All language subtitles for Código de Deus (2018)

[stirring orchestral music]

male narrator: For
billions of people,

the Bible is the most
important book ever written,

but what if there is
more to its message

than the written word?

What if there is a code hidden
deep within the Bible's text?

- These things were secret.

The idea of hidden
codes in the Bible

was something
you didn't speak about.

narrator: Now, one man
intends to expose

those codes to the world.

- If the codes are real,

it would be
completely mind-blowing.

- I knew that whatever

we would unravel in the code

had to be a universal
message for mankind.

narrator: Some of those
messages speak of a world

in turmoil.

Others speak of peace.

But one code
goes even further,

possibly pointing
to the location

of one of the world's
greatest treasures:

the lost Ark of the Covenant.

Can it be found?

And what divine messages
could it reveal?

And might it change
the course of humanity?

The answers may finally
be revealed by the God Code.

♪

Every day, we move through
a world shaped by codes.

♪

Electronic code surrounds us.

Genetic code lives within us.

It determines who we are,
how we live,

and sometimes even how we die.

But what if there's a code
underlying everything?

A mysterious master code

that knows
all that's ever been

and all that will ever be.

Tim Smith believes he's
discovered that code

hidden in the text
of an ancient Bible.

- The God Code is a discovery
in the Hebrew Bible

that really reveals that
the ancient manuscripts,

they're really a device

for communicating
much more information

than you would find
on the surface.

- Let there be no mistake.
These are not just words.

The Bible is not a book.
It is something else.

narrator:
An antiquities expert

with over 30 years'
experience,

Tim has worked with
countless rare artifacts

and priceless manuscripts,

but he's always taken
a special interest

in rare biblical texts,

learning classical Hebrew
to explore them in depth.

Yet it was a lifelong
fascination with codes

that would reveal more of the
Bible than Tim ever imagined.

Thanks to a chance discovery

in the Old Testament's
book of Genesis,

hidden in the verse
where Leah,

wife of the prophet Jacob,

gives birth to six sons
and a daughter.

- I had a personal connection
with this information,

because I also had
six sons and a daughter,

and my father had
six sons and a daughter.

And so those few verses
were always special to me.

♪

narrator: When Tim
looked up the versus

in the original Hebrew,

he began to see
a hidden pattern emerge.

- I was named after
Saint Timótheos,

and I knew perfectly well

how to spell
my name in Hebrew.

So I went to that
section of the text,

and I just found
the first tet or T,

and I started skipping letters
until I found

the first yod,
the second letter,

and then I found
the third letter in my name,

the mem, which is an M.

narrator: As Tim continued
to scan the verses,

what he saw astounded him:

each letter of his name spaced
exactly 16 characters apart.

He called this pattern
a skip code.

- I couldn't believe it when
I hit the fourth and the fifth

and the sixth,

and I was actually
trembling by that point.

Every time I hit
the next letter in "Timótheos,"

it was literally like
hitting lottery numbers

one after another.

narrator:
Though Tim was stunned

by his skip code discovery,

he had to ask himself,
what did it mean?

Was it mere coincidence?

Or is it possible he had
just unlocked a mystery others

have sought to solve
for millennia?

- People we know today who are
looking for hidden codes

in the Hebrew Bible

are actually pursuing
an ancient tradition,

sometimes for good causes,
sometimes for terrible causes.

narrator:
Believing they could unlock

the secrets
of the universe,

Sir Isaac Newton dedicated
over half his life

to a search for codes
in the Bible,

while the Nazi Third Reich's
desire for world domination

fueled their quest to capture
the mystical power

of religious texts
and artifacts.

- Think of trying to break
the biblical code

to activate forces that
are dormant in the Bible

and make them work
in their favor.

If you can do something
with the way

the letters are combined,

you can release an energy.

That's how potent
these letters are.

narrator: But Tim's search
is about understanding,

looking deeper to comprehend
a possible hidden message.

Using the skip code,
Tim went back to Genesis

to the same chapter
which revealed his name,

where he believed
he found another code,

a message that seems
to predict

the coming of Jesus centuries
before he's born.

In Genesis chapter 30,
verses 20 through 27,

a perfectly symmetrical
cross is formed

by the horizontal phrase
"Elohim, Alef, Tav."

Meaning,
"God, first and last."

Then, encoded at the same
16-letter skip code,

just below the cross,
is the phrase,

"[speaking Hebrew]."

Tim's translation:
"Father hidden in Jesus."

- This text was written
centuries before

Jesus Christ was born.

There was information
being communicated

in the text
regarding future events.

I was awestruck by it.

It was just
absolutely amazing.

narrator: Then, looking even
deeper into that same passage,

Tim revealed another
shocking message,

one that seemed to predict
the crucifixion of Jesus.

Extending from
the code concealed

in Genesis chapter 30,
versus 20 through 27,

and encrypted at the same
16-letter skip,

are the words,
"[speaking Hebrew]."

Tim's translation:
"The key to understanding:

the manna is put to death
by royal decree."

- That's a phrase
and an allusion

that Jesus makes to himself.

He says, "I'm the manna
that came down from heaven."

The text from which this code
is encrypted is from texts

which absolutely were written
before the time of Christ,

centuries before
the time of Christ.

This is speaking to the future

from the time
that it was written.

It dawned on me that the
potential for communication

was just mind-boggling.

My mind just reeled
with the possibilities.

narrator: But Tim knew to
understand this ancient code,

he needed the power
of modern technology:

a computer program capable
of searching entire texts,

including the one Tim
wanted to use as his source,

one of the world's
oldest Hebrew Bibles:

the Leningrad Codex.

The Russian government
acquired

this ancient manuscript

under mysterious circumstances
in the 19th century

and has kept it under
strict control ever since.

When Tim managed
to acquire a copy,

he turned to his brother, Joe,

a cryptologist who spent
his career

in national defense.

- Time and time again, we keep
decrypting this information

that is talking about events
right into modern times.

- Tell me where this is going.

When I finally heard
the full story

of what Tim had discovered,

I still had to look
at the probabilities.

- It was my brother Joe
who really got me to bear down

and ask certain questions.

He told me that you need
to formulate all of this

in a way that can be tested.

narrator: Joe helped
Tim develop

a custom computer program

to search for other phrases
hidden in the text

using unlimited
potential skip codes.

