Acknowledgments
Iacknowledge two special people in the writing of this book. First, I am very grateful to my wife, Grace Chao, who has been my faithful companion physically and spiritually for over 20 years. During the last four years, she has been very patient with me while I spent so many hours in front of my computer. Because of my busy schedule, we have not had much family quality time together. She has fully supported my commitment to writing this book. Second, I would like to thank my son, Joshua who is the first reader of the book. He has carefully copyedited and formatted it even when he was busy with finals.
I would also like to thank my dear friend Pieder Beeli and his wife Emily Beeli for critically reading the first edition of the book. Without their critical eyes, some misprinted numbers would not have been detected. Because of their valuable comments and suggestions, the second edition of the book has been significantly improved. Because Dr. Beeli has a strong background in science, religion, history, and politics, he fully appreciates the value of this book. Here, I quote the introductory part of his comment on the book (with no modification):
This book concerns the
- greatest book ever written: The Bible
- greatest subject for which we can have mathematical and numerical vetting to test hypotheses: Biblical prophecy
- most wonderful conclusion imaginable for this subject (all numerical biblical prophecies have been perfectly fulfilled)
In order to do so, this book makes breakthrough discoveries in
- basic physics (radiation rates, variable speed of light, ...)
- cosmology (interpretation of "cold dark matter" to have negative mass, solves the lithium isotope abundance problem...)
- transforming the ancient Chinese documents referencing astronomical phenomena and biblical events like Noah's flood, onto a calendar, a task which a major national effort by the Chinese government involving some 200 experts failed to accomplish (Ch. 9)
- the embedding of God's holy numbers 7, 10 into the astronomical calendar and created the inferred intercalation scheme for Enoch's calendar, the calendar used by Essenes, including Jesus (Ch. 4)
- correcting Israel's calendar and to reveal that Israel's birthday in 1948 occurred on a special feast day and the establishment of an Israeli state fulfills a prophecy of Daniel 12:5-7 "... a time, times and half a time" (1260 years) [chapter 21].