Supplemental Notes: Learn the Bible in 24 Hours compiled by Chuck Missler © 2005 Koinonia House Inc. Audio Listing Hour 1: Introduction Hour 2: The Creation & The Fall of Man (Genesis 1-3) Hour 3: The Pre-Historical Period (Genesis 4-11) Acknowledgments These notes have been assembled from speaking notes and related Hour 4: The Patriarchs (Genesis 12-50) materials which had been compiled from a number of classic and contemporary commentaries and other sources detailed in the bibliog- raphy, as well as other articles and publications of Koinonia House. While we have attempted to include relevant endnotes and other references, we apologize for any errors or oversights. Hour 5: The Birth of the Nation (Ex, Lev, Num, Deut) The complete recordings of the sessions, as well as supporting dia- grams, maps, etc., are also available in various audiovisual formats from the publisher. Hour 6: In the Land (Joshua, Judges, Ruth) Hour 7: The Monarchy (Samuel, Kings, Chronicles) Hour 8: The Poetical Books (Job, Ps, Prov, Ecc, Song) Page 2 Page 3 Audio Listing Audio Listing Hour 9: The Book of Daniel Hour 17: The Book of Acts Hour 10: Post-Exile History (Ezra, Neh, Esther) Hour 18: Paul’s Definitive Doctrinal Summary (Rom) Hour 11: The Major Prophets (Isa, Jer, Ezek) Hour 19: Paul’s Church and Pastoral Epistles Hour 12: The Minor Prophets Hour 20: The Hebrew Epistles (Heb, Jas, Pet, Jn, Jd) Hour 21: Eschatological Summary (Thessalonians) Hour 13: How Sure Can We Be? (Intro to New Test.) Hour 22: The Once and Future Church (Rev 1-3) Hour 14: The New Testament (How We Got our Bible) Hour 23: Seals, Trumpets, Bowls, Triumph (Rev 4-22) Hour 15: The Gospels (Mt, Mk, Lk, Jn) Hour 24: Conclusion Hour 16: The Final Week Page 4 Page 5 Learn the Bible in 24 Hours If we abide by the principles taught in the Bible, our country will go on prospering and to prosper; but if we and our posterity neglect its Hour 1: Introduction instructions and authority, no man can tell how sudden a catastrophe may overwhelm us and bury all our glory in profound obscurity. No person’s education is complete if they do not know their Bible. Yet, Daniel Webster Authority Crises this essential “completeness” has been outlawed in our government schools…The veneration of the Word of God characterized the earlier • Parental Authority leadership which established our precious heritage… • Marital Authority It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible. • Political Authority George Washington • Academic Authority • Ecclesiastical Authority I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man. All the good from the Saviour of the world is communicated to us through this book. Leading cultural indicators over last 30 years: Abe Lincoln • Population increased 41% It is sobering to acknowledge the preciousness of our heritage that is • Gross Domestic Product increased 300% that has come to us at such a high price…How tragically we have fallen! • Social spending increased 500% The Bible is worth all the other books which have ever been printed. And yet… Patrick Henry • 560% increase in violent crime For most of the past 2,000 years it was a treasure that millions willingly • 400% increase in illegitimate births died for. And yet we all take it so for granted. • 400% increase in the divorce rate • 300% increase in single-parent homes The Bible is no mere book, but it is a Living Creature, with a power that • 200% increase in teenage suicides conquers all that oppose it. Napoleon • 75% drop in SAT scores Heritage Foundation, 1993 Even “secular” leaders acknowledged its uniqueness. (And he was Since 1963: technically correct: Hebrews 4:12.) • Divorce Rates Escalate Born in the East and clothed in Oriental form and imagery, the Bible walks • Breakup of family units the ways of the world with familiar feet and enters land after land to find • Acceptance of homosexuality its own everywhere. It has learned to speak in hundreds of languages to • Teen-age Pregnancies the heart of man. Children listen to its stories with wonder and delight, and • Murder of inconvenient babies wise men ponder them as parables of life. The wicked and the proud tremble • Crime Rates at its warnings, but to the wounded and penitent it has a mother’s voice. Henry Van Dyke …what happened that year? We outlawed the Bible from our