Metacosm
A Study of the Bible Book Order
by Dustin Blystone

©2018

 
Metacosm
A Study of the Bible Book Order
By Dustin Blystone
© 2018
 
 
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Foreword

I can’t think of anything better to say, than what I said to preface my first Bible Study Book: Isaiah:
A Biblical Microcosm, so I will simply repeat it once more here. I have been blessed by this study
beyond measure. I give all credit and glory to God for leaving this treasure within His perfect
Scriptures for us to enjoy, learn from, study, and be edified through, as well as the Grace that was
bestowed upon me to discover it and develop it over the past five years. This study has been written
with the intent of enriching the faith and study of those who appreciate the perfection of God’s Holy
Scriptures and also with the possibility that it could, with God’s guidance, be a witness to skeptics
who are looking for proof of the Scripture’s Divine nature. I take full credit for any mistakes,
omissions, oversights, and inconsistencies discovered herein and ask for forgiveness and correction
from God if anything herein misinforms or leads anyone in a Scripturally inaccurate direction, and I
give God all the credit for this study and for leaving His fingerprints throughout the Scriptures and
our lives. I hope that in time, a more refined version of this work emerges with further insights and
correctives from others.

Most of all, since I am putting my name on this book, I feel an intense need to boast of my
weaknesses rather than my strengths. I confess that I am a sinner, with a hopelessly sinful nature
without God, and put my faith and hope in Christ’s sacrifice as payment for my sins. I write this in
order to pre-empt any praise directed at me for this work, and any pride that I may be tempted to feel
due to such praise. I direct anyone who would offer me praise for this work to this page and this
page alone so that if I am to be praised, it is for none of my own merits, but only in that I put my
faith and hope in Christ’s atoning death and Resurrection to new and Eternal life.

El Paso, Texas

Christmas Day, 2018

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Macrocosm – the whole of a complex structure, especially the world or universe, contrasted with a small or
representative part of it . . . for the purposes of this study: the Bible Book Order

Microcosm – the part, in miniature form, bearing the characteristic qualities or features of something much
larger, such as the whole . . . for the purposes of this study: an individual believer’s progression from fallen
nature to Salvation to Eternity

Mesocosm – any outdoor experimental system that examines the natural environment under controlled
conditions . . . for the purposes of this study: a corporate microcosm, or body of believers . . . i.e. Israel or
The Church

Metacosm – meaning "after" or "beyond" the whole, indicating a concept which is an abstraction behind
another concept, used to complete or add to the latter . . . for the purposes of this study: Jesus Himself as
God’s Word manifest in flesh, Who is the Microcosmic Representation of His Macrocosmic Self and acts as
the Gateway to the Metacosm in Eternity for us

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Introduction

The Bible is God’s Word that testifies of Jesus Christ, our Savior. It was Authored by God’s Holy Spirit, Who
inspired various prophets to write down His plan of Salvation in advance, as He worked through a single
nation, Israel, to bring forth His Messiah to live out a perfect life and die in our place as part of His plan of
Salvation for us. Once Messiah, Jesus Christ, came and accomplished His mission of Salvation on The Cross
and was Resurrected from the dead to new and Eternal Life, He established leaders, prophets and teachers
to write plainly His simple plan of Salvation to share with all. The simple message, that through His Life,
death, and Resurrection, He invites all who would share in His new and Eternal Life to join Him in it by
humbling themselves in acknowledging their sinful state, repenting of their sins, transgressions, and
iniquities, and accepting His free gift of Salvation and Eternal Life. As we continue to share His Gospel with
those in the world, He prepares for and awaits a spiritual consummation of the special and spiritually
intimate relationship His followers share with Him.

This work proposes that the order of the Books of the Bible, with the overall theme each Book primarily
focuses on, foretells God’s Salvation Plan in Book order and parallels the lives of all Christians in the order of
Books itself. It does this through the first 17 Books of the History in the Old Testament, then pauses for a
five Book poetic reflection and repose of that progression, which goes through the same pattern in a more
abstract and poetically reflective form. Then, the 17 Books of the Prophets presents the same exact
progression, in the exact same order, but simultaneously does so in a “fallen from Grace” regressive fashion,
as Israel fell from the glory of Solomon’s kingdom before Isaiah’s and the prophets’ Ministries began; then,
there is a five Book actualization of the Gospel of Christ, the very heart and soul of the entire plan and
account. Next, there is a 17 Book New Testament realization of God’s plan of Salvation, and finally, a five
Book preparation for the Eternal consummation of God’s plan, culminating with us united with Him in
Eternity as recounted in Revelation. These three iterations of the progression parallel each other perfectly,
Book by Book, in Book order, each expounding and focusing on a particular aspect of the progression as it
affects different groups of believers and non-believers at different times, in different dispensations, both
individually and corporately.

The progression is as follows:

Born dead in the world due to sin (Genesis)

Saved out of the world through Christ (Exodus)
Introduced to new Spiritual standards to live by (Leviticus)
Weaned off worldly standards onto Spiritual standards through a wilderness time (Numbers)
Reminded and prepared of all God has done for us and all He promises to still do (Deuteronomy)
Spiritually empowered to have victory over giants that used to intimidate us (Joshua)
Struggle to maintain spiritual victory and empowerment amidst complacency and relativism (Judges)
Living Ruth-like lives anticipating our Kinsman Redeemer’s union with us before the threshing season (Ruth)
With the Church gone, Israel seeks a false king (Saul / Anti-Christ type) that seems good at first (1 Samuel)
Israel receives her true king (David / Christ type) who consolidates the kingdom under his reign (2 Samuel)
Israel is in the glorified version of their true king (David’s son Solomon / Christ type glorified) (1 Kings)
A final rebellion is mustered by the enemies of God’s people but is quickly quashed (2 Kings)
Books are opened of all deeds by all people from Adam to David (Christ type) (1 Chronicles)
Another Book is opened which is the Book of Life from David (Christ type) to Judgment Day (2 Chronicles)

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A new Temple is formed (The True Temple of God with His Body of Believers in Heaven ) (Ezra)
A new Jerusalem comes out of Heaven (Nehemiah)
The King of the whole world reigns with His Queen (Esther)

With the Five Book repose of Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and Song of Songs, there is a complete
Hebrew alphabet of 22 Books possibly corresponding to the 22 letters of the Hebrew alphabet. It is
interesting that in Hebrew there are five letters that have a final form, which are written differently
depending on where they are used within a word. Without expertise on the Hebrew language, I can only
speculate on this aspect but would call on others with greater knowledge of Hebrew to investigate this
aspect of this study in greater detail.

A counter pattern emerges in the next 17 Books of the Prophets as follows:

Israel fallen from Grace after their glory years under David and Solomon (Isaiah)
Warnings about a fractured Israel and Judah going back into bondage (Jeremiah)
Lament over the consequences for not keeping God’s standards (Lamentations)
Back into bondage and punishment for not being weaned off of the world (Ezekiel)
The end of bondage is available to the remnant and preparations for release are made (Daniel)
Spiritual adultery by Israel instead of victory and empowerment for those not of the remnant (Hosea)
National repentance is stressed as being necessary by God as the time of the end nears (Joel)
Aftermath of the Resurrection/Rapture leads to judgment on Israel, Judah and surrounding nations (Amos)
An Edomite (the original enemy of Israel/Jacob) rises to power to deceive and oppress Israel (Obadiah)
Reluctantly, a remnant of tribulation saints and believing Jews preach Christ to tribulation Gentiles (Jonah)
Millennium Kingdom Reign is predicted and foreseen amidst massive judgment (Micah)
At the end of Millennium, a final rebellion is staged by the rebellious Gentile nations but is quashed (Nahum)
Books are opened to judge unrighteousness (Habakkuk)
Another Book is opened for the righteous in Christ who escape judgment (Zephaniah)
A new Temple (God Himself) tabernacles with the righteous (Haggai)
A new Jerusalem comes down out of Heaven as a dwelling for the righteous dwelling with Christ (Zechariah)
The anticipation of Messiah coming to lead us into Eternity (Malachi)

With the five Books of the Gospels: Matthew, Mark, Luke, John and Acts, there is once again a complete
alphabet of 22 Books, corresponding to the 22 letters of the Hebrew Alphabet, and also corresponding to
the same 17/5 split seen in the history Books, with the 17 prophetic Books, then the five Book fulfillment of
the prophetic Books with the Gospels. The Gospels tell the history of Jesus Christ’s Atoning death on The
Cross for Salvation and the spread of that good news to the ends of the earth as recounted in Acts.

An actualization of God’s plan in the individual lives of believers emerges in the themes of the next 17 Books
of the Pauline Epistles along with Epistles of James and 1st and 2nd Peter as follows:

God’s Creation, fallen from His Grace, rebels against Him, yet He provides Salvation by Grace (Romans)
We are sanctified by The Blood of Christ, and set apart from bondage for holy living (1 Corinthians)
We consecrate ourselves to God’s sanctifying standards by the power of God’s Holy Spirit (2 Corinthians)
Strong warnings are given to avoid going back to the old works based covenant (Galatians)
Preparations for battle and for victory are made (Ephesians)

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Our Victory is in Christ, not in flesh (Philippians)
With Christ absent in His physical Presence, His Spirit is present to help maintain His victory (Colossians)
Christ Resurrects/Raptures His Bride out of the world before His impending wrath (1 Thessalonians)
The Anti-Christ is revealed when God’s indwelt Spirit is removed as a restraining force (2 Thessalonians)
Assignments are given to the qualified believers for pastoring and leading during Millennium (1 Timothy)
Kingdom Living is enacted for the Church and the Kingdom of Heaven on earth (2 Timothy)
Despite the spiritual leadership of a Christ-ruled Kingdom on earth there are still many rebellious men (Titus)
Slaves are set free upon the Judgment after the Millennial Reign (Philemon)
Book of Life written in SON, providing Salvation for those in Him (Hebrews)
The reality of Eternity becomes apparent upon the intersection of (our) faith and (His) works (James)
As living stones we are fitted together as the new Jerusalem that comes down out of Heaven (1 Peter)
The Day of God, with the New Heavens and New Earth manifests into Eternity after final Judgment (2 Peter)

Finally, there are the final five Books of the New Testament, serving as preparatory Books for the
actualization of the plan of transitioning from Salvation to Eternity in 1st, 2nd, and 3rd John, Jude, and of
course Revelation.

From Genesis to Judges represents the stage we are currently in (if this is being read before the
Resurrection/Rapture), as believers, hopefully living with Ruth-like faith during the time of the moral
relativism of the Judges stage of our struggle. Ruth represents our gathering together with Jesus, our
Kinsman Redeemer. This completes the individual stage of the Church, and at that time when the
Resurrection/Rapture occurs, the Church will be a completed corporate Body. Next, is the Corporate stage
of future history written in advance, and prefigured in advance with the History Books, with the anti-Christ,
the tribulation period, Christ’s Second Coming, His establishing His Kingdom on earth, the Millennial Reign,
the final rebellion of Satan and his final followers, the Great White Throne Judgment where Books are
opened, and another Book is opened, which is the Book of Life, and New Temple as God Himself in Heaven,
the New Jerusalem from Heaven, and Christ and His Bride in Eternity. This leads to a five Book poetic repose
which reflects on this same ordered pattern in the Poetry Books of Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and
Song of Songs. Next comes 17 Prophetic Books, followed by the five Books of the Gospels, thematically
representing the exact same progression only from Israel’s perspective, having fallen from Grace as a
corporate body after the glory of Solomon, and showing how, in the natural, Israel’s zenith point of glory
would be impossible to maintain without the promised Messiah. Next, the corresponding 17 Epistolic Books
of the New Testament which speak to individuals one on one as they develop a personal relationship with
Jesus Christ and finally, five Books of the John Epistles, Jude and Revelation to prepare for the actualization
of God’s plan into Eternity.

It is important to note that this study relies on the literal interpretation of Revelation Chapter 20 which
provides a chronological outline of future history in advance. This includes the stages of the end of the
tribulation period, Satan bound, the Resurrection of the faithful who were martyred during the tribulation,
the Millennial Reign of Christ, the end of the Millennium, Satan released to stage a final rebellion, the
rebellion being quickly destroyed directly by God, the Great White Throne Judgment, record books opened,
and The Book of Life opened, and judgments doled out accordingly, to Eternal Life or the lake of fire.

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Metacosm

In the Bible’s collection of 66 Books, there exists, the sort of masterful artistry, architecture, and
comprehensive and cohesive engineered design that one would expect from the greatest of literary and
artistic geniuses. This design reverberates a distinct pattern at the macrocosmic level (the whole) and the
microcosmic level (the part), and at the plain historical account level, the mesocosmic level (the middle,
corporate sample size, in-between the macro and the micro), so that whether an individual passage is read,
or an entire Book is read, or whether the entire collection of Books is read, a singular focus comes into view,
and that is Jesus Christ. That focus is seen at the quanta, subatomic, atomic, molecular, organism, and
environment the organism lives within, and the beyond space and time or beyond dimensionality levels.

The collection of Books self-authenticates, as it has built-in reference points throughout, which foreshadow
His Gospel message and His entire plan from beginning to end in chronological order for the progression of
and destiny for each of us individually, for Israel as a nation, for the Church as Christ’s Body, and for the
world in general. These reference points in the form of patterns, types, and prefigures, were perfectly
placed and spaced and parsed despite the fact that the prophets God inspired to form His message of
Salvation to us, spanned almost 1600 years.

Latter prophets, unknowingly, formed perfect patterns with former prophets, which couldn’t be seen or
observed, until the whole was completed, and codified into a final form, ordered and indexed, and that
wasn’t accomplished until all the prophets had long since written their portions. It is in fact the supposition
of this writing, as a separate, but follow up study to Isaiah: A Biblical Microcosm, that the ordering of Books,
Chapter and Verse parsing and codification wasn’t complete until almost 1600 years after Christ, yet, these
aspects to the final shaping of God’s Word had God’s Holy Spirit and Divine oversight upon them as much as
the Inspiration of His Word itself. See “A Further Defense of Isaiah: A Biblical Microcosm” for more
information regarding that separate study.

Each passage has a historical, matter of fact, and matter of historical record aspect to it, as it is history, yet
each passage has some personal application of how a moral principle is either exhibited or violated by the
historical figures recounted in the Bible. These examples have important life lessons to teach us as we
attempt to live out our lives amidst all of our challenges, and this is the homiletic level, which most sermons
are based upon. All the while, each passage has an aspect to it that is Christ prophetic, in that, all the
interwoven history and accounts of God’s people, all reverberate, point to, lead up to, show the need for,
and then finally recount Christ and His Ministry, Sacrificial Death, and Resurrection. Finally, there is the
mystical level where every passage, not unlike quantum mechanics, is intimately, and inextricably linked to
every other passage in a mystically perfect fashion. Each letter, word, verse, passage, chapter etc. is in
direct correlation with each other letter, word, verse, passage, chapter etc. It is the contention of this study
that the number of times every word is used is significant, the number of times every letter of every word is
used is significant, and the numerical values of the letters, words, verses and chapters are significant. This
book is not a study in Gematria or related numerological studies of the Biblical text, nor an endorsement of
it and its frequent misuse; however, in the purest form, in the original languages, I do believe the text is
mathematically perfect in every sense. It is not a mistake that whether we, in the middle, look at the part,
or the whole, or the corporate part, we see that the part and the whole are one and the same, and we are in
between, able to see both, and see our Champion, Christ, as the perfect intermediary between part and
whole, the perfect version of us, Who became flesh and dwelt among us.

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The Bible tells the story of Creation, transgression, Salvation, and Eternity, as follows: God created, then
man ruined God’s creation through transgression and sin, God provides a way for Man’s Redemption, Jesus
Christ, and starts preparing mankind for His coming. Christ comes at the perfect time, to teach man God’s
ways of love, patience, forgiveness, mercy, how to live perfectly, and the need for justice, then bears the
penalty for all of us, in His act of perfect mercy and perfect justice, as we are unable to live perfectly, which
leads to Him dying on The Cross for our sins and transgressions, and is Resurrected to new and Eternal Life
He invites everyone to share in through faith in Him. He departs back to His domain, in Heaven with God
the Father, to prepare a place for His faithful followers. He appoints apostles to spread His message and
through His Holy Spirit, gather a spiritual bride for Himself, which is The Church, while He is away preparing
a place for His Bride, The Church. If this is read before The Resurrection of the dead and Rapture of the
Church, then once His Bride is complete (at the time of this writing, an event that is yet future), He receives
her unto Himself in Heaven, and unleashes a series of judgments against the earth and its unbelieving
inhabitants, while focusing on Israel and Israel’s repentance of rejecting Him, their Messiah, at His first
coming. Once God’s wrath is poured out on an unbelieving world and national Israel repents and believes in
Christ, He comes back with His Bride and defeats the armies of the world gathered together against Him,
and takes up His throne to rule and reign on earth from Israel during the Millennium, while Satan is bound,
and God’s created order is restored upon earth. Those who survived the horrors of the tribulation period
repopulate the earth, but under the sheltered protection of Christ’s rule, they have never had to face real
temptation and the opportunity for rebellion, so at the end of Christ’s Millennial Reign on earth, Satan is
released one final time to stage a final rebellion against Christ, and those who fall to His seductions, as well
as Satan himself are quickly defeated, whereupon, the final Judgment is made regarding all mankind, where
books are opened, and another Book is opened, which is The Book of Life, and those in Christ are spared,
while those not in Christ are cast into the lake of fire along with death, the false prophet, and Satan and his
angels. At this time, even heaven and earth pass away, and God makes a new heavens and a new earth, and
a new city, New Jerusalem and His faithful enter into Eternal Life with Him in His new Creation.

Remarkably, this progression of events is thematically foreshadowed in the very order of the Books of The
Bible itself, as previously explained, along with the general themes and history they recount, as one might
expect in a masterpiece, masterwork, from the architect of life itself. Several examples, explanations and
illustrations of this marvel will be presented in greater and greater detail throughout this study, beginning
with the introduction, and proceeding to the body of the study where each Book will have commentary and
Scripture references presented to support this discovery. In particular, the first 17 Books of the Bible, in
their ordered form, outline the progression of a Christian’s life from beginning to Eternity. Then, the next
five Books of the Bible are the poetic Books, reflecting in poetic fashion that exact same Salvation story in
Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and Song of Songs. In the second iteration of the pattern, there are 17
Books of the prophets which coincide and reinforce and directly parallel in order, the 17 history Books in the
exact same progression. The 17 Books of the prophets also prophesy of the promised Messiah which the
history Books rightly foreshadow and prefigure. Next, instead of a poetic reflection, there is poetry in
motion, where the progression is actualized in the five Books of the Gospels (including Acts), recounting
Christ’s Ministry and the Acts of His Spirit-filled Apostles. Then, the 17 stage pattern is made personal in its
third and final iteration, in the Epistolic Books, letters to us, as believers, which speak to us in our one on
one relationship with Jesus Christ, and finally with 1st, 2nd, and 3rd John, Jude, and Revelation, a five Book
preparation and prophecy of this pattern becoming reality in Eternity.

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Beginning with an overarching analogy of the progression of God bringing His plan of Salvation about
through His people, through specific individuals, we’ll see a distinct pattern emerge. We are born with a sin
nature doomed to die from conception in Adam. Adam to Noah sees that God wants to destroy and wash
away the sin nature we inherit from the sin-cursed mortality we inherit through Adam. If Adam is a picture
of sinful man, Noah might be a picture of believer’s baptism, a world washed clean, prepared for a fresh
start. Shortly after Noah dies, Abraham takes over as God’s primary instrument through which God
establishes His plan of Salvation through faith. Through Abraham, God forms and shapes a nation which
starts small, but builds and grows to a mighty Kingdom, under David, then is ultimately glorified under
Solomon. If we look at these five key figures in Biblical History, we see that Adam represents our flesh born
nature, Noah represents our believing baptized nature, where we still sin, however we have a relationship
and covenant from God that He is no longer going to judge the world like he did under Adam, then comes
our faith journey nature where we learn to have faith and trust in God through many trials and struggles
with sin and compromise versus faith in God, as we see in Abraham, then comes our spiritually empowered
nature where God forms a loose confederation of tribes into a consolidated Kingdom under David, then
comes a glorified state, under Solomon. So, Adam  sin born nature  Noah  believing baptized nature
 Abraham  faith journey nature  David  spiritually empowered nature  Solomon  glorified
nature. This progression shows the same pattern that we all as Christians aspire to individually.

To provide a few explanations of types and models and Christ prefigures, several typical types or models of
Christ that are well known will be drawn upon, however, we’ll also look at the progression of God’s people.
Some notable Christ prefigures are absent from the simple example above, for instance, Joseph, Moses,
Joshua, etc. While several Biblical historical figures are used throughout Scripture as Christ prefigures, some
are more representative of Christ Himself, while some could be models of God’s people responding to that
Christ prefigure’s model of Salvation as an example of our own spiritual stages of progression. For instance
Moses isn’t used in this progression, because Moses is the Christ prefigure that comes and rescues His
people out of Egypt, much like Jesus Christ rescues us out of bondage to the world, while Joshua is the Christ
prefigure that empowers His people to conquer and take possession of their land, much like Jesus Christ
empowers His people to have spiritual victory over the giants in our lives that used to dominate us. It might
be postulated that Moses represented Christ’s fulfillment of the Law, Who had to die for it, accomplishing
righteous justice, before Joshua could represent Christ’s fulfillment of spiritual empowerment of His people
to take possession of their spiritual lives and have spiritual victory over enemies that used to intimidate and
dominate them. Whereas the Adam  Noah  Abraham  David  Solomon progression is more of a
progression showing our spiritual growth based on what God has done for us through Christ. It is clear that
David is used consistently as a Christ prefigure, especially in the sense of His Kingly attributes, but here it is
fitting to see David as part of a Christian’s progression in the stages of spiritual maturity.

It is important to make the distinction that the models God used to foreshadow His plan of Salvation were
all human beings, hence all sinners, and imperfect reflections of God’s character and plan. In The Bible, God
does not hide the sinful nature of His people, and their iniquities, shortcomings, sins, transgressions, and
even abominations in some cases, as they are recounted, very matter-of-factly, in black and white. It
doesn’t change the fact that overall they are used as models for the different stages and aspects of Himself
and of His plan, and the different stages of our spiritual lives personally. For instance, we were all born
spiritually dead, in Adam, then we who become spiritually alive through faith in Christ, are baptized, then we
learn faithful obedience for many years, as we struggle back and forth with our flesh nature vs. our spiritual

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nature, much like Abraham, as we may take major leaps of faith, but we can also suffer failing in our faith at
times, then those of us who progress on in our faith, can become spiritually empowered by God to have
spiritual victory in our lives through many battles and trials, much like David, and we, who are spiritually
engaged to Christ, as His Bride, currently enduring those battles have yet to reach the fullness of God’s plan
for us in glorification in Christ, which is still yet future at the time of this writing, as we await the
Resurrection and Rapture, and Christ’s return, which was modeled in type through Solomon’s glorious
kingdom. Once again, we should remember that Adam, Noah, Abraham, David, and Solomon were all
sinners and imperfect reflections of God and His plan in and of themselves, however, God uses what they
represent in His Word as a perfect model of His plan and of the progression of each believer’s spiritual
journey from spiritual death due to sin, to realization of death due to our inherent sin, to renewal, faith,
empowerment, and ultimately, glorification.

This work proposes that the Bible in its final, complete, parsed and indexed order and form, self-
authenticates, as the pattern of the Bible, in its order, tells the entire story of the entire process of Salvation.
From the beginning and the fall, to Christ providing Salvation, to The Church, The Bride of Christ,
consecrating ourselves to holy living, to the struggle we have against the still present flesh nature, to the
reminders and warnings we receive, to spiritual empowerment to have spiritual victory and live spiritual
lives, to trying to maintain that victorious position in our still present flesh nature, to the Rapture /
Resurrection, to Tribulation, to Millennium, to Final Judgment, to New Heavens and New earth, and God as
Temple dwelling with us, to New Jerusalem, to Eternity, all in model form microcosmically and
macrocosmically as laid out Book by Book, within the first 17 Books of the Bible. Then, the five Books of
Poetry, reflect on that progression, and repeat it in discretized poetic form culminating once again with the
Bride of Christ in Song of Songs.

Next, there are 17 Books of Prophets which predict, foreshadow, and lead up to the actualization of the 17
Book pattern established in the History Books of the Old Testament, but do so in a counter pattern, as all
that God warned against in the History Books, Israel committed, and the decline of Israel is seen in a distinct
counter-pattern Book by Book in the 17 prophetic Books.

This second iteration of the 17 stage pattern still goes through the progression in the exact same Salvation
order, only with the feature of also seeing how Israel had fallen from Grace and from the place God had built
them up to be, and we see this progression this time as the same progression only instead of using Israel as
a model for Christians to compare and parallel their lives to, this time it is a progression that is warning of
the devastation of falling from Grace and leads up to our desperate need for the actual Messiah Himself,
Jesus Christ, to come and actualize the Salvation plan in the flesh which leaves us at the end of the Old
Testament, awaiting the New Covenant seen with the 40th Book of the Bible in Matthew.

The most important five Books, the Gospels themselves and the Acts of the Apostles, plainly tell the actual
Good News of Salvation itself, in the Person, Life, teaching, healing, preaching, sacrificial death, and
Resurrection to new and Eternal Life of Jesus Christ Himself.

Then comes the third iteration of this pattern in the next 17 Books, the Epistles, which mirror perfectly the
prophetic plan of Salvation once again in perfect ‘fall to Salvation to Eternity order’, commenting on and
elucidating the mysteries of God’s plan in a personal, one on one way, while reinforcing every aspect of
God’s plan and how we are to live our lives out in faith in anticipation of His imminent return to actualize the

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glorification and Eternalization of His plan. This is seen in the final five Books of the Bible as the John
Epistles, Jude, and Revelation bring to a conclusion the perfect plan in a perfect pattern.

Each Christian life has, is in the middle of, or will undergo a similar pattern as to the following table:

Despite the promise of new life in each of our births, we come to the knowledge that Genesis
we have sinned against God and are enslaved to and dead in the world Born dead
We learn of a Savior who can lead us out of that slavery to sin and death, and we Exodus
enter a relationship with Him as we accept His leading us out of worldly servitude Saved
There is a new way to live in light of this new relationship with Christ and a new set Leviticus
of standards we learn to interact with Him through offerings and right living Re-oriented
The firstborn, worldly, carnal attitude towards life completely dies off by God Numbers
weaning us off of it through various trials and tests that can be overcome by faith Weaned
During this time, we need to be constantly reminded of everything God did for us Deuteronomy
while we are being weaned off of worldly standards to a new way of life Eternal Prepared
Once weaned off of worldly standards we are empowered with God's Holy Spirit, Joshua
through the living water, His Holy Spirit, to have the upper hand against worldly life Empowered
With this new empowerment, we have spiritual victory but, still residing in a mortal Judges
frame, we struggle with many failures in our still present fleshly nature Maintaining
While in the Judges’ stage of our spiritual lives with the world in a state of moral Ruth
relativism, we the Gentile Bride are Raptured by Christ, our Kinsman Redeemer Raptured
The world and Israel, with the absence of The Church, clamors after a king to lead 1 Samuel
them, having rejected God as their King, and they go after the anti-Christ Anti-Christ
Despite the anti-Christ’s attempts to destroy Christ, Christians, Israel, Tribulation 2 Samuel
Saints, and all believers, Christ comes back at the end to rule and reign with His Bride Christ returns
We as Christ’s Bride rule and reign over the earth, and with the enemy subdued and 1 Kings
imprisoned, we rule in a glorified state over a golden age of the earth Millennium
The people still in mortal bodies we’ve been ruling over are allowed to be tested by 2 Kings
one final attack from Satan, and a final rebellion is staged after the Millennium Final rebellion
A record book is opened once this final rebellion is defeated, and we participate in 1 Chronicles
judgments to be administered upon Creation from Adam to John the Baptist Books opened
Another Book is opened where we participate in the judgments to be administered 2 Chronicles
upon the Created order from Christ to His Kingdom Book of Life
God Himself, and His tabernacle, descends from a new heavens over a new earth, Ezra
and He shall dwell with redeemed humanity directly through Him as Tabernacle New Temple
The new city, Jerusalem, is shown to have been completed with walls high and broad Nehemiah
and gates holy and true, which only God’s own can pass through New Jerusalem
We, the Church, the Bride, from lowly origin, now married to the King of the Esther
Universe, we rule with Him and serve Him in and throughout Eternity King and Queen

This progression is stunning, when we realize that the order and perfection of God’s plan has been in plain
view in the Old Testament History Books, completed easily by roughly 450 B.C. Many Christians who aren’t
acquainted with the Rapture of the Church and/or the general end times events recounted in Revelation,
Daniel and other Books, are content to think the end of their mortal life results in their being with God in
Heaven, and that’s it, end of story, nothing left to do, and no progression. It is quite eye-opening to realize

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that all Christians alive today, and/or who’ve had their souls go on to be with the Lord, are merely in the
Judges’ stage of their Christian lives, hopefully living or having lived with Ruth-like faith, during this “Judges”
Church-age stage of history in anticipation of Christ’s return. The interesting point here is, there is still quite
an adventure yet to come, after The Rapture, as the entire progression will transpire in all believers’ lives.
We have a Resurrection/Rapture, a seven year marriage feast in Heaven with Christ during the Tribulation
period, a Millennial Kingdom reign, a final rebellion at the end of the Millennium, a final judgment according
to works, and a final judgment according to the Lamb’s Book of Life, a new Creation, a New Jerusalem
coming down out of heaven, God as Temple/Tabernacle living directly with us leading us into Eternity.

The poetry Books of the Bible follow, and are also arranged, in a particular, more discretized order and
scope; however, follow the same general pattern of fallen state, salvation promised and provided, a set of
standards for righteous living is given, a struggle to understand and deal with our condition in light of God’s
plan, and a spiritual marriage of Christ to His Bride the Church.

Job explores the themes of the fallen condition of mankind with afflictions by the enemy, our adversary,
Satan, and God’s intervention in His people’s lives by allowing trials to come to His people, but also
protecting and sustaining His people through afflictions and restoring them from those afflictions. The Book
of Psalms, the Hebrew and Christian Scriptural hymnbook, is a collection of spiritual songs that poetically
explore the griefs and sorrows of the fall of mankind, while praising God for providing His promised
Salvation through a coming Messiah. Proverbs, a collection of short, pithy wisdom statements, explores and
contrasts the ways of the righteous vs. the ways of the wicked, as each individual struggles against sin in
light of God’s righteous standards for living. Ecclesiastes is a perplexing philosophical analysis of man’s place
in God’s created order, and how the mind of man must be weaned off of self-centeredness and focused on
God’s righteousness, as the created order and man’s stewardship and dominion over it is not an end unto
itself, but only a staging ground for Eternity, which becomes analogous to the vanity of a mere vapor we
experience now when compared to a greater Eternal reality, yet future. Song of Songs, is a beautiful Book of
marriage, showing the intimacy of a King and His Bride as analogous to the spiritual intimacy we are to
engage with Christ in, as we enter into Eternity wholly His, and Him wholly ours.

In light of these progressions showing the history Books of the Bible as a 17-stage progression leading up to
our spiritual union with Christ in Eternity, and the Poetry Books likewise, showing that same progression in a
more discreet, five step generalized manner of poetic reflection (considering the griefs and sorrows, joys
and praise, we each experience as we navigate the journey of our spiritual walk towards Eternity), it is
interesting to then look at the 17 Books of the Prophets. This second iteration of the 17-stage pattern
shows a distinct counter-pattern and warning to those who have become spiritually alive. Once Israel had
gone through their entire progression from Abraham to David and Solomon, the prophets took over the
narrative and while they prophesy of the ultimate reality in Messiah’s coming to fulfill the foreshadowing
and prefiguring of Israel’s history and its poetic reflections of their spiritual destiny, there is also a somewhat
terrifying forewarning to those who’ve become spiritually complacent and/or backslidden, as God holds His
spiritually activated and empowered people to a higher standard than He held them to while they were still
back in a greater measure of spiritual ignorance. We actually see the same 17-stage pattern but in terms of
Israel as a corporate spiritual entity, there is a regression of the 17 steps towards spiritual Eternity with God
from the 17 History Books, with a counter-pattern of the 17 Prophet’s Books. Counter in the sense that
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Grace and glory, but since they had done so from a perspective of already coming through a spiritual
progression, they are not being saved out of bondage, as seen in Exodus, but are being warned by God that
He is going to punish them by putting them back into bondage, and it continues from there, contrasting the
original spiritual progression with a spiritual regression as a corporate body. This also patterns out exactly
the eschatological scenario on the macro sense of looking at Israel as a whole, while giving a frightening
depiction of the micro sense, when considering the glorified state Israel reached, to quickly descend into a
state of almost complete desolation. Each Christian can be in serious danger of this same downward spiral
of spiritual stagnation, complacency, and/or backsliding:

God’s people, concentrated in the city of Jerusalem, find themselves warned that in Isaiah
their supposed spiritual life they are about to be taken from freedom into captivity Fallen from Grace
God’s people are severely warned that they are going into bondage if they don’t Jeremiah
maintain fidelity to faith in God and reject the pagan practices they’d gone back to Back into Bondage
God’s people lament the fact that they’d failed to adhere to God’s standards for Lamentations
righteous living and now see their holy habitation in Jerusalem lying in ruin Regretting Rebellion
God’s people are given a severe chastisement, which serves as a reminder that they Ezekiel
should have been weaned off of worldly ways instead of embracing them Enduring Punishment
God’s people are given hope that after they have paid their debt, the truly Daniel
repentant remnant will be allowed to go back to their spiritual home Deliverance for faithful
God’s people are shown that they are spiritual adulterers by trusting in worldly Hosea
nations instead of God for provision and are cut off from spiritual empowerment Israel Adulterous
National repentance is stressed by God, as He will pour out His Spirit and Joel
accomplish His plan of redemption with or without His chosen people National Repentance
A small remnant narrowly escapes God’s judgments against unrighteousness as a Amos
Christ-type prophet exhorts sincere faith to Israel, Judah, and surrounding nations Temple rebuilt
The enemy of Israel is going to be destroyed, and a strong warning is given to not Obadiah
gloat over Israel’s misfortune and distress during the tribulation period Anti-Christ over Israel
The prophets of Israel will evangelize the gentile world with the Gospel during the Jonah
tribulation period, even if they will initially resist, leading to Tribulation Saints Tribulation Preaching
Coming judgments are expected amidst universal corruption, but hope for coming Micah
Messiah is foretold with complete triumph and a righteous Kingdom predicted Millennium
At the end of the Millennium, a final rebellion against the capital of the world, Nahum
Jerusalem, takes place, and this time, the rebelling gentile nations are wiped out Final Rebellion
A judgment is to happen to finally set straight all unrighteousness and justice is Habakkuk
finally brought to all who escaped the justice they will face at the final judgment Books Opened
Judgment is meted out to all, including Judah in light of all the surrounding nations Zephaniah
which were also judged Another Book
God Himself becomes Temple / Tabernacle to dwell directly with His people in Haggai
Eternity Temple
Contemporaneous with Nehemiah, the splitting, reforming, and rebuilding of Zechariah
Jerusalem representing and anticipating the New Jerusalem from heaven New Jerusalem
Anticipating the Messiah in glory coming to fulfill all promises of Resurrection and Malachi
Eternity Anticipation of Eternity

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This second 17 Book pattern shows a remarkable congruity with the first 17 Book pattern in the history
Books, yet at the same time simultaneously shows Israel as fallen from Grace and fallen from an almost
completed progression of glorification under Solomon, at least in model or type form. It also shows them
going in a downward direction from the upward progression seen in the history Books; however, there is a
glimmer of hope and a progression that starts afresh with the remnant of believers who repented and
returned to God after the Babylonian exile and even more importantly, there exists, the entire time, with all
the downward, despondent, negative direction and despair Israel is headed in as recounted through the
prophets during that time, the promise of the Messiah, Who is going to come into the world and provide
Salvation and Redemption for Israel, but also the entire world.

