Bible Code Ii [Hardcover]

Save your money. Here is the whole book in a nutshell. Arafat will be assassinated and nuclear holocaust in 2006.

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.

Drosnin is a reporter... he wants hard facts! If he was a believer like Dr. Eliyahu Rips -- a prize-winning mathematication who's a devout Jew and the founder of the Bible Code -- he would know he has hard facts. Instead, Drosnin spends his time making observations of the obvious -- that the world has nukes and terrorists could use them -- and writing countless letters to leaders who file them away. Drosnin is cashing in on Dr. Rips work by following his knowledge of the Code for all it's worth. It's probably been worth millions by now. I can't wait for after 2006 when Code III is released. That's the year to watch out, says Drosnin, who will probably find new codes to excuse his findings from this work.

What I learned from this book is that: 1) iron/metal won't rust in the Dead Sea because of the density of salt and lack of oxygen ... 2) many of Israel's leaders and/or higher powers are secular, or non-believers in God, or don't let Drosnin know they are ... 3) Arabs believe -- like common knowledge has let most Westerners suspect that some Arabs can be terrorists and Israeli leaders actually act like Westerners knew they really acted ... 4) I wish I could read ancient Hebrew to understand the text of the many, many, many charts presented to fill pages ... and 5) I got ripped off for the purchase price of this book.

In the 1st volume, Bible Code I, Drosnin made his money by finding in the code a year in advance that former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin would be assassinated during 1995. He warned Rabin, who really didn't take action. What was Rabin supposed to do, spend the year in a bunker? Rabin was a leader in the peace process! After Rabin's death Drosnin finally finds the assassin's name in the Code, etc. Yadda yadda yadda...

Drosnin also spent a bunch of space on the comet hitting Jupiter. That was informative, perhaps the best part in the overall perspective.

Here in Code 2 he spends a bunch of time repeating himself over and over, and telling us how he burdened a bunch of world leaders by telling them in letter form and bothering their higher aides the obvious -- that war could be destructive, regardless of how starts it, that terrorists can get nukes thanks to the Soviet empire's meltdown.

Editing here isn't that great. One paragraph identifies Dr. Rips first as Rips, then at Eli Rips and finally as Dr. Eli Rips. That's known in journalism as the inverted pyramid inverted.

If Drosnin ever gets to start his dig for "the code key buried in Lisan," I'm sure he will find it saying something like "Jesus saves." I got that idea from somewhere in the Bible. I believe it was called prophecy. If only Drosnin was a believer, then ... but he's not. He claims he's a journalist and wants hard facts. LOL!!! Him, all the way to the bank... me, in my living room with his book!