A Quick Jog Through the Bible

By Timothy Duke

This book is not to replace reading the bible, my intent is to make it easier for you to read and understand the bible and some of the 8,000+ prophecies and parables. Hal Lindsey states that over 70% of the prophecies have been fulfilled which proves the validity of the Bible. I will explain, in plain English, what is said in a chapter. I will explain how a book fits in with other books of the bible by grouping the books. 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. The proof includes some of the 300+ prophecies that Jesus fulfilled and the probability of one man fulfilling these prophecies.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Aug 2, 2014
• ISBN: 9781312393172

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A Quick Jog Through the Bible

A Quick Jog through the Bible

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Copyright Timothy Duke 2014

ISBN: 978-1-312-39317-2

Published at Lulu

Cover image by Linda D Moore titled Jesus wept for unbelief and what was coming upon the world. 

Lk 19:41-44

Table of Contents

The Old Testament

Genesis – The Birth of a Nation

Chapterr 1-5  Creation

Chapter 6-11  Noah's Flood

FBI reports of giant visitors that are extra dimensional

Chapter 10 – Nimrod the world's first dictator

Chapter 12-13    Abram becomes Abraham

Chapter 14 – God uses Moses to part the Red Sea

Chapter 15 – God's prophecy about America

Chapter 19-27    Sodom and Gomarrah

Chapter 28-36    Jacob earns a wife which is a substitute for the one he loves

Chapter 37-50   Israel's son Joseph is sold as a slave by his 11 brothers

Exodus – The Birth of a Nation

Chapter 1-2  The Birth of a Nation and Moses birth

Chapter 3-6 Burning bush

Chapter 7-10 God does 10 wonders to the people of Egypt to convince the Pharaoh

Chapter 11-15  The firstborn child in each family dies – Passover

Chapter 19 – Foreshadow of the Rapture

Chapter 20-30  The Mosaic Covenant

Leviticus – The Law of the Nation

Chapter 13 – Ebola ?

Numbers- The Hebrew translation is Wanderings

Deuteronomy  - The Laws Reviewed

Joshua – The Promised Land

Joshua 1–5 Entering the Land

Joshua 6-12  Overcoming the Land

Joshua 13-24  The Victory of Faith

Judges  450 years of doing what was right in their own eyes

Chapter 1 – Could not defeat people with iron chariots – Nephilim ?

Chapter 2-21 – Joshua dies at 110 years old

Ruth A love story

Samuel Last of the Judges and the first King – rejecting God as their King

2 Samuel – David, the Greatest of Kings

1 Kings – Solomon and splitting of Israel into Northern and Southern Kingdoms

2 Kings – The end of the Jewish Kingdoms and rule

Chapter 2 – Elijah raptured – Elisha parable of the first half of Daniel's 70th week

1 Chronicles – Reign of David

Chapter 12 –Issachars to understand the times in a Biblical sense

2 Chronicles – History of the Southern Kingdom

Ezra –The rebuilding of the Temple in Jerusalem

Nehemiah – The rebuilding of Jerusalem

Esther – Something Hidden

Job – Unknown writer – dated as probably the first book written in the Bible

Chapter 19 – Resurrection

Psalms

Chapter 22 – Prophecy of Jesus' last words on the cross

Chapter 37 – Meek means very strong but humble, perhaps Heroic

Chapter 50 – Day of the Lord

Chapter 51 – Salvation

Chapter 83 – Israel has a war with bordering countries

Chapter 105 – God's unconditional covenant with Abraham for the land of Israel

Proverbs

Chapter 25 – Honor of God to conceal, Honor of Kings to reveal

Ecclesiastes – written by Solomon

Chapter 12 – Description of Daniel's 70th week

Song of Solomon

Isaiah

Chapter 2 – Prophecy of the Last Days – New Jerusalem

Chapter 3 – The End Times will be like Sodom

Chapter 5 - 6– Israel before 70 AD – the Dispersion to all nations

Chapter 7 – Prophecy of Immanuel

Chapter 8 – Prophecy of Isaiah's second son

Isaiah 9 – Prophecy of Israel falling and USA falling

Chapter 11 – 7 Gifts from God

Chapter 13 – Start of the Great Tribulation

Chapter 14 – Israel restored and Lucifer thrown down to earth

Chapter 16 – The earth moans or makes sounds

Isaiah 17 – Prophecy of Damascus, Syria destroyed (oldest city in world)

