The BibleWheel is the discovery of Richard Amiel McGough (www.biblewheel.com).

Once you read this article through I don't think it would be hard for you to understand how the bible is structured. You might even find things needful when searching the bible using this method. Please have some patience reading it through. I think you are going to enjoy it as well.

The Hebrew Alphabet

Hebrew is used in most of the Old Testament. The first names from Adam to the tower of Babel are Hebrew names. The Old Testament was written for the Hebrews and by the Hebrews.

Hebrew Alphabet As an Art in the Bible

Many places are the Hebrew Alphabet used as an acrostic, meaning each sentence would begin with a consecutive lettered word. The most common is Psalm 119. It begins with Aleph the first letter. It has 8 verses of acrostic beginning with Aleph and then moves on to the next letter Beith. It has a total of 176 verses, 8 x 22. 22 is the number of letters in the Hebrew Alphabet.

Each letter has a positional number:

Having Alphabetic verses such as Lamentation 1, where there are 22 verses in that chapter, we see that each verse starts with an Alphabetic word, a word beginning with that alphabet letter.

Lamentation has a total of 154 verses.

Most of these verses are Alphabetic.

Associating Letters and Words Beginning With Those Letters With Their Positional Values

The Hebrew letters are actually words. Yod the 10th letter means Hand. Lamed the 12th letter means Teach.

For more insight on the letters and their meanings see:

http://members.cox.net/8thday/hebrew.html

The bible shows a connection with numbers within the text and the words used. As an example look at:

The third letter of the Alphabet is Gimel. It means Camel. In both verses above the number three is associated with camel. Also the third calamity is verse 17.

But if this seems to you as a coincidence read verse 18 below:

The number four is used in the fourth clamity.

Another example on the number four is:

There are also four ways of being killed which God is allowing:

So all throughout the scriptures there is this kind of pattern.

Associating Letters and Words Beginning With Those Letters With The Positional Value of Books

Let's move on to something which is debatable these days. Using the modern position of books as a means to prove this point is debatable because history shows that some of the books which are separated like the book of Kings (into 1 Samuel, 2 Samuel, 1 Kings and 2 Kings) makes it hard for us to believe if there is such a pattern in the 66 book bible. Some question, "What about the Apocryphal books?" or "What about the rejected books of the New Testament?" or "What about the books being mentioned in the 66 books such as the book of Jasher or Enoch or the source where Paul quoted a Greek poet (Acts 17)?" I don't really know all the reasons since I haven't read all these other books to tell you if it's inspired or not. But I know that some weren't such as the Apocryphal books. It teaches sorcery such as the story of Bel and the Dragon. It teaches seduction such as Judith. It also isn't historically accurate such as 1st and 2nd Maccabees where Antiochus dies twice.

On the other hand the New Testament quotes many Old Testament passages which leads us to think that the books of those passages are inspired. They don't quote for the sake of the passage but they expect us to read and understand the context as well.

To move on to the next levels, I think you need to read the bible along with the other books (at least a couple) to compare them and see whether the bible is inspired or not and whether the others are inspired or not.

I think I've given you enough evidence to prove the pattern within the text. And when God encodes these, there must be a good reason. I think it's up to us to search out and apply it in our lives. What are the advantages of searching out these things?

It makes us know scriptures by heart so that we can apply it in our lives

Through science we've seen patterns on material things. Man has studied and developed to improve his way of life. Man has come up with constructive (as well as destructive but that's another topic) things such as cars, airplanes, furniture, computers...I don't see why when it comes to the bible that we should ignore the deeper things in the bible where we need to study numerical, alphabetical and other patterns like parables, prophecies, allegories.

It links one scripture to the other to understand which otherwise wouldn't have been able to

This has to be proven and will be in the coming articles.

What's in a Book?

In the closing chapters of Genesis God through Joseph announced a coming famine to put Joseph on the throne next to Pharaoh and bring his family down to Egypt. The pharaohs and Egyptians were knowledgable that there is a God mighty enought to send a famine. But in Exodus, the 2nd book from Genesis God does something totally different. This time God wants to take Israel out from Egypt to go back to the land of Canaan. So each book has a different purpose to teach us the different characters of God. People argue that the God of the Old Testament and the God of the New Testament are different. He isn't. Neither is the God of Genesis different than the God of Exodus.

The books of the bible are the following: