Cracking the Apocalypse Code: The Shocking Secrets of the Book of Revelation Decoded

by Gerard Bodson

Explains how a team of professionals discovered predictions of world events spelled out in Revelation by correlating numerical values with letters of the Hebrew alphabet.

Genres: Religion

300 pages, Hardcover

First published March 17, 1999

Reviews

[Crystal · Rating 5 out of 5]

I purchased this book many years ago, read some of it, and decided to revisit it recently. I'm glad that I did. Aside from some stilted language (which is a result of the book's translation from French to English), I really enjoyed this book. It read like a novel in many ways, and it was not a dry, uninspired collection of facts.

I think the author's findings are reasonable. In fact, the epilogue shows events transpiring just as he and his team forecasted. I can't say that I look forward to more events coming to pass, but I'll be following world events even more intently to see if the rest of Dodson's predictions are proven true.

[Morf Morford · Rating 4 out of 5]

I can see why some readers did not like this book. The English version is, at best, a clunky translation. But if you get past that, and the semi-meandering style, this book is astounding. To put it mildly, making sense, let alone history out of the Bible's most visionary, if not hallucinatory, book John's Revelation was a challenge. And this book is a portrayal, not only of the conclusions (which are frightening enough) but of the process of coming to terms with Western Culture's most apocalyptic book.

The summary is that some of those prophecies have yet to come to be....

[Christopher Miller · Rating 4 out of 5]

Given that most people think the Apocalypse of John has to do with the distant past, it can be a bit of a shock to read that there will be yet another World War, this time in 2043!

The book reads like a mystery (and I guess in some ways it is). If you would prefer not to know, don't read this one.

[Patty Apostolides · Rating 5 out of 5]

This read well, like a fiction novel, with enough tension to keep you reading. I liked how they used the code and methodology in a simple way so that it wasn't too technical to the layman.