Secrets of the Bible

By Gerald Simpkins

This is a book about the phenomena known as 'Bible Codes' or 'Torah Codes'.

In 1988 a group of Rabbis forwarded a paper to the London based Royal Statistical Society proving that pertinent words appear in the book of Genesis at equally spaced intervals. The RSS examined the evidence and finally concluded that indeed this is true and that they could offer no explanation for it.

Then a few years later the evidence was sent to the American publisher Statistical Science. They in turn devised their own test and were astonished to find that all of the 34 names of prominent Jews they submitted were indeed found encoded in the book of Genesis along with the date of that persons' birth or death. They set the odds against that being coincidental as 50,000 : 1. A second set of names selected by Statistical Science was tried and they found all 34 of them too with the dates of their birth or death. That time they set the odds of this being a coincidence at a whopping 2.5 billion to 1 . However they only published the 50,000:1 figure.

It turns out that he entire Old Testament as preserved in the Masoretic Hebrew Text contains such startling and pertinent words. Some amplify and harmonize with the text while others point to a future event that occurs sometimes centuries later as verified in the bible itself. The name of Jesus appears in the Old Testament many times spelled at intervals in passages that relate to his future appearance.

This has been called 'Bible Codes', 'Torah Codes' and other things as well. This book shows you exactly where some of the things both I and others found using two computer programs. You can actually verify this for yourself by looking at a Jewish bible exactly where I tell you to look.

The book provides links to the articles and instructions for downloading free software so that you can search and verify for yourself. It also provides the name of the Hebrew-English dictionary and Hebrew-English bible that I used to verify all of my finds and even those of others before me.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Gerald Simpkins
• Release date: Dec 12, 2013
• ISBN: 9781311008442

Gerald Simpkins

Now retired, I had a lifelong career in telecommunications. I have a love of the written word and have always admired those who can skillfully express feelings and events in writing. My novel 'Forever Young The Beginning' is my first attempt at fiction. I also wrote a book about Bible Codes in 1998 which is titled 'Secrets of the Bible'. I live in the Southeastern United States in the countryside with my wife Kathy. For some ten years, I had a deep love affair with flying. Hopelessly hooked after my very first flight on a hang glider, I began a journey of flying gliders and ultralights, even becoming a dealer for three different brands and an observer for the southeastern region of the then U S H G Assn. To this day, I have to say that I loved that more than any past time, hobby, or sport in which I ever participated. Next to being a husband and father, it was the high point of my life. I love to write and I thoroughly enjoy creating characters and developing them to where my readers can get a feel for not only how they look, but how they tick. Developing a plot and filling it with shocks, surprises, humorous events, and tenderness is what I strive for; and I love to fill my stories with the full range of human emotions from true love to extreme hatred, from warm companionship to extreme rage, and from laughter to tears. Surprises and the full range of human emotions should be liberally sprinkled throughout the length of a good story in my view. My goal is to transport the reader to a place where he cannot otherwise go simply by the power of my words. I hope to refine the skills that I have long admired before I ever turned my hand toward becoming an author.

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Preface

This book deals with a phenomenon which is often called by the following names. ‘Bible Codes’, ‘Torah Codes’, ‘Interval Reading’, ‘Skip Reading’, ‘Equidistant Letter Spacing’, and ‘Acrostics’. When I wrote it I furnished every word revealed in both English and Hebrew spellings, side by side. However, Adobe Digital Editions has issues reproducing Hebrew and other types of fonts, so the system replaced those fonts with question marks. I apologize for that, but I cannot correct it. The book does tell exactly where each revealed word is found, gives it in English, and gives specific instructions where to begin counting and gives the first Hebrew letter of each word revealed. So you can get a Wilson’s Hebrew-English dictionary and find every one and see it for yourself being as that will give the correct spelling in Hebrew.

It is a fact that there are thousands of words and phrases encoded in the Hebrew Masoretic Text of the Old Testament (called the ‘Tenach’ by Jews). These words are spelled out at equally spaced intervals both backward and forward everywhere throughout the Hebrew Masoretic Text of the Old Testament. These words may also appear as acrostics which might be either the first letter of some consecutive words or as the last letter of some consecutive words, to form a word or phrase. These acrostics may form words which might be spelled forward or backward too.

By itself, these words would mean nothing at all because any text in any language about any subject at all might have one or more words appear as described above. Only in the Bible though, and most reliably only in the Hebrew Masoretic Text do these words bear witness to the text itself. Some agree with the text while others actually predict something that happens later in the Bible. In no other work in the world will this phenomenon be found.

You the reader must determine if these examples I have presented are significant or evident of a supernatural origin. I have taken the liberty of including some finds made by others people in this work. They are identified as such wherever I have included them. As I have done, you should look at the text and context of the passages in which these words appear and judge if they do indeed agree with the plain and apparent meaning of the text. I am certain that many of you will be as startled as I was when I first saw them. At the time I first wrote this book, it was the adventure of a lifetime for me. At the same time I was humbled by the experience and I felt blessed and privileged to be seeing what I found. It is my prayer that you will feel at least a token amount of the awe I felt with each word the software revealed to me

"The fool hath said in his heart [ there is ] no God"

(Psalm 14:1)

Chapter 1

Equidistant Letter Sequences (ELS)

"I will remember the works of the LORD;

surely I will remember the wonders of old"

(Psalm 77:11)

Down through the centuries there have been a group of rabbis who were aware that the Scriptures contain meaningful words spelled at intervals in the text. Undoubtedly this was because of their tedious work of copying the scrolls in the era before the invention of the printing press. Different groups of Jews did this work wherever they lived, but the Masorites, a Mediterranean sect, may have reproduced them most faithfully. Researchers who will be mentioned in this chapter found the texts preserved by the Masorites to be the ones which contained more of these words than those texts preserved by Jews in other regions of the world. The seventy writers of the King James Bible used the Masoretic Text exclusively for their translation of the Old Testament.

In the 1930’s, there was a rabbi who did quite a bit of work on the subject of words appearing at equally-spaced intervals. Fortunately he shared what he had found with other rabbis in other parts of the world because he met his end in