Isaiah 19 – Prophecy of Egypt civil war after cruel dictator (Morsi)

Chapter 24 – Earth Pole shift - Details of the Great Tribulation – strange sounds from the earth

Chapter 26 – Rapture before the Great Tribulation

Chapter 50 – Prophecy of Jesus on His day of crucifixion

Chapter 53 – Prophecy about the coming Messiah

Chapter 62 – Watchmen on the walls

Chapter 66 –Israel born in a day prophecy

Jeremiah - Prophet

Chapter 5 – The last days will have unrepentant leaders

Chapter 9 – Destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD and Babylon captivity

Chapter 10 – Prophecy of Christmas Trees

Chapter 23 – Prophecy of God bringing Israelis back to the Promised Land

Chapter 25 – Events occurring in the end times –noises from the earth

Chapter 49 – Elam Prophecy – Western Iran

Chapter 50 – Details of Ezekiel 38-39 war

Chapter 50 – Babylon (Iraq) prophecy being fulfilled today by ISIS

Lamentations

Chapter 1 –ISIS and the setting of Psalms 83 war, Churches being rented as Mosques

Ezekiel

Chapter 1 – God appears to Ezekiel in a living chariot

Chapter 2 – Tough ministry to rebellious people & eat scroll as in Rev 10:9

Chapter 3 – Ezekiel appointed as prophet to Israel

Chapter 28 – Description of Lucifer/Satan and creation

Chapter 32 – Water turning red

Chapter 37 – Valley of Dry Bones

Chapter 38-39 – Prophecy of Gog and Magog war

Chapter 40 – Millennial Temple

Daniel –Beloved by God

Chapter 1 – Babylonian siege of Jerusalem – takes Daniel captive

Chapter 2 - Nebuchadnezzar having a dream

Daniel Chapter 3 – Fiery Furnace foreshadow of Revelation Chapter 13

Chapter 4 – Written by Nebuchadnezzar

Chapter 7 – Daniel's dream similar to Nebuchadnezzar's dream in Ch 1

Chapter 8 – Dream changing to Open vision or 4 empires

Chapter 9 –prophecy of 70 weeks (weeks of years or 490 years, also called Sabbatical Years)

Daniel 11  -details the so called 400 silent years from 400 B.C. to the birth of Christ

Chapter 12 - Shmittah

Hosea – prophecy of animal and fish deaths

Chapter 1 – Prophecy of the scattering of Jews and reuniting in Israel

Chapter 4 – prophecy of mass animal and bird deaths

Chapter 5 – God announces His presence on earth and return to Heaven

Joel

Chapter 2 – Day of the Lord & Armageddon: Signs of His return

Chapter 3 – Prophecy of the USA in the End Times ?

