Rolling up the Bible Scroll

Exploring the patterns found when the 66 Books are arrayed as three wheels within the wheel of 22 Hebrew Letters, from Aleph to Tav.
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Geert van den Bos wrote: Thu Mar 05, 2026 11:21 pm
RAMcGough wrote: Thu Mar 05, 2026 12:46 pm
Geert van den Bos wrote: Thu Mar 05, 2026 12:34 pm so you changed your rolled up 66 book bible scroll into a wheel within a wheel within a wheel?
I haven't changed anything. The images above are from 20 years ago. They're in my published book.

What do you think I changed?
The inner wheels can go adrift since book 23 is not tied to to book 22 and book 45 not to book 44 which would have been the case with rolling up a chain of 66 books
Hey there Geert!

Thanks for the excellent question. On the first page of the Bible Wheel book (now available in paperback on Amazon) I introduce the concept with the idea of "rolling up the Bible Scroll". You can read chapter 1 online. Here's the image:
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The purpose of that image was to help the reader see that the Bible Wheel is natural 2D view of the pre-existing canon. Nothing would change if we left it in the form of a continuous spiral. All the triplets of books would still align with the same spokes as on the "closed form" of the Bible Wheel. I just as easily could have started with a standard rectangular grid and "rolled it up" to arrive at the image of the closed Bible Wheel.
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I'm not the first to see the elements of this pattern. Erdman's Handbook of the Bible actually color-coded the same seven divisions that form the perfect sevenfold symmetry and tri-radiant halo on the Bible Wheel (see here). Here they are:
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Thanks again for your great question Geert. It gave me an opportunity to help people see how God designed His Word with such elegant symmetry.

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RAMcGough wrote: Fri Mar 06, 2026 8:14 am
Hey there Geert!

Thanks for the excellent question. On the first page of the Bible Wheel book (now available in paperback on Amazon) I introduce the concept with the idea of "rolling up the Bible Scroll". You can read chapter 1 online. Here's the image:
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The purpose of that image was to help the reader see that the Bible Wheel is natural 2D view of the pre-existing canon. Nothing would change if we left it in the form of a continuous spiral. All the triplets of books would still align with the same spokes as on the "closed form" of the Bible Wheel. I just as easily could have started with a standard rectangular grid and "rolled it up" to arrive at the image of the closed Bible Wheel.

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I'm not the first to see the elements of this pattern. Erdman's Handbook of the Bible actually color-coded the same seven divisions that form the perfect sevenfold symmetry and tri-radiant halo on the Bible Wheel (see here). Here they are:

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Thanks again for your great question Geert. It gave me an opportunity to help people see how God designed His Word with such elegant symmetry.

Richard
the image above shows a spiral, not a wheel

looks like a rope around your neck to strangle you ;)
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Geert van den Bos wrote: Fri Mar 06, 2026 8:40 am

the image above shows a spiral, not a wheel

looks like a rope around your neck to strangle you ;)

although there do exist spiral mountainbikes

https://mtbdatabase.com/bikes/2024/apol ... tain-bike/

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Geert van den Bos wrote: Fri Mar 06, 2026 8:40 am
RAMcGough wrote: Fri Mar 06, 2026 8:14 am
Hey there Geert!

Thanks for the excellent question. On the first page of the Bible Wheel book (now available in paperback on Amazon) I introduce the concept with the idea of "rolling up the Bible Scroll". You can read chapter 1 online. Here's the image:
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The purpose of that image was to help the reader see that the Bible Wheel is natural 2D view of the pre-existing canon. Nothing would change if we left it in the form of a continuous spiral. All the triplets of books would still align with the same spokes as on the "closed form" of the Bible Wheel. I just as easily could have started with a standard rectangular grid and "rolled it up" to arrive at the image of the closed Bible Wheel.

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I'm not the first to see the elements of this pattern. Erdman's Handbook of the Bible actually color-coded the same seven divisions that form the perfect sevenfold symmetry and tri-radiant halo on the Bible Wheel (see here). Here they are:

image.png

Thanks again for your great question Geert. It gave me an opportunity to help people see how God designed His Word with such elegant symmetry.

