"Usually people wait for things to occur before trying to describe them," wrote Jonathan Schell in his definitive book abut the nuclear threat, The Fate of the Earth. But since we cannot afford under any circumstances to let a holocaust occur, we are forced in this case to become the historians of the future."
"I don't know why I'm involved in this, "I told Rips late one night in a few days after Rabin was killed. I'm not religious. I don't even believe in God. I'm a total skeptic. There is no one who would be harder to persuade this is real than me." Michael Drosnin
On September 1, 1994, Michael Drosnin flew to Israel to meet the poet Chaim Guri, a close friend of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, and gave him a letter to give to the Prime Minister. His letter stated:
"An Israeli mathematician has discovered a hidden code in the Bible that appears to reveal the details of events that took place thousands of years after the Bible was written."
"The reason I'm telling you about this is that the only time your full name - Yitzhak Rabin - is encoded in the Bible, the words 'assassin that will assassinate' cross your name."
On November 4, 1995, came the awful confirmation that Rabin suffered a shot in the back from a man who believed he was on a mission from God. His murder was encoded in the Bible three thousand years ago!
For three thousand years a code in the Bible has remained hidden. Now it has been unlocked by computer - and it may reveal our future. Events that happened thousands of years after the Bible was written - World War II, the Moon landing, Watergate, both Kennedy assassinations, the election of Bill Clinton, the Oklahoma City bombing - all were foretold in the code.
In a few dramatic cases detailed predictions were found in advance, and the events then happened exactly as predicted. The date that the Gulf War would begin was found before the war started. The Rabin assassination was found a year before the murder.
The code may now warn of unprecedented danger yet to come - perhaps the real Apocalypse - a nuclear World War.
ARMAGEDDON
The word "Armageddon" comes from the last book of the New Testament. It is a real place and is the Greek name for an ancient city in Israel - Megiddo. In Hebrew, "Mount Megiddo" is "Harmegiddo" . One would wonder why such a remote site would have any significance or ever be the site of a major battle. However, near Megiddo, hidden from tourists, is one of Israel's most important Air Force bases, Ramat David. It is in the north, facing Israel's implacable foe, Syria.
The plain words of both the Old and New Testaments predicts that the "Final Battle" will begin in Israel with an attack on the Holy City, Jerusalem, and finally engulf the entire world.
Jerusalem, the most fought-over city in history - from the time King David conquered it, and the Babylonians burned it, and the Romans destroyed it, and the Crusaders besieged it, down through 3000 years of bloody conflict that did not end when the Israelis took it back in the 1967 war - is clearly encoded in the Bible as the target of the predicted nuclear attack.
The last book of the New Testament predicts a final war of unprecedented fury: "Satan shall be loosed out of his prison, and shall go out to deceive the nations in the four quarters of the Earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle." No one knows where the ancient "Gog and Magog" were located, but the original prophecy of the Final Battle, told in Ezekiel, is that Israel will be invaded from the North: "You will come from your place in the far north, you and many nations with you, a great horde, a mighty army." The only modern enemy north of Israel is Syria, which is encoded in Ezekiel, starting in the verse that predicts the invasion. Syria's allies are named "Persia" and "Phut", countries that are now called Iran and Libya.
The plain text of Ezekiel predicts a terrible battle between Israel and the surrounding Arab nations, "a great slaughter on the mountains of Israel. According to the Bible code, that is how World War III might begin - with an atomic attack on Jerusalem, followed by an invasion of Israel.
The year - 2006.
"I do not know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." Albert Einstein
THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS
In 1947, a Bedouin shepherd boy threw a stone into a cave out in the hills above the Dead Sea. He heard the sound of pottery breaking and investigated the sound. He found urns of pottery hidden in the cave and in one of the urns was found the oldest know copy of the Bible - proven to be 2000 years old. This Bible concealed a computerized code that foretold events that happened thousands of years after the Bible was written.
