Theology Thursday

* A Divorced Man Tells Bob: On our DVD or video download, The Bible, Divorce & Remarriage, a divorced man tells Bob that he wants to remarry but that his pastor refuses to perform the ceremony, claiming God forbids it. Is the pastor correct? In this video, Bob reads super secret Bible passages on divorce and remarriage which very few Christians realize exist. Is that really in my Bible? Check it out!

* A Pastor's Kid from Ohio: An adult son of an associate pastor from Ohio thanked us here at KGOV for making available our DVD, The Bible, Divorce & Remarriage, saying that he loves the scriptural teaching in this video and was amazed at the rarely considered Bible verses it presents!

* Bible Verses on Divorce & Remarriage: There exist what are called "just grounds" for divorce. God Himself acknowledges this in the Old and New Testaments, including for His own divorce from Israel (whom He intends to remarry).

"Then I saw that for all the causes [grounds] for which backsliding Israel had committed adultery, I had put her away and given her a certificate of divorce…" Jer. 3:8

But I say to you that whoever divorces his wife for any reason except sexual immorality [porneia] causes her to commit adultery; and whoever marries a women who is divorced commits adultery. Mat. 5:32

And I say to you, whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality [porneia], and marries another, commits adultery; and whoever marries her who is divorced commits adultery. Mat. 19:9

Causing Someone to Sin? Before getting to the primary teaching in these passages, let's address a common question. In the context of sinning, "cause" is a Hebrew idiom (which Jews, of course, could use even when speaking in Greek or Aramaic) meaning, "provide the opportunity to". When Jesus said that if a man divorces his wife without justification, that man "causes her to commit adultery"m this is the Hebrew idiom meaning that he provides the opportunity for her to sin. How does he do this? By unjustly leaving her to fend for herself in a godless world. Men, and even God, provide opportunity to others to sin (like God did by creating beings with a will and, for example, by putting the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil in the midst of the Garden of Eden). And men even entice others to sin. But John Calvin's Chapter 18 notwithstanding, no one can cause another to sin.

Porneia: The Greek word porneia is more expansive than the word for adultery and English versions often translate it as fornication. This word refers to sexual sin generally and therefore includes adultery, fornication, homosexuality, prostitution, transgenderism, addiction to pornography, etc. The Bible uses this term to refer to sexual aberrations such as homosexuality and incest (Rom. 1:29; 1 Cor. 5:1). Sexual intimacy is an inherent part of marriage covenant. Therefore long-term abandonment itself (imposed by behavior along a spectrum running from justified incarceration, to spousal abuse, to long-term denial of intimacy) breaks the marriage covenant (see below 1 Cor. 7:15 and then Ex. 21:10-11).

Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek to be loosed [i.e., divorced]. Are you loosed from a wife? Do not seek a wife. But even if you do marry [i.e., remarry], you have not sinned; and if a virgin marries, she has not sinned…1 Cor. 7:27-28

Devising extra-biblical rules: Absolute prohibitions on divorce and remarriage, along with other extra-biblical rules, come with grave consequences as the Apostle Paul warns (Col. 2:20-23). Some even say that God does not recognize divorce. However, He Himself was not ashamed in the Old Testament to freely state the opposite.  For example, only the priest and his family were allowed to eat the holy offerings ("showbread," Lev. 22:10). So, "If the priest’s daughter is married to an outsider, she may not eat of the holy offerings," (Lev. 22:12). But what if she gets a divorce? If you ask Christians who teach that divorce is never permitted, without exception (in Bob's experience) they will answer this wrongly, claiming that even after divorce, she would not be able to eat again the showbread. Why? Because they claim, wrongly, that God doesn't recognize divorce. However, God answers:

"But if the priest's daughter is a widow or divorced…she may eat her father's food; but no outsider shall eat it." Lev. 22:13

Jesus Himself recognized divorce, as with the woman at the well who was at that time living with (i.e., cohabitating) a man she had not married. Jesus did not recognize her sixth man as one of her husbands. Nor did He recognize any of the previous five, whom likely each divorced her, even the fifth, as still her husband. 

