A Quick Jog Through The Bible

By Linda D Moore

This book is not to replace reading the bible, my intent is to make it easier for you to read and understand the bible. I will show the truth of the Bible and give references for you to gain more knowledge and proof of the validity of the Bible. I pray this book will encourage you to read the entire Bible because when you read the Bible, you will understand more of what you are reading.
I believe the original words written in the Bible are inerrant; they are breathed by God into the pen of an author He is using. Many people give up on trying to read the bible as many versions use a much different style of English language than what we use in everyday life. Please research the version you like to read and understand its known problems of translation.
I believe by having an idea of what chapter is going to say, you will be able to easily understand what you are reading in the bible. I will explain the variety of definitions of a word. As an example, the word "weeks". The Jewish people use the word week to mean; 7 days, or week of weeks equaling 49 days, week of months equaling 210 days, or week of years equaling 7 years (7 x 12 months with each month having 30 days).
I believe it is easier for me to understand the bible by having knowledge of how it is organized and some time lines to know when people or events fit into the time line that starts approximately in 6,500 B.C. and continues through 100 A.D, excluding the prophecies fulfillments. Of course it is the only book ever written that contains prophesy written a few hundred years to several thousands of years before the prophesy is fulfilled accurately. I will footnote some prophesies with the year the prophesy is fulfilled.
The Bible is the word of God breathe into the pens of 40+ writers that wrote the 66 books of the Bible over a period of 2,500 years. The chapters in this book are organized by a topic. The 4 topics in the Old Testament are the 1.) Creation, 2). Historical, 3.) Poetical, and 4.) Prophets. The New Testament's topics are 1.) Gospels, 2.) Interpretive letters and 3) Revelation
If a book contains several major items, I will show and discus those sections. For example, the book of Genesis is unique in the bible as it covers the longest time period of any book in the bible. As a result, I will break it down into sections like the creation, fall of man, Cain and Abel, genealogy, flood, etc.
There are several broad descriptions of the Bible. Augustine discovered that the Old Testament contains the New Testament concealed, while the New Testament contains the Old Testament revealed. The Old Testament is the story of a nation. The New Testament is the story of a man.
As you dig deeper into the Bible, you will see Jesus our Messiah in every book of the Old Testament and the New Testament.
The Bible is unique in that it contains 8,362 predictive verses with 1,817 predictions concerning 737 separate matters according to a biblical scholar, J. Barton Payne in "Encyclopedia of Biblical Prophecy". Our Messiah, Jesus, fulfilled over 300 predictions, precisely, in cases where the day was predicted, He fulfilled the prophesy on the exact day predicted. Prophecies are important in proving the authenticity of the Bible along with the Bible's integrated design, which is proven mathematically, microcode and macrocodes.
My prayer is that after reading this book, you will be encouraged to read the Bible or re-read the Bible and gain more insight into the meanings of the verses.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Linda D Moore
• Release date: Jan 30, 2014
• ISBN: 9781311913326

Linda D Moore

I have been writing poems for many years. This is the first time I have published a book. I have selected these poems and pictures for my first book. I will be publishing more in the futue.

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The Holy Bible

The Bible is composed of 66 books written by 40+ people. Since the Bible was written by these people over several thousands of years, some skeptics cast suspicions that it was not integrated or true. The Bible can be proven it is integrated and literal and authored by someone outside of our time domain. Many skeptics have argued that specific books do not contain prophecy as they claim the books were written after the events and thus were historical books. Archaeologists have found proof that the books containing prophecies were written hundreds or even thousands of years before the prophecy was fulfilled. Professor Lawrence Mykytiuk confirmed 50 biblical figures in the bible and published in the March/April 2014 Biblical Archaeology Review from Purdue University.

The more you study the Bible; you will discover new meanings for various verses.

Augustine discovered "The New Testament is in the Old Testament concealed; The Old Testament is in the New Testament revealed".