While the Jews expect their Redemption to happen immediately upon Christ’s arrival in Israel, there is a
mission most of them missed out on, even though it is expressly mentioned in the Old Testament numerous
times, that first, the Gospel of His Salvation has to provide Redemption and Salvation to the Gentiles. The
five Books of the Gospels: Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, and Acts—recount the actualization of all the
prophecies in the Life, Ministry, Preaching, Teaching, and Healing of Jesus Christ. In these Books, Christ
reaches out to every person, but also exposes every person as being insufficient on their own; shows love,
but also exposes and confronts our loveless tendencies; Christ shows mercy, but also exposes and confronts
our unmerciful nature. Then, Christ ultimately pays the price Himself for all of our inadequacies, our sins,
our transgressions, our iniquities, and shortcomings.

Now that the Messiah had come, a fusing of the two 17-stage progressions take place in the final 17 Book
progression. This progression becomes personal, as it takes the microcosmic view of the individual
believer’s progression, represented through the macrocosmic history of Israel recounted from Genesis to
Esther, and the macrocosmic view of the corporate spiritual body of Israel, represented through the
mesocosmic regression of that corporate spiritual body and the consequences it incurs, recounted from
Isaiah to Malachi, and fuses them, through the Gospels, into a personal and final iteration of the 17-stage
progression, where Jesus Christ, Sacrifices Himself, as the microcosmic representation of His macrocosmic
Self.

This final 17-stage pattern becomes personal, as it is not the story of a single Nation coming into existence,
or the prophecy of a Messiah coming to provide Salvation, but simply love letters written from that Messiah,
Who came through that single Nation, that are written to each person, personally, one on one, to anyone
who is willing to listen to His Salvation plan and be transformed by it. Written as letters to individual
Churches and believers and by extension directly to us, we are informed of how this grand master plan
applies to us personally, and can choose to become part of His ultimate Kingdom through humble
acknowledgment of our sinful state and status, and by putting ourselves under His Lordship over our lives.

As the progression through the Epistolic Books takes shape, it once again shows perfect congruence to the
first two 17 Book progressions, yet brings the entire progression into sharp focus. Rapture-themed Books
line up perfectly with Rapture-themed Books. Anti-Christ-themed Books line up perfectly with Anti-Christ-
themed Books, and foundation Books line up perfectly with foundation Books, etc. This is stunning to see
when it comes into focus.

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After the first two 17 Book patterns, the prefiguring is over, and the reality has emerged. The progression is
very personal and very clear: we are saved by Grace through Faith, and that demands a grateful response:

We are saved by Grace through Faith, and while we are likely to face lots of Romans
struggles internally and externally subsequently, we are called to obedience Saved by Grace
We are called to be sanctified by the Blood of Christ, brought out of bondage to 1 Corinthians
live lives holy and pleasing to God Sanctified from Bondage
We consecrate ourselves to God’s sanctifying standards by the power of God’s 2 Corinthians
Holy Spirit indwelling us Consecrated to Holiness
We are warned not to go back to the old, once we’ve been weaned off the old Galatians
ways and onto the new ways, we need to stay in the New Covenant of Grace Don’t go back to old ways
We are prepared for spiritual warfare with the armor of God and are called to Ephesians
engage in spiritual warfare with spiritual preparedness and prayer Prepare for Battle
Our victory is in Christ, not in our flesh, and we must rely on Him for victory, else Philippians
we might have something to boast about and end up in pride Victory in Christ, not flesh
While Christ is absent from direct physical Presence from us, or His closeness Colossians
seems distant as we mature, His Spirit empowers us to be able to maintain victory Christ absent/Spirit present
The Church is Resurrected / Raptured out of the world directly preceding God’s 1 Thessalonians
wrath poured out on an unbelieving world Rapture of the Church
The Abomination of Desolation takes place by the Anti-Christ/Beast himself and 2 Thessalonians
plunges the world into utter chaos and desolation amidst God’s Judgments Anti-Christ over Israel
During the Tribulation, the 144,000, the two witnesses, and the angel preach the 1 Timothy
Gospel but during the Millennial Reign, assignments are given for leadership Millennial Preaching
We will rule and reign with Christ during His Millennial Reign, yet there will be 2 Timothy
requirements for Godly living in the Kingdom age, which we will be stewards over Kingdom Living
Despite our best efforts to rule and reign with the righteousness of Christ, many Titus
rebellious people will still be seduced by Satan at the end of the thousand years Final Rebellion
Slaves are set free, in the sense that those awaiting judgment will be Resurrected Philemon
and those who lived faithful lives can escape Eternal enslavement Books Opened
The Book of Life is written in Son, and anyone found in Christ at the Judgment, Hebrews
will enter into Eternal Life with Him Book of Life opened
God’s work on The Cross, and our faith in His work on The Cross, meet and we James
can dwell with Him directly in Eternity since there will be no need for a Temple Faith and works are one
Living stones are being fitted together in an Eternal home for all believers to dwell 1 Peter
directly with God in Eternity New Jerusalem
A new Heavens and a new Earth frame the new Jerusalem where we will dwell 2 Peter
with God and Christ for all Eternity Eternity with God

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These preceding three charts showing the same consistent pattern and progression is remarkable, yet when
seen in tandem with each other, it becomes even more amazing as the Books are seen to compliment each
other with their overall themes perfectly bringing into focus each prefigure into a personal reality in the
Epistolic Books we have for spiritual awakening, Salvation, sanctification, consecration, spiritual warfare,
spiritual victory, and waiting for spiritual consummation. Shown next is a full chart of each 17 Book pattern
shown in parallel and in tandem with each other 17 Book pattern to bring the entire pattern into sharp
focus. Also shown are the five Book interludes in between each 17 Book pattern.

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 Genesis God’s Perfect Creation ruined by man’s sin Isaiah
Exodus Leading out of Egypt’s bondage to God’s Salvation Jeremiah
Leviticus New Standards for Godly living are proclaimed Lamentations
Numbers Weaning from old ways to new standards Ezekiel
Deuteronomy Reminders / Warnings – prepare for battle and avoid captivity Daniel
Joshua Spiritual Empowerment for victory over giants in our lives Hosea
Judges Struggle to maintain Spiritual Victory in a time of relativism Joel
Ruth Rapture foreshadowing with a Gentile Bride redeemed Amos
1 Samuel Anti-Christ prefigure (Saul) rules over Israel Obadiah
2 Samuel Christ prefigure (David) rules over Israel Jonah
1 Kings Christ prefigure in glory (Solomon) Rule and Reign in Millennium Micah
2 Kings Final Rebellion after Millennium Nahum
1 Chronicles Books Opened-Adam to David (Christ) representing Old Covenant Habakkuk
2 Chronicles Book of Life Opened-David (Christ) to Eternity Zephaniah
Ezra Temple Rebuilt Haggai
Nehemiah Jerusalem Rebuilt Zechariah
Esther King of the World rules with Queen Malachi

The 17 Book pattern repeats itself three times in different contexts and from different stages of historical and
order, paralleling each other, and addressing aspects of that theme addressed at that stage from an appropriate
for

Job Fallen state of mortal condition Matthew

Psalms Poetic prophetic reflections of struggle Mark
Proverbs God’s standards contrasted with evil Luke
Ecclesiastes Man’s place in God’s created order John
Song of Songs Marriage of Christ and His Church Acts

After each 17 Book pattern there is a five Book repose that reflects on the 17 Book pattern or addresses or responds to
Fellowship with God through Christ in Eternal glory apart from the wicked and unjust and false teachers and leaders
first five Book pattern reflects on the triumphs of Israel’s glorification under David and Solomon, recounts the griefs
pattern is the fulfillment of Israel and the world’s culmination in Christ as Redeemer, and finally, the last five Book
glory.

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 Perfect Grace / Fallen from Grace Romans Salvation by Grace
Warning of going back to Bondage 1 Corinthians Sanctification once freed
Lament over God’s Standards not kept 2 Corinthians Consecration to God’s standards
Punishment for going back to old Galatians Warning against going back to old
Hope for Restoration from captivity Ephesians Prepare for Battle and Victory
Spiritual Adultery Philippians Victory in Christ, not in flesh
God provides for those who obey Colossians Christ absent / Spirit Present
Rapture aftermath prefiguring / Tribulation 1 Thessalonians Rapture in actuality
Israel persecuted through Edom 2 Thessalonians Anti-Christ unleashed on Israel
Preaching to Assyrian Gentiles 1 Timothy Assignments Given for Pastoring
Millennium Reign 2 Timothy Kingdom Living
Judgment of Unrepentant Assyrians Titus Many rebellious men
Books Opened Philemon Slave set free
Book of Life Opened / Judgment Hebrews Book of Life written in SON
God is new Temple James Faith and Works become one
New Jerusalem from Heaven 1 Peter Living Stones
Anticipation of Messiah King’s Eternal Reign 2 Peter Day of God / New Heavens / Earth

prophetic perspective in different dispensations, yet it is incredible to see the congruous themes always in the same
perspective of the historical context of the original dispensation it was originally written from and prophetically written

Gospel to Israel (God’s people)
Gospel to Rome (pragmatists)
Gospel to Greece (philosophers)
Gospel to Church (Christ’s Bride)
Gospel to the ends of the earth
1 John Fellowship with God and fellow believers
2 John Love in truth versus false teachers
3 John True Fellowship versus false leaders
Jude Comparison of fallen angels / false teachers
Revelation The marriage of Christ and the Church

it with poetry and prophecy, wisdom and truth, the actuality of the Gospel of Christ in the flesh, or the preparation for
that we must separate ourselves from and ultimately will be separated from by and through the Rapture itself. The
and sorrows of the struggle and prophesies of the true Messianic cost of the 17 stage progression. The next five Book
pattern is preparation for and the unveiling of the reality of God’s plan of Eternally fusing Himself to His Creation in

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This perspective should be stunning to the Spirit-filled Christian, especially if Scripturally attuned to finer
points of various aspects of Theology, such as Eschatology, Soteriology, Ecclesiology, Israelology, et al.

The view that unfortunately too many in the Bible scholar arena share, that the Book order isn’t Divine, and
that the Canon is in dispute and this Book should have been included or this one should not have been
included, Chapter and Verse designations are not Divine, etc. etc. should be brought to an end here.

Michaelangelo didn’t paint all the pieces of the Sistine Chapel and let some random committees get
together and throw them up on the ceiling in any order they chose. Frank Lloyd Wright’s architectural
designs weren’t voted on by committee to be randomly chosen and thrown together by someone else into
final form for the Guggenheim. Designs for Nikola Tesla’s induction motor weren’t haphazardly picked over
to be randomly thrown together in any way by some engineering committee, and Charles Dickens’ Great
Expectations wasn’t worked over by random authors so they could determine what his intent for a final
version should be.

It is absurd to think that any great work would be randomly thrown together by other people besides the
Author, Creator, Designer, Engineer, Architect Himself. How much more, should this apply to God and His
Masterpiece, The Bible?

There are some great writings of Enoch, and great writings of the history of the Maccabean revolt, et al.
Some of these writings can be excellent extra-Biblical helps and provide some possible insights and/or
perspective into actual Scriptures themselves, so it is not like they don’t exist and can’t be read and studied.
It is clear however that they don’t share a place in the Canon of Scripture itself.

There are some historical accounts of arguments over what should and what shouldn’t be included in the
Canon. To say that God was absent and didn’t ultimately manipulate the end product to be exactly what He
intended, is to make God’s Holy Spirit somewhat impotent against the wills and machinations of men. That
doesn’t ring true. God’s Masterpiece is exactly as He intended it, in exactly the correct order and form and
in exactly the way it is designed to speak to us, teach us, instruct us, help us, inform us, and be a wellspring
of Spiritual nourishment for us.

There are translational issues into various languages, slight discrepancies with certain manuscripts over
others, slight differences in certain version’s Chapter and Verse designations. While these discrepancies
exist, they are remarkably and miraculously minute and none of those miniscule differences change the
perfect order and design of the original, they only perhaps, very slightly, degrade the original in terms of
overall resolution from the original in the original languages, however, the Masterpiece is in its correct and
perfect order and form.

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Genesis (Stage 1)

Genesis 1:1 In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

Genesis 1:31b . . . And God saw all that He had made, and behold, it was very good . . .

Genesis 3:17b . . . “Cursed is the ground because of you; In toil you shall eat of it all the days of your life 18
Both thorns and thistles it shall grow for you; and you shall eat the plant of the field; 19 By the sweat of your
face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground, because from it you were taken; for you are dust, and
to dust you shall return.”

Genesis starts with God’s perfect creation ruined by man’s sin, and it is no coincidence that the very last
words of Genesis read “. . . and he was embalmed and placed in a coffin in Egypt.” Here we see that God’s
perfect Creation, ruined by man’s sin, ends up dead in a coffin, but even in death in the grave, it is death
with an expectation of Resurrection, hence the embalming. In other words, Egypt, almost always used in
Scripture as an analogy of worldliness, and Pharaoh as an analogy of Satan, shows how when we, collective
humanity, rebelled against God in Genesis with our worldliness, we ended up dead in that world, enslaved
to the “god” of this world; however, even though we were spiritually dead in the world, it was a death that
had the hope and promise of a Resurrection, a new life. The analogy here is macro in its whole sense, as it
applies to us all, as in all of humanity; however it can also be micro in its part sense, since we, as Christians,
should be able to apply this Genesis analogy to ourselves personally. We, as individual Christians, all, at one
point, found ourselves, spiritually dead in trespasses and sins in this world, and it was precisely the
realization of our spiritual death that led us to seek life through Salvation in Christ. Even though Genesis
ends with God’s perfect Creation ruined with us dead in the world (“in a coffin in Egypt”), it is heartening to
turn past the last page of Genesis and realize that this is not the end for us. We also see Israel, the meso, as
representing us, as it was Israel’s beginning in Genesis that we see ending with Joseph as the actual
individual who was dead, placed in a coffin in Egypt. All of Israel, as a people, as a Nation come to Egypt,
representing that all of humanity ends up in the same predicament: created for Eternity, we initially chose
slavery in Egypt, and that dilemma plagues all of humanity.

If we create axes for the following macro, meso, micro, aspects of Genesis, we can see them all in
dimensional tandem with one another. We can see the Genesis of the world, vectoring from left to right on
the x axis, and the Genesis of Israel, going from bottom to top on the y axis, intersecting with the x axis,
vectoring towards the top, and the Genesis of our own personal life intersecting both, vectoring on the z axis
going visually to the 45 degree angle’s vanishing point into Eternity between the two other axes. Then we
can see the meta in Christ as our micro, macro, meso reference point for Salvation, both Creator and
Champion of Creation, the Macro and the Micro, establishing the Meso, Israel, in order to come through
Israel into the world as the Microcosmic representation of His Macrocosmic Self, in order to bring us into the
Metacosm in Eternity with Him. This same concept can be perpetuated with each successive Book, in Book
order, creating a multi-dimensional perspective of spiritual life and The Bible as the self-authenticating
reference for spiritual life.

Genesis 50:26b . . . and he was embalmed and placed in a coffin in Egypt.

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Exodus (Stage 2)

Exodus 1:13 And the Egyptians compelled the sons of Israel to labor rigorously;

Exodus 3:10 “Therefore, come now, and I will send you to Pharaoh, so that you may bring My people, the
sons of Israel, out of Egypt.”

Exodus is a picture of the process of escape from being enslaved to death in the world, through a messenger
from God, Moses, telling Pharaoh, and God’s people, that He is pulling them out of the world, into a
renewed relationship with Him. It should not be difficult to see how this applies personally, as each of us, as
Christians, should recall a time in our Genesis (dead in the world) stage of life, when God sent His Gospel
message to us in Jesus Christ, Who led us out of worldliness with His redemption, leading us toward spiritual
life. Many aspects to Salvation are seen in macro, micro, mesocosmic fashion here in Exodus. For instance,
while Joseph was the type of Christ prefigure in Genesis, Moses is the type of Christ prefigure in Exodus.

Even though Joseph was sent to Egypt in advance of his brethren, in persecution by his brethren, he is there
to help them once they are forced to go there. Pharaoh isn’t accommodating when Moses tells him through
Aaron, by God, that God’s chosen people must be allowed to go worship, much like Satan will have a strong
resistance to God leading His people out of worldliness through Christ to worship Him. Satan wants to keep
us in bondage and slavery to worldliness so that we will serve him. So the Savior in this stage of the
progression is Moses, as the type of Christ, who leads the nation of Israel out of slavery in Egypt, passing
through the Red Sea, which is a picture of baptism. Once on the other side of the Red Sea, we see Pharaoh
as a model, or type of Satan, who cannot touch Israel once they’ve crossed over, and instead is completely
defeated and unable to harm or touch Israel once they’re on the other side.

This is a picture of our Salvation in Christ, that once we’ve accepted Christ and believed in Him for our
Salvation, and ratified our faith publicly through believer’s baptism, Satan cannot touch our Salvation, and
we are completely immune to him as far as Salvation is concerned. It is not the end of the story however, as
we can rebel against God, complain about God’s leading in our life, be spiritually ineffective for God, not be
in right relationship with God, not maintain God’s standards and commandments in our lives as we enter
into the wilderness wandering period of our spiritual journey. Satan cannot touch our Salvation; however,
he can succeed in making us spiritually dry and ineffective if we do not commit to following God. Many, if
not most, Christians undergo some sort of wilderness period in their spiritual lives, as they have been saved;
however, they’ve not yet been weaned off of worldliness, and they go through the ups and downs and ebbs
and flows of struggle with having faith in God versus wanting to go back to fleshly ways. We see in Exodus
that it was only a matter of days after God’s miraculous interventions that led them safely through the
water to the other side of the Red Sea and safety, protecting them from Pharaoh’s attack, until they were
already complaining about numerous inconveniences they were facing in the desert. This is very analogous
to our own spiritual reluctance and struggle with leaving fleshly ways for faith and spiritual ways.

Continuing the 3 dimensional vector axes started in the aforementioned Genesis analogy, we can see that
the divergence between the world and God’s people in Israel gets further apart as worldliness (represented
by Egypt, on the x axis, as the world’s first super power) sets up a system of dominance and enslavement,
while on the y axis, (representing Israel taken out of the enslavement world system) is heading in a distinct
direction away from and in contrast to the world, and the z axis (representing us coming to Christ for

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Salvation and hence coming out of enslavement to worldliness under Satan and into right relationship with
God through Jesus Christ) continues to head toward the 45 degree angle vanishing point into Eternity.

Exodus 40:38 For throughout all their journeys, the cloud of the LORD was on the tabernacle by day, and
there was fire in it by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel.

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Leviticus (Stage 3)

Leviticus 1:1 Then the LORD called to Moses and spoke to him from the tent of meeting, saying, “Speak to
the sons of Israel and say to them . . .”

Leviticus is a picture of God explaining a new set of standards of living for His people whom He just pulled
out of slavery to Egyptian worldliness. Numerous times God repeats to Moses this opening phrase of
Leviticus 1:1 throughout the Book, commanding the sons of Israel, the priests, Aaron and his sons, regarding
God’s moral law, His civil law, and His ceremonial law regarding everything from sacrifices, interpersonal
relationships, feast days, worship, to other sundry laws, rules and precepts He exhorts Israel to follow with
blessings promised for obedience and warnings of penalties for disobedience.

God realizes His people have been exposed to, influenced by, and damaged from the ungodly practices of
the worldliness they’ve come out of and are in a state of insecurity regarding their future, their relationship
with Him, their spirituality and what the correct ways to believe and live are. God mitigates this insecurity
by providing them with clear cut rituals for making offerings to Him as well as rules, laws, and moral
standards they are to live by, and makes it distinctly clear that they are to live in a completely different way
than the nations they are going to be surrounded by, the nation they came out of, and the nations they are
going to dispossess of the land God promised to them.

The personal application of this is simple. As we accepted Christ, and were baptized with believer’s baptism,
we seek to know God’s ways and His standards, and attempt to live by them out of gratitude for what He’s
done for us. We, initially, unfathomably grateful for our Salvation and excited to embark on this new
spiritual journey, can fairly quickly start to become intimidated by God’s expectations for our new lives. We
become more and more aware of God’s holiness and our fleshly wretchedness and the great magnitude of
that disparity. We are given in the New Testament, many challenging exhortations for this new life and how
we are to prioritize our lives in the context of our Salvation; however we are also told in the New Testament
that Christ is our High Priest Who has interceded for us and always strives to make intercession for us
against the constant accusation of our adversary, Satan himself.

We see in Leviticus a perfect picture of this stage of a believer’s life. The priestly duties are given in
Leviticus, which all point to, foreshadow, and prefigure Christ’s role as our one High Priest; and while we are
also given in Leviticus God’s standards for righteous, perfect living, we see that the priests have the
instructions to make atonement for us, which point to Christ on The Cross as our one singular Atonement for
all time. Meanwhile, also in Leviticus, just like in the New Testament Gospels and Epistles, we are constantly
challenged to live holy lives out of gratitude for the free gift of Salvation imparted to us through our faith in
our High Priest, Jesus Christ’s Atonement on The Cross for our sins, and to love God and our neighbors as
ourselves by following, to the best of our abilities, the rules and standards for righteous, holy living in a
community fellowship of faith.

Continuing the vector analogy, on the x axis we see that God abhors the worldly standards, which had
already by this point resorted to human sacrifice and all sorts of heinous abominations related to paganism,
while on the y axis, God is exhorting Israel to follow a completely different set of standards. On the z axis,
we as we recognized our worldliness, dead in trespasses and sins, in our Genesis stage of life, and brought
out of that misery in our Exodus stage of life, where Christ leads us out of Egypt by following Him, we can

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now see that we have a new appetite for spiritual things and God provides His holy standards for living in
Leviticus.

Leviticus 27:34 These are the commandments which the LORD commanded Moses for the sons of Israel at
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Numbers 1:2 “Take a sum of all the congregation of the sons of Israel . . . “

Numbers is a picture of the weaning process of God’s people having their worldly ways purged from them
through some time in the wilderness, as they are forced to learn to trust God for provision rather than the
world. The personal application is most likely humiliating for most of us, as eager as we may have been to
go through the Exodus and Leviticus stages of our young spiritual lives, most of us, if truly honest with
ourselves and before God, realize the Numbers stage of our spiritual lives, is very necessary, as we can have
a really hard time letting go of worldly tendencies and embracing trust and faith in God for our provision.

It is very interesting to learn that Israel in the wilderness was only an eleven day journey away from entering
the Promised Land to dispossess the Canaanites and take possession of what God promised them, yet they
wandered in the wilderness in circles for almost forty years. Despite Joshua and Caleb’s boldness,
confidence and exhortation to the people to take the land, trusting in God’s ability to conquer the giants of
the land, Israel waffled, and extended their time in the desert wilderness due to their lack of faith. It is very
interesting to note that Joshua serves as a perfect model of Christ in this sense, and Caleb as a perfect model
of God’s Holy Spirit, the only two who crossed the Jordan from those who came out of Egypt. The rest of
the people perished in the desert and their children were the ones who entered the land. This is a picture of
our flesh-born nature and our spiritual born-again nature.

The flesh-born nature has to completely die out and be subdued by the born-again spiritual nature, so that
we can live empowered spiritual lives, boldly living out our faith and conquering the giants of sins and
transgressions that used to dominate and tower over us, but now are overcome when we allow God to
empower our faith by baptizing us in God’s Holy Spirit, of which, crossing the Jordan is a model or type, to
usurp the usurpers, to take back what was rightfully ours, and put our spiritual nature first and foremost in
our lives to rule and dictate our actions. It is very sad indeed to think of how many Christians came out of
Egypt, a picture of coming out of the world through faith in Christ, were baptized in believer’s baptism, a
picture of crossing the Red Sea, and then upon receiving the new set of standards for holy living, simply
wandered in the desert wilderness for the rest of their spiritual lives, saved by Grace, yet forsaking spiritual
gifts and spiritual rewards and especially forsaking spiritual empowerment to live holy lives by constantly
grumbling against God, complaining about the hardships of spiritual lives, wanting to go back to worldly
living, and spinning their proverbial wheels in the desert, never crossing the Jordan of their lives to be
empowered for victorious spiritual living. This is a very sad, sad thought indeed. How many Christians have
stayed in the Numbers stage of their spiritual lives for the remainder of their lives? Probably far, far too
many, and if the pun can be pardoned, perhaps that is subtly why the Book is entitled “Numbers”.

Continuing the vector analogy, we see that in Numbers the worldly ways of Israel are weaned from them
through the march in the desert wilderness. In type we see that the entire generation, save for Joshua (a
model of Christ) and Caleb (a model of God’s Holy Spirit) died in the desert over the 40 years of wandering in
circles which is a picture of how our first born nature must completely die off and our spiritual nature must
become empowered and dominant in our lives for God to be able to lead us to victorious spiritual life in
Him. On the x axis, we see that not only are the world’s standards in direct opposition to God’s standards,
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y axis, God continues to establish his precepts through His people. The z axis analogy is obvious: we must
be weaned off of worldliness and weaned onto righteousness and Godliness.

Numbers 36:13 These are the commandments and the ordinances which the LORD commanded to the sons
of Israel through Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan opposite Jericho.

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Deuteronomy (Stage 5)

Deuteronomy 1:1 These are the words which Moses spoke to all Israel across the Jordan in the wilderness, in
the Arabah opposite Suph . . .

Deuteronomy is a picture of God reminding His people of all He’s done for them before He empowers them
with spiritual victory. In Deuteronomy, God, through Moses, is lifting up His people to prepare them for
battle by reiterating to them all He’d done for them and all the ways they’d failed Him up to that point.
Once again, just like with Numbers, the Deuteronomy stage of our spiritual lives can be somewhat
humiliating, and they are intertwined as Deuteronomy is kind of like a revival of sorts through a series of
sermons delivered by Moses, directly before God leads them across the Jordan to finally have spiritual
victory over the enemies they used to fear and the enemies that used to intimidate them. It is essential to
be constantly reminded of all God has done for us, all He has promised, and be aware of all the warnings He
gives for disobedience and the promises He makes to us for obedience.

The second telling of the law, what Deuteronomy essentially means, is something that we, as Christians,
constantly need to hear and be reminded of as we go through the ups and downs of our spiritual lives. This
is constantly evidenced throughout the New Testament as it is well balanced with anchoring our Salvation to
our faith in Christ’s payment for our sins on The Cross, while simultaneously exhorting us to live in such a
way that reflects our gratitude for such an amazing provision. It is why we go to Church regularly, to be in
Fellowship, but also to be convicted by preaching and teaching. This helps us to continue to come back to
the source of our Salvation, and continue to ground ourselves in God’s Word, maintain a state of repentant
attitude towards our sins and transgressions, and to grow spiritually, as we strive to study and learn more
and be reminded more and more of what God has done and what He’s promised to continue to do and
ultimately promises to do in the end times.

The personal application is very clear, as we need constant reminders through prayer, Bible teaching,
preaching, fellowship, conviction of sin, correction to sin, spiritual growth, revival and renewal, exercising
our spiritual gifts, deepening our commitment to God, as we contemplate the promises God still has in store
for us, that He hasn’t just saved us to save us. He has a glorious purpose for each of us, which He calls us to,
which we can choose to activate in our lives through faith and a deepening commitment to challenge
ourselves to take on spiritual battles that seemed impossible to us only a relatively short time previously in
our young spiritual lives. God prepares us for battle in the Deuteronomy stage of our spiritual lives, and it is
fitting indeed that Jesus Himself used Deuteronomy exclusively to rebuke Satan in His own desert wilderness
time He endured for 40 days to represent Israel’s 40 years. All three passages Jesus quoted to rebuke
Satan’s temptations came from Deuteronomy.

Continuing the vector analogy, the x axis continues to head towards oblivion and the y-axis continues to
promote a heavenly destination for God’s people, contrasting with worldliness, and our z axis heading
towards the spiritual victory we’ve been prepared for through faith in Christ

Deuteronomy 34:5 So Moses the servant of the LORD died there in the land of Moab, according to the word
of the LORD . . . 9 Now Joshua the son of Nun was filled with the spirit of wisdom, for Moses had laid his
hands on him; and the sons of Israel listened to him and did as the LORD had commanded Moses . . .

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Joshua 1:1 Now it came about after the death of Moses the servant of the LORD that the LORD spoke to
Joshua the son of Nun, Moses’ servant, saying, “Moses My servant is dead; now therefore arise, cross this
Jordan . . .

Joshua is a picture of God empowering His people to have spiritual victory over the giant problems that used
to dominate them. Once we are escaped from “Egypt” worldliness, are given a new set of Godly standards
to live by, and are weaned off of Egypt through faith and trust in God’s leading and His provision and His
instruction, and are supernaturally prepared for battle through a series of exhortations, we can go up
against circumstances that are much bigger than us with confidence and boldness, and take down enemies
much bigger than us, to take possession of the victorious spiritual life God wants for us to have.

As Joshua, the Hebrew-to-English form of Yeshua, Jesus’ very name in Hebrew, is a clear model or prefigure
of Jesus leading us to spiritually empowered victory. When Joshua leads the people of Israel across the
stopped waters of the Jordan and they cross on dry land, much like they crossed the Red Sea forty years
earlier, it is likewise a picture of another aspect of baptism, in this case, baptism of The Holy Spirit. John the
Baptist teaches us that Jesus will baptize us in The Holy Spirit, and once or in some cases at the same time,
or in some cases even before, we are water baptized with believer’s baptism of repentance of sins, Jesus
Himself will personally baptize us in God’s Holy Spirit which will empower us to have victory over spiritual
battles, put our spiritual nature back on top of our flesh nature, and give us the ability to go boldly into
Satan’s territory and start taking back possession of people by winning souls and/or tearing down
strongholds of the enemy as we usurp what was previously usurped from us.

Crossing the Jordan is a picture of Jesus empowering us through baptism of God’s Holy Spirit, distributing to
each according to God’s special spiritual gift(s) for that person in their participation in His Ministry of
Salvation through the Gospel of Grace. Much like the Apostles were prevented from leaving Jerusalem until
Pentecost, even though they’d already received God’s Holy Spirit according to Salvation as per John Chapter
20:22, they hadn’t been empowered for ministry yet, which didn’t happen until Pentecost some 50 days
later. We likewise should not start exercising our call to ministry through our spiritual gifts until we’ve
received them by crossing the proverbial Jordan in our own lives and been empowered / baptized in God’s
Holy Spirit for ministry.

In the Book of Acts, we see that there is no man-made prescription for this event in a believer’s life. The
Apostles are having a really hard time keeping up with what God’s doing. Some had only received John’s
baptism, not believer’s baptism, so they were re-baptized in Jesus’ name; some received spiritual
empowerment directly at conversion and started speaking in tongues and then were water baptized, while
some had received believer’s baptism but hadn’t received God’s Holy Spirit, which was administered
through the laying on of hands of people already filled with God’s Holy Spirit.

To attempt to systematize this spiritual rite is pointless, as the Scripture itself testifies to the fact that it is an
act of God and His sovereign will that decides when someone is baptized with His Holy Spirit by Jesus
Himself. For me personally, this happened in a vision sometime after my born again experience. For others
it happens during private prayer, and for others it happens in the presence of other believers through the
laying on of hands, and for others it happens at their water baptism, and still others happens even before
they are water baptized. It is sad to see some Churches attempt to systematize something that doesn’t

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belong to the Church but belongs explicitly to Christ and His Holy Spirit, by lifting up or only focusing on a
few Scriptures while ignoring many others, and attempting to control something that even the early Church
couldn’t control or keep up with. It is interesting to note that when the waters were stopped up in a heap, it
was from a city called Adam, typologically signifying that the sin nature flowing down from Adam to all of us
was stopped up, while God allows us to cross over that river of sin nature flowing down from Adam to all
born of Adam, and cross over on dry land to a new and empowered victorious spiritual life in Christ.

The vector analogy continues to become more interesting. One might say that Christ is the only spiritual
algebra that exists. We, as imperfect sinners, fallen in a fallen world, could never accomplish this
progression on our own. We might analogize ourselves to the messy complexity of calculus, as we’re
approaching infinity or approaching zero with the ups and downs, failures and victories, ebbs and flows and
curvy inconsistencies of our constantly changing levels of fidelity to God’s perfect standards. We see that
Christ, our Champion, is the only perfectly simple spiritual algebraic expression: His perfect Life, plus, His
perfect Atoning Death on The Cross, equals our Salvation. He freely gives us access to this perfect z axis
vector He created, through His shed perfect Blood, and His broken sinless Body, leading us into the
Metacosmic reality of Eternity. The x axis of worldliness, full of giant opposition to the progression of the y
axis of God’s people heading towards Eternity is overcome by the z axis of Christ’s perfect Life

Joshua 24:28 Then Joshua dismissed the people, each to his inheritance . . .

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Judges (Stage 7)

Judges 1:1-2 Now it came about after the death of Joshua that the sons of Israel inquired of the LORD,
saying, “Who shall go up first for us against the Canaanites, to fight against them?” 2 And the LORD said,
“Judah shall go up; behold, I have given the land into his hand.”

Assuming this is being read before the Rapture of the Church, every single Christian, living, or with the Lord,
is living currently in the Judges period of their spiritual lives in the macrocosmic sense. We, as an overall
body of believers, are waiting for Christ’s return and are living in the most dangerous time for Christians, in a
time of moral relativism (everyone doing what’s right in their own eyes). Microcosmically, some young
Christians might still be in the Exodus period of their budding faith, or in the Numbers period of their
wilderness wanderings, or being prepared for spiritual battle, or possibly still on a mountain top spiritual
high of being spiritually empowered with God’s Holy Spirit to have spiritual victory in the Joshua stage of
their spiritual lives. No matter what, however, if this is being read before the Rapture of the Church, there is
no Christian who is living yet in the stages that follow the Judges’ period of all Christian’s lives.

