They prove beyond a doubt that God is the author of the Bible, and that Jesus is the Messiah. But we must be very cautious about how we interpret what they represent. The amazing Hebrew language As we explored in lesson six, the Hebrew language is a remarkably sophisticated language. The characteristics of Hebrew are the same ones scientists working with the SETI program in their search for an extraterrestrial message have identified as representing the language of a highly advanced civilization. The compact nature of the language provides extremely efficient bandwidth.
Most Hebrew words are only two to four letters in length.
Naturally, this provides fertile ground for critics who claim that these codes are merely the result of short words with letters appearing frequently throughout the text. The study of coded Hebrew letters goes back as far as recorded Jewish history. All kinds of numerical values were derived from Hebrew letters, since each Hebrew character represents a number as well as a letter. Kabbalism is not the same as Numerology, an occult practice. Numerology places supernatural significance on specific numbers and tries to predict the future.