Richard
the image above shows a spiral, not a wheel

looks like a rope around your neck to strangle you ;)
Is that all you want to do? Mock me?

I think it would be better if you tried to instantiate the qualities that God has taught in the Bible, both in the Old and the New Testaments.

Micah 6:8 "He has shown you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?"

Galatians 5:22 "But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control."

Do you feel like you are walking humbly and in harmony with the Spirit of God?

Now as for your comment about the spiral vs the circle. I already answered in the post you were supposed "answering". Why did you ignore what I wrote?

Peace to you Geert.
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RAMcGough wrote: Fri Mar 06, 2026 10:30 am
Is that all you want to do? Mock me?

I think it would be better if you tried to instantiate the qualities that God has taught in the Bible, both in the Old and the New Testaments.

Micah 6:8 "He has shown you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?"

Galatians 5:22 "But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control."

Do you feel like you are walking humbly and in harmony with the Spirit of God?

Now as for your comment about the spiral vs the circle. I already answered in the post you were supposed "answering". Why did you ignore what I wrote?

Peace to you Geert.
spirals use to widen out

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if you begin with Revelation Genesis would be somewhere in outerspace ...

and shouldn't you begin with the last verse, last word , even last letter of Revelation?

Maybe better vice versa, the letter "bet" of "bereishit in the center and as tip of the tail the letter νυ

o but wait, you work with KJV, ain't it?
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the worst thing about your wheel is that you claim it to be God's design

The strangling thing about that is that now the 1st ,23rd and 45th book must have decisive things in common, like also the 2nd, 24th and 46th, and so on.
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You come down from the mountain holding tablets with God's commandments and find your people worshipping a bible wheel — what do you do?


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Geert van den Bos wrote: Fri Mar 06, 2026 11:17 am spirals use to widen out

if you begin with Revelation Genesis would be somewhere in outerspace ...

and shouldn't you begin with the last verse, last word , even last letter of Revelation?

Maybe better vice versa, the letter "bet" of "bereishit in the center and as tip of the tail the letter νυ

o but wait, you work with KJV, ain't it?
Yes, I agree that a spiral opening outwards is a wonderful way to represent the Bible Wheel. As I explained, that wouldn't change anything about the relation of the three books on each spoke with each other and the corresponding Hebrew letter.

I think it is an excellent way to look at it because it gives that expansive sense of opening unto the infinite and that is its fundamental purpose: to reveal the UNITY of Grand Gospel Narrative of the whole Bible. The demonstration of its UNITY is also a proclamation of its message, which is the GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST, SAVIOR OF THE WOLRD.

Scripture repeatedly declares: "that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established." Matthew 18:16

God fulfilled this principle by giving us many witnesses of His Gospel. The first is the unity of the whole Bible. Even skeptical secular Jewish literary critics see the grand design of God's Word. Here's how Gabriel Josipovici put it in his The Book of God: A Response to the Bible:
Gabriel Josipovici wrote: It's a magnificent conception, spread over thousands of pages and encompassing the entire history of the universe. There is both perfect correspondence between the Old and New Testaments and a continuous forward drive from Creation to the end of time: "It begins where time begins, with the creation of the world; it ends where time ends, with the Apocalypse, and it surveys human history in between, or the aspect of history it is interested in, under the symbolic names of Adam and Israel." Earlier ages had no difficulty in grasping the design, though our own, more bookish age, obsessed with both history and immediacy, has tended to lose sight of it. Neither theologians nor biblical scholars have stood back enough to see it as a whole. Yet it is a whole and quite unlike any other book.