Judges is a picture of the time in a Christian’s life when Christ steps away, at least in the sense of our feeling
His direct Presence, empowering us in our mountain top experiences and spiritual conquests and victories.
We are allowed to go through times of spiritual dryness and have our faith tested, trying to maintain the
possession of the spiritual life we won in our Joshua period of life, and when we falter, if we repent and call
out to Him, Christ can send heroes of faith to aid and assist us as we still wrestle with many fleshly
tendencies and difficulties, from within ourselves and from outside forces of the enemy. This is similar to
the macrocosmic experience all Christians find themselves in during this age of Grace . . . where Christ, while
once physically present, and all believers looking directly at His direct physical leadership has left, physically
speaking, and now expects us, having the torch passed to us (through His Holy Spirit imparted to all true
believers), to carry on in the Ministry He began. There is a popular but erroneous teaching that many “layer
one and two” Churches espouse regarding Joshua that is often postulated, “What was Joshua’s one
mistake?” The answer, invariably, is that Joshua didn’t raise up a leader to take his place, like Moses did for
him. While that is a surface layer, or homiletic layer understanding of the text, and possibly in that sense
and that sense only might be useful for some, it certainly is not typologically correct in any sense. If Joshua
represents Jesus, as he most certainly does, there is no “other” leader after Jesus. The only thing left is for
Him to pass onto us His Holy Spirit and expects us to carry His torch . . . there is no “one” leader that has
consolidated leadership after Jesus, as it is a body of believers (just like in Judges 1:1 “. . . the sons of Israel
inquired of the LORD . . .”) and we each are led individually by His Holy Spirit.

Who goes up first? “Judah” is the response from the LORD, and the name Judah means praise; in other
words, praise to the LORD should go up before any spiritual victory. There are of course individual leaders
as part of His Body in various congregations, but no one singular consolidated leader, as He has distributed
His Holy Spirit to us all in the specific measure and gifts He has for each of us. The model of God’s Holy Spirit
coming after Christ can be seen in Judges with a somewhat abstract, yet potent prefiguring with Caleb. We
see that Judges starts by speaking of the time after Joshua’s death, yet Caleb is still very active in the
continuation of the conquest of the Promised Land. It can also be noted that Caleb and Joshua were the
only two of the first generation that crossed the Jordan into the Promised Land, a model or type that only
Jesus Christ and God’s Holy Spirit were worthy to cross over and all the other Israelites of the first

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generation (a picture of our first born nature) out of Egypt had to die off, and only the second generation (a
picture of the born again nature in all true Christians) could cross over into the Promised Land.

While a somewhat crude analogy, it has been speculated that Caleb’s name, meaning “dog”, and with Caleb
prominently used as a prefigure of God’s Holy Spirit, that some speculate fingerprints of God’s Holy Spirit
here, as some have called God’s Holy Spirit, “The Hound of Heaven”, in the sense, that God’s Holy Spirit is
like a bloodhound who never ever gives up on trying to come along side (parakletos) potential believers
helping them to receive the witness of Jesus Christ. Another possible allusion to this, is the fact that it is
widely understood that Caleb was not from the Israelite bloodline, at least not completely, and was only
related to Israel through spiritual conversion from a Kenizzite tribe and possibly through marriage. It is a bit
of a mystery the exact connection and the exact way that Caleb rises to prominence within the tribe of
Judah, but he becomes the main leader of the tribe of Judah, and it is almost certain that he had at least
some measure of Gentile background. This is interesting in that God’s Holy Spirit is prefigured several times
in the Old Testament, yet it is an infrequent and rare occurrence for the Israelites to have an experience
with or an infilling of God’s Holy Spirit, especially for any length of time, whereas in the Church Age, God’s
Holy Spirit is not only commonplace but essential to the spreading of The Gospel and the sealing of each
believer, and the empowerment of believers to exercise spiritual gifts. It is also analogous for Caleb to be
associated with a prefigure of God’s Holy Spirit, in that, even at an advanced age he was still vigorous and
wanted and sought after the greatest challenges and the hardest battles during the conquest of The
Promised Land. Likewise, for any spiritual victory in our lives, God’s Holy Spirit must be present and active
to empower us for spiritual victory. God’s Holy Spirit keeps us on Christ’s perfect z axis.

Once we have a taste of spiritual victory in our lives, it can become extremely dangerous. We can only ride
our mountain top experiences for so long, and most, or at the least it would seem that many fall into the
trap of complacency and resting on the laurels of our previous spiritual victories. We can settle in to
spiritual routines and maybe God has given us some great victories which have partially resulted in material
blessings in some cases, and we feel hedged in and protected on all sides, or for Christians who’ve been
persecuted all their lives with no respite, even they can reach a point where the victories they’ve had
enduring their persecutions are commonplace and rest in their previous spiritual accomplishments.

When any of us as Christians reach whatever form of this stage in a Christian’s life this takes for each of us, it
is a dangerous, dangerous place to be, as God would not have us stagnate and settle for getting rid of most
of the giants that used to dominate us, so that we’re comfortable and settled in well enough. On the
contrary, God would have us eradicate all unholiness from our lives and completely submit to His will in our
lives. He also shows us that if we allow certain compromises and complacencies to take root, we can end up
being dominated once again by things that we should have power over. Hopefully, we as Christians, are
exhibiting Ruth-like faith in the Judges period of our spiritual lives, waiting and looking for the Blessed Hope
to return and catch us away to our spiritual union with Him. Unfortunately, it seems, as the time draws
closer for Christ’s return if this is being read before the Rapture, it would seem that many are acting like the
majority in Israel during this time, having a form of Godliness, and claiming God is our King, but in name
only, without the dynamic activation of God’s Holy Spirit living in us, and instead each simply doing
whatever we want, whatever is right in our own eyes.

Judges 21:25 In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did what was right in his own eyes.

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Ruth (Stage 8)

Ruth 1:1-2 Now it came about in the days when the judges judged that there was a famine in the land. And
a certain man of Bethlehem in Judah went to sojourn in the land of Moab with his wife and his two sons.
And the name of the man Elimelech . . .

Ruth is a picture of the time in a Christian’s life when, while we are in our Judges time of life, and however
we end up in our walk with Him, as we struggle to maintain our spiritual integrity and live righteously with
Christ in the ups and downs, the mountain tops and pitfalls of spiritual living, whether we have lived and
died or whether we are still alive when Christ receives His Bride to Himself, Ruth is a picture of us being
spiritually united with our Bridegroom at a time when Israel, represented by Naomi, comes back to their
homeland and the harvest begins on the threshing floor, a picture of the impending judgment on Israel and
the world. Elimelech, the Israelite who takes his family out of Israel (whose name essentially means “God is
my King”), while he directly rejects God’s chastisement of the famine, a sign of Divine punishment in Israel’s
Theocracy, and goes to sojourn in a land God specifically forbid them to mingle in, and dies typologically
representing the macrocosmic picture of Israel “dying” after 70 A.D. and being disbursed throughout the
earth.

Ruth is a Gentile believer from one of the worst of the worst groups of Gentiles according to the Scriptures,
Moab. She is a Moabitess, a people from Lot, Abraham’s nephew, but which God regards in Scripture as
particularly objectionable as a people group, spiritually speaking, and explicitly forbids Israelites from
marrying Moabitesses. She marries Elimelech’s son, who also dies, but then comes back to Israel with
Naomi, her mother-in-law after all the tragedy that befalls the family.

It is a picture of us, God’s Church, primarily comprised of Gentile believers, previously objectionable by
God’s standards and Israel’s standards, yet now washed clean in the blood of our Kinsman Redeemer, Jesus
Christ. Boaz as a prefigure or model or type of Christ redeeming Ruth the Moabitess, a Gentile, from the
worst of the worst of Gentiles, as a prefigure or model or type of Christ’s Church, a faithful follower, allowed
to enter the commonwealth of Israel by her faith conversion, and her dedicated service and attitude
towards the God of Israel. We see that at the harvest, during the threshing, at the threshing floor Ruth is
safely by Boaz’ side through the night of harvest, a picture of God’s Judgment.

This is a picture of the Rapture, as Ruth is not subject to the Judgment as she is betrothed to Boaz and is
safely with Him during the Judgment / Tribulation period. It is interesting to note that Ruth happens during
the Judges period of Israel’s history and likewise the Ruth time of our lives personally looks to soon be upon
us if this is being read before the Rapture of the Church. Naomi, who represents Israel, has come back to
her land, and it is Ruth, who represents the Gentile Bride Church, who introduces Naomi to Boaz, who
represents Christ the Kinsman Redeemer, even though Naomi had previously known of Boaz, Naomi didn’t
know or regard him personally until she regarded Him through Ruth, once again representing the Church, so
while Ruth (The Church) comes to know about God through Naomi (Israel), Naomi (Israel) comes to know
about Boaz (Christ) through Ruth (The Church). Therefore, there should be no boasting, as both need each
other and each have their place in God’s plan of Salvation through faith.

Boaz is the great-grandfather of David the King, and both are used as a type of Christ. Boaz is a type or
foreshadowing of Christ at His first coming, His Incarnation where he pays the purchase price to redeem
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David as a type of Christ, later in 2 Samuel, it will be typologically as Christ coming back to setup and rule
and reign with His bride during the Millennium.

Since Ruth represents the consummation of our spiritual union with Christ at the Resurrection / Rapture,
this is the final Book and stage where the vector analogy will be presented, as after this stage, the Church as
a corporate body has joined Christ in heaven in our Resurrected bodies. The x axis will be subjected to Satan
cast down to the earth after this point, and Israel, true Israel, will be persecuted and frustrated, and
decimated by Satan’s fury, however Israel, true Israel, on the y axis will still be heavenly bound, but won’t be
able to achieve that until they get on Christ’s z axis and accept Him repentantly, as being and having all
along been their Promised Messiah, as a corporate nation of Jewish believers.

Ruth 4:17 And the neighbor women gave him a name, saying, “A son has been born to Naomi!” So they
named him Obed. He is the father of Jesse, the father of David.

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1 Samuel (Stage 9)

1 Samuel 8:4 Then all the elders of Israel gathered together and came to Samuel at Ramah; 5 and they said
to him, “Behold, you have grown old, and your sons do not walk in your ways. Now appoint a king for us to
judge us like all the nations.”

1 Samuel is a picture of the time in a Christian’s life when, while we are with Christ in heaven, corporately
now, as the Body of Christ, preparing for the wedding supper, we see the world and Israel clamor after and
receive a worldly king and start to suffer the consequences of asking for such a king, who at first appears to
be benevolent and attractive and good and what everyone wanted, to save Israel and the world from its
perilous problems and from the burden of Jerusalem and Israel and the Middle East tensions, but who ends
up persecuting the true King and his true followers who are perpetually on the run from the false king’s
wrath. It is also interesting to note, that while Ruth lived during the time of the Judges, that 1 Samuel
Chapters 1-7 also overlaps the time of the Judges as Samuel was Israel’s last judge. Looking at the overlaps
found across the three Books, we can also see some typological masterworks by God’s Holy Spirit as Divine
Author of The Bible.

Before Jerusalem and the Temple were destroyed in 70 A.D. we see that the Church age, the Age of Grace
had already begun, and it had been centuries since Israel had a true Theocracy and/or Godly King, much like
during the time of the Judges, other nations pushed Israel around and God would raise up a hero or judge of
faith to deliver Israel from their own peril for a season here or there, but there was no true king. If Ruth
represents the Gentile Church age when Elimelech, representing Israel typologically as Ruth’s father-in-law,
died in the world, and Ruth came to marry Boaz, representative of Israel’s kinsman redeemer, Christ, while
Israel was “dead” and dispersed in the world, we could also see that 1 Samuel’s first seven chapters, could
typologically show Israel’s return to their land and prominence overlapping the time when it was time for
the Rapture of the Church, but not yet under the false / counterfeit king, known as the Anti-Christ, but still
under “judges” or “prime-ministers” as it has been since 1948 (again, mirroring the dilemma of Israel
copying other nations instead of letting God rule them directly—“we want a prime minister / democracy like
all the other nations”. So, we see in Judges, the time after their return from captivity, until the destruction
of 70 A.D. then in Ruth, we see Israel dispersed and “dead” in the Gentile world, then in 1 Samuel 1-7 we see
Israel still in a “Judges” stage of up and down leadership.

We can see clearly, Saul as a prefigure of Anti-Christ, as he originally looks great, in stature, and in
demeanor, humble, and true, wanting peace, and having all of Israel go after him. He seems the obvious
choice and is anointed by Samuel the prophet at even God’s behest, God knowing all the while that
eventually Saul would turn to complete corruption. It doesn’t take long for Saul, the king Israel thought they
wanted, to become virulently jealous of David the king God had planned for Israel all along as a type or
prefigure of Christ Himself, bringing the nation of Israel under one banner and ruling as an example to the
entire world. As soon as Saul, a prefigure of the Anti-Christ, starts to see God’s true plan unfold against the
backdrop of his own transgressions and meddling in priestly duties that he was forbidden from undertaking,
he becomes mad with jealousy and starts a rash and unjust persecution in an attempt to kill David and his
followers and supporters.

It is interesting to note that during this phase of Israel’s history, prefiguring their near future (if this is being
read before the Rapture of the Church) that many in Israel abandoned Saul and started following David,

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even Saul’s own son, which likewise will be the condition of Israel during the Tribulation, where many Jews /
Israelites will abandon the Anti-Christ in favor of following Jesus Christ, and just like David had a band of
loyal followers before he was officially made king, likewise Christ will have His 144,000 from Israel who
elude and frustrate the plans of the Anti-Christ (false Messiah / counterfeit King). The perfect picture of the
tribulation period prefigured in 1 Samuel continues, where the Anti-Christ will come on the world scene and
attempt to be a replacement Christ or counterfeit Christ. Saul’s own daughter and some of his followers
might represent, prefigure, or foreshadow deceived believers or those left behind at The Rapture who had
the opportunity to follow Christ (prefigured by David) and choose David over Saul (Jesus Christ over Anti-
Christ) before it was too late.

Those who end up following and supporting and in the case of Saul’s daughter, marrying David, perhaps
represent defectors of Anti-Christ’s rule and become Tribulation Saints who come to believe in David (Christ)
the True King during this tribulation period timeframe. It is also interesting to note that at the end of 1
Samuel, that Saul, a prefigure of the Anti-Christ and his sons, when they are defeated, are burned, much like
the Anti-Christ and the false prophet are thrown into the lake of fire at the end of the Tribulation period.

1 Samuel 31:12 . . . all the valiant men rose and walked all night, and took the body of Saul and the bodies of
his sons from the wall of Beth-shan, and they came to Jabesh, and burned them there. 13 And they took
their bones and buried them under the tamarisk tree at Jabesh, and fasted seven days.

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2 Samuel 5:1 Then all the tribes of Israel came to David at Hebron and said, “Behold, we are your bone and
your flesh. 2 “Previously, when Saul was king over us, you were the one who led Israel out and in. And the
LORD said to you, ‘You will shepherd My people Israel, and you will be a ruler over Israel.’” 3 So all the elders
of Israel came to the king at Hebron, and King David made a covenant with them before the LORD at
Hebron; then they anointed David king over Israel.

2 Samuel is a picture of the time in a Christian’s life when we come back with the true King, Christ, at the
battle of Armageddon, as He returns to defeat His enemies and begin to take possession of His throne,
rebuild the citadel, his palace in the City of David, the Temple, and reform Jerusalem geographically, and
start establishing and setting up His Kingdom and His rule where a Resurrected David will rule under Him as
Prince in Israel and we His Church, will rule and reign under Him, over the world’s provinces, as the world is
rebuilt and reformed for Christ’s Millennial Reign. As strange as this sounds to many Christians who’ve
unfortunately been poorly taught an extremely allegorized view of Revelation, vast swaths of the Old
Testament, and most of the Book of Daniel, if one takes the Bible seriously and literally, this is what the Bible
teaches.

There will apparently still be death in natural bodies during the Millennium for those who survive the
tribulation period and subsequently procreate. Death will be rare and it will be like a child dying if someone
dies at a hundred years old, and it will be unusual for sin to exist but it still will exist, people will be punished
for not attending the annual festivals in Israel, animal sacrifices will apparently be re-instituted, not for
atonement as Christ’s sacrifice is the one sacrifice for all time, but either as some sort of commemoration of
Christ’s sacrifice, for instance, like the Passover celebration which still takes place today, or possibly simply
to fulfill unconditional promises and prophecies that Messiah would reign over Israel thusly.

The unfortunate allegorizing of still future prophetic Scripture is a great tragedy in a large portion of so-
called ‘main-line’ Christianity. Every single prophecy of Christ at His Incarnation was literally fulfilled, not
allegorically fulfilled. It should be obvious to us then, that every single prophecy of Christ’s return will be
literally fulfilled, not allegorically fulfilled. To illustrate how absurd the allegorizing has become let’s apply
some of the wild liberties with which much teaching wields, to make its speculative claims to some of the
prophecies of Christ’s first coming. Let’s look at Christ’s birth as prophesied in Micah 5:2, and as it says the
Messiah would come from Bethlehem, just as it happened and was quite literally fulfilled . . . If however, we
applied outrageous liberty to that prophecy, we could maybe say, “well, Bethlehem means house of bread,
so since Bethlehem means house of bread, that must mean Messiah is going to come from a place where
lots of bread comes from, so, therefore, it is obvious (sarcasm) that the Messiah must therefore come from
Kansas.” As far off as this method of making absurd links and jumping to outrageous conclusions gets us
from the truth of the actual literal fulfillment of the literal prophecy, likewise, when theologians jump all
over Revelation and jump to wild conclusions to fit their world view, or their denominational or traditional
view, it becomes clear that when we stray from the plain literal understandings of Revelation for instance,
we can end up in great error.

When Revelation says six times there will be a Millennial reign of Christ, it literally means, there will be a
millennial reign; an actual 1000 years. When it says there will be 1260 days, time, times, and half a time,
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and it emphasizes it by saying each time span twice in each of its equivalent denominations so as to make
sure there’s no mistake or confusion about the issue. There of course is figurative and metaphoric language,
however that doesn’t mean the prophecies themselves are to be taken allegorically or metaphorically.
Again, every single one of Christ’s first coming prophecies was fulfilled literally. We should expect the same
with His return.

Since we are showing David as a type of Christ here, it is important to remember and recall once again that
as we use prefigures for Christ and other allusions to different spiritual groups and peoples like the Church
and Israel, that especially as regarding Christ, any prefigure or model or type of Christ is imperfect, so as we
see David as a type of Christ, it is only so far as the model of what God intended for Him to represent.
Obviously, David didn’t represent Christ in 2 Samuel during his sin with Bathsheba and Uriah, nor with the
illicit census, etc. When we model, type, or prefigure in this manner it is important to remember that while
the micro, meso, macro, meta design might indeed be perfect in its engineered design, we can’t take each
concept, event, and happening down to the granular level and see it model Christ’s plan perfectly, since
Christ is the only One Who is in fact perfect, so when we look at the details of some of these books and see
faults in Noah, Abraham, Jacob, Moses, Joshua, David, Solomon, etc. they may act as foreshadows, types,
models, or prefigures of Christ connotatively, but it is impossible for any of them to maintain the analogy at
the detailed denotative level of their own lives due to their own inherent sin nature.

At the end of 2 Samuel, we see David, a type of Christ, building an altar for burnt offerings and peace
offerings on behalf of Israel, so that God turns back from the plagues that were threatened against Israel.
Perhaps this is a picture of Christ’s Sacrifice on The Cross, now applying to Israel during the Millennial Reign,
since it did not apply to them during the Church age.

2 Samuel 24:25 And David built there an altar to the LORD, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings.
Thus the LORD was moved by entreaty for the land, and the plague was held back from Israel.

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1 Kings 1:38 So Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the Cherethites, and the
Pelethites went down and had Solomon ride on King David’s mule, and brought him to Gihon. 39 Zadok the
priest then took the horn of oil from the tent and anointed Solomon. Then they blew the trumpet, and all
the people said, “Live King Solomon!”

1 Kings is a picture of the time in a Christian’s life when, once Christ has established His headquarters in
Jerusalem with the rebuilt Citadel in the City of David and the throne of David re-established, Ezekiel’s
Millennial Temple is built, we, in our glorified Resurrected bodies rule and reign over the earth under
Christ’s supervision, and we shepherd the people who have lived through the tribulation period and guide
and direct them in righteous living, presiding over a golden age of peace, prosperity and longevity. The
model or prefigure was Solomon in the glorified state of the height of his kingdom, when the whole earth
heard of his fame and came to pay him tribute and he had peace on every side.

Once again, while Solomon might be a type of Christ in His glorified state of Millennial rule, of course we
can’t see Solomon living up to that perfection in all of the details of his life and rule, as we see his falling
away isn’t a perfect reflection of what Christ’s actual Millennial rule will be like, however, it is interesting
that at the end of the Millennium, things still aren’t perfect, not because of Christ, but because of the sinful
nature of the mortal people who’ve lived through the tribulation and populate the Millennium.

There are apparently still individuals and nations of people who don’t do so well during the Millennium as
they have a begrudging attitude and dissent towards Christ’s rule. While we are in our glorified bodies,
apparently, those who survive the Tribulation period will still be in their mortal bodies, will still procreate
and have children, and even though sin will be subdued and will apparently be dealt with quickly, and will
not be given free reign, while death will still be possible, it will be rare, and possibly the long life spans seen
in Genesis Chapter five will be restored. Even though the Millennial period is shrouded in a great deal of
mystery, these are some common guesses at some of these things, and most assume that we have
important roles during this period as we know that an impending final rebellion will be coming at the
conclusion of the Millennial period and possibly one of our jobs will be preparing the people who are alive in
their mortal bodies to make the right choice and resist the Devil when he is released from the abyss after
the Millennial period. Apparently, no matter how diligent and hard we try to execute this ministry, it will
apparently have some strong measure of failure, as Revelation 20 indicates multitudes fall to Satan’s final
deception and rebellion at the conclusion of mortal life which occurs at the end of the Millennial Reign. In 1
Kings, the stage is set to mirror the eschatological downturn at the end of the Millennial Reign, after
Solomon’s backsliding leads to transgressions and idolatry towards the latter Chapters of 1 Kings.

1 Kings 22:51 Ahaziah the son of Ahab became king over Israel in Samaria in the seventeenth year of
Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and he reigned two years over Israel. 52 And he did evil in the sight of the LORD
and walked in the way of his father and in the way of his mother and in the way of Jeroboam the son of
Nebat, who caused Israel to sin. 53 So he served Baal and worshiped him and provoked the LORD God of
Israel to anger according to all that his father had done.

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2 Kings 1:1 Now Moab rebelled against Israel after the death of Ahab. 2 And Ahaziah fell through the lattice
in his upper chamber which was in Samaria, and became ill. So he sent messengers and said to them, “Go,
inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron, whether I shall recover from this sickness.” 3 But the angel of the
LORD said to Elijah the Tishbite, “Arise, go up to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria and say to
them, ‘Is it because there is no God in Israel that you are going to inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron?”
4 “Now therefore thus says the LORD, “You shall not come down from the bed where you have gone up, but
you shall surely die.’” Then Elijah departed.

2 Kings is a picture of the time in a Christian’s life when we, prepare for and endure the time at the end of
the Millennium, when Satan is released for a short time to deceive the re-populated earth which has
enjoyed a thousand years of peace and prosperity, under Christ’s and our rule and reign. Much like 2 Kings
details a deterioration of what was once a glorious kingdom under Solomon, unmatched in human history,
the Millennium will be a practically perfect Kingdom, except for the fact that there will be mortal fleshly
people still living at the time, capable of sinning, transgressing, rebelling, and turning away from God. With
little testing or tempting of this new population still bound to mortal frame, when Satan is released from the
abyss after the thousand years are completed, he stages one final rebellion using these individuals to do so.

There are also apparently certain people and nations of people that are begrudging towards Christ’s rule on
earth, and it is possible that they also have been waiting for this opportunity to have power brought to their
dissension, and are galvanized by Satan’s rebellious agreement with them, and Revelation 20 indicates the
host of them is so numerous they are like the sand of the seashore.

Despite Satan’s final attempt to thwart God’s plan, deceive people, and rebel against God and humanity, in
what may be the one and only Scripture detailing the event in Revelation 20, a quick end is brought to this
final uprising. We aren’t told how much time transpires, and it almost certainly will not go on for centuries
as the divided kingdom does after Solomon’s rule is over, however, in model form, it does still fit that after
the glorious reign, there will be a deterioration, a final deception, a final rebellion, and a final defeat of
rebellion and deception. Possibly, there is a hint of this final release of Satan in the last verses of 2 Kings, in
Jehoiachin, who changes “his prison clothes,” before his ultimate demise.

2 Kings 25:27 Now it came about in the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the
twelfth month, on the twenty-seventh of the month, that Evil-merodach king of Babylon, in the year that he
became king, released Jehoaichin king of Judah from prison; 28 and he spoke kindly to him and set his
throne above the throne of the kings who were with him in Babylon. 29 And Jehoiachin changed his prison
clothes, and had his meals in the king’s presence regularly all the days of his life. 30 and for his allowance, a
regular allowance was given him by the king, a portion of each day, all the days of his life.

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1 Chronicles (Stage 13)

1 Chronicles 1:1 Adam, Seth, Enosh, 2 Kenan, Mahalalel, Jared, 3 Enoch, Methuselah, Lamech, 4 Noah,
Shem, Ham and Japeheth . . .

1 Chronicles is a picture of the time in a Christian’s life when we, observe and/or participate in the books
being opened from Adam to David (with David as a prefigure or type of Christ), hence the books being
opened with all the records from Adam to the time of the Gospel being manifested in Jesus Christ’s life,
ministry, atoning death, and Resurrection, and we observe and/or participate in the doling out of judgment
to all those who have died looking forward to Christ, but died during the Old Covenant time period, Adam
representing the beginning and David representing up to but not including the time of Christ, for instance, a
better way of stating it might be from Adam to John the Baptist at the time or advent of Christ, where
people will be judged according to their works according to their works based on a forward looking faith in
the best they knew, towards a promised and coming Messiah they were anticipating, but didn’t fully
understand the mystery of the Gospel which at the time was still to come.

While 1 Chronicles goes back and details the accounts and records already recounted in the Books of Samuel
and Kings, it is interesting that more details are revealed and it is much more from a Judean perspective, in
other words, Judah, representing Christ. So, in model form, 1 Chronicles represents the Books that are
opened, and all judgment according to works and faith will be done through a Judean or Christ perspective
or lens if you will. Not that 1 and 2 Chronicles are indeed the Books themselves that will be opened, but
rather, in model, type, or prefigure form, they represent the entire chronicled history of each individual
person, and nothing will not be known, only covered by the blood of Christ, or judged according to the
meritorious or unmeritorious deeds themselves. It seems clear that the first Books that are opened at the
end of the Revelation are the Books that Chronicle everyone’s life who lived before and up to Christ but not
those who lived during and died after Christ’s Resurrection.

These Books seem to be a historical record of each deed, whether good or bad, sinful, transgressing, or
righteous. In model or type form it is very interesting that 1 Chronicles starts with “Adam, Seth . . .” etc. the
very beginning of all humanity’s genealogy, and 1 Chronicles ends after David’s ascendency to the throne,
his life and rule, his final prayer, a final celebration of sacrifices to the LORD, his declaration of Solomon as
heir to his throne, and his death. As a prefigure, this is very interesting as 1 Chronicles goes from Adam to
David (who represents Christ) and 1 Chronicles, as this Book progression goes, fits Revelation 20 with the
books that are opened which have recorded all the deeds of those who died outside of knowing or
professing Christ and were judged according to their deeds. Also interesting to note how 1 Chronicles ends
with a reference to David, representative of Christ, the circumstances that came on him, on Israel, and on all
the kingdoms of the lands, indicating that everything is in relationship to Christ both in Israel and all the
kingdoms of the world.

1 Chronicles 29:28 Then he died in a ripe old age, full of days, riches and honor; and his son Solomon reigned
in his place. 29 Now the acts of King David, from first to last, are written in the chronicles of Samuel the
seer, in the chronicles of Nathan the prophet, and in the chronicles of Gad the seer, 30 with all his reign, his
power, and the circumstances which came on him, on Israel, and on all the kingdoms of the lands.

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2 Chronicles (Stage 14)

2 Chronicles 1:1 Now Solomon the son of David established himself securely over his kingdom, and the LORD
his God was with him and exalted him greatly.

2 Chronicles is the same picture of that time in a Christian’s life when we, observe and/or participate in the
Book of Life being opened, represented from Solomon (as a model or type of Christ in His post-Resurrection
/ Glorified state with his Bride ruling and reigning) to future present, at the end of the post-Millennial
rebellion and we observe and/or participate in the doling out of judgment to all those who have died in
Christ during the Millennial Reign and/or during Satan’s final rebellion, their works in faith, resulting in
rewards for their faithful service, and/or their fleshly works being burned up, while their Salvation remains
intact, and those who are not written in and/or are blotted out from the Book of Life, depending on how the
phrase is to be interpreted, from those who died in rebellion during the flood, after the flood, after the Law,
after Christ, during the Tribulation period, during the Millennium, and/or during the final rebellion after the
Millennium, are cast into the lake of fire along with death and hades, the false prophet, the beast, Satan, his
angels and demons, to suffer the horrible fate of unrepentant rebellion against God and Christ. 2 Chronicles
perfectly fits this as it begins with Solomon (a type of Christ in His glorified state, married to His Bride ruling
and reigning in peace) and going until the time when all who are captive are released to go back home at a
pronouncement from God (through Cyrus) which models the time since the Advent of Christ’s Sacrifice until
that future present day when time is concluded at the end of Christ’s Millennial Reign.

The setting free is a picture or model of being set free from death to be brought before the Great White
Throne Judgment where each person will be judged according to their faith in Christ recorded in the Book of
Life It is interesting to note that once again, 1 Chronicles and 2 Chronicles, while they might seem
redundant to 2 Samuel through 2 Kings in a cursory reading, actually serve a completely different purpose
and recount, in this case, in model or type form, how God has chronicled all of human history and each
human life in detail and all of that history will be brought forth at the Great White Throne Judgment, those
in Christ only being judged according to their good works done in faith with their sins blotted out, and those
before Christ according to their works, and those in rebellion against Christ to Eternal punishment in the
lake of fire.

2 Chronicles 36:22 Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia—in order to fulfill the word of the LORD by
the mouth of Jeremiah—the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, so that he sent a proclamation
throughout his kingdom, and also in writing, saying, 23 “Thus says Cyrus king of Persia, “The LORD, the God
of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth; and He has appointed me to build Him a house in
Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Whoever there is among you of all His people, may the LORD his God be with
him, and let him go up!””

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Ezra (Stage 15)

Ezra 1:1 Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, in order to fulfill the word of the LORD by the mouth of
Jeremiah, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, so that he sent a proclamation throughout all
his kingdom, and also in writing, saying, 2”Thus says Cyrus king of Persia, “The LORD, the God of heaven, has
given me all the kingdoms of the earth, and He has appointed me to build Him a house in Jerusalem, which
is in Judah. 3 ‘Whoever there is among you of all His people, may his God be with him! Let him go up to
Jerusalem which is in Judah and rebuild the house of the LORD, the God of Israel; He is the God who is in
Jerusalem . . .’”

Ezra is the account of God’s people going to rebuild the Temple in Jerusalem, a picture of us as living stones,
God’s people being fitted together as a Spiritual Temple this side of Eternity, awaiting a home, prepared by
Christ, where there will be no physical temple as God and Christ will be the true temple. Instead of coming
to tabernacle among us, God through Christ brings us into His Eternity, to tabernacle with Him in a newly
created heavens and earth. Just like with the real Ezra it will be somewhat bitter-sweet, as apparently there
will be grief and sorrow and regret at the number of people who failed to come to and endure in
overcoming faith, and though there will be great joy, there will also initially be tears, as at the restoration
and beginning of Eternity we will apparently also feel the remorse of what could have been and/or what
should have been if not for the willful, and stubborn rebellion of so many. Ezra is also an interesting analogy
in the way it ends, as the men of Judah and Benjamin had married foreign wives compounding the guilt of
Israel, and were forced to put away their foreign wives.

The concept of being unequally yoked in marriage is consistent from the Old Testament to the New
Testament, although the New Testament makes clear that it is a spiritual condition that is in view, not a
genetic identity that defines unequal yoking. While Israel was forbidden from marrying foreign wives by
God, it was never a genetic issue, as Salmon marries Rahab, and Boaz marries Ruth, both cases exalted in
Scripture, as Rahab and Ruth had both become converted believers in the God of Israel before their
marriages. Here in Ezra, this is not the case, as the foreign wives they had married were still pagan
worshippers of false gods, which still to this day is something God forbids and warns strongly against, as
believers will only always compromise their faith by marrying outside of faith.

While many believers falsely believe that marrying a non-believer will eventually work towards converting
that non-believer, it in fact works in quite the opposite direction, as the believers in the unequal union are
the ones forced to compromise further and further their faith to keep their marriage intact. It is interesting
that in the last two chapters of Revelation, we see one of the vial judgment angels show John the Apostle,
the Wife of The Lamb, Us, The Church, Who lives in New Jerusalem, a heavenly city that appears to be
celestial in nature, coming down from heaven and apparently hovering above the earth. The believers
there, are legitimately spiritually married to Christ, as we believed in Him and became Spiritually born again
in His Righteousness, and are therefore equally yoked with Him in Spirit. The last two chapters of Revelation
indicate that those who’d make a practice out of evil in their lives will never be able to enter into New
Jerusalem.

Ezra 10:44 All these had married foreign wives, and some of them had wives by whom they had children.

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Nehemiah 2:5 . . . And I said to the king, “If it please the king, and if your servant has found favor before you,
send me to Judah, to the city of my fathers’ tombs, that I may rebuild it.”

Nehemiah is the account of Nehemiah being led by God to spearhead the project of rebuilding the walls of
Jerusalem. Nehemiah was contemporaneous with the tail end of Ezra’s ministry, with Ezra restoring correct
Temple worship after the long, arduous process of rebuilding the Temple by Zerubbabel and his
counterparts was completed. It became obvious that simply having the Temple, in an unprotected,
vulnerable Jerusalem, was not adequate for God’s people to reform their spiritual identity and relationship
with God. Nehemiah by God’s Grace receives authority from Artaxerxes to rebuild Jerusalem’s walls to
protect the Temple which Zerubbabel and Ezra had already restored in building and in operation.

The spiritual picture of the Christian is clear, as at the end of all things and Salvation and Justice are
complete, the Bride who is at that point, the Wife, the Church, dwells in a New Jerusalem come down from
heaven, 1500 miles cubed, either to rest on the new earth, or possibly hover over it, a special place where
only the Church, the Wife of the Lamb is allowed entrance. Interestingly, even in this Eternity, there are still
walls described in Revelation as being 72 yards in thickness of the New Jerusalem, as the Wife having come
down out of heaven as a Bride for the Bridegroom, possibly still requires some sort of protection.

It’s not exactly clear why, but there is the phrase in Revelation 21:27 that states, “and nothing unclean and
no one who practices abominations and lying, shall ever come into it, but only those whose names are
written in the Lamb’s book of life.” It seems somewhat perplexing, in that, it seems as though those types of
people would be in the lake of fire, but perhaps, there are different levels of the Kingdom of Christ, in that,
there would be the Church, His Wife, but possibly, others who accepted Christ or hoped for Christ before His
First Coming, or during the Tribulation, or during the Millennium are somehow not allowed into the New
Jerusalem, but are living on the new earth. It is very difficult to delineate and demark these distinctions of
faith, and it seems contradictory that anyone not in the lake of fire would be described as practicing
abominations, however, that phrasing is indeed there, therefore, apparently for some reason or another,
the walls of New Jerusalem are indeed a feature and a necessity? Or possibly, it is just an iteration,
indicating that everyone not in the lake of fire is there, in New Jerusalem, therefore those in the lake of fire,
being the ones who had practiced all those types of sins won’t enter into it because specifically, they are in
the lake of fire, hence unable to enter into it. If it is the case, why the need for the walls and the gates
however? Just for ornamentation? Possibly, but it is very difficult to speculate on Eternal things like that
from a temporal perspective. Interesting to note the way Nehemiah ends in discussing the purification of
the priests and God’s people, as Christ purifies us, His Bride, in the washing of the water of His Word, His
Blood.

