Isaiah Connections

[n2thelight]

Just something I wanted to share,take from it what you will...

The Bible is God’s Word
Long before the birth of Christ, God placed connections in the book of Isaiah, linking it to every book in the Bible. These connections were not visible to man as the rest of the Bible was being written down or assembled. God concealed this mystery for approximately 2,000 years until the Bible was given chapter and verse divisions. Today many people who study the Scriptures call the book of Isaiah a “miniature-Bible,” this is for numerous reasons. For one, the book of Isaiah has 66 chapters, and the Bible has 66 books. Incredibly, every chapter of Isaiah is connected to the book it represents chronologically.

Below are four samples of chapter connections God placed in the book of Isaiah.

ISAIAH Chapter 1
Except the LORD of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, and we should have been like unto Gomorrah. (Isaiah 1:9)

GENESIS – 1st Book 
Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven: (Genesis 19:24)

ISAIAH Chapter 2
In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols of gold,.. (Isaiah 2:20)

EXODUS – 2nd Book
Ye shall not make with me gods of silver, neither shall ye make unto you gods of gold. (Exodus 20:23)

ISAIAH Chapter 40
The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God. (Isaiah 40:3)

MATTHEW – 40th book
The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight. (Matthew 3:3)

ISAIAH Chapter 66
For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain. (Isaiah 66:22)

REVELATION – 66th Book
And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away… (Revelation 21:1)


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Just thought it to be very interesting

Link to the whole study below

http://isaiahminibible.com/

[Neighbor]

It is interesting however I wonder does the linkage and numerics work out in Hebrew and in Greek respectively? To say there are 66 books of the Bible, did that happen two thousand years  ago?

 I seem to recall that the Jewish old testament has  less scrolls (books)  than does any present day English Language OT Bible.  Twenty four I think.

The divisions into chapters  plus the versification of Old Testament and New Testament did not come about two thousand years ago either, if I remember. It was much much later as a study aid and not for easier reading. It actually makes reading for comprehension rather cumbersome by comparison.

"Stephen Langton, an Archbishop of Canterbury. Langton put the modern chapter divisions into place in around A.D. 1227. The Wycliffe English Bible of 1382 was the first Bible to use this chapter pattern. Since the Wycliffe Bible, nearly all Bible translations have followed Langton's chapter divisions."

Roman Catholic and Protestant versions have changed over years too. The RCC has the 23rd Psalm as the 22nd as example. Early JKV included much of the total apocryphal scrolls 14 being included until I think 1885 when  the English revision committee met, later the US committe met separately and wrote the 1901 ASB. All the while the RCC had accepted only what they termed the deuterocanonical books  and I believe I remember correctly not all the apocrypha books the KJV accepted. I may have a detail wrong here or there but th point is there are differences and there have been change sover years, even relatively recent years.

Numbers play games, and game players can play numbers. Need to be careful to not force a fit. It is interesting, but to make it work I have to accept English as the proper language and  today's KJV or similar revisions as the absolutely correct Bible. I don't think even the revisionists thought that about their work in behalf of the command of King James.

Some numbers players have had Shakespear sneeking his age and name into the KJV. I share that only as evidence of the games numbers players can invent:

..."Here is how the story goes. Since Shakespeare was born in the year 1564, then he would have been 46 years old during 1610 when the finishing touches were being put on the KJV. In the King James Version, if you count down 46 words from the top (not counting the title) you read the word “shake,” then, if you omit the word “selah” and count 46 words from the bottom you find the word “spear.” Voilà! Shakespeare must have tinkered with the text and subtly added his signature. How else could one account for all of these 46s to work out so well? To top it all off, William Shakespeare is an anagram of “Here was I, like a psalm.”....

Of course evidence that Shakespeare ever had anything to do with writing the KJV is lacking, but it makes for a say what moment to read that he did, and that passage is evidence of it being so. It is only evidence that if one works at it they can make numbers add the way they would find most interesting. A book on  why the Bible has no numerics would likely not sell all that well.

I too enjoy numerical keys that seem to be found in scripture. I especially find Ed.F.Vallowe to be pretty legitimate in his scholarly effort.

God inspired and amazing Psalm 119 is evidence to me that God set numbers into play Himself, but I will not be building my own doctrine nor understanding of the doctrine of others upon them.

None the less it is good  fun if it leads to study of the Word and application of the Word so that many may be presnted as mature in the Lord by the sharing of the Word.

THAT'S THE OPINION FROM THIS PEANUT GALLERY.

Edited August 25, 2018 by Neighbor