Reviving your interest in the Bible is the main focus of today’s discussion, as we explore how this ancient text is more than just a collection of stories—it’s a coherent narrative authored by God himself. We delve into fascinating facts about prophecy, the significance of understanding time in relation to God, and how these elements shape our personal walk with Him. I’ll share some striking statistics that reveal a troubling trend: many people today lack a biblical worldview, primarily due to not engaging with the Bible regularly. This episode encourages us to see the Bible as a singular, grand narrative rather than a random assortment of tales, helping us to comprehend its relevance in our lives. Join me as we unpack the structure of the Bible, its prophetic nature, and how understanding these aspects can lead to a deeper connection with God.

Takeaways:

• The Bible is seen not just as a collection of stories, but as a coherent narrative with one divine author, God, who communicates a unified message throughout.
• Recent statistics reveal a significant decline in biblical literacy, especially among younger generations, highlighting the need for renewed interest and engagement with Scripture.
• Understanding the structure of the Bible as similar to a novel can enhance our appreciation for its themes and encourage deeper study and application in our lives.
• The concept of progressive revelation shows how key biblical doctrines are introduced early in Scripture and unfold over time, culminating in the life and sacrifice of Jesus.

Links referenced in this episode:

• bible805.com
• bible805academy.com

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Sometimes difficult sounding Bible topics and make them easy to understand and apply. At least that's what my students tell me. See for yourself as we get started on our topic today, which is Revive your interest in the Bible.

Fascinating facts about prophecy, God and time and why it's like your favorite novel. Now I want to start out with a disclaimer. You obviously care about the Bible or you wouldn't be listening to or watching this.

Another disclaimer I want to make before I get into the content. This lesson is going to be a little bit longer, a little bit more complex than most from Bible 805, but I feel that the topic requires it.

Again, I don't want to beat up on you about not caring about the Bible as stated you do, or you wouldn't be listening to or watching this. But your interest is very different than the view of many today. Allow me to share some statistics.

This study showed that 68 to 82% of U.S. adults lack biblical alignment in their worldview, which Results in only 4% of adults having an actual biblical worldview. Now it drops even further with younger generations, with millennials at 2% and Gen Z at 1% having what can be described as a biblical worldview.

Now the result of the steep decline is because people don't read the Bible, and obviously if you don't know what it says, you can't base your worldview on it. Now here's some statistics on daily Bible reading of both the general population and regular churchgoers.

And this, by the way, comes from continuing studies at the American Bible Society and George Barnadoo.

And what they tell us is that in the general U.S. population, roughly 9% to 14% of all U.S. adults read the Bible every day outside of a church setting. United States Protestant churchgoers about 31% read the Bible daily or on their own.

Now among churchgoers, again, 31% read it every day, 30% read it a few times a week, 14% read it once a week and about 11% once a month. And in that reading, few Christians have read the Bible all the way through.

Instead, people pick and choose verses out of context that make them feel good, toss out the whole Bible if the promises they claim don't deliver knowledge about key themes such as justice, mercy and care.

For the least of these are either not known because most people don't read the whole Bible and see what a key theme it is, or they're just ignored in the name of political expediency in higher religious institutions. More often than not, biblical scholars quote one another more than they do the Bible itself when discussing biblical issues.

Because of this, as Jesus said, and I think he said it with a broken heart, you're in error because you don't know the Scriptures or the power of God. Because the people in his day did not know the Bible truly or deeply, or combine it with the knowledge of God.

Their lives, though outwardly religious, were seriously off track. He said that again to the religious leaders of his day.

But it really applies to all of us today to correct that, to get you into God's word and walking closely with Jesus is what our lesson today will be about. To do that, we'll look at the evidence of one important fact, that God is the author of the Bible. Think of that.

The creator of all we see of us, of stars, of starfish, of butterflies and worms and wonderful chocolate. That creator has given us a book about himself and about ourselves.

If we truly believe that, consider what that would mean and our focus on it, our obedience to it. And to help us know God as the author of the Bible, we're going to look at these.

The structure of the Bible, the view of God as he relates to the Bible, the place of prophecy and history in the Bible, and then how our individual lives fit into the story of the Bible.

Now, on the structure of the Bible, a well meaning but actually I think misleading view is that often in many books and just one I just read recently as I was preparing this lesson. Well, actually I'm preparing a thing on going through the whole Bible.