"You have well said, 'I have no husband,' for you have had five husbands, and the one whom you now have is not your husband; in that you spoke truly." John 4:17-18

Through the faithful priest Ezra God even commanded the Jews to divorce! Many of them had married pagan wives (Ezra 9-10). So in that case the priests of Israel performed those divorcees "according to the law." That of course shows that God recognizes divorce.

"Now therefore, let us make a covenant with our God to put away all these wives... and let it be done according to the law." Ezra 10:3

I, not the Lord: The first phrase of the following passage, which confuses some, can only be properly understood by applying by Paul's instruction to "rightly divide the Word of Truth." In Bob Enyart's life's work, The Plot (at kgov.com/plot) this "rightly dividing" is presented and within that teaching this passage is addressed. 

Now to the married I command, yet not I but the Lord: A wife is not to depart from her husband. But even if she does depart, let her remain unmarried or be reconciled to her husband. And a husband is not to divorce his wife.  But to the rest I, not the Lord, say:  If any brother has a wife who does not believe, and she is willing to live with him, let him not divorce her. And a woman who has a husband who does not believe, if he is willing to live with her, let her not divorce him… But if the unbeliever departs [i.e., divorces], let him depart; a brother or a sister is not under bondage [i.e., can remarry] in such cases.  But God has called us to peace.  1 Cor. 7:10-13, 15

In the Old Testamewnt, even a female slave taken as a wife ("betrothed") can initiate divorce for denial of conjugal rights and for general abandonment. God would not grant greater "rights" to a concubine as to a wife, nor to a slave as compared to a free woman. So her husband...

"...shall not diminish her food, her clothing, and her marriage rights. And if he does not do these three for her, then she shall go out free..." Exodus 21:10-11

Legalists commonly quote other passages, misunderstanding them and wrenching them out of context, to teach the opposite of the above passages. For more you can see on DVD or video download, Bob's program, The Bible, Divorce & Remarriage. Also, see below for Bob's material rebutting a poorly-argued but popular book against divorce and remarriage by Carl Laney.

* Related: The Biblical Role of Government in Marriage Who has the authority to grant permission for people to marry? Some claim that only the church has authority to preside over weddings. Yet in modern times most people willingly submit to the government as the official certifier of marriage. Others believe that the authority to marry lies solely with the two individuals involved. (Our article The Bible and Polygamy presents the prohibition of polygamy in New Testament times.) Consider arguments for and against each of these three ideas on authority regarding marriage. more...

* J. Carl Laney's The Divorce Myth: There's a mention of Laney, correcting him, in Bob's book, The Plot. We've bolded the material below needed to understand the rebuttal to Laney's teaching on marriage, in which he falsely claims that divorce is virtually always wrong. (Absurdly, even though incest was a capital crime, Laney bizarrely teaches that only incest provides grounds for divorce. Wow. Weird. And embarrasingly, Charles Ryrie endorsed his book. My guess is that they were friends, and Ryrie didn't even read the manuscript.) This excerpt is from The Plot's chapter five, titled The Third Tier.

The priests had to obey a set of regulations which were not moral requirements, but symbolic. Some believers think these laws depict "a higher standard of holiness for the priests than for the rest of the people of Israel." [Laney, The Divorce Myth, 1981, p. 92] These rules for the priesthood were only symbolic, however, because all moral laws apply to all men. For God wants "all" men to "be holy, for I the LORD your God am holy"(Lev. 19:2).

God does not have two standards of righteousness, one for the clergy and another for the laity. A portion of the third tier of the law, however, the symbolic tier, applied only to the priests. Because the priesthood symbolized Christ's ministry (Heb. 4:14-15; 3:1; 5:5; 6:20; 7:26; 9:11; 10:21), God forbade many otherwise innocent behaviors to the priest...