Nehemiah 13:30 Thus I purified them from everything foreign and appointed duties for the priests and the
Levites, each in his task, 31 and I arranged for the supply of wood at appointed times and for the first fruits.
Remember me, O my God, for good.

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Esther (Stage 17)

Esther 1:1 Now it took place in the days of Ahasuerus, the Ahasuerus who reigned from India to Ethiopia
over 127 provinces, 2 in those days as King Ahasuerus sat on his royal throne which in Susa the capital, 3 in
the third year of his reign, he gave a banquet for all his princes and attendants, the army officers of Persia
and Media, the nobles, and the princes of his provinces being in his presence. 4 And he displayed the riches
of his royal glory and the splendor of his great majesty for many days, 180 days. 5 And when these days
were completed, the king gave a banquet lasting seven days for all the people who were present in Susa the
capital, from the greatest to the least, in the court of the garden of the king’s palace.

Esther is the account of an unlikely heroine, an orphan girl, Hadassah, whose name means “myrtle”, which is
an evergreen shrub or small tree, who arises out of obscurity and a very unfavorable and precarious position
to become Queen to the King of the entire inhabited earth while saving the Jews in and the through the
process of her ascension to royal status. The picture for the Christian is quite obvious, in that, as we have
been sought by the King of Kings, Who seeks a Bride for Himself, and as we arose out of humble status,
especially spiritually speaking, completely dead and doomed in worldliness, we have a Suitor in Christ Who
extends His protection and Salvation and Redemption to us as we faithfully dedicate ourselves and our lives
and our trust to Him.

It is very interesting to see that while Hadassah, her Jewish name, was indeed of Jewish heritage, her
parents had both died leaving her an orphan, perhaps a picture in a type, of Gentiles, who had lost our
heritage in God due to our sinful nature through Original Sin. It is also fitting in type, that her parents had
died, perhaps a picture of Israel, dispersed and captive in the world, during a time when they were on the
verge of coming back on the scene, and she by faith in God attains the high status of marrying the King of
the known world. It is also interesting that except for her first mention, she is always mentioned by her
Gentile name, Esther, and her Jewish relative Mordecai was only her cousin as she was Mordecai’s Uncle’s
daughter. It is interesting that she is instructed to hide her heritage, and go by her Gentile name, and it was
Mordecai who so instructs her.

It is also interesting to note that Mordecai is of the tribe of Benjamin, the same tribe the Apostle Paul would
eventually come from and he became the Apostle to the Gentiles. The Jews end up being saved through her
marriage to the king of kings of the known world. This is a very fitting picture of Christians, and it is the
capstone of the 17 stage pattern of the life of a Christian in the Books of the Bible, as ultimately, in Eternity,
we are spiritually married to the King of Kings. It is also interesting that many disparage the Book of Esther
and its place in the Canon of Scripture, mostly due to the fact that it is the only Book that doesn’t have God’s
name explicitly mentioned. Typologically, this is not even an issue, as Christ, doesn’t call attention to
Himself, but instead lifts up and exalts his wife, typologically Esther, and His role is typologically played out
through Ahasuerus, king of kings of the earth.

Esther 9:29 Then Queen Esther, daughter of Abihail, with Mordecai the Jew, wrote with full authority to
confirm this second letter about Purim. 30 And he sent letters to all the Jews, to the 127 provinces of the
kingdom of Ahasuerus, namely, words of peace and truth, 31 to establish these days of Purim at their
appointed times, just as Mordecai the Jew and Queen Esther had established for them, and just as they had
established for themselves and for their descendants with instructions for their times of fasting and their

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Isaiah (Stage 1)

Isaiah 1:2b “Sons I have reared and brought up, but they have revolted against Me. 3 “An ox knows its
owner, and a donkey its master’s manger, But Israel does not know, My people do not understand.”

In the comprehensive chart showing the three sets of 17 Books in order separated by five Book interludes,
there appears to be a strong correlation to the nature of those Books in their parallel complimentary Books.
For instance, Genesis is the most comprehensive history Book, incorporating everything from Creation to
the Fall, to the seeds and foreshadowing of Salvation and Faith and Grace, the beginning of God’s plan of
Redemption through Israel contrasting with the worldly, carnal ways of Egypt, and completely sets the stage
for the entire rest of the history Books and the entire Bible itself. Likewise, the first Book in the next 17
Book progression, Isaiah, is the most comprehensive prophecy Book of all the prophets, and no other
prophet matches the same scope and the wide range of full prophetic topics found in Isaiah . . . one could
easily say that Isaiah is the Genesis of the Prophetic Books.

While most prophetic Books focus on one primary message, Isaiah is as diverse as prophetic Books come. It
spans roughly a 60 year time span of being written by Isaiah the prophet, and covers the prophetic warnings
of the imminent fall of the deteriorating northern kingdom of Israel as well as the deteriorating southern
kingdom of Judah soon to follow, yet it also prophesies for and against the nations of the world depending
on their relationship with the God of Israel. It prophesies of the coming Messiah and seems to have many
dual fulfillment prophecies where there was a near fulfillment close to the time Isaiah prophesied, then
there are yet future fulfillments which expand the scope of the prophecies to an end times fulfillment. It
exposes the origin of Satan, prophesies of the end times, prophesies of the new heavens and new earth, and
mirrors the Bible itself in terms of its 66 Chapters outlining the 66 Books of the Bible in numerical order as
detailed in the previous study: Isaiah: A Biblical Microcosm. It is by far the most comprehensive prophecy
Book in the 17 Books of the Prophets. This is the beginning of the 17 prophecy Book pattern which perfectly
mirrors the 17 history Book pattern.

Unfortunately for Israel, and as a warning to Christians, Isaiah starts the mirrored counter pattern of the 17
stage progression seen in the 17 history Books, through the 17 prophetic Books which look at the state of
Israel, fully formed, just coming off their stage of spiritual glorification after Solomon, but instead of
maintaining that glory, they have begun a downward spiral of decay. Isaiah prophesies that the rebellion of
Israel is about to result in severe judgments upon Israel, the northern kingdom and Judah, the southern
kingdom, because of their falling away from the faith, and their insistence upon materialism, greed, and
idolatrous living. It is interesting that as Israel / Judah tail spin into a downward spiral of division and falling
from Grace, incurring increasing punishments and judgments from God, all the while, God is also
prophesying of the ultimate remedy to all of this through the coming Christ, which the prophets also testify
of. This is interesting especially in light of the fact of how Israel is always concerning itself with the
immediacy of the prophecies and what their immediate impact will be, and we can see that even in the
rebuilding of the temple and Jerusalem’s walls after their Babylonian captivity, and subsequently in the
rededication of the temple after the Maccabean revolt, they are still in a downward spiral of decay as they
incline more and more towards Pharisaic and Sadducean attitudes; appearing outwardly righteous while
still maintaining internal sin and are progressively getting worse and worse and worse until the time of
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Much like the first 17 Book pattern started with mankind dying through sin in God’s perfect Creation, only to
be rescued out of bondage and slavery to death in the world through a savior, Moses, a Christ prefigure, in
Exodus, we see here that Israel, just coming off the glory of Solomon’s reign only a century and a half earlier,
they quickly deteriorate and Isaiah starts warning them that after having been God’s chosen people,
completely and fully established in the Promised Land, they were in grave danger of going right back to
captivity in the world. Then in Jeremiah, the process of the captivity back into bondage begins. It is also
interesting to note that while Genesis ends in a coffin in Egypt, (basically symbolizing man, dead in the
world) but embalmed (a promise of the hope of Resurrection) if we examine the last sentence of Isaiah, a
disturbing parallel emerges in detailing not the death in the world, but rather the second death, where there
is no promise or hope of redemption, but only the lake of fire and eternal damnation.

Isaiah 66:24 Then they shall go forth and look. On the corpses of the men who have transgressed against
Me. For their worm shall not die, and their fire shall not be quenched; and they shall be an abhorrence to all
flesh.

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Jeremiah (Stage 2)

Jeremiah 1:14 Then the LORD said to me, “Out of the north the evil will be opened on all the inhabitants of
the land. 15 “For, behold, I am calling all the families of the kingdoms of the north,” declares the LORD; “and
they will come, and they will set each one his throne at the entrance of the gates of Jerusalem, and against
all its walls round about, and against all the cities of Judah. 16 “And I will pronounce My judgments on them
concerning all their wickedness, whereby they have forsaken Me and have offered sacrifices to other gods,
and worshiped the works of their own hands . . . “

Jeremiah, dubbed the weeping prophet, does indeed have a tear-inspiring ministry as he has the
unfortunate task of warning Judah that their captivity draws nigh in the face of many false prophets claiming
prosperity and invincibility for Judah. Jeremiah is told by God, that they won’t listen, and has to speak God’s
truths to deaf ears for many years, then watch as every single one of his immediate warnings and
prophecies comes true before his eyes.

Judah goes into captivity and Jerusalem is devastated and lies in ruins. The most tragic aspect of this is that
through Jeremiah, Judah receives a message of repentance for God to stay His hand regarding the imminent
judgments about to come upon them, yet they refuse to listen. The concept of going back into bondage
truly emerges in Jeremiah 43 and 44 where Jeremiah contends with and prophesies against those in Judah
who are misguided in their pursuit of falling back to Egypt for prosperity and protection against the
Babylonian siege and in the face of that Babylonian threat.

The parallel is clear . . . as we seek to go back to the world for protection, for sustenance, for prosperity in
the face of God’s chastening of us when we are tempted to leave spiritual aspirations to go back to worldly
living, our enemy is given a long reach, to not only reach us where we’re at, living in the shadows of our
formerly vibrant faith, but also allowing a more fearsome enemy than simply Egypt, representing
worldliness, as Babylon and Nebuchadnezzar represent God’s instruments of His Righteous indignation
judgment against people who should have been His, who should have known Him, who should have been
obedient to Him after all He’d done for them. This isn’t simply worldliness in ignorance, but rather a
spiritual adultery, of knowing what’s right and choosing wrong instead with a bold arrogance that our fleshly
compromises don’t affect us, since we’re believers as God’s chosen. This attitude of the Jews in Jeremiah’s
day should be extremely frightening to modern day Christians who might be inspired and/or implored to
contemplate how much compromise we’ve allowed ourselves to be mired in, as a corporate body of
believers, and in many cases, also personally ourselves with how we’ve lived our own lives and walked our
own Christian walk, many times, too often, allowing compromise, and cheapening the Grace God provides,
by far too casually, taking His Grace for granted.

Jeremiah 52:12 Now on the tenth day of the fifth month, which was the nineteenth year of King
Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan the captain of the bodyguard, who was in the service of the
king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem. 13 And he burned the house of the LORD, the king’s house, and all the
houses of Jerusalem; even every large house he burned with fire.14 So all the army of the Chaldeans who
were with the captain of the guard broke down all the walls around Jerusalem.

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Lamentations (Stage 3)

Lamentations 1:1 How lonely sits the city that was full of people! She has become like a widow who was
once great among the nations! She who was a princess among the provinces has become a forced laborer! .
. . 4 The roads of Zion are in mourning because no one comes to the appointed feasts. All her gates are
desolate; her priests are groaning. Her virgins are afflicted, and she herself is bitter 5 Her adversaries have
become her masters, her enemies prosper; for the LORD has caused her grief because of the multitude of
her transgressions; her little ones have gone away as captives before the adversary.

Lamentations is Jeremiah’s bitter lament over the reality of his prophecies about Judah and Jerusalem
coming to pass. Jeremiah is burdened first with fighting against false prophets in many different aspects of
his life, his career as a prophet, and his confrontations with Judah’s leadership. Then he is burdened with
watching with horror as his prophecies were proven correct, so that even though he was vindicated as a true
prophet, it was a bitter vindication as it came with the devastation of his country, its capital and the captivity
of his people into the hands of their enemies. As the above quoted passage from the first chapter of
Lamentations indicates, they had failed to keep the standards God called them to in Leviticus, and now were
desolated because of their disobedience. It is interesting to note that in Leviticus, God ordains the
assembling together for His appointed feast times and establishes Israel’s calendar and celebrations, and in
the first chapter of Lamentations, the lament is posed “The roads of Zion are in mourning because no one
comes to the appointed feasts.” How could God accept appointed feasts being celebrated in such a
disrespectful fashion?

These feasts represent God’s plan of Salvation yet, they had lost all the meaning God had embedded in
them, because Judah had forsaken God’s commandments and standards clearly laid out in Leviticus. This
should be a lesson to Christians who seek to hold to a form of Godliness, yet there is no substance behind
that form due to continued compromise and disobedience. God is not mocked, and Jeremiah even
acknowledges in the closing statement in the closing prayer of the Book of Lamentations, “Unless Thou hast
utterly rejected us, and art exceedingly angry with us.” This indicates that Jeremiah, seriously considered
that what had happened to Israel, the northern Kingdom, could very possibly happen to Judah for the same
types of disobedience. This closing statement is made after Jeremiah implores God to restore them to
Himself which shows that he accepts the very real possibility that this may not be so. He understands they
certainly don’t deserve such treatment from God. We, as Christians, could take a real clue from this, as we
need to maintain an attitude of humility, recognizing that while He owed us absolutely nothing, He gave us
everything He had. That type of sacrifice commands respect, a respect that Judah and Jerusalem had failed
to maintain.

Lamentations 5:20 Why dost Thou forget us forever; why dost Thou forsake us so long? 21 Restore us to
Thee, O LORD, that we may be restored; renew our days as of old, 22 Unless Thou hast utterly rejected us,
and art exceedingly angry with us.

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Ezekiel (Stage 4)

Ezekiel 1:1 Now it came about in the thirtieth year, on the fifth day of the fourth month, while I was by the
river Chebar among the exiles . . .

Ezekiel prophesies contemporaneously with, and mostly between, Jeremiah and Daniel’s ministries, and is
part of the group that was taken into exile in the Babylonian captivity, particularly after the second siege of
Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar’s armies. The macrocosmic picture is clear: once the temple is destroyed,
Judah is led out into Babylon, into captivity while their Promised Land lies in desolation. In this fourth Book
of the regressive 17 Book pattern, Ezekiel mirrors the Book of Numbers, and much like in Numbers, God’s
protection in His Shekinah Glory protecting them by day and night covers them by a pillar of cloud by day
and a pillar of fire by night, as they are weaned off of Egypt, and worldliness in the wilderness.

Here, God’s Shekinah Glory leaves the Temple in Ezekiel 10:18 after God shows Ezekiel all the abominations
Judah is committing in the Temple. Instead of maintaining the spiritual maturity they had attained to,
through the discipline of their wilderness wanderings, and they go back to former fleshly living. To illustrate
this macrocosmic concept, we can see where, in type, Israel’s “first born” nature died off in the wilderness,
and their “born again” nature took over (the first generation who came out of Egypt die in the wilderness, a
picture of our first born, fleshly nature, while their children, the second generation, in type, their “born-
again” nature, from those who came out of Egypt cross over into The Promised Land, with Joshua, a model
or type of Jesus, and Caleb, a model or type of God’s Holy Spirit).

To see the illustration that Ezekiel portrays of Israel as God’s chosen, born again, race of spiritually
enlightened individuals, in a corporate body of specially privileged spiritual people, who’ve now completely
abandoned God, we can see that it is not just wilderness wanderings which are now the discipline, it is
painful, humiliating captivity, enslavement, and punishment. God’s instrument of judgment in Babylon is
strong and swift. Now Judah has to endure the punishment for all of their disobedience and face exile,
humiliation, and enslavement to Babylon. All born again believers should tremble at this reality in the face
of any disobedience we might have in our own lives because the microcosmic picture is likewise, abundantly
clear: as we take a fall from Grace during a valley of our spiritual walk, we can end up in worse condition for
a time than we were in before our Salvation. God’s chastisement of sins and transgressions and
abominations for the spiritually alive is much more severe than it is for the spiritually ignorant and unawake
masses.

This is evidenced time and again throughout the Old Testament when God clearly holds Israel to higher
standards due to their special privilege with the spiritual enlightenment God had provided them. The
conclusion of Ezekiel fits this model perfectly as it details a future hope of restoration from their low state of
punishment, exile, and captivity. Ezekiel’s last eight chapters, detail the future restoration of Israel in a
future state of glory. Often, during times of extreme punishment, chastisement, grief and sorrow, the only
thing we can cling to is the hope of better days ahead, in the future. Ezekiel provides some of this far distant
(at the time) hope that they would eventually attain the glory they had lost through their disobedience to
God.

Ezekiel 48:35 “The city shall be 18,000 cubits round about; and the name of the city from that day shall be,
“The LORD is there.”

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Daniel (Stage 5)

Daniel 1:1 In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to
Jerusalem and besieged it . . .

In Daniel, the fifth Book, of the regressive counter pattern seen in the first 17 Books of the Bible, we see,
much like in Ezekiel, a three-fold hope for restoration: a near reaching understanding that their 70 year
captivity was almost completed near the end of Daniel’s life and ministry, and also a farther reaching
prophecy of Messiah’s coming, and then an even farther reaching prophecy of His return in glory at the end
times to set up His Kingdom.

Much like Deuteronomy was a warning and reminder not to depart from God’s ways upon entering into The
Promised Land, Daniel, is living at the time of the fulfillment of God’s warnings about what would happen to
Israel if they did disobey God’s commandments, yet even in the fulfillment of God’s prophecy of one of the
worst times in Israel’s history, God’s faithful are still protected and communicated to about the future
restoration. In Ezekiel is the mysterious period of time of the 430 minus 70 years that doesn’t seem to fit
any period of time in Israel’s history, yet in Leviticus 26:18, God gives His warning that if Israel did not repent
of their disobedience after God’s chastening them, He would punish them seven times as much, and when
calculated out it appears that according to Israel’s lunar-solar calendar of prophetic years, that the 2520
years that 7 times 360 years produces exactly fits the time of the diaspora until May 14, 1948, and likewise
fits the June, 1967 restoration of Jerusalem when put between that time and the time of the Jerusalem
siege by Nebuchadnezzar.

This correlation shows that while Deuteronomy predicted the diaspora and the warnings of how severe it
could be depending on the severity of Israel’s disobedience and lack of repentance, Daniel is right in the
midst of the beginnings of the diaspora and is provided visions of the entire period of time, looking all the
way to Messiah, and then the final end of days and Messiah’s return to setup His Kingdom. In the near
reaching portion of Daniel’s prophecies, Israel is to go back and does a few years before the end of Daniel’s
life and ministry, however, the few who return are a small remnant of those who went into captivity,
showing God’s truly faithful people are often a very small portion and percentage of those in the larger body
who are called by the name of God’s people. In the macrocosmic sense of this pattern, despite Daniel’s
majestic and sweeping prophecies of a future filled with hope and victory for God’s people, we see that the
vast majority of Judah ends up dispersed in the world, not returning to The Promised Land, and continuing
to suffer the punishment of their disobedient fall from God’s Grace and God’s Glory.

Daniel 12:13 “But as for you, go your way to the end; then you will enter into rest and rise for your allotted
portion at the end of the age.”

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Hosea (Stage 6)

Hosea 1:2 – When the LORD first spoke through Hosea, the LORD said to Hosea, “Go, take to yourself a wife
of harlotry, and have children of harlotry; for the land commits flagrant harlotry, from not following after
the LORD.”

Hosea is the sixth Book in this regressive pattern and mirrors Joshua. Hosea represents spiritual adultery
and runs counter to Joshua which represents spiritual empowerment through Joshua as a type of Christ,
leading God’s people across the Jordan, a picture of baptizing believers into His Holy Spirit. Hosea, which
very interestingly is Joshua’s original name according to Numbers 13:16, which means Salvation, is changed
to Joshua by Moses, meaning God is Salvation.

This is very compelling, that Joshua is the sixth Book of the progressive 17 stage pattern, while Hosea is the
sixth Book of the regressive 17 stage counter pattern, indicating that when you take God out of Salvation,
there is only spiritual adultery which leads to grief and sorrow, pain and anguish, and results in desperation
and judgment from God. Hosea is spiritually hindered and spiritually frustrated as he must marry a
flagrantly promiscuous woman, one who would turn to harlotry and unfaithfulness to her marriage with
Hosea. The microcosm of this macrocosmic example in Israel’s history is clear in that if we are not spiritually
empowered for spiritually victorious living, we will be spiritually compromised, and tend towards spiritual
adultery, which leads to desolation.

Much like in Ezekiel and Daniel, Hosea does not have much positive to say about the near term, as Israel and
Judah are in a very poor spiritual state, and the only hope that is seen in Hosea are future prophecies about
Israel’s restoration in the last days. This is a fitting analogy in correspondence with the progressive pattern,
as the Church is experiencing victory in their Joshua stage of spiritual progression, Israel, as a nation is
experiencing desolation in their dispersion amongst the nations, in their concurrent regressive pattern seen
in the 17 Prophetic Books. They are headed toward Tribulation and the Time of Jacob’s trouble, during the
time the Church is heading towards the Resurrection / Rapture. This parallel shows remarkable consistency
in the distinction between Israel and the Church. While believing in Jesus Christ, there are of course many
Jews and Israelites who are indeed part of the Church, nationally, Israel is still in rebellion against God by
officially rejecting Jesus Christ. This coincides perfectly with these prophetic Books from Daniel onwards, as
it indicates there is a remnant that is doing well, while nationally on the whole, there is a downward spiral.

Hosea 14:9 – Whoever is wise, let him understand these things; whoever is discerning, let him know them.
For the ways of the LORD are right, and the righteous will walk in them, but transgressors will stumble in
them.

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Joel (Stage 7)

Joel 1:2 – Hear this, O elders, and listen, all inhabitants of the land. Has anything like this happened in your
days or in your fathers’ days?

Joel is the seventh Book in this regressive counter pattern and fits perfectly with the seventh Book of the
progressive pattern: Judges. Judges represents the time after Israel’s mountain top experience of being
empowered for spiritual victory and taking possession of The Promised Land from enemies which used to
intimidate and dominate Israel. Judges takes place after this and Israel struggles to maintain their spiritual
victories and has several failings in these struggles where only a hero of the faith, anointed by God for
special purpose and by God’s Grace is able to deliver them from their enemies which keep regrouping and
coming against them whenever complacency and backsliding come to Israel.

This perfectly describes not only individual Christians during the time of this writing, but also the state of the
entire Church, The Body of Christ, during this time period, if this is being read before the Resurrection of the
dead and Rapture of the Church. The Church is suffering a time of moral relativism, just like in Judges, yet
national Israel, continues on in unbelief, not accepting Jesus Christ as Messiah. During the Judges time, the
Book of Ruth transpires, which is a picture of a Gentile Bride, represented by Ruth, who is redeemed and
married to a Kinsman Redeemer, Boaz, a picture of Christ Himself.

Then comes the Book of 1 Samuel where Saul, a seemingly desirable king, yet a worldly and ultimately a self-
serving king is clamored for and chosen by the people and this king and his people come against God’s truly
anointed and chosen King, David, and Saul and his followers and try to destroy David and his followers. This
is a perfect picture of the time, yet future, at the time of this writing, when Israel will clamor for a seemingly
desirable king, who ends up being the anti-Christ himself who tries to destroy the true King and His
followers.

It is easy to see where Joel fits within this progression, as Joel is written at a time of extreme chastisement,
famine, and rebuke from God as Israel had recently split into civil war between north and south and both
nations were spiritually compromised. Despite the near reaching chastisement, the prophecies are far
reaching into Israel’s future which predict the time when God’s Holy Spirit started being poured out on
Pentecost and Israel was warned to repent nationally, yet failed to do so, despite the fact that many Jews
believed personally and individually. It is very interesting to see how the Church age is completely skipped
in Joel, as the time which Peter makes reference to in Acts as being a fulfillment of Joel 2:28-29 is both
preceded by and also immediately followed with the prophecy of signs that would immediately precede the
great and awesome day of the LORD. Jewish believers did receive God’s Holy Spirit on Pentecost, yet the
age represented by Joel 2:28-29 continues to this day at the time of this writing, but is quickly coming to a
close.

Joel ends by prophesying of the land of Israel being divided up by the nations and God judging and punishing
the nations for presuming to do such a thing. Prophetically in this regressive pattern, Joel prophesies of a
time immediately before the judgment comes and the time of Jacob’s trouble begins. In the macro sense,
Joel is a picture of Israel directly before the tribulation, and God is pleading with His people to call upon the
name of the LORD so they might escape what is coming upon the nation of Israel and the whole world. In
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protected 144,000 Jewish evangelists at the onset of the Tribulation.

Joel 3:20 But Judah will be inhabited forever, and Jerusalem for all generations. And I will avenge their
blood which I have not avenged, for the LORD dwells in Zion.

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Amos 1:1 – The words of Amos, who was among the sheepherders from Tekoa, which he saw in visions
concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam son of Joash, king of Israel,
two years before the earthquake 2 And he said, “The LORD roars from Zion, and from Jerusalem He utters
His voice; and the shepherds pasture grounds mourn, and the summit of Carmel dries up.”

In Amos, the eighth Book of this regressive pattern, a deeper study of the meanings of the names in the first
two verses will help shed light on the macrocosmic picture that this stage of God’s progression represents.
Amos means burden bearer, Tekoa means trumpets, Carmel means fruitful field . . . If Amos is paralleled
with Ruth, a picture of the Gentile Bride Raptured (with Boaz, engaged to be married during the barley
threshing – implying judgment) then Amos represents the warning given directly preceding the Rapture of
the Church, and goes on to detail the judgment due to Israel, Judah and the nations during the time of the
tribulation.

An often overlooked and forgotten aspect of the Rapture, is the fact that it is indeed the Resurrection of the
dead, prophesied and predicted, and hoped in by countless believers from Old Testament to New Testament
times. The Pharisees believed in the Resurrection, and all true Jewish believers believed in the Resurrection
of the dead. They all believed in it without question. All Paul does in his epistles and Christ alludes to it in
John 14 and it is also alluded to elsewhere in the New and Old Testament Books, is that there will in fact be
some believers who will be alive at the moment of the Resurrection. Those people will not need to be
“Resurrected” from the “dead” as they are not mortally “dead” in the flesh, yet as believers, they still merit
the same treatment as those believers who physically passed away before the moment of the Resurrection.
Since the Rapture, is simply the Resurrection of the dead in Christ, only applied to those who are still alive in
the natural at the moment the Resurrection of the dead occurs, it is interesting to compare those who are
so overly emotionally opposed to the idea of what we have come to call the Rapture.

The spirit behind people who virulently and vehemently oppose this clear Scriptural teaching seems to be
the same spirit behind those who refused to believe in the Resurrection during the time of Christ. To say
there is “no Rapture” is to say there is no Resurrection, because they are one and the same event. To
borrow one of the most overused Sunday School jokes in history, the Sadducees, the primary religious sect
which made up the majority of the Sanhedrin, the governing body of Judaism at the time of Christ, didn’t
believe in the Resurrection, and that’s why they were sad you see? Part of the reason for their sadness was
that they didn’t give the same credence to the prophetic writings as they did the Torah, the first five Books
of Moses, partially due to the fact that they knew they were the descendants of those who murdered the
prophets.

According to them, since their high holy ground of Torah didn’t overtly mention the Resurrection, they used
that as justification of not believing in the literal, physical Resurrection of the dead. Jesus corrected them by
using a statement from God Himself, recounted in the Torah itself at a time when Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob
had long since passed away, saying of Himself: I am the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, pointing out the
tense of the verb “to be”, “am” in this case, to show the subtle point, being that God is (present tense) the
God of the living, not the dead. To debate the timing of the Resurrection / Rapture is one thing, and there
are numerous good believers on the various sides of pre, mid, post, pre-wrath, pan tribulation timing of the
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pattern, the pre tribulation view is the only timing view that works in this progression.

Since the dead in Christ will rise first, and those who are alive and remain until that time will be caught up,
or harpazoed, or Raptured, to be with Him in the clouds, when they rise with their physical bodies coming
back together, renewed, supernaturally transposed into non-mortal, Eternal bodies, and their bones, and/or
particles of bones and remains exist, for the most part under the earth, buried and/or scattered abroad,
many have speculated that at this time there would be a massive world-wide earthquake, the biggest ever in
human earth history. This point is so very much overlooked by many pop-culture references to the Rapture,
because the Resurrection is almost completely left out or mostly overlooked.

When millions or possibly even billions of believers come out of their tombs, graves, buried deep, buried
shallow, buried in places that have since gone unmarked and unknown, buried in still well-kept cemeteries,
or ashes scattered abroad, or buried and covered up at the bottom of the sea, or under current buildings,
roads, airports, or wherever else, this will be the event of all events in human earth history. There will be no
“secret” Rapture as its critics like to call it. It will be world-wide and well known. Simultaneously, it will
automatically provide a cover story for the missing, as of course they will be presumed dead due to the
world-wide earthquake, and it will also be a pretext for the anti-Christ / beast to come to the “rescue” of the
world, by restoring order, governmental leadership, services, communication, power, transportation, food
and otherwise, then coordinate a reconstruction campaign, declare martial law for “the good of the people”,
and implement the beast system for “the good of the people.”

Notice how Amos in its first two verses completely corroborates this view as a world renowned earthquake
was used as a definitive time-stamp marker for Amos’ ministry. Amos means burden bearer and many
Rapture watchmen have taken up an Amos-like ministry sounding the trumpet (Tekoa) alarm to be listening
for the trumpet call from heaven from Christ Himself to “come up here,” made by Christ, with the voice of a
trumpet. Also notice how the shepherd’s pasture grounds mourn, an allusion to the field of the world,
where the sheep were gathered and protected by the shepherd, and Carmel, which means “fruitful field”,
being the chief or summit or best of the shepherding grounds has dried up, meaning that directly before the
harvest, there would be hardly any coming in to the fold of the LORD as all the sheep had already been
gathered and there were none left to come in. This also parallels Ruth who came in to glean in the field
toward the end and there was so little left to glean, Boaz had to instruct his servants to drop some on
purpose so that Ruth, representative of the Church would at least have some minimal success of bringing in
the gleaning harvest towards the very end of the Church age.

Many watchmen, who believe in the imminence of the Resurrection / Rapture, and believe the season of
this long, long, long awaited event, at the time of this writing, is ripe for fulfillment. There have been many
movements in the past century as people have attempted to set dates and/or general time frames
attempting to predict the timing of the Resurrection / Rapture. The basis for some of these theories, such as
the infamous 88 reasons for (19)88, and others has been spurious at best, taking the timing of Israel coming
back into their home land in 1948 for instance, and supposing that the definition of a “generation” is 40
years due to interpretation of certain Scriptures. Recently however, there has been an explosion of
Resurrection / Rapture date and or Resurrection / Rapture season watching. Some are incredibly excited at
the prospect of this imminent event, believing it to be right around the next corner, some have had their
hopes dashed that it hasn’t happened yet, some decry the entire movement and have gone so far in the

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opposite direction they want to convince themselves that there is no such thing as the Rapture. Once again,
taking this attitude is tantamount to saying there is no Resurrection, which completely contradicts Christ
Himself. Whether for good or ill, it is undeniable that Resurrection / Rapture fever has taken hold of a
measurable percentage of the Body of Christ, and it only seems to be intensifying at the time of this writing.
Likewise at the time of Christ’s earthly ministry, there was Messiah fever. Everyone was naming their
daughters “Mary” because it was believed that would be the name of the mother of the Messiah, and many
were naming their children “Jesus” or Yeshua, hoping God would find favor and anoint their son as the
Messiah. This accounts for why we have so many “Marys” in the New Testament, and encounter at least
one other “Yeshua” (Jesus). We also see that the people of Israel were awaiting Messiah and knew it was
approximately the right time for Messiah to come on the scene.

As Amos goes from his ministry starting two years before the earthquake, it could be inferred that this is a
foreshadowing of a future ministry that will directly precede the massive world-wide earthquake that will
take place at the Resurrection/Rapture event. One other signal that seems to align with the events of the
end times is the destruction of Damascus. The first part of Amos’ prophecy is a prophetic word against
Damascus and Syria. Amos goes on to warn Gaza, Tyre, Edom, Ammon, Moab, Judah and Israel, all the
nations and regions that directly border or are a part of Israel/Judah. This parallels how the tribulation will
amplify the strife in the Middle East to a degree that it has never seen before.

Once again, Amos doesn’t have much good to say about the near term of Israel’s immediate future at the
time of the writing of the prophet, but does look to an ultimate future restoration.

Amos 9:14 – “Also I will restore the captivity of My people Israel, and they will rebuild the ruined cities and
live in them, they will also plant vineyards and drink their wine, and make gardens and eat their fruit. “I will
also plant them on their land, and they will not again be rooted out from their land which I have given
them,” says the LORD your God.

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Obadiah (Stage 9)

Obadiah 1:1 – The vision of Obadiah, Thus says the Lord God, concerning Edom—We have heard a report
from the LORD, and an envoy has been sent among the nations saying, “Arise and let us go against her for
battle”—2 “Behold, I will make you small among the nations, You are greatly despised . . .”

Obadiah is the ninth Book of this regressive pattern and many scholars and Bible students have inferred that
Obadiah does indeed have a far reaching end-times theme in its prophetic scope. Edom, the nation or
“house” of its forefather, Esau, is often used throughout Scripture as a type or model of fleshly, carnal living,
opposed to and incontrovertibly an enemy of spiritual life.

The picture is very clear as it begins in Genesis with the twin boys, Jacob and Esau. There is a separation
from the very beginning. Esau is first born and represents, spiritually speaking, our first born nature in the
flesh, carnal and worldly. Esau is red skinned, hairy, an outdoorsman, at one with the world, earthy,
comfortable with the natural. Jacob however, is second born and represents our born again nature. Jacob
is smooth skinned, not hairy, a thinker, not worldly minded, but Eternity minded, more comfortable indoors,
refined and concerned with the prophetic and Eternal future. This representation is multi-faceted and can
fit within the model picture of the family of Abraham representing our own spiritual struggle personally, and
also the spiritual struggle of the whole world, and the spiritual culmination of that struggle during the end
times.

