Bible Prophecy Codes

Addition to the Mene-Tekel Bible Code

The Riddle of the Letter Nun, Atbash of Tet

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The following is a unique code. It takes certain Hebrew letters and interprets the mystic meaning of them using the biblical method of codifying found in the book of Jeremiah called Atbash. This is totally foreign to most Christians, but is common among Jews and is therefore "a sign to them".

"Not one jot or one tittle"

(Also see 20 Compelling Marks of Genuineness)

 

 

Hebrew letters are very powerful to Jewish mystics.  And as uncomfortable as it is to some Christian scholars, even Yeshua (Jesus) said, "Amen, I say to you, Till heaven and earth come to an end, not the smallest letter or part of a letter will in any way be taken from the law, till all things are done," (Matt. 5:18). Therefore, the following "sign/letter" is mainly "a sign given to them", not to Gentiles. It is a "sign" that Yeshua (Jesus) is THE revelation of God, --- i.e., He is the 'a to z' --- stretched out on a pole for all to see! This is a sign intended for a Jewish mind.

Hebrew letters are important in and of themselves and were once hieroglyphics that depicted different images. (For example, the ancient letter nun depicted a snake and the ancient tet depicted a wheel. In more modern times the letter tet has also come to represent a snake.) The fact that we have a total of seven written-out Hebrew letters within this code clearly stresses the importance of the very letters themselves. The following code is a vivid example and confirmation of what Yeshua literally meant when He said:

"Truly I say to you, Till heaven and earth come to an end, not the smallest letter or part of a letter will in any way be taken from the law, till all things are done," (BBE, Matt. 5:18). (See endnote on "Jot and tittle.")

 

 

The following was discovered 6 years after the rest of the Mene-Tekel bible code was discovered. (Discovered, June 20, 2006, 8 am.) The bible code forms an image of a banner/flag of the cross within a coin made up of five fully spelt Hebrew letters. (The 'coin' is symbolic of "purchasing/redeeming" something and the 'pole' represents the cross.) As we shall see, it is also an image of the ancient way of writing the letter tet .

This code is deciphered in much the same way as the rest of the mene code. It, too, tells us to read 'around' (the letters) while also being a play on words for "to-besiege". (Babylon was being besieged at the time the writing was written on the wall with the finger of God, Dan. 5.) The only difference now is that we read around 4 fully written-out Hebrew letters, mem, tav, qoph, and nun (rather than simply 'm', 't', 'q', and 'n'). They are perfectly arranged so that their four letters form in the center both a circle (coin) and a cross (within the circle) . (The lower-right letters here not used simply supply an orderly background for the flags. See "An Orderly Background.")

 

 

Supplementary Article "An Orderly Background" The matrix is arrayed evenly. The 15 letters in "mene-mene-tekel-uparsin" are either laid out at 5 rows of 3 letters each or 3 rows of 5 letters each. Thus it is evenly arrayed after the manner of all bible-code matrixes by computers. (Also see, What are Bible Codes?) I believe that "mene-mene-tekel-uparsin" is the archetype of all bible codes and this is why it resembles a miniature modern computer matrix. Moreover, most methods for deciphering bible codes are used in this one, including Atbash, ELS, circles, numeric, Gematria, internal instructions, acrostics, images, Christocentricity, and similar parallel codes. Remember that was itself a code that had to first be deciphered and then interpreted by Daniel. What better choice to use for the archetype of all bible codes than mene-mene-tekel-uparsin? It is the mother of all bible-code matrixes, or "the mother of prophecy," as the code itself calls it. And thus it is logical to conclude that the whole bible-codes phenomena over the past two decades is itself a warning of the immanent fall of Babylon, that is, the fall of the kingdoms of this world. I believe that true bible codes are the promised unsealing of the prophecy in Daniel 12, and the mene-tekel-peres bible code (of Daniel 5) claims as much. It is a sign of the end of the age.

 

A mina, a mina, a tekel, and half-a-mina.