But anyway, it started out and I've seen many things like this where they talk about how the Bible is one book, but really many books.

Now that's true on one level, but unintentionally what this common statement I think has done is to lead people to look at the Bible like a collection of short stories written at various times by various people in scattered places and only loosely related many books into one book. I think that view is incorrect and misleading and that the Bible is much more like a novel with one author, God.

Now following is an infographic of both of these views.

Now again, of course, for the podcast I'm going to only describe it, but please go to the entry on www.bible805.com and all of the infographics that I talk about in this and really in all of the lessons are Posted on the Bible805.com website along with all of the notes, video, audio, all of the things related to the lessons. And if you want to teach this material, it's all freely available on the www.bible805academy.com website.

Now we're going to look at each of the various points that I'm going to share with you in this chart on why the B is more like a novel than a collection of short stories. But overall, this chart, the title of it, is Two Views of the Novel versus Short Story Collection.

Now our view of the Bible is a foundational presupposition that shapes how we read it, how we respond to it, and how we order our lives according to it. On the chart there are two columns, one looking at the Bible as a novel with one story, one author, one purpose.

The second column describes the Bible as a short story collection. Many stories, many authors, many voices.

First of all, the contrast is we have one story, one coherent plot line in contrast, many stories just loosely tied together.

On the Bible is novel one author, God, infallible, true and outside of time as short story collection, multiple human authors, editors and redactors, fallible and a product of their times. On inspiration. Bible is novel inspired human authors in the supernatural sense of God speaking through them.

Short story collection human authors inspired by God in a non supernatural sense as anyone's inspired by a lofty subject. Next, the word of God is how the novel view looks at it and on the Bible.

A short story collection contains some words of God, but human reason is needed to decide which are which. Next, supernatural miracles and events are accepted as reported when we look at the Bible as the novel written by God.

On the other hand, the short story view seemingly supernatural events probably have natural explanations back to the novel view. Problems in understanding require prayer and patience.

I reminded my class when I was in seminary, I had the really incredible privilege of having Bernard Ram, who literally wrote the book on biblical hermeneutics, as my hermeneutics professor. Which means, you know, just interpreting, understanding the Bible. And I'll never forget one day in class I don't remember much else that he taught.

I mean he taught us a lot of good things, and I still have my notes. But anyway, one day in class he said, if you have a problem understanding the Bible, remember this, it's your problem. And he.

He went on to say, you can study, you can pray, you can look at things, but remember, it's not God's problem, it's your problem. And I've never forgotten that. So problems in understanding require prayer and patience.

And on the other hand, if you just believe it's written by primarily by humans, problems in understanding allow for human judgment. People, they decide what's true in the Bible, what isn't, and then finally, application.

If we look at the Bible as coming from God, application is imperative. And if not, it's optional.

Now that is kind of an overview, but I want to go a little bit more deeply and I think this is really an exciting part on how the structure of the Bible follows the classical structure of a novel.

Now, without getting too philosophical, it seems that the structure of stories, from the classics of Greek drama to modern novels and movies, all follow a pattern somehow written into the core of our hearts and minds. Something inside us says this is how a story should be structured. And if these parts aren't there and in the proper order, something seems off.

At the same time, we so expect them that we're not even aware of them.

As we experience the stories again, from the Bible to popular bestsellers, to the plots of TV programs and movies, let's now look at the five parts and see how the Bible lines up with them. The initial definitions are from Freytag and then my comments on how the Bible content fits that part.

The five structural parts of a novel or one story. First of all, I'll just list all of them, and then I'll go into detail on each one.

They are exposition, rising, action, climax, falling action, and denouement. Okay, now let's look at how the Bible fits in exposition. Here's how Freytag defined it.

The first phase introduces the characters, especially the main character, also known as the protagonist. It shows how the characters relate to one another, their goals and motivations, as well as their moral character.

During the exposition, the protagonist learns their main goal and what is at stake. Exposition in the Our Triune God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit is the primary protagonist in all the Bible.

All other characters are subordinate to God, though their actions are meaningful. In the opening of Genesis, God created a world and placed humanity created in his image into a perfect garden. He met them there and walked with them.

Here's the definition of Rising. It starts with a conflict, an event that catalyzes a protagonist to take action. Rising action initiates the progression of events until the climax.

In this phase, the secondary protagonist characters understand the goal that will resolve the conflict and begin to work toward it. Smaller problems thwart their initial success, and their progress is directed primarily against these secondary obstacles.