Abraham is used as a model or type of God the Father in Genesis Chapters 22-24, and Isaac, his son, is used
as a model or type of Jesus Christ, his son, who is taken to be offered by Abraham on Mount Moriah, and
Abraham’s eldest servant, Eliezer, is used as a model or type of God’s Holy Spirit, unnamed in this passage as
God’s Holy Spirit never testifies of Himself, but only always points to Jesus Christ. Eliezer is used
subsequently after this model of The Crucifixion to gather a bride for Isaac, the son, and Rebekah, a model
or type of the Church. Once Christ, represented by Isaac comes into the Church, a model or type of
Pentecost, there is within the Church a spiritual war which is waged by our still present fleshly nature vs. our
new more powerful spiritual nature. Much like Jacob was second born, and Esau first born, so too, Esau got
off to an advantageous start, much like our flesh finds its glory in our lives first, yet when our born again
nature manifests, our spiritual nature assisted by the Power and Presence of God’s Holy Spirit living within
us, a picture of Jacob, trips up and craftily overcomes our flesh nature and we are allowed by God’s Holy
Spirit to have empowerment over fleshly, sinful desires. The problem as all born again Christians should be
able to testify of, is that with the flesh born nature still actively present there is a spiritual war, as there are
two natures warring within us, much like Rebekah experienced in her womb. There is the worldly carnal
kingdom, that we first served in our flesh born, first born nature, and the heavenly, Eternal Kingdom of
Christ, that we now strive to serve in our born again nature. This manifests not only in our own personal
Christian walks, but also manifests corporately.

The Idumeans were from Edom, from Esau, and were the rulers over Israel at the time of Christ and the
Roman occupation. All the Herods were Idumeans (Edomites who lived in or migrated to Judah) and
although they aspired to a form of godliness, they ultimately were full of fleshly arrogance, vanity, and
ambition, which led to their murderous tyranny over God’s spiritual people. Herod the Great was
responsible for embellishing the rebuilt temple to architectural magnificence and kept Jewish religious rites
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family members in political intrigues and ordered the execution of the newborns in Ramah, trying to kill
God’s Messiah, Jesus Christ through the process. Herod Antipas, while having at least some regard and tacit
respect of John the Baptist, since he was considered a prophet, foolishly, in a moment of vanity promises
the desire of his step-daughter’s heart, which leads to the beheading of John the Baptist. Herod Agrippa
was marveled at due to his eloquent, and seemingly wise speech, yet he had James Zebedee executed and
he was ultimately eaten by worms. The point here is clear, that the Idumeans, the Herods, and all such of
that ilk, hold to a form of godliness, desire to be seen to be in control of spiritual matters and desire to be
seen as having spiritual authority and rule, yet have nothing but murder in their hearts for God’s truly
spiritual people. The “spiritual” façade that is claimed by many religious leaders is no different today as we
approach the end times events long prophesied in Scripture.

Many scholars speculate that Edom in modern times which seem to be on the precipice of the end times, is
representative of Rome and the establishment Church both hereditarily or genetically as well as spiritually,
aspiring to a form of godliness, but desperately ambitious of power, wealth, control, and many times guilty
of murder and other atrocities, at least in a tacit way, against God’s truly spiritual people. Here in Obadiah
we see an end times picture of the anti-Christ, as an embodiment of Edom, coming to “cast lots for
Jerusalem” another reference to the dividing up of God’s land and its capital. Edom consistently opposed
Israel and frustrated Israel throughout their history, at some points under David’s and Solomon’s rules, were
subservient to Israel, however begrudgingly it would seem as every time Israel’s enemies rose up against
them, Edom cheered on Israel’s enemies and gloated over Israel’s defeats and low times. It is a great picture
of the flesh vs. the spirit as the overarching type in view is that very concept between Esau and Jacob. The
flesh glories in the compromise and defeat of the spiritual, but with God’s providence, the flesh serves the
interests of the spirit by God’s Holy Spirit being in control and empowering our spirits to have control over
the flesh, although the flesh, as rebellious as it is, submits by the power of The Spirit, however it does so
begrudgingly, always looking for its opportunity.

There is some subtle irony in Obadiah verses 3 and 4 when Edom has apparently said corporately, in the
arrogance of [his] heart, ‘Who will bring me down to earth?’ and God responds, “Though you build high like
the eagle, though you set your nest among the stars, from there I will bring you down,” declares the LORD.
This is revealing, in that Esau was earthy, an earthly man, who cared about earthly things, yet, his
descendants apparently have almost a tower of Babel type approach to spirituality, wanting to be vaulted up
spiritually and feel spiritually secure, yet through carnal means.

Recently, at the time of this writing, there is speculation that Pope Francis fulfilled prophecy in Obadiah
1:15-16 when he held a communion service in Jerusalem during Passover of 2014, in what is believed to be
the upper room, above King David’s tomb, in Mount Zion.

If this event did indeed fulfill Obadiah’s far reaching prophecy, the next events including the Day of the
LORD during the Tribulation and Great Tribulation to follow have never been more imminent. It is not the
intent of this writer to condemn a particular Christian leader or to definitively say one way or the other if
someone or other is definitely compromised or part of an evil plan. This is simply mentioned as possible
fulfillments of prophecy that are being discussed by modern scholars, students and watchmen. These
possibilities do bear out significant consequences if these theories are true, as it would indicate a prelude to
the seven year Tribulation period and that the beast and false prophet of Revelation 13 are already present
on the scene even though they haven’t been revealed and empowered as such just yet. For Edom/Esau to

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be the root of the anti-Christ’s / Beast’s and/or False Prophet’s lineage makes perfect sense as what began
in Genesis, the contention between Esau and Jacob is resolved with Esau coming and Israel having victory
ultimately.

Regardless, Obadiah’s prophecy will be fulfilled and those who’ve wronged, mocked, and helped bring ruin
and devastation to Israel will have the same done to them, and their doings will be returned upon their own
heads. Obadiah is a prophecy about Edom’s complete destruction, but during the prophecy Edom’s
destruction is always mentioned in the yet future tense, so ultimately it is talking mostly about why Edom is
deserving of this judgment as having first committed all these atrocities against Israel.

Obadiah 1:21 The deliverers will ascend Mount Zion To judge the mountain of Esau, and the kingdom will be
the LORD’s

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Jonah (Stage 10)

Jonah 1:1 The word of the LORD came to Jonah the son of Amittai saying, 2 “Arise, go to Nineveh the great
city, and cry against it, for their wickedness has come up before Me.”

Within this macrocosmic panoramic of Book progression, Jonah is the tenth Book of the regressive pattern.
It mirrors 2 Samuel, which in this view is a picture of Christ about to come back to rule and reign with His
Bride. During the tribulation, we see Christ very active. He is with the Church in heaven, preparing for the
wedding supper of the Lamb, but also He is pouring out judgment and wrath on the unbelieving rebellious
world, protecting the 144,000 in Revelation 7, His witnesses and entourage during the tribulation, and
coming back for them on Mount Zion in Revelation 14. He reaps the earth of the final harvest of Tribulation
saints, and executes the final wrath of God’s indignation against the rebellious earth dwellers towards the
end of the Great Tribulation when He comes back to Bozrah in Edom to execute judgment and rescue those
Israelites who fled to Petra.

During the tribulation, the primary evangelists, aside from the two witnesses themselves, will be the
144,000 who are apparently sealed and protected, and invincible during the Tribulation due to the fact that
there are 144,000 sealed in Revelation 7 and 144,000 brought to heaven in Revelation 14, not a single one
being lost. Apparently, as the two witnesses, warn and evangelize in Jerusalem during the first half of the
Tribulation period, the 144,000 are dispersed into the world to evangelize all the gentiles and invite any who
would believe in the Gospel to reject the anti-Christ and the beast system and become tribulation saints
during this time.

The story of Nineveh is an interesting picture of this, as Jonah goes to the principle city of the Gentile world
at the time, in Syria or Aram, and was originally built by the first world dictator and first foreshadowing type
of the anti-Christ in Nimrod. It is also interesting in light of the fact that Israel had a host of their own
problems during Jonah’s missionary commission to Nineveh. They had recently split in north and south
kingdoms, gone into apostasy and idolatry, and the Northern Kingdom was only a century away from being
taken away captive into Assyria. Yet, despite all of these problems Israel had at the time, God still sent His
prophet to the Gentiles to preach a message of repentance to them, which they accept.

The Tribulation saints will do likewise and repent and though it may cost them their mortal lives to
persecution, war, famine, or otherwise, they will instantly be in heaven as attendees of the wedding supper
of the Lamb, preparing to enjoy the celebration of the marriage of Christ and His Church. Though many
become upset at harsh judgments depicted in Revelation upon the world, God’s compassion is actually in
view, because He has tried every method of appeal to people at that point in time, and is ready to
consummate the spiritual relationship between Him and His followers.

Those who’ve rejected His invitation, or haven’t decided yet, or who are actively rebelling against Him are
given a series of judgments and witnessing evangelists and a final period of time to be forced to make their
decision. Sadly, many will still choose rebellion against God, despite the fact that He makes His plan as easy
as possible for people to accept and follow, and makes the conditions right before the end so unbearable so
as to force a decision from people who are indecisive. It does not mean God does not care for those who
must endure this time, but in His plan there is a cutoff point, and there comes a time when there is a final
period of time to decide. The end of Jonah shows that God’s heart is one of compassion, especially for
people who are in danger of judgment.

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Jonah 4:11 “And should I not have compassion on Nineveh, the great city in which there are more than
120,000 persons who do not know between their right and left hand, as well as many animals?”

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Micah (Stage 11)

Micah 1:2 Hear, O peoples, all of you; Listen, O earth and all it contains, and let the Lord God be a witness
against you, the Lord from His holy temple. 3 For behold, the LORD is coming forth from His place. He will
come down and tread on the high places of the earth. 4 The mountains will melt and the valleys will be
split, like wax before the fire, like water poured down a steep place.

Micah is a clear picture of the Christ ruling and reigning from Jerusalem over the whole world with all
nations subservient to Him. The first chapters of Micah indicate the reforming of Jerusalem, Israel and
Judah, not only politically, but also geographically and topographically, as the entire landscape will be
changed into something that is not familiar now, at the time of this writing. This happens directly after the
return of Christ when He sets foot on the Mount of Olives and completely reconfigures the area.

Partially this is a final punishment from God against those who rebelled against Him, and the false rulers and
leaders are rebuked by God through Christ, yet starting in Chapter 4 of Micah, the Millennial Reign is clearly
in view as all nations will go up to pay homage to Christ in Israel. Chapter 5 is the famous passage that talks
about Christ being born in Bethlehem, however, upon reading the Chapter in context, one can quickly see
that it makes no mention of His earthly Ministry but the majority of the Chapter pertains to the future rule
and reign of the King born in Bethlehem, and Him dispossessing the false king, the anti-Christ of the land,
and the closing Chapters look with anticipation of these events eventually coming to pass, but also return to
the near reaching prophetic look at Israel’s near future at the time of the writing of Micah which indicts
Israel for her treacherous ungodly attitude towards their religiosity, which in a far reaching context
prophesies toward the end of the Millennial Reign of Christ where there will be one last final rebellion led by
Satan who is released for a short time to tempt and to lead those who fall to his temptation in one last
revolt against God and His people. This is very interesting in the picture of Nineveh, where in Jonah, the
prophet goes and preaches repentance to the gentiles, a picture of Christ and His Church coming back and
preaching to the fallen, judged, tribulation weary world, and they do repent, and go into the Millennium and
live in peace for a thousand years, which is pictured in the macro sense by Micah, then Nahum revisits
Nineveh after their repentance from Jonah, yet they’ve fallen away from that repentance and are ripe for
final judgment.

Micah 7:14 Shepherd Thy people with Thy scepter, the flock of Thy possession which dwells by itself in the
woodland, in the midst of Carmel. Let them feed in Bashan and Gilead as in the days of old. 15 “As in the
days when you came out from the land of Egypt, I will show you miracles,” 16 Nations will see and be
ashamed of all their might. They will put hand on mouth, their ears will be deaf. 17 They will lick the dust
like a serpent, like reptiles of the earth. They will come trembling out of their fortresses; to the LORD our
God they will come in dread, and they will be afraid before Thee. 18 Who is a God like Thee, who pardons
iniquity and passes over the rebellious act of the remnant of His possession? He does not retain His anger
forever, because He delights in unchanging love. 19 He will again have compassion on us; he will tread our
iniquities under foot. Yes, Thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea. 20 Thou wilt give truth to
Jacob unchanging love to Abraham, which Thou didst swear to our forefathers from the days of old.

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Nahum (Stage 12)

Nahum 1:1 The oracle of Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite, 2 A jealous and avenging
God is the LORD; the LORD is avenging and wrathful, the LORD takes vengeance on His adversaries, and He
reserves wrath for His enemies.

Nahum is the 12th Book of this counter pattern. Absent from the Book is any chastisement or negative
statement about Israel or Judah, in fact Israel is hardly mentioned at all. This Book is all about the judgment,
end, and final state of Nineveh, the capital of Assyria, and prophetically, it speaks about Nineveh exactly like
it speaks of Babylon at the end of the Tribulation in Revelation 17 and 18, only Nahum doesn’t
macrocosmically represent that time period but another, about which is a great deal of mystery, and
extremely scant Biblical information. Revelation 20 is possibly the only Chapter in the Bible that even
discusses the events that Nahum macrocosmically represents, in that it represents the time when, directly
after the Millennial Reign of Christ, there will be one, apparently very brief, yet very devastating, final
rebellion led by Satan who is released from his imprisonment to lead away those in the Millennium who are
still living in natural bodies.

Many, according to Revelation 20, will fall to these temptations and will, apparently, very soon afterwards,
be completely consumed and destroyed directly by God Himself. This final rebellion will apparently be
staged around Jerusalem, which is referred to as “the beloved city” in Revelation 20. In Nahum 1:15 the
LORD proclaims, “never again will the wicked one pass through you; he is cut off completely,” indicating in a
far reaching prophetic sense, that once Satan’s final rebellion is squashed, Jerusalem, the saints, the Church,
and all their dwelling will be forever free of any aggressor. Since Nineveh was built by Nimrod, the first
world dictator, and is often referred to as the first model or type of the anti-Christ, and all that is globally
against God, it is fitting that Nineveh is used in Nahum prophetically and in model or type form as the final
rebellion of all that is ultimately completely against God and His people. Nineveh might be thought of as a
microcosmic representation itself of the world in general. After all comes to pass regarding God’s plan of
Salvation through Jesus Christ, and the Church goes to be with Christ in glory before the tribulation, the two
witnesses, the 144,000 and those converted during that time are out in the world preaching to the worst of
the worst of humanity (a picture of Nineveh at the time of Jonah) yet miraculously, they are spared for a
time, repent, and are given more time, (a picture of the Millennial Reign) and finally a last rebellion takes
hold and the chance for repentance and entering Eternity with God is closed and God’s final Judgment and
final say takes shape as Eternity becomes reality.

Nahum 3:18 Your shepherds are sleeping, O king of Assyria; your nobles are lying down. Your people are
scattered on the mountains, and there is no one to regather them. 19 There is no relief for your breakdown,
your wound is incurable, all who hear about you will clap their hands over you, for on whom has not your
evil passed continually?

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Habakkuk (Stage 13)

Habakkuk 1:1 The oracle which Habakkuk the prophet saw. 2 How long, O LORD, will I call for help, and Thou
wilt not hear? I cry out to Thee, “Violence!” yet Thou dost not save.

Habakkuk is the 13th Book of the counter pattern and in it the prophet desperately cries out for justice and
judgment on the wicked and the unjust. God then informs the prophet, and instructs him to inscribe and
write down on tablets the information he received, that the wicked whom the prophet is complaining about
are merely instruments of judgment, chastisement, and reproof on the righteous during the times when God
is trying to purify those whom He would save from the corrupt in their midst, and execute judgment upon
those who thought they were righteous but were judged through a much less righteous people than
themselves in the Babylonians. God is basically informing the prophet that while He agrees with the
prophet’s assessment of the wicked, exampled by the Chaldeans in the prophet’s vision, He doesn’t agree
with the timing the prophet is expecting for the justice he is demanding, because God explains that He is
going to use the wicked to reprove and test the righteous and to remove the dross from among them.

In Chapter 2 God indicates to the prophet that he should record the vision and inscribe it on tablets, a
macrocosmic look at the model or type of “books being opened” as in Revelation 20, indicating that
certainly the wicked God used for the benefit of the righteous, to purify and consolidate them, are now
going to be finally and forever judged according to their works, and while those never repented, God used
them for an important purpose before He finally brought them to ultimate justice. The famous passage in
Habakkuk 2:4 that the just shall live by faith, is a double-edged sword indicating that those who will be
justified will be justified through their faith, and not just any faith but in the faith of Jesus Christ, the
promised Messiah. Those who are not justified will not rely on faith, and those who are self-righteous and
those who are flagrantly wicked, God will use against each other to reprove and ultimately bring an end to
both. When the books are opened in Revelation 20, it is clear that these are books that contain works of
individuals who are not in faith and their works are what they will be judged by, whereas, on the contrary,
those who are in faith in Christ will be judged according to the Work He completed on The Cross, already
paying for our sin, His righteousness imputed to us, our punishment imputed to and paid for by Him.

Habakkuk 3:18 Yet I will exult in the LORD, I will rejoice in the God of my salvation 19 The Lord God is my
strength, and He has made my feet like hinds’ feet; and makes me walk on my high places

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Zephaniah (Stage 14)

Zephaniah 1:2 “I will completely remove all things from the face of the earth,” declares the LORD. 3 “I will
remove man and beast; I will remove the birds of the sky and the fish of the sea, and the ruins along with
the wicked; and I will cut off man from the face of the earth,” declares the LORD.

Zephaniah is all about the Day of the LORD. From the very beginning God speaks of an ultimate stark
contrast between those who are going to be doomed in the final judgment vs. those who will be God’s
humble people. This is a perfect comparison to Revelation Chapter 20, where at the Great White Throne
Judgment, those who are dead in the world will be resurrected to be judged according to their deeds, and
those dead in the world whose names are not found written in the Book of Life, will be judged to the lake of
fire, and all whose names are written in the Book of Life will be spared from the lake of fire second death
Eternal judgment. The only parallel passage for Zephaniah Chapter 1 is Revelation Chapter 20.

We see in Zephaniah 1:4 God speaking, “So I will stretch out My hand against Judah and against all the
inhabitants of Jerusalem. And I will cut off the remnant of Baal from this place, and the names of the
idolatrous priests along with the priests . . . “, and we also see in 1:7 God indicating those spared from this
cutting off “. . .Be silent before the Lord God! For the day of the LORD is near, for the LORD has prepared a
sacrifice, He has consecrated His guests . . . “ indicating that there are different lists, exactly how we have
two lists in Revelation 20, the books which contain all the deeds of all people, yet we also see the Book of
Life which has everyone’s name who is saved from the second death, Gehenna, the Lake of Fire. God has
consecrated or set apart all who have Salvation in Christ, in one dispensation or another, as His guests, in
the Book of Life, and those who are not in that Book will be judged according to their deeds and those
whose names are not written in the Book of Life will be cast into the Lake of Fire, which is the second death.
Zephaniah closes by continuing this contrast between the wicked oppressors and the remnant who are
saved. Zephaniah’s scope most of the time seems very global in nature, as Revelation 20 involves everyone
throughout history from all groups and nations of people.

Zephaniah 3:19 “Behold, I am going to deal at that time with all your oppressors, I will save the lame and
gather the outcast, and I will turn their shame into praise and renown, in all the earth, 20 “At that time I will
bring you in, even at the time when I gather you together; indeed, I will give you renown and praise among
all the peoples of the earth, when I restore your fortunes before your eyes,” says the LORD.

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Haggai (Stage 15)

Haggai 1:1 In the second year of Darius the king, on the first day of the sixth month, the word of the LORD
came by the prophet Haggai to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of
Jehozadak, the high priest saying, “Thus says the LORD of hosts, ‘This people says, “The time has not come,
even the time for the house of the LORD to be rebuilt.”’”

Haggai is a companion Book to Ezra regarding the rebuilding of the temple, and remarkably, in Bible Book
Order, we find them both in the 15th place in their respective 17 Book patterns, looking forward to the
ultimate and Eternal time when God Himself will tabernacle amongst us. Throughout Haggai the LORD
declares, “I am with you,” and of course there is a practical and historical application of that encouragement
from God, as in He was with them in the building of the second Temple and helped them complete it by
commissioning them, allowing them to go back to Jerusalem, and by making provision and providing
instruction and guidance and protection to do it even during hostile resistance. In the far reaching
application however, it is interesting that God says “I am with you,” or we might even be bold with our
capitalization and quote it as, “I AM with you,” in that in the far reaching future application of the
macrocosmic view of Haggai, God indeed will be with us, directly in His Presence, us dwelling / tabernacling
with Him in Eternity.

It is also interesting that even though the people were dismayed at the apparent paltry comparison of the
newly rebuilt second temple to the former glorious splendor of Solomon’s original temple, God indicates in
Haggai that despite this lament, the glory of this newly rebuilt temple would exceed the glory of the former
one. While some point to the fact that Herod had the second temple significantly embellished and added on
to, most mystically sensitive scholars understand that the glory spoken of by God was in fact that Jesus
Christ Himself, graced that second temple with His Presence directly, hence bringing the aforementioned
glory. Then we can look forward to an even farther reaching fulfillment of this pattern in that in Eternity we
will actually be present in Christ, in His glory, in the Presence of God directly.

Another far reaching prophetic view of these passages in Haggai are the fact that God proclaims He will
shake the heavens and the earth, and we see this happen at the end of Revelation 20 when heaven and
earth flee and God has to make a new heavens and a new earth, as the old ones pass away. Haggai
concludes with more of this earth, heaven and nation shaking language seeming to indicate a near reaching
fulfillment of the second temple in Zerubbabel’s time, however, the language of the last verses of Haggai
can be inferred as extremely cryptic and if we take the meanings of the names, it is interesting to see that it
seems to say “I will take you, Zerrubabel (seed of Babylon), son of Shealtiel (I have asked God), My servant,’
declares the LORD, ‘and I will make you like a signet ring’ . . . so we could infer that it says I will take you
“seed of Babylon,” son of “I have asked God,” indicating that those who come out of the overall ‘Babylon’,
the corrupt pagan world ruled by the Mystery Babylon of Revelation Chapters 16-18, will be with God in
tabernacling with Him after the final Judgment.

Haggai 2:21 “Speak to Zerubbabel, governor of Judah saying, ‘I am going to shake the heavens and the earth.
22’ And I will overthrow the thrones of kingdoms and destroy the power of the kingdoms of the nations; and
I will overthrow the chariots and their riders, and the horses and their riders will go down everyone by the
sword of another.’ 23 ‘On that day,’ declares the LORD of hosts, ‘I will take you, Zerubbabel, son of Shealtiel,

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My servant,’ declares the LORD, ‘and I will make you like a signet ring, for I have chosen you,’” declares the
LORD of hosts.

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Zechariah (Stage 16)

Zechariah 1:14 – So the angel who was speaking with me said to me, “Proclaim, saying, ‘Thus says the LORD
of hosts, “I am exceedingly jealous for Jerusalem and Zion. 15 ‘But I am very angry with the nations who are
at ease; for while I was only a little angry, they furthered the disaster,” 16’Therfore, thus says the LORD, “I
will return to Jerusalem with compassion; My house will be built in it,” declares the LORD of hosts,” and a
measuring line will be stretched over Jerusalem.”’

Zechariah is a premiere eschatological Book which contains some of the most provocative passages about
Christ’s Second Coming to the earth, where He stands on the Mount of Olives, and reforms and reshapes
Jerusalem geographically and topographically. This details information that will happen at Christ’s Second
Coming, preceding and instigating the Millennial Reign, but once again we see an even farther reaching
application that Zechariah, being the 16th Book in the 17 Book pattern, corresponds to Revelation Chapter
21, where the heavenly Jerusalem, described in Revelation as New Jerusalem, comes down out of the new
heavens and descends onto or possibly hovers directly above the new earth as a 1500 cubed mile structure,
where apparently the Bride of Christ will dwell for Eternity.

The overarching theme throughout Zechariah is Jerusalem, referred to several times as Zion in the Book, and
how it is the central and pivotal city around which all end times prophecy revolves, and which God indicates
He and His people will ultimately come out victorious over. It is interesting that in Eternity this same pattern
continues to reverberate, as after God creates the new heavens and new earth to tabernacle amongst us as
a Living Temple full of living stones, we then see New Jerusalem descending out of the new heavens, just
like in Ezra and Nehemiah where the Temple came first, then the city, and likewise in Haggai and Zechariah,
where the Temple comes first, then the city.

Zechariah 14:9 And the LORD will be king over all the earth; in that day the LORD will be the only one, and
His name the only one. 10 All the land will be changed in to a plain from Geba to Rimmon south of
Jerusalem; but Jerusalem will rise and remain on its site from Benjamin’s Gate as far as the place of the First
Gate to the Corner Gate, and from the Tower of Hananel to the king’s wine presses. 11 And people will live
in it, and there will be no more curse, for Jerusalem will dwell in security.

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Malachi (Stage 17)

Malachi 1:1 The oracle of the word of the LORD to Israel through Malachi. 2 “I have loved you,” says the
LORD. But you say, “How hast Thou loves us?” “Was not Esau Jacob’s brother?” declares the LORD, “Yet I
have loved Jacob; 3 but I have hated Esau, and I have made his mountains a desolation, and appointed his
inheritance for the jackals of the wilderness.” 4 Though Edom says, “We have been beaten down, but we
will return and build up the ruins; thus says the LORD of hosts, “They may build, but I will tear down, and
men will call them the wicked territory, and the people toward whom the LORD is indignant forever. 5 And
your eyes will see this and you will say, “The LORD be magnified beyond the border of Israel.

In these first verses of Malachi, we can see the far reaching macrocosmic picture immediately. This is the
17th Book of the 17 Book pattern, so we should see the marriage of the Bride to the King of Eternity, and
God’s enemies have all been defeated. Right away we see the contrast of Jacob being loved, and God
professing His love for Jacob, a model or type of the spiritual born again nature God was looking for, the
second born nature, and how the flesh born or first born nature God hated. While this Book of Malachi is a
Book of anticipation, waiting for the Messiah, and waiting for His forerunner, Elijah, we see in its
corresponding history Book of Esther, the 17th Book in the first 17 Book pattern, Esther the Queen married
to the King of the known world. As previously mentioned, Ahasuerus or Xerxes may seem to be a poor
model of God or Christ at first glance, much like Samson might seem to be a poor model or type of Christ,
yet when digging deeper beneath the surface story many spiritual treasures emerge.

Here in Malachi we don’t see a Bride or a Bridegroom, but only anticipation. There is a purifier, much like in
anticipation of our Bridegroom, Christ, we should all be seeking purification, as Malachi indicates in Chapter
3. Likewise we see Malachi end with unfulfilled promises, unresolved prophesies, unsolved mysteries, and
the anticipation of all of God’s promises waiting to come to fulfillment. Then we see in the Gospels, the very
next Books of the Bible, Christ coming to fulfill all of the First Coming prophecies in order to make the
purchase price for His Bride, and provide Redemption to all who would seek Salvation and forgiveness of
their sins and transgressions. Revelation ends in Chapter 22 with that same anticipation.

We have experienced His love, stated in Blood, on His Cross, washing us clean from our sins and
transgressions and we’ve received the pledge of His Holy Spirit, our engagement ring or seal, awaiting His
move towards spiritual marriage and consummation of the spiritual relationship. Revelation ends with us
knowing what the fulfillment of the mysteries are which Malachi left us longing to know, and now we’re left
simply longing for the consummation of what we already know is going to happen.

Malachi 4:5 “Behold, I am going to send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and terrible
day of the LORD. 6 “And he will restore the hearts of the fathers to their children, and the hearts of the
children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the land with a curse.”

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The Epistles
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New Testament Introduction

In the New Testament’s 17 Book corresponding pattern, we find that each Book corresponds to its parallel
Books in the two Old Testament 17 Book corresponding patterns. For instance, Romans corresponds to
Genesis, the first Book, in the first 17 Book pattern (the History Books), and Romans also corresponds to
Isaiah, the first Book, in the second 17 Book pattern (the Prophetic Books). The New Testament Books
correspond in the following ways: first, in each Book of the 17 Book pattern in the New Testament, there is
a direct quote, a parallel passage, or a parallel concept from each of the New Testament’s corresponding Old
Testament Books.

For instance, in Romans we find Genesis 21:12 directly quoted, and we also find Isaiah 65:1 directly quoted
as well as several other Genesis and Isaiah passages. In fact, there are a total of 17 direct quotes in Romans
from Genesis and Isaiah. In Romans, we also find a direct quote from Isaiah 1:9, which references Sodom
and Gomorrah, an event that happened in Genesis.

Secondly, in the macrocosmic view of paralleling a Christian’s life to the overall Book progression, there is a
final resolution to that pattern being fulfilled through our faith in Christ.

Last, the overall themes of the Books in the New Testament 17 Book pattern correspond to the stage of
progression that the first two 17 Book patterns indicate. For instance, in Genesis we have God’s perfect
creation, ruined by man’s sin, whereupon the Book concludes with man, dead in the world, embalmed and
buried in a coffin in Egypt, so it is a burial with an anticipation for a Resurrection, hence the embalming. In
Isaiah, which is written at a time when Israel was entering into a terrible decline, fallen from the Grace and
glory they’d reached at the time of David and Solomon, we have already discussed in detail how the second
17 Book pattern from Isaiah to Malachi indicates a mirrored regressive pattern.

If Genesis represents God’s perfect creation ruined by man’s sin, Isaiah mirrors that, in that Israel in the
ultimate state it had reached under the glory of Solomon’s kingdom through God’s Grace, had then also
fallen from that Grace and was about to enter back into an even worse bondage than they’d come out of in
the Exodus.

Romans, ties these two together, not only by quoting significant passages from both Books, but also by
providing the true and final answer to both conundrums, Jesus Christ crucified, our debt paid in full, and His
Resurrection to the Eternal Life He invites us all to share in. So if we saw perfect creation ruined by man’s
sin, then a state of grace reached from that point, subsequently fallen from, we then see that Salvation by
Grace, through Christ’s sacrifice, which is the main theme of Romans, brings both of the other
corresponding Books into focus.

Likewise, 1 Corinthians, the second Book in the New Testament’s 17 Book pattern, also shows perfect
correspondence to Exodus the second Book in the first Old Testament 17 Book pattern, as well as Jeremiah
the second Book in the second Old Testament 17 Book pattern. First, in 1 Corinthians 10:1-13 is the
recounting of Israel’s Exodus and subsequent rebellion, including some direct quotes from Exodus, and in 1
Corinthians 1:31 is a direct quote from Jeremiah 9:23-24, that those who boast should boast in the LORD.
Also in 1 Corinthians is a very practical, real world application to this stage of being a Christian.

In Exodus the Israelites had just come out of Egypt (a picture of the world) and were geographically being
relocated. In 1 Corinthians, we see a picture of the new Christian in Corinth, one of the worldliest cities in

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history with all sorts of idolatry, immorality, and any other sin and transgression and abomination anyone
could think of. The idea here is that in Israel’s history, God used the geography as an object lesson,
indicating He was taking them out of Egypt and into the Promised Land. In 1 Corinthians, Paul is instructing
them not to leave Corinth, but rather to be transformed by God regardless of geographical location, and
then to transform those in the city, whoever would listen, through their witness, and the physical location
they resided in, eventually, they would permanently escape it at the Resurrection / Rapture. This pattern
continues Book by Book with parallel passages and/or direct quotes from both Old Testament corresponding
Books with the New Testament’s corresponding Book as well as the overall themes of each Book paralleling
each other with the same ordered Book in the two Old Testament 17 Book patterns.

Starting with the ninth Book, much like the ninth Book of the first and second Old Testament 17 Book
patterns, once the Rapture of the Church has happened as detailed in 1 Thessalonians, and as foreshadowed
in Ruth, the eighth Book of the first 17 Book pattern, and the aftermath of the Rapture from Israel’s
perspective in Amos, the eighth Book of the second 17 Book pattern, the scope of the rest of the pattern
turns toward events that at the time of this writing are yet future, with the Tribulation, the return of Christ
with His Bride, the Millennial Reign of Christ, the final rebellion, the Judgment from the books and the Book
of Life, and the New Heavens and the New Earth, and the New Jerusalem in Eternity.

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Romans (Stage 1)
Romans 4:3 For what does the Scripture say?
“AND ABRAHAM BELIEVED GOD, AND IT WAS
RECKONED TO HIM AS RIGHTEOUSNESS.”
Romans 4:17 (as it is written, “A FATHER OF
MANY NATIONS HAVE I MADE YOU”) in the sight
of Him whom he believed, even God who gives
life to the dead and calls into being that which
does not exist.
Romans 9:7 neither are they all children because
they are Abraham’s descendants, but THROUH
ISAAC YOUR DESCENDENTS WILL BE NAMED.”
Romans 9:9 For this is a word of promise: “AT
THIS TIME I WILL COME, AND SARAH SHALL HAVE
A SON.”
Romans 9:12 it was said to her, “THE OLDER WILL
SERVE THE YOUNGER.”
Romans 9:27 And Isaiah cries out concerning
Israel, “THOUGH THE NUMBER OF THE SONS OF
ISRAEL BE AS THE SAND OF THE SEA, IT IS THE
REMNANT THAT WILL BE SAVED
Romans 9:29 And just as Isaiah foretold, EXCEPT
THE LORD OF SABAOTH HAD LEFT TO US A
POSTERITY, WE WOULD HAVE BECOME AS
SODOM, AND WOULD HAVE RESEMBLED
GOMORRAH.”
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Genesis 15:6 Then he believed in the LORD; and
He reckoned it to him as righteousness.
Genesis 17:5 “No longer shall your name be called
Abram, But your name shall be Abraham; For I will
make you the father of a multitude of nations.
Genesis 21:12 But God said to Abraham, “Do not
be distressed because of the lad and your maid;
whatever Sarah tells you , listen to her, for
through Isaac your descendants shall be named. .
.“
Genesis 18:10 And he said, “I will surely return to
you at this time next year; and behold, Sarah your
wife shall have a son. . . “
Genesis 25:23 And the LORD said to her, “Two
nations are in your womb; And two peoples shall
be separated from your body, And one people
shall be stronger than the other; And the older
shall serve the younger.”
Isaiah 10:22 For though your people, O Israel, may
be like the sand of the sea, Only a remnant within
them will return, A destruction is determined,
overflowing with righteousness
Isaiah 1:9 Unless the LORD of hosts had left us a
few survivors, we would be like Sodom, We would
be like Gomorrah.
Romans 10:15 And how shall they preach unless
they are sent? Just as it is written, “HOW
BEAUTIFUL ARE THE FEET OF THOSE WHO BRING
GLAD TIDINGS OF GOOD THINGS!”
16 However, they did not all heed the glad
tidings; for Isaiah says, “LORD, WHO HAS
BELIEVED OUR REPORT?”
Romans 10:20 And Isaiah is very bold and says, “I
WAS FOUND BY THOSE WHO SOUGHT ME NOT, I
BECAME MANIFEST TO THOSE WHO DID NOT ASK
FOR ME.” 21 But as for Israel He says, “ALL THE
DAY LONG I HAVE STRETCHED OUT MY HANDS TO
A DISOBEDIENT AND OBSTINATE PEOPLE.”
Romans 11:8 just as it is written, “GOD GAVE
THEM A SPIRIT OF STUPOR, EYES TO SEE NOT AND
EARS TO HEAR NOT, DOWN TO THIS VERY DAY.”
Romans 11:26 and thus all Israel will be saved;
just as it is written, “THE DELIVERER WILL COME
FROM ZION, HE WILL REMOVE UNGODLINESS
FROM JACOB.”
Romans 11:34 For WHO HAS KNOWN THE MIND
OF THE LORD, OR WHO BECAME HIS
COUNSELOR?
Isaiah 52:7 How lovely on the mountains are the
feet of him who brings good news, Who
announces peace and brings good news of
happiness, Who announces salvation, and says to
Zion, “Your God reigns!” . . .
53:1 who has believed our message? And to
whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed?
Isaiah 65:1 I permitted Myself to be sought by
those who did not ask for Me; I permitted Myself
to be found by those who did not seek Me. I said,
‘Here am I, here am I,’ To a nation which did not
call on My name. 2” I have spread out My hands
all day long to a rebellious people, Who walk in
the way which is not good, following their own
thoughts
Isaiah 10 For the LORD has poured over you a
spirit of deep sleep, He has shut your eyes, the
prophets; and He has covered your heads, the
seers.
Isaiah 59:20 “A Redeemer will come to Zion, and
to those who turn from transgression in Jacob”,
declares the LORD.
Isaiah 40:13 Who has directed the Spirit of the
LORD, or as His counselor has informed him?
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Romans 14:11 For it is written, “AS I LIVE, SAYS Isaiah 45:23 By Myself I have sworn; truth has
THE LORD, EVERY KNEE SHALL BOW TO ME, AND gone out from My mouth, a word that will not be
EVERY TONGUE SHALL GIVE PRAISE TO GOD.” revoked: every knee will bow before Me, every
tongue will confess allegiance.

Romans 15:12 And again Isaiah says, “THERE
SHALL COME THE ROOT OF JESSE, AND HE WHO
ARISES TO RULE OVER THE GENTILES, IN HIM
SHALL THE GENTILES HOPE
Isaiah 11:1 Then a shoot will spring from the stem
of Jesse, and a branch from his roots will bear
fruit. . . .
11:10 Then in that day the nations will resort to
the root of Jesse, Who will stand as a signal for
the peoples; and His resting place will be glorious.

Romans 15:21 but as it is written, “THEY WHO
HAD NO NEWS OF HIM SHALL SEE, AND THEY
WHO HAVE NOT HEARD SHALL UNDERSTAND.”
Isaiah 52:15 Thus He will sprinkle many nations,
Kings will shut their mouths on account of Him;
for what had not been told them they will see,
and what they had not heard they will
understand.

Here we find that in the Book of Romans which is the first Book in the 17 Book corresponding pattern found
in the New Testament, no less than 17 direct quotes from Romans that directly correlate to Genesis and
Isaiah, the other corresponding first Books in their respective 17 Book patterns. Not only this, but the
overall theme of each Book shows a comprehensive and complimentary sweep of the concepts these Books
focus on. For instance, Genesis is the foundational Book of beginnings that introduces God’s Creation ruined
by man’s sin, with all of the core principles and foundations of Christianity where God laid the framework for
the eventual Salvation God was going to bring through Jesus Christ, through the lineage of Abraham, Isaac,
and Jacob. Much like Genesis is the preeminent Book of history and beginnings, Isaiah is the preeminent
Book of prophecy and begins the prophetic Books. Isaiah finds Israel in a state of rebellion and complacency
shortly after the greatest period in their history where Solomon reigned over a picture or a model or
foreshadowing of Christ’s eventual glorified Millennial Kingdom. Israel had fallen from that glory and from
God’s Grace, much like Adam and Eve had fallen from and polluted God’s perfect Creation through their
transgression in Genesis. Israel had divided into two kingdoms through civil war and Isaiah was
prophetically warning them that they were headed towards all the punishments God had warned them
about if they were disobedient.

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Romans ties these two together and shows how through Christ, the sins of the world and the sins of Israel
have been paid for by Christ and through God’s Grace, a provision for restoration for humanity has been
made through faith in Christ. Romans Chapter 1 opens with a defense of God’s creation of the universe,
which is a correlation and direct reference to Genesis, including several important facts regarding direct
quotes from Genesis and even more references and allusions to key constructs and important Theological
tenets which are established in Genesis. Then Isaiah is quoted twelve different times with key references
building the case that God’s entire plan was Salvation by Grace through faith in Christ’s completed work on
The Cross from the very beginning.

Romans has been called the summit of Paul’s Epistles, his Gospel, and is considered by most Christians to be
the preeminent Book of Christian doctrine as well as its foundation. In light of this study, it is clear that
Romans shouldn’t be categorized as the sixth Book of the New Testament in that sense, but the first Book of
the Epistolic Books. As Genesis is the foundation of the history Books and Isaiah is the foundation of the
prophetic Books, Romans is the foundation of the Epistolic Books and much like all the history Books rely on
Genesis for reference and all the prophetic Books are grounded by Isaiah, all the Epistolic Books rely on
Romans. It should be no mystery to see how Paul is Inspired by God to draw very deeply from Genesis and
Isaiah for the underpinning principles to establish his foundational Book of Christian doctrine. There is a
need for Salvation, we are all without excuse, and God by His Grace has provided our Salvation through
Jesus Christ and His Atoning death on The Cross: the overarching themes of Genesis and Isaiah brought to
fulfillment in Romans.

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1 Corinthians (Stage 2)

1 Corinthians 10:7 And do not be idolaters, as Exodus 32:6 So the next day they rose early and
some of them were; as it is written, “THE PEOPLE offered burnt offerings, and brought peace
SAT DOWN TO EAT AND DRINK, AND STOOD UP offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to
TO PLAY.” drink, and rose up to play.

1 Corinthians 1:30 But by His doing you are in
Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God,
and righteousness and sanctification, and
redemption, 31 that, just as it is written, “LET HIM
WHO BOASTS, BOAST IN THE LORD.”
Jeremiah 9:23 Thus says the LORD, “Let not a wise
man boast of his wisdom, and let not the mighty
man boast of his might, let not a rich man boast
of his riches; 24 but let him who boasts boast of
this, that he understands and knows Me, that I
am the LORD who exercises lovingkindness,
justice, and righteousness on earth; for I delight in
these things,” declares the LORD.

In 1 Corinthians, the second Book in the New Testament 17 Book pattern, again is seen direct quotes from
the corresponding second Books in the other two 17 Book patterns, as Exodus is quoted and Jeremiah is also
quoted. As Exodus is a picture of the believer being led out of the world (represented by Egypt) by the
blood of the Lamb and led by the Spirit represented by the pillar of cloud and pillar of fire, we see in 1
Corinthians a recounting of Israel’s escape from Egypt (the world) and being led by the pillar of cloud and
pillar of fire (The Spirit) in 1 Corinthians 10:1-13, and a reminder to not make the same mistakes Israel as a
nation made as we personally are led by the Spirit to ratify our faith through the rite of baptism where our
Salvation is untouchable by Satan (represented by Pharaoh) and we are set on a path of a new spiritual life.

In the second Book of the 17 Book New Testament pattern, Paul uses the second Book of the first Old
Testament 17 Book pattern to illustrate how we who are experiencing our own personal Exodus through
faith in Christ should strive to not make the same mistakes Israel made as a nation during their Exodus.
Jeremiah comes into view also as in the Book of Jeremiah the prophet is strongly warning that Judah and
Jerusalem are going to be chastised by God through a time of going back into bondage, not to Egypt, but
rather to Babylon, much like Israel, the northern kingdom had already been taken captive and dispersed in
Assyria.

Exodus starts with Israel in bondage in Egypt and details the provisions God made to work on bringing them
out of Egypt, then details their departure after the plagues God inflicts on Egypt. The rest of the Book is
about how God starts to prepare them for the new faith based life He seeks to instill in them after they’d
escaped bondage in Egypt. Jeremiah, however, starts with Judah and Jerusalem still sovereign and free, but
contrary to how God is preparing Israel to leave Egypt and is using Israel to warn Egypt of God’s impending
judgment, now God is using Jeremiah to warn Judah and Jerusalem of God’s impending judgment on them
through Babylon, then the rest of the Book details how Judah and Jerusalem go into captivity and are left in
ruins for a time of desolation before restoration.

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In Jeremiah is seen over and over again an arrogance, an entitlement attitude by Judah, a disbelief that God
could ever even consider leaving Judah and Jerusalem in ruins. Very fitting that the passage of Jeremiah
quoted in 1 Corinthians is the exhortation to only boast in the LORD, and no other boasting should ever be
done in the Christian’s life, therefore avoiding the critical mistakes Israel made as they stumbled over their
pride into captivity. A similar misguided pride and arrogance is seen in the way Paul has to correct the
Corinthians who were far too liberal in the grace and forgiveness they were showing to those in flagrant sin,
where Paul rebukes them in 1 Corinthians 5, saying, “. . . you have become arrogant . . . “ and “Your boasting
is not good . . . “ referring to their attitude towards sin and how it was not accurate and correct, and that
only repentant sin should be lovingly forgiven, but active and flagrant sin must be dealt with.

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2 Corinthians (Stage 3)

2 Corinthians 6:16 Or what agreement has the
temple of God with idols? For we are the temple
of the living God; just as God said, “I WILL DWELL
IN THEM AND WALK AMONG THEM; AND I WILL
BE THEIR GOD, AND THEY SHALL BE MY PEOPLE.”
Leviticus 26:11 Moreover, I will make My dwelling
among you, and My soul will not reject you. 12 I
will also walk among you and be your God, and
you shall be My people.

2 Corinthians 13:5 Test yourselves to see if you Lamentations 3:40 Let us examine and probe our
are in the faith; examine yourselves! Or do you ways, and let us return to the LORD.
not recognize this about yourselves, that Jesus
Christ is in you—unless indeed you fail the test?

2 Corinthians is the third Book in the New Testament’s 17 Book pattern and it corresponds perfectly with its
parallel Books in the first two 17 Book patterns in the Old Testament, Leviticus and Lamentations. Leviticus
is the Book of God’s holiness standards for living right with Him and living right with others. It contained the
rules for making offerings of different types, expounding on the moral law with more detailed explanations
on the Ten Commandments, the priestly duties, and the civil law. It contained everything Israel needed to
know regarding how to live reverently with God and peaceably with others.

With the mystical perfection of God’s Word in view it also perfectly foreshadowed Christ’s sacrifice and
fulfillment of all of God’s righteous standards for living that Israel was never able to keep, but that Christ
kept perfectly. It was also very practical in one sense, as Israel had come out of Egypt after being enslaved
there for 430 years, and God did not want Israel to live according to Egypt’s (the world’s) standards, but
according to His standards for righteous living.

Lamentations, the third Book of the second Old Testament 17 Book pattern is a very grievous lament over
the fact that Israel had failed to keep God’s holiness standards and was now left in desolate sorrow with
overwhelming tragedy and their Promised Land home and capital of Jerusalem in complete and utter ruin
with the Jews themselves being taken captive to Babylon. The primary theme of 2 Corinthians is God’s Spirit
living inside of us through our faith in Christ helping us to know God’s holiness standards directly in our
spirit-soul selves, rather than simply being mentally aware of what God’s commandments are. 2 Corinthians
7 indicates that Paul’s strong chastisement for the Christians in Corinth did cause them sorrow, but not
desolate sorrow like the Jews were burdened with in Lamentations, but Godly sorrow that led to repentance
and Salvation without regret. The parallel passage of Lamentations 3:40 compared with 2 Corinthians shows
this perfectly, that while at the time of the desolations of Jerusalem, Israel realized that they needed to
examine themselves and probe their ways and return to the LORD, but in 2 Corinthians we examine
ourselves in a way that tests for the Spirit of Christ living in us, just as God prophesied in Leviticus that He
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Galatians (Stage 4)
Galatians 1:22 And I was still unknown by sight to
the churches of Judea which were in Christ; 23
but only, they kept hearing, “He who once
persecuted us is now preaching the faith which he
once tried to destroy.” 24 And they were
glorifying God because of me.
Galatians 2:11 When Cephas came to Antioch,
however, I opposed him to his face, because he
stood to be condemned. 12 For before certain
men came from James, he used to eat with the
Gentiles. But when they arrived, he began to
draw back and separate himself, for fear of those
in the circumcision group. 13 The other Jews
joined in his hypocrisy, so that by their hypocrisy
even Barnabas was led astray
Galatians 4:10 You observe days and months and
seasons and years.
Galatians 4:19 My children, with whom I am again
in labor until Christ is formed in you— 20 but I
could wish to be present with you now and to
change my tone, for I am perplexed about you.
Galatians 3:3 Are you so foolish? Having begun by
the Spirit, are you now being perfected by the
flesh? 4 Did you suffer so many things in vain—if
indeed it was in vain?
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Numbers 23:22 “God brings them out of Egypt, He
is for them like the horns of the wild ox. 23 “For
there is no omen against Jacob, nor is there any
divination against Israel; at the proper time it
shall be said to Jacob and to Israel, what God has
done. . .”
Numbers 20:12 But the LORD said to Moses and
Aaron, “Because you have not believed Me, to
treat Me as holy in the sight of the sons of Israel,
therefore you shall not bring this assembly into
the land which I have given them.”
Numbers 28:1 Then the LORD spoke to Moses,
saying, 2 “Command the sons of Israel and say to
them, ‘You shall be careful to present My offering,
My food for My offerings by fire, of a soothing
aroma to Me, at their appointed time.’
Numbers 11:11 So Moses said to the LORD, “Why
hast Thou been so hard on Thy servant? And why
have I not found favor in Thy sight, that Thou hast
laid the burden of all this people on me? 12 “Was
it I who conceived all this people? Was it I who
brought them forth, that Thou shouldest say to
me, ‘Carry them in your bosom as a nurse carries
a nursing infant, to the land which Thou didst
swear to their fathers”? 13”Where am I to get
meat to give to all this people? For they weep
before me, saying, ‘Give us meat that we may
eat!’
Ezekiel 18:24 “But when a righteous man turns
away from his righteousness, commits iniquity,
and does according to all the abominations that a
wicked man does, will he live? All his righteous
deeds which he has done will not be remembered
 for his treachery which he has committed and his
sin which he has committed; for them he will die.”

Galatians 6:17 From now on let no one cause
trouble for me, for I bear on my body the brand-
marks of Jesus.
Ezekiel 9:4 And the LORD said to him, “Go
through the midst of the city, even through the
midst of Jerusalem, and put a mark on the
foreheads of the men who sigh and groan over all
the abominations which are being committed in
its midst.”

Galatians is the preeminent Book on justification by faith. Paul gives a strong warning to those who’d
believed in Christ and received the Spirit, that they should under no circumstances go back to a mindset
where they would be relying on their works and their own spiritual efforts in keeping God’s Old Covenant
Law to be justified before God. In Numbers, the fourth Book in the first Old Testament 17 Book pattern,
Israel is being weaned off of worldly ways they learned in Egypt and God is trying to teach them to walk by
faith, to trust in Him for their provision and to believe that He would deliver them into the Promised Land
which He promised them He would do. It was only about a two week’s journey for Israel to leave Egypt and
geographically arrive at the Promised Land. It was not for lack of a compass that it took them 40 years
wandering in the desert to get there, it was for lack of a moral compass, and lack of faith in God that God
allowed the first generation (a model or type of our first born nature) to die off in the wilderness
wanderings, before empowering the next generation (a model or type of our born again nature) to cross the
Jordan and take possession of the Promised Land. They grumbled, complained, rebelled, complained more,
and through an incredible amount of disobedience longed to go back to Egypt (worldliness).

As we many times marvel at the almost unbelievable disobedience against God, and we shake our heads,
and point the finger at ancient Israel, we must remember that all those things aforetime were written for
our instruction, and really God is using Israel to point the finger at us, as we are the ones, who once saved
from the world through Christ and shown God’s righteous standards He wants us to live by, then
subsequently rebel, and long to go back to worldly ways, try to push the envelope of how far our worldliness
can continue in light of our faith, cheapening God’s Grace, and tend to seek to justify ourselves by our good
works.

It is a challenge indeed to continue on in faith, that only by Christ’s sacrifice are we justified before God, and
our works we do are only and always done in gratitude of that finished work on The Cross, and are never
done to justify ourselves. It is also difficult to not backslide and long to go back to worldliness, as many,
many Christians do through complacency and contentment. Ezekiel the fourth Book in the second 17 Book
pattern in the Old Testament, now has Judah firmly in the grip of their punishment for abandoning God’s
commandments and going back to worldly ways. Jerusalem is besieged and completely destroyed and
Judah lies in complete desolation while the Jews are taken captive into Babylon. It is a terrible time in
Judah’s history, where God removes His Shekinah Glory from the Temple in advance of its destruction, and it
is a contrasting picture of how God’s Shekinah Glory was protecting them through their wilderness
wanderings despite the difficult weaning process Israel was going through. God’s Shekinah Glory didn’t

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leave them while they were being spiritually weaned off the world and onto faith. However, in Ezekiel, they
had long since reached spiritual maturity and glory under David and Solomon and as they continue their
decline and fall from God’s Grace which provided that glory in their history, God’s Shekinah Glory is
removed now, as they are allowed to reap the harvest of their worldly desires and abandonment of God’s
commandments for a 70 year punishment in Babylon. Galatians ties these two contrasting pictures together
in the life of a Christian. We begin by faith and receive The Spirit by faith, but then many have a human
tendency to want to go back to religion and the form of piety. It is probably the single most common cause
of Christian cults that arise where Paul by God’s Holy Spirit warns against perverted and different gospels,
the seeds of which were already being planted in the very early days of the Church.

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Ephesians (Stage 5)

Ephesians 4:4 There is one body and one Spirit, Deuteronomy 6:4 Hear O Israel! The LORD is our
just as also you were called in one hope of your God, the LORD is one!
calling; 5 one Lord, one faith, one baptism, 6 one
God and Father of all who is over all and through
all and in all.

Ephesians 1:20 which He brought about in Christ,
when He raised Him from the dead, and seated
Him at His right hand in the heavenly places, 21
far above all rule and authority and power and
dominion, and every name that is named, not
only in this age, but also in the one to come. 22
And He put all things in subjection under His feet,
and gave Him as head over all things to the
church, 23 which is His body, the fulness of Him
who fills all in all.
Daniel 7:13 “I kept looking in the night visions,
and behold, with the clouds of heaven One like a
Son of Man was coming, and He came up to the
Ancient of Days and was presented before Him.
14 “And to Him was given dominion, Glory and a
kingdom, that all the peoples, nations and men of
every language might serve Him. His dominion Is
an everlasting dominion which will not pass away;
and His kingdom is one which will not be
destroyed.

Ephesians 6:12 For our struggle is not against
flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the
powers, against the world forces of this darkness,
against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the
heavenly places.
Daniel 10:13 But the prince of the kingdom of
Persia was withstanding me for twenty-one days;
then behold, Michael, one of the chief princes,
came to help me, for I had been left there with
the kings of Persia.

Ephesians 6:18 With all prayer and petition pray
at all times in the Spirit, and with this in view, be
on the alert with all perseverance and petition for
all the saints.
Daniel 9:20 Now while I was speaking and
praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my
people Israel, and presenting my supplication
before the LORD my God in behalf of the holy
mountain of my God . . .

Ephesians is the fifth Book in the New Testament’s 17 Book pattern. It constantly reminds the believer
everything Christ has done on our behalf for our Salvation then exhorts the believer to humbly live lives of
gratitude and in a manner worthy of the gift of Salvation we have been Graced with. The Book stresses
Christian unity in the Spirit. This corresponds perfectly with Deuteronomy, the fifth Book in the first Old
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Israel. In this sermon series Moses stresses all that God had done for Israel by bringing them out of Egypt
and reminds them of all the glorious things God had done for them to bring them out and sustain them
through their wilderness wanderings and is also preparing them to go to the next level by empowering them
and equipping them with spiritual power and faith to cross the Jordan and take possession of the Promised
Land. In doing this, they would have to have courage and face giants living in the land, giants who used to
terrorize, intimidate and dominate them.

In the Christian context, we can see the analogy, that before our empowerment through The Spirit, we used
to be intimidated by giants in our own lives, such as addictions, lusts, greed, etc. and once empowered with
The Spirit, we are able to overcome things that used to dominate us. Ephesians ends with the armor of God
and an exhortation to be equipped with the full armor of God as we prepare to go into spiritual battle and
spiritual warfare so that we have the upper hand in living victorious spiritual lives. Daniel is the fifth Book in
the second 17 Book pattern. It is the premiere apocalyptic prophetic Book in the Old Testament
corresponding closely with the Revelation in the New Testament, both being the 27th overall Books in their
respective Testaments. In the near term immediate fulfillment of Daniel’s prophecies, Israel is nearing the
end of their 70 year captivity, much like in Deuteronomy, Israel was nearing the fulfillment of entering The
Promised Land. In Daniel, a further reaching application of Daniel’s prophecies, is that Israel is to prepare
for the coming of Messiah at the end of the 69th ‘week’ of Daniel’s 70 week prophecy. Then an even further
reaching application of Daniel’s 70 week prophecy, is the end times’ tribulation, time of Jacob’s trouble,
prophecy of the anti-Christ. This is fitting as Joshua, the Book following Deuteronomy can be seen as a
model or prefigure of The Revelation in Christ’s Second Coming, as Israel is prepared in Deuteronomy to be
led by Joshua (a prefigure of Yeshua) to take possession of The Promised Land (a model of the concept that
the meek shall inherit the earth) and Daniel prepares and prays a prayer of confession and petition before
Judah is allowed to return to their land even though it was a certainty that the Jews would indeed return
from Babylon to Judah and be re-established by God, because God had previously declared it.

In Ephesians, the exhortation is to prepare for battle with the armor of God and to be on alert with prayer
and petition and to be able to resist the evil day which at the time of this writing is drawing ever closer,
faster and faster with each passing year and perhaps now, with each passing month. It is also fitting as we
can apply the Ephesians exhortation to our personal situations, in the immediate future of our own personal
situations and circumstances, yet we can also apply the Ephesians exhortation to corporate Church
situations and circumstances, and especially can apply it in a preparation for end times events as we see the
final days of this age fast approaching.

It is also congruous that even though we know with certainty that Christ will return and accomplish all of the
prophecies about His glorious return, we are still exhorted to pray at all times as we see the day
approaching. Just like Daniel was inspired to pray when he read Jeremiah’s 70 year prophecy and saw the
time was just about up, we are likewise in Ephesians encouraged to pray as we see that this age of Grace is
just about up. Ephesians is a perfect elucidation of the reminder (second telling), preparation for spiritual
victory, and exhortation to pray for God to deliver on all of His promises.

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Philippians (Stage 6)
Philippians 3:1 Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the
Lord. To write the same things again is no trouble
to me, and it is a safeguard for you. 2 Beware of
the dogs, beware of the evil workers, beware of
the false circumcision; 3 for we are the true
circumcision, who worship in the Spirit of God and
glory in Christ Jesus and put no confidence in the
flesh
Joshua 5:1 Now it came about when all the kings
of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan to
the west, and all the kings of the Canaanites who
were by the sea, heard how the LORD had dried
up the waters of the Jordan before the sons of
Israel until they had crossed, that their hearts
melted, and there was no spirit in them any
longer, because of the sons of Israel. 2 At that
time the LORD said to Joshua, “Make for yourself
flint knives and circumcise again the sons of Israel
the second time.” 3 So Joshua made himself flint
knives and circumcised the sons of Israel at
Gibeath-haaraloth. 4 And this is the reason why
Joshua circumcised them: all the people who
came out of Egypt who were males, all the men of
war, died in the wilderness along the way, after
they came out of Egypt. 5 For all the people who
came out were circumcised, but all the people
who were born in the wilderness along the way as
they came out of Egypt had not been circumcised.
6 For the sons of Israel walked forty years in the
wilderness, until all the nation, that is, the men of
war who came out of Egypt, perished because
they did not listen to the voice of the LORD, to
whom the LORD had sworn that He would not let
them see the land which the LORD had sworn to
their fathers to give us, a land flowing with milk
and honey. 7 And their children whom He raised
up in their place, Joshua circumcised; for they
were uncircumcised, because they had not
circumcised them along the way. 8 Now it came
about when they had finished circumcising all the
nation, that they remained in their places in the
camp until they were healed. 9 Then the LORD
said to Joshua, “Today I have rolled away the
reproach of Egypt from you.” So the name of that
place is called Gilgal to this day.
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Philippians 1:27 Only conduct yourselves in a
manner worthy of the gospel of Christ; so that
whether I come and see you or remain absent, I
may hear you that you are standing firm in one
spirit, with one mind striving together for the
faith of the gospel; 28 in no way alarmed by your
opponents –which is a sign of destruction for
them, but of salvation for you, and that too, from
God.
Philippians 3:17 Brethren, join in following my
example, and observe those who walk according
to the pattern you have in us. 18 For many walk,
of whom I often told you, and now tell you even
weeping, that they are enemies of the cross of
Christ, 19 whose end is destruction, whose god is
their appetite, and whose glory is in their shame,
who set their minds on earthly things. 20 For our
citizenship is in heaven, from which also we
eagerly wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ; 21
who will transform the body of our humble state
into conformity with the body of His glory, by the
exertion of the power that He has even to subject
all things to Himself.
Philippians 3:12 Not that I have already obtained
it, or have already become perfect, but I press on
in order that I may lay hold of that for which also I
was laid hold of by Christ Jesus, 13 Brethren, I do
not regard myself as having laid hold of it yet; but
one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and
reaching forward to what lies ahead, 14 I press on
toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of
God in Christ Jesus.
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Joshua 2:9 and said to the men, “I know that the
LORD has given you the land, and that the terror
of you has fallen on us, and that all the
inhabitants of the land have melted away before
you. 10 “For we have heard how the LORD dried
up the water of the Red Sea before you when you
came out of Egypt, and what you did to the two
kings of the Amorites who were beyond the
Jordan, to Sihon and Og, whom you utterly
destroyed. 11 “And when we heard it, our hearts
melted and no courage remained in any man any
longer because of you; for the LORD your God, He
is God in heaven above and on earth beneath.”
Hosea 13:12 The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up;
his sin is stored up. 13 The pains of childbirth
come upon him; he is not a wise son, for it is not
the time that he should delay at the opening of
the womb. 14 Shall I ransom them from the
power of Sheol? Shall I redeem them from
death? O Death, where are your thorns? O
Sheol, where is your sting? Compassion will be
hidden from My sight.
Hosea 6:3 “So let us know, let us press on to know
the LORD. His going forth is as certain as the
dawn; and He will come to us like the rain, like the
spring rain watering the earth.”
Philippians is the sixth Book of the New Testament’s 17 Book complimentary macrocosmic pattern and like
each of the 17 Book Old Testament patterns it fits perfectly with the themes of its counterpart sixth Books.
In Joshua, the sixth Book of the first Old Testament 17 Book pattern, we see the Israelites empowered with
God’s awesome Presence in order to defeat seemingly impenetrable fortresses and defeat seemingly
indomitable foes. In Philippians we see this same exact concept through the lens of the Gospel in that Paul,
in seemingly desperate circumstances being imprisoned, in fact, is used as an instrument of evangelism right
in the heart of one of the fiercest and seemingly impenetrable and indomitable enemies of the Church, that
being the beastly Roman empire.

This fits perfectly with Joshua as we see Israel, go right into the heart of enemy territory and have incredible
victory after incredible victory. In Ephesians, if the traditional view is held, that Paul indeed wrote the
Epistle to the Philippians from his Roman imprisonment, that he was right in the heart of the biggest and
fiercest enemy of God in the beast-like Roman empire, yet was preaching the Gospel throughout the whole
praetorian guard as well as everyone else he came in contact with and many, right in the heart of the enemy
were being converted and saved. In Hosea, the prophet marries a harlot and an adulteress, and is instructed
by God to do this as a model or picture of how God feels about His relationship with Israel, in that they
betrayed the spiritual marriage they had with God through trusting in and following after other nations and
their false gods. In this counter pattern, at the stage where Israel should have been having spiritually
empowered victory, instead they were committing spiritual adultery. Also interesting is that Hosea is
Joshua’s name in the wilderness wanderings, and his name, at some point is changed to Joshua before the
conquest of Canaan, yet with Hosea’s place in the Bible, although a completely different person,
idiomatically and mystically, the name is Hosea, which was Joshua’s name before his spiritual
empowerment, mystically emphasizing the backwards counter pattern Israel is on, falling away from God’s
Grace. One interesting connection to Hosea from Philippians is there are two references to horses in Hosea.
First in Hosea 1:7 God indicates He will have compassion on Judah, but not Israel, but He will deliver them
supernaturally or spiritually, and not by bow, sword, battle, horses, or horsemen. And then in Hosea 14:2-3
God tells Israel what to say in order to receive mercy and compassion from Him and one of the things they
are to say is that “Assyria will not save us, we will not ride on horses; nor will we say again, ‘Our god’,” to the
work of our hands”. This is an interesting connection in that Philippians means “lovers of horses” and many
times in the Old Testament, God rebukes Israel for trusting in horses or military might for their deliverance
but wants them to trust solely in Him for deliverance.

This connection is perfected in one of the connections to Joshua, the first Old Testament sixth Book, when
Joshua is told to circumcise all the sons of Israel after they cross the Jordan, before going to battle against
Jericho, the mighty Canaanite fortress, hardly a conventional worldly military strategy, to lay up the entire
army right before battle, but God is making the point that the circumcision, is a sign or symbol of the
spiritual nature of His people, who have the “flesh” cut away from them and they are to rely on God
spiritually, rather than on flesh materially. In Philippians Paul brings this point home that those who are of
the false circumcision (Greek katatome) a word used for circumcision in the sense of mutilation, in other
words, the ritual of circumcision in the flesh without the spiritual understanding of what it represented
became utterly useless and in fact was a mutilation in itself, of what God intended by the meaning of it, and
Paul asserts that those who worship God in the Spirit of God are the true circumcision (Greek peritome)
another Greek word used for circumcision, but without the mutilation connotation, implying that the true
understanding of circumcision was spiritual living apart from fleshly living, a truly separated people.

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Colossians (Stage 7)

Colossians 1:10 so that you may walk in a manner Judges 2:6 When Joshua had dismissed the
worthy of the Lord, to please Him in all respects, people, the sons of Israel went each to his
bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in inheritance to possess the land.
the knowledge of God; 11 strengthened with all
power, according to His glorious might, for the
attaining of all steadfastness and patience;
joyously 12 giving thanks to the Father, who has
qualified us to share in the inheritance of the
saints in light.

Colossians 1:13 For He delivered us from the
domain of darkness, and transferred us to the
kingdom of His beloved Son, 14 in whom we have
redemption, the forgiveness of sins
Joel 2:1 Blow a trumpet in Zion, and sound an
alarm on My holy mountain! Let all the
inhabitants of the land tremble, for the day of the
LORD is coming; surely it is near, 2 A day of
darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and thick
darkness, as the dawn is spread over the
mountains, so there is a great and mighty people;
there has never been anything like it, nor will
there be again after it to the years of many
generations.

Colossians is the seventh Book of the New Testament 17 Book pattern and probably requires the most
abstract understanding of end time’s events in order to see how it fits accordingly with Judges and Joel. As
earlier iterated in the Judges’ commentary, the Book of Judges represents the time in a Christian’s life, after
being baptized in God’s Holy Spirit and empowered for several mountain top spiritual victories, when we
attempt to maintain that spiritual vigor and maintain our spiritual empowerment and victory while we await
our true inheritance.

Unfortunately, for the vast majority of Christians, we fall into the same pitfalls that Israel fell into after
Joshua dies and leaves Israel to their “inheritance”. They fall back, they get complacent, they don’t follow
through with eradicating the rest of the Canaanites, they don’t maintain their integrity, and they go back to
worldly, pagan tendencies, and get tripped up by the false idols of the Canaanites they failed to drive out of
their land, and have to cry out to God to raise up a judge or hero of faith to get them back on track. After
our Joshua, namely Jesus, the real Joshua, died on The Cross, then left us to maintain the promise of our
inheritance after His Resurrection, what have we as Christians been doing ever since, right up until the
current day (at the time of this writing)? We fall back, we get complacent, we don’t follow through with
eradicating all the sin in our lives, we fail to maintain our integrity, we struggle against going back to worldly,
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get us back on track. Judges is basically a portrait of the Church age and everything we struggle with to
maintain the great victory we have in Christ while still in our sin cursed flesh. Once the Church age is
complete, the Church as a corporate body, is then glorified in Christ, and the kingdom age begins after the
short-lived 7 year rebellious tribulation period transpires. With Colossians as a remarkably encouraging and
positive Book, full of commendation for the Church at Colossae, one might struggle to see its correlation to
Judges, a time of compromise and struggle to maintain, and Joel, a time of severe warning that the Day of
the LORD is near at hand and the judgments will be extremely severe, however, from a perspective that sees
that Colossians from the standpoint of understanding that the Book of Ruth took place during the time of
the Judges, toward the end of that time period, and it shows that a Gentile Bride, was living in faith and
integrity at a time just before the harvest, and during the threshing, was at the feet of her Kinsman
Redeemer, Boaz. While we are living during these end times days, we should be living with Ruth-like faith,
during the time of moral compromise and moral relativism. Colossians also makes some striking
connections with the Judges / Joel pattern concept, in that Paul says “even though I am absent in body,
nevertheless I am with you in spirit,” an allusion to the fact that while Christ has gone to prepare a place for
His Bride The Church, and is absent in body, He is present with us through His Holy Spirit. Also, Joel provides
the prophecy which is fulfilled on the Day of Pentecost, but includes the Day of the LORD, with darkness and
devastation, indicating that God’s Spirit started being poured out on the :”last days” dispensation, which
started on the Day of Pentecost so long ago, but has continued and will continue to be poured out and in
like measure of the initial outpouring as the Day of the LORD approaches.

While Judges corresponds to the overall state of the world and the Church at large around the world before
the anti-Christ is revealed, and Joel corresponds to the state of Israel during the same time frame, Colossians
speaks to the Church, who has nothing to fear of this time if we, as the Church, or the part of the Church
who is setting our minds on the things above and not on the things that are on earth, because Colossians 3:4
indicates to us, “When Christ, who is our life, is revealed, then you also will be revealed with Him in glory,”
as a clear indication that we, the true faithful Church will be coming back with Christ at His Second Coming,
so that while we, as individual Christians may indeed have a “Judges” stage in our lives where we’ve rested
on our spiritual laurels and struggled with complacency, we should be loving His appearing, and having His
Spirit poured out upon us for spiritual victory, during a time of the world and the worldly church’s moral
relativism, living Ruth-like lives during the pre-cursory period of time just before the end times begin. This is
also interesting in light of Judges, which begins in Chapter 1 with Caleb’s daughter (recall that Caleb is oft
understood as a model or type of God’s Holy Spirit) asking for the springs because she is in the Negev
(southern desert region). This could be seen as a mystical relationship with the Church, living in the spiritual
wilderness of the world asking for and receiving the upper and lower springs, an allusion to the initial and
final outpouring of God’s Holy Spirit during the Church Age. This corresponds to Joel where God promises
the early and latter rains to return to Israel, and certainly corresponds to the Acts 2 reference by Peter that
Pentecost started fulfilling the final Church age dispensation, and a similar final outpouring will fulfill the
time when the signs preceding the Day of the LORD would begin.

