Define ELS

1. ELS. What is really meant by ELS? Bible Code search programs like CodeFinder can be used to find words in Biblical text that have an equal number of letters between each letter of a word. So In the sentence, “The Man walkEd out thE door inTo the stAnds thaT seated 8,000 fans,” there are some people who would say that "Meet at 8" encoded at an ELS interval of 7. However, this is only true if the sentence author deliberately wrote the sentence to hide this statement. It might well be true that these words were found by a program or researcher looking for letters (and numbers) at an ELS that happened to make a phrase or sentence. In this case, we are simply looking at a random product due to chance alone. And how can we distinguish what is due to deliberate encoding from what is due to chance? Unfortunately, in the case of most Bible ELS terms, we are often left to statistical analysis and a rigorous examination of procedures used by the ELS term finder. A key point about any matrix is that the first ELS found (the axis term) is portrayed with the interval or ELS being equal to the number of letters shown on each line, unless a “row skip” (explained below) is used. Note that the spaces between words are removed. So the example of an ELS above would appear in a “matrix’ as follows:

M	A	N	W	A	L	K
E	D	O	U	T	T	H
E	D	O	O	R	I	N
T	O	T	H	E	S	T
A	N	D	S	T	H	A
T	S	E	A	T	E	D
8	0	0	0	F	A	N
S

Further, it should also be pointed out that the really proper way to display the above would be to wrap it into a cylinder with a circumference of 7 letters.