Books : The Bible Code : Excerpts

From Chapter 1

On September 1, 1994, I flew to Israel and met in Jerusalem with a close friend of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, the poet Chaim Guri. I gave him a letter which he immediately gave to the Prime Minister.

"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," my letter to Rabin stated.

"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.

"That should not be ignored, because the assassinations of Anwar Sadat and both John and Robert Kennedy are also encoded in the Bible -- in the case of Sadat with the first and last names of his killer, and the date of the murder, and the place, and how it was done.

"I think you are in real danger, but that the danger can be averted."

On November 4, 1995, came the awful confirmation, a shot in the back from a man who believed he was on a mission from God, the murder that was encoded in the Bible three thousand years ago.

The assassination of Rabin is dramatic confirmation of the reality of the Bible code, the hidden text in the Old Testament that reveals the future.

The code was discovered by 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 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.

Rabin's assassination was not the only modern event found. In addition to the Sadat and Kennedy assassinations, hundreds of other world-shaking events are also encoded in the Bible -- everything from World War II to Watergate, from the Holocaust to Hiroshima, from the Moon landing to the collision of a comet with Jupiter.

And the Rabin assassination was not the only event found in advance. The Jupiter collision was found, with the exact date of impact, before it happened, and the dates of the Gulf War were found in the Bible before the war started.

It doesn't make ordinary sense in our secular world, and since I am not religious, I would normally be among the first to dismiss it as millennium fever.

But I have known about this for five years. I have spent many weeks with the Israeli mathematician, Dr. Rips. I learned Hebrew, and checked the code on my own computer every day. I talked to the man at the Defense Department, who independently confirmed that the Bible code does exist. And I went to Harvard and Yale and Hebrew University to meet with three of the world's most famous mathematicians. They all confirmed that there is a code in the Bible that reveals the future.

I did not fully believe it until Rabin was killed.

I found the Bible code's prediction of his assassination myself, a clear warning that he would be killed in the Hebrew year that began in late 1995, but never really believed it would happen. When he was killed, as predicted, when predicted, my first thought was, "Oh my God, it's real."

It could not be a coincidence. The words "assassin that will assassinate" cross the name "Yitzhak Rabin" the only time his full name appears in the Old Testament. The Bible code stated he would be killed in the Hebrew year that started in September 1995. Now, on November 4th, he was dead.

Rabin's friend, Chaim Guri, told me it was also the first thing he thought of when the Prime Minister was shot.

"It was like a knife in my heart," said Guri. "I called the chief of staff, General Barak, and said, 'The American reporter, he knew it a year ago, I told the Prime Minister. It was in the Bible.' "

When I first found the Rabin murder encoded, I remembered the first question my book editor had asked me: "What if you had known about the Sadat assassination before it happened? Could you have warned him, and kept it from happening?"

With Rabin, I tried and failed. Before the assassination no one was able to find the name of the gunman, or the exact date. A few days after I first contacted the Prime Minister, Dr. Rips and I met with the chief scientist at the Ministry of Defense, Gen. Isaac Ben-Israel. We searched for details. But only the year of the predicted murder was apparent.

After Rabin was killed, the name of his assassin, "Amir," was immediately found in the Bible code. It was always there, right above Rabin's name, but hidden in plain sight.

"Amir" was encoded in the same place as "Yitzhak Rabin" and "assassin who will assassinate." Moreover, the words "name of the assassin" appeared in the plain text of the Bible in the same verse that the name "Amir" appeared in the hidden text. And also, in that same verse, the hidden text stated, "He struck, he killed the Prime Minister."

He was even identified as an Israeli who shot at close range: "His killer, one of his people, the one who got close."

The code revealed when and where it would happen. "In 5756," the Hebrew year that began in September 1995, crossed both "Tel Aviv" and "Rabin assassination." "Amir" appeared again in the same place.

But before Rabin was killed we knew only that the Bible code predicted his murder "in 5756." And Rabin ignored the warning.

"He won't believe you," his friend Guri had told me when I first gave him the letter. "He's not at all a mystic. And he is a fatalist."

So, I still don't know if the assassination could have been prevented. I only know what I told the Prime Minister in my letter: "No one can tell you whether an event that is encoded is pre-determined, or is only a possibility. My own guess is that it is only a possibility -- that the Bible encodes all the probabilities, and what we do determines the actual outcome."

We had not been able to save Rabin's life. But suddenly, brutally, I had absolute proof that the Bible code was real.