The Whole Story
The Bible is an extraordinary book for many reasons. The most significant to someone unfamiliar with it is that it is a remarkably accurate book. On the one hand, all the archeological evidence that we can find supports it. On the other hand, even though it was written over the course of about 3000 years, it never contradicts itself.
But there’s a third hand, if you will, that shows the Bible to be the most significant book in the world. That is, that the Bible is more than factual and more than consistent. It is layered with spiritual “typology” that foreshadows and builds upon itself. The dictionary defines type to mean: 3. An example or model; embodiment. What I mean is that there are spiritual concepts laid down in the Old Testament that find expression and or clarification in the New. Topic to topic, we find that the same thing is occurring – in a spiritual sense – in various circular patterns, some big, some small.
Hosea 12:10, “I have also spoken by the prophets, and have multiplied visions, and used similitudes, by the ministry of the prophets.”
I want to demonstrate what I mean and let you see the real, hidden wonder of the Bible. First I will look at the really big picture, the one that sums up the entirety of what I mean. Then I will look at several smaller ideas that support the larger. Finally, I will extend these thoughts to explore the idea that the Bible actually contains a predictive quality about when the Earth will end.