key to the rest of the Bible. There is a great deal of direction to understanding the rest of Scripture in Genesis 1:1. It is the first sentence in the narrative of the Torah which is called "Law" and also means "Instruction."
The Hebrew term torah often means "law," but it can also be used in the broader sense of "instruction." The Law was more than a reciting of the covenant; it was compiled for the "instruction" of the people of God as they attempted to live faithfully under the Mosaic covenant.
W. A. Criswell, Believer’s Study Bible [computer file], electronic ed. , Logos Library System, (Nashville: Thomas Nelson) 1997, c1991 by the Criswell Center for Biblical Studies.
A song came out with the acronym for the BIBLE as Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth. It is that and more. We can understand from Genesis that the End was known from the Beginning and that Jesus is the Beginning and the End. We can also affirmations of this in the last book of the Bible. Part of the bankruptcy of the Higher Critics is evidenced in the commentaries some produced. In a study of Isaiah 18, one critic of the Bible that produced a commentary on Isaiah completely skipped the whole chapter 18 of Isaiah. It is likely because he did not understand the Bible. The rest of the commentary on Isaiah is nattering chatter, flitting from this to that. Johnny Cash said that the Bible throws a considerable amount of light on the commentaries, no doubt after reading the vacuous Higher Critics. The Bible takes a high view of itself, regardless of its critics. God thought to give of His Revelation and it is shameful that Higher Critics were taken serious in the first place. Their main theme is to say "hath God said." Yes, God hath said is the only appropriate answer.
Revelation 21:5a
"And he that sat upon the throne said,
'Behold, I make all things new.'"
God says that He makes all things new, that He restores and so He did as recorded in Genesis in what some think is a creation account taking place over six days.
Revelation 21:5b
"And he said unto me,
'Write: for these words are true and faithful.'"
John was instructed to write down the following words. God tells us that His words are True and Faithful, that His Word can be trusted. Jesus is the True and Faithful Witness.
Revelation 21:6a
"And he said unto me,
'It is done.'"
Jesus said on the Cross, "It is done." His words come back to us in reference to the end of time and tie together the whole of Scripture. He completed the restoration of the earth and He completed prophecy as well as fulfilling it.
Revelation 21:6b
"'I am Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and the End.
I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely.'"
Revelation 21:7
"'He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.'"
One of the criticisms of people that take the Bible seriously is that we are fideistic as if being faithful is something to avoid. Scripture does not agree that we should be unfaithful.
I Timothy 5-6
"Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned: From which some having swerved have turned aside unto vain jangling"
The contention is made that people who think the Bible is inerrant are somehow less Christian, or wrong for thinking so. Maintaining the inerrancy of Scripture purportedly drives people from being Christians. It is odd to me that stating the Bible is inerrant would by itself thwart the will of God. In my opinion, God's will can be done despite my stance on the inerrancy of Scripture. Maintaining the Bible is true is described as being "drivel." I disagree strongly.
Believing the Bible to be true allows us to learn from it. It has practical application. People need to know what it says and understand it. Many people will be deluded in the last times because they will fall away and not believe the Bible, rejecting its teaching. This is happening now and people are criticized with a new mantra that we are exclusive. God is exclusive. If people reject Him, they have made a decision to be rejected by Him. Why is that so unfair? The reason is that people want to have things their way, not God's Way. Jesus is the Way. People are opposing God and exalting themselves above His Word and in some cases, above Him.
II Thessalonians 2:3-4
"Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God."
The Lord Jesus Christ has said in the Book of the Revelation of Jesus Christ to the Apostle John that a group of people in a mighty place will prosper and grow in iniquity, forsaking the One God. They will lose awareness of God and believe that there is no God, or if there is that they will always be happy in the power of the dark world system. Then, one day destruction shall come upon the people suddenly and finally as Scripture says in Revelation 18:7-8
"How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow. Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the Lord God who judgeth her."
Being arrogant and haughty has happened in the past to countries and leaders as Isaiah 47:8 records
"Therefore hear now this, thou that art given to pleasures, that dwellest carelessly, that sayest in thine heart, I am, and none else beside me; I shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I know the loss of children."
J. Vernon McGee says that:
"Babylon was arrogant, lifted up, and careless, not believing that a frightful fall was coming. Nebuchadnezzar, the Babylonian king, looked over the beautiful and glorious city of Babylon, and said, "This is great Babylon that I have built," giving no credit to God. God sent him out to the field like an ox to eat grass, having a form of amnesia—probably the psychiatrist would call it hysteria today. For a long time he did not know who he was, and he lived like an animal. It was God’s judgment upon him."
