"A decade later, it again revived not only within “Christian” camps (through the fables of such celebrities as Benny Hinn), but also took prominence outside the Church. In 1993, both Time and Newsweek magazines featured cover stories on the “new age” of angels. Television series and specials and Hollywood movies all championed the angelic theme. Many Christian booksellers capitalized on the craze by devoting an entire section in their stores to publications, jewelry, calendars, and other items that advanced the subject of angels."
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"One of the latest fads in Bible numerology comes to us through the aid of modern technology, as it took the computer to get it going. It is a pursuit of clandestine Bible prophecy called equidistant letter sequence or ELS. It has been popularized by Michael Drosnin’s best-selling book, The Bible Code. Drosnin’s book, published by Simon and Schuster in 1997, has found its way onto the (nonfiction) best-seller list of the New York Times. The book’s success has also afforded Drosnin guest appearances on popular television broadcasts such as Oprah. Other notables within Christian circles, including Paul Crouch, Hal Lindsey and Grant Jeffrey, have also jumped on the ELS bandwagon."
Yet again you demonstrate that you have
avoided researching much at all that which you write about.
It's amazing that you seem remotely comfortable with that pattern.
"One of the latest fads in Bible numerology comes to us through the aid of modern technology, as it took the computer to get it going. It is a pursuit of clandestine Bible prophecy called equidistant letter sequence or ELS. It has been popularized by Michael Drosnin’s best-selling book, The Bible Code. Drosnin’s book, published by Simon and Schuster in 1997, has found its way onto the (nonfiction) best-seller list of the New York Times. The book’s success has also afforded Drosnin guest appearances on popular television broadcasts such as Oprah. Other notables within Christian circles, including Paul Crouch, Hal Lindsey and Grant Jeffrey, have also jumped on the ELS bandwagon."
I think all Christians should be wary of anything written by Michael Drosnin. I have read both his Bible Code book and Bible Code II followup and am getting rid of both of them. The first one was plausible enough to start the ELS bible code interest. His second book goes completely off the rails. He claims the secret to the origin of life was put in a spaceship by aliens i.e "gods" and buried in the lowest physical portion of the earth - some barren place in Israel. Shades of Eric Van Daniken! In the second book, too, BTW, Drosnin claims that the bible codes told him that Bush stole the election from Gore in 2000. He also says, based on the codes, that he told Yassir Arafat he would be assassinated. So take all of these claims with a huge degree of skepticism.
As for ELS, there is a website out there where they were looking at who would win the Nov 2nd election. One researcher claimed the bible codes said Kerry would win. Another researcher found other bible codes that supposedly said President Bush would win. So much for accurate predictions.