Discover the World of the Bible Codes

The famous first century historian Josephus, wrote of a group of Jewish Prophets who could see the future by researching the texts of the Torah and the Tenach. He claimed these Jewish Prophets could predict the future with uncanny accuracy. While the company of Jewish prophets had always been around since the time of Samuel, these prophets had proceeded to the next level with the discovery of a new Spiritual Technology. That technology was discovered by one of the last prophets of the Old Testament: Zechariah. For many scholars, this was the beginning of research into what we now call The Bible Codes.

References to these prophets could be found in the New Testament. Matthew 2 tells of these prophets indirectly when King Herod asks the scribes and priests where the Messiah would be born. The scribes and the priests answered him, but gave him a terse answer. King Herod apparently did not know who to ask within the Jewish Hierarchy. Yahoshua (Jesus) knew of their presence and made the following statement in reference to them: "O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times?" (Matthew 16:3b) The reason this statement is constructed in the form of a question is because they could discern the signs of the times. They knew very well that Yahoshua (Jesus) was the Messiah because they would see it from their calculations of Jeremiah's, Daniel's and Zechariah's Seventy Weeks Prophecies, and from their textual research.

After the Roman destruction of Jerusalem in A.D. 70, the technology was maintained by rabbis who kept the research to themselves and only discussed it with other rabbis. This research was further hidden when Pope Innocent III of the Roman Catholic Church issued a "papal bull" in 1200 A.D. allowing only priests, bishops and cardinals to possess a copy of the scriptures, and further determined that only people in these religious offices were qualified to read, study and interpret the Bible. Pope Innocent III's Bull was further reinforced by the Councils of Toulouse and Valencia in 1229 A.D., the Council of Terragona in 1234 A.D. and finally, the Council of Trent in 1545 A.D... These councils by virtue of exclusion, determined that Jewish Rabbis possessing the Torah and Tenach in Hebrew were not qualified to read the scriptures that they had possessed and studied long before there was any Roman Catholic Church. As a result, these Rabbis were obliged to take their scrolls and their research underground.

With the Inquisitions in Spain and other places in Western Europe, the Jewish communities were obliged to move to Eastern Europe where their culture would again flourish. It is in this area that their form of biblical research could continue. One of the centers for the development of Jewish thinking and research centered around the city of Prague, now the capital of the Czech Republic. It was here that the sages once again talked about the Bible Codes and suggested that there were deeper messages in the scriptures than just the plain text.

The Jewish Communities in Eastern Europe did not always live in peace with their neighbors. They felt persecution from the regional emperors, but legends tell of the Spiritual Technologies that always came to their aid when these troubles arose. One such story concerns the Rabbi Judah ben Loew, who created a Golem (literally a "mud creature") to deal with the Austrian kings who wanted them to leave their homes and their adopted countries. The Golem caused so many problems for the empire that the emperor had to relent. In the 19th Century, the Russian Czars also ordered Pogroms against the Jewish Communities in their country. These Pogroms led many Jews to emigrate to the Middle East and the United States.

The biggest persecutions of the Jews started early in the 20th Century when Germany was defeated in World War I. Many Germans and Austrians blamed the Jews for their troubles and began to cling to Martin Luther's condemnation of them. They also found solace in the music of Richard Wagner, who felt the Jews were a scourge on German society. The media campaign intensified with the release of the silent film, The Golem in 1920. In this film, the Jewish rabbis were depicted like witches and shown to worship strange gods. These events fueled the fire we now know as National Socialism or Nazism. When Adolf Hitler became chancellor of Germany in 1933, his "secret government" almost immediately began to implement the "Final Solution" that Hitler proposed in his infamous book Mein Kampf. It was not long before the Nazis were rounding up Jews and placing them in Concentration Camps. When the exterminations began, the rabbis again called upon their Spiritual Technologies to defend themselves against the Nazis. As the war progressed though, many Jews were again obliged to move from Eastern Europe to the United States.

One such man was Rabbi Michael Dov Weissmandl, an Czech Jew who escaped from a Nazi train headed for one of their Concentration Camps. Before World War II, he was part of the famous rabbinical community of Eastern Europe. But as the Germans started to implement the "Final Solution," the Rabbi was smuggled into Switzerland, where he was able to make arrangements to move west. After a short time in Great Britain, he emigrated to the United States where he started an obscure Yeshiva in New York. While he mainly taught the more basic subjects of Judaism in his Yeshiva, he would, once in a while, discuss the idea of hidden codes in the Torah. Apparently, he had recorded the entire Torah on index cards in ten by ten blocks. Using these index cards, he proceeded to do some basic code research. Like his predecessors though, he never wrote about his research in any books we could read. His research was not lost though. Some of his students took their notes from his classes when they emigrated to Israel.

These students showed the rabbi's research to their professors at Hebrew University and other institutions of higher learning in Israel. Eventually, even Mossad, the famous Israeli intelligence service, took notice of the codes and realizing their potential, began to sanction much of the research in Israel. The code research garnered international attention in 1994 with the publication of a paper in Statistical Science, an academic journal dedicated to the study of the mathematical sub-field of statistics. This led journalist Michael Drosnin to write the New York Times bestseller, The Bible Code in 1996. This book drew attention to the Bible Codes from the general public and governments worldwide. Additional interest was generated when WhiteStone Foundation for Research director Tom Mack started making monthly appearances on Steve Quayle's radio program, The Q-Files in 1999. Mr. Mack continues to be a regular guest on The Byte Show with GeorgeAnn Hughes.

Despite criticisms from Australian engineer, Dr. Brendon McKay and his Arab associates, the Bible Codes continue to generate interest throughout the world. Edward Sherman's book, Bible Code Bombshell, answered all of Dr. McKay's criticisms and made even the deepest critics into believers. Governments are still interested in what the codes may tell us, and we are using this site to publish our own findings and the findings of others.