One of the scrolls found in the caves was the 2500 year Isaiah scroll on display in Jerusalem whose entire text was found intact. No one yet knew that in the ancient scroll was a hidden warning that Jerusalem might be destroyed in a nuclear attack, and "atomic holocaust" that might trigger a "World War", the real Armageddon. It is the first reference to the secret "sealed book" in the Bible. At first Isaiah states that no one will be able to open the "sealed book". But finally, Isaiah predicts that it will be opened:
"He recognized the words, they will be computerized, his report they heard on this day, the secrets, the magical words of the book."
THE APOCALYPSE
In every version of the Apocalypse, the final blow is a massive earthquake. In Revelation, the last book of the New Testament, is the seventh plague from the seventh angel: "And there was a great earthquake, such as was not since man were upon the Earth, so mighty an earthquake, and so great.
Ezekiel actually predicts that the final war with Gog and Magog will end that way: "On that day there shall be a great earthquake in the land of Israel. All the people on the face of the Earth shall tremble at my presence. The mountains will be overturned, the cliffs will crumble and every wall will fall to the ground."
The word "annexed" that appears twice with "Holocaust of Israel" is used by Israeli authorities to describe the only two territories captured in the 1967 war that were formally made part of Israel - the Golan Heights and East Jerusalem. the Golan formerly belonged to Syria, which still claims it, and recently moved elite troops into position around it. East Jerusalem was part of Jordan, and is claimed by the Palestinians as the capital of their homeland.
The name Arafat appears only twice with no skips in the original text of the Bible, and one of these times appears with the only meeting of the two Biblical expressions of the "End of Days."
There are several references in the Zohar (an ancient commentary part of the so-called "hidden Midrash" which reveals the secrets not openly in the Torah) that indicate a future time of warfare in Israel in the "End of Days" before the coming of the Messiah. In Zohar Genesis 1:19A it is stated that "the children of Ishmael will prepare to arouse all the nations of the world to come against Jerusalem." It is also stated that Israel might be saved from the attack.
Ishmael was one of two sons of Abraham whose mother was a servant. Supposedly, because Sarah seemed unable to become pregnant, Abraham's illicit liaison with Hagar, the Egyptian, resulted. However, when Isaac was born to Abraham's wife Sarah afterwards, she insisted: "Get rid of that slave woman and her son, for that slave woman's son will never share in the inheritance with my son, Isaac." When Ishmael was born, the words of the Bible seem to foretell the battle to come: "He will be a wild donkey of a man, his hand will be against everyone and everyone's hand will be against him" (Genesis 16:12).
EARTHQUAKES
The code seems to warn that over the next 100 years there will be a series of "great earthquakes" around the world. Three years were clearly encoded with "the great terror": 2000, 2014, and 2113. The distant year is the best match.
The United States, China, Japan, and Israel are all encoded with "great earthquake" in the near future.
Future Quakes:
Los Angelos - 2010 China - 2006 Israel (located on what may be the world's greatest fault line (the Red Sea rift) - 2006 Japan - 2006
THE BIBLE CODE
The code was discovered by an Israeli mathematician, Dr. Eliyahu Rips, one of the world's leading experts in group theory, a field of mathematics that underlies quantum physics. It has been confirmed by famous mathematicians at Harvard, Yale, and the Hebrew University. It has been replicated by a senior code-breaker at the U.S. Department of Defense. It has passed three levels of secular peer review at a leading U.S. math journal.
When Drosnin met Rips for the first time, Rips pulled down a volume from his bookshelf and quoted an 18th century sage called the Genius of Vilna who had written: The rule is that all that was, is, and will be unto the end of time is included in the Torah, from the first word to the last word. "The Bible code is a computer program," he explained.
