I am extremely satisfied with my recent purchase of this Bible.

The references to different aspects of Scripture are easily accessed. My particular interest of Scriptures relating to Israel, it's people and it's land and Biblical prophecies relative to Israel are there at your fingertips.

My only criticism is in relation to the 'political correctness' of Mr. Jeffery's own writings in enclosed articles supporting areas of Scripture where he uses the term 'Palestine' out of it's correct geographical and historical context.

Palestine being the regional name given to Israel and adjacent areas after the suppression of the second Jewish revolt by the Roman Emperor, Hadrian, in AD135. The original name being 'Syria Palaestina' which eventually became anglicised into 'Palestine' and which was subsequently replaced by Israel upon it's rebirth in 1948.

Mr. Jeffery uses the term 'Palestine' incorrectly in some old maps and also in one area relating to Old Testament prophets who were around long before the term 'Palestine' ever existed.

If you can live with this, or amend it even, this will be an excellent Bible to possess. In all other ways it is to be highly recommended. The ability to easily access so many different aspects of the Bible is remarkable and such an aid to understanding.

One practicle reason I like this bible is that it contains in concise form the important topics of the end times. The notes are focused on prophecy so you are not reading a book with one hand and looking up the verses cited with the other. The bible contains numerous articles, maps, charts and illustrations. The articles are particularly helpful and include topics such as: The Battle of Gog and Magog (I finally understand wshere this battle falls in the end time events), The Antichrist, The Seventy Weeks, The Tribulation etc.

I have many bibles and this is one of the ones I use regularly.

Grant Jeffrey has become one of the more respected authors dealing with Christian religious prophecy, and with this work, it's easy to see why. Included in this volume are over 300 pages of fine details about the coming war in the Middle East and the road we must travel to Armageddon. It shows why Russia and the powers of the north are interested in Israel's land and resources, the coming of the final Anti-Christ, where Jesus can be found in the Quran (Koran), whether the land being fought over is really Israel's or Palestine's, more about Solomon;s Temple and the third attempt to rebuild it, and many former secrets of the Jews, including the "copper scrolls". If you've read any of Jeffrey's other works and enjoyed them, then I'd sugest reading this one too.

Jeffrey scores highly with this book which presents evidence about the Bible that proves without a DOUBT it is true. I believe that with all the evidence that Jeffrey includes in this book makes it impossible for anyone to deny that the Bible is true and that Jesus Christ is our Savior who came and took away our sins by dieing on the cross. Everyone should read this book!

This is a good read. Grant R Jeffrey offers believers and non believers alike a lot of information and undisputable facts to chew on, not least of which are the chapters on the mathmatically proven bible codes. These codes, found embedded in only the bible, and no other historical writings, reveal not only divine inteligence, but also direct divine influence over every letter written in the bible. Nothing was left to interpretation by the human authors and scribes. All was, in a manner of speaking, dictated by God Himself, with information to be revealed in a later age such as this. The historical and archeological evidence is overwhelming, and the medical data is fascinating. This book is an enlightening read for the skeptic, and a faith affirming read for the believer. Solid apoligetics and vast amounts of information give the reader a banquet for the mind and soul.

This is an outstanding work. It is an excellent book to reach an atheist acquaintance, or to send a Christian friend for inspiration. It is an extremely powerful reference that cites up-to-date, factual, archaeological, and scientific validations on numerous historical/Biblical truths previously ejected by secular society. It is a great common sense source of archaeological findings that verify what the Bibles has always recorded as truth. The information contained in this work is a must for the bible scholar, proselytizer, and an essential tool to rescue the beguiled dogmatic. Buy a copy for yourself, buy a copy to send to those you love, and give a copy to those who most need it.

"My people are perishing because of their lack of knowledge." (Hosea 4:6)

In 1994, three Israelis (Witztum, Rips, and Rosenburg) published a study in Statistical Science claiming to have discovered "codes" in the Hebrew text of the Torah. These "codes" are found via computers and are equidistant letter sequences (ELSs) which spell out putatively hidden messages in the text concerning various VIPs. These Torah "codes" have stirred up much debate, and Jeffrey's book is but one of numerous publications on this phenomenon.