Let's say it's
a letter skip of 14.

Then that section of the text

is realigned into
14 vertical columns,

and then the code
that you discover

will appear in a single
vertical column,

and then you can see if there's
any other information

that appears there.

It could be something
diagonally,

horizontally, vertically,

but it's all compacted
around your initial code

that got you into that matrix.

narrator: Utilizing advanced
cryptography and mathematics,

the God Code software

is not only able to
reveal hidden messages;

it determines whether they
are a random occurrence

or something else.

- If this is more
than a coincidence,

then we've attributed
this to a superior being.

- It's only right now that we
have the technical ability

to use statistical
computer technology

to separate random coincidence

from something
that's intentional.

The same way code breakers do
it with defense intelligence.

They can separate the noise.

narrator:
The powerful software has done

something unprecedented:

apply a mathematical
formula to the Bible,

potentially unlocking
an infinite number of codes.

And when Tim searched
one of the Old Testament's

most famous passages,

he deciphered what seems to be
a chilling prediction

of one of America's
darkest days.

[siren wailing]

In Psalms chapter 23,
the Bible says,

"Yea, though I walk
through the valley

of the shadow of death,

I will fear no evil,
for thou art with me;

thy rod and thy staff,
they comfort me."

Intersecting this passage,
aligned vertically,

is the Hebrew phrase,

"[speaking Hebrew] Nazi."

Meaning,
"Nazi organization."

Then, horizontally,
intersecting that phrase

at a skip code of 2,
is hidden,

"[speaking Hebrew],"

a date on the Hebrew
calendar in 2001.

That date: September 11th.

The odds of this startling
message appearing by chance:

one in over 18 quadrillion.

- Referring to the Nazis
was more like a symbol

that we would all recognize
to understand the hatred

and the evil of something.

For thousands of years,

this verse of scripture
has been here,

and for thousands of years,

the date September 11th

has been encrypted

over that verse of scripture.

It's just mind-boggling.

- Spoken through the ages
in Psalm 23.

narrator: Even
more astonishing,

on the night of the attacks,

President Bush turns
to the exact verse

where the 9/11 code is found.

- "Even though I walk through
the valley of the shadow

of death, I fear no evil,
for you are with me."

narrator: This prediction
of a past tragedy

is disturbing enough.

But Tim soon deciphers
an ominous code

that seems to
predict the future.

Hidden in Deuteronomy
is a phrase Tim translates

as "total holocaust:
atomic destruction."

Then, "Korea destroyed."

If true, the ramifications
are terrifying.

- Why it's there--is it
something that we can avoid?

All's I know is it's the most
disturbing code that I've seen.

narrator: To Tim,
the implications

of his discovery seemed clear.

If the God Code
proves 9/11 was predicted

in the Old Testament,

could the apocalyptic message
about the destruction of Korea

also be a warning?

How many more codes are there
hidden deep in the Bible?

What are they
trying to tell us?

And how does this
possibly connect to

the Ark of the Covenant?

narrator: For
billions of people,

the Bible is a source
of inspiration,

but is it also a source
of secret coded messages

placed there
by a higher power?

- The idea of hidden
codes in the Bible

was something you
didn't speak about.

It was secrets that
a father whispered to a son,

a master whispered
to a disciple,

swearing them to secrecy,
never to reveal.

narrator: Biblical code
breaker Tim Smith believes

he's found hidden codes in one
of the world's oldest Bibles,

the Leningrad Codex,

including some that
seem to predict

the coming of Jesus Christ,

the horror of 9/11,

possibly even a warning
for today.

- We have a code that is
probably one of

the most alarming,

disturbing codes
that I've uncovered.

narrator: In Deuteronomy
chapter 8, verse 20,

the Bible reads,

"As the nations which the Lord
destroyeth before your face,

so shall ye perish."

Using the skip code, a message
appears in the Hebrew text:

"[speaking Hebrew]."

Then, diagonally to its left,
"Korea" and "Haya."

- "Total atomic holocaust,
Korea destroyed."

This is a situation
that is upon us.

Everybody in the world
knows right now

that this is an event
that could very easily happen.

narrator: The mathematical
odds of this message

randomly occurring
are staggering:

less than
1 in 2.2 quintillion.

- This is a code that makes
all of us just shudder

if the possibility
that it's a prophecy.

narrator: Many messages
Tim has found

foretell of tragic events
in our past.

This is the only one
that seems to

predict our future so far.

- What if there were codes
in the text that could give us

some advanced warning

about things that might be
upon us in our generation?

narrator: Tim's search
for those possible codes

leads him to Chanan Tigay,

a modern day Bible hunter.

Chanan has circled the globe
in search of texts

even older than
the Leningrad Codex,

texts believed to be closer
to the true Word of God

that could possibly hold
even more hidden messages.

- Tim, how you doing?
- How's it going?

Glad to finally meet you.

- So what am I doing here?

- I just thought
you'd be the perfect person.

You've already, you know,
tromped the world hunting down

these old biblical manuscripts.

You've made all kinds
of connections.

A lot of that may be
really handy for us.

- I'm just sort of curious
what particular manuscripts

you're after,
what we might learn from them.

- The codes that we find
are compacted

in the sections of the text

which are known
to be the earliest.

- Yeah.
- It's always

in those
sections of the text

that we find these codes.

- What I'd seen up
to that point

of equal distant letter skips

had not particularly
impressed me.

But there was something
really intriguing

about what he was saying.

I can't just say, "I don't
get it. Forget about it."

That drives me to dig
further, to explore,

to try and understand it.

narrator: For a closer look
at the biblical texts

Tim has been decoding,

Chanan gets access
to a local synagogue.

At the heart of the God Code

are the first five books
of the Old Testament--

Judaism's Torah--

which even today
is still surrounded

by ancient rules and rituals.

The Torah's message is sacred,

but of equal importance
is each

meticulously crafted letter.

- The calligraphy is just
beautiful.

- It could as easily

have been done by a computer,

but someone sat for many hours
and many, many days

and made sure it was pristine--

- Right.
- Absolutely perfect.

- You know, billions of people
in the world look at this

as the beginning
origin story of everything.

It means so much
to so many people.

♪

narrator: These modern scrolls
are the latest link

in a 3,000-year chain
of handwritten copies--

a chain said to begin with
God's covenant

handed down to Moses.