The entire mene-tekel-bible code, therefore, begins with one coin, expands to three, and then finally enlarges to 5 coins, all the while forming the same image of a flag on a pole, only increasingly large and complex. This is a total of 6 minas (mene), 6 shekels (tekel), and 6 peres (parsin, half-minas), or 6-6-6! (Mene, tekel, and parsin were three different ancient coins. See above illustration.) The code itself tells us to count the coins! And the prophecy in Revelation 13 about "6-6-6" also has to do with money (coins). "And no man can buy or sell except they have the mark...6-6-6." (Other elements of this code, such as the length of the flags, and of the pole, and the Gematria of the letter 'tet' tet', also have to do with 6-6-6.) (A mina was worth 60 shekels.)

All six flags contain the same letters, arrayed either vertically or horizontally. The one-coined flags (at lower left) are displayed according to the layout of the letters as found in Rembrandts painting, "Belshazzar," and then again except vertically. However, the rest of the code (i.e., the 3 and 5-coined flags) array the 15 letters the same as would a computer program. Whereas arraying the letters vertically in contrast to horizontally does affect its reading, keep in mind that arraying the letters in the manner that Rembrandt did does not affect its meaning, it only affects the stance of the image. Therefore there are really only two readings in this long code --- the vertical and the horizontal. The other differences are only due to the expanding length of the code (flag). Thus, there is very little difference in the reading between the 3 and 5-coined flags.

The flag with 5 coins occur when the mene-mene-tekel-uparsin code expands slightly into the rest of the surrounding biblical text itself where "mene, mene. tekel, uparsin" is recorded in Dan. 5:25.

(The entire code makes full use of mother vowels or the lack thereof.
See endnote for why the 'Samekh' for 'Sin.')

 

"And this is the writing that was inscribed:

MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPARSIN. 

This is the interpretation of the thing:" (Daniel 5:25-26a)

 

 

1 coin, vertical flag	3 coins, vertical flag (long flag-pole visible at right)	5 coins, vertical flag (flag-pole not visible here)
1 coin, horizontal flag	3 coins, horizontal flag (flag-pole not visible here)	5 coins, horizontal flag (flag-pole not visible)

 

Atbash Code

There are several well-recognized Atbash codes written by the prophet Jeremiah where the names "Babylon" and "Chaldea" (i.e., Babylonia) are converted into Atbash. That portion of Jeremiah also talks about a banner being lifted up to beckon others to attack Babylon. See the Bel-Qoph Atbash Bible Code for more about Atbash. Importantly, the Bel-Qoph code directly relates to this bible code and greatly reinforces it and aids in interpreting it. It is interesting that Atbash codes appear to always have to do with the fall of Babylon. The first letter of the alphabet is substituted for the last letter, and the second for the second last letter, etc. An Atbash code using our English letters would look like this: An Atbash code using our English letters would look like this: Normal: a-b-c-d-e-f-g-h-i-j-k-l-m-n-o-p-q-r-s-t-u-v-w-x-y-z Atbash:  z-y-x-w-v-u-t-s-r-q-p-o-n-m-l-k-j-i-h-g-f-e-d-c-b-a

 

Ancient and Post Exilic (modern) Hebrew

 

 

 

The last letter being drawn by Rembrandt in his painting is the last letter in uparsin, and is a final nun. It happens that the Atbash of a 'nun' is a 'tet,' which in ancient Babylon was a circle with a cross in it exactly as in the flag! Could this also be what was meant in the last line of this code, "I will give them a sign/letter!"

The nun and tet both symbolize snakes:

Moreover, a 'nun' was originally a hieroglyph of a snake (and "nun" means snake in Aramaic, the same language that mene-tekel-peres was written in). And the Atbash of nun, the letter 'tet', because of its more modern shape , has likewise come to symbolize a snake in Jewish tradition. And if there remained any doubt that the code intends the letters to indicate snakes, it happens that the full code explicitly declares the letter nun to represent the bronze snake on the pole! Hence, the glyphs and what the bible code reads concur. It reads:

"An oracle: My snake (or, "My nun") is a bronze/fiery serpent!

Amen! Amen! ('tet' 'tet', [snake], backward in Atbash) this is the pole/flag that heals them! 

Our oracle is a banner that brings healing!"