This phase demonstrates how the protagonist overcomes these obstacles.

Rising Action in the Bible the catalyzing conflict in the biblical story is when the human couple God created for a relationship with himself turns their back on him and does the one thing he told them not to, to eat the forbidden fruit. They choose to believe the enemy of God, Satan rather than God. The consequence is death.

First, temporal physical death, and finally eternal death or separation from God.

The only solution to the eternal death of his created characters is for God himself to enter the broken world and by a sacrificial death, repair the breach and accomplish redemption for fallen humanity. Now rising action continued in the Bible the Old Testament storyline is a progression of events about God's preparation for his work of redemption.

Through the lives of a chosen people and the messages of his prophets. God illustrates and explains who he is, what he expects, and what he will do to accomplish the promised redemption.

He can no longer walk physically with them, so God communicates through his Word spoken through the prophets and through the written scriptures that become our Bible, which is the record of events in the lives of the chosen people and his chosen messengers.

Just as the rising action makes up the bulk of a novel, the rising action told in the Old Testament makes up the majority of our Bibles and much of human history. Like any careful storyteller, God's not in a hurry. He takes his time to tell the story and prepare the world for the climax.

The climax defined by Freytag. The climax is the turning point, or highest point of the story.

The protagonist makes the single big decision that defines not only the outcome of the story, but also who they are as a person. The climax of the Bible, of course, consists of the life, death and resurrection of Jesus.

In that humanity sees in Jesus the perfect man, how they were designed to live and obey God, and in contrast, how they're not able to do it. Then that perfect man, Jesus, by an act of his free will, takes his life and offers it in the place of his creation as a sacrifice for their sins.

God the Father accepts the sacrifice and the enemy, Satan and death are defeated. The breach is healed. The redemption price is paid.

Then the falling Action Falling Action Defined the climax is not the ending, but it determines the ending. The falling action phase consists of events that lead to the ending.

Depending upon the complexity of the story, there are often multiple secondary plot lines yet to be worked out. The falling action in the Bible comes after the death resurrection ascension of Jesus back to heaven.

His disciples are charged with the task of sharing the message of salvation with the world.

The secondary plot lines involve the establishment of the church and how his disciples are to live out the work of reconciling the world to God and that that is now possible by the death and resurrection of Jesus.

The New Testament tells the story of the falling action not only the characters when it was first written, but it invites us to join in and become part of the story in our lives as followers of Jesus.

The Denouement the denouement defined in this phase, the protagonist and antagonist have solved their problems and either the protagonist or antagonist wins the conflict. The conflict officially ends.

Some stories show what happens to the characters after the conflict ends, or they show what happens to the characters in the future.

The Denouement the Bible is Christ's return to earth, the casting of Satan into the Lake of Fire, and the creation of the new Heaven and new Earth, where God once again physically, tangibly walks with his people forever. Paradise Lost has become paradise regained. C.S.

Lewis description of the denouement at the end of the last battle can describe our coming denouement of human history. Also, as he says, the term is over. The holidays have begun. The dream is ended. This is the morning, the beginning of the real story.

All their life and all their adventures in Narnia had only been the COVID and title page.

Now at last, they were beginning chapter one of the great story which no one on earth has read, which goes on forever, in which every chapter is better than the one before. Here's a summary of the five part structure.

I found the way the Bible fits the structure of a novel to be very exciting when I first discovered it, and I hope you do too.

It not only fits the structure of how it's written, but recognizing that the Bible is one coherent story with one author resonates with something deeply within us, that this is how things ought to be. It is the greatest of novels written by one divine author.

It's not a scattered collection of short stories written by Faceless writers who could never have collaborated independently to produce this one storyline. Over the centuries, the Bible was written. Now, I do have to clarify what I mean when I talk about the Bible as story.

The term story refers to its narrative structure, the whole of how it is written. It does not mean it's fictional. It does not mean it took place far, far away. And here is where history fits in. Now, bear with me.

It's going to be a little convoluted at first, but I think ultimately very useful as it also informs us about God's inspiration of the Bible. It starts with how we view biblical inspiration.

Now, at its most basic level, this is where we believe that God inspired or spoke through the writers of Scripture so that they did not lose their personality or individual style. It's really easy if you have read the Bible, to see how Peter's writing style is very different than Isaiah's.

God didn't erase them as people, but the content is God's. The verse most often cited in support of biblical inspiration is second.

Well, it's two verses, second Timothy 3, 16 and 17, where it says all scriptures inspired by God and is useful to teach us what is true and make us realize what is wrong with our lives. It corrects us when we're wrong and teaches us to do what is right. God uses it to prepare and equip his people to do every good work.

So what does that mean? What does inspiration really mean? At its most basic level, it means we believe God is the one behind the Bible. But again, what does that mean?

Did he just give ideas or the words themselves or how did it all work? Now, this is important to discern because a limited view of God's inspiration, I think, limits our view of God.

It seems a lot of current debate on inspiration with how the details of even the most minute word choice was inspired by God. And though there's truth to that and all that debates and all that about it, we limit God. I think if we stop there in correction to it.

I'd like to offer a greatly expanded view of inspiration beyond just the words. Again, not denying that they are important.

But let's consider God's inspiration in his weaving together the strands of the great themes of the Bible throughout all its creation and culmination. We see this through both predictive prophecy and progressive revelation as verified by history, which I'll be illustrating shortly.

And this is possible only because God, the ultimate author of the Bible, is outside of time, outside of history. Again, bear with this somewhat complex explanation of foundational importance. In all this is understanding that God exists outside of time.

And that means that existing outside of time, God sees the past, present and future simultaneously and is thus able to give us true prophecy and weave things throughout the Bible using progressive revelation, which I'll get into in more detail shortly. Now, here's God's view of time. This chart again will be on the www.bible805 website.

And this just shows how God is above and outside of all human time.

Whereas we as individuals are down then on a timeline, God can see eternity, past creation, the future Jesus life, where we are all of these different things and we only experience one little dot on it. But God is outside of all of that.

And because of that, here's how history fits in here's what Eugene Peterson says about the importance of history in his introduction to the Historical books in the Bible.

He says these books, referring to the historical books of the Old Testament, immerse us in dates and events, in persons and circumstances, in history. History is a medium in which God works salvation, just as paint and canvas is a medium in which Rembrandt made creative works of art.

This deeply pervasive sense of history, the dignity of this place in history, the presence of God in history, accounts for the way in which the Hebrew people talked and wrote. They did not, as was a fashion in the ancient world and I would say today, make up and embellish fanciful spiritual stories.

The Bible events, in contrast, take place in identifiable times, with identifiable people. I've got a whole series of lessons on the writings of other religions.

Check them out on Bible805.com but just keep in mind, and I don't think I need great explanations to remind you, that many religions have all kinds of spiritual stories that really have absolutely no relation to what happened in real history. Now the Bible, though, is true history.

The writing ended in approximately 70 AD. Now there are six identifiable periods during this time span.

I have again another infographic that shows each one of these, and again there will be a copy in your notes.

Now, during each time period there are clearly identified authors who tie what they wrote about their current situation with verifiable people and events taking place at that time. This dating of events and the people who wrote during this time is confirmed by Christian, Jewish and secular history.

There may be minor dating controversy, but the overall times and events are clearly agreed upon. Now you do not have to believe in divine authorship or intervention to accept the history of when an event was prophesied and when it took place.

You can attribute it to magic or coincidence or time travel, and all of them have been put forth as explanations. But you cannot, with intellectual honesty, ignore the order of when various biblical events took place.

Now the different time periods consist of the times of the Patriarchs, Exodus and Judges, the Kings and the Kingdom, the Exile and return, the intertestamental period and the New Testament era. And on this chart I have the different biblical authors that wrote during those times and also what was happening in world history at these times.

Again, Please go to www.bible805.com for the infographic on this. Now this is very important because without a grounding in true history, predictive prophecy is meaningless.

If all the prophetic books were written after the fact of their events, again, they have no significant meaning.

But with a grounding of a prophecy made hundreds of years before it was confirmed, prophecy becomes very powerful because it moves the story of the Bible from being just an interesting story about an ancient people to an intentional plan worked out by a loving God over millennia for the redemption of his people. Now here's how it works out. Let me explain what I mean by predictive prophecy.

The popular conception of prophecy is that it's all about scary end time events. Now that isn't what the majority of biblical prophecy is about though.

Now listen to me carefully, especially if you're not really familiar with the Bible and Jesus, though it does have some rather scary it does have some rather scary things to say about the wrapping up of this world and the final fate of humanity. And I do encourage you, wherever you are spiritually, to consider your eternal relationship with Jesus.

Bible 805 has sections on what it means to be saved, on salvation and discipleship. Check those out. It is very important that you do. But back to this lesson. There are two primary categories of Old Testament prophecy.

First, there's predictive prophecy about specific events that would take place in your notes.

There are many more detailed explanations of this, but a primary one is the constant warnings of the prophets throughout the Old Testament of what would happen if Israel turned away from God. They did and his judgment. The destruction of Israel and the exile to Babylon happened precisely as was prophesied.

In addition, the restoration and return to the land was also prophesied in specific detail 150 years before it happened, when the prophet Isaiah predicted that a king named Cyrus would allow the people to return to the land. This was before Babylon conquered and exiled them, and before the Medes and the Persians were even a power able to do that.

All of which of course necessitates exact dating and true history.

No, this is not like the Mormon Church, which defines progressive revelation as the ability to change previous teachings to whatever they currently want them to be. Like polygamy was legal and then it wasn't. And then some groups can do it. No, that's. That's not it at all.

One example of true progressive revelation is the continuing plot line that a sinless sacrifice was needed to pay for humanity's rebellion against their creator. Early in Genesis, when Adam and Eve sinned, God covered them with animal skins.

When Abel made his offering pleasing to God, it was an animal sacrifice. Job offered animal sacrifices, so did Abraham. All of these were prior to the Levitical laws.

The sacrifices, their type, purpose and procedure were clarified in the Levitical laws after the Exodus and became tied to the idea of the coming Messiah in Isaiah and other prophetic writings.

And that is why it was extraordinarily meaningful When John the Baptist saw Jesus and to his audience, which had the history of thousands of years of sacrifice, and he said, behold the Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world.

That introduced Jesus and his ministry, his baptism, and finally, with all the previous teachings about sacrifices, they were fulfilled with Jesus death on the cross and confirmed in his uniqueness as a final satisfactory sacrifice by his resurrection.

These events, the later New Testament writers expand on and clarify until in the book of Revelation, John has a vision of Jesus as both lion and lamb.

The plot line of a needed sacrifice for the sin of an innocent winds through the entire Bible, through the centuries and the voices of many, but its truth is progressively revealed by the one author, God, behind it all. Here are a couple of comments Jesus made on progressive revelation about his life and ministry. In John 5:39 he said, Search the Scriptures from them.

Ye think ye have eternal life, and they are they which testify of me.

But not only Jesus but the other New Testament authors refer to and confirm progressive revelation of Old Testament teaching further revealed or fulfilled as the Old Testament is quoted over 200 times in the New Testament, always as part of progressive revelation, not a contradiction or a declaration that previous teachings were wrong or false.

Paul does this extensively in his writings and in his recorded way of teaching, where it shows how he would go from synagogue to synagogue and show them how Jesus was the fulfillment of the Messiah they were looking for.

The Book of Hebrews is also a primary example of this, just from the beginning and then all the way through the book, where it starts out by saying, in the past God spoke to our ancestors through the prophets at many times and in various ways, but in these last days he spoken to us by His Son.

A Conclusion about Progressive Revelation from progressive revelation one can conclude that our Bible has one author, God, who worked through human authors.

But it was God, the primary author, who kept in mind the whole plot, the storyline of salvation outside of time God carefully planned, and though it took many centuries to tell it all, the basic plot lines, the key themes do not change but expand as the books of the Bible unfold. The Bible in this way is more like a coherent novel with one author than a collection of short stories loosely related by various authors.

But you must read the entire Bible to see this. Also important, this consistency of progressive revelation is unique, characteristic of the Bible.

Other religions totally change doctrines, ignore blatant contradictions, define progressive revelation as the option to change their mind about important topics topics or upfront. Admit they can change it, however, whenever they want, but the Christian Bible and faith do not do that. However, this brings up a troubling question.

What about me? What's my part in the great story? If God has determined from eternity the plotline of the Bible, we can't help but ask the question, what about me?

Is my life a predetermined part of the plot plan?

The balance of God's sovereign will over time and history versus human choice is a core question here and this illustration it comes from Rick Warren helped me understand it, it's kind of simple, but I think it makes a whole lot of sense. And he said that human history, the big picture, the entire plot of the salvation story is like an ocean liner.

