The Why Files: Operation Podcast - 84: Every Event is Secretly Encoded in the Bible even YOUR Birthday (and the Apocalypse)

Episode Date: October 27, 2022

In September 1994, Yitzak Rabin, Prime Minister of Israel received an ominous message. It was a warning that his life was in danger. The sender of the message said this information was secretly encoded -- in the Bible. Rabin ignored the warning. A year later, the Prime Minister was assassinated. The code hidden within the Bible not only predicted Rabin's assassination, but also predicted the date, and even the name of the killer. Secretly encoded in the Bible, written thousands of years ago, are predictions of every major world event. Including terrifying events yet to come. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thewhyfiles/support

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It was a warning that his life was in danger. The center of the message said this information was secretly encoded in the Bible. Rabin ignored the warning. A year later, the Prime Minister was assassinated. The code hidden within the Bible not only predicted Rabin's assassination, but also predicted the date and even the name of the killer. Secretly encoded in the Bible written thousands of years ago are predictions of every major world event, including terrifying events yet to come. Abrahamic religions are those that worship the God of Abraham.

And these include Christianity, Islam, and Judaism. And this is more than half the world's population, over 4 billion people. And since the dawn of these religions, believers have tried to derive meaning from religious texts. Usually it's through deciphering symbolism and allegory. But computer scientists, statisticians, and mathematicians have found literal information encoded in the Old Testament. The Old Testament, written between 2,000 and 3,000 years ago, is based on the 24 books of the Hebrew Bible. And despite being one of the oldest texts in the world,

it's remained unchanged in all that time. When scribes made copies of the Old Testament, if they made even a single error, that entire text had to be buried. Why was accuracy so important? Most would say it's because this is the word of God, and to alter his word would be blasphemy. But there may be a more technical reason for maintaining accuracy, that God, or someone, encoded secrets within the texts. In the late 13th century, Rabbi Bahya ben Asher found a code hidden in the book of Genesis. He read four letters, skipped 42 letters, read another four letters, and so on. And when his chosen letters were strung together,

they created a new passage that described the creation of the moon. This phrase also said that the lunar month is precisely 29.53 days. Now that's a significant finding because the exact length of the lunar month wasn't calculated until 1996 by NASA. Rabbi Ben Asher's work was revisited in the 1940s by Rabbi H.M.D. Weissmandel. Weissmandel called this type of code an equidistant letter sequence, or ELS, otherwise known as a skip code. How it works is you take a letter or number of letters, then you skip a certain number of letters, then you take your same number of letters, skip the same number, and repeat. Rabbi Ben Asher skipped 42 letters, but you could use any number. Then you link your letters

together to form new words. In the 1940s, this was difficult to do manually, but later using computers, finding skip codes would become incredibly easy. Computer programs could also expand on the skip code technique using more complicated search parameters. Originally, letters found in skip codes would be strung together to form one long line of text, but computers allowed researchers to take these long strings and divide them into lines. And these lines could be 20 characters long or 50 or whatever you put into the program. Now, with letters arranged on a grid, new messages could be found by searching for text horizontally, vertically, and diagonally. Kind of like solving a word search puzzle. So using this technique, mathematicians Elihu Ripps, Doran Witsom, and Joachim Rosenberg

performed a series of experiments in 1985 called the Great Rabbis Experiment. Rips and his colleagues made a list of 34 famous rabbis and sages from the Encyclopedia of Great Men in Israel. They input the names of the rabbis into their program to see if they were referenced in code in the Bible. Well, did the program find the rabbis? Even though these 34 men were born and died hundreds or even thousands of years after the Bible was written, their names were encoded in the Bible. Every single one. Doctors Ripps, Witsom, and Rosenberg took the names of famous rabbis and input them into their

computer program. The program was then instructed to iterate through various skip codes and grid sizes searching for the names. Once a match was found, the program would then search horizontally, vertically, and diagonally for dates that intersected the names. These dates would then be compared to the known dates of birth and death for each of the names. The results of the experiment surprised everyone. The computer program found all the names of the rabbis encoded within the Bible. And when arranged on a grid, they also found the dates of birth and death intersecting the names. They tried again with 32 more names. Again, the program worked. All the names and dates were encoded in the Bible. To be sure, they tested their program on the novel War and Peace and other long religious texts. They found nothing, only random letters.