Leviticus 21 reveals symbolic truth and not moral conduct. A priest could not:
Touch the dead
Shave his head
Trim his beard
Cut his skin
Marry a harlot
Marry a defiled woman
Marry a divorcée

A priest will profane the sanctuary if he is:
Blind
Lame
Hunchbacked
A dwarf
A eunuch

Also, a priest will profane the sanctuary if he has:
A marred face
Uneven limbs
A broken foot
A broken hand
A defective eye
Eczema
A scab

Additionally, the high priest was not allowed to:
Uncover his head
Tear his clothes
Leave the sanctuary
Profane the sanctuary
Marry a widow

Some teachers stretch a selected few of these rules out of symbolic proportion turning them into moral propositions. A man who trims his beard does not commit immorality, as the clean conscience of a clean cut Christian minister can attest. And who today would restrict a man with a broken foot from the ministry?

Letting a beard grow is not more righteous than trimming it. Jesus Himself made it clear that priestly regulations were not based on morality. He spoke of the priests innocently profaning the Sabbath as they went about their duties:

"Or have you not read in the law that on the Sabbath the priests in the temple profane the Sabbath, and are blameless?" Mat. 12:5

The regulations against profaning the priesthood are not moral but symbolic. For God would not hold a priest blameless if he committed immorality. However, where performance of one symbol clashes with the exercise of another, as when Temple duties forced a priest to work on the Sabbath, then he rightly transgressed the lesser symbol. A Jew would even break the Sabbath in order to circumcise his son on the eighth day (John 7:23). In the world of competing symbols, circumcision was trump.

The careful student easily identifies the symbolism in many of these priestly regulations:

No blind priests................In Jesus the blind see (John 9:7)
No lame priests................In Jesus the lame walk (John 5:9)
Do not tear clothes..........Jesus' robe is not torn (John 19:24)
No broken hands/feet....Jesus' bones were not broken (Ps. 34:20; 22:17; John 19:33) though his hands and feet were pierced (Ps. 22:16)
Do not marry a harlot......Don't join Christ to a harlot (1 Cor. 6:15)
No divorcees/widows......Christ's Bride is a virgin (Mat. 25:1; [2 Cor. 11:2])
No eunuchs...................Christians should multiply (Mat. 28:19; 13:23) Defective eye .................Jesus gives eye salve (Rev. 3:18)
Covered head ................Jesus is the head (1 Cor. 11:3)
Always in the sanctuary..Jesus ever lives to make intercession (Heb. 7:24-25)
Do not touch the dead....Jesus frees from death, and the sting of sin is death (1 Cor. 15:56)

Hence the priestly regulations fit well among all the symbolic commands in the third tier of the law.

In the 1980s, Bob wrote a book exposing the errors in Carl Laney's argument against divorce and remarriage. Bob's book has never been self-published, let alone published. If you really, really, really want that made available and you're in the position to make a large donation toward that goal, please call the studio at 1-800-8Enyart and we'll see if we can work it out to make that available. Thanks!

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* Why Was Galatians Probably the First NT Book Written? On today's program enjoy Bob Enyart's study of an important excerpt (Gal. 2:1-10) from the Apostle Paul's epistle to the Christians in Galatia. You might also enjoy hearing the lessons learned from when Bob led a group of Christians in three weeks of Bible Studies on location in Turkey, including central Turkey where the Galatians lived.

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* Why Did Noah Curse His Grandson Canaan? As described in detail in Bob's article, Why Was Canaan Cursed?, Genesis 9 records that the boy's father, Ham, saw Noah’s nakedness, and as a result, Noah cursed his grandson Canaan. Then Canaan went on to become the patriarch of Israel’s longstanding enemies, the Canaanites. The story seems capricious on the surface, in contrast to so much reasonable history in Genesis. So a closer look is merited. A common biblical figure of speech appears in Canaan’s story, and when Christians reread the story understanding this figure, the message of this account becomes compelling.