schools! Misquote of Ben Franklin: “Jack of all trades, master of none.” It should What’s Ahead read: “Jack of all trades, master of One.” A cultured person is one who knows something about everything and everything about something. We hope that our brief excursion will result in a practical strategic grasp of the entire Bible; a perspective from which you will be able to navigate A Christian’s specialization must be the Bible. your personal adventure which will enrich a lifetime, and more. Page 6 Page 7 • The Ultimate Literary Adventure Refuted by archaeological discoveries, documentary discoveries, and – The Greatest Drama of all time competent analysis. We have the advantage of modern discoveries and – The Greatest Evils more competent scholarship… – The Greatest Good – The Greatest Romance Some Preliminaries – The Greatest Mysteries – The Biography of a real SuperMan • Shedding the baggage of our misconceptions: It is essential to • The Cosmic War “blindfold our prejudices”; the only sure barrier to truth is the – Extraterrestrial Sources presumption that you already have it… – Transdimensional Episodes • 20th century science has vindicated the Biblical perspectives of – The Pawns and the Prizes reality: – The Cosmic Questions – The Finite Universe: The most profound discovery of • The Ultimate Personal Adventure modern physics is that we live in a finite universe. From a – The Miracle of our Origin singularity of a beginning… to an ultimate thermodynamic – The Mystery of our Destiny termination as an ending. – The Urgency of Participation – The Discovery of the nature of Time • Our Unique Advantage – The realization of Hyperspaces – Two Basic Discoveries Two Critical Discoveries Spherical (3-D) Trigonometry 1) We have in our possession an Integrated Message System: 66 separate books penned by 40 different individuals over thousands 30 of years... 45 60 2) Which provably has its origin from outside our time domain. 45 90 90 180 One Integrated Design 180 The New Testament is in the Old Testament concealed; The Old Testament is in the New Testament revealed. Augustine A Few Caveats 90 90 90 • The Word of God is inexhaustible. 24 years would be insufficient… ? • The truth is in the details. Every detail is connected to every other. • Our Goal: A Strategic Grasp of the Total – A conceptual grounding in the major truths – A navigational awareness to fit it all together The rules we learned in school were for a universe of only two dimen- sions, that’s why we call it “plane” geometry; or “plane” trigonometry. Collapse of Skeptical Theories In spherical (3-D) trigonometry, a triangle of more than 180o implies a convex surface; a triangle of less than 180o implies a concave surface. • Historicity of Patriarchal accounts • Denial of writing in Moses’ day • Gospels and Epistles: 2nd century? Page 8 Page 9 Einstein’s Revolution Hyperdimensions: Beyond Euclid (>3 Dimensions) Special Relativity (1905): Length, mass, velocity and time are relative to June 10, 1854: the most important mathematical lecture ever given…It velocity of the observers took over 60 years for it to be applied…Georg Riemann’s lecture on General Relativity (1915): There is no distinction between time and Metric Tensors. space = a 4-dimensional continuum (confirmed 14 ways to 19 decimals). We have the advantage of modern physics, although few appreciate its 1915: Einstein, Four-Dimensional Space-time: Einstein went to his grave aid to our understanding Biblical insights! frustrated over his inability to reconcile issues which subsequently yielded by applying his previous insights. The Nature of Gravitational Time Dilation 1953: Kaluza-Klein: 4+n Dimensions (Light & Supergravity). 