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The Jesus Codes in the Ten Commandments (Continued)
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Claims of Deity
During Jesus’ ministry, when he told the Scribes and Pharisees, “Before Abraham was, I AM,” they picked up rocks to stone Him, but He managed to slip away (John 8:58). Later, when the temple guards came to arrest him in the Kidron Valley, He asked them, “Who is it you want?” They replied, “Jesus of Nazareth.” He again said, “I AM,” and the soldiers fell to the ground. (John 18:4-6).
Most English translations of the latter passage render what Jesus said as, “I am He.” This translation does not make sense in context. The temple guard soldiers would not have been bowled over by His saying, “I am He.” Jesus Christ was clearly claiming that He was God, and His words had amazing power. Incidentally, a separate ELS for I AM comes close to the first four letters of the first focal code and crosses the second focal code at its first letter.
It is also extremely interesting to note that the Ten Commandments begin with the statement from God, “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, our of the land of slavery.” Could this be an answer to the question in the first focal code, “Where is the I AM?”
The entire focal code seems to echo the words of Colossians 1:15-17, “He (Jesus Christ) is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For by Him all things were created, things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things were created by Him and for Him. He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together.”
Focal Codes Touch Down in Six of the Ten Commandments
Six of the Ten Commandments verses in Exodus 20 are crossed by letters of the first focal code. It touches down in each of the first five commandments, as well as in the tenth. Because of its greater skip between letters, the second ELS touches down just four times in the Ten Commandments. Where the letters of the codes make contact with the commandments are represented by the blue shaded rows in the tables below.
One interesting aspect of the two focal codes is that both seem to crescendo, along with the giving of the commandments, at the 10th (the one dealing with coveting), where an unusual number of long ELSs nearly coincide. Comparing the charts above and the tables below, notice the lengthy codes near the vav, or eighth letter down, in the first focal code, and those near the first ayin, fourth from the bottom, in the second.
Most of the time the Hebrew Tanakh (Old Testament) and the New International Version agree on numbering of verses, but in this passage, appropriately, there is some variance, which can be confusing. Verses in the last part of Exodus 20 are three digits off – verse 20:14 in the Tanakh is verse 20:17 in the NIV; verse 20:17 is 20:20; verse 20:20 is 20:23; and verse 20:23 is 20:26. This is because the English language bible divides the commandments regarding murder, adultery, theft and lying into four separate verses (13-16), while the Torah has them in one verse (13). The table below shows the letters of the focal code, and the verse and text in the Torah and the NIV where each appears. The bolded words show where the ELS touches down in the verses.
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