But in the Bible, the names were there. In total, they found the names of 166 men encoded in the Bible, thousands of years before any of them were born. Dr. Ripps said the odds of this happening by chance was about 1 in 10 million. The only conclusion that can be drawn from the scientific research regarding the Torah codes is that they exist and that they are not a mere coincidence. Doctors Ripps, Whitson, and Rosenberg published the results of their study in the peer-reviewed journal Statistical Science.

Naturally, the study was controversial. Several experts tried to find a mistake, but nobody could. In 1997, Harold Gans, a senior cryptologic mathematician for the NSA, set out to disprove the Bible code. When Gans first heard the story, he wasn't just skeptical. He said it was nonsense. People are always coming up with all kinds of weird claims. The Loch Ness Monster, Bigfoot, flying saucers. By nature and by training, I'm a skeptical person.

One day my wife asked if I had ever heard of something called Torah codes. I said yes, but she shouldn't take it seriously. She asked, how do you know? Had you looked into it? I distinctly remember saying, I have better things to do with my time than chase after nonsense. And she said, how do you know it's nonsense? Gans created his own computer program to disprove the Bible code. And she said, had an idea. He was able to find information about rabbis who lived hundreds of years ago, but he wondered if the Bible also had information about people who were still alive. In 1990,

Saddam Hussein was one of the most famous people on the planet. Dr. Ripps input the dictator's name into the program to see if he was encoded in the Bible. Was he? He was. That's my sugar. And if the Bible code was correct, Saddam Hussein was going to attack Israel in three weeks. Did he attack? He sure did. I'm plotting over here. Toyo's open country family of tires will get you through tough weather in a variety of terrains. Until May 31st, save up to $100 in rebates on select Toyo tires.

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And only in the Bible do you find this. When, for instance, by skipping an equal number of letters, you spell out President Kennedy, the very next letters in the same skip sequence say to die and Dallas is encoded in the same place. When you look for Shakespeare, the very next words in the same equal distance skip sequence say we'll present plays on stage and Hamlet and Macbeth are encoded in the same place. When Dr. Ripps input the name Saddam Hussein into his Bible Code program, the name was found. Also intersecting Saddam Hussein's name were the phrases Russian Missile and Fire on Third Shabbat.

On January 18, 1990, the third Shabbat of the Hebrew calendar, Iraq fired a Russian-made missile into Israel, sparking the Gulf War. This had Dr. Ripps wondering if other major events were coded in the Bible. It turned out that many were. In 1992, Michael Drosnin, an American investigative journalist,

was in Israel working on a story about war in the Middle East. While there, he was told about Dr. Ripps' work. Michael Drosnin didn't believe in God, much less that God would be putting coded messages in the Bible, but it sounded like an interesting story. Drosnin originally set aside an hour to speak with Dr. Ripps, but before the hour was over, Drosnin extended his stay in Israel.

Ripps showed Drosnin that it was possible that the Bible contained billions of messages. Drosnin, intrigued but skeptical, tried to debunk the theory. He couldn't. Instead, he worked with Ripps to see what other messages could be decoded. And over the next few years, Drosnin and Ripps found over 1,000 events

encoded in the text of the Old Testament. They looked at the book of Genesis, where God tells Abraham, look now toward heaven and count the stars. Encoded in this passage is the date July 20th, 1969, and the words spaceship and Apollo 11. The phrase economic crisis is found once. It's intersected with the words depression and stocks in the year 1929.

The word Oklahoma crosses the word Murrah, which was the building destroyed in the Oklahoma City bombing. Intersecting those words is the phrase, his name was Timothy. In May 1994, the Shoemaker-Levy comet was all over the news. Scientists were speculating whether or not it would crash into Jupiter. Drosnin searched the Bible code and found the answer. The exact name, Shoemaker-Levy, is there. It intersects with the phrase, will pound Jupiter. Crossing the phrase is the date July 16th, 1994, the correct date of impact. That same year, Drozden searched the name of Israel's prime minister, Yitzhak Rabin. Rabin's name was there crossed by the phrase,

assassin will assassinate, and the Hebrew date 5756, which was a few months away. In the Hebrew language, numbers also have word meanings. 5756 could be interpreted as, will you change it? Drosnin felt this was a sign that he should try to stop this prediction from coming true. He sent a message to the prime minister. Rabin didn't listen and was dead a year later, just as the Bible code predicted. On January 26th, 1996, Drosnin and Dr. Ripps found another ominous prediction. The word Libya intersected the phrase atomic Holocaust.