1963: Yang-Mills Fields (Electromagnetic & Both Nuclear Forces). Identical Atomic clocks are located at the National Institute of Standards 1984: Superstrings, 10-Dimensions (The current thinking among quan- and Technology in Boulder, Colorado, and the Royal Observatory tum physicists is that our universe consists of one-dimensional in Greenwich, England. The NIST clock ticks 5 µseconds/year faster than “superstrings” vibrating in 10 dimensions…). an identical clock at Greenwich. Which is correct? Both are! Boulder, Colorado = 5400 ft altitude; Greenwich, England = 80 ft. Atomic clocks Dimensions of “Reality” are faster by the rate of 10-16 sec/meter elevation. Other demonstrations include the aircraft experiment (1971) where the plane traveling eastward Nachmonides (13th Century): 10 dimensions, only 4 are “knowable” lost 0.059 microseconds and the one flying westward gained 0.273 (Commentary on Genesis, 1263). Particle Physicists (20th Century): 10 microseconds, accounting for the Earth’s rotation, etc., exactly what dimensions, 4 are directly measurable: (3 spatial + time) and the other 6 Einstein’s formula predicted! And a classic is the hypothetical trip to are “curled” into less than 10-33 cm, and thus inferable only by indirect Alpha Centauri by the twin astronauts... means. (We have spent billions of dollars building elaborate particle accelerators to learn what Nachmonides discovered by doing his Time is not uniform: it is a physical property that varies with mass, homework on Genesis One!) There are only two kinds of people who are acceleration and gravity…among other things... We exist in more than able to deal with hyperspaces (spaces of more than 3 dimensions): three dimensions (apparently 10). This physical insight will dissolve mathematicians with special training and small children. But we can gain most theological paradoxes… some useful insights by examining a two-dimensional universe… The Nature of God Mr. & Mrs. Flat Mr. & Mrs. Flat Is God subject to the restrictions of mass? Acceleration? Gravity? He is not simply One with “lots of time,” He is outside of the restrictions of time This uniqueness is His Personal Imprint…From Outside Time. PPrrooxxiimmiittyy For thus saith the High and Lofty One, that inhabiteth eternity… IInnddeeppeennddeenntt Isaiah 57:15 ooff ddiissttaannccee Since God has the technology to create us, He certainly has the means 3-D Finger Thru 2-D Plane: Sphere Passing Thru Plane: to get a message to us…but how does He authenticate His message so that we know that it is really from Him, and not a contrivance or a fraud? Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done... Isaiah 46:10 Page 10 Page 11 How would you communicate Another method might be unraveling The Old Testament a 3-dimensional Object to the 3-dimensional object into 2-dimensions: a 2-dimensional universe? • The Torah – The Books of Moses 5 By a 2-dimensional projection? • The Historical Books 12 • The Poetical Books 5 Here is a 3-dimensional • The Prophets 17 projection of a 4-dimensional hypercube. – Major 5 Not very useful, is it? – Minor 12 __ 39 A 4-dimensional Cube Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come Unraveled in 3 Dimensions to destroy, but to fulfill. For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. Matthew 5:17-18 Are There “Hidden Messages” in the Bible? It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but it is the honor of kings to search That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded out a matter. Proverbs 25:2 in love, May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; And to know the love of Christ, which passeth The secrets of the Torah are revealed in the skipping of the letters. knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God. Rabbi Moses Cordevaro, 16th century Ephesians 3:17-19 “Equidistant Letter Sequence?” Four dimensions? Rips explained that each code is a case of adding every fourth letter to form The Panorama of History a word. Read the code Our venture will span the entire span of human history—from the singularity of its beginning, to the climax of history as we know it. The Dr. Rips was among the Hebrew scientists that began to explore the Book of Genesis covers an amazing portion of it and lays the groundwork Torah with advanced computer techniques… and rediscovered some of for all that follows… what the ancient sages had long ago known… and that Rabbi Weismandl had rediscovered in the interval between the two World Wars… Why Now? 49 (72) letter sequences: The Torah Always Points to YHWH! We believe that we are being plunged into a period of time about which the Bible says more than about any other period of time in Genesis TORH history…including the time that Jesus walked the shores of Galilee and Exodus TORH climbed the mountains of Judea. Leviticus ? (YHWH) Numbers HROT You will be unable to understand the events of the coming months and Deuteronomy HROT