chrio39, on Apr 5 2008, 08:35 PM, said:
In the 1st article that you gave a link to they note that the book of Isaiah has 66 books, and a quote from a writer that speaks of the uniqueness of the book in that it gives the history of God with his people as well as prophecy of his future work with his people, especially in chapters 40 and 53. There are 66 books in the bible, in both testaments. Isaiah deals with all of God's dealings with man. 66 is 3 times 22.
We all know that God is triune - Father, Son & Spirit, as well as man - body, soul & spirit - the number 3. 22 - number of Hebrew alphabet characters, and chapters of the book of Revelation.
Also, a side thought. In Psalm 22 David prophesied of Jesus in vs 14 "I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint"
Though the old and new testaments are separated (out of joint), they are yet connected.
There are other interesting things that give credence to the basic concept of the bible wheel (although taken into the hugely subjective) is that the very middle of the wheel, that is the middle of the seven sections, is the book of Lamentations (the 25th book of the bible, but middle of the seven sections). I thought check this out because I figured the middle should be significant if there was something to it. (The middle of seven is usually significant.) This middle section of the major prophets has Lamentations as its unusual middle book because it was put after Jeremiah since he wrote it. (Unusual in that it appear to not be prophetic but it is!) When I realized that it was Lamentations at the middle I immediately remembered that the verse at the middle of that book was distinctive, set there on purpose. The book has 5 chapters, and chapter 3:1 the middle is where it suddenly and unexpectedly becomes prophetic in that all the suffering of Jerusalem is personified in Jesus, "I am the man who has seen affliction by the rod of his wrath!"
The book of Lamentation is like a mini bible wheel. It is made up of 5 acrostics where each verse begins with a letter of the alphabet beginning with aleph ("A" to "Z" if it were in our language.) This is just like the bible wheel. The first of the 5 acrostics is 66 verses long, the next is 66, then 66 (laid out differently, see next) then 44 then 22.
(22 x 3 lines long) + (22 x 3 lines long) + (66 x 1 line long) + (22 x 2 lines long) + (22 x 1 lines long) = 264 Hebrew lines of text with Lam. 3:1 at the middle as the 133rd line, beginning with "Aleph" (Alpha). "Ani ha-geber", "I AM the Man!" (and the middle of the 5th section is the word "man" {eish}, last word of the 33rd line), and the last word of this 3rd section in Lamentation is the word "YHWH". The total of the 264 lines obviously reflects the fact that this makes 22 x 12 lines of Hebrew text, one for every tribe of Israel, which is the theme of the book.
So 5 acrostics of Jeremiah located in the middle of the 5 major prophets, which is in the middle of the seven sections of the canon of the bible, with the canon being laid out in three sections of 22 letters (66). Now that is not a coincidence, but a sign of God's great sovereignty. So I have no doubt in the basic premise of the bible wheel. It is just when all the gematria is added to try to tie in individual spokes that I have a problem. It then becomes far too subjective.
The Timing of When the Wheel Was Discovered
The very morning that this person discovered the bible wheel is on a day and year and hour (May 12th, 1995) that if I had to try to come up with a more perfect hour for such a discovery to be made I could not have! And this person is unaware of it because it is something the Lord revealed to me about the bible calendar back around that time and he makes no mention of its significance anywhere on his site as far as I can see, other than to say that on that date he had a flash of revelation from God that the canon was to be wound up like one scroll. On the
360 calendar, that day was the morning of the 3rd month, the 8th day, 3440 years (430 x 8 years) after Mount Sinai in the middle of the seven days of the convenant given to Moses on Mount Sinai at the time of the exodus--- exactly to the hour.
(This is when the bible first began to be given to man as we know it.) See
"Jubilee-exodus-chart-bible-prophecy."
The revelation of the bible wheel even occurred on the morning that it was discovered (May 12, 1995), something that I make clear in the
above document as significant (written year ago), that is, that the seven days that Moses received the covenant had to have begun at the very start (evening) of the 5th day (3rd month), which is the start of Pentecost as per Jewish tradition, thus making 3.5 days later the morning of the 8th day, and the exact middle of the week that the covenant was made, including the giving of the 10 commandments. The cycles of 430 years are fundamental to the entire numeric fabric of the bible. (They were 430 years in Egypt, another 430 x 2 until the fall of Jerusalem in 586 BC, etc., etc. 430 x 3 = 1290 of Daniel 12.) See Daniel 9 about the covenant and "to seal up vision and prophecy".
So I personally have no doubt about the validity of this discovery about the canon of Scripture on several levels of reasoning. It is just that there are many examples of forcing things on the level of trying to unit the "spokes" on the wheel. The basic pattern fits. But uniting verse to verse by the wheel does not seem to me to be the purpose of the wheel, and most examples given to try to prove such are forced.
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