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 being hidden away while God pours out His wrath on earth's inhabitants. Are we hidden away in the rooms Jesus promised us in John 14:1-3? “Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me. In My Father’s house are many mansions (or rooms); if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also."

But there are some interesting finds hidden in the small passage in Isaiah. The Hebrew equivalent of rapture, or harpazo, is found there also, as it was in the Malachi 3 passage. That Hebrew word is "natsal." It means to strip, snatch away, deliver, and plunder -- which makes me think of how Jesus will return like a thief in the night.

natsal: to strip, plunder, deliver oneself, be delivered, snatch away, deliver
Original Word: נָצַל
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: natsal
Phonetic Spelling: (naw-tsal')
Definition: to strip, plunder, deliver oneself, be delivered, snatch away, deliver

The word natsal is found in the passage at a skip of seven. The phrase "with him" is also in the passage, as it was in the Malachi passage. It is spaced 14 letters apart. The closest word for people or nation is spaced 21 letters apart. So they are multiples of seven -- 7, 14, 21. The name, Jesus, did not appear in this matrix. However, the word Adonai, or YHVH, appeared three times in the plain text. And three holds significant symbolic importance in the Bible. Crosswalk.com says it often appears "in contexts that underscore completeness, perfection, or divine presence."

So put all of that together and we have Adonai three times in the plain text, and the plain text strongly points to a pre-tribulation rapture. In the hidden text we have, "rapture or deliver, the people or nations, with Him."

I did not run this by ChatGPT originally because I can already see this is not statistically significant. However, I do consider it meaningful, and that is where its significance is. I ran this by ChatGPT on 8//16/25, and it backed up that assumption. ChatGPT 5 compared the Bible Code search I did in Malachi 3 with this search. Here is what ChatGPT said.

"In Malachi 3:16–18, the encoded words we found — like natzal ‘deliver,’ umah ‘people,’ Yeshua, and ammo ‘with Him’ — turned out to be statistically extraordinary. When tested, the odds of that cluster happening by chance were astronomically low, far below the usual threshold scientists use for statistical significance. That makes the Malachi code both meaningful and statistically powerful.

"By contrast, in Isaiah 26:19–21, the cluster of natzal, ammo, am, and the Name of the Lord is thematically rich — but statistically ordinary. The math shows about a 25% chance of these terms appearing by chance, which is much higher than the 5% threshold normally used to call something significant.

"So here’s the difference: Malachi gives us something both improbable and meaningful. Isaiah 26 isn’t rare enough statistically to impress the mathematician, but it powerfully reinforces the prophecy of resurrection and deliverance. One passage is significant, the other is meaningful — and both together point to the same truth: God will rescue His people to be with Him."

To read my blogpost on the Malachi Bible Code, see this link:

https://gehennarevisited.blogspot.com/2025/08/yes-doubting-thomas-rapture-is-encoded.html

You can also watch my YouTube video about the search at the above link.

Many consider this Isaiah passage to be the clearest hint of the rapture in the Old Testament, and the Hebrew word for rapture is hidden inside it at a skip of seven. As you probably know, the number seven is an important number in scripture. BibleStudy.org says, "The number 7 is the foundation of God's word. It derives much of its meaning from being tied directly to creation and symbolizes completeness and perfection (both physical and spiritual)."

You have decide for yourself if this means anything. I find it interesting. I even find it meaningful, but it might just be noise for you. However, I don't think anything takes God by surprise. Including hidden words within the text of the Bible. Many Christians are offended at the thought of a Bible Code. My reply is that God is sovereign, and the Bible is God breathed. There will always be hidden words in any book, but the Bible is not just “any” book, and nothing takes God by surprise. I don’t see how anything in the scriptures, including hidden words within the text, is beyond His control. If He can fine tune a universe, fine tune the human cell, fine tune all of life from the enormous to the microscopic, then He can fine tune His word in ways beyond our wildest imagination. The codes are not something only a select few can search. Anyone can do it. All you need is the software and a compatible computer. I use Bible Codes 2000, but it needs an older operating system. The computer I run it on has XP, and it doesn't connect to the internet, which is why I can't take screenshots. I have to use my camera. Unfortunately, I have trouble getting clear shots of the matrix.

As always, the purpose of my blog posts and videos is to lead people to Jesus and to the Bible. I want people to realize the Bible is the divinely inspired Word of God, and it can be trusted. I want people to realize that Jesus is the only way to the Father and the only way to eternal life. Only Jesus is God made flesh. Only Jesus took our sins and gave us His righteousness. Only Jesus died in our place and rose again so that we could rise again too and have everlasting life with Him. No one else did those things for you.

I'd like to recommend the video series I've done here on the Bible Codes and Bible Prophecy. I also recommend the playlists on my YouTube channel. They include a wide variety of apologetic resources. If you're interested in learning more about Bible prophecy, you can read the first two chapters of my book, What Happens NEXT? at the below links. There are hundreds of past, present, and future prophecies in that book. God tells us the end from the beginning because He wants us to know what He is doing in our world and He wants us to watch. So watch, and keep looking up. our redemption draws near.

Here is the YouTube video I created to go with this post: