INTRODUCTION TO THE BIBLE

The Five Absolutes in Scripture:

1. All have sinned and come short of the glory of God (Romans 3:23).
2. Without the shedding of blood, there is no forgiveness of sin (Hebrews 9:22).
3. Without faith, it is impossible to please God (Hebrews 11:6).
4. Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through HIM. (John 14:6)
5. He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already (by default), because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. (John 3:18)

Prophecy:

One prophecy can refer to one or many events: evil spirits never die they just wait for the next opportunity.

Since history repeats itself – 100% of the Bible is Prophetic.

God teaches through patterns, numbers, symbolism, types, shadows, metaphors, parables, placeholders, the arts and sciences, repetition, and the history of the ancient past through to the far reaching future. Each piece adds a panoramic picture of God’s plan for man.

The Sevens:

The singular seven: 7
- The seventh day of creation
- Seven heads on the Beast/Dragon
- Seven branches on the Menorah
- Seven stars
- Seven of each clean animal: Genesis 7:2
- Seven more days until the flood Genesis 7:4,
- The ark rested in the seventh month Genesis 8:4
- Noah waited another seven days, and again he sent the dove out from the ark Genesis 8:10

Ten Plus seven: 17
- Genesis 8:4 The ark rested on the seventeenth day of the month

Three sevens in a row: 777
- seven seals, seven trumpets, seven bowls
Seven times Seven: 49
- The feast of weeks
Ten times Seven: 70
- Hebrews in captivity for seventy years
Seventy times Seven :490
- Daniel’s 70 “weeks”

The Old Testament and the New Testament

The terms began with “The Old Covenant” and “The New Covenant”

The Bible is a progressive revelation. Paul speaks of the mysteries of God once hid, now revealed.

Augustine famously described the relationship between the Old and New Testaments this way: “The new is in the old concealed; the old is in the new revealed.”

or…

“The old is the new concealed, the new is the old revealed”

“The New Testament lies hidden in the Old, and the Old becomes manifest in the New.”

The Old Testament is the promise, and the New Testament is the fulfillment.

The New Testament lies hidden in the Old and the Old Testament jumps out in the New..

“The Old is but half a whole. The New is also half a whole: the New AND the Old are Holy Whole.” ~BG

“Each step takes the last step with it.” ~BG

History is not a straight line, it is a coil.

History began with a new heaven and a new earth and it ends with a new heaven and a new earth.
Satan repeatedly tries to annihilate the Jews. (Or should it be spelled annihil-hate?)
The Jews sin and God gives them an oppressor repeatedly.
The entire bible begins with Jesus and ends with Jesus, and the son is everywhere in between.