The Bible code was discovered in the original Hebrew version of the Old Testament; the Bible as it was first written. The code is ecumenical but exists only in Hebrew as this is the original language of the Bible. Rips said that the first hint of the encoding had been found more than 50 years ago by a rabbi in Prague, Czechoslovakia, H.M.D. Weissmandel. He had heard about it totally by chance. Seeking the original book, he finally found the only copy at the National Library in Israel. There were only a few pages about the code, but it seemed interesting. That was about 12 years ago.
Isaac Newton was certain that there was a hidden code in the Bible that would reveal the future. He learned Hebrew and spent half his life trying to find it. It had become his obsession. The discovery that had eluded Newton was made by Rips because he had the one essential tool that Newton lacked - a computer. The hidden text of the Bible was encoded with a kind of time-lock. It could not be opened until the computer had been invented! According to Rips, there is an infinite amount of information encoded in the Bible. Each time a new name or word or phrase is discovered in the code, a new crossword puzzle is formed.
Einstein said: "The distinction between past, present, and future is only an illusion, however persistent." Time is not all what it seems. It does not flow in one direction, and the future exists simultaneously with the past.
If the future can be foreseen, can it also be changed?
The question is whether the Bible code tells us what will happen or may happen, presents one pre-determined future, or predicts all the possible futures. Physicists have been locked in the same debate ever since Werner Heisenberg formulated his famous Uncertainty Principle.
Stephen Hawking put it this way: "Quantum mechanics does not predict a single definite result for an observation. Instead, it predicts a number of different possible outcomes, and tells us how likely each of these is." (visit my page parallel_universe.htm) on this website. He also said: "One cannot predict future events exactly if one cannot even measure the present state of the universe exactly!"
Einstein never accepted that the universe was governed by chance. "Quantum mechanics is certainly imposing, but an inner voice tells me that it is not yet the real thing. The theory says a lot, but does not really bring us any closer to the secret of the "Old One". "God does not play dice."
There is still a great deal no one knows about the Bible code. It is like a giant jigsaw puzzle with thousands of pieces, and we only have a few hundred. When the Bible code becomes widely known and people try to use it to predict the future, they must understand that all probabilities are there and what we do may determine what actually happens. Theoretically there is no limit to the amount of information that could be encoded. The Bible code may be a timed series of revelations, each designed for the technology of its age. It is many more levels deep and we do not have a powerful enough mathematical model to reach it. It's probably less like a crossword puzzle and more like a hologram. Right now, we are only looking at two-dimensional arrays. Every scientist, mathematician, and physicist who understand the code agrees that no present day computer technology could have encoded the Bible the way it was done 3000 years ago. Apparently the answer we are seeking will be found in the fifth dimension that all quantum physicists not agree exists. The New York Times recently reported that mankind may be ready to take the next leap to harness the world inside atoms and create "an information-processing method so powerful that it would be to ordinary computing what nuclear energy is to "fire." This quantum computer could perform in minutes calculations that would take the fastest super computers we now have hundreds of millions of years to complete!
WHAT CAN WE DO?
"Code will save." These words appear above "atomic holocaust" and below "the End of Days" and also have a second translation in Hebrew, "codes of Moses". In Hebrew, Moses actually means to "pull out, extricate, rescue".
In a time of turmoil and world chaos, guidelines and insights are desperately needed. As more and more people become aware of the Bible Code the endeavors of Michael Drosnin and the scientists and mathematicians who have authenticated its contents and importance, we, as responsible citizens of the planet, will unite in prayer and action to overcome the negativity and evil in the world in this final battle of Armageddon. This mission starts with you - your thoughts, deeds, attitudes, compassion, and search for truth. Instead of the irresponsible comments that I have recently seen in critique of this book, I urge those of you reading this page to make an effort to read the book before deciding its contents are bogus and a lot of hype. I compare this important breakthrough to the phenomena of the Crop Circles - they are tools to help us become aware of sacred truths. Those in denial who refuse to have an open mind and can only offer ridicule and criticism will remain trapped in fear and negativity.
Wake up, my friends. We are living in very interesting and intense times.