 

 

How the circle and the cross in it are formed:  The bible code tells us to go around (the letters) and this forms the circle/'coin,' and the four written-out letters within the 'flag' (4x2 letters) form the cross within the circle. Fittingly, the pole is formed by the Hebrew word for 'pole' (or 'flag').

A cross within a circle is also the ancient Babylonian way of writing the letter tet .  Rembrandt (left image) happens to have the hand writing a final nun in the image, the Atbash of the tet. The flag, of course, is the result of the code, not Rembrandt!

 

 

 

To summarize then, the encoded images are of flags/poles with the emblem of a (coiled) snake on a cross (a 'tet' ), but which also symbolizes a coin with a cross in it in keeping with the rest of the mene-tekel bible code.

 

First flag (horizontal):

His Execution!

The title of the flag is located in the top line within the flag.
This is also the Hebrew acrostic of mene, mene, tekel, uparsin.

The title reads:

  His execution!

  (Or, "The One putting Him to death!")

The pole with its flag of a cross within a coin, reads:

(The pole backward reads, "parsin," meaning, divided in two! The opening sentence is intentionally awkward, for it first reads up the pole as it talks about the pole thereby drawing attention to it! The image and its reading together communicate its prediction.)

"A banner (or, flag/wonder/pole) and their innocent One will we besiege!"
(or, '...we will go around.')

Reading around the 'coin' in both directions:

"A dieing man redeemed them!

You (sg.) will purchase them!

You (sg.) have declared them exempt from punishment!"

(Or as Piel-inf., "You have redeemed them in order to exempt them from punishment.")

 

  Second flag (vertical):

(The second flag uses the same words "mene-mene-tekel-peres" , except now they are arrayed vertically. The pole has the words "pole" and "snake" written on it, divided in the middle. The pole backward reads, "parsin," meaning, divided in two! The actual word "bronze-snake" is written at the top of the word "pole" along the pole! See endnote concerning letter 'samekh' for 'sin'.)

Reading up the pole and around the whole flag:
("Mene" means "numbered".)

"The pole (flag/wonder/banner) for healing (with a snake on it), you (sg.) numbered!"

 

Reading around the coin in both directions:

 

"Amen! You (sg.) are faithful!
(or, "You counted the Amen! You are faithful!")

I will give them a sign/letter!"

Its Atbash:

"A 'tet' will I stretch out!

He will stretch out a letter!"

 

 

"... A 'tet' will I stretch out! He will stretch out a letter!" Stretching letters: "Amen" backward in Atbash spells the Hebrew letter 'tet' . What the circle with a cross in it reads can be converted into Atbash. And when we do convert it, the code literally does what it says: the letter 'tet' literally "stretches out" into a 'final nun' by twice spelling 'tet' in the shape of a nun! (See below diagrams.) Moreover, when all the letters of the entire mene-mene-tekel-uparsin are converted into Atbash (rather than just the 4 letters forming the flag), not just the image of a tet , but also the actual word 'nun' "stretches out" into the shape of a 'final nun'! This is significant because the Atbash of tet is a nun! Moreover, both tet and nun signify a snake in Hebrew glyphs, and hence it is inferred that snakes are also being "stretched out". (Also see the Rembrandt painting [right] of the hand writing the 'final nun', etc.)   A tet is the number 'nine' in Hebrew: The flag can read, "You counted the Amen! ... I will give them a letter/sign!" (Also recall that "mene" means to number or count.) How do you count an "Amen"? One way is to count the Atbash of "Amen! Amen!", which (backward) is "tet, tet". The letter tet in Hebrew is also the number nine. So two 'tets' make 18, which is 6 + 6 + 6, a fitting number since a tet is traditionally understood to symbolize a snake and both 666 and snakes are associated with the curse in biblical imagery! Both its image and its numeric therefore symbolize the curse. (Recall the other 6-6-6's of this code. They reinforce our assertion that the "6 + 6 + 6 = 18" of the total of the two tet's are not likely by chance.) Summary: To repeat, the two tets (snakes), therefore, form the image of the Atbash of a tet, that is, a (final) nun , and the sum of two tets are 18 (6 + 6 + 6), the number of the curse. And moreover, the nun was itself originally a glyph of a snake, but in more modern times the letter has "straightened out" into a staff-like image when it is written at the end of a Hebrew word as a "final nun" (as in "Uparsin"). And this is what we have here, as seen in the image of Rembrandt taking hold of the final nun in uparsin, (meaning "snake" in Aramaic), by the tail of the letter! Does this remind you of anything from the bible? And the code itself states explicitly concerning the letter nun that, "My nun (or, 'my snake') is a bronze serpent!" A very interesting play on words indeed! For 'nun' is Aramaic for snake, the original language of this code! Could the code be any more certain as to its meaning? Two snakes (tets) swallowed by one snake (nun) so that it forms a nun (snake) that in turn straightens back into a 'final nun' that looks like a staff. Sounds like Moses and the two Egyptian magicians to me, when Moses' staff swallowed up their two staffs/snakes! (Ex. 7:12.) The Amen of Truth (a trustworthy staff), changes into the likeness of a tet (a lying snake), then back into the Amen (staff) by means of Atbash! This is a clear presentation of Yeshua, who was "stretched out" on a "pole" for us as a curse, to exchange the lie for His truth, His death that we might go free, "redeemed, exempt from punishment," the "innocent" for the guilty! And this is why I don't believe that the image by Rembrandt that we began using on our bible numbers website 10 years ago --- before we ever heard of bible codes --- is a coincidence, but rather a sign that God controls the destinies of men, even when and how Rembrandt painted his painting.