years unless you are knowledgeable about the classic Biblical Scenario Genesis Exodus Leviticus Numbers Deuteronomy that is presently leading to the Climax of All History. It will, indeed, be an adventure without equal. Fasten your seat belts! It’s going to be most hrwt hrwt hwhy twrh twrh impacting event of your life. TORH TORH YYHHWWHH HROT HROT Page 12 Page 13 The Torah Object Beam Genesis The Book of Beginnings Mirror Beam Spreader Mirror Exodus The Birth of the Nation Leviticus The Law of the Nation Photographic Film Numbers The Wilderness Wanderings Laser Deuteronomy The Laws Reviewed Beam The Book of Genesis Beam Splitter Genesis 1, 2 Creation Genesis 3 Fall of Man Reference Genesis 4 Cain & Abel Genesis 5 Genealogy of Noah TrFaonusrfioerrm Beam Beam Spreader Mirror of Image Genesis 6-9 Flood of Noah Genesis 10-11 Tower of Babel Communications Engineering Genesis 12-20 Abraham Genesis 21-26 Isaac • The Bible as a Hologram Genesis 27-36 Jacob – Fourier Transform Properties Genesis 37-50 Joseph – Transcendent of Parallax Architecture Attributes: Light God • No Paralax • Located at Infinity • Hardware • Physical Body • Velocity Constant • Infinte Power – Microcircuits – Flesh • Photons Lack Locality • Omnipresence – Memory – Bones • Fundamental Revelatory • Omniscience – Wires, resistors, etc. – Circulatory System etc. Mechanism • Software • Our Selves – Operating System – “Soul” But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept – External Interface – “Spirit” upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little… – Language – “Mind” Isaiah 28:13 – Messages, etc. – Thoughts, etc. Organization of the Bible The Nature of Time • Old Testament: The Story of a Nation • New Testament: The Story of a Man • Time is a physical dimension. • Time varies with mass, acceleration, and gravity. Old Testament Incomplete Holography (Fourier Transform) • Old Testament: • Requires proper illumination (useless in natural light); False image – Unexplained ceremonies (sacrificial rituals) from false illumination…. – Unachieved purposes (the covenants) • Information spread over entire bandwidth (no loss from drop outs) – Unappeased longings (poetical books) – Resilient to specific interference – Unfulfilled prophecies – Anticipates hostile jamming Page 14 Page 15 Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are All Major Doctrines Have their Roots in Genesis they which testify of me. John 5:39 Sovereign election • Salvation • Justification by faith • Believer’s Hardware vs. Software Security • Separation • Disciplinary chastisement • Divine Incarnation • Rapture of the Church • Death and Resurrection • Priesthoods Hardware does not determine behavior: software does. Software has no (Aaronic andMelchizedek) • The Antichrist • Palestinian Covenant mass. The real YOU is software, not “hardware.” (Your hardware has mass; your software doesn’t) What has no mass, has no time: it is In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. eternal… Genesis 1:1 * * * ‘#ra, h’ ’ tawe > ~ymI V; h’ ; ta e ~yhli a{ / arB’ ’ tyvai rBe . Learn the Bible in 24 Hours Hour 2: The Creation & The Fall of Man Beresheet Bara Elohim et ha-Shamayim et ha-Eretz: Beresheet = In beginning…Bara = Create out of nothing... Elohim = God; plural noun, Genesis 1 - 3 used as a singular. Our initial dozen sessions will, of course, deal with the Old Testament. Some Fundamental Questions (Many Christians have never explored the foundation of God’s program for mankind…) • Is the Universe ~15 billion years old? (Hubble Telescope, et al.) • Was it created in 6 days? 144 hours? Were aging factors built in? There are only two world views: either everything is a result of a cosmic Was light created “in transit”? accident, or we are the result of a deliberate design by a Designer. • Or were the “days” of Genesis simply geological eras? Was “evolution” the mechanism God used? There are also four basic questions common to every individual: Who am I? Where did I come from? Why am I here? and, Where am I going Strange developments of the 20th century... The universe is finite and when I die? can be measured. The universe appears to have been expanding, originating from a “singularity” [a four (?) dimensional space com- The Book of Genesis pressed to 0 size.] It is the Book of Beginnings (Law