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'Even within a world created by an all-powerful and benevolent God, there can be a struggle between good and evil, whose outcome is uncertain,' says Eli Rips.

The Bible code may be a set of probabilities. The sealed book might hold all our possible futures. Each predicted event appears to be encoded with at least two possible outcomes.

Rips agrees that the Bible code might have a positive and a negative strand, two opposing statements of reality intertwined: 'As in court, an Advocate, and an Accuser.'

'Possibly there are two opposing statements always encoded to preserve our free will, and it may be that the Bible code is written as a debate,' said Rips. 'According to the Midrash, the world was created twice - it was first conceived from the point of view of absolute judgement, right and wrong. Then God saw that the world could not exist this way, that there was no room for human imperfection, and he added mercy.

'But it's not like mixing hot and cold water and getting lukewarm, it's like mixing fire and snow and each preserves its separate. existence. That may be the two strands in the Bible code.'

Rips, however, does not believe that there are two encoders. 'The Bible must have been encoded all at once by one mind,' he insisted. 'But it may encode two different points of view.'

He opened the Bible to Isaiah 45:7, and read it to me: 'I am the Lord and there is none else, I form the light, and create darkness; I make peace and create evil; I, the Lord, do all these things.'

For Rips, as a mathematician and as a devout Jew, there is no need to ask the question, Who is the encoder?

The answer is obvious. The encoder, the Advocate and the Accuser are all one. It is God.

For me, it was not that simple. I had proof there was a code, but not proof there was a God. If the Bible code came from an all-powerful God, he would not need to tell us the future. He could change it himself.

The code seemed, instead, to be from someone good, but not all- powerful, who wanted to warn us of a terrible danger so we could prevent it ourselves.

The Book of Revelation states that the Final Battle will come by / Page76 / surprise, like a thief in the night. In fact, the words that come right before Armageddon are, 'Behold, I come as a thief.'

The Bible is a warning of sudden and inevitable doom.

But the real message of the Bible code is just the opposite. A warning is encoded in the Bible so that we can prevent the threatened Apocalypse.

The truth is hidden in the last chapter of Daniel, the verses that describe the 'sealed book.'

They reveal that the secret book was designed to be found now. This year, 1997, in the ancient Hebrew calendar 5757, is encoded with the words, 'He sealed the book until the time of the End.' Right above that the hidden text states, 'for you, the hidden secrets.' And crossing '5757,' again those same words, which also mean 'for you, it was encoded.'

But who was the encoder?

The last words spoken to Daniel - 'Go thy way till the end be, for thou shalt rest, and stand up for thy inheritance at the End of Days' - have a second meaning.

They also tell the story of someone who has been struggling all through time to prevent a foreseen disaster, and bring history to a good end: .

'You will persevere for the fate of everyone to the End of Days.' Someone hid in the Bible a warning - the information we need to prevent the destruction of this world."


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THE BIBLE CODE
Michael Drosnin 1997

CHAPTER FOUR

THE SEALED BOOK

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" 'It is what is stated in the Midrash,' said Rips, referring to the ancient commentary on the Bible. 'It is perhaps the "exile under Ishmael" just before the "End of Days." Some of the Midrash say that at a time of Arab domination, 80% of the Israeli population will be killed.'

We were both silent for a moment. 'This may be what you are finding in the code,' said Rips.

I had not known of the ancient prophecy. Ishmael was the first son of the patriarch Abraham, the one he sent away. According to the Bible, he is the forebear of all Arabs. Abraham's second son, Isaac, was the chosen inheritor. He is the forebear of all Jews. The family feud had been going on for 4000 years, and was predicted to come to a terrible end.

In January 1997 Netanyahu and Arafat did shake hands on shared control of Hebron, the city where Abraham is said to be buried, and set a timetable for a broader settlement. But the most difficult issue, the final status of Jerusalem, which both the Israelis and the Palestinians claim as their capital, remained unresolved. And there was no way to know if the stiff handshake at 3 AM on 15 January would lead to a real peace, or a new outbreak of violence.

In March 1997 the peace began to unravel. Arafat rejected the first step in Israel's planned withdrawal from the occupied territories. Netanyahu announced that he would build a Jewish neighborhood in the heart of East Jerusalem, seen by the Palestinians as the capital of their future homeland.

'The saddest reality that has been dawning on me,' Jordan's King Hussein wrote Netanyahu as the tensions began to build, 'is that I do not find you by my side in working to fulfill God's will for the final / Page 134 / reconciliation of all the descendants of the children of Abraham.'

And on 21 March, violence did erupt in Tel Aviv,Jerusalem, and Hebron. A Palestinian suicide bomber killed three and wounded forty at a Tel Aviv cafe, the first terrorist attack since Netanyahu was elected. On the same day, riots broke out in Hebron, and in Arab East Jerusalem at the site of the Jewish housing project, Har Homa.