J. Vernon McGee, Thru the Bible Commentary [computer file], electronic ed., Logos Library System, (Nashville: Thomas Nelson) 1997, c1981, J. Vernon McGee.
The Amorites became filled with evil in their ways and were destroyed because of it. The Torah or Pentateuch is important in that the Revelation of God to us shows the Memra, the Logos, the pre-incarnate Christ known as Yahweh active in the Salvation of mankind from the first. He appears to Abram and makes a covenant with him for the sake of mankind, but first with the Hebrews and the seed of Abraham. God reveals to Abram that his seed will be captive and afflicted for 400 years and that the Amorites’ iniquity will grow to the point that He will execute judgment upon the Amorites by way of the seed of Abram whom is re-named Abraham after the covenant is made. The Bible contains many prophecies and this is an important one.
Genesis 15:13-16
"And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years; And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance. And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age. But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full."
Genesis 15:13-- In this strategic revelation Abram learned of God’s plan for the Egyptian bondage of "four hundred years" (an approximate figure—cf. Ex. 12:40). This revelation is a thematic stitch sewing the Book of Genesis to the rest of the Pentateuch.
W. A. Criswell, Believer’s Study Bible [computer file], electronic ed. , Logos Library System, (Nashville: Thomas Nelson) 1997, c1991 by the Criswell Center for Biblical Studies.
In the latter days spoken of in Revelation, people will forget God, lose self-awareness, and lose awareness of the order of the universe as regards God and the lower elements of the universe that oppose God. In so doing the people will not know God and follow after beings that are not gods at all, thinking them gods as Babylon did. This has happened before and will be repeated in the latter days as Jesus says. In Isaiah 4:1-3; That Day, the Day of the LORD it will be that:
"In that day shall the branch of the LORD be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the earth shall be excellent and comely for them that are escaped of Israel. And it shall come to pass, that he that is left in Zion, and he that remaineth in Jerusalem, shall be called holy, even every one that is written among the living in Jerusalem"
Many people want to think that the Book of the Revelation of Jesus Christ to the Apostle John has no significance to this Age. The same minimization of Genesis will be accomplished by the elite intelligentsia at some time. Perhaps it is solely due to unbelief and maybe it is because people do not read the Bible, or they look and do not see, listen and do not hear. The word in Hebrew translated as listen is shama and means to listen intelligently with an ear to the LORD. In places in the Bible it is plain that we are to hear spiritually. This hearing comes by the Holy Spirit and is spiritual discernment. We are told by the Apostle Paul that the Gospel is foolishness to those that are perishing. In
Matthew 11:15, it is recorded that Jesus said:
"He that hath ears to hear, let him hear."
The Bible Codes are important because they validate the inerrancy of the Torah and by extension, affirm the reliability of Scripture. They validate the importance of Genesis 1:1. I have glossed the original statistical work done to prove them true and admit it is above my head. My little stint with statistics in several courses in college did not scratch the surface on the level this work was done at. We had a great deal of fun with statistics in Geophysics and some math courses, did trend surface mapping, and statistical correlations but I again want to make a full disclosure that the level the cryptology in the Bible Codes is proven mathematically is above my head. As you may or may not know, cryptology is a very special field of mathematics. The work that Turing did in World War Two was thought to have been impossible by the Germans. Oppenheimer and others were working on the development of the atomic bomb in the Manhattan project and discussed using it. They noted that even though their wives were not intimately aware of all that goes on with combustion engines they were able to drive automobiles. Even though I do not have a clue as to how to go about doing my own cryptography, it can be understood. Newton noticed something going on with the Torah. The Jewish Sages were able to calculate the periodicity of the new moon in the 1st century A.D. to a degree of accuracy not matched until a satellite was launched by NASA that measured it. They did this from their knowledge of the Bible Code. I would recommend the book by Jeffrey Satinover on the codes, Cracking the Bible Code. I have read it 3 times so far. Interesting. People have appropriated them to prove things that are not provable by the codes. Kabbalists take the tack that God is unknowable and mystical in contradiction of Scripture. One assertion is that it is childish to think God would appear to people and while they arrived at some interesting things, they botch Scripture. They also go against admonitions by the LORD. Simply, Doron Witztum, Eliyahu Rips and Yoav Rosenberg of Jerusalem College of Technology and Hebrew University, discovered words encoded in the Genesis text that is impossible for a human to do.
