Categorizing the Codes: A Systematic Review of Patterns in the Bible
Posted: Sun Mar 01, 2026 1:57 pm
The concept of "codes" in the Bible range from serious academic studies like "The Great Code: The Bible as Literature" by famed literary critic Northrop Frye to highly sensationalized claims about "predicting the future" with Equidistant Letter Sequences by Michael Drosnin's "The Bible Code". I founded this site to share my research on three independent "codes" - the Bible Wheel, the Isaiah-Bible Correlation, and Biblical Holographs (gematria).
Most people drawn to this site have had their own set of codes, overlapping with each other to various degrees. Here is my first attempt at a relatively complete list of codes I'd like to discuss, categorize, organize, evaluate for validity, strengths, weakness, etc. I think we may find deep insights by organizing them (like overlapping mathematical studies).
That's my first cut. Please add any codes you think we should review and integrate with rest.
A few quick notes - The Bible Wheel and Isaiah-Bible Correlation are completely independent in the sense that you can study one with no knowledge of the other. But they are also profoundly integrated (many chapters in Isaiah correlate along single spokes, just like the Wheel). And both of these studies are integrated with gematria. Here are few examples:
66 = גלגל (galgal) = wheel and there are 66 books in the wheel and 66 chapters in Isaiah.
Isaiah is book 23 = Aleph (1) + Tav (22) and Isaiah's name ישיעהו = 401 = Aleph (1) + Tav (400) so God marked it as the all-encompassing image of the Bible within the Bible (from Aleph to Tav) just as the Bible Wheel seals the Bible from Aleph to Tav.
Now concerning the "Grand Narrative from Genesis to Revelation" - that has been recognized by secular literary critics who have concluded that the BIble is truly unique - one of kind - no other book like it. Here's a quote from a secular Jewish literary critic Gabriel Josipovici who also quotes Northrop Frye:
OK TEAM! LET'S GO! Gather your honey for the glory of God!
Psalm 119:103 How sweet are thy words unto my taste! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth!
Most people drawn to this site have had their own set of codes, overlapping with each other to various degrees. Here is my first attempt at a relatively complete list of codes I'd like to discuss, categorize, organize, evaluate for validity, strengths, weakness, etc. I think we may find deep insights by organizing them (like overlapping mathematical studies).
- The Grand Narrative from Genesis to Revelation.
- The Bible Wheel
- The Isaiah-Bible Correlation
- Biblical Holographs (centered on Genesis 1:1/John 1:1, geometry, popularized by Vernon Jenkins, Peter Bluer, Leo Tavares, John Elias)
- Biblical Numerology (largely overlapping with Biblical Holographs, but broadened to include multiple methods of gematria including English, as well as custom algorithms like those popularized by Alex Marcussen and LJ (SonofZion232).
- Prime index patterns (I put this in its own category because though connected with the others, it seems like an independent study. It has been popularized among Jews by Oren Evron who makes very high quality videos.)
- Word count studies in specific texts (Glen uses the Pure KJV Bible tool to study these patterns. The YouTube channel TruthIsChrist has made many videos showing patterns unique to the KJV.)
- Equidistant Letter Sequences
That's my first cut. Please add any codes you think we should review and integrate with rest.
A few quick notes - The Bible Wheel and Isaiah-Bible Correlation are completely independent in the sense that you can study one with no knowledge of the other. But they are also profoundly integrated (many chapters in Isaiah correlate along single spokes, just like the Wheel). And both of these studies are integrated with gematria. Here are few examples:
66 = גלגל (galgal) = wheel and there are 66 books in the wheel and 66 chapters in Isaiah.
Isaiah is book 23 = Aleph (1) + Tav (22) and Isaiah's name ישיעהו = 401 = Aleph (1) + Tav (400) so God marked it as the all-encompassing image of the Bible within the Bible (from Aleph to Tav) just as the Bible Wheel seals the Bible from Aleph to Tav.
Now concerning the "Grand Narrative from Genesis to Revelation" - that has been recognized by secular literary critics who have concluded that the BIble is truly unique - one of kind - no other book like it. Here's a quote from a secular Jewish literary critic Gabriel Josipovici who also quotes Northrop Frye:
Gabriel Josipovici wrote:It's a magnificent conception, spread over thousands of pages and encompassing the entire history of the universe. There is both perfect correspondence between the Old and New Testaments and a continuous forward drive from Creation to the end of time: "It begins where time begins, with the creation of the world; it ends where time ends, with the Apocalypse, and it surveys human history in between, or the aspect of history it is interested in, under the symbolic names of Adam and Israel." Earlier ages had no difficulty in grasping the design, though our own, more bookish age, obsessed with both history and immediacy, has tended to lose sight of it. Neither theologians nor biblical scholars have stood back enough to see it as a whole. Yet it is a whole and quite unlike any other book.
OK TEAM! LET'S GO! Gather your honey for the glory of God!
Psalm 119:103 How sweet are thy words unto my taste! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth!