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The Short Story of Bible Codes

I've had a couple people ask me about Bible Codes at YouTube, but YouTube -- the arbiter of all that is acceptable to say or think -- keeps removing my reply. I hope the people who have asked the question will find this.  "I've tried three times to answer but it doesn't remain. I thought I'd try again with some changes. "The Jewish sage, Vilna Gaon once said that all that was, is, and will be is encoded in the Torah. There was a paper on this in the 80's by the mathematicians Eliyahu Rips, Doron Witztum, and Yoav Rosenberg. They had found several codes in the Torah and took their work to Statistical Science magazine. It was the most respected magazine on statistics in the world. The magazine had agreed to publish the paper but then pulled back because they worried about ridicule. However, they agreed to publish if Professor Persi Diaconis, the head of the department of statistics at Stanford University, would approve the paper. Diaconis was consi...

The Rapture Code in Isaiah 26:19-21

This post will examine a rapture code found in Isaiah 26:19-21. Is this random chance or does it mean something? Is it deliberate design or just a lucky fluke? Many consider that passage to be an Old Testament shadow of the rapture. This is similar to the rapture code I covered in my last blog post.  Here are the verses in Isaiah 26:19-21. "But your dead will live, Lord; their bodies will rise—let those who dwell in the dust wake up and shout for joy—your dew is like the dew of the morning; the earth will give birth to her dead. Go, my people, enter your rooms and shut the doors behind you; hide yourselves for a little while until his wrath has passed by. See, the Lord is coming out of his dwelling to punish the people of the earth for their sins. The earth will disclose the blood shed on it; the earth will conceal its slain no longer." Many see those verses as an Old Testament reference to the rapture and resurrection of believers. It certainly speaks of God's people bei...