1. The Grand Narrative from Genesis to Revelation
The unity of the Bible is a standing miracle. The Grand Narrative can be summed up in a single phrase: The Gospel of Jesus Christ, the Savior of the Word. There is no book like it on the planet. Written over the span of 1500 years by 40 different authors in three languages. Even skeptics see its glory. For example, consider this quote by Gabriel Josipovici which quotes Northrop Frye:
Gabriel Josipovici is not a Christian evangelist trying to force a doctrinaire unity upon the Bible for ideological purposes. He is a secular Jewish literary critic, novelist, and former university professor known for his philosophical fiction. Like Northrop Frye, his fellow literary critic whom he quoted, he could see the unity of the forest despite the diversity of the trees. Both men wrote profoundly insightful books exploring and explaining the unity of the Bible from the perspective of a secular literary critic. Frye called his The Great Code, The Bible and Literature, and like Josipovici, recognized it as truly unique because "no other book in the world, to my knowledge, has a structure even remotely like that of the Christian Bible".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.
The Bible tells the story like a play in seven acts.
- Genesis: Creation of Heaven and Earth (aka Everything)
- The Fall (Paradise Lost)
- Exodus: The Law goes forth!
- Rest of OT: Israel under the law
- Gospels: Birth, death & resurrection of Jesus Christ
- Acts: The Church is born at Pentecost
- Revelation: Christ returns, New Heaven and Earth
2. Isaiah - A Miniature Bible: The Gospel Tale Told Twice
The Book of Isaiah tells the same grand narrative as the whole Bible. It is a mirror of the Bible within the Bible. It bears witness to the whole narrative, from Genesis to Revelation, and as such, confirms the grand narrative as a second witness that proves God designed it all, even as He Himself stated within the Book of Isaiah itself:
Isaiah is a standing miracle. In it, God proves He knows the end from the beginning. It mirrors the Bible from Aleph to Tav, from beginning to end. There is a mathematically precise correlation between its 66 chapters and the 66 books of the Bible. The general outline is impossible to miss and is now broadly known, as a simple search for "Isaiah miniature Bible" quickly demonstrates. Indeed, that phrase is found in the Introduction to Isaiah in Thomas Nelson's New King James version:Isaiah 46:9 wrote: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:
The mathematical precision goes far beyond the 39/27 correspondence. There is precise mathematical links between the individual chapters of Isaiah and the corresponding books of the Bible. For example, Isaiah 40:3 = Bible Book 40, Chapter 3. Verse 1.Isaiah is like a miniature Bible. The first thirty-nine chapters (like the thirty-nine books of the Old Testament) are filled with judgment upon immoral idolatrous men. Judah has sinned; the surrounding nations have sinned; the whole earth has sinned. Judgment must come, for God cannot allow such blatant sin to go unpunished forever. But the final twenty-seven chapters (like the twenty-seven books of the New Testament) declare a message of hope. The Messiah is coming as a Savior and a Sovereign to bear a cross and to wear a crown.
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Everything is about the Gospel of Jesus Christ. All these patterns glorify God and help people see the truth.
3. The Bible Wheel: A View from a Higher Dimension
The Bible Wheel shows how God designed the Bible on the pattern of the Hebrew Alphabet that He embedded within Scripture in the Alphabetic Verses, most notably Psalm 119, the great Psalm of His Word. The book is now available on Amazon.
The colored divisions are the seven canonical groups. The are isomorphic to the Menorah:
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The seven words of Genesis 1:1 are a standing miracle. They sum to 2701 = 37 x 73, a pair of absolute primes:
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