Ancient Hebrew commonly speaks of a man’s nakedness to refer to sexual intercourse with the man’s wife. As Moses wrote in Leviticus, “The man who lies with his father’s wife has uncovered his father’s nakedness”(Lev. 20:11; also, 20:20-21; 18:6-15; Ezek. 22:10; etc.) Canaan lived a cursed life, not because his father saw his grandfather naked sometime before Canaan was even born, but because the boy was conceived in incest between Ham and Ham's mother, Noah's wife. Thus the brief story twice reminds its ancient readers that Ham (not Noah) is the father of Canaan. So Noah cursed Canaan not as an evil spell or hex, but as recognition of cause and effect, reaping what is sown, and his tragic circumstance, and as a warning to others against following in Ham’s wicked way. And readers of Genesis find a clear and reasonable origin for the conflict that lasted for centuries between the Jews and the Canaanites.

* A Related Scientific Prediction: On Oct. 8, 2009, Bob Enyart updated his Canaan article with a discovery and a scientific prediction! You might want to check it out!

* As the Apostles were Incarcerated: so too with this study.Bob Enyart recorded the first couple hours of this Bible study from jail. Via collect calls made from a jailhouse payphone, you can get a feel for life as a jailed Christian. This album, considered a classic among those who have long enjoyed Bob's teaching, takes the complexity out of some perplexing New Testament teachings.

* The Anatomy of a Tempation: If you are thrilled with what you learn in this Bible study (as we think you might be), then please consider ordering Bob's James and Jude Bible study!

* The Plot of the Bible: For a third of century, Bob Enyart has studied God's Word praying for the wisdom to share the truth of Scripture with a lost and dying world. Now you can benefit from this very exciting Bible study. The James and Jude study seriously tackles fascinating aspects of their letters. But we also strongly urge you to read The Plot manuscript or listen to the Bible Overview album which will help you to focus first on the amazing plot of the Bible. For the overview of the Bible is the key to its (doctrinal) details.

*  Between His Death and Resurrection, Where Was the Lord? Meet the Apostle Peter in Bob Enyart's important Bible study on First and Second Peter. Today's radio broadcast is a fascinating look at 1 Peter 3:15-22. But consider another question. Have you considered why Peter addresses his letters to no well-known recipients? Rather, similarly to James, John, and Jude, he sends them generically to the circumcision believers scattered abroad. Why? Meanwhile, Peter mentions the Apostle Paul, who addresses his epistles to many well-known leaders and specific regional churches. Pastor Bob Enyart demonstrates that understanding the big picture of the Bible, its plot, helps to see even small books as First Peter and Second Peter in their proper perspectives. Such biblical observations go a long way toward explaining the differences between Peter and Paul. For as Peter himself wrote of, "our beloved brother Paul" who "has written to you as also in all his epistles... in which are some things hard to understand..."

* The Bible Gets Easier to Understand:  Apparent contradictions plague many Bible students. Therefore in his life's work, The Plot, Bob Enyart set out to demonstrate how hundreds of such contradictions disappear when the reader applies the big picture of the Bible to its details. Tunnel vision focuses so narrowly on a problem that the solution often lies just out of view. As the pastor of Denver Bible Church, Bob Enyart teaches Christians how to use the whole counsel of God to understand the plot of the Bible and solve biblical mysteries. As with all of our BEL resources, The Plot comes with a 30-day money-back guarantee! And as we become proficient in the big picture, that is, the overview of the story of the Bible, then countless details, including as one small example, about the cities of refuge, become increasingly clear!

* Cities of Refuge: The Old Testament account of the cities of refuge can be very hard to understand... until you see that the story is about Jesus.

