ALTERING TIME LINES?

God asked Jonah to warn Nineveh it would be destroyed, but the city repented and was spared.  In Deuteronomy 28:1-13, God laid out 13 verses of blessings if Israel obeyed His laws, but in Deuteronomy 28:15-68 fours times as many curses if we would not (i.e., the Holocaust).  If there was only one set future, He would have simply told us what our future would be. Instead, two futures were clearly described.  Likewise, the Torah Code often has multiple fates cross an individual’s name.  This often mirrors the open text.  In fact, as discussed later, there may be parallel universes where are all text prophecies and encodings are real.  If the scientists are right about this bizarre theory, God has all the bases covered.  We just have to discover which ball park (universe) and time line hosts our particular game.

 HAVE DROSNIN OR NETANYAHU ALTERED TIME LINES?

       I was not the first person to attempt to alter a time line when I launched my first expedition to Egypt in 1999.  Drosnin tried and failed when he warned Prime Minister Rabin on September 1, 1994 that the only time Yitzhak Rabin came up in the Bible, “Assassin will assassinate crosses your name in the Code”  (see first figure below).  Rabin told him that he wasn’t a mystic, blew off the warning, and was assassinated where, when and by whom the Codes seemed to indicate.

        Drosnin then warned the father of Benjamin Netanyahu of his son’s impending assassination in Amman, Jordan on Tish B’Av (July 25^th, 1996).  The Code said Netanyahu would be there that day, and he was indeed scheduled to travel there that day.  Netanyahu then cancelled his trip.  Dr. Rips thereafter found the word delayed immediately above and touching the phrase “July to Amman” which was two letters left of the conditional axis letters for Prime Minister Netanyahu.

     When Drosnin’s first predicted year for an atomic holocaust in the Middle East passed peacefully on September 13, 1996, the last day of the Hebrew year 5756, he states on page 159 of his first book that, “One last word, and I’m out of the fortune-telling business.”  He then adds, “On several occasions I have seen things happen as predicted, but not when predicted.  I urge you to remain alert to what is almost certainly a real danger.”

     One of Drosnin’s plots has another will die, Av (a Hebrew month), Prime Minister.   The phrase another will die, Av, Prime Minister was obviously found a-posteriori.  It appears one row above and 13 columns right of the conditional axis words “the next war.”   On the bottom figure. Prime Minister Netanyahu intersects the phrase Surely he will be killed and touches the phrase His soul was cut off.

       So what happened?  Was the Code wrong?  Did it not happen because of Torah Codes-based intervention?  Or is the above “prophecy” one that was delayed by the Barak and Sharon elections, but one that will be fulfilled during a future term for Netanyahu that may start after elections in February 2009?  My gut feeling is that if the Code is real, and if we can at all control our destinies, a war was prevented or at least put off because of the Drosnin/Rips Torah Codes intervention.  Netanyahu elected to use the excuse that King Hussein had a cold so the trip could be postponed.  This set up a new time line at that point.  The concept was well portrayed in the television series called Sliders. Yet, with the passage of time it is becoming more apparent that Israelis will recycle Netanyahu the way they have previous prime ministers and he will serve again.  In short, it’s too soon to tell. 

        If time lines can be altered, what are the limits?  This will always be a difficult question to answer as each alteration theoretically sets up a parallel dimension or world according to Hugh Everett of Princeton University.  Communication is probably not possible between each of these worlds, but even if it were the number of alterations to a timeline may be limited by the number of alterations made based upon the Codes. 

      Drosnin cites a plot on page 164 of his book that has, in conjunction with the threat of a Netanyahu assassination, the phrase “five futures, five roads.”  He does not identify the source of this phrase, but I found it at Numbers 7:23 along with at least ten repetitions of the same phrase in the same chapter that deals with sacrifices in the open text. 

       I don’t know that the limit of possible futures is five.  But at some point it would seem that the general usefulness of the Torah Codes (from a predictive point of view) begins to break down and eventually become completely lost as too many actions and outcomes are altered as a result of Codes findings.  Certainly political actions and war plans would be first to be altered and first to see this effect.  Something like an inbound comet would seem to be the last type of event to be effected by Codes actions, though the Codes could be used for an early warning of such an event if the Codes can be validated by way of Ark find or some physical mechanism.  For a further discussion of how the Bible Code may actually have wrecked a peace deal between the Palestinians and Israelis, see YASIR ARAFAT.