The Bible's Torah is correct, information theory notwithstanding, in spite of Barney the Dinosaur and Chester the Chimp. It is Scripture as God's Revelation to us that is important, not all of these theories. Maybe there were dinosaurs living with people and maybe not. Maybe some people have Monkey for an uncle. I don't know. Do you?
Another interesting aspect of the Bible is that it tells us things that are key to understanding physics and astrophysics. I proposed a concept in short form that states the Universe is only understandable from a Biblical principle. The Universe has a Beginning and an End. Jesus is the Beginning and the End. Not only that, all of the Universe is held together by Him. Harm is restrained by the Holy Spirit. We call harm, "evil." I am convinced that quantum mechanics can only be understood in terms of the Bible. If mankind figures it out, it will be because of the Bible. Basically, the Universe has a Beginning and an End, a start and a finish. Jesus is the Local Boundary Condition in all directions. He defines the Universe so to speak. There is an astrophysicist in Jerusalem that seems to have an apprehension of this same thing, although not in terms of Jesus. In the Bible, Genesis 1:1 says that "In Beginning created Elohiym the Heaven and the Earth." This matches with John's Gospel account. God decided to let us have more information about His work in which He created the Universe. That was 2,000 years ago and people have not done a lot with it since. Many people do not accept the Bible as true in the surface text and until we do, the Bible Codes may not yield any results. People want to make up mystical things and spiritualize the Bible sometimes as an emotional reaction that overwhelms us when we see the Truth plainly.
Alan Turing wrote on a postcard something interesting:
"messages from the unseen world
III. The Universe is the Interior Light Cone of the Creation.
IV. Science is the Differential Equation.
Religion is a Boundary Condition."
see:
Alan Turing: The Enigma, Andrew Hodge, NY, NY: Simon and Schuster, Copyright 1983 Andrew Hodge, 1984.
Do you see what he meant?
Someone once said, "God's will, our choices." How we view Scripture matters. The Higher Critics had a field day hooting down people like me who think the Bible is true and their heirs continue. It is a shame that the narrow focus of supposed theologians took hold and people who are called Fundamentalists are called narrow. Original thought that has any scientific validity will be conformable to the Bible. People choose to ignore it today or to reformulate it to meet their felt needs, stroke egos, or justify what we do--either rightly or wrongly.
On the Bible Codes
"We conclude that the proximity of ELS's (Equidistant Letter Sequences) with related meanings in the Book of Genesis is NOT DUE TO CHANCE."
("Equidistant Letter Sequences in the Book of Genesis", Statistical Science, August 1994, p.434 )
"The phenomenon cannot be attributed to ANYTHING within the KNOWN PHYSICAL UNIVERSE, human beings included."
("Divine Authorship?", Biblical Review, October 1995, p.45)
Only someone who knows the future could have placed them there and that person is God.
They submitted their work to Statistical Science and Editor Robert Kass said
"Our referees were baffled: their prior beliefs made them think the Book of Genesis could not POSSIBLY contain meaningful references to modern day individuals, yet when the authors carried out additional analyses and checks the effect persisted." ("Equidistant Letter Sequences in the Book of Genesis", Statistical Science, August 1994, p.306 )
See the links below
Research (http://www.torahcodes.co.il/research.htm) modified December 16, 2000
The Refutation of the Attempts to Invalidate the Torah Codes (http://www.torahcodes.co.il/debate1.htm)
modified April 10, 2002
What's New (http://www.torahcodes.co.il/whatsnew.htm)
modified April 10, 2002
Eight papers refuting MBBK's Statistical Science paper claims. (http://www.torahcodes.co.il/whatsnew.htm#march2002)
"Personalities of Genesis and Their Dates of Birth". (http://www.torahcodes.co.il/genesis/gen_hb.htm)
"A Replication of: The Second Sample of Famous Rabbinical Personalities". (http://www.torahcodes.co.il/ben/ben_hb.htm)
or write
Doron Witztum
P.O. Box 16409
Jerusalem, Israel
also look for updates
See:
Cracking the Bible Code, Jeffery Satinover, William Morrow and Company Inc., New York, New York, 1997.
I own personal copies of the books I have cited by the way. No, I did not include page numbers.