* The Bible Gets Easier to Understand:  Apparent contradictions plague many Bible students. Therefore in his life's work, The Plot, Bob Enyart set out to demonstrate how hundreds of such contradictions disappear when the reader applies the big picture of the Bible to its details. Tunnel vision focuses so narrowly on a problem that the solution often lies just out of view. As the pastor of Denver Bible Church, Bob Enyart teaches Christians how to use the whole counsel of God to understand the plot of the Bible and solve biblical mysteries. As with all of our BEL resources, The Plot comes with a 30-day money-back guarantee! And as we become proficient in the big picture, that is, the overview of the story of the Bible, then countless details, including as one small example, about the cities of refuge, become increasingly clear!

Today's Resource: Get both volumes, I & II, of  Bob Enyart's verse-by-verse study of The Book of Joshua, for a discounted price. And you can enjoy these or any of Bob's studies, made available by book title or by topic, or you can subscribe or donate online or by calling 1-800-8Enyart (303-463-7789).

* The Deity of Christ -- Another Approach: Christ spoke often of the Father. Still, He preached an egocentric message. Jesus said: follow Me · believe in Me · abide in Me · do all for My sake · confess Me · love Me · come to Me · keep My commandments · receive Me · seek Me · I bear witness of Myself · I am the truth · I am the life. Should a created being direct most attention to the Father, or focus upon himself? Bible teachers use a handful of verses to establish Christ's identity. As is his style, Bob Enyart starts with a sweeping overview of the Bible to address the deity of Christ. This study stuns and delights, respectively, those disputing and affirming His divinity.

For centuries, as affirmed at the Council of Nicea, Christians have used a wonderful list of Bible verses to demonstrate from God's Word the deity of Jesus Christ. Here though is another avenue, similar to the "Big Picture View" approach that we use in Bob Enyart's life's work, The Plot: An Overview of the Bible:

Thus Saith the Lord: If we count how many times the Old Testament prophets said, “Thus says the Lord” we find them using that phrase, in the New King James Version of the Bible, about 420 times. The New Testament on the other hand, never once records that phrase. Jesus Christ, with all the red ink devoted to recording His words, never once used that ubiquitous phrase, “Thus saith the Lord.” Rather, Jesus proclaims, “I say to you,” in the Gospels! Not a single “Thus says the Lord,” but rather, “I say to you,” 135 times. The following chart demonstrates biblically that these two phrases, Thus saith the Lord, and I say unto you, indicate the same thing, that God is speaking. For Jesus Christ made it clear that He Himself was at the heart of His teaching. Unlike the righteous priests and kings, prophets and the apostles, the Lord focused His message on Himself:

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* In the 2011 Fall issue of Creation magazine: in the article, Why Bible History Matters, Dr. Jonathan Sarfati makes three observations about how long after their creation on Day 6 until Adam and Eve sinned.

1. Adam and Eve did not conceive any children prior to the Fall
2. Eve would likely have become pregnant during her first menstrual cycle
3. Lucifer also would have rebelled in the short time between Creation and the Fall

Recognizing that Adam and Eve fell prior to conceiving their first child is the primary realization for chronicling the earliest days in human history. These notes present additional biblical and biological observations that may further narrow the timing of the fall of Adam and Lucifer. Scripturally, Dr. Sarfati is on solid ground concluding that Satan fell in that short time period. For as traditionally understood, the passage interpreted as Satan's fall in Ezekiel 28 says about Lucifer that, "You were in Eden, the garden of God." And in Isaiah 14, the parallel passage about the perfect and wise Lucifer, “you have said in your heart: ‘I will ascend into heaven… I will ascend above the heights of the clouds…"

Lucifer was "fallen from heaven," not geographically, for He was on the earth in the Garden of Eden coveting to rise above the clouds and ascend of his own will into heaven. So he fell not from heaven, but from God's kingdom of heaven, which initially encompassed everything created. For Lucifer was, "perfect… from the day you were created, till iniquity was found in you." And prior to his temptation of Eve, he was not cursed to be lower than the animals, and prior to Eve's fall he was not at enmity with Eve nor with her future descendants. For God said, "Because you have done this, you are cursed more than all cattle… And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her Seed."

