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- From: joe@csource.oz.au (Joe Slater)
- Newsgroups: sci.skeptic
- Subject: Chuck Missler and imminent Armageddon
- Message-ID: <725996352.AA08598@csource.oz.au>
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 12:26:02
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- Tuesday December 29 1992, lippard@skyblu.ccit.arizona.edu writes to All:
-
- lcae> 2. In Genesis 49:10, the first letter of each Hebrew word spells out
- lcae> (in Hebrew) the message "I am Yeshua, the shepherd king." (Anyone
- lcae> here know enough Hebrew to verify/refute this?)
-
- I can see why he picked that verse; it's the one from Jacob's prophecy before
- his death, assigning future roles to his sons' descendents. It reads: "The
- sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor the ruler's staff from between his
- feet, until Shiloh come, and to him the obedience of peoples."
-
- It's no good taking the initial letters alone, but if you take them and
- *rearrange* them you can come up with "Yeshua, Shepherd, King, MShYY". I don't
- know how he gets "I am" from the last bit, and I'm being slightly dodgy in
- spelling "shepherd".
-
- My experience has been that the tricks you can play by combining letters work,
- but not any better than chance would. I've seen some amazing things done by
- taking letters that are 49 or 50 apart, but then I discovered that these series
- (typically four letters, rarely five, almost never six) obey the laws of
- probability with a high degree of accuracy.
-
- This, as you probably know, has long been a popular pasttime. It's made easier
- now with the advent of computers and digital searching. I was rather impressed
- with what he'd done until I found out that you needed to rearrange the letters.
- Of course, that makes the odds *enormously* better - and it still didn't work.
-
- My conclusion: great parlor game, not much else.
-
- jds
-
- * Origin: What horrors wait for me in this, the Phantom's Opera? (3:632/351)
-