ELS
Bible Codes --
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| Name | Begins | Word | Ltr | Interval |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yeshua Shmi ("Jesus is my name") |
53:10 | 11 | 4 | -20 |
| Nazarene | 53:6 | 11 | 3 | 47 |
| Messiah | 53:11 | 1 | 1 | -42 |
| Shiloh | 53:12 | 21 | 4 | 19 |
| Passover | 53:10 | 13 | 3 | -62 |
| Galilee | 53:7 | 1 | 2 | -32 |
| Herod | 53:6 | 4 | 1 | -29 |
| Caesar | 53:11 | 7 | 4 | -194 |
| The Evil Roman City |
53:9 | 13 | 2 | -7 |
| Caiaphas (high priest) |
52:15 | 7 | 3 | 41 |
| Annas (high priest) |
53:3 | 6 | 5 | -45 |
| Mary | 53:11 | 1 | 1 | -23 |
| Mary | 53:10 | 7 | 3 | 6 |
| Mary | 53:9 | 13 | 3 | 44 |
| The Disciples | 53:12 | 2 | 3 | -55 |
| Peter | 53:10 | 11 | 5 | -14 |
| Matthew | 53:8 | 12 | 1 | -295 |
| John | 53:10 | 11 | 4 | -28 |
| Andrew | 53:4 | 11 | 1 | -48 |
| Philip | 53:5 | 10 | 3 | -133 |
| Thomas | 53:2 | 8 | 1 | 35 |
| James | 52:2 | 9 | 3 | -34 |
| James | 52:2 | 3 | 4 | -20 |
| Simon | 52:14 | 2 | 1 | 47 |
| Thaddeus | 53:12 | 9 | 1 | -50 |
| Matthias | 53:5 | 7 | 4 | -11 |
| Let Him Be Crucified |
53:8 | 6 | 2 | 15 |
| His Cross | 53:6 | 2 | 2 | -8 |
| Pierce | 52:10 | 15 | 3 | -92 |
| Lamp of the Lord |
53:5 | 5 | 7 | 20 |
| His Signature | 52:7 | 8 | 4 | 49 |
| Bread | 53:12 | 2 | 3 | 26 |
| Wine | 53:5 | 11 | 2 | 210 |
| From Zion | 52:14 | 6 | 1 | 45 |
| Moriah | 52:7 | 4 | 5 | 153 |
| Obed | 53:7 | 3 | 2 | -19 |
| Jesse | 52:9 | 3 | 1 | -19 |
| Seed | 52:15 | 2 | 2 | -19 |
| Water | 52:7 | 9 | 1 | -19 |
| Levites | 53:3 | 3 | 6 | 19 |
| From the Atonement Lamb |
52:12 | 12 | 2 | -19 |
| Joseph | 53:2 | 1 | 2 | 210 |
These names include all the significant people involved
in the life and ministry of Jesus. Obed and Jesse are ancestors of Jesus.
| Name | Begins | Word | Ltr | Interval | Ends | Word | Ltr |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yeshua | 30:16 | 19 | 1 | 12 | 30:18 | 1 | 2 |
| Nazarene | 30:16 | 15 | 3 | 8 | 30:16 | 20 | 4 |
| Messiah | 30:13 | 12 | 3 | 60 | 30:18 | 3 | 2 |
| Shiloh | 30:14 | 7 | 1 | 40 | 30:16 | 12 | 2 |
| Passover | 30:9 | 7 | 4 | -9 | 30:10 | 1 | 3 |
| Galilee | 29:19 | 7 | 3 | -39 | 29:21 | 8 | 3 |
| Mary | 30:15 | 7 | 2 | 60 | 30:18 | 11 | 1 |
| Mary | 30:16 | 13 | 1 | 61 | 30:20 | 8 | 2 |
| Mary | 30:17 | 5 | 3 | 92 | 30:23 | 14 | 2 |
| Peter | 30:16 | 2 | 2 | 32 | 30:17 | 1 | 2 |
| Matthew | 30:20 | 8 | 2 | 20 | 30:21 | 6 | 2 |
| John | 29:19 | 9 | 1 | 14 | 29:20 | 12 | 2 |
| Andrew | 29:27 | 15 | 4 | 115 | 29:36 | 7 | 4 |
| Philip | 29:24 | 9 | 4 | 50 | 29:27 | 4 | 5 |
| Thomas | 30:18 | 14 | 4 | 11 | 30:19 | 7 | 2 |
| James | 30:7 | 6 | 2 | -59 | 30:10 | 14 | 5 |
| Simon | 29:19 | 7 | 3 | -39 | 29:21 | 8 | 3 |
| Nathanael | 30:4 | 8 | 2 | -100 | 30:12 | 8 | 2 |
| Judas | 29:13 | 9 | 2 | 24 | 29:15 | 2 | 1 |
| Thaddaeus | 30:16 | 2 | 2 | 32 | 30:17 | 1 | 2 |
| Matthias | 30:20 | 8 | 2 | 20 | 30:21 | 6 | 2 |
| Let Him Be Crucified |
30:20 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 30:20 | 8 | 1 |
Exodus 30:16
Receive the atonement money from the Israelites and use it for the service of
the Tent of Meeting. It will be a memorial for the Israelites before the LORD,
making atonement for your lives.
"Why does the name Mary appear three times and the name James appear twice?"
John 19:25 Near the cross of Jesus stood his mother [Mary], his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene.
Matthew 10:2-4 [2] These are the names of the twelve apostles: first, Simon (who is called Peter) and his brother Andrew; James son of Zebedee, and his brother John; [3] Philip and Bartholomew; Thomas and Matthew the tax collector; James son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus; [4] Simon the Zealot and Judas Iscariot, who betrayed him.