The direction is certain, the route is set, the captain is in charge, it's his ship, his word is law. And the passengers have a copy of the law, his guidelines, his manual, which obviously is the Bible for them to get the most out of the journey.

But within the ship, the passengers are given quite a bit of freedom, the place of the individual in this. They can't change the destination of the ship, but their actions greatly affect their experience of the journey.

Also, each passenger is responsible for his or her actions, his or her attitude, and based on them, what they get or don't get out of the trip and ultimately where they disembark.

There's individual freedom as to whether they're helpful, a peacemaker, a joy producer to themselves and others on the ship, or a dead weight, a boar, a constant complainer, or someone to be thrown in the brigade.

The passengers do well to keep in mind that this is not a meandering pleasure cruise that never ends, but one with a definite destination and harbor that will be reached.

Because Christianity has a linear view of time and history, it wouldn't be progressive revelation if it wasn't progressing towards something, a discernible endpoint. In contrast, many religions believe in a cyclical view of time. Eastern religions believe in reincarnation, all of time going round and round.

They refer to it as samsara, indefinitely repeated with cycles of birth, misery and death caused by karma. Christianity is quite different. It teaches a personal creator started it all, not impersonal matter, not karma.

Genesis teaches creation ex nihilo, out of nothing. And with that our universe began. I am the Alpha and the Omega, says the Lord God, who is, who was, who is to come, the Almighty.

And in addition to a clear beginning, Revelation 21 and many other places teaches us that time will come. A time will come when there will be an end to our present universe and a new heaven and a new earth. Remember the earlier illustration? God uses time.

God created time, rules over all that happens in it, and will bring it to an end when he sees fit. Now, important applications, because the Christian faith presents time as linear. There's no reincarnation, no do overs though.

God is clearly in control of the ship of human history, and he wrote the guidebook, our Bible again, for how to live it. He won't force us to read it, but we do best on the journey if we do.

The guidebook also clearly tells each person they must choose where they want to disembark.

Everyone's offered the chance to live with the captain and what he promises is a forever, extraordinary, solid and lasting home, far different than the pitching seas, the storms and the sickness that have plagued the ship. If they don't want that, the captain warns them that there isn't any other land, they will drown in darkness.

Their ultimate destination isn't the only decision they must make. For those who've trusted the captain, who want to join him in his forever home.

The guidebook, the story given to all, tells them that they're accountable for their time on the ship and how they use the resources they're given, no matter where they found themselves in first class, working in the galley, or as a passenger or one entrusted with greater responsibilities. But again, they aren't forced to read it or forced to obey it.

It's up to each passenger, especially those given first class passage, to realize that it isn't a pleasure ship, a cruise, to simply try to live a best life now as if the ship is the only reality. There's work to be done and one day the journey will be over. And as we leave this earthly ship eats passenger will meet the captain.

CS Lewis put it this way.

Now he uses a metaphor of a play, but it's the same idea and I think it's really good that there is a finite end to the Christian linear view of time. And here's what he says precisely because we cannot predict the moment, we must be ready at all moments. The curtain may be rung down at any moment.

We do not know the play, the author knows and we're led to expect the authority will have something to say to each of us on the part of each of us has played the Playing it well is what matters infinitely. Bible 805 is committed to helping you play your part infinitely well. Bible 805 is all about basic Bible teaching.

Difficult subjects that I hope are made easy for you to understand and apply.

And I do hope from these lessons I know this was a long one Looking at God's view of time, history and progressive revelation have helped you be convinced that God, not just a collection of inspired humanity, is the author of the Bible.

And that the Bible is truly the book which teaches you all that is necessary for faith and life, for living and dying and serving God forever, and that it should be an essential priority in your life to know it well and to live obediently. That's what Bible 805 will help you do through podcasts, videos, print, and wherever I can.

I want to help you on your journey to be an obedient disciple of Jesus and to meet your captain, your Lord, your Savior, at the end of your journey with great joy. That's all for now. Please check out the show notes, a.

Complete downloadable transcript, graphics mention, and related materials at www.bible805.com. Until next time, I'm Yvonne Prynn, your fellow pilgrim, writer and teacher for Jesus, and I'd like to close with this benediction.

May you know the invitation of God to move from confusion to clarity, from wandering to rest, from loneliness to knowing you are loved, from turmoil to peace, from wherever you are in your spiritual journey to a growing knowledge of God's Word and in your personal relationship with the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

Amen.