- The first five books
were not written--

according to tradition--
by humans.

They were dictated
to Moses on Mount Sinai

with God, face-to-face.

- When we received
the Torah from God,

we were given the commandment
to write a Torah scroll.

And so a sofer is the person

who actually crafts
the Torah scroll.

narrator: Even today,
the accuracy of the Torah

letter sequence is sacred.

If a single word is altered,

any codes hidden in
the text would be lost.

- The Torah is written
not by heart,

but copied from a proofread
and properly edited text.

The scribe has to be
very, very careful,

because a single letter
changed

can literally alter
the meaning entirely.

It's a huge responsibility,
and it's high-stakes.

Definitely, it's high-stakes.

narrator: This precision
is what Tim believes

makes the God Code possible,

but he knows
to fully understand

the potential of the God Code,

he needs to find the purest
form of the Bible

that was handed down
to Moses--

a Bible like the Aleppo Codex.

- The Aleppo Codex was the
oldest complete manuscript

of the Hebrew Old Testament.

It was preserved and protected

by the Aleppo Jews
of Aleppo, Syria.

For centuries, scribes would
compare their Torah scrolls

against the Aleppo Codex.

narrator: The Aleppo Codex
is over a century older

than the Leningrad Codex,

which Tim has been
utilizing so far.

But gaining access to
the Aleppo Codex

is impossible.

- The Aleppo Codex
is generally considered

the most accurate copy of the
Hebrew Bible that exists.

But what is perhaps
the most important

section of the Hebrew Bible--

the Torah, the five books
of Moses--

they are largely gone.

narrator: But all is not lost.

Chanan suggests
they consult the 1490 Bible.

This 500-year-old Bible
could serve as a vital link

to that now-missing text.

Today, the 1490 Bible
is safeguarded

in a basement vault
of New York's

Metropolitan Museum of Art.

- Printed in 1490, one of
the earliest Hebrew Bibles

ever printed,

this printed work
has been corrected

based upon the comparison

to the most reliable source--

that's the Aleppo Codex.

narrator: Is the 1490 Bible
what Tim is looking for?

Having this rare access
gives him the chance

to conduct a test.

- I'm particularly interested
in the section of the text

which refers to Leah

when she has six sons
and finally a daughter.

She has Dinah in the end
in the book of Genesis.

Normally, it would be, like,
chapter 30, 20 through 24.

- You are here
before chapter and verse.

- Right.
- I'm gonna have to

find it for you.
- Okay.

- Okay? So--
- Right.

- Story of the birth of Dinah.
- Right. Yeah.

narrator: Tim knows if he can
locate the Timótheos code

in the text,

the 1490 Bible could serve

as a substitute
for the Aleppo Codex.

- Wait, wait.

Oh, here.

There you go.

narrator: With the original
page open before him,

Tim finds exactly
what he's looking for.

- When Dr. Kramer
flipped open the text,

I could easily pick out
the Timótheos code.

I could see it right
in front of me.

David, thank you so much.
I really appreciate it.

narrator: Confident this Bible
is a more accurate text,

Tim enters it into
the God Code software.

What appears is a message
unlike any he's seen before,

a new type of code
seemingly directing him

to the original
biblical text--

the pure Word of God
as handed down to Moses,

a Bible believed to be hidden

in the lost Ark
of the Covenant.

♪

narrator:
Tim Smith's discovery

of coded messages in the Bible

has transformed this small
town antiquities expert

into a biblical code breaker.

Now, Tim believes his God Code
software

has detected a message

pointing him toward the Ark
of the Covenant.

- Of course it would be amazing

to find the Ark
of the Covenant,

but I'm even more excited
about finding

what's inside the Ark--

a perfect copy of the Bible--

because then
the complete potential

of the codes
would be realized.

We would have
an absolutely perfect code.

narrator: After gaining access
to a substitute

for the Aleppo Codex,

the world's
most accurate Bible,

Tim's God Code software
scanned the text

for hidden messages.

Though he had no idea
what to expect,

the messages that
appeared shocked him.

- This one is probably the most
exciting and promising

of all the codes
that I've deciphered.

This entire code
is encrypted

within the building
specifications

of the Temple of Solomon--

the dimensions
that were revealed by God

to build the temple,

all the building
materials, everything.

narrator: In 2 Chronicles,
verse 3,

the Bible clearly references
the Ark of the Covenant,

stating, "And there the Ark
is unto this day."

Centered over this passage
is a Hebrew phrase

which Tim translates as,

"The Ark key,
the one that uncovers

a protected chamber
concealed underground."

Then, directly to its left,
at precisely the skip code,

is the Hebrew phrase meaning,

"The passage to the chamber,

the bedrock of
the temple ruins."

- To have these two things
side by side,

it had to be intentional.

It was basically saying
that there was a passageway

through the bedrock,

underneath the temple

to get to the hiding place
of the Ark of the Covenant.

narrator: Then, a mirrored
diagonal pattern

appears in the shape
of a downward-pointing arrow,

repeating the same word:

"[speaking Hebrew],"
meaning "spring."

- It's the exact same
spelling of the same word,

and it gives the location
of it being

directly over a spring.

This is obviously
more than a code.

This is a very express,
specific location

of the original building
of the Temple of Solomon.

narrator: But for centuries,

tradition has stated
the Solomon's temple

was on the Temple Mount
in Jerusalem,

a site where
no spring is found.

- The only pure water source,
the only spring,

the only fountain in Jerusalem
--it's the Gihon Spring.

- If you are suggesting that
the Temple of Solomon

is not in fact located

on what we now know
as the Temple Mount,

that would surely
be drastic news.

- Yeah, and I'm not
suggesting it;

the codes are suggesting that.

- Solomon's temple was
the first Jewish temple.

The idea that something
that has been

such a bedrock of belief

could suddenly change

would certainly be likely to
create a good deal of unrest.

- At this point, we have a code
that pinpoints

the exact location
of this hidden chamber.

It's quite clear from the code

that it's below
the Gihon Springs.

It certainly suggests
that there are access tunnels

to enter into that chamber.

What's so fascinating
about this code

is that it does not appear
in the Leningrad Codex;

it only appears

when you take the information
from the 1490 Bible,

and apparently, that code was
sitting there the whole time.

narrator: Is it possible a
mistake in the Leningrad Codex

obscured this latest message?