Amos

Chapter 1 – Prophecy of Gaza War

Chapter 2 – Height of Nephilim

Chapter 7 – KJV translation poor – Gog revealed

Obadiah

Jonah – attempting to flee from God's command

Micah

Nahum

Habakkuk - Prophet

Chapter 1 – Prophecy of ISIS

Chapter 3 – Prophecy of the Latter Days

Zephaniah

Chapter 1 – Warnings from God

Chapter 2 – Prophecy of Gaza and Ashkelon, Israel

Chapter 3 – the end of Daniel's 70th week description

Haggai – Prophet to Kings Ezra and Zerubbabel 400 BC

Chapter 2 – Prophecy of Muslims killing each other as ISIS is doing

Zechariah – Prophet for the Kingdom of Judah after Babylon captivity

Chapter 3 – God's gift to Joshua a stone with 7 eyes

Chapter 4 – Prophecy that God would protect Israel

Chapter 5 – Description of the Woman who Rides the Beast in Revelation 17 & 18

Chapter 11 – Two prophecies with one fulfilled

Chapter 12 – details of the Psalms 83 war

Chapter 13 – Prophecy of 2/3 of Jews die in WWII

Chapter 14 – End of the Great Tribulation

Malachi – Prophet to King Neherriah in 400 BC

Chapter 3 – Opening to Heaven

Chapter 4 – Elijah is one of the two witnesses in Daniel's 70th week

New Testament

Gospels

Matthew – longest gospel as he was trained in shorthand

Chapter 5 – Meek means very strong and self controlled

Chapter 8 – Demons know the signs of the end days

Chapter 13 - parables

Chapter 22 – Jesus states the 1st and 2nd Commandments

Chapter 24 – Olivet Discourse or end times prophecy

Chapter 25 – Parables of the 10 virgins and Servants entrusted with money

Chapter 27 – Judas fulfills prophecy of 30 pieces of silver

Mark – talking to the Romans

Luke – talking to the Greeks and Gentiles

Chapter 1, - John the Baptist born 6 months before Jesus

Chapter 2 – Birth of Yeshua on Passover

Chapter 8 – Man possessed by Legion of demons – Demons know the signs of the end times

Chapter 16 – Abraham's Bosom

Chapter 21 – confused with the Olivet Discourse

John – beloved son of God

Chapter 3 – Jesus talks with Nicodemus, a Pharisee

Chapter 8 – adulteress, Jesus writes with His finger in the stone

Chapter 17 – Judas called a son of perdition

Acts – Luke second book

Chapter 17 –God points out the Bereans as good examples

Chapter 19 – non-Christians trying to drive out evil spirits and fail

Paul's Epistles

Romans

Chapter 11 – Fullness of Gentiles is a number known only to God

1 Corinthians – Paul's letter explaining the Gifts from God

Chapter 12 – 9 Gifts from God

Chapter 13 – Speaking in tongues of man and speaking in tongues of angels

Chapter 14 – Gifts of the Spirit - Speaking in Tongues

Chapter 15 – The Resurrection – Most Important Chapter in Bible

2 Corinthians – Paul impassioned self-defense

Chapter 12 – Having an Out of Body experience

Galatians - Letter from Paul

Chapter 5 – Spirits of the Flesh and God's fruits of Spirits

Ephesians

Chapter 6 – Our fight is not against humans, it is a fight against satan

Philippians

Colossians

1 Thessalonians – Pauls' response to Nero's persecutions

Chapter 1 – Salutation or Introdution

Chapter 4 – Rapture of the Dead and then the Living

Chapter 5 – Children of the Light

2 Thessalonians – Pauls' response to the next letter from Thessalonian Church

Chapter 1 – Salutation / Introduction

Chapter 2 –Sequence of events to start Daniel's 70th week

1 Timothy – Pastoral Epistle – Paul's instructions to his protégé to organize the home churches

2 Timothy –Challenge to Faithfulness

Chapters 1 & 2 – True Pastor under Testings

Chapters 3 & 4 – End Time Troubles – Crown of Righteousness

Titus

Philemon

Hebrew Epistles

Hebrews

James

1 Peter

2 Peter

Chapter 2 – The lowest hell reserved fallen angels

1 John

Chapter 4 – Difference between Muslins and Christians

2 John

3 John

Jude

Revelation - Prophetic

Chapter 1 - God gives the book to Jesus

Chapter 2 & 3  -The 7 types of Churches and the church history

Chapter 4 – Our future

Rapture versus 2nd Coming of Jesus

Chapter 5 – Scroll with 7 seals

Chapter 6 – The opening of 6 of the seals

Chapter 7 – Sealing 144,000 Jews of 12 Tribes

Chapters 8-9 – 7th seal and 7 trumpets

Chapter 10 – John ate the book – the Last Rapture

Chapter 11 – Temple and two witnesses

Chapter 12 – The woman, the Man Child & the Dragon

Chapter 13 – The 2 beasts

Chapter 14 – Rapture of 144,000 Jewish people

Chapter 15 –Seven bowls of God's Wrath

Chapter 16 – God's bowls of wrath poured out

Chapters 17 & 18 – Mystery Babylon

Chapter 19 - Return of our King

Chapter 20 – Millennium - Great White Throne judgment

Chapter 21 – New Heaven and Earth

Chapter 22 - Eternity

Church History - State Churches

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.  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 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 person we call Satan or Lucifer or AntiChrist.

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. 

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.  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.