If predictions couldn't be changed, this did not bode well for Israel or the world, because the date that crossed Libya and atomic Holocaust was January 27th, 1996. Tomorrow. The Bible code contained the phrase Atomic Holocaust crossed with the word Libya and the date January 27th, 1996. That day, Muammar Gaddafi, Libya's leader, made a public statement that Arab countries threatened by Israel

have a right to nuclear weapons. Michael Drosnin feared that this was the beginning of nuclear war. But fortunately, the prediction served more as a warning than as an actual war. After the prediction about the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, the Israeli government took Bible Code predictions seriously. They did this quietly and with skepticism, but they still listened. Drozdan speculated that Israel may have been working behind the scenes to prevent nuclear war with Libya, using the Bible Code as a potential source of intelligence, something they would never publicly admit.

As the months passed, more Bible Code predictions came true. Benjamin Netanyahu was predicted to lose the 1996 prime minister election to Shimon Peres. The Bible code said otherwise, and indeed Netanyahu won a very close election by less than 1% of the vote. Lady Diana was killed in a terrible car crash in Paris in 1997. The Bible code has a lot of details about this. The words princess and Diana are encoded at the same skip code distance. Next to this is the word Spencer, which was her maiden name. Intersecting Spencer, the word Wales. In surrounding verses are the words Paris and France, tunnel and river. And you might remember she was killed in a tunnel near the Seine. Also encoded is the date

of 5757, which is the Hebrew date of August 1997, the month and year she was killed. The name Fayed was found. Dodi Fayed was Diana's companion who also died in the crash. And later, researchers found the name Henri. Henri Paul was the driver of her car. In 1997, Michael Drosnin released the book The Bible Code, which became an instant bestseller. His book inspired many other books about the hidden messages encoded in the Old Testament. Codes hidden within the Bible predicted the fall of Saddam Hussein, the capture of Osama

bin Laden, both Gulf Wars. Codes were found that saw the 2008 financial crisis, the swine flu outbreak, and natural disasters like earthquakes, tsunamis, and hurricanes. But these were events that happened in the past. Interpreting past events using the Bible code was easier than predicting the future. When an event has already happened, you have all the context. If the word Hiroshima is crossed with the phrases fire from the heavens and blisters and boils, it's easy to see that this refers to an atomic bomb and radiation sickness. Predicting the future isn't so easy. Without context, what would blisters and boils even mean? You'd be guessing the meaning of the phrases,

not very scientific. But the Bible code predicts terrible future disasters, and Drosnin felt that if he could locate a key to decipher all the Bible's predictions, these disasters could be prevented. Finally, Drosnin found the key, a stone pillar or obelisk, and according to the Bible code, it was buried in Jordan near the Red Sea. So, Michael Drozdan

asked the Jordanian government for permission to excavate the area. To his surprise, permission was granted. Logic tells me that the Bible was encoded to give us very important information. It was encoded, certainly, by some intelligence that could see ahead across time. It was encoded in such a way that it would be found right now by a technology that would exist for the first time now, the computer. In 2002, Michael Drosnin believed that the Bible held a hidden code that predicted an impending nuclear war. He found references to the cities Jerusalem and New York intersecting the name Bin Laden in the year 2006. Drosnin contacted the Israeli and United States governments, but they ignored his warnings.

Allegedly. Allegedly. Allegedly. Even though nuclear war didn't happen in 2006, Drozdan still felt there was imminent danger and was worried he got the date wrong. Drozdan believed there was a key to the entire Bible code in the form of a stone obelisk hidden somewhere in the Jordanian desert. And if this obelisk was discovered, it would allow all predictions in the Old Testament to be deciphered, averting the coming apocalypse.

But who put the obelisk in the desert in the first place and why? Drozdan wasn't religious. He didn't believe it was God speaking to Moses on the top of Mount Sinai. Drozdan actually believed that Moses was speaking to... Please say aliens. Please say aliens. Aliens. Yes, it's aliens. It's aliens. to aliens aliens aliens aliens because the bible code could be deciphered with a computer drosnin believed the only way to create the code was with a computer an incredibly advanced

computer the theory was that given enough data an extremely advanced computer program could successfully predict all the events of the future just like a computer that's used to predict highway traffic patterns or the weather. You put in as much data as you can, and then the computer can predict with reasonable accuracy how fast cars are going to be moving on a freeway or if it's going to rain. If the aliens used computer programs that operated at the quantum level, they could predict any possible outcome. When the Jordanian government approved the excavation request, Drozdan brought in experts from all over the world.

