The Redemption Codes

Book excerpt: Professor Lange, a world-renowned mathematician, and his father, a respected Baptist minister, lived in two very different worlds. One was a world of academia and science, the other of faith. Those worlds miraculously merged one fateful day when the father, in a desperate attempt to connect with his son, issued a challenge. Although skeptical, the professor agreed to test his father's claim that there were embedded codes in the original Hebrew version of the Old Testament that, when discovered, would reveal amazing details about significant events throughout history. Due to the father's untimely and tragic death, he would never know that his simple challenge would someday end in one of the most amazing discoveries in the history of mankind--a discovery of cosmic proportions that could forever change the trajectory of the human race. Nor would the father ever see that what started as an attempt to bridge the gap between his world and the world of his son would result in suspense, intrigue, wild chases, and an international manhunt that would lead from the mountains of western North Carolina to the Temple Mount in Israel. Along the way, the professor learned an important lesson. It was not the phenomenal discoveries that had the greatest impact on the professor's life. It was the journey itself. A journey that started in his world and ended in the world his father embraced. One that started in a world predicated on cynicism and unbelief and ended in a world of faith and promise.