If the answer is yes,
as Tim believes,

his search for the world's
oldest Bible is urgent.

- If there was ever
an absolutely perfect

letter sequence
dispensed by the hand of God,

it would be in that
ancient Torah scroll

that has been sitting
the Ark of the Covenant,

and if we could take
that Torah scroll

and enter the letter
sequence of that scroll

into our computer programs,

I just get goosebumps.

narrator: Finding
that scroll means

finding the Ark
of the Covenant,

a treasure that has
eluded discovery

for thousands of years.

But Tim believes
a mysterious organization

with centuries of secrets
connected to the Ark

could provide a clue.

- The Freemasons believe
that there is a hidden chamber

that was built deep
below the temple,

a place where the Ark
of the Covenant

could be put and safeguarded,

and all of their ceremonies
trace back to the secrets

of the location
of this underground chamber.

narrator:
Is the Freemasons' obsession

with Solomon's temple
a sign?

Could the group
have information

about the location of the Ark

and the scroll legend
says is inside?

In search of answers,
Tim and Chanan visit

an abandoned
100-year-old building

that once housed
a Masonic lodge.

- Yeah. That's got to be it.
- That looks like it. Yeah.

- All right.
- Classic masonry, right?

narrator: The design,
inspired by Solomon's temple.

- Take a look at those
palmettes

on the very top.

Those are Masonic symbols.

- They are.
- Yeah.

It's also from
the Temple of Solomon.

This Masonic lodge
is the fusion of antiquity

and modernism.

You've got Art Deco, but you've
got the pillars of antiquity,

like the masons do,
the old with the new,

the past and the present.

narrator: Inside, Tim hopes
the traditional artwork

found in many Masonic temples

will lead to something
more concrete--

maybe even a clue
to the location

of the Ark of the Covenant.

- In here, Tim. Check it out.
- Oh, cool. Is that it?

That's got to be
King Solomon right there.

In fact, that's the Ark
of the Covenant.

♪

- What I'm hoping for is to be
able to match up information

that we know historically...

- You seen these
two guys before?

- With information that
they may have recorded

in the decorative art
that is inside of that lodge.

- We've got quarried stone
hanging there

on that pulley system.
- Right.

- That's right here.
- Yeah, what is this over here?

- Scaffolding over here with
the winged creature there.

- Right. It's just kind of
the temple motif,

the temple motif,
the temple motif.

- The whole thing is
the building of the temple.

- That's the high priest.

This is Solomon.
That's got to be King Solomon.

He's on the throne.

- King Solomon was declared
by the Bible

to be the philosopher king.

Solomon built a building
that was

magnificent for the time.

There was a secret chamber
deep under the foundation

where Solomon himself
hid the Ark.

narrator:
Everywhere they look,

Tim and Chanan are amazed
by the freemasons'

extraordinary connection
to the Old Testament.

- Abraham, Moses, again,
Solomon, Isaiah.

Definitely connects it
with the Hebrew patriarchs.

narrator: But what they need

is a clue
that could point them

to the Ark's hidden chamber
beneath the temple.

- That's the Ark
of the Covenant.

- Right there?
- It's above the valance.

- Solomon had a vault built
beneath the temple.

- Right.
And that's probably one

of the most sacred traditions
to the masons.

It's beneath the ruins,
down below the bedrock

of the original site
of Solomon's temple.

narrator: But where exactly
is that bedrock?

The God Code appears to point
to an unexpected location:

Jerusalem's Gihon Spring.

- The only way to get more
of the puzzle pieces

is to actually go to Jerusalem.

- Can I be honest with you
for a second?

- Sure. Go ahead.

- Finding the lost Ark
of the Covenant--

- [chuckles]
- It sounds

a little farfetched.
- Yes.

It's a quest for crazy people.

narrator: The whereabouts
of the Ark of the Covenant

is one of the world's
oldest mysteries.

- There are some that believe
that the Ark of the Covenant

was destroyed
when the Babylonians

destroyed the first temple.

The other tradition, however,

is that the Ark
of the Covenant is buried

and that it's
awaiting discovery.

We don't understand

what the Ark of the Covenant's
powers were.

It's said that
the Ark of the Covenant

accompanied the Israelites

when they were marching
through the desert,

and that flames
would shoot out

from the underside
of the Ark of the Covenant,

killing scorpions and snakes.

- Think of it as a weapon
--weapon of mass destruction.

If someone tried
to touch it

without the purification
rites--

even to hold it
from falling down--

that person would be
smitten immediately.

narrator: The search for
the Ark has been

going on for centuries

by those who would use it
for good and evil.

In 1935, Nazi SS chief
Heinrich Himmler

established the Ahnenerbe.

Their mission: to scour the
globe for religious artifacts,

including the Ark
of the Covenant.

Is it possible that they
knew about the God Code

and believed what was inside
could be weaponized?

If the Nazis had somehow
been able to find the Ark,

no one knows what evil
would have befallen the world.

Now, a newly deciphered code
has convinced

Tim finding the Ark
of the Covenant

might finally be possible.

- Take a look at this.

The Ark of the Covenant code

gives the location of it

being directly over a spring.

At this point,
I am completely convinced

that the precise location
of Solomon's temple

was in a location

just above the Gihon Springs.

narrator: Gihon Spring
is located

in the City of David
below the Holy Mount,

just outside the city walls.

Now, Tim and Chanan
are on their way to Israel,

because if what the God Code
says is correct,

and the temple
once stood here,

it could shatter
2,000 years of tradition.

narrator: The God Code has
led biblical code breaker

Tim Smith and Bible hunter
Chanan Tigay

on a journey to the holiest
place on Earth, Jerusalem.

♪

Tim claims a newly
discovered code

seems to be pointing them

to the true location
of Solomon's temple

and possibly a perfect Bible
in the Ark of the Covenant

for the God Code to analyze.

Tim is convinced
the Ark code's reference

to a spring means
Solomon's temple

once stood above
the Gihon Spring

in the City of David,
not on the Temple Mount.

If right, this would upend
centuries of tradition

and a very fragile peace
in the Middle East.

- The question of the location
of Solomon's temple--

digging into that question

is going to rub some
people--many people--

the wrong way.

But archaeologists
have made mistakes before,

historians have made
mistakes before,

and so what do we have
to lose by going and looking?