Most attacks on the authenticity of the Bible concern prophesy contained in the various books , more than 8,000 prophecies. Isaiah and other books by prophets have been under heavy attack. Some prophesy has already been fulfilled. Jesus fulfilled over 300 prophecies during His life, crucifixion and resurrection. Some of the prophecies were written a thousand + years before His birth. Enoch stated the first prophecy. Some of the prophecies are being fulfilled in our lifetime. Hal Lindsey is a bible scholar of high renown. Mr. Lindsey has researched the prophecies of the Bible and has counted over 70% of all prophecies have occurred. All of the prophecies fulfilled are precisely fulfilled, just like Judas taking 30 pieces of silver to betray his friend and the 30 pieces of silver ends up in the Potter's hand. Daniel prophecies the exact day that Jesus would come to Jerusalem and be proclaimed King. That day was over 500 years from the date of the prophecy.

Prophecies fulfilled, authenticate the Bible. Paul tells us that prophecy is the more sure way of faith. The Bible is the only book in the world that makes predictions/prophecies hundreds of years in advance and some are thousands of years before the event occurs. The fulfillment of prophecy authenticates the Bible.

Some agnostic/atheist scholars have argued about the time certain books of the Bible were written. The most attacked book is the Book of Daniel as it contains very detailed prophesy that has been partially fulfilled. Many of the arguments are dismissed once the Septuagint (LXX) was authenticated as being written in 270 B.C. The Septuagint was commanded to be written by the Greek empire and is well documented. Archaeologists, many were atheists, have authenticated the translation. The Septuagint was a Greek translation of all the Old Testament books written in Hebrew and Aramaic and contained the book of Daniel.

The Muslims call Muhammad The Prophet. I have searched the Quran and did not find even one prophecy from Muhammad.

J. Barton Payne in his Encyclopedia of Biblical Prophecy lists all the prophecies, predictive verses and how many predict different matters. The separate matters is consistent with other subjects in the Bible. There is not a book on baptism. The understanding and practice and meaning of baptism is spread throughout the Bible. In the same manner, there are more than one instance of a prophecy on an important subject. Payne lists 8,362 predictive verses, 1,817 predictions and 737 separate matters.

God knew that people would try to remove verses, so all major doctrines are spread throughout the Bible. The Gnostics in Alexandra, Egypt were the first to remove verses and insert their own words. Some churches today teach that they have replaced Israel in the Bible. To avoid embarrassing questions, they do not teach the book of Revelation. Revelation is the only book in the Bible that claims a blessing to all that read and understand it.

Others attack the Bible since it contradicts Darwin's theory of evolution. The Darwinians have never proven the concept of evolution, yet it still is being taught in schools. DNA was discovered and mapped. Thereafter, because of the complexity of DNA, mathematicians and physicists quickly dismissed the Darwin theory of evolution as being impossible to occur as a random occurrence, as Darwin's theory proposes. Human DNA has over 3 billion possible combinations. The probability of a DNA strand being formed in a random/Darwin process is 1 x 10⁶⁵⁰. To put this probability into non-mathematics terms, it would be like winning every Powerball drawing, each drawing, twice a week, 52 weeks a year, for the next 10,000+ years. Mathematicians and physicists consider any probability this large to be absurd to be done by random chance just as a person winning so many consecutive Powerball lotteries.

Astronomers have many problems to prove their theory of the Big Bang Theory which is simply put from nothing, a big explosion occurred and created the universe. Some of the problems are due to time. Time was first being proven by Einstein as being another dimension and was constant in its speed. Now time has been shown that it is slowing down. Some of the theories used to determine the distance of stars depended on the speed of time and the shift of certain colors of light versus time are based on Hubble’s Law. There are many quotes in the Bible as to God stretching the heavens and now astronomers are beginning to believe in the heavens being stretched which would account for the jumps in the shift of the light spectrum rather than a smooth, continuous change.