Archaeologists, geologists, and researchers of all kinds were flown in. Finally, the obelisk would be discovered, and every code hidden within the Old Testament would be unlocked. No, what did they find? Well, the political climate of the Middle East shifts quickly. At the last minute, the excavation permit was revoked. No! Yep.

Michael Drozdan would go on to publish two more books about the Bible Code, but as the years went on and fewer predictions came true, each new book performed worse than the previous one. In June 2020, Michael Drozdan passed away. After spending 25 years researching, even learning Hebrew in the process, Michael Drozdan wouldn't live to see the Bible code proved. The proof is allegedly still buried in the desert, and to find it would take nothing short of a miracle. And until we get that miracle,

we'll have to settle for science. You sailed beyond the horizon in search of an island scrubbed from every map. You battled krakens and navigated through storms. Your spade struck the lid of a long-lost treasure chest. While you cooked a lasagna. There's more to imagine when you listen. Discover best-selling adventure stories on Audible. When everyone's chasing the same finance positions,

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we can prevent the worst dangers from ever taking place. When Michael Drozdan released his first book, The Bible Code, I was fascinated with it. Whether the Bible was created by time-traveling humans from the future, aliens from another world, or God himself, Drozdan seemed to answer questions that we all have. Are we alone? Or is there something more, an intelligence beyond our understanding? If the research into Bible codes was considered fringe, then Michael Drozdan was considered on the fringe of the fringe.

Drozdan built on the work of Dr. Eliu Rips, who first published his paper on the Bible codes in 1985. But Professor Rips didn't believe Drozdan's predictions. He felt that Drozdan was only seeing what he wanted to see, and would manipulate and interpret the results of the computer program to support the predictions. But to be fair, Dr. Rips still believed that the original study, The Great Rabbi's Experiment, was true, that the names and dates of the great Hebrew sages were coded in the Bible. However, Dr. Ripps' work had challengers. In 1999, Australian mathematician Brendan McKay published his own paper in Statistical Science, the same journal that published Dr. Ripps.

Dr. McKay pointed out that Ripps' methodology was deeply flawed. For example, in Dr. Ripps' study, if the month and day were correct but the year was wrong, that was still counted as a match. If the year was correct but the month was wrong, that was also a match. Plus, Dr. Ripp's allowed name matches that were very vague. Nicknames, titles, and initials were all counted as matches. For example, if you were searching for matches about Elvis, EA Presley or Mr. Presley or EAP would all be considered matches. For example, if you were searching for matches about Elvis, E.A. Presley or Mr. Presley or E.A.P. would all be considered matches. So would husband of Priscilla or Lisa Marie's father or even the king. Also, while modern Hebrew uses vowels, the ancient written Hebrew language did

not. So word matches were found using only consonants, which gave the researchers a lot of wiggle room. Both Dr. Ripps and Michael Drozdan blew off this criticism. In fact, Drozdan said, if my critics can find a message about the assassination of a prime minister in Moby Dick, maybe I'll believe it. No way that was in Moby Dick. Oh, not only was the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin in Moby Dick, McKay showed that it was there multiple times, yet it was only found once in the Old Testament. McKay also showed that the death of Lady Di was in Moby Dick. So were references to the assassination of Robert Kennedy, as well as other famous events. Well, maybe aliens wrote the

Bible and Moby Dick. Did they ever consider that? They probably didn't. Uh-huh. McKay's point was, if you already know the outcome you want and you have a long enough text with enough letters, you can manipulate a computer program to churn through any text in order to give you the result that you want. McKay even used this technique to find phrases about the September 11th attack in song lyrics by Vanilla Ice. All right, stop. What? Collaborate and listen. Ice is back with my brand new invention. I can't believe I fell for that. Oh, I believe it every time. Another problem is that although the text of the Old Testament is almost identical to the text from two or three thousand years ago, it's not a perfect match. Comparisons of the current text

to older copies like the Dead Sea Scrolls show a discrepancy of a few characters. A human reader wouldn't notice a difference, but a computer program designed to create a message by skipping a certain number of characters? That would break the program. So are there messages hidden within the text of the Bible? Or is this yet another case of the human mind trying to form patterns in randomness, trying to make order from chaos? I don't know. I do know that there are things in the universe beyond our understanding. And as long as mysteries exist, we have a duty to try and solve them. In other words, it is the glory of God to conceal a matter, and it is the honor of kings to search it out.

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