Looking out over
the old city of Jerusalem,

the gold dome is
the Dome of the Rock.

Over there is
the Al-Aqsa Mosque,

and then, continue
moving down the hill--

- That's got to be the Gihon.
- Gihon Springs, that's right.

That whole area
there is the City of David.

For our purposes,
that's ground zero.

It's a city of extreme
sensitivity.

You know, you asking
questions about,

"Is this in fact where
the temple was located?",

we have to tread carefully
while we're here.

- Yeah. Yeah, we're treading
on holy ground.

narrator: If Tim and Chanan
can find a pristine

Hebrew Bible like the one
believed to be hd

in the Ark of the Covenant,

Tim is convinced
the God Code

could reveal
even more secrets.

♪

While Chanan sets off
to investigate the mystery

surrounding the Aleppo Codex,

Tim heads to the National
Library of Israel,

which holds a collection
of papers

left by one of history's
most famous scientists:

Isaac Newton.

Newton spent more of his life
studying the Bible

than he did physics.

Like Tim,
he believed the Bible

holds layers
of coded information.

Now, Tim hopes examining

Newton's writings
could shed light

on the true location
of Solomon's temple.

- Isaac Newton wrote
so many notes, papers,

drawings, diagrams.

I'm hoping to find something
no one else

has ever noticed before.

- So these are notes
on Solomon's temple.

For Newton, all of these
measurements and descriptions

and structures had many
levels of meaning.

- Do you think
that Isaac Newton

ever found
what he was looking for?

Did he uncover
what he was trying to find?

- I don't know if he found
what he was looking for,

but he was constantly
writing and rewriting,

he was crossing out,
he was adding notes.

He was obviously
on some kind of journey.

- Right. I have discovered

in the building
specifications in the text

in the book of 2 Chronicles
encrypted information

dealing with the location of
a chamber beneath the temple,

and Isaac Newton seemed to be
trying to uncover something,

and I think I've cracked it
open a little bit.

- It sounds like something
Newton would have been

really excited to find...
- Right.

- And if, in fact,
there is such a repository,

then Newton would have
been thrilled to find it.

- Isaac Newton was looking

for cryptic coded information,

but I don't know
if he was specifically

looking for a hidden chamber.

Still, it was just absolutely
fascinating that we were

both kind of focused
on the same thing.

narrator: Could history's
greatest scientist

possibly have known
about the God Code?

If he did,
why was he never able

to find what he was
looking for?

Perhaps Newton was looking
in the wrong book.

♪

While Tim explores
Isaac Newton's journals,

Chanan meets up with
journalist Matti Friedman

who investigated the history
of the Aleppo Codex,

a Hebrew Bible even older
than the Leningrad Codex.

The mystery surrounding
it begins in 1947

on the day Israel was formed.

- There are riots
across the Arab world.

One of the riots is in Aleppo.

Mobs attack
the Jewish community,

burn homes, burn businesses,

and burn almost all
the synagogues in Aleppo,

including the Great
Synagogue of Aleppo,

which is where
the Aleppo Codex is hidden.

narrator: Somehow, the codex
survives the fiery riots.

And ten years later, it's
quietly snuck out of Syria.

- It's smuggled out of Syria
in a washing machine,

but about 40% of it is missing.

The Aleppo Codex,
when it's written,

has 500 parchment pages.

- 500 pages.
- 500 pages.

- Wow. Okay.
- The Aleppo Codex

that resurfaces in Jerusalem
has 294 parchment pages.

The most important part
of any Hebrew Bible,

the Torah, the five books
of Moses, are missing.

♪

narrator: For nearly 60 years,
the official story

is that the missing pages
were destroyed by the fire,

but is it just that--a story?

The answer may lie
with one of the few people

left in the world

to have seen the codex intact.

86-year-old Rafi Sutton
gazed upon the Aleppo Codex

as a 13-year-old boy in Syria.

- [speaking Hebrew]

- [speaking Hebrew]

narrator: While the fire
story persisted,

Rafi never believed it.

When he was recruited into the
Israeli Intelligence Service,

he led an investigation into
the mysterious disappearance,

tracking down the man rumored
to have saved it.

- [speaking Hebrew]

narrator: For 60 years, the
story of the fire continued,

but why?

Is it possible someone
or some group

does not want
the missing sections

of the Aleppo Codex found?

It appears the pages
weren't lost.

They were stolen.

Were they taken for profit

or possibly
for another reason?

♪

Seeking an answer,

Tim and Chanan head
to the Israel National Museum,

where the surviving pages of
the Aleppo Codex are guarded.

- Hi, Michael? I'm Chanan.

- Chanan, how are you
enjoying my baby?

- This is your baby, huh?

- It's in its cradle,
and it looks gorgeous.

narrator: Michael Maggen
is the only person

allowed to handle the
1,100-year-old Aleppo Codex,

and his firsthand
knowledge of the codex

may provide the answer

to what really happened
to the missing pages.

- We've been doing a lot
of research

about the Aleppo Codex,

and it's obviously
a fascinating book

with a fascinating story.

- Well, I was looking for
the burning of the parchment,

and I couldn't find it.

I mean, when you put
fire into parchment,

the parchment shrinks and
becomes hard like a cracker,

so I could find, you know, here
and there, traces of soot,

but nothing of that, you know,

effect of when you put
fire in parchment.

This, of course,
was outrageous news,

because all of those years,

people were sure the manuscript
was affected by fire.

narrator: If the pages
weren't lost in a fire,

who has them and why?

Is someone trying to keep
the God Code secret,

and will Tim's search take him
somewhere he never expected?

narrator: Tim Smith and
Chanan Tigay's investigation

into the missing pages
of the Aleppo Codex,

once the world's
most accurate Bible,

has only raised
more questions.

Was it stolen purely
for profit,

or was something
more sinister at play?

Was an individual or group

seeking to exploit
its potential power involved?

The mystery could
take years to unravel,

but for Tim and Chanan,
time is of the essence.

They turn their attention
to an even older source.

Here, behind a thick plate
of bulletproof glass,

sit fragments
of the 2,000-year-old

Dead Sea Scrolls.

Could the God Code
possibly reveal messages

in the world's oldest
biblical texts?

- Every book of the Hebrew
Bible is represented

in the Dead Sea Scrolls
except for one book:

the book of Esther.