And what is this grand narrative? It is very easy to state:
  1. Original Creation
  2. The Fall
  3. The Giving of the Law
  4. History of Israel under the Law
  5. The Gospel Goes Forth!
  6. The Spirit is Given, the Church is Born
  7. New Heaven and Earth
Now here is the miracle of God. The Book of Isaiah follows exactly the same "grand narrative". Not just in general, but in the specific details of those seven points. And not just the specific details, but the actually coordinates of the location of those details in His Word! There is a mathematically precise correlation between the 66 chapters of Isaiah with the 66 books of the Bible. Let's review:
  1. Isaiah 1: Genesis begins with "Hear O heavens, give ear O earth, for the Lord has spoken".
  2. Isaiah 1: Says "My children have rebelled against me" just as they did in Genesis.
  3. Isaiah 2: Speaks of God giving the law on a mountain, which actually happened in Exodus.
  4. Isaiah 1-39: speaks of Israel under the Law
  5. Isaiah 40: THE GOSPEL GOES FORTH! (Matthew 3:3)
  6. Isaiah 44: GOD POURS OUT HIS SPIRIT (Pentecost/Acts)
  7. Isaiah 66: New Heaven and New Earth (Revelation 22)
These are the same seven points, in the same order as the Grand Gospel Narrative of the whole Bible. God has fulfilled His own Word by confirming the Gospel from Aleph to Tav within the pages of the Bible. Isaiah is an image of the Bible within the Bible. It tells the same "Grand Narrative" that UNITES the whole Bible, so now we have a double proof of a proof that stands on its own merit.

Jesus explained: :Now I tell you before it come, that, when it is come to pass, ye may believe that I am he." John 13:19

For what reason? So that ye may know and believe that HE IS GOD as He declared in Isaiah 43:10 -
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This was done so that YOU may "know and believe" that Jesus Christ is He who spoke to and through the Prophet Isaiah (see John 12:36-41). God has fulfilled His Word yet again:

Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me, Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure: Isaiah 46:9-1

God did it! He has declared "the end from the beginning" in the Book of Isaiah. And he encoded it all in Isaiah's name and the position of his book in the canon:

Isaiah = Book 23 = 1 (Aleph) + 22 (Tav)
Isaiah = Yeshayahu = 401 = 1 (Aleph) + 400 (Tav)

And of course the number of chapters in Isaiah matched the number of books in the Wheel = 66 = galgal.

And the Grand Narrative is centered on the Gospel of Jesus Christ which itself is centered on the cross atop Golgotha, the place of the skull, spelled in Hebrew NT as gulgoleth with an alpha appended, so it spelled with the same letters as galgal (wheel) + Aleph Tav and that describes perfectly how God sealed His Word from Aleph to Tav with the Wheel.
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No one who knows God "worships" the Wheel. But we do worship God for the glory of His Word, as have all believers since the beginning, long before anyone knew anything about the Wheel. Here are a few reminders of what real believers say about God's Word:

- “Forever, O LORD, Your word is settled in heaven.” (Psalm 119:89)
- “The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God stands forever.” (Isaiah 40:8)
- Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.” (Psalm 119:105)

And speaking of the "lamp" - we know that God designed His Word upon the pattern of the Menorah, which is the pattern of the 6+1 days which is an unfolded centered hexagon and this is the mathematical pattern of his design of Genesis 1:1 = 2701 = T(73) = 37 x 73 = H(4) x S(4) etc., etc., etc.
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Geert van den Bos wrote: Fri Mar 06, 2026 11:40 am David Gilmour spiralling around ;)

https://x.com/20th_Centurygal/status/20 ... 5386798557
I've loved David Gilmore since my youth, listening to his songs in the 70s.

God's Word spirals out into ever increasing wisdom and knowledge. God's Word is straight as a laser. God's Word is everything. God's Word is our Creator and our God.

God has answered a prayer He wrote on my heart when I was a lost 19 year old, struggling with drugs and homelessness after the suicide of my father (who told me before he did it). He has fulfilled the highlighted words:

Psalm 27:1 The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? 2 When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell. 3 Though an host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: though war should rise against me, in this will I be confident. 4 One thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to inquire in his temple.

He gave me Psalm 27 in 1988. An evangelist had taken me to a Christian "Praise the Lord" festival in Vancouver Wa. Everyone around me was praising God and telling me how God said this and God said that to them. By the second day, I was very sad. I didn't know God. So I wandered off by myself and leaned against a wall and cried "God, why don't you ever talk to me? You talk to other people. Why not me?" I didn't hear a voice, but I suddenly was aware of a command in my mind: Read Psalm 27. And so did. And when I got to verse 10, my heart burst open and I knew God was talking to me personally:

Psalm 27:10 When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up.

Amen?

AMEN!
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