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I have covered codes in the Hebrew Bible before on my blog. Specifically in my post on how the Bible Codes and the Shroud of Turin led me to Christ, but Equidistant Letter Sequence codes are not the only codes found in the Bible. There are a variety of codes. Perhaps one of the most obvious "codes" is foreshadowing. One event is often a prophetic foreshadowing of later events. We especially see this phenomenon at work in the Feasts of the Lord. Each Feast pointed to a future prophetic fulfillment in the ministry and purposes of Jesus the Messiah. Passover pointed to the ultimate slaying of the Lamb of God -- Jesus -- and His deliverance of mankind from destruction by His blood.
Many take issue with blood atonement, and find it barbaric, but the history of mankind is bloodshed. Our history is marked out by the wars we have waged and how much blood we have shed. It makes sense that it is blood that pays for all of that shed blood. We also know that the wage for sin is death, and the Bible says life is in the blood. However, that's not the purpose of this post. The purpose of this post is some of the codes that have been discovered in the Bible.
In his video, "Beyond Time Space - Part 2", Chuck Missler gave one of those "strange linkages" between the Bible and science that he was famous for while he was alive.
I may not have agreed with him on some of his more bizarre theories, but I found this odd fact intriguing. Beginning around the twenty-four minute mark, he dealt with "The Constants of the Universe."
I have loosely transcribed that section of the lecture and include it below. It is not a strict transcription because Missler frequently interrupted himself, discussed something else, and then would pick back up. I have stayed true to his message -- even if not his exact words or the means he used to express himself.
He opened this section by discussing one of the things that disturbs scientists, and that is the discovery that the "constants" of physics are not "constant." Missler pointed to an article in "Scientific American," June 2005, p.57-63, about the "non-constancy of constants" and that our three-dimensional world is a "shadow of a larger reality."
Personally, I believe this lines up with numerous passages in the Bible that speak of the tabernacle and the Temple as being shadows of the actual Temple -- which is in Heaven. I also believe it fits in with the importance of the number twelve. On earth we have the twelve tribes of Israel, and we have the twelve apostles. Are they shadows of the twenty-four elders in Heaven in the book of Revelation? There are other types of heavenly realities and early shadows in scripture as well.
But our 3-dimensional world is a "shadow of a larger reality," and that is what scripture has always taught. ("By faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that the things which are seen were not made of things which are visible." Hebrews 11:3. "And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist." Colossians 1:17.)
The below information begins at approximately the twenty-four minute mark of "Beyond Time Space - Part 2 - Chuck Missler."
Missler explains that when looking at the constants of physics, we discover that at least two of them are "dimensionless." They are ratios. They are true whether they are in inches, yards, or miles.
One is Pi, π. It is the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter, and the ratio is a fraction that is a precise number. In school, the approximation is usually 22/7(ths). People in engineering will likely use 3.14159.
The other dimensionless ratio is Log e. It's the base of a Natural Logarithm, the Log of e. The number 'e' is another number like Pi -- it's dimensionless -- but it has some very peculiar properties, and it is very important in mathematics.
When talking about the creation, there are two key verses in the Bible. They are Genesis 1:1 and John 1:1.
Genesis 1:1 states, "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth."
In that verse, there are twenty-eight letters and seven words in the Hebrew text.
As Missler discusses, Hebrew and Greek share a common characteristic. Each letter of their alphabet has a numerical value. No other language shares that characteristic. It is a peculiar property of the Biblical languages Hebrew and Greek. Six Roman letters have some numerical values but not their entire alphabet as is the case with Hebrew and Greek.
A puzzling thing has been discovered about the Hebrew of Genesis 1:1. If you take the number of letters multiplied by the product of the letters and then divide it by the number of words multiplied by the product of the words, you get Pi to four decimal places. You get 3.1416. The odds that this is by coincidence is x 10 to the 17th power.
Next, Missler discusses John Napier (1550-1617). Napier is the mathematician who discovered Logarithms -- "Natural" or "Napaerian" Logarithms, Log e, Ln. There is a certain kind of logarithm that has properties that cause it to show up everywhere in mathematics, so they call it a "Natural" logarithm (or a "Napaerian" logarithm in John Napier's honor). Napier also promoted the use of decimal points in fractions. Missler's point is that John Napier discovered the peculiar number "e" in mathematics. (The number "e" is most commonly defined as the limit of the expression (1 + 1/n) to the nth power as "n" becomes large without bound.) The limiting value of "e" is approximately 2.718281828...and so on.
Missler says it has some strange mathematical properties and is important in mathematics for a variety of reasons, such as: The number "e" forms the base of natural, or Napaerian, logarithms; it is found in formulas in wave mechanics and in electrical theory; in advanced math it has an irrational part in the trig function; it describes the distribution of prime numbers; and, as stated, it is usually approximated as 2.718281828...and so on.
Missler related the information about John Napier and Logarithms to set up another pivotal creation verse -- John 1:1.
"In the Beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God."
Missler turns to the Greek text of John 1:1 and does the same thing with it that he did with Genesis 1:1. (Remember, in Greek, like Hebrew, every letter has a numerical value.) Missler takes the number of Greek letters multiplied by the product of the letters and divides that by the number of words multiplied by the product of the words, and he gets "e" to four decimal places. 2.7183. The odds of that happening by coincidence are x 10 to the 65th = e x 10 to the 65th. (Anything greater than 10 to the 50th is considered absurd. By the way, I personally find it rather remarkable that the discovery of "John" Napier should be encoded in the opening verse of the gospel of "John" -- encoded some 1500 years before John Napier even lived.)
As Missler says, if you have been following this, it has to stir the back of the neck. Pi and 'e' are both encoded, and they are encoded in the two most pivotal creation verses in the Bible. It is too weird to be coincidental, especially to four decimal places.
He calls this precision "staggering". The significance of both of these -- the dimensionless, constants of the universe -- being in these significant Biblical texts by coincidence is ridiculously absurd, which becomes apparent when you start doing the math of that "coincidence." And there are dozens more like this in the Biblical text -- links that connect the constants of the universe to the Biblical text, and they occur in key, related passages. (For example, I remember one lecture Missler gave about the Old Testament's Laver and how Pi was encoded in its dimensions.)
Missler's conclusion is that these things point to a design in the Biblical text that is staggering. It also shows that the fingerprints of God are all over the Bible. We have no good reason for rejecting the Bible or denying that is is the Divinely inspired Word of God.
