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Hardcover: 292 pages
Publisher: Viking- The Penguin Group; First Edition edition (December 2, 2002)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0670032107
ISBN-13: 978-0670032105
Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 7.6 x 1 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds

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steel ark, iron ark, iron vehicle, atomic holocaust, nuclear world war, text crossing, code key, language gene, ancient key, hidden text, code matrix, key today, steel object, ultimate danger

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End of Days, Prime Minister, Dead Sea, New York, Middle East, Temple Mount, Camp David, White House, United States, Yasir Arafat, West Bank, Yitzhak Rabin, Valley of Siddim, Ariel Sharon, Eli Rips, Lord of the Code, Mount Sinai, Tel Aviv, President Bush, World Trade Towers, Abu Ala, Mouth of the Obelisks, Shimon Peres, Creation of Man, Gulf War

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This book cites 21 books:

The Hero with a Thousand Faces (Bollingen Series, No. 17) by Joseph Campbell on page 205, and Back Matter
The Living Torah :(English edition),A new Translation Based On Traditional Jewish Sources by Aryeh Kaplan in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
The Fate of the Earth and The Abolition (Stanford Nuclear Age Series) by Jonathan Schell on page 234, and Back Matter
The Bible Code by Michael Drosnin in Front Matter, and Back Matter
The Meaning of it All (Allen Lane History) by Richard P. Feynman in Back Matter

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4.0 out of 5 stars It never hurts to keep an opened mind..., September 29, 2003

By	A. Forte "A. Forte" (New Jersey) - See all my reviews

After watching this subject on the History Channel I wanted to know more about this Bible Code which is the reason why I purchased this book. I read it in several hours cover to cover with an open mind and it was easy to read and pretty well written, despite the fact that I caught the author repeating himself several times throughout the book. I also felt at times that the author might have been looking for accolades as "the man who tried to save the world". Be that as it may, I don't exactly know what to make of the Code itself, except to say that I think the odds of finding words and phrases in such close proximity to each other, as they were found throughout the Torah relating to past historic events falls out of the scope of "coincidence". The odds are just too great. It cannot be "coincidence" as the skeptics claim. For those who are asking for a Hebrew dictionary to prove the translations, all I can tell you is what I saw on the History Channel. The translations are confirmed by Hebrew scholars. That is all the validity I need. I know from reading some of the reviews here that some of you are claiming that this book was a disappointment becaused it failed to predict the future. I believe the author had stated early on that it is almost impossible to find things in the Code unless you know what to look for which is why they are now searching for the Code Key to break the entire Code. This explains why it is easier for them to find things in the Code that have happened in the past than it is to find things that have not yet happened, simply because they have no idea what to search for in the Code. You cannot find an event that hasn't happened yet. Clearly what they have managed to find in the Codes pertaining to the future is a warning of things perhaps to come. At best, this book may be the vehicle which will bring us to the brink of something spectacular yet to be discovered. At worst, this book allows us to view life from yet another perspective and in that event you really have nothing to lose. I say read it for yourself and draw your own conclusions. It never hurts to keep an opened mind.

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2.0 out of 5 stars Here's what's wrong with this book, April 4, 2004

By	Don Scott (Cedar Park, TX USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

1) The book's theme is that the end of the world is nigh (2006), so our hero author must travel the world and get everyone to understand that the Middle East conflict must be resolved so that the PREDICTIONS OF THE BIBLE CODE DO NOT COME TO PASS. That's right. Without ever explaining why, he concludes that the code's message is just a warning and that we can change it. He even says that it encodes all possible outcomes. If that's the case then it is utterly meaningless, since an infinite number of false futures would be encoded. This claim is totally at odds with the book's theme. According to the author, there is only one year where the words "End of Days", "nuclear holocaust", etc, are encoded with a year: 2006. So does that mean that if we can avoid self-destruction in 2006, then humanity is saved for eternity from nuclear holocaust. Obviously, the more rational conclusion is that the code, if it is real, is absolutely written in stone, and the holocaust will occur on schedule in 2006, notwithstanding the heroic globetrotting our the author.

2) It's political. Arafat is a warm fellow and a true believer, Sharon is a war monger, and George Bush stole the election from poor Al Gore. His political bias is incredibly transparent.

3) He wonders out loud whether the aliens that planted our DNA here 4 billion years ago were still around. That's a long time for a civilization to last. Since he doesn't believe in God, who does he think gave Moses the tablets (code) on Mount Sinai? Either it was God or aliens, but the death of our progenitor is simply not a logical option.

4) He tells us about a zillion times that he doesn't believe in God. He apparently thinks his secularism gives the book a sheen of credibility. Actually, it makes him look like a fool. The Torah claims to be the Word of God. So why would the subliminal code underlying the plain text contradict that claim. He apparently believes that the Torah itself is just a bunch of ridiculous tales and lies, but encoded within it is ultimate truth. This guy needs to take a remedial course in Logic.

5) The author repeats himself endlessly. The book could have been one-third as long as it is.

6) All his leads end up as dead-ends. He drones on endlessly about Lisan, but of course, doesn't find the code key.

7) I only recall four predictions made in the book. The 2006 nuclear war, the assassination of Arafat, and the worldwide economic depression beginning in 2002, and the proliferation of nuclear weapons by Libya. Two of those predictions can now be evaluated. Since we are in a robust economic recovery, and since Libya has abandoned its WMD programs, it looks like the author is 0 for 2. You can't get much worse than that.

Bottom line: The book is worth reading because the evidence that Bible codes are real is very compelling, from a mathmatical point of view. I'm convinced. I'm equally convinced that the author used this esoteric knowledge to tell us nothing we didn't already know, and is lousy at predicting the future.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Fear sells, November 24, 2004

By	Andrew J. DuPont - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

At this point, nobody should have even any remote interest in buying this book. He only makes 4 actual predictions in it, and is 0 for 3 so far.

1) Libya will start hording WMDs
- The exact opposite has happened

2) Massive Worldwide Economic Depression in 2002
- Does anyone remember this happening? I don't. Because it didn't happen.

3) Arafat would be assassinated.
- Well he's dead now, but there is nothing that indicates he died from poisoning or anything else besies natural illness, so this one's wrong too.

So why would anyone be worried his 4th prediction (Nuclear war in 2006) will come true, especially considering he originally said it would happen in 2000 in the first Bible Code book?

Nobody should, but that's how he sells his books. If you tell people they're all gonna die and your book tells them how and how they can possibly avoid it, of course they'll buy it.

But what are these predictions really? The first three are just educated guesses. When he wrote this book Libya was still a source of major international conflict and 9/11 was in the past, so it's only logical certain countries might try and make WMDs in their situation. You don't need the Torah to make a guess at that, but a history book might help. By the way, isn't it convienient that he was able to see the events of 9/11 after the fact, but failed to see them in Bible Code I? But it doesn't matter because he was wrong. The economy goes up and down in cycles, and we were already heading down in 2001, so why not just guess it is going to get worse? You need an alien code to tell you that? And Arafat has had multiple attempts on his life for the last 30 years, and this guy guessed one would eventually succeed. Again, how is this anything more than an educated guess?

The nuclear war prediction is nothing but a sell point. It's been predicted a thousand times before by other people and the idea always scares people, which in this case equals book sales.
I doubt he even believes this stuff, but he knows it will make him a lot of money, which it has.

I have a prediction, and I don't need a throughly debunked method of text analysis to make it:

In 2007, there will be a Bible Code III.

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