Perhaps the caves around
the cliffs of the Dead Sea

were repositories
for holy Jewish texts,

because Jews weren't supposed
to throw away anything

that had the holy name of God.

♪

narrator: Between
1947 and 1956,

nearly 1,000 ancient scrolls
were discovered,

hidden in caves
near the Dead Sea.

Now, decades later,

researchers
have finally broken a code

contained in 60
tiny fragments--

a code revealing
the secret solar calendar

followed by a mysterious rebel
sect called the Essenes.

- The Essenes were the most
mysterious of the sects.

Josephus, the 1st-century
Jewish historian,

says that they knew
the names of the angels.

He says that they perhaps
somehow had a key

to the deeper mysteries
of the Hebrew Bible

that have been lost to us.

♪

narrator: What other mysteries
were the writers

of the Dead Sea Scrolls
concealing?

And could those mysteries

possibly be revealed

by the God Code?

To find out,
Tim and Chanan meet

with Dead Sea Scrolls
curator Adolfo Roitman

Roitman at the Israel Museum.

- What is so significant
about the scrolls?

- The scrolls are ancient
Jewish manuscripts.

These are the oldest
biblical manuscript on Earth.

For the first time ever,
we have original materials

coming through
the tunnel of time

from ancient times
to modern times.

Because we have original books,

we can trace the development
of the biblical texts

comparing the old version and
the modern version 1,000 years

after the original one.

- Are any of the books
of the Torah complete?

- You have different fragments,

so this is just a fragment
of the whole Dead Sea Scrolls.

narrator: The mysterious power

of the Dead Sea Scrolls
is undeniable.

But those mysteries cannot
be revealed by the God Code.

- The problem is,
because they're fragmented,

you're always gonna
have missing letters,

so there's no way
to absolutely,

positively identify codes
in fragmented texts.

That was just
another reinforcement

that we absolutely

had to find a perfect text,

and the only place
that could possibly be

is in the Ark
or some other repository.

Narrator:
Now Tim believes

the key to finding
that repository

may lie with the Freemasons.

Their secretive history
and rituals were forged

on the story
of Solomon's temple,

and though they are known
to distrust outsiders,

the Jerusalem masons
agreed to meet

not far from where
the God Code locates the Ark.

[man singing prayers]

♪

Could the Freemasons provide
the break Tim and Chanan

have been searching for?

Or will they be left
with nowhere else to turn?

♪

[men speaking Hebrew]

♪

- Hello.
What you are doing here?

- I've been doing
a lot of research

on the masons in America...

- Mm-hmm.

- And they seem to have this
common tradition

about a chamber that was built
beneath the Temple of Solomon

as a safe place,
a safe repository

for the Ark of the Covenant,

and I've got a picture
of it here

in the early 1800s,

and it shows that chamber,

and I wanted to know
what you thought about that.

- This is a very nice picture,

but I cannot explain
anything about it,

because it's not clear enough.

- As soon as we started
asking them questions,

they were evasive.

It was clear right off the bat
that they were stonewalling us.

- But is it a tradition
you're familiar with?

- Have you ever heard
of this tradition...

- No.
- gst the Masons?

- I want to tell you something.

You see, one of the secret

in our order--
not to tell everything.

- We have decrypted information
that was encoded

in the second book
of Chronicles

that there's a hidden chamber
beneath the temple,

but it also indicates
that the temple

was not on top of the hill

where the Dome
of the Rock is now,

but closer to the Gihon Spring.

There must be a repository
where the Law of Moses,

the tablets, were put.

The Masons may know
something about that.

- But what you think that
I know about below the temple,

I'm telling you,
it's just a story.

- Where do you think the Ark
of the Covenant is now?

- Nobody knows.

I'm really sorry.

I hope to see you again here.

narrator: It seems
the Freemasons' secrets

will remain a mystery.

Then, just as Tim
and Chanan are leaving,

the microphone picks up a
conversation among the masons.

- [men speaking Hebrew]

- One of the guys said,
"Hey, was that the thing

"you were talking about?

The chamber they found
underneath something?"

And the older guy,
who was kind of the boss,

just said, "Shut up!"

I thought, okay,
we've broken through.

We've discovered something new.

narrator: The freemasons'
unintentional confirmation

of a hidden room

tells Tim and Chanan
they're getting closer.

- The notion that this
legendary hidden chamber

where the Ark was hidden

could be
somewhere in Jerusalem

is very possible.

There's new things that
could be discovered any day.

♪

narrator: With
the evidence mounting,

Tim meets with Don Esposito,

a biblical scholar
who has been studying

the archaeology of Jerusalem

for over a decade.

Don's research indicates
a simple explanation

for why the City of David

is where Solomon's temple
once stood: water.

- Well, in the City of David
is the only water source

in all of Jerusalem,

the Gihon Spring.

Archaeologists found
the Pool of Siloam--

the original Pool of Siloam--
with the stairs

that go back up
to the City of David,

and they say that it was
the world's biggest mikveh.

Mikveh is purification washing
that they would have to do

before going to the temple,

so they would have to do that
somewhere close to the temple,

because if you
purified yourself

and you were 1/3
of a mile away,

maybe you'd become unpurified
when you got to the temple.

- That's really interesting.
- Yes.

So many of the things they're
finding are absolutely proving

that the temple had to be
in the City of David.

- It was just really exciting
to have confirmation

that he also believes that
the original Temple of Solomon

was down in the City of David.

Everything's matching up.

It matched up with
his investigations,

my codes, everything.

narrator:
But even if Tim is right,

searching for Solomon's temple
in the City of David

could prove difficult.

- For the last 10
or 15 years or so,

something very strange
has been going on

in and around
the old City of David.

A private group called
the City of David Foundation

has been buying up all of
the land right over that spot.

Each year, they buy up
a little more.

narrator: But why would
this private group

be buying up so much property?

- I think they perfectly
well know that this

is the original spot
of the Temple of Solomon,

and they know that
the Gihon Springs is the site.

narrator: Is the Ark
of the Covenant

hidden somewhere
beneath the City of David?

And will Tim get close
enough to find it?

narrator: The God Code
has revealed

a series of shocking messages,

but none more shocking
than the one

that has brought
biblical code breaker

Tim Smith to Israel...

in search of Solomon's temple

and the lost Ark
of the Covenant.

