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AN AMAZING FACT: During the Pacific battles of World War
II, the Japanese eavesdropped on U.S. Marine communications and managed
to decipher the coded messages easily. In fact, Japanese cryptographers
succeeded in breaking every U.S. code nearly as fast as it was
developed. But there was one code they could never break.
The idea originated with Philip Johnston, an engineer and World
War I veteran, who knew of the military’s need for an unbreakable code.
He had been raised on a Navajo Reservation where his father had been a
missionary. Navajo was virtually an unwritten language in 1942, with no
alphabet or symbols, and was spoken only on the Navajo lands of the
American Southwest.
Confident that few people in the world understood the complex syntax and tonal qualities of Navajo, Johnston suggested that the army use the language as the basis for code. After staging an impressive demonstration in which several Navajo friends transmitted English into Navajo and back to English, the Marines authorized an official program to develop and implement the code.
Twenty-nine Navajos fluent in their native tongue and English (some only 15-years-old) constructed and mastered the code, which they used to transmit crucial information in battles. More were trained later. Historians believe that the Navajo Code Talkers played a fundamental role in the U.S. victory in the Pacific.
A crisis in heaven once developed when no one could be found to open and look at a scroll. “‘Who is worthy to open the scroll and to loose its seals?’ And no one in heaven or on the earth or under the earth was able to open the scroll, or to look at it” (Revelation 5:1, 2).
“But one of the elders said to me, ‘Do not weep. Behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has prevailed to open the scroll and to loose its seven seals’” (v. 5). Here was a message that needed to go to the world and nobody could “break the code” … except Christ. Jesus could reveal the message because He gave His life to save the world. That, in fact, is the message!
Confident that few people in the world understood the complex syntax and tonal qualities of Navajo, Johnston suggested that the army use the language as the basis for code. After staging an impressive demonstration in which several Navajo friends transmitted English into Navajo and back to English, the Marines authorized an official program to develop and implement the code.
Twenty-nine Navajos fluent in their native tongue and English (some only 15-years-old) constructed and mastered the code, which they used to transmit crucial information in battles. More were trained later. Historians believe that the Navajo Code Talkers played a fundamental role in the U.S. victory in the Pacific.
A crisis in heaven once developed when no one could be found to open and look at a scroll. “‘Who is worthy to open the scroll and to loose its seals?’ And no one in heaven or on the earth or under the earth was able to open the scroll, or to look at it” (Revelation 5:1, 2).
“But one of the elders said to me, ‘Do not weep. Behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has prevailed to open the scroll and to loose its seven seals’” (v. 5). Here was a message that needed to go to the world and nobody could “break the code” … except Christ. Jesus could reveal the message because He gave His life to save the world. That, in fact, is the message!
KEY BIBLE TEXTS
Be it known therefore unto you, that the salvation of God is sent unto the Gentiles, and that they will hear it.
Acts 28:28
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