This change is familiar to us as a Doppler shift in sound. When we are standing still, the sound of a police siren on a car coming towards us changes continuously and as it passes us and goes farther away it smoothly changes again. What astronomers are seeing would be similar to us listening to a siren coming towards us and jumping pitches suddenly, multiple times, as it approaches us. This would be accounted for by the police car moving in excess of the speed of sound for a block, slowing down to normal speed, then moving faster than the speed of sound again for a block, then slowing down repeatedly. The same effect that astronomers are observing could be caused by someone, God, stretching the fabric of the heaven instantaneously, thus jumps in the color spectrum of light.

A quick analogy of God's view of time is like us watching a long parade from a helicopter and being able to see the beginning and the end at the same time.

Geologists are having similar problems with their theories that date earth formations millions of years. The depth of the silt at the delta of the Mississippi River indicates thousands of years of deposit and not millions of years.

Dinosaur bones have been found in Montana and North Dakota. Bones were found and dissected. Upon dissection, blood and blood vessels were found in the bones which indicate the bones were at most 20,000 years old and probably a lot younger. Archaeologists claim that dinosaurs disappeared 65 million years ago.

The Grand Canyon formation is another problem. The geological column used to date layers of earth has never been observed in nature. In fact, layers have been observed in nature out of the order predicted. The Grand Canyon is an example. They had a major problem when dinosaur and man footprints were found in the same rock strata. Archeologists and geologists have maintained that the times dinosaurs were on earth and died out were 10s of millions of years before man appeared. These footprints on the same strata of rock create a big problem for them. They have a problem when petrified trees are found extending through several layers of rock that represent 20 to 100 million years of growth if the trees were growing and alive during the formation of the various rock layers. The following image is from https://kgov.com/list-of-the-kinds-of-polystrate-fossils

The chart below shows how the English versions of the Bible were created. The Tyndale Bible was the first English version of the Bible in 1526. The King James Version of the Bible was not created until the printing press was invented and the middle ages were over that suppressed laymen having copies of the Bible.

The acronyms used in the chart are;

LXX = Greek Septuagint, completed in 270 B.C. after the Greeks conquered the world and made everyone speak and write in Greek, the text contains all the Old Testament plus some books that are not included, this was used by the apostles in spreading the word of God after Jesus ascended

MT = Masoretic Text, is a Hebrew text and is currently used in the Jewish faith. There are some 6,000 differences between the older Hebrew texts and the Septuagint, with 1,000+ being significant. The original text is at the Leningrad Library.

TR = Textus Receptus is the Latin version used to create the German translation for the Luther Bible.

NIV = New International Version uses modern English and is more topical in its translation. This Bible interprets verses as the editors believe. They give only their interpretation and scholars have criticized some of their interpretations.

OL = Old Latin. The Romans were conquers of the world and wanted everyone to speak their language, Latin. As a result, they translated the Greek language Septuagint into Latin about the 3rd century A.D.

Vulgate = The Old Latin version was updated as the Roman language of Latin evolved.

The English version of our Bible's genealogy is:

The early editions of the English Bible were written knowing if they were caught, they would be burned at the stake. Lay people were not allowed to have a copy of the Bible.

Which version is the best? The one you like to read is the answer. You should be aware that some versions are not as accurate as others and some leave verses out of the scriptures. The King James Version [KJV] is the most widely read and has been in print over 400 years. It does have a few translation problems, but these few instances are well known and documented. So what ever version you like to read, check some verses and chapters occasionally with the KJV especially if your version does not make sense or feel right to you. By reading over versions of the same verse, sometimes you will gain a deeper understanding of the verse. Of course the best route to understanding a chapter or verse is to pray for God to give you understanding.

A new version called the International Standard Version or ISV is not in print yet, only digital via an eBook at www.eSword.net for download to your electronc reader/tablet/iPad. At eSword, you will download the basic information or KJV and then update/increase the versions downloaded by clicking on the Download tab and chose Bibles. The big advantage of eSword is that you can switch between version easily for the same verse. The other feature is that it is downloaded to your reader or laptop, you do not need to have an internet connection to read the eSword Bible. If you prefer just an on-line Bible, there are several to choose. I like the Blue Letter Bible the best as it makes it easy to switch to different verson and has a vast library of commentaries on each book and chapter of the Bible. You can access it at http://www.blueletterbible.org/.