[To repeat!]

(Summary of the Second Flag)

 

Second flag (vertical): {We repeat part of the code here for further analysis.}

Reading up the pole and around the whole flag:
("Mene" means "numbered".)

"The pole (or, flag/wonder/cross/banner) for healing (with a snake on it), you (sg.) numbered!"

 

 

Reading around the coin in both directions:

 

"Amen! You (sg.) are faithful!
(or, "You counted the Amen! You are faithful!")

I will give them a sign/letter!"

Its Atbash:

"A 'tet' will I stretch out!

He will stretch out a letter!"

 

"I will give them a sign/letter!" This is 'a sign to the Jew'. Yeshua became a 'tet' for us! God is faithful! Yeshua, "the Amen", was "stretched out" to die on the cross like the snake on the pole to reverse the curse! Whosoever looks to Yeshua for salvation will be saved, just as the Israelites of old were saved from the cursed snake bites when they looked to the bronze serpent on the pole for healing.

The Hebrew word for "letter," here, is spelt (defectively) as Aleph-Tav, and is the equivalent of Alpha-Omega in Greek, a name of Jesus (Yeshua).

"And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful. And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega," (Rev. 21:5b-6a).

 

Please also see the Balance Bible Code concerning the signs of the six named record-breaking storms/hurricanes of the 2005 Atlantic season that were named after the first letters of the Greek alphabet, each 490 days (Daniel 9) after the Balance Bible Code. The Balance Bible Code talks about these letters and about the calming of the storm, etc. These two documents compliment one another in numerous ways, too many and too wonderful to numerate here.

Summary of hurricanes of notoriety

Axe to Root   Storm Alpha

Alpha-Beta Code

Gamma    Delta & Epsilon

Storm Zeta!    (River) Ape-Atbash  

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Comparing this "shekel" to the other shekels
reveals internal harmony

The single coin that we have been decoding is a shekel ('tekel' in Aramaic). It is most interesting that when we compare it to what the other shekels reads we see that they agree in meaning. (We will only compare it with the pertinent part of what the other Shekel[s] read.) Note that the word for "paying," found two times (and once more in the one-coined flag), uses three completely different Hebrew words that mean "to pay." ('Tekel', 'selah', and 'qanah'.)

"Tekel: ("To Pay") (meaning "to weigh" or "to pay".)

As a warning sign! (or, "as a letter")

You will most certainly be weighed/paid, O' enemy/rebel!"
(Or, "And for a sign He was weighed (in the balances)."

Compare this with:

"A dieing man redeemed them!

You will purchase them!

You have declared them exempt from punishment!

