Smith Timothy P - God code: unlocking divine messages hidden in the Bible

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All Scripture quotations, unless otherwise indicated, are taken from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright 1996, 2004, 2007, 2013, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved. Scripture quotations marked ( ESV ) are taken from the ESV Bible (the Holy Bible, English Standard Version), copyright 2011 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Scripture quotations marked ( KJV ) are taken from the King James Version. Scripture quotations marked ( NCV ) are taken from the New Century Version. Copyright 2005 by Thomas Nelson Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Scripture quotations marked ( NIV ) are taken from the Holy Bible, New International Version, NIV. Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide. Scripture quotations marked ( NKJV ) are taken from the New King James Version. Copyright 1982 by Thomas Nelson Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

This is a work of nonfiction. Nonetheless, the chronology of some events and conversations have been compressed. In addition, some of the names of the individuals involved have been changed. Any resulting resemblance to persons living or dead is entirely coincidental and unintentional.

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Text copyright 2017 by Timothy P. Smith

Preface copyright 2018 by Timothy P. Smith

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Published in the United States by WaterBrook, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York.

This book was originally published in hardcover in a slightly different form in the United States under the title The Chamberlain Key by WaterBrook, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, in 2017.

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This book is dedicated to all the parents in the worldpast, present, and futurewhether by blood, adoption, or unofficial arrangement. There is something about parenthood that seems to both challenge and reward every facet of our humanity and allow all those who take this responsibility upon themselves to discover the full dimensions of their own nature. It is also dedicated especially to my own parents, who have lived to see the love they have shared with each other blossom like a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well; whose branches run over the wall (Genesis 49:22, KJV ).

As chief editor of the biblical Dead Sea Scrolls, I have spent my entire career teaching and writing in the areas of the Hebrew Scriptures, the scrolls, and the Septuagint. With regard to the reliability of the Masoretic Hebrew text that is used in the observations made in this book, it is based on the Saint Petersburg Codex (Codex Leningradensis; Firkovich B 19 A), which is the oldest complete manuscript of the Hebrew Bible in the Hebrew language, whose colophon dates it to AD 1008 or 1009. This is the text, in modern printed form (Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia), used by most scholars today.

The Aleppo Codex is almost a century older, but most of the Pentateuch is missing from it. The Dead Sea Scrolls are older by a millennium, but, though fragments from almost thirty manuscripts containing parts of Genesis are preserved, none contains text from Genesis 30.

The antiquity of that Hebrew tradition is safely assured, however, by three different sources. First, the Dead Sea Scrolls in the Genesis fragments that did survive exhibit a text that is virtually identical with the Saint Petersburg Codex. Second, the (pre-Christian) Samaritan Pentateuch is identical with it in its consonantal text. Third, the ancient Greek translation (the Septuagint) of Genesis, most scholars would agree, was translated around 280 BC from a Hebrew source text that was virtually identical with the Hebrew consonantal text of the Leningrad Codex.

However one wishes to interpret the meaning and significance of this book, the reader may rest assured that the text on which Timothy Smith bases his interpretation has almost certainly been there for a very long time, since before the birth of Christ.

Eugene Ulrich, PhD

Chief Editor, Biblical Dead Sea Scrolls

Department of Theology, University of Notre Dame

Unlocking the God Code

W hen The Chamberlain Key (now titled God Code) was released in April 2017, I wasnt sure what to expect. My first inclination in writing this book was to leave out the most intimate details of my backstory to avoid the usual skepticism often triggered by accounts of the supernatural and miraculous. I knew my personal story wasnt just unusual; it was outrageous. I feared that readers would be so distracted by my strange experiences that they would miss the importance and implications of what Id actually founda literal code in the oldest Hebrew text of the book of Genesis. This code undeniably demonstrates that sections of the Bible contain detailed information that could only have been intentionally placed there by a supernatural source.

The main reason for exposing my experiences and discoveries was to elicit help. My findings had revealed something extraordinary and unexplainable, and I knew I was in over my head. I was trying to make sense out of phenomena that refused to sit still long enough for extended analysis because one mind-bending discovery followed another in rapid succession.

Time has, for the most part, revealed that my anxiety about how people would perceive this book was unfounded, and, in fact, after the books publication, I received what Id hoped forhelp.

Publishing The Chamberlain Key was like sending a banner up a flagpole. The basic technical, linguistic, and historical information the book exposedalthough just a fraction of what had been uncoveredprompted the attention of the right people. The book revealed enough about the basic phenomena to encourage independent verification efforts. Experts in multiple related disciplines began contacting me from all over the world, offering insight and advice on how to further unravel the mystery of the chamberlain keyand, maybe, to discover more regarding the intended purpose behind the encoded communications.