of First Mention): Creation • Man The “Big Bang” Models • Woman • Sabbath • Marriage • Home • Childhood • Sin • Murder • Sacrifice • Grace • Trade • Agriculture • City life • Races • Languages • Steady State Model (Einstein’s Biggest Mistake) • Chosen people • …etc. • Hesitation Model (Refuted in the 1960s) • Oscillation Model (Refuted by entropy laws, lack of mass) Genesis anticipates all false philosophies: • Inflation Model (Requires antigravity forces never observed) • Atheism(Genesis says the world was created by God) The Stretch Factor (re: Dr. Gerald Schroeder) • Pantheism (Genesis says God is transcendent and distinguishable) • Polytheism (Genesis says there is One God) • The expansion factor: ~1012 • Materialism (Genesis says that matter had a beginning) • 16 billion years x 365 = 6,000,000,000,000 days • Humanism (Genesis says that God, not man, is the ultimate reality) • 6 x 1012 days ÷ 1012 = 6 days! • Evolutionism (Genesis says “God created”) • Background Radiation: Initial formation (hadron nucleo- • Uniformism (Genesis says God intervenes in His creation) synthesis): 10.9 x 1012k/2.73k (today) = 4 x 1012 Page 16 Page 17 Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are All Major Doctrines Have their Roots in Genesis they which testify of me. John 5:39 Sovereign election • Salvation • Justification by faith • Believer’s Hardware vs. Software Security • Separation • Disciplinary chastisement • Divine Incarnation • Rapture of the Church • Death and Resurrection • Priesthoods Hardware does not determine behavior: software does. Software has no (Aaronic andMelchizedek) • The Antichrist • Palestinian Covenant mass. The real YOU is software, not “hardware.” (Your hardware has mass; your software doesn’t) What has no mass, has no time: it is In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. eternal… Genesis 1:1 * * * ‘#ra, h’ ’ tawe > ~ymI V; h’ ; ta e ~yhli a{ / arB’ ’ tyvai rBe . Learn the Bible in 24 Hours Hour 2: The Creation & The Fall of Man Beresheet Bara Elohim et ha-Shamayim et ha-Eretz: Beresheet = In beginning…Bara = Create out of nothing... Elohim = God; plural noun, Genesis 1 - 3 used as a singular. Our initial dozen sessions will, of course, deal with the Old Testament. Some Fundamental Questions (Many Christians have never explored the foundation of God’s program for mankind…) • Is the Universe ~15 billion years old? (Hubble Telescope, et al.) • Was it created in 6 days? 144 hours? Were aging factors built in? There are only two world views: either everything is a result of a cosmic Was light created “in transit”? accident, or we are the result of a deliberate design by a Designer. • Or were the “days” of Genesis simply geological eras? Was “evolution” the mechanism God used? There are also four basic questions common to every individual: Who am I? Where did I come from? Why am I here? and, Where am I going Strange developments of the 20th century... The universe is finite and when I die? can be measured. The universe appears to have been expanding, originating from a “singularity” [a four (?) dimensional space com- The Book of Genesis pressed to 0 size.] It is the Book of Beginnings (Law of First Mention): Creation • Man The “Big Bang” Models • Woman • Sabbath • Marriage • Home • Childhood • Sin • Murder • Sacrifice • Grace • Trade • Agriculture • City life • Races • Languages • Steady State Model (Einstein’s Biggest Mistake) • Chosen people • …etc. • Hesitation Model (Refuted in the 1960s) • Oscillation Model (Refuted by entropy laws, lack of mass) Genesis anticipates all false philosophies: • Inflation Model (Requires antigravity forces never observed) • Atheism(Genesis says the world was created by God) The Stretch Factor (re: Dr. Gerald Schroeder) • Pantheism (Genesis says God is transcendent and distinguishable) • Polytheism (Genesis says there is One God) • The expansion factor: ~1012 • Materialism (Genesis says that matter had a beginning) • 16 billion years x 365 = 6,000,000,000,000 days • Humanism (Genesis says that God, not man, is the ultimate reality) • 6 x 1012 days ÷ 1012 = 6 days! • Evolutionism (Genesis says “God created”) • Background Radiation: Initial formation (hadron nucleo- • Uniformism (Genesis says God intervenes in His creation) synthesis): 10.9 x 1012k/2.73k (today) = 4 x 1012 Page 16 Page 17