Some of the others like BibleHub.com displays several versions of a verse on the same page. This is the link to it http://biblehub.com/text/genesis/1-1.htm.

You might notice that God was a mathematician as numbers are used to describe certain things.

The number 7 is sometimes related to God but more accurately I believe it is a symbol for completeness. As you read the Bible you will notice that a lot of things appear as 7 or as a multiple of 7. Here are a few words. The chart is organized with the word in the first column, the number of times that word appears in the Old Testament in the 2nd column, the number of times it appears in the New Testament in the 3rd column, the 4th column shows the total of times used and the 5th column shows the multiple of 7. While this does not prove anything, just interesting, it does give me a feeling the Old and New Testament is one book. One way to think of this is if you could remove one page from the Bible and not change anything, which page would you remove? The answer is the page that has the New Testament written on it that separates the Old and New Testament section. Dr Panin, PhD from Harvard, found Christ and dedicated many years of his life to discovering relationships in the Bible. He found many different mathematical relationships based on 7. He found a number of words that appear in the Old Testament and the New Testament that when added together are a multiple of 7. The fancy word for the base of 7 is Heptatic.

We should be familiar with some of the idioms used in the Bible to understand it quicker. One person has many different names in the Old Testament and New Testament. The entity or person we call Satan or Lucifer.

Remember that God created Lucifer as the most beautiful angel. During the Dark Ages, Lucifer was given horns, pitchfork and colored red. His appearance was changed to menancing.

Torah Codes

Jewish scholars have found codes in the original Hebrew text that prove the authenticity that the Bible was authored outside of our time domain. One scholar found the Jewish name for the first 5 books of the Bible, TORH (English Torah), hidden in the first five books. The first 2 books had TORH spelled correctly and the last 2 had it spelled backwards, in effect pointing to the middle book, Leviticus. This was discovered by a 49 Equidistant Letter Sequence (ELS) of 49, which is God's perfect number of 7, times 7.

The middle book, Leviticus, had God's Jewish name YHWH (pronounced Yah'-way). YHWH was found with a 7 ELS.

The two books on the end are pointing to our Messiah in the center which is the Hebrew unpronounceable name of God – YHWH (I pronounce it as Yah' – way).

This same type of coding, ELS, is used by our DNA and RNA in constructing proteins in our bodies and in all other life forms that use DNA. It is also error correcting.

If you think this is a simple code as some skeptics dismiss this evidence, try writing an ELS code in a letter that makes sense on the surface but contains a hidden message. This is difficult to do with a computer. Now, write 4 more letters with the same hidden message but different surface topics in each letter, similar to the first 5 books of the bible. It has taken over 4,000 years to discover this code. These messages infer supernatural intelligence.

This is similar to written languages around the world. Those languages East of Israel write right to left and those West of Israel write left to right. The languages point to Israel as these books point to Jesus.

A similar code appears between Gen 1:29 and Gen 2:9. Trees are first mentioned in Gen 1:29 and the next time in Gen 2:9. Searching the verses between these two mentions of trees, you can find the names of all 26 different species of trees God created. These names are found in the Bible in plain text.

You can explore this subject more with this YouTube video with world famous Bible scholar Dr. Chuck Missler of Koinonia House (http://khouse.org/). The link is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcNrAZTQ45k or search for Bible Codes in YouTube.

The Bible Codes prove that the Bible is written for many levels of understanding and is authentic. You should prove to yourself how difficult it is to write a simple Bible Code using ELS. Chose a word. Then chose an ELS like 2 or 7 (God's favorite number). If you choose 2 and your word is Jesus (5 letters), then write 10 (2 x 5) underscores. On the 2nd underscore write a J, skip an underscore and write E and continue until you have _ J _ E _ S _ U _ S. Now fill in the 5 blank spots with letters to make a proper word that is acceptable in a game like Scrabble. If