Secret Mysteries Hidden In The Bible (original) (raw)

The secret things belong to Adonai our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our children forever-in order to do all the words of this Torah.-Deuteronomy 29:28 (TLV) Have you noticed that so much of what people are teaching in "Christianity" today, including-perhaps even especially-in Messianic and the more controversial Hebrew Roots Movement circles, is some type of secret code or hidden mystery? Many of the most popular "Christian" books published today have the words "code" or "mystery" in the title. Now please don't misunderstand me here, some of those books do provide good insight into a variety of topics. But is there a need to spin them as revealing some type of "code" or "mystery" or any other type of esoteric knowledge? Really, as you will see through this message, many of these things are nothing more than Gnosticism revived and divination blended with Scripture. In this message I am going to evaluate several methods used by people who claim to find "hidden codes" and "secret messages" in the text of The Bible. As I do you will see that they simply do not hold up to actual scholarship and certainly were not anything that any ancient Israelite, including and especially the earliest followers of Yeshua, would ever have used.