The Mysterious Bible Codes

by Grant R. Jeffrey and Grant R. Jeffery

Book Overview

Best-selling author and noted prophetic scholar Grant R. Jeffrey explores the phenomenon of significant prophetic words found in codes throughout the New and Old Testaments, offering a Christian... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 084991325X
• ISBN13: 9780849913259
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Thomas Nelson
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

blessed Be the Lord our GOD

Excellent book. God truely knows the end before the beginning.

Variants and Bible Reliablity

A reviewer wrote In "The Credulous Codesters" below that there are "hundreds of thousands of variant readings in the thousands of ancient Greek and Hebrew Bible manuscripts". Based on that, he takes issue with those who claiming that we have a reliable enough Hebrew text to legitimize the ELS codes. I don't have figures for Hebrew manuscripts, but there is excellent information on this topic from Lee Strobel's interview with Bruce Metzger ('The Case for Christ'). What follows is taken from Chapter 3, "The Documentary Evidence". Metzger agreed that there are tens of thousands of variants among the ancient New Testament manuscripts that we have, perhaps as many as 200,000. However, he emphasizes that this is a bit misleading because of the way variants are counted. For example, if the same word is misspelled in 2,000 manuscripts, that's counted as 2,000 variants. The grand total of ancient New Testament manuscripts (in Greek, Latin Vulgate, Ethiopic, Slavic and Armenian) in existence is about 24,000. Thus if just one word is misspelled in each of these manuscripts, that's counted as 24,000 variants. Variants found in NT manuscripts do not put any doctrines in jeopardy and tend to be minor rather than substantive. Any good Bible will have notes that will alert the reader to variant readings of any consequence. But again, these are rare. The NT has not only survived with almost embarassingly more manuscripts than any other book from antiquity, but it has survived in a purer form than any other great book - a form that is 99.5% pure.

An excellent rebuttal to skeptics.

This book does an amazing job of disproving the skeptics of the Bible Codes. In response to Mr. Rogers' review I would like to remind him that although he may be right about shorter words being easier to find, he seems to have forgotten the torah codes. Since these codes are spelled out throughout 4 of the 5 books of the torah, the chances of these codes being found is astronomical. As for the accuracy of the text, the codes are spelled out through all of Genesis proving that a change in the text could not have thrown these codes into existence unless the entire text was changed. Also, Mr. Rogers seems to be forgetting that not only was the word princess found, but all around it were other words relating to the Death of Princess Diana. When you stated that the Bible was a book of fables and stories you could not have sounded more ignorant. In fact many of the events desribed in the Bible are documented by historians as actual historical events. In the future I hope you will not slander something that you are most certainly not qualified to speak of. Besides, even without the existence of the codes there are still bundles of proof that the Bible is true.

A Good Exposition

Grant Jeffery does a good job updating the building upon the arguments he made in THE SIGNATURE OF G-D and THE HANDWRITING OF G-D. Unlike Michael Dorinsn in his book THE BIBLE CODE Jeffery does not attempt to predict the future with the Bible Code. Rather, he gives an overview of the nature of the Bible Codes, how they work and where to find them. If that wasn't enough, he gives examples from Christian, Jewish and Secular sources confirming the Bible Codes, as well as several examples, most of them important to the and directly related to the Bible, but other codes of interest as well (i.e., the Hitler Codes and the Rabbis Codes). Even though it does repeat some information found in Jeffery's other books, there's good stuff to be read here. Recommended.