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 Occassionly interesting
I didn't read the first book, I am not religious and I am definately a sceptic, so this may be why I was not blown away by the book. I read this book becuase it was leant to me by a work collegue who I get along with.
There allot of parts that make it sound belivable - too belivable (even though to the authors credit he does discuss and rebut scientific critics of the theory). There are however glaring sections that have NOT become true. First of all that the end of the world would occur four years after the publication of the book. It was published in 2002, the end of the world did not come in 2006...There was another comment around the stock market crash, but nothing about the financial issues that we have come to in 2008(that I think have impacted harder the world economy).
However I found some other parts interesting. There is a chapter that discusses the discovery of the DNA structure by Crick and Watson. Crick apparently believes that DNA could have not gotten to earth through a metiorite but had to come from a superior being through a spaceship (apparently the code shows that DNA came in a "vehicle". The name Barak comes up and they relate it to the ex-prime minister of Israel, yet maybe they got it wrong and it will be true during a space in time Barak Obama is in power...to me it shows that it depends what you interpret the words that show up
 Absolutely horrendous
Drosnin gives us four "predictions" in the Bible Code II and none of them come to fruition.
1.) Global economic destitution in 2002-didn't happen
2.) Libya mounting atomic weapons-didn't happen
3.) Arafat would be assassinated-didn't happen
4.) WWIII would occur and total nuclear annihilation would be the result-didn't happen
Is the code real? I don't know. Did Drosnin misinterpret the code? No idea at all.
Here's my recommendation though: Don't bother with this book--there is much better material on the market if you are interested in Bible prophesy.
11 YEARS OF BIBLE CODE RESEARCH HINDSIGHT
Drosnin's first Bible Code books got me so fired up about the possibility of a predictive Code that I actually quit my teaching job in Florida, and ran over to Israel and Egypt on a related expedition in 1999 (and again in 2005). Why? He claimed the future of the world, including an atomic holocaust, is encoded in Torah. As a U.S. military planner with Hebrew skills, I wanted to know if his predictions were valid. It seemed to me that if the Code were real, its most vital secret would be the location of the Ark. In 2008 I concluded that any idea of a general predictive Code needs to be modified in accordance with Talmudic principles and the concept of Free Will. Not everyone will find their name in the Bible Code. Further, Drosnin's original atomic holocaust warnings were neither statistically significant, nor accurate.
In Bible Code II, Drosnin gets hung up looking for the key to the Bible Code. He thinks it's in Lisan, Jordan (the Dead Sea area). But his supporting matrices are not significant. Nor did they include any requirement for course angles between places named to match what is seen on real world maps. In my own ARK CODE book, also available on Amazon.Com, you will fund redundant encoded maps that strongly suggest where Jeremiah hid the Ark of the Covenant when he was forced into exile in Egypt, near where local Bedouins believe Moses split the sea at Lake Bardawil. As for the Code Key that Drosnin sought, I have found matrices to indicate that he should have sought Baal Zephon (mentioned in Exodus 14:2; 14:9. and Numbers 33:7) for this purpose. The coordinates of interest for it are at 31-16 North, 33-03.5 East.
HOW MOST BIBLE CODE MAPS ARE ENCODED. Key site names are encoded in such manner as to have the angles between Jerusalem, Egyptian towns or sites, and the suspect Ark site, at 31-9 North, 33-4 East, exactly correspond to actual course headings on real world maps. The purpose of my book and web site has been to document these maps (found by myself and by Dr. Robert Haralick of the City University of New York Computer Science Graduate Studies Department), and to help facilitate actions required to investigate the site (and, of course - recover the Ark if it's there).
ARK CODE not only summarizes the ELS Maps I've found, but it also explores the expeditions I've taken to Egypt and meetings that I held with the Egyptian Government for the specific purpose of preventing the war that Drosnin warned about. There is still a good case for some predictive capability in the Torah Code, but you really have to master basic principles of statistics found in ARK CODE before running out to place any bets based on a Torah Code matrix. Drosnin supposedly has a Bible Code III book coming out, but the entire market for Bible Code books has largely dried up because he made so many wrong predictions. The future is not hard wired. If anything, actions that Drosnin took in meeting with Middle East politicians may have altered our time line and caused the world we live in to be so different from what he thought was encoded. If you must buy any Bible Code book from Drosnin, get his first book as a starting point, and note the divergence from what he predicted there for yourself. But if you really want to understand how the Code appears to work, and learn how to determine the statistical significance of a Bible Code matrix, buy ARK CODE.
 My husband loves these books on bible code.
My husband absolutely is fascinated by the bible code books. It is something that interests him very much. Thank you!
 2 problems but worth a look
I wanted to give my thoughts on this book after reading it. Michael Droshin has present a valid piece of research into The Bible Code. It is very easy to understand and an enjoyable read. I do believe in The Bible Code. The issues I have with this book are two things. The first has to do with Mr. Droshin claims he meet with world leaders on this subject. I just don't buy it. Maybe it is true but I find it hard to belive. The second has to do with 2006 in The Code. Without giving the book away basically 2006 was to be a WW3 with millions dead and other bad things. It did not happen. So I would see this as a negative from the research point of view. These things aside I would recommend this book If you can be open minded and keep a foot on the ground at the same time.
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