We're not talking a couple of simple words anymore but lengthy sentences intersecting with other lengthy sentences, all upon interrelated topical matter.
The “surface text” of the actual Bible verses in which the code “matrix” is found is telling, too. I'm going to look it up to see.
But, it's a mistake to believe that this was ever meant to be predictive. There are points of view, statements by enemies or other opposed individuals, you'd really have to know what you're specifically looking for to pull up a matrix with accuracy and detail. That only comes with the benefit of hindsight.
In other words, Mr. Shak might discover to his embarrassment after the election that “President” merely referenced the fact that Romney has run for that office numerous times and did not mean he would actually be elected. This would be discovered by attempting to extend sentences and to expand the matrix by looking into other skip sequences. The tighter the skip sequence, the more fundamental or important the information is, or so it's believed. Higher skip sequences are more background oriented, fleshing out detail.
The one example of a code discovered ahead of the fact of which I'm aware, that actually turned out to be predictive came from Roy Reinhold in the immediate wake of 9/11. He was horrified by what had happened and spent countless hours scouring for related information with code searching software. What he found indicated that the next attack would come via the mail. Referencing anthrax.
That was to me pretty persuasive. There are many who dismiss it but this is not a new phenomenon at all. Jewish sages believed it millennia ago, Sir Isaac Newton spent most of his life working on it, the man most responsible for breaking the Enigma Code understood skip sequence coding as a result of his effort with the Torah code, he was a Jew.
Another compelling code of which I'm aware says: "Torah is a computer."
So, if anybody wants to be dismissive or laugh it off, fine, but I don't. It's come a very long way in a decade and there is much more yet to be found. Simple pictorial representations have been discovered, so there is visual information above and beyond Hebrew characters read in skip sequence.
They've only scratched the surface thus far.
Some folks are quite enamored of the power alleged to bible codes — more success to them, be blessed.
But like any other supernatural attribute of things Judeo-Christian, they are only a witness. The plain text is vastly more important.