It has NOTHING to do with Kabbalah OR mysticism. It is a fact, that the Father wove these things into the fabric of the Torah, and it is BEAUTIFUL to behold His workmanship, which makes it IMPOSSIBLE to lie against the veracity of it being from Him because no man could do it.
It should be something awesome and amazing and worthy to be praised for the sheer magnificence of it, and instead some of you seem more inclined to spit on it. Shame on you.
If that's all it is - a thing of beauty and wonder to behold (reflective of the mathematical splendor of God), that's great. But that's not what it is used for. It is used to do more questionable things such as :
1. Confirm the inspiration of the scriptures
2. Look for other prophetic direction
The first seems like a reasonable conclusion to make, but even it is shaky. After all, the same process has been used in other works (
Tolstoy's War and Peace for example - check out the .pdf on that page...and
Predicted Assassinations in Moby Dick?).
The second conclusion is a bigger leap that makes the bible a possible source of divination. We are not given direction in looking for answers in any other way than reading what it plainly says (and seeking the Author for guidance). Beyond that, all we have is an open-ended process that could potentially lead people to any number of conclusions. CRI has a brief
article on this.
While God does hide Himself and we are to find Him, He is clear about how we are to do so. And open-ended code hunting is not one of the ways.
The secret things belong unto the Lord our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.
Deuteronomy 29:29