After the Jerusalem Freemasons
accidentally revealed

the discovery of a nearby
hidden chamber,

Tim has received
additional information

that the Temple of Solomon

may never have stood
where most believe,

but instead was built
in the City of David,

south of Jerusalem's
old city walls.

- In the City of David
is the only water source

in all of Jerusalem,
the Gihon Spring.

Many of the things they're
finding are absolutely proving

that the temple had to be
in the City of David.

narrator: Using Chanan's
connections,

Tim gains access to
a government-controlled site

where archaeologist Joe Uziel
is excavating an area

below the Gihon Spring

near where the code says the
Ark of the Covenant is buried.

- Don't know if he'll open up
about some of these things.

I'm just gonna listen
to what he has to say

and hope for the best.

- Let's walk right in.
- Wow.

- And you can stand in a house
built 2,700 years ago.

- In the City of David, right?
- In the City of David.

The City of David and ancient
Jerusalem is the same thing.

- Same thing.

- Jerusalem was
established here

because of the Gihon Spring,

the spring at the bottom
of the hill.

That was the source of water
which was the source of life,

and that is basically
the focus of 150 years

of archaeological work
on this site.

- There seems to be
a controversy about exactly

where the original Temple
of Solomon would have been.

Maybe the actual site of
Solomon's temple was down here,

further down the hill,
in the City of David.

- The period of David
and Solomon

is one of the biggest
debates in archaeology.

- Right.
- We don't have

any archaeological evidence

for the existence
of Solomon's temple.

- Interesting.
- And so do you say,

because there are
very few finds,

that Jerusalem was not
a big city in that period,

or do you say that
the archaeological record

is missing that layer,

but that layer did exist
once upon a time?

- Is that because
you're not sure

where certain biblical
sites were, exactly?

- Sometimes we're putting
puzzle pieces together.

Sometimes we're realizing
that the biblical record

as a text is a difficult one,

and it doesn't go hand in hand

with what we have
archaeologically,

and sometimes we realize that
we can't fill all the holes.

narrator: Even though
one of Israel's

top archaeologists
won't confirm it,

Tim is convinced
the code is right,

and Solomon's temple once
stood in the City of David,

meaning the Ark is nearby,
waiting to be found.

For centuries,
Jews and Muslims

have fought over
the Temple Mount,

the site which, according
to thousands of years

of Jewish tradition,

was established
by Solomon's temple.

Today, that location
is the site of Islam's

Dome of the Rock.

As a result, Jews worship
at the Western Wall

below the holy site.

With so much at stake,

and getting no help
from authorities,

Tim decides to take a chance.

He reaches back out
to Don Esposito,

this time, to share
the secret of the God Code.

- I was reluctant to actually
show Don the coded matrix

that indicates the location
of the hidden chamber.

I may be taking a risk
in showing it to him.

I don't know
if I can trust him,

but given his experience,

he'll possibly be
a great help to me

in getting right
to the exact spot.

I think it's worth
taking the chance.

Now let me just
lay this out for you.

This code is encrypted
in the Bible

right over the
building specifications

of the Temple of Solomon.

It reads, "The way into
the chamber is to come below

the bedrock
of the temple ruins."

And then this is
a double repeat

of the same word right here.

It's "the fountain springs,"
and it's repeated twice.

- Wow.
- And it intersects right

on this line of the open text,

which reads, "And there the Ark
is until this day."

- Wow.
- That's where

everything intersects.

It almost looks likes
a map itself.

- Yes. I'm speechless.
It really does look like a map.

narrator: From Tim
and Don's perspective,

on the Mount of Olives,

a protected chamber
for the Ark,

through the bedrock
of the temple ruins,

directly above
the Gihon Spring,

the Ark code fits perfectly
on the southeastern slope

of the City of David.

- If we're finding these codes
in the oldest biblical texts,

the oldest, most pristine
biblical text

would be in the Ark.

- Wow.
- And so

if there's coded information

even in a text that may have
a few mistakes in it,

you know, what would be encoded
in a perfect manuscript?

- Yes. This is mind-boggling.
If you think about it,

this is the most important

archaeological find
in the history of man,

because to find
the Ark of the Covenant

would change everything.

- This is, like, completely
overwhelming to me,

because sometimes when you're
involved with these things,

I mean, you start to think,

"This is so overwhelming
that it couldn't be real,"

but when it, you know,
resonates with other people,

they understand it, they have
experiences that confirm it,

I know it could be
very meaningful,

not just to me,
but to so many people.

It's really just
overwhelming for me.

If this were accepted, that
the actual Temple of Solomon

were down in the valley
below in the City of David,

the Temple Mount would
no longer be in dispute.

It was almost something
that was too good

to even think about.

- This is breathtaking.

What's interesting is there's
a find that happened here,

and it's got absolutely
no publicity so far.

They've been digging
in the City of David.

It's exactly the size
of the temple,

and below that
is where they found

what I believe
is the tabernacle of David,

just like this says.

"The way into the chamber
is to come

in below the bedrock
of the temple ruins."

And the place is exactly
above the Gihon Spring.

narrator: Energized
by this new information,

Tim meets back up with Chanan

to check it
against the Ark code.

- Oh, wow. Look at that.

narrator: In addition
to a double reference

to the word "spring,"

Tim is now able to
decipher another clue,

one seeming to indicate
a holy location

directly above.

- Let's just say it is a map,
right?

Here, look at this.
"House of the Lord."

Here's the temple.

We know this hidden chamber

is down below the ruins
of the temple.

And here we have
"fountain source spring."

This is showing the Ark
right here--

right in the City of David.

narrator: The key to the Ark's
protected chamber,

bedrock of the temple ruins,

above Gihon Spring,

and now a new discovery:

"House of the Lord,"

which corresponds nearly
exactly to the location

of the new
archaeological site.

Could this be the location
of Solomon's temple?

Could it prove to the world
the God Code is right?

- It's very interesting,
you know.

This wall can see all the layer

going all the way down,

and you can see there's
more clear layer here

and then another layer
with a lot of ceramic.

There's a layer with the stone,

and that ceramic take us to the
beginning of 6th century B.C.

- Some of this pottery
is 2,700 years old.

- Yes.

This is part of
the Citadel of Zion,

part of the Citadel of David.

You must understand
that the people

came to live here in this hill
because the water.

Now we're going to
a new excavation

inside the most
important finding

that I found in this area
in the City of David.

