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In This Month's Issue:
Briefing Short news items of interest to Bible code followers.
Correspondence Input and feedback from our members.
Responding to Randall Ingermanson's Critique Three years ago we were planning a joint Bible codes experiment with code skeptic Randy Ingermanson. But the physicist had to withdraw. We went ahead with our own experiment last year, and now Ingermanson has critiqued it. We believe his criticism is exaggerated, and we explain why in this article.
Do We Need Bible Codes? Are they necessary to the faith of Christians? This article by editor Dave Swaney examines their relevance and compares their significance to archaeology as "faith builders."
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New Book Sheds Light on Iraq-al Qaeda Relationship
The codes we've found in the Ezekiel 37 terrorism cluster since just after the events of 911 have consistently pointed to a link between Saddam Hussein's Iraq and the Islamic terrorist organization, al Qaeda. Even though the worldwide mass media has insisted that there is no association between these cohorts, now a new book by Stephen B. Hayes, The Connection (HarperCollins) blows the lid off this story, showing in detail the massive links between the two. You can read an article about it at the Weekly Standard site. We are making the book available to our members at a reduced price. List price, $19.95. Our special price, $13.97. Buy It!
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History Channel to Repeat Bible Code Programs
Two ratings winners for the History Channel, their documentaries on Bible codes, will be rebroadcast by the cable network Thursday, June 10, 8-10 p.m. EDT. West coast viewers will be happy to know that both shows will be rerun beginning at 11 p.m. PDT that same evening (2-4 a.m. June 11 EDT). International viewers check your local listings. If you can't watch the shows live, you can order both videos here.
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Three Very Interesting New ELSs Discovered
Just a few days before we were set to release this issue of BCD, we discovered three fascinating new ELSs. Two of them are long enough to be included in the Top 20, and the third could be a beautifully accurate description of Saddam Hussein's current situation.
The Cloud Water is Like a Brother. What is Measured? Where is God, Matthias? Who is a Nail to His Hight? They are a Nail to the Emerging One that is Not There, 56 letters, skip 776. One of the ELSs discovered during research of Jesus' disciples names in Isaiah 53, this one passes right through the cluster at chapter 52, verse 15, and with its mention of nails seems to connect strongly to the theme of the cluster, the last hours of Jesus Christ. Its mention of "cloud water" seems to echo the main code of the cluster, Gushing from Above, Yeshua was My Mighty Name, and the Clouds Rejoiced.
God is Love. The Bush that Uttered a Word is Slumbering. The One who Perfects Rejoices. And Who Among You is the Source of Healing? Who will Strike a Name in the Universe? 45 letters, skip 5,083. Is the "bush" the burning bush? Though God is not slumbering, the burning bush has certainly been inactive. The last two sentences of the code read like God's challenges to Job in chapters 38-39, as if to remind us that He is the only One who perfects.
Saddam was Industrious in Prison. The Poor Gentile Felt in a Box, 20 letters, skip 9,654. This code may not have many letters, but its message is delightful, even though it may be years before we know how Saddam passed his time in the slammer.
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Top 20 Longest Codes Discovered Listing Revamped
Our popular listing of the Top 20 Longest Codes Discovered by BCD Researchers has been overhauled to respond to some criticism of the quality of the Hebrew in some terms. We've reorganized the Top 20 to reflect the quality of the Hebrew in three categories first, then letter length of the codes.
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Bible Code Presentation Set for Ashland, Oregon
Bible Code Digest will present a one-hour Powerpoint presentation, "The Case for Bible Codes," at the Upper Room coffee house and book store in Ashland, Oregon, on Saturday night, June 12, at 7 pm. The presentation will focus on code discoveries about Christ found in Isaiah 53 and Psalm 22, two passages generally acknowledged by theologians to be prophecies of the crucifixion of Jesus. The Upper Room is located at the corner of Oak and Hersey Streets, and is part of the campus of Ashland Christian Fellowship.
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Correspondence
I've just been poring over the latest ELS from Moshe Shak. The code is fascinating, but I think there's a pretty strong arguement which can be put forward to suggest that the code is a description of Mel Gibson from an Orthodox Judaic perspective. (References to "the nation" and "God is one" would tend to reinforce this view.) Since Judaism does not accept Jesus as the Messiah, we should hardly be surprised that an ELS from a Judaic viewpoint would be so scathing of a movie which so vividly portrays the centrality of Christ.
I'm aware that Mr Shak contends that all codes tell the truth, but this is a difficult position to argue from, given the content of some of the codes which have been discovered to date.
From a Christian perspective, I struggle to see how Mr Gibson's movie could be anything but positive for the advancement of the Gospel; but from a Judaic perspective, I can totally understand the wording of Mr Shak's ELS.
I suspect that further study will shed greater light on this important topic . . .
Ashley
New Zealand
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Regarding your ELS discovery: ..."Oh, the Mountain of Her Interior Will Bear a Testimonial to Her Name", drew interest from me when I started understanding Mount Moriah in Jerusalem, now popularly known as the Temple Mount, which has been a focal point of Bible history right from very early times, now under Muslim control.
"The level of the bedrock of Mount Moriah outcrops within the Dome of the Rock and is just beneath the paving stones of the surrounding platform . . ."
My observation (please correct me if I'm wrong) relating to the controversy of the exact location for the re-building of the second and third temple:
Maybe there is information within the portion of bedrock within the Dome of the Rock that provides the answer for where the two temples were initially built centuries ago and as backed by your recent ELS find.
For more information, visit the Temple Mount.org site.
Jeff
Reston, Virginia
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I realize the interpretation of "scripture-continuous" is very hazardous. The ancient divines had learned elders who had memorized the text and could correct improper divisions of letters. Those working with codes have only the context, as I see it, plus a lexicon, like Tregelles's and unlike the modern varieties less interested in "root meaning."
My suggestion is based on Tregelles p. 240 and p. 332 and the prompting of the present conversion rate to Christianity of 125,000 per day in world evangelism. We must soon be approaching that day when natural Israel will be aroused and be grafted back in. The theme of the Book of Ephesians is "The Glory of God in the Church." Should this glorification occur in Iraq, the land of Daniel and Ezekiel's burial places, and the Glory appears over the church in the Middle East, I should expect that earth's continual praises will reverberate into that Heavenly praise which rolls across the heavens at the Rapture. With 125,000 per day increasing to become in one day the sum total of all the Jews in all the world, the sounds from the Hills of Heavens would best be described in the phrase by which Von Braun painted the atomic bomb: "ear gesplitting louder boomer." What a Day that will be!
I just sampled some of the derived coding and since I could not identify the proper name immediately, I offered the conjectural reading as proper both to the context and to the experience of Ezekiel. The Glory departed from the Temple, went with Ezekiel into what is now Iraq, and never returned to the Jerusalem Temple. God inhabits the praises of Israel and the Glory does come down on the continuously praising congregation. It is this Glory which will persuade the unbelieving Jew. Therein lies the jealousy that will spark Israel's conversion.
As I recall, this was my thinking as I meditated on the code and the text. I see the digitally derived code producing what only meditation and prayer could have provided in former years.
Eddie Ruddick
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