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1 Thessalonians (Stage 8)
1 Thessalonians 2:14 For you, brethren, became
imitators of the churches of God in Christ Jesus
that are in Judea, for you also endured the same
sufferings at the hands of your own countrymen,
even as they did from the Jews, 15 who both
killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove
us out. They are not pleasing to God, but hostile
to all men 16 hindering us from speaking to the
Gentiles that they might be saved; with the result
that they always fill up the measure of their sins.
But wrath has come upon them to the utmost.
1 Thessalonians 2:7 But we proved to be gentle
among you, as a nursing mother tenderly cares
for her own children, 8 having a fond affection for
you, we were well pleased to impart to you not
only the Gospel of God but also our own lives,
because you had become very dear to us
1 Thessalonians 5:1 Now as to the times and the
epochs, brethren, you have no need of anything
to be written to you. 2 For you yourselves know
full well that the day of the Lord will come just
like a thief in the night. 3 While they are saying,
“Peace and safety!” then destruction will come
upon them suddenly like birth pangs upon a
woman with child; and they shall not escape. 4
But you, brethren, are not in darkness, that the
day should overtake you like a thief; 5 for you are
all sons of light and sons of day. We are not of
night nor of darkness; 6 so then let us not sleep as
others do, but let us be alert and sober. 7 For
those who sleep do their sleeping at night, and
those who get drunk get drunk at night. 8 But
since we are of the day, let us be sober, having
put on the breastplate of faith and love, and as a
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Ruth 2:10 Then she fell on her face, bowing to the
ground and said to him, “Why have I found favor
in your sight that you should take notice of me,
since I am a foreigner?” 11 And Boaz answered
and said to her, “All that you have done for your
mother-in-law after the death of your husband
has been fully reported to me, and how you left
your father and your mother and the land of your
birth, and came to a people that you did not
previously know. 12 May the LORD reward your
work, and your wages be full from the LORD, the
God of Israel, under whose wings you have come
to seek refuge.
Ruth 4:16 Then Naomi took the child and laid him
in her lap, and became his nurse. 17 and the
neighbor women gave him a name, saying, “A son
has been born to Naomi!” So they named him
Obed. He is the father of Jessi, the father of David
Amos 5:18 Alas, you who are longing for the day
of the LORD, for what purpose will the day of the
LORD be to you? It will be darkness and not light;
19 as when a man flees from a lion, and a bear
meets him, or goes home, leans his hand against
the wall, and a snake bites him. 20 Will not the
day of the LORD be darkness instead of light, even
gloom with no brightness in it
helmet, the hope of salvation. 9 For God has not
destined us for wrath, but for obtaining salvation
through our Lord Jesus Christ, 10 who died for us,
that whether we are awake or asleep, we may live
together with Him. 11 Therefore encourage one
another, and build up one another, just as you
also are doing.

1 Thessalonians is the eighth Book of the New Testament 17 Book pattern and just like Ruth and Amos is it
all about the Rapture and the Day of the LORD. As previously detailed in the Ruth section, Ruth is a picture
of a Gentile Bride who is at the feet of Boaz, her Kinsman Redeemer, during the threshing of the harvest.
This is a picture of the Church being with Christ our Kinsman Redeemer during the Tribulation. In Amos, is a
mockingly sarcastic question from God to the house of Israel, that they were waiting for the Day of the
LORD, as though it were their victory, when they had gone so far away from the LORD that how would the
Day of His Wrath benefit them, as they were destined to be targets of His wrath not benefactors of it?

This contrasts very well with 1 Thessalonians as it is the premiere Book in the Bible to go to for information
and Scripture supporting the pre-tribulation Rapture of the Church. We are not appointed to wrath, we are
not in darkness, the day will not overtake us like a thief, and we are sons of light, etc. etc. In a short five
Chapters there are six explicit references to the Coming of Christ, and especially 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 and
1 Thessalonians 5:1-11 which detail the Rapture and distinguish it from and separate it from the Day of the
LORD.

Once again, in Ruth, we see the Gentile Bride with her Kinsman Redeemer during the thrashing, a picture of
The Church, with Christ, Our Redeemer, during the judgment, and then in Amos we see the Day of the LORD
focused on the Middle East nations, especially Israel and Judah during the time of Jacob’s trouble, and God
indicating the Day of the LORD will not be a pleasant experience for those who are on earth during that
time. 1 Thessalonians might possibly be the single most encouraging Book in the entire Bible for Christians,
even more so than Colossians, as it speaks to those who are doing well in the LORD to simply keep it up, to
excel still more, and to encourage one another as the day approaches. There is exhortation, to keep on
doing well, and to keep on avoiding the things they know they should avoid, but there is hardly a negative
word or rebuke in the whole Book.

This fits very well with the pre-Tribulation Rapture fellowship of believers around the world, where the
encouragement, the brotherly and sisterly love reaches out and continues to sustain, evangelize, look for
the coming of the LORD, prays for one another, helps support the pre-Tribulation view with Scripture
teachings, with models, prefigures, and types of it in the Old Testament, and forms a unique and special
fellowship that stretches across the world in various denominations and non-denominational Churches and
various Church traditions.

This contrasts pretty strongly with the often arrogant, mean-spirited, and downright hateful, “no such thing
as the Rapture” contingent, who seeks to defame, distort, disprove, and prepare people for the

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unprepareable . . . Not everyone who doesn’t believe in the Rapture is like this, but it seems they are the
minority, and those who insist on a mid-Tribulation, pre-Wrath, or post-Tribulation viewpoint often malign,
mistreat, angrily rebuke the pre-Tribulation believers with mockery, Scripture stacking, and all sorts of
attacks, desperately trying to “save” the unsuspecting from falling into the “trap” of a pre-Tribulation
viewpoint . . . This speaks very loudly to whose fingerprints seem to be behind this mean-spirited virulent
disagreement. For those in that group, I would ask: which is the only viewpoint that can sustain a course
correction due to error? If the pre-Wrath, mid-Trib, or even post-Trib camps are correct or at least more
correct than the pre-Trib viewpoint . . . all pre-Trib believers will instantaneously become pre-Wrath
believers as soon as we see the Tribulation period has begun, and if that is incorrect, we’ll instantaneously
become mid-Trib believers, etc, and if any of us are still alive, the poor, wretched handful who make it all
the way through, without being martyred or taking the mark of the beast, can apply 1 Thessalonians 4:18
and 5:11 with the post-Trib interpretation, that twenty or so left of us, will be sitting around in some cave
sharing our last bottle of water comforting each other that the LORD will be coming soon. I suppose we’ll
also all be hiding from Jesus and hating to see His appearing in Revelation 6:14-17, since the group of people
who hate His appearing is described as all inclusive: every person, and every type of person, from every
walk of life alive on the face of the entire earth will hate seeing Jesus and hide from Him . . . I guess if that
sounds like Christians going through the Tribulation period, maybe a non-pre-Tribulation viewpoint might be
correct, but when I see it start to happen, I’ll get right in line with the non-pre-Tribulation people and admit
the pre-Tribulation viewpoint wasn’t correct and we were wrong, but what difference will it make at that
point honestly?

Does any mid, pre-Wrath, post believer honestly think you can hide enough water bottles and dried goods in
some sort of fallout shelter to survive for 3ish to 7ish years? Do you think you’ll be more spiritually
prepared somehow? Do you think you’re somehow more ready than a pre-Tribulation believer? If so, how?
Pre-Tribulation believers are following the instruction of 1 Thessalonians 1:9-10 which states, “For they
themselves report about us what kind of reception we had with you, and how you turned to God from idols
to serve a living and true God, 10 and to wait for His Son from heaven, Whom He raised from the dead, that
is Jesus, who delivers us from the wrath to come.” That seems pretty clear. I can’t imagine how any other
eschatological viewpoint could follow that instruction, because if you aren’t expecting that to happen until
the middle or end of the Tribulation, how can you be doing that instead of looking for the anti-Christ, and
false prophet, etc?

The other frustration is that somehow there is a false belief that the pre-Tribulation viewpoint was invented
in the 1800’s or earlier still by the Jesuits. None of these viewpoints were invented by any group at any time
. . . if you take all the end times Scripture from Old and New Testament, and systematize the overall
teaching of them, you can arrange things in approximately three overall ways, a Preterist viewpoint, a
Historicist viewpoint, and a Futurist viewpoint. Within the Futurist viewpoint there are a few sub
viewpoints: pre, mid, post Tribulation Rapture . . . These viewpoints weren’t invented, they are what the
Scripture says according to how you systematize and hermeneutically interpret Scripture. Just because
different groups, like the Jesuits, have done this theological exercise of systematizing Theological concepts
such as Eschatology, at different times in history, doesn’t mean they invented that doctrine, it is what
Scripture teaches comprehensively, if you systematize everything the Scripture says comprehensively about
a particular subject. So, if this means this, and that means that, and this parallels this and this is speaking
about that, then therefore, pre-Tribulation Rapture, however, if this means this instead, and that means that

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instead, and this parallels this instead, and this is speaking about that instead, then mid-Tribulation Rapture,
etc. Apply the same concept to the Preterist, Historicist viewpoints. The greatest plus the Futurist, pre-
Millennial, pre-Tribulation Rapture viewpoint has going for it, is that it allows for the very strictest
hermeneutic, taking the Scripture literally, and not having to allegorize huge swaths of Scripture. For
instance, when Revelation says Israel, it means Israel, not anything else. When Scripture says a thousand
years, six times no less, in one Chapter, it means one thousand years, exactly like it says. Hopefully, this
parallel study is one more proof of a pre-Tribulation Rapture understanding in the three 17 Book patterns
which have Book eight, three eights by the way, 888, being the gematrical value of the name of Jesus in
Scripture, also being the symbol of infinity, all foreshadowing, prophesying, alluding to, looking at the
aftermath of, and finally directly detailing the event known as the pre-Tribulation Rapture.

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2 Thessalonians (Stage 9)

2 Thessalonians 1:8 dealing out retribution to
those who do not know God and to those who do
not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus. 9 These will
pay the penalty of Eternal destruction, away from
the presence of the Lord and from the glory of His
power
1 Samuel 2:12 Now the sons of Eli were worthless
men; they did not know the LORD . . . 25 . . . But
they would not listen to the voice of their father,
for the LORD desired to put them to death.

2 Thessalonians 2:4 who opposes and exalts
himself above every so-called god or object of
worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of
God, displaying himself as being God . . . 8 And
then that lawless one will be revealed whom the
Lord will slay with the breath of His mouth and
bring to an end by the appearance of His coming;
Obadiah 1:15 “For the day of the LORD draws
near on all the nations. As you have done, it will
be done to you. Your dealings will return on your
own head. 16 “Because just as you drank on My
holy mountain, all the nations will drink
continually. They will drink and swallow, and
become as if they had never existed.

2 Thessalonians is the ninth Book in the New Testament’s 17 Book pattern and goes past the time of the
Rapture / Resurrection, to the middle point of the Tribulation period where the anti-Christ presents himself,
falsely , as being God, and forces the people on earth to worship him, take the mark of the beast and face
beheading if anyone refuses. 1 Samuel and Obadiah make tacit allusions and provide foreshadowing and
prophecy of this event, but 2 Thessalonians details the actual reality of this key event that Jesus Himself
ascribes as being the key to end times prophecy, quoted from Daniel, as happening at the mid-point of the
seven year tribulation period. Obadiah indicates that this individual will at least partially as one of his blood
lines have Edomite heritage which makes perfect sense regarding the final battle between Esau and Jacob,
Esau getting a jump on dominance, but Jacob/Israel having victory ultimately. In 2 Thessalonians 1:4-9 we
see a clear difference between persecution and affliction and tribulation that is done upon the Church from
a Satanically controlled world system, and that affliction is adding to the worthiness of the Church in
Thessalonica to be part of the Kingdom of God, as it is a clear indication that they are not of the world and
the world attacks them. However in 2 Thessalonians 1:6 it becomes clear that God will afflict those who
afflict the Church during the Tribulation period. Many mid-Tribulation, or post-Tribulation believers have a
flawed view and a flawed understanding looking at the end times events through the lens of 20th century
America and or on a slightly larger scale 20th century western civilization, despite the fact that America or
western civilization is simply one of many, many countries and/or regions around the world where
Christianity is present. The argument usually goes something like this: that why should we (20th Century
American Christians / Western Civilization) be the only Christians, in the entire history of the Church to not
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“our” persecution and chance to “prove” ourselves and the genuineness of our faith? This is a very flawed
understanding.

First, in 1 Peter 4:13, it says, “but to the degree that you share the sufferings of Christ, keep on rejoicing; so
that also at the revelation of His glory, you may rejoice with exultation.” Following up from a verse about
the fiery ordeal that comes upon believers. It is clear that there are different degrees of persecution some
Christians face. Some have only been made fun of or mocked by some friends or family members, and
that’s it; others have been tortured and killed; some have been fired from jobs, others have been fed to
lions. It doesn’t ever say anywhere that there is some fixed amount or quantity of persecution we each
must face to qualify our faith, and in fact there in 1 Peter 4:13 it actually says the opposite that there are
different degrees Christians face regarding persecution.

Secondly, and most importantly, the real question isn’t “why should we be the only ones to escape
persecution” (because clearly we all face it to some degree or another) but why should we be the only
Christians in all of human history to face the wrath of God poured out on an unbelieving world? That is the
real question, because right here in 2 Thessalonians 1:6 it makes it clear that God is going to repay those
who persecute and afflict Christians, and He will afflict them during the Tribulation period.

It is a period of time for earth dwellers, Esau-like, worldly, carnal, individuals, not believers. The seal,
trumpet, and bowl judgments clearly affect everyone living on earth in very negative ways, so there is no
way to not punish believers while punishing non-believers, when wars, plagues, famines, waters turning to
blood, earthquakes, etc. are all natural, supernatural, and/or supernaturally instigated natural disasters that
affect everyone. The other frustrating interpretation of 2 Thessalonians that all mid-Tribulation and post-
Tribulation believers love to use against pre-Tribulation believers is 2 Thessalonians 2:3 which, when
misapplied erroneously indicates that the Rapture wouldn’t happen until the anti-Christ is revealed and
some great apostasy occurs.

This argument is easily defeated and dismissed through context and understanding that the Coming of the
Lord Jesus (back to the earth) and the Rapture/Resurrection are two totally different events. The worry that
the Thessalonians are being corrected on by Paul, is that they’d missed the Rapture. They were worried
about this because under the persecution of Caesar Nero, and other persecutions they were facing, it
seemed as though to them that perhaps they were already in the Tribulation period and the awful wrath of
the Day of the LORD had come and they were in the midst of it. If they’d been taught that the Rapture /
Resurrection and the Day of the LORD were one and the same, and happened on the day Christ comes back
to earth, why would they be worried in the first place? They would simply be expecting that a few years
later, Jesus would return and set everything straight, if in fact they were in the midst of the Tribulation
period. What they’re clearly worried about is that they’re in the middle of the Tribulation period and had
missed the Rapture of the Church which they were expecting to happen before the Day of the LORD.

This is the easiest way to explain the apparent discrepancy, and unfortunately, many Pastors who are
reticent to get into eschatology, themselves don’t understand that Coming of the LORD is a seven year long
event with many, many prophecies being fulfilled over time and not just one single day. This conflates the
misunderstanding even further.

Additionally, many anti pre-Tribulation skeptics, argue that the word “Rapture” isn’t in the Bible, even
though, it clearly is as Harpazo, or “Catching Away” as it is usually translated in English, but actually the

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phrase that isn’t in the Bible anywhere, not one single place, is “Second Coming”. They love to use “Second
Coming”, and it is remarkable to me that no one ever checks them on that phrase as being unbiblical. Of
course we know that Jesus is indeed coming back, but “Second Coming” implying that there is just one single
time that Jesus comes back, is unbiblical and never appears once in the entire Scripture. It is a phrase we’ve
assigned to the Coming of the LORD, the Day of the LORD, the Rapture/Resurrection, etc. But to try to use
that ordinal and pigeon hole Christ into our nice “Second Coming” box, isn’t really Scriptural, as we see
Christ calling us with the voice of a Trumpet, to join Him in the Clouds, we see Him on Mount Zion with his
144,000, we see Him with a sickle from Heaven at the grape harvest, we see Him coming to tread the wine
press of the Great Wrath of God in Bozrah, and at the battle of Armageddon, and we see Him coming with
His saints to set foot on the Mount of Olives and split the city into a totally different geographical and
topological construct. So, how many “Comings” is that?

Another argument, completely separate from this and not necessary to defend the pre-Tribulation
viewpoint on this passage, but one that makes a lot of sense, is the translation of the Greek word
“apostasia” which denotatively simply means “departure”. One could say I’m ‘leaving’ this place or I’m
‘apostasiaing’ this place. It can and is translated in Greek and elsewhere in Scripture simply as a physical
departure from one place to another place. In the Tyndale translation to English this is the rendering that is
used in 2 Thessalonians, “. . . won’t come unless the departure comes first.” Unless the departure comes
first . . . which puts a completely different connotation and understanding in view, where departure easily
could be understood to be the Rapture. This actually makes more sense than “apostasia” in the connotative
sense of a departure from sound doctrine which in many translations is unnecessarily implied and translated
as “falling away” or simply “apostasy” which connotatively has come to mean an egregious departure from
good doctrine or flagrant abomination, etc. The reason it makes so much more sense to use the denotative
sense of the word in “departure” is the Resurrection / Rapture will be an undeniable event that takes place.

A “falling away” or “apostasia” is something that is pretty hard to pin down. We could easily say that
happened in the 4th century A.D. when the Church “married” the “state” or in the 7th century. We could say
it happened in the Middle Ages or other times when a heretical teaching or two or three crept into the
Church. We could say it happened in the 1960’s in western culture.

Perhaps we could say it was a departure not meaning the Rapture, but a departure from the Church as a
mass exodus of people abandon the Church . . . if we go with that interpretation, we could say it has already
happened as Western Europe Church attendance has dropped significantly and American Church
attendance isn’t far behind. We could even say it happened back in the 1st century as there were many who
were already “falling away” according to Paul and John in their Epistles, so how are we to apply this verse if
it means a falling away from sound doctrine and/or a mass exodus from the Church? Well, we could say it
has already happened, and if it hasn’t happened yet, if that’s what it means, and it did happen, how would
we really know, as those of us who do keep His Word wouldn’t be part of it, so it wouldn’t be a world-wide,
global falling away because if we were still here, we wouldn’t be part of it? Many say there is a lot of
“apostasia” in the Church right now as in departure from sound doctrine. So does that mean the
“apostasia” has happened? The point is, simply using the denotative sense of the word “apostasia” as
departure, as in Rapture, actually makes more sense, as that is a distinct, undeniable event. “Apostasia” as
in departure from sound doctrine is not really a point in time event, it is a long slog of a slow deterioration
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at a rapid clip, it is not some pinpointing event that we can all look at a particular date and say, “yes, ‘THE
Apostasia’ as happened now, at this moment in time.” Additionally, if it does indeed mean departure as in
Rapture, it might then have a double fulfillment, as once the true Church is gone, there will indeed also be
an unbelievable “apostasia” in the falling away from sound doctrine sense, because, at least for a time,
there will be zero Spirit-filled Christians on the face of the earth and any Church-goer ‘Christians’, false
believers, etc. will have no true leadership and incredible deception and a great delusion that Christ warns
even the elect could fall prey to, if it were possible, will be taking place. One assumption about that is that it
isn’t possible, because the elect aren’t there, due to the Rapture, and some brave Tribulation Saints, who
become the new elect ones during the Tribulation time period wake up from the delusion and deception,
but it will indeed cost them their heads to resist.

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1 Timothy (Stage 10)

1 Timothy 1:9 realizing the fact that law is not
made for a righteous man, but for those who are
lawless and rebellious, for the ungodly and
sinners, for the unholy and profane, for those
who kill their fathers or mothers, for murderers
10 and immoral men and homosexuals and
kidnappers and liars and perjurers, and whatever
else is contrary to sound teaching
2 Samuel 16:11 Then David said to Abishai and to
all his servants, “Behold, my son who came out
from me seeks my life; . . .
2 Samuel 17:1 Furthermore, Ahithophel said to
Absalom, “Please let me choose 12,000 men that I
may arise and pursue David tonight. 2 “And I will
come upon him while he is weary and exhausted
and will terrify him so that all the people who are
with him will flee. Then I will strike down the king
alone

1 Timothy 1:8 But we know that the Law is good, Jonah 1:1 The word of the LORD came up to
if one uses it lawfully, 9 realizing the fact that law Jonah the son of Amittai saying, 2 “Arise, go to
is not made for a righteous man, but for those Nineveh the great city, and cry against it, for their
who are lawless and rebellious, for the ungodly wickedness has come up before Me.”
and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for those
who kill their fathers or mothers, for murderers
10 and immoral men and homosexuals and
kidnappers and liars and perjurers, and whatever
else is contrary to sound teaching

1 Timothy 1:18 This command I entrust to you,
Timothy, my son , in accordance with the
prophecies previously made concerning you, that
by them you may fight the good fight, 19 keeping
faith and a good conscience, which some have
rejected and suffered shipwreck in regard to their
faith.
Jonah 1:3 But Jonah rose up to flee to Tarshish
from the presence of the LORD. So he went down
to Joppa, found a ship which was going to
Tarshish, paid the fare, and went down into it to
go with them to Tarshish from the presence of
the LORD. 4 And the LORD hurled a great wind on
the sea and there was a great storm on the sea so
that the ship was about to break up.

1 Timothy is the tenth Book of the New Testaments 17 Book pattern and the first of the so-called “Pastoral
Epistles” and it is an exhortation and a preparation by Paul to Timothy for a change coming to the Church at
large. Paul knew his time left as an Apostle of Christ was coming to an end and knew that there was much
work left to do and that as soon as he (Paul) left, that vicious wolves would enter the flock and start
attacking the Church both from within and externally. Therefore, in anticipation of this new stage of the
Church, Paul exhorts Timothy, his protégé, in all the ways he is to take the baton and help pass on the baton
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possible. Typologically in this pattern, this will likewise be a huge transition for the Church as this
represents, like 2 Samuel before it and Jonah in the second Old Testament 17 Book pattern the time when
the Church comes back with Christ to start establishing the new kingdom and rule. Many look at the first
few Chapters of 2 Samuel as analogous to Christ for seven years and six months preparing to rule in
Jerusalem, but is in Hebron, and some see this typologically as representative of Christ with the Church
preparing to come back and rule and reign from Jerusalem eventually, after the seven years and six months
are completed. David does come to Jerusalem with six wives and then negotiates to re-acquire his seventh
wife, Michal, whom he does not have with him at that time, then comes to establish His kingdom in
Jerusalem.

This stage of the pattern is when Christ does come back and establishes His Kingdom, His Rule, and His Reign
on earth from Jerusalem. It is fitting that a new section of the New Testament begins here as the Pastoral
Epistles begin, equipping the Church assume leadership and giving instructions how that leadership is to be
delegated. Little is known about this time from Scripture, but when it does happen, we know we are told
we will be kings and priests, and will rule and reign with a rod of iron with Christ on earth for a thousand
years. This clearly does not happen overnight, in the twinkling of an eye like the Resurrection / Rapture, as
there are stages to this. There’s the grapes of wrath at the Battle of Armageddon, there’s the reforming and
reshaping of the geography and topography of the land beginning in Jerusalem, there’s the separating of the
sheep and the goats, and then one can simply infer that there will be duties and delegations assigned to the
Church to spread and out and rule and reign over the various nations and areas of the earth, and we will
have a surprisingly difficult charge, as apparently, no matter how hard The Church tries and how well we do
at shepherding the people of the world during the Millennial Reign, we know from Revelation 20 that
apparently a massive number will fall away and rebel once Satan is released from His prison at the end of
the Millennial Reign.

This however fits perfectly with the tenth Book of the second Old Testament 17 Book pattern in Jonah, as
Jonah did not want to go to Nineveh, the Assyrian capital, much like I imagine the Church will not want to
leave the seven year “honeymoon” in heaven to come back to a devastated and desolate post Tribulation
earth. However, those who survive the Tribulation will apparently be surprisingly receptive to our
leadership and our warnings of the future at first, however, we’ll see two Books from now in Nahum that
the ultimate state of Nineveh ends up being destroyed. This is interesting as Nineveh is the first capital of
the first world dictator, Nimrod, and Nineveh is used as a type or model or prefigure of the post Tribulation
world. This is also interesting as in Zechariah we receive one of many titles of the anti-Christ, as the
Assyrian. So, while we return with Christ and participate in establishing His Kingdom and His Rule and Reign,
it will be like the account of 2 Samuel, where David finally overcomes and takes control of Jerusalem in a
unified Kingdom, and like Jonah, where the Gentile world whose been under the rule of the “Assyrian”, will
repent, and accept Christ initially upon His return and subsequent Kingdom establishment, but there will be
one final rebellion to fall prey to.

Historically and up to the time of this writing, 1 Timothy provides instructions for the Church to move past
the initial Apostolic age, and take the responsibility and oversight of it through Paul’s instructions to
Timothy, but in the 17 stage prophetic pattern future sense of this stage, it will likewise be a move of the
Church to prepare to take responsibility to rule and reign on earth. Far, far too many Christians think, “I die
then go to heaven,” or “I get Raptured, then that’s it,” and they are horribly, horribly mistaken. We should

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be preparing now, to be Rapture ready, then we are transformed, then we come back with Christ, then we
Rule and Reign for a thousand years, then we face a final rebellion, then the Great White Throne judgment,
then the heavens and earth pass away, then the creations of the New Heavens and the New Earth, then
Eternity. Too often, as Christians, we complain about politicians, kings, queens, presidents, senators,
governors, managers, supervisors, etc. but we must realize these will very soon be our jobs on earth. Sad to
say that our pre-written report card in Revelation 20:7-9 shows that a majority of us do a pretty terrible job
of Ruling and Reigning and Managing and Supervising.

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2 Timothy (Stage 11)
2 Timothy 2:12 If we endure, we shall also reign
with Him . . .
2 Timothy 4:3 For the time will come when they
will not endure sound doctrine; but wanting to
have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for
themselves teachers in accordance to their own
desires; 4 and will turn away their ears from the
truth, and will turn aside to myths. 5 But you, be
sober in all things, endure hardship, do the work
of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry. 6 For I am
already being poured out as a drink offering, and
the time of my departure has come
2 Timothy 3:8 And just as Jannes and Jambres
opposed Moses, so these men also oppose the
truth, men of depraved mind, rejected as regards
the faith. 9 But they will not make further
progress; for their folly will be obvious to all, as
also that of those two came to be.
2 Timothy 1:7 For God has not given us a spirit of
timidity, but of power and love and discipline. 8
Therefore do not be ashamed of the testimony of
our Lord, or of me His prisoner; but join with me
in suffering for the gospel according to the power
of God
1 Kings 3:7 “And now, O LORD my God, Thou hast
made Thy servant king in place of my father
David, yet I am but a little child; I do not know
how to go out or come in. 8 And thy servant is in
the midst of Thy people which Thou hast chosen;
a great people who cannot be numbered or
counted for multitude; 9 So give Thy servant an
understanding heart to judge Thy people to
discern between good and evil. For who is able to
judge this great people of Thine?”
1 Kings 22:8 And the king of Israel said to
Jehoshaphat, “There is yet one man by whom we
may inquire of the LORD, but I hate him, because
he does not prophesy good concerning me, but
evil. He is Micaiah son of Imlah.” But Jehoshaphat
said, “Let not the king say so.”
1 Kings 22:24 The Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah
came near and struck Micaiah on the cheek and
said, “How did the Spirit of the LORD pass from
me to speak to you?” 25 And Micaiah said,
“Behold, you shall see on that day when you
enter an inner room to hide yourself.”
Micah 3:8 On the other hand I am filled with
power—With the Spirit of the LORD—and with
justice and courage to make known to Jacob his
rebellious act, even to Israel his sin.
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2 Timothy 3:1 But realize this, that in the last days
difficult times will come. 2 For men will be lovers
of self; lovers of money, boastful, arrogant,
revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful,
unholy, 3 unloving, irreconcilable, malicious
gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of
good, 4 treacherous, reckless conceited, lovers of
pleasure rather than lovers of God; 5 holding to a
form of godliness, although they have denied its
power; and avoid such men as these.
Micah 4:1And it will come about in the last days
that the mountain of the house of the LORD will
be established as the chief of the mountains, it
will be raised above the hills, and the peoples will
stream to it. 2 And many nations will come and
say, “Come and let us go up to the mountain of
the LORD and to the house of the God of Jacob,
that He may teach us about His ways and that we
may alk in His paths.” For from Zion will go forth
the law; even the word fo the LORD from
Jerusalem.

2 Timothy is the eleventh Book in the New Testament’s 17 Book pattern and it is an exhortation and a
charge from Paul to his protégé, Timothy, that he [Paul] is about to depart to leave this world and he is
passing the proverbial torch or handing over the proverbial baton to Timothy, to continue to provide
leadership, advancement of the Gospel, and a defense of the true Gospel doctrines that Paul had preached
and taught over the known world.

Within the exhortation and instruction, are prophecies that despite anything, ultimately the mission will fail
as far as saving all souls, as towards the end of the age which Paul is entrusting to Timothy’s initial guidance
and by extension down ultimately to us, there will be a spiritual decay in the last days as the final generation
before the Kingdom comes, will be extremely rebellious and self-centered. This has an interesting double
fulfillment in this 17 Book prophetic pattern, as despite anything and everything we will be charged with
during the Millennial Reign of Christ, we know, as per Revelation 20, that at the end of the Millennial Reign,
we unfortunately, will apparently have failed tremendously in our message to preach the Gospel and the
Kingdom which will be present before all of those who survive the Tribulation period in the natural.

We will fail because it says at the conclusion of the Millennial Reign, Satan is released, and in a short time, it
seems that a massive army of followers betrays the Kingdom and Christ and God, and is seduced by Satan
and will join him in the final rebellion of all time, before the final Judgment and we enter into Eternity with
God. This is interesting also in that the other eleventh Books in their respective patterns all follow an
identical pattern, which starts with a passing of the torch, with David passing the kingdom to Solomon, a
picture of Christ’s promise of the Kingdom through the payment price of His Sacrifice on The Cross, but it
will be followed with His Kingdom in actuality, glorified in His Presence with us ruling and reigning with Him.
This is a great start to 2 Kings, but towards the end of the Book, the kingdom of Solomon, while a prefigure
of the glorious Kingdom to come, in the natural, it is still subject to sinfulness and rebellion, which
unfortunately takes hold of Solomon and he falls from Grace and from Glory, and ends up making decisions
which divide the kingdom and bring partial ruin to some of it.

In 2 Timothy we also see very good things up front with a lot of positive re-enforcement, exhortation, praise,
and support, but then towards the end, the prophecy of the ultimate fruit of all of this labor Paul, then

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Timothy embarked on, which is a society that falls into ruin. This contrasts perfectly with Micah, which
starts out terribly with fierce rebukes and warnings and prophecies about what is going to become of Israel
for their flagrant sins and transgressions against God, then starting in Micah Chapter 4 we see a dramatic
turn-around where God talks about the latter days when He will establish His Millennial rule. Israel and
Jerusalem will be the headquarters of the Millennial Reign and it will mostly be characterized by peace, love,
prosperity, joy, etc. Towards the end however, and after it concludes, apparently, the only place after the
Millennial Reign is over where the Righteous will dwell is in Israel, or at least that is still the headquarters
where the attack will come, and it is there that Satan along with all those who fall to his final deception and
seduction will come upon God’s people to attack them, when God destroys this final rebellious army with
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Titus (Stage 12)
Titus 1:5 For this reason I left you in Crete, that
you might set in order what remains, and appoint
elders in every city as I directed you . . . 10 For
there are many rebellious men, empty talkers and
deceivers, especially those of the circumcision, 11
who must be silenced because they are upsetting
whole families, teaching things they should not
teach, for the sake of sordid gain. 12 One of
themselves, a prophet of their own, said Cretans
are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons.” 13 This
testimony is true. For this cause reprove them
severely that they may be sound in the faith, 14
not paying attention to Jewish myths and
commandments of men who turn away from the
truth. 15 To the pure, all things are pure; but to
those who are defiled and unbelieving, nothing is
pure, but both their mind and their conscience
are defiled. 16 They profess to know God, but by
their deeds they deny Him, being detestable and
disobedient, and worthless for any good deed.
Titus 2:10 not pilfering, but showing all good faith
that they may adorn the doctrine of God our
Savior in every respect.
Titus 2:12 One of themselves, a prophet of their
own, said Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy
gluttons.” 13 This testimony is true. For this
cause reprove them severely that they may be
sound in the faith, 14 not paying attention to
Jewish myths and commandments of men who
turn away from the truth. 15 To the pure, all
things are pure; but to those who are defiled and
unbelieving, nothing is pure, but both their mind
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2 Kings 1:1 Now Moab rebelled against Israel after
the death of Ahab. 2 And Ahaziah fell through the
lattice in his upper chamber which was in
Samaria, and became ill. So he sent messengers
and said to them, “Go, inquire of Baal-zebub, the
god of Ekron, whether I shall recover from this
sickness.” 3 But the angel of the LORD said to
Elijah the Tishbite, “Arise, go up to meet the
messengers of the king of Samaria and say to
them, ‘Is it because there is no God in Israel that
you are going to inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of
Ekron?” 4 “Now therefore thus says the LORD,
“You shall not come down from the bed where
you have gone up, but you shall surely die.’” Then
Elijah departed.
2 Kings 5:22 And he said, “All is well. My master
has sent me, saying, “Behold, just now two young
men of the sons of the prophets have come to me
from the hill country of Ephraim. Please give
them a talent of silver and two changes of
clothes.”
Nahum 3:18 Your shepherds are sleeping, O king
of Assyria; your nobles are lying down. Your
people are scattered on the mountains, and there
is no one to regather them. 19 There is no relief
for your breakdown, your wound is incurable, all
who hear about you will clap their hands over
you, for on whom has not your evil passed
continually?
and their conscience are defiled. 16 They profess
to know God, but by their deeds they deny Him,
being detestable and disobedient, and worthless
for any good deed.

Titus is the twelfth Book of the New Testament’s 17 Book pattern and in it Titus is exhorted to set in order
the most unruly by appointing appropriate Christian leadership in a very difficult area and reprove the
rebellious, lazy, and deceitful amongst them and indicates that those who are disobedient do not know God
even if they profess otherwise. In Nahum, the Assyrians are about to be completely destroyed, after
repenting earlier in their history at the hand of Jonah’s ministry. This is a picture of the Millennial Reign
coming to a close, and Satan being released from his imprisonment for a short time to lead a final rebellion.
One of the titles of the anti-Christ is “the Assyrian” and in model or type form, we see he rules over the left
behind world. The world at the time have the two witnesses, the 144,000 and the tribulation saints who
come to faith during that time, but the majority refuse to repent, but those who do and live on into the
Millennial Reign will apparently be subject to the temptation to follow a final rebellion according to
Revelation Chapter 20.

This time, the rebellious will be completely and forever defeated and then the final Judgment comes at the
Great White Throne Judgment. It is interesting that Titus opens talking about Crete, which means carnal or
fleshly. It is widely understood that this particular geographical location is one of the prime settlements of
the descendants of Caphtor, who is the patriarch in Genesis 10, of all those called Caphtorim (Caphtor’s
children), from which the Philistines descended.