You ready to do it?
- Let's go.

- Let's go.

narrator: With each step down,
Tim and Eli travel

further back in time.

♪

- We are now here very close
to the water, to the spring.

This is the walkway that take
the people to the water

before 3,800 years ago,
and this is the Gihon Spring,

the spring of Jerusalem
in the ancient time.

Yeah, this is where we are now.

You want to know what is
going there? You want to see?

- I want to know real bad
what's going on in there.

- Yes? Okay. Let's go.

narrator: Though he knows
nothing about its mysterious

link to the God Code,

Eli Shukron leads Tim into
the ancient structure

described as
the House of the Lord.

- This is the rock.
It's the limestone

of the hills of Jerusalem.

Very interesting.
If you look here,

we can see the sign
of the chisel on the wall.

- So instead of building
with stone,

they just cut right
out of the stone.

- Yeah, right in the rock.
It's not a stone.

It's a foundation rock, and
this is the rock of Jerusalem.

- So there's no civilization
underneath this.

- No.
- This is the earliest

civilization on this spot.
- The earliest--

early finding in this spot,

this is what we see now.

narrator: The code
clearly states,

"The passage to the chamber

is through the bedrock
of the temple ruins."

Could this be it?

Is Tim standing on the bedrock

where Solomon's temple
once stood?

- This is a place where I'm
thinking there was the altar

for sacrificed animal.

- So sacrifices...

- Here.
- It was--okay,

so an altar up high.

- Here. Yes.
- Mm-hmm.

- And from the altar,
we have the channel

to take the blood
all the way outside.

♪

I call it "Temple Zero."

The beginning
of worshiping God in Jerusalem

here in this place.

Before Moses,
before Mount Sinai,

in the time of Abraham
and Jacob and Isaac.

- We know that David had
a tabernacle

the Ark of the Covenant
was put close to,

and the priests were doing
sacrifices in the tabernacle.

They knew they could
only do it

in this ancient Israelite
house of God.

This is the spot.

I knew what I was looking at
was the tabernacle of David

that predated
the Temple of Solomon.

David is Solomon's father.

We're talking
about King David.

The standing stone was there.

The marker of the house
of the Lord.

The Temple of Solomon

could have only been built
on this same spot,

and the temple was meant to
house the Ark of the Covenant.

David, Solomon, around then,

they had to have known
about this spot.

They must have known about it.

You think the Ark
of the Covenant

could have been brought here
or someplace close by?

- Yes! You're right.
They knew about this area.

King David brought
the Ark of the Covenant

to the City of David.

Maybe it was here
around this area.

narrator: Eli believes
this location

predates Solomon,

but he doesn't have
the benefit of the God Code,

which indicates
Solomon's temple

was also here at the spring.

Is it possible
the hidden chamber, the Ark,

and the world's
most pristine Bible

are directly below Tim's feet?

- Are there any tunnels
or anything?

Is there anything that's ever
been tunneled underneath this?

- We are on the foundation rock
where we are now,

so we don't know
what's going in the rock

down below, underground.

- So there could be
something down below.

- Possible.

- I can't believe,
after all the research,

after interpreting
all the codes,

I am actually
standing in the spot

where everything was leading.

narrator: The code is telling
Tim he's almost there,

revealing a passage
to the Ark's hidden chamber,

through the bedrock,
at the Gihon Spring.

Is that passage
somewhere down there,

still waiting
to be discovered?

Tim and Chanan know there is
only one way to find out.

♪

narrator: By following
the God Code,

Tim Smith believes
he has located

the first Jewish temple
in Jerusalem.

But what about the rest
of the Ark code?

Is there a hidden chamber
below the house of the Lord

and access through the bedrock
near the Gihon Spring?

- I've got to get down
inside the tunnels.

I need to get as close
to the spring

as I can get to see
what's next to it,

what's above it,
what's below it.

narrator: Tim and Chanan look
for any signs of a passageway

to the hidden chamber
for the Ark,

and the perfect Bible
it could contain.

- Looks like a holder
for torches or something.

- That's incredible.

It could have been
tunnel workers 2,700 years ago.

- Yeah. You got to wonder
how they cut through like this.

This is not
a small little tunnel.

Vertically, it's really high.
- Yeah.

- The water's about
crystal clear in here.

We were as close
as we could possibly be,

and I was really anxious just
to go into that spring itself

and into the pool
where it emptied out into.

There's a curve up ahead.

- I've been to many places
in Jerusalem,

and it was my first time
walking down in there,

going back to the very,
very beginning.

♪

Narrow here.

One area where I have evolved
somewhat in my thinking--

and frankly it's surprised me--

is on the question of the
location of Solomon's temple.

Maybe, in fact, Jewish temple
was located somewhere

other than where we think.

The spark in my head
now that says

it should be interesting
to look elsewhere.

[prayers sung in distance]

♪

narrator: Tim and Chanan
arrive at the headwaters

of the spring,
but find the trail ends.

For today,
they can go no further.

But Tim is not
giving up the quest.

- The notion that this
legendary hidden chamber

where the Ark was hidden
and taken to protect it

could still be out
there is very possible.

Especially with
the new technology,

we can now look into places,

look under things that we've
never been able to do before.

- If someone found the Ark
of the Covenant,

that in and of itself
would be

a fantastic discovery.

But if there is some kind of
original biblical text,

that would be utterly
mind-blowing.

To answer these age-old
questions that many,

many people have been
trying to answer,

to be able to really
put our finger on how that

all began--that
would be incredible.

♪

narrator: Tim is convinced
the discovery of the Ark

is only a matter of time,

because he believes
he has seen proof

of the mysterious power
unleashed by the God Code.

From prophecies of tragedy
to foretelling the miraculous,

the predictions found
in the God Code

seem to offer
a knowledge of events

that cannot be explained,

and with the chilling message
of a looming atomic holocaust,

a clear and present danger

could be just
beyond the horizon.

- If we're being given
this information now,

I believe these things
are warnings--warnings

about things
that we must not do

or we could cause
incredible destruction.

♪

narrator: Has the God Code
arrived at the time

when mankind needs it most?

The man who brought it
to light has no doubt.

- The information has flowed
in now so abundantly

that there's
no denying anymore

that we are being reached out
to and spoken to right now.

I really think that this is
just the beginning.