Amen! You  are faithful!

I will give them a sign/letter!"

 

 

Visual Explanation
 of the Mene-Tekel Bible Code

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Endnote:

1.) About the letter 'samekh' for 'sin':

The Hebrew words for "pole" and "fiery/bronze serpent" actually form a snake on the pole of the flag! Moreover, the snake on the pole is divided in half and is formed by utilizing the word "Divided-in-half" ("parsin") to make these two words! The meaning and the image could not be more clear or striking. The complexity is astounding! The Hebrew letter 'samekh' is used rather than a 'sin' [as expected] on purpose. This is clearly evident from the fact that reading down from the 'samekh' it fully reads the letter "sin" [but spelt with a 'samekh' rather than the proper letter of 'sin,'] and reading up, the word for "bronze serpent" also uses the same 'samekh' rather then the 'sin'. [There are a number of examples in Hebrew of different words substituting a 'samekh' for a 'sin' because they make the exact same sound --- the sound of a snake hissing! See Amos 6:10 for an example where this is also true of the word "seraph" (fiery [snake]).] Moreover, the Aramaic (Babylonian) word for "snake" ("nun," thought to be the original hieroglyph for the letter by that name) runs into the word "seraph" (fiery-serpent) at the lower part of the image. Thus, instead of the mene-tekel code reading as:

"MENE": They numbered me, a bronze serpent!

It may rather read:

An oracle: My snake ("nun") is a bronze/fiery serpent!

Truly, truly, this is the pole/flag that heals them! 

Our oracle is a banner that brings healing!

2.) "Jot or one tittle."

Quote from Adam Clark in his "Commentary on the Bible" on the "jot and tittle" of Matthew 5:18:

"One jot or one tittle - One yod, (י), the smallest letter in the Hebrew alphabet.

One tittle or point, κεραια, either meaning those points which serve for vowels in this language, if they then existed; or the seraphs, or points of certain letters, such as ר resh, or ד daleth, ה he, or ח cheth (as the change of any of these into the other would make a most essential alteration in the sense, or, as the rabbins say, destroy the world). Or our Lord may refer to the little ornaments which certain letters assume on their tops, which cause them to appear like small branches. The following letters only can assume coronal apices, ץ tsaddi - ג gimel - ז zain - נ nun - ט teth - ע ayin - ש shin. These, with the coronal apices, often appear in MSS."

What did Jesus mean when he said the following?

"Think not that I came to destroy the law or the prophets: I came not to destroy, but to fulfill. For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass away from the law, till all things be accomplished, (Matt 5:17-18).

In "The People's New Testament" it says:

...Jot and tittle "Till all be fulfilled." "Till," says Dr. Schaff, "implies that after the great events of Christ's life, and the establishment of his kingdom, the old dispensation, as a dispensation of the letter and yoke of bondage, as a system of types and shadows, will pass away, and has passed away (Eph_2:15; Col_2:14; Heb_8:13); while the spirit and substance of the law, i. e., love to God and man, will last forever."'"

Some commentators (as above) say that Jesus was referring to the passing of the letter of the law when He died. Others, that He was simply saying that, like heaven and earth, it will never pass away. I personally believe that He was referring to both. There is a sense in which the kingdom of Messiah has already come (when He died and rose again), and there is a sense that it will yet come (when He comes to earth the second time to reign). It seems to me (and I am just speculating) that the code brings out both ideas. The letter "passes away" by changing from a tet to a nun with the letter figurative of Christ Himself. This, in a theological sense, was the end of the world. But then the nun changes (back) into a final nun like a staff (a type of resurrection of Christ) and thus signifies that Yeshua, the Word of God, cannot be destroyed, but remains forever, as implied in these words by Jesus: "Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away," (Matt. 24:35). His words will never pass away because He will never pass away. The fact that the final nun in the image is actually the length of and looks like a vav, to me, is also significant. Perhaps the nun (snake) becomes a vav (nail) (a vav is a hieroglyph of a "nail") that impales Yeshua to the pole? This would imply that our sins (with its curse) nailed Jesus to the cross. But this is only a minor point, and as said, I am only conjecturing.

 

 

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