The Philistines are the Eternal and perpetual enemies of God’s people due to their carnal, fleshly mindset.
Mizraim, the patriarch of Egypt, is the father of Caphtor, so it is interesting to see in the genealogical lines
that the rebellious against God, and fleshly and carnal mindedness seems to run in and through this
particular genealogy very strongly. We, as Christians must be very careful not to assume that every single
person of this bloodline is subject to fleshly and carnal minded ways, and of course are 100% eligible for
Salvation and Redemption through faith in Jesus Christ and His Atoning Sacrifice on The Cross, but in
general, since these lines have been used typologically, and figuratively and prophetically by God due to
extreme measures of former disobedience and resistance to God and His people, they are used as types or
models of disobedience in any person. The proper way to understand the passage now is that whether
someone is from “the circumcision” or from the actual descendants of Caphtor himself, that person, from
either bloodline is eligible for Salvation, and likewise that person is also eligible for judgment depending on
their faith in Jesus Christ. Paul’s letter to Titus points out that the rebellious, be they Cretans or be they
from the Jews, completely doesn’t matter, what matters is whether they show fruitful evidence of their faith
based conversion.

Despite the best efforts of The Millennial Reign kingdom period, there will still be rebellious ‘Cretans’ and
those who hate and despise God and His people and if they think they have a chance to overthrow His yoke
from them in any sort of champion that will support them, they will take it. When Satan is released for his
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Philemon (Stage 13)
Philemon 1:10 – I appeal to you for my child,
whom I have begotten in my imprisonment,
Onesimus, 11 who formerly was useless to you,
but now is useful both to you and to me. 12 And I
have sent him back to you in person, that is,
sending my very heart, 13 whom I wished to keep
with me, that on your behalf he might minister to
me in my imprisonment for the gospel; 14 but
without your consent I did not want to do
anything, that your goodness should not be as it
were by compulsion, but of your own free will. 15
For perhaps he was for this reason parted from
you for a while, that you should have him back
forever
Philemon 1:4 I thank my God always, making
mention of you in my prayers, 5 because I hear of
your love, and of the faith which you have toward
the Lord Jesus, and toward all the saints; 6 and I
pray that the fellowship of your faith may become
effective through the knowledge of every good
thing which is in you for Christ’s sake. 7 For I have
come to have much joy and comfort in your love,
because the hearts of the saints have been
refreshed through you, brother. 8 Therefore,
though I have enough confidence in Christ to
order you to do that which is proper, 9 yet for
love’s sake I rather appeal to you—since I am
such a person as Paul, the aged, and now also a
prisoner of Christ Jesus—
1 Chronicles 17:9 “And I will appoint a place for
My people Israel, and will plant them, that they
may dwell in their own place and be moved no
more; neither shall the wicked waste them
anymore as formerly, 10 even from the day that I
commanded judges to be over My people Israel.
And I will subdue all your enemies. Moreover, I
tell you that the LORD will build a house for you.
11 And it shall come about when your days are
fulfilled that you must go to be with your fathers,
that I will set up one of your descendants after
you, who shall be of your sons; and I will establish
his kingdom. 12 He shall build for Me a house,
and I will establish his throne forever. 13 I will be
his father, and he shall be My son; and I will not
take My lovingkindness away from him, as I took
it from him who was before you. 14 But I will
settle him in My house and in My kingdom
forever, and his throne shall be established
forever.” 15 According to all these words and
according to all this vision, so Nathan spoke to
David.
Habakkuk 2:1 I will stand on my guard post and
station myself on the rampart; and I will keep
watch to see what He will speak to me, and how I
may reply when I am reproved. 2 Then the LORD
answered me and said, “Record the vision and
inscribe it on tablets, that the one who reads it
may run. 3 For the vision is yet for the appointed
time; it hastens toward the goal, and it will not
fail. Though it tarries, wait for it; for it will
certainly come, it will not delay. 4 Behold, as for
the proud one, his soul is not right within him; but
the righteous will live by his faith. 5 Furthermore,
wine betrays the haughty man, so that he does
not stay at home. He enlarges his appetite like
Sheol, and he is like death, never satisfied. He
also gathers to himself all nations and collects to
himself all peoples.
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Philemon is the thirteenth Book in the New Testament’s 17 Book pattern and it is about the slave of a
former slave owner, who is now a slave to Jesus Christ, and his former slave, Onesimus (a name that means
useful) has escaped slavery under Philemon, the former slave owner, and has received the Gospel and been
born again of the Spirit through Paul’s preaching. Paul is now appealing to Philemon, that Onesimus, a
brother in Christ to both Paul and Philemon should no longer be treated as a slave. Paul sends him back to
Philemon as a brother in Christ, and indicates that Philemon ought to receive him not as someone who toils
for Philemon’s physical, material means according to the world and according to the flesh, but rather that
someone who toils with him as a bondservant of Christ for spiritual and Eternal means for not only
themselves but also all the Fellowship of all brothers and sisters in Christ.

This perfectly coincides with 1 Chronicles and Habakkuk as their respective thirteenth Books in their
respective 17 Book patterns. This stage represents all who died from Adam to David (representative as a
Christ prefigure) all nations, all peoples, and all those who live in pride on the backs of oppression of others.
Habakkuk warns that those who enlarge their appetite like Sheol will be brought to account and brought to
Judgment at the Great White Throne Judgment, when Sheol itself will be opened, and all those who died
before Christ’s Ministry will be judged according to what is written in the recorded books of all that they did,
whether good or evil, whether they died in faith, looking forward to a promised Messiah, or whether they
died outside of faith, and lived for worldly, fleshly reasons and purposes. The Great White Throne Judgment
directly precedes Eternity and in both Philemon and in 1 Chronicles there is mentioned that Israel will have a
place established in God’s Kingdom, forever, and in Paul’s letter to Philemon, Paul pleads with Philemon that
he might have Onesimus back, not as a slave, but as a beloved brother in Christ, and that instead of the
temporal and ‘useless’ material way he ‘possessed’ Onesimus before, he now can have him back forever, as
an Eternal brother in Christ in such a way that is truly useful all the way into and throughout Eternity.

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Hebrews (Stage 14)
Hebrews 9:1 Now even the first covenant had
regulations of divine worship and the earthly
sanctuary. 2 For there was a tabernacle prepared,
the outer one, in which were the lampstand and
the table and the sacred bread; this is called the
holy place. 3 And behind the second veil, there
was a tabernacle which is called the Holy of
Holies, 4 having a golden altar of incense and the
ark of the covenant covered on all sides with gold,
in which was a golden jar holding the manna, and
Aaron’s rod which budded, and the tables of the
covenant. 5 And above it were the cherubim of
glory overshadowing the mercy seat; but of these
things we cannot now speak in detail.
Hebrews 10:26 For if we go on sinning willfully
after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there
no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, 27 but a
certain terrifying expectation of judgment, and
the fury of a fire which will consume the
adversaries. 28 Anyone who has set aside the Law
of Moses dies without mercy on the testimony of
two or three witnesses. 29 How much severer
punishment do you think he will deserve who has
trampled under foot the Son of God, and has
regarded as unclean the blood of the covenant by
which he was sanctified, and has insulted the
Spirit of grace? 30 For we know Him who said,
“VENGEANCE IS MINE, I WILL REPAY.” And again,
“THE LORD WILL JUDGE HIS PEOPLE.” 31 It is a
terrifying thing to fall into the hands of the living
God.
2 Chronicles 1:1 Now Solomon the son of David
established himself securely over his kingdom,
and the LORD his God was with him and exalted
him greatly. 2 And Solomon spoke to all Israel, to
the commanders of thousands and of hundreds
and to the judges and to every leader in all Israel,
the heads of the fathers’ households. 3 Then
Solomon, and all the assembly with him, went to
the high place which was at Gibeon; for God’s
tent of meeting was there, which Moses the
servant of the LORD had made in the wilderness.
4 However, David had brought up the ark of God
from Kiriath-jearim to the place he had prepared
for it,; for he had pitched a tent for it in
Jerusalem. 5 Now the bronze altar, which Bezalel
the son of Uri, the son of Hur, had made was
there before the tabernacle of the LORD, and
Solomon and the assembly sought it out. 6 And
Solomon went up there before the LORD to the
bronze altar which was at the tent of meeting,
and offered a thousand burnt offerings on it.
Zephaniah 1:14 Near is the great day of the LORD,
near and coming very quickly; listen, the day of
the LORD! In it the warrior cries out bitterly. 15 A
day of wrath is that day, a day of trouble and
distress, a day of destruction and desolation, a
day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and
thick darkness, a day of trumpet and battle cry,
against the fortified cities and the high corner
towers. 17 And I will bring distress on men, so
that they will walk like the blind, because they
have sinned against the LORD; and their blood will
be poured out like dust, and their flesh like dung.
18 Neither their silver nor their gold will be able
to deliver them on the day of the LORD’s wrath;
and all the earth will be devoured in the fire of His
jealousy, for He will make a complete end, Indeed
a terrifying one, of all the inhabitants of the earth.
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Hebrews is the 14th Book in the New Testament’s 17 Book pattern, and corresponds to 2 Chronicles and
Zephaniah. In 2 Chronicles is a picture of the glorified kingdom being established through Solomon. The
first time we saw this in 1 Kings, it is iterated in such a way so as to prefigure the Millennial Reign, and while
2 Chronicles details the same historical account as 1 Kings it is mystically done in such a way so as to
prefigure the Eternal Kingdom of God and Christ. 2 Chronicles is a prefigure of the Book of Life being
opened, and all those whose names are written in the Book of Life, from David/Solomon (as a model of
Christ’s earthly Ministry/Christ in Glory after His Resurrection) will be spared through their faith in Christ,
and all those who have rebelled against Christ and rejected Him, will be thrown into the lake of fire of
Eternal punishment at the Great White Throne Judgment.

When we look at Hebrews, we see that the LORD speaks to us in Son, as the Book of Life is indeed Christ’s
Ministry accomplished to save all who would accept their sin debt as paid for by His Atoning death on The
Cross. Christ is the only spiritual algebra that exists. In the complicated calculus of our hyperbolic lives, as
we are approaching infinity or approaching zero, in and through all of our limits, Christ stands alone as the
only true spiritual linear algebraic expression: His perfect Life plus His perfect Atoning death on The Cross
equals our Salvation. Blood is partially made up of the fourth state of matter, plasma, and it is the
speculation of this author that our blood is what keeps our spirits inside of our bodies when we are alive,
yet, when we die, our spirits are released from our bodies, as there is no longer a blood boundary keeping
us in our physical, mortal frames. Christ’s Blood however, was perfect, unstained and unmarred by sin, and
His Blood translates us into His Metacosmic Eternity when we apply it to wash our sins and transgressions.
He is our High Priest, but also is God Himself, as He is referred to by God the Father as such in Hebrews 1:9,
quoting from Psalm 45:7. He is the Word made flesh, and all the fullness of God dwelt in Him, and as the
veil of His perfect Temple, His flesh was broken and pierced through, His blood was shed in the world
washing us from our sins and transgressions, and cleansing us from all of our unrighteousness. If we are in
Christ, we are in the Book of Life, because Christ IS The Book of Life. It is a Book not written with words, but
written in the self-sacrificing actions of Christ Himself on The Cross as our High Priest forever, a man, Who is
also the Son of God. In our acceptance of His perfect sacrifice we enter into His Book of Life and as He
offered Himself up as our perfect sacrifice, once for all time, He translates us into Eternity with Him, and as
the final Judgment is pronounced, it is ultimately a Judgment according to Christ, and as many after the
Tribulation and into the Millennial Reign are living in their natural bodies, they must still choose for
themselves, to accept Christ as their sacrifice or not, and therefore The Book of Life is the ultimate decider
of who, in the Tribulation and in the Millennial Reign in the natural is accepted into Eternal Life and into
Heaven, and who is cast into Gehenna, The Lake of Fire.

Zephaniah details in frightening detail and language the exact time period that the 14th Book stage
prefigures, which is the Book of Life being opened, and those in it are saved, while those who are not in it
are judged and thrown into the lake of fire. We see in 2 Chronicles that it starts off with glory, but ends in
misery with Jehoahaz, Jehoiakim, and Jehoiachin ruling in Judah which leads to Judah’s destruction and the
captivity of the Jews, but 2 Chronicles ends its final verses with the promise and hope of a restoration for
the just remnant, and the promise of a new Temple and a restored Jerusalem, which are exactly the next
stages of the 17 Book pattern seen in James corresponding to Ezra and Haggai, and 1 Peter corresponding to
Nehemiah and Zechariah. This new Temple will be God Himself however, and Jerusalem will be New
Jerusalem coming down out of a new Heavens from God prepared as an Eternal dwelling place of God’s
faithful believers.

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James (Stage 15)
James 1:22 But prove yourselves doers of the
word, and not merely hearers who delude
themselves. 23 For if anyone is a hearer of the
word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks at
his natural face in a mirror; 24 for once he has
looked at himself and gone away, he has
immediately forgotten what kind of person he
was. 25 But one who looks intently at the perfect
law, the law of liberty, and abides by it, not having
become a forgetful hearer but an effectual doer,
this man shall be blessed in what he does. 26 If
anyone thinks himself to be religious, and yet
does not bridle his tongue but deceives his own
heart, this man’s religion is worthless. 27 This is
pure and undefiled religion in the sight of our God
and Father, to visit orphans and widows in their
distress, and to keep oneself unstained by the
world.
James 4:1 What is the source of quarrels and
conflicts among you? Is not the source your
pleasures that wage war in your members? 2 You
lust and do not have; so you commit murder. And
you are envious and cannot obtain; so you fight
and quarrel. You do not have because you do not
ask. 3 You ask and do not receive, because you
ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it
on your pleasures. 4 You adulteresses, do you not
know that friendship with the world is hostility
toward God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a
friend of the world makes himself an enemy of
God. 5 Or do you think that the Scripture speaks
to no purpose: He jealously desires the Spirit
which He has made to sell in us?
Ezra 1:5 Then the heads of fathers’ households of
Judah and Benjamin and the priests and the
Levites arose, even everyone whose spirit God
had stirred to go up and rebuild the house of the
LORD which is in Jerusalem. 6 And all those about
them encouraged them with articles of silver,
with gold, with goods, with cattle, and with
valuables, aside from all that was given as a
freewill offering. 7 Also King Cyrus brought out
the articles of the house of the LORD, which
Nebuchadnezzar had carried away from
Jerusalem and put in the house of his gods;
Haggai 1:2 “Thus says the LORD of hosts, ‘This
people says, “The time has not come, even the
time for the house of the LORD to be rebuilt,:;: 3
Then the word of the LORD came by Haggai the
prophet saying, 4 “Is it time for you yourselves to
dwell in your paneled houses while their house
lies desolate?” 5 Now therefore, thus says the
LORD of hosts, Consider your ways! 6 You have
sown much, but harvest little; you eat, but there
is not enough to be satisfied, you drink, but there
is not enough to become drunk; you put on
clothing, but no one is warm enough; and he who
earns, earns wages to put into a purse with
holes.” 7 Thus says the LORD of hosts, “Consider
your ways! 8 “Go up to the mountains, bring
wood and rebuild the temple, that I may be
pleased with it and be glorified,” says the LORD.
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James is the 15th Book of the New Testament’s 17 pattern, and represents the building of the final Temple,
the true Temple of believers in Christ, who recognize that He has made His Spirit to dwell in us, permanently
fusing His Creation to His Spirit through Christ. This corresponds to Ezra the 15th Book of the first Old
Testament pattern, where the remnant returns to build the true Temple of Israel’s history, the one that
Christ would actually come to Himself, the Temple that was not as glorious in appearance, stature, or
magnificence as Solomon’s Temple, but was made by the exiles who returned and had seen the true nature
of what rebellion against God results in and built the new Temple in contrition and humility through faith, a
Temple that could be argued God actually regarded and respected more than the original, as His Spirit had
to leave the original Temple due to Israel’s haughty arrogance and insolence, whereas the second Temple,
His Son actually came and preached and taught at.

It should be no surprise to find that in the 17 Book pattern seen in the first and second Old Testament 17
Book patterns that Ezra would match up with Haggai, both having to do with the time of rebuilding this
Temple. James is the famous Book that provides ballast for faith-based Salvation, that all who have faith,
are indeed saved by their faith and their faith alone in the completed work of Christ on The Cross, however,
a true and genuine saving faith, should produce faith-based works that testify of a saved person’s faith. A
good rhyme to remember this is that works are not the root of our Salvation, but they are the fruit of our
Salvation. Since the real, actual, true, true Temple is indeed our own selves infused with God’s Holy Spirit
and that actual real, true, true Temple won’t in fact be truly glorified and truly complete until it exists in its
eventual (at the time of this writing) heavenly and Eternal reality with God dwelling directly with us in
heaven, James is the perfect Book to exhort those who will make up this “Temple” in such a way so as to
purify it and prepare it for this ultimate glorification where our faith and our works, our reflection and our
reality, our tongue and our words of praise, and our hearing and doing will become one with God providing
stability to our former fleshly struggle and at that time our purity will no longer be hindered with our
selfishness . . . a true Temple indeed.

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1 Peter (Stage 16)
1 Peter 2:4 And coming to Him as to a living
stone, rejected by men, but choice and precious
in the sight of God, 5 you also, as living stones, are
being built up as a spiritual house for a holy
priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices
acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. 6 For this
is contained in Scripture: “BEHOLD I LAY IN ZION
A CHOICE STONE, A PRECIOUS CORNER STONE,
AND HE WHO BELIEVES IN HIM SHALL NOT BE
DISAPPOINTED.” 7 This precious value, then is for
you who believe, but for those who disbelieve,
“THE STONE WHICH THE BUILDERS REJECTED,
THIS BECAME THE VERY CORNERSTONE.” 8 and,
“A STONE OF STUMBLING AND A ROCK OF
OFFENSE”; for they stumble because they are
disobedient to the word, and to this doom they
were also appointed.
1 Peter 1:3 Blessed be the God and Father of our
Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His great
mercy has caused us to be born again to a living
hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ
from the dead, 4 to obtain an inheritance which is
imperishable and undefiled and will not fade
away, reserved in heaven for you, 5 who are
protected by the power of God through faith for a
salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. 6
In this you greatly rejoice, even though now for a
little while, if necessary you have been distressed
by various trials, 7 that the proof of your faith,
being more precious than gold which is
perishable, even though tested by fire, may be
found to result in praise and glory and honor at
the revelation of Jesus Christ;
Nehemiah 2:4 Then the king said to me, “What
would you request?” So I prayed to the God of
heaven. 5 And I said to the king, “If it please the
king, and if your servant has found favor before
you, send me to Judah, to the city of my fathers’
tombs, that I may rebuild it.” 6 Then the king said
to me, the queen sitting beside him, “How long
will your journey be, and when will you return?”
So it pleased the king to send me, and I gave him
a definite time. 7 And I said to the king, “If it
please the king, let letters be given me for the
governors of the provinces beyond the River, that
they may allow me to pass through until I come to
Judah, 8 and a letter to Asaph the keeper of the
king’s forest, that he may give me timber to make
beams for the gates of the fortress which is by the
temple, for the wall of the city, and for the house
to which I will go.” And the king granted them to
me because the good hand of my God was on me.
Zechariah 14:1 Behold, a day is coming for the
LORD when the spoil taken from you will be
divided among you. 2 For I will gather all the
nations against Jerusalem to battle, and the city
will be captured, the houses plundered, the
women ravished, and half of the city exiled, but
the rest of the people will not be cut off from the
city. 3 Then the LORD will go forth and fight
against those nations, as when He fights on a day
of battle. 4 And in that day His feet will stand on
the Mount of Olives, which is in front of
Jerusalem on the east; and the Mount of Olives
will be split in its middle from east to west by a
very large valley, so that half of the mountain will
move toward the north and the other half toward
the south. 5 And you will flee by the valley of my
mountains, for the valley of the mountains will
reach to Azel; yes, you will flee just as you fled
before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king
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all the holy ones with Him.

1 Peter is the 16th Book of the New Testament’s 17 Book pattern and as it corresponds to Nehemiah the 16th
Book of the first Old Testament pattern and Zechariah, the 16th Book of the second Old Testament 17 Book
pattern, a consistent theme once again emerges. Nehemiah rebuilds the walls of Jerusalem, to protect the
newly rebuilt Temple and to protect the returning exiles from Babylon and solidify the re-establishment of
Judah and Jerusalem, and Zechariah prophecies about a future time when Jesus will come back with His holy
ones and stand on the Mount of Olives reforming and reshaping the entire city of Jerusalem in a completely
new geographical and topographical layout. That is speaking of course of the Millennial Reign, however, it
also follows the prophetic pattern, that after the Millennial Reign, there will yet again be still another
Jerusalem, an Eternal one, which is called New Jerusalem, which comes down out of Heaven as a permanent
residence for God’s faithful believers. 1 Peter is indeed talking about that time when the New Jerusalem will
descend from Heaven as a permanent and Eternal residence, detailed in Revelation Chapter 21. 1 Peter
exhorts us, The Church, to grow in respect to salvation as we are living stones being fitted together to be the
Christ-centric location of Eternity.

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2 Peter (Stage 17)
2 Peter 3:10 But the day of the Lord will come like
a thief, in which the heavens will pass away with a
roar and the elements will be destroyed with
intense heat, and the earth and its works will be
burned up. 11 Since all these things are to be
destroyed in this way, what sort of people ought
you to be in holy conduct and godliness, 12
looking for and hastening the coming of the day
of God, on account of which the heavens will be
destroyed by burning, and the elements will melt
with intense heat! 13 But according to His
promise we are looking for new heavens and a
new earth, in which righteousness dwells. 14
Therefore, beloved, since you look for these
things, be diligent to be found by Him in peace,
spotless and blameless.
2 Peter 3:3 Know this first of all, that in the last
days mockers will come with their mocking,
following after their own lusts, 4 and saying,
“Where is the promise of His coming? For ever
since the fathers fell asleep, all continues just as it
was from the beginning of creation.” 5 For when
they maintain this, it escapes their notice that by
the word of God the heavens existed long ago and
the earth was formed out of water and by water,
Esther 8:15 Then Mordecai went out from the
presence of the king in royal robes of blue and
white, with a large crown of gold and a garment
of fine linen and purple; and the city of Susa
shouted and rejoiced. 16 For the Jews there was
light and gladness and joy and honor. 17 And in
each and every province, and in each and every
city, wherever the king's commandment and his
decree arrived, there was gladness and joy for the
Jews, a feast and a holiday. And many among the
peoples of the land became Jews, for the dread of
the Jews had fallen on them.
Esther 9:29 Then Queen Esther, daughter of
Abihail, with Mordecai the Jew, wrote with full
authority to confirm this second letter about
Purim. 30 And he sent letters to all the Jews, to
the 127 provinces of the kingdom of Ahasuerus,
namely, words of peace and truth, 31 to establish
these days of Purim at their appointed times, just
as Mordecai the Jew and Queen Esther had
established for them, and just as they had
established for themselves and for their
descendants with instructions for their times of
fasting and their lamentations. 32 And the
command of Esther established these customs for
Purim, and it was written in the book
Malachi 3:1 For behold, the day is coming,
burning like a furnace; and all the arrogant and
every evildoer will be chaff; and the day that is
coming will set them ablaze,” says the LORD of
hosts, “so that it will leave them neither root nor
branch.” 2 “But for you who fear My name the
sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its
wings; and you will go forth and skip about like
calves from the stall. 3 “And you will tread down
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6 through which the world at that time was
destroyed, being flooded with water. 7 But the
present heavens and earth by His word are being
reserved for fire, kept for the Day of Judgment
and destruction of ungodly men.
the wicked, for they shall be ashes under the
soles of your feet on the day which I am
preparing,” says the LORD of hosts

2 Peter is the 17th and final Book in the New Testament’s 17 Book pattern and it concludes like its
counterparts: with the New Heavens and the New Earth, the King and Queen living in Eternity, and the
enemies of God having been completely obliterated. Esther shows the picture of the Bride living with the
King of the world, and the enemies of her relatives are destroyed by the King, her husband and her uncle,
Mordecai the Jew is second in command in the refreshed kingdom. Malachi ends with the promise of the
Day of the Lord setting ablaze the evildoers and enemies of God, while those who fear His name will skip
about like calves from the stall and God’s enemies will be completely and permanently punished in the lake
of fire. 2 Peter even ends in a way that perfectly sews up this concept in the very last verse: 2 Peter 3:18
but grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory, both now and
to the day of Eternity. Amen.

The day of Eternity is speaking about the time after the present heavens and the present earth are
destroyed and melt with intense heat as described in 2 Peter and in Revelation 20, and God’s faithful enter
into Eternity with Him in a New Heavens and a New Earth. It is also interesting how this final Book in the
New Testament’s 17 Book pattern ends with a concluding, “Amen.”

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A Note on the John Epistles, Jude, and Revelation

With the ordering of the Bible in three distinct paralleling iterations of a 17 stage progression, each with a
five Book interlude, we arrive now at the end of 2 Peter with five Books left until the end. Many have
grouped James, 1 Peter, 2 Peter, 1 John, 2 John, 3 John, and Jude as “General Epistles”. It almost seems as
though this grouping is simply because no one really knew what to do with these final Epistles in terms of
grouping. As an interesting observation, it almost seems that especially with 2 John and 3 John, that John
the Apostle almost seemed to notice, that with him finalizing the last Books of the Canon, particularly with
Revelation, and perhaps with a Divine insight, noticed or was spiritually alerted to the fact that there needed
to be two more Books to complete the full pattern, yet with everything already decided, already spoken,
already taught, already in order, already prepared, that he quickly composed two final letters by the leading
of God’s Holy Spirit, which spoke about the same concepts he detailed in 1 John, and specifically indicated
that he wanted to share more, but in person, face to face. He also indicates this in 3 John, and specifically
indicates that he intends this face to face communication to be accomplished shortly. As a conclusion to this
study, 1 John, 2 John, 3 John, Jude, and Revelation are the final interlude Books: the interlude between the
conclusion of God’s written Word and the consummation of His Living Word bringing us into the
Metacosmic Eternal Reality He has prepared for us and accomplished for us. In particular 1st, 2nd, and 3rd
John are preparation Books, preparing us as The Church to be ready for His imminent return. In them, we
find constant reminders to live holy, sinless, loving lives, but if we do happen to sin, if we confess our sins,
He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

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A Further Defense of Isaiah: A Biblical Microcosm

Regarding the study preceding this study: Isaiah: A Biblical Microcosm, the supposition was put forth that
due to the Book of Isaiah’s 66 Chapters and two major divisions of Chapters 1 – 39 and Chapters 40 – 66
mirroring the Bible itself with Books 1 – 39 (The Old Testament) and Books 40 – 66 (The New Testament)
that Isaiah acts as a self-authenticating reference for the Canon of Scripture. Each Book of the Bible, in Bible
Book order, has parallels that match between each Chapter in Isaiah 1:1 either in parallel passages,
concepts, ideas, content or other links, some bold and obvious and some more subtly elegant. For instance,
Genesis matches Isaiah 1, and Exodus matches Isaiah 2, while Matthew (Book 40) matches Isaiah 40 and
Revelation (Book 66) matches Isaiah 66.

Many have argued against this supposition, as they attempt to insist that the Chapter and Verse
designations were not Divinely Inspired as the Canon was completed in the first century and locked, and
while that fact is not something challenged here or in Isaiah: A Biblical Microcosm, the supposition is that
the Chapter and Versification of the text simply enumerated the already present Divine divisions of thought
and content in the Canon, and Stephen Langton and Robert Estienne, the men responsible for the Chapter
and Verse designations, simply enumerated those already present content and thought divisions.

The Canon of Scripture (the Books chosen and spiritually vetted to be included in The Bible), wasn’t finalized
and accepted universally until the 4th century A.D. Does that mean that the Canon is invalid since the
inclusions that comprise it weren’t finalized with universal agreement until the 4th century? Can we point to
a 1st century completed Canon Bible that the Apostles carried around? A 2nd century completed Canon
Bible? A 3rd? The ordering of the Books and the parsing of the Books into Chapters and Verses and the
Bible’s final ordered form wasn’t completed until the 13th and 16th centuries respectively. It is the
supposition of this study, that these aspects of God’s Word were all part of God’s Divine orchestration of
delivering to us, His Word, perfectly, in perfect order and form as He would present it to us for salvation,
study, instruction, edification, and as a testimony to its perfection in its final form that can be proven
through diligent study.

This doesn’t mean God didn’t have His Word finished and His mission completed in Christ in the 1st century
A.D., however, it does indicate that God was involved in final Book Ordering, Chapter and Verse Divisions, as
enumerations of already Divinely present thought and content divisions etc. To assume that God allowed
His prophets to write down His Holy Word, and then He just walked away from it and allowed random
scholars and councils and committees to decide which parts were going to be included, how it was to be
ordered, indexed, parsed, etc. is almost as foolish as the watchmaker view of God itself, that God, as Deists
would claim, created everything, then walked away and hasn’t been involved since.

It is the distinct and firm position of this study, while completely separate from Isaiah: A Biblical Microcosm
and stands completely on its own as a separate study, it also continues to confirm that God has been
integrally involved in the entire process of His Word and its final form, which we enjoy and study today,
from Book order, to Chapter and Verse divisions. This Study relies on the supposition that the Book
Divisions and Order are just as Divinely Inspired as the Scriptures they rightly divide and organize. It has
been the experience of this author that the most resistance this view of Divine Book Ordering, Chapter and
Versification receives comes from poorly taught Pastors and Bible Teachers and armchair ‘scholars’ with
Internet connections, who are very, very used to effectually saying, “The Chapter and Verse Divisions came

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later, so don’t trust them, and don’t mind them, and my teaching is going to go on into the next Chapter, so
because my teaching is going on into the next Chapter, that Chapter division I just traversed is not Divine.”
What these teachers don’t realize they are doing when they make such strong statements is that they are
lifting up their teaching and their ‘mastery’ of Scripture and themselves as being so high and lofty, that only
they know where the true content divisions are and where to start and stop teaching on a Scripture passage.
This attitude borders on the Pharisaic. Pastors and Bible teachers are so used to doing this, it seems they
just take it for granted that they can throw that “Chapters and Verses came later” statement into their
sermons and teachings any time they want to enhance their teaching, make themselves sound smart, and
add emphasis to what they are saying, when in fact, the Chapter and Verse divisions don’t restrict any
teaching whatsoever, and it is perfectly ordinary to continue teaching across a Chapter or Verse Division,
without calling attention to the Division itself. It is in fact an attitude of arrogance and pedantic nature to
attempt to throw statements like that into Scripture teachings.

It is almost humorous to then watch these same Bible teachers share things like the incredible Psalm 118:8
Chapter and Verse proof, which shows that Psalm 117 is the shortest Chapter of the Bible, and Psalm 119 is
the longest Chapter in the Bible, and it just so happens the Bible in the final form we have it in, has precisely
594 Chapters before and up to Psalm 118, and has precisely 594 Chapters after and from Psalm 118, and
when you add 594 and 594 you get 1188, and if you read Psalm 118:8 the middle Verse, in the middle
Chapter of the Bible, it states, “it is better to trust in God than to put confidence in man” To attempt to
contrive such an incredible feat, would be impossible by the Inspired writers of the Old and New
Testaments, as they spanned almost 1600 years, and the Chapters weren’t enumerated and the final
division and order of Books wasn’t established until almost 1600 years after Christ. So we look at it and see
God in complete control of His Word and all aspects of it, yet when this same teacher who would share such
a design marvel of Scripture to wow his parishioners and show God’s Divine mastery of His Word and its
complete Divine Inspiration, will the following week go back to “well the Chapters and Verses came later so
they’re not Divine” only to prop up the unnecessary attention to the Chapter or Verse division because their
teaching traverses a division.

Then, there are the purists who will look at the Psalm 118:8 proof as a mere coincidence, hammering away
at Chapter and Verse divisions coming later. Another Pastor teacher who many, many times has used the
“Chapters and Verses came later,” crutch to emphasize his wisdom, intelligence, and Scriptural mastery,
once taught conveniently, that the passage in John 6:66 which talks about the fact that many of Jesus’
followers departed from him at the time when He proclaimed they must eat His flesh and drink His blood to
be saved. This teacher insisted and emphasized that it was no coincidence [his emphasis] that this passage
was enumerated as 6:66, when many of Jesus’ followers left Him. The contradictory nature of these claims
is humorous indeed as it is seen that when it suits them, this teacher or that teacher will emphasize how
there is no way this or that Chapter and Verse assignment is a coincidence, then turn right around and
denounce the very feature of non-coincidence in Chapter and Verse assignments as unreliable in light of
their Chapter and Verse traversing teachings.

Another argument against the discoveries presented in Isaiah: A Biblical Microcosm was that the Bible
didn’t used to be ordered that way, and that some Books were split into multiple Books over time. While
this is true, this study further seeks to dispel that view by showing that the Books in their current final order
and form, outline by their over-arching themes, God’s entire plan of Creation to Salvation to Eternity in the

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first 17 Books of the Bible in perfect Salvation order, mirroring perfectly the Bible’s final Book order, then
repeats that pattern in some very interesting ways, with the last 17 Books of the Old Testament, and once
again with the 17 Epistolic Books from Romans to 2 Peter.

Another argument is that there is not one single example of any Chapter Division being Scripturally
supported in Scripture itself. This view is dispelled in Acts 13:33 where it says, “this is what the 2nd Psalm
says . . .”, clearly denoting an enumerated division within Scripture itself.

Another argument has been that Chapter and Verses are more information, and since there can be no new
information since the first century, they are not Divinely Inspired. Counting something up, does not make
any more information. If you have a box of letters, that comes with A’s, B’s, C’s . . . X’s, Y’s, and Z’s, if you
count up the total number of A’s for instance, you don’t have more A’s, you’ve simply counted up the A’s
that were already there. There is no new information, the information that was there has simply been
parsed and enumerated. A similar convention is used when doing word studies and many scholars have
been very intrigued to count up the exact number of times a particular word was used in the entire Bible,
and many times have found very interesting and useful insights by doing this. In order to do this, they make
use of concordances with Hebrew and Greek dictionaries and Strong’s numbers. This technique is
something that is readily available to anyone today because of the incredible work that was done by hand by
James Strong, and subsequently by many other scholars who were aided by computer analysis of the Biblical
text. Counting up the number of times a word is used in the Bible is not adding more information to the
text, it is simply enumerating it. Counting up and enumerating the content divisions that segment the Bible
into Chapters and Verses and Books does not add more information, it simply parses and indexes the
existing content.

Stubbornness is a hard nut to crack sometimes. Those who insist on including certain extra-Biblical Books
because of some impact it has had on them or insist Chapters and Verses aren’t Divine will likely continue in
those beliefs. To those who enjoy seeing God’s Divine involvement of His Word down through the
centuries, not only in Book Divisions, Chapter and Verse enumerations, Book ordering, but also in how He
intimately comes along side someone reading His Word to illumine a teaching to them or speak a prophetic
word into their current life situation, then this study might indeed intrigue you. Showing that the final form
of God’s Word is perfectly ordered, parsed and indexed by God Himself is not something that should elicit
animosity, but instead wonder, inspiration, and further marvel at the perfection of God’s Word, but
nevertheless, stubbornness persists.

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