Although Jeffrey asserts that these Bible codes "prove to this present, skeptical generation that the Bible is truly the inspired Word of God," he is still rational enough to insist that these ELSs are worthless for foretelling the future, contain no "hidden theological or doctrinal messages," could not have been purposely produced by the Bible's human authors, and should be placed "in their proper context," along with questions in the Bible concerning history, archeology, prophecy, science, and medicine. He believes, however, that nothing in science controverts anything in the Bible. Apparently, he would insist that modern astronomy does not controvert the following verse: "[The red dragon's] tail sept down a third of the stars of heaven and threw them to the earth" (Rv 12:4). These stars cannot be taken as references to meteors, because falling meteors cannot reduce by a third the number of stars in the sky, and because the text calls them "stars," not meteors. Thus, I agree with Jeffrey that these Bible "codes" need to be placed in their "proper context," for such ELSs can in no way remove the absurdities of Bible cosmology or any of the many other problems with the Bible. Moreover, there is no reason to conclude that these ELSs are really codes.

The fact is that ELSs can be found not only in the Hebrew Torah but also any text of sufficient length. This has been amusingly proven on the Internet by Australian mathematics professor Dr. Brendan McKay. It is therefore no surprise that Jeffrey claims in his book to also have found "codes" in the Greek New Testament (NT), but his thinking lacks cogency.

He says he found 19 NT verses containing ELSs for "Jesus" with skip intervals of no more than 22 letters. He also says that the 7,914 NT verses "cover a remarkable number of subjects" and then goes on to say, "Significantly,...most of these nineteen ELS codes spelling the name Jesus are found in very important verses that clearly deal with teachings about Jesus or key statements by Christ Himself." However, excluding three instances (Ac 7:45; Heb 4:8; Col 4:11) where "Ieesous" (Greek for "Jesus") does not refer to Christ, Jesus' name occurs 975 times in the NT. Thus, "Jesus" occurs on average once in every 8.1 verses of the NT. If we include the numerous places where Jesus is referred to as "I," "he," "son of man," "rabbi," "Christ," "son of David," etc., this reference rate will obviously exceed one in eight verses, and if we include the numerous verses where Jesus is supposedly speaking, we see that Jesus is not merely one of "a remarkable number of subject" dealt with in the NT. On the contrary, he is the overwhelmingly dominant subject of the entire NT! Indeed, any ELSs found in the NT could hardly avoid Jesus and his sayings. Therefore, it is not "significant," as Jeffrey says, that most of his 19 Jesus "codes" occur where Jesus or his sayings are dealt with; it is unavoidable! Thus, Jeffrey -- wanting like most believers to believe rather than to know -- sees significance where none exists. The real knockout blow to the Bible codes, however, is the problem of contradictory texts.

Since a textual error of only one letter could destroy or even create an ELS, the validity of an ELS being a "code" put there by God depends on our having absolutely inerrant copies of the Greek and Hebrew scriptures. There are, however, hundreds of thousands of variant readings in the thousands of ancient Greek and Hebrew Bible manuscripts. Nevertheless, in his first chapter, Jeffrey tries to claim that we have a reliable enough Hebrew text to legitimize these ELS "codes." His assurances are nothing but lip gloss. If God didn't keep the copyists from errors, we cannot know that he kept even the original hands from making errors as well. The only escape from this problem is to make the absurd claim that God inspired not only the original autographs but also the errors in the copies which creat the "codes"!

What The Mysterious Bible Codes shows is not God-inspiration of the Bible but the capacity of believers to create a pseudo science supportive of their wishes.

This book does an amazing job of disproving the skeptics of the Bible Codes. In response to Mr. Rogers' review I would like to remind him that although he may be right about shorter words being easier to find, he seems to have forgotten the torah codes. Since these codes are spelled out throughout 4 of the 5 books of the torah, the chances of these codes being found is astronomical. As for the accuracy of the text, the codes are spelled out through all of Genesis proving that a change in the text could not have thrown these codes into existence unless the entire text was changed. Also, Mr. Rogers seems to be forgetting that not only was the word princess found, but all around it were other words relating to the Death of Princess Diana. When you stated that the Bible was a book of fables and stories you could not have sounded more ignorant. In fact many of the events desribed in the Bible are documented by historians as actual historical events. In the future I hope you will not slander something that you are most certainly not qualified to speak of. Besides, even without the existence of the codes there are still bundles of proof that the Bible is true.

Grant Jeffery does a good job updating the building upon the arguments he made in THE SIGNATURE OF G-D and THE HANDWRITING OF G-D. Unlike Michael Dorinsn in his book THE BIBLE CODE Jeffery does not attempt to predict the future with the Bible Code. Rather, he gives an overview of the nature of the Bible Codes, how they work and where to find them. If that wasn't enough, he gives examples from Christian, Jewish and Secular sources confirming the Bible Codes, as well as several examples, most of them important to the and directly related to the Bible, but other codes of interest as well (i.e., the Hitler Codes and the Rabbis Codes). Even though it does repeat some information found in Jeffery's other books, there's good stuff to be read here. Recommended.