Any detective and any lawyer will tell you that it's the details that reveal whether someone really knows what happened.
"Can Bible Codes be used to predict the future?"
One of the major proofs that the Bible is indeed the word of God is prophecy. Bible Codes are pretty much limited to prophecies—no new moral principles, parables, etc. have been discovered in the Bible Codes. Hence, it seems fairly obvious that we can use Bible Codes to predict the future.
However, this is one instance where something that seems obviously true is actually false. Unlike prophetic passages in the Bible, Bible Codes can not be used to make long-term predictions, for several reasons:
The information is not neatly placed in a single, obvious location, such as a single paragraph.
The information is too specific to be useful beforehand. Who ever even heard of Timothy McVeigh before he bombed the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma?
Random words can be found in any text in any language if you try enough combinations. What makes the Bible Codes unique is that only in the Hebrew Old Testament can a lot of words related to a single event be found in close proximity. Until an event has occurred or is about to occur (e.g., an upcoming presidential election), there is no way to tell what words are related to the event.
The information is in "keyword" format, not sentences. Until an event has or is about to occur, there is no way to tell related keywords from random words.
Keywords relating to various unrelated events may exist in the same location.
Point 5 is particularly important. In many instances, the same letter may be part of several different Bible Code words. In other words, the exact same yod could be the first letter of Yeshua (Jesus) coded at 10-letter intervals, the first letter of Yochanan (John), coded at 60-letter intervals, the third letter of Miryam (Mary) spelled backwards (i.e., left to right) at 200-letter intervals, the first letter of Yisrael (Israel) spelled backwards at 15-letter intervals, and the first letter of Yahweh (Jehovah) spelled backward at 270-letter intervals. Yeshua might have four words related to it but not related to Yisrael, and Yisrael might have three words related to it but not to Yeshua. Since the other coded words are all in the same vicinity, how could you tell decades or centuries beforehand which coded words were related to Yeshua, which were related to Yisrael, which to Miryam, etc.?
Sometimes, Bible Codes can be used to get some information about near future events.
Sometimes, the Bible Codes can be used to get some information about events shortly before they occur, but near-term predictions can also be made by natural means such as analyzing historical trends, polls, etc.
"Are there any Bible Codes in the New Testament?"
Grant Jeffrey (not Jeffries) has published a book in which he claims to have found a few Greek codes. However, in an e-mail to me, Roy A. Reinhold, code researcher and webmaster of a major Bible Codes site, has indicated that the few "codes" Jeffrey claims are not "statistically significant". Furthermore, after extensive efforts with no success, Reinhold and several other researchers have stopped looking for codes in the Greek New Testament and are looking for codes in the ancient Aramaic New Testament texts. Aramaic is a Semitic language related to Hebrew and Arabic and was the language Jesus and his disciples spoke. A number of scholars believe that at least portions of the New Testament were written in Aramaic and translated into Greek. If found, the presence of Codes in the Aramaic would prove this.
However, it is important to understand that even in the Old Testament there are other types of codes in addition to ELS codes. However, this area has not been well-researched, and most people interested in Bible Codes limit their research to ELS codes. It is entirely possible that something other than ELS codes will be found in the New Testament. After all, significant amounts of research have only been going on since about 1995, and most Codes research is conducted by self-funded amateurs who have at best a modest knowledge of biblical Hebrew.
Bible Codes have only been found in the original language text of the Old Testament (the Hebrew Bible)—not the New Testament and not the Apocrypha.
A handful of quacks claim to have found Bible Codes in the King James Version, but they cite a handful of "clusters" of 3-4 words. Serious researchers no longer even mention clusters of less than five words, because true Code clusters routinely contain ten or more words. Many have been found with more than 25 words.
"Are
there Bible Codes in the Apocrypha?"
There are no Bible Codes in the Apocrypha!
The books of Tobit and the Maccabees have been checked. They contain no codes.
Codes have only been found in the Hebrew Old Testament. Studies have been done with a Hebrew translation of "Crime and Punishment" and with other Hebrew-language religious literature from the Old Testament period. Only the Hebrew OT works!
Bible ELS Codes are unique in two ways.
Supernatural Complexity: Hiding that much coded information of any type in any 'surface text' is far beyond the capabilities of any existing computer and any computer technology that can reasonably be envisioned. Just putting that much information in the text would require supernatural abilities.
Prophetic: All the encoded information is prophetic. All the information describes specific events that had not occurred at the time the particular book was written.
"Is there anything in the Bible about 'equidistant letter sequences'?"
As Jeffrey describes at page 119-120 in his Handwriting book (op. cit.), at a January 1997 conference at Tyndale Theological Seminary in Dallas, Texas, in response to a question, Jeffrey had his computer search for the Hebrew word for "equidistant". He found the Hebrew phrase "equidistant letter sequence" (shalav a'ot) encoded in the Hebrew text in each book Genesis through Deuteronomy.
The
Holy Spirit signed
the Bible -- EACH LETTER OF IT
!!!
2 Timothy 3:16-17 [16] All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, [17] so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.
2 Peter 1:20-21 [20] Above all, you must understand that no prophecy of Scripture came about by the prophet's own interpretation. [21] For prophecy never had its origin in the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.
It is critical that no one underestimate the importance of the Bible Codes—GOD THE HOLY SPIRIT SIGNED THE BIBLE—EACH AND EVERY LETTER OF IT. THE BIBLE CODES ARE THE SIGNATURE OF GOD!
Bible Codes researcher Yacov Rambsel found encoded the term me'chatimo, Hebrew for "His Signature".
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