'Har Homa' is encoded in the most sacred text of the Bible. It appears with no skips in the Mezuzah, the fifteen verses that were preserved in a separate scroll and posted on the door of every home in Israel.

And encoded with 'Har Homa' are the ominous words, 'All his people to war.'

'All his people to war,' the words in the Bible code originally found with the Rabin assassination, and found again with the wave of bombings in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv that shattered the peace Rabin had forged with Arafat, had once more in September 1996 and March 1997 become a reality. And those same words also appeared with the ultimate danger, 'atomic holocaust.'

Each spark that might set off the holocaust was foreseen, but until each crisis came to an end there was no way to know if it was just another skirmish in a 4000-year-old feud, or the beginning of Armageddon.

It may be impossible to know both what and when.

'Physics has given up,' said Richard P. Feynman, the Nobel laureate many consider the greatest scientist since Einstein. 'We do not know how to predict what will happen in a given circumstance. The only thing that can be predicted is the probability of different events. We can only predict the odds.'

And yet quantum physics is a highly successful branch of science. It works. Perhaps because it recognizes uncertainty as part of reality."

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Dear theone so nice to see back beavering on behalf of the Oracle Forum community it seems a long while since we last crossed paths but time flashes onward at an alarming rate these days. Almost Christmas again and the last one still so vivid in the memory. And thank you for another freshly thought provoking posts, Bible codes a contest among highly committed members of both the 'for' and 'against' schools of thought. Here is my contribution to the conversation. Regards Redbeck

The most widely used decoding method through which supposedly meaningful messages have been extracted from the Bible is kown as the Equidistant Letter Sequence (ELS). To obtain an ELS from a text, a starting point must be selected (in principle, any letter) along with a skip number, also a free range selection and potentially negative. From then, beginning at the starting point, letters are selected from the text at equal spacing intervals according to the skip number. For example, the bold letters contained within this sentence form an ELS. Using a skip of minus 4 (in other words, reading backwards every fourth letter), and ignoring all spaces and punctuation, the word safest is spelled out.

Often more than one ELS relating to a topic can be simultaneously displayed in what is referred to as an ELS letter array. This array is created by writing out the text in a regular grid, with exactly the same number of letters in each line (no spaces or punctuation), then snipping out a rectangle. In the example beneath, part of the King James Version of Genesis (26:5–10) is shown in an array containing 21 letters per line. In this case ELSs for the words "Bible" and "code" are shown. Normally only a smaller rectangle would be displayed, such as the rectangle drawn in the figure. In that case there would be letters missing between adjacent lines in the picture, but crucially the number of missing letters must be the same for each line.





While the examples shown are found in English texts, Bible codes proponents usually use a Hebrew Bible text. For religious reasons, most Jewish practioners of bible coding only use the Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy) as the source.

In more complex examples, what are known as ELS Extensions are brought into play.

Once a specific word has been identified as an ELS the natural progression is to check if that word is actually part of a longer ELS consisting of multiple words. Code proponents Haralick and Rips have published an example of a longer, extended ELS, which reads, "Destruction I will call you; cursed is Bin Laden and revenge is to the Messiah (although in Hebrew, appositives are used in place of’ to be’, and a lack of helper verbs, and the less frequent use of definite articles, would involve far fewer words than the English phraseology).

ELS extensions that form phrases or sentences are of interest. Advocates of the system maintain that the longer the extended ELS, the less likely it is to be the result of chance. Dubious critics however rebuff this, as in the Skeptical Inquirer deconstruction in 1997, maintaining that the longer ELS is in fact effectively nothing more than further increased number of permutations, employing a massive application of what they refer to as the ‘Look-elsewhere effect’.

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I likewise hope your travels have been well Redbeck, it is strange to see our corner of the web have grown so much.


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“Each letter of the Hebrew alphabet is given a numerical value; by combining the letters with the sacred numbers, rearranging them in endless configurations, the mystic weaned his mind away from the normal connotations of woRds”

“The essence of mathematics is to look for patterns.

Our minds seem to be organised to search for relationships and sequences. We look for hidden orders.

These intuitions seem to be more important than the facts themselves, for there is always the thrill at finding something, a pattern, it is a discovery - what was unknown is now revealed. Imagine looking up at the stars and finding the zodiac!

Searching out patterns is a pure delight.

Suddenly the counters fall into place and a connection is found, not necessarily a geometric one, but a relationship between numbers, pictures of the mind, that were not obvious before. There is that excitement of finding order in something that was otherwise hidden.

And there is the knowledge that a huge unseen world lurks behind the facades we see of the numbers themselves."