* Why Did God Reverse the Curse of Babel on Pentecost? Have you considered the connection between Pentecost and Babylon? One of God's purposes in the end times for the great tribulation is that it will see the destruction of the Kingdom of Babylon, which is, Bob teaches, the symbol of man's organized rebellion against God. Babylon's founder, Nimrod was the first to use government power to meet men's needs as a substitute for trust in God. Thus he was the first liberal politician, about whom 2,000 years ago the historian Josephus would write:

He [Nimrod] persuaded them [mankind] not to ascribe [their happiness] to God... He also gradually changed the government into tyranny, seeing no other way of turning men from the fear of God, but to bring them into a constant dependence upon his power.

At Pentecost, God marked the start of the fall of Babylon. For at the beginning of the Kingdom of Babylon (Gen. 10:8, 10; 11:8-9), the LORD confused the language (Gen. 11:9) so those who had understood each other could not. At Pentecost, the beginning of the undoing of Babylon, God removed that barrier (Acts 2:6-11) so those who had not understood each other could.

With minor correlations, the Bible helps its readers connect Pentecost with Babel. At Babel the wicked were scattered... from there over the face of all the earth (Gen. 11:8-9). At Pentecost devout men from every nation under heaven (Acts 2:5) were gathered and the multitude came together (Acts 2:6). At Pentecost they were all with one accord in one place (Acts 2:1) while at Babel they had one language and one speech (Gen. 11:1). The wicked dwelt there building a city named Babel [confusion] (Gen. 11: 2, 4, 9). At Pentecost devout Jews were dwelling (Acts 2:5) in a city named Jerusalem [peace] (Acts 2:5). Unbelievers were made drunk with the wine (Rev. 17:2) of Babylon's wickedness while at Pentecost unbelievers falsely accused the apostles of being drunk with wine (Acts 2:13).

The text has another lesson. At the Tower of Babel, the Lord punished godless men when He confused the language so that they may not understand one another's speech (Gen. 11:7-9). After living so long under the curse of sin, it actually confused men to have the curse removed, for the multitude... were confused, because everyone heard them speak in his own language (Acts 2:6). So, the way things ought to be confuses men who have lived so long under sin. To learn more about the substantive meaning in the events of Pentecost, please consider getting Bob Enyart's Plot manuscript or audio studies!

* The Plot: When you realize that the "plot" of the book of Acts helps to illuminate the real meaning in the Ananias and Sapphira story, you'll wonder how much more you can learn if you because proficient in understanding the plot of the entire Bible! Of course, Every story has a plot. And a story's details can be confusing unless you understand its overview. Grasping the big picture will help you reconcile many seemingly contradictory, and controversial Bible passages. Achieve a fuller understanding of God's plan from Genesis to Revelation and equip yourself to share God's Word with friends and family. Consider listening to The Plot series based on Bob's life's work, his book, The Plot.

National Public Radio Program Suing BEL: The NY Post today in its article, Science Radio Showdown, reports that NPR's science program producers have filed a lawsuit in Manhattan Supreme Court against Bob Enyart's science radio program. Bob asks, "As always, please pray for our outreach as we present to a hurting world the evidence that God created and loves us!"

* Why Did God Reverse the Curse of Babel on Pentecost? Have you considered the connection between Pentecost and Babylon? One of God's purposes in the end times for the great tribulation is that it will see the destruction of the Kingdom of Babylon, which is, Bob teaches, the symbol of man's organized rebellion against God. Babylon's founder, Nimrod was the first to use government power to meet men's needs as a substitute for trust in God. Thus he was the first liberal politician, about whom 2,000 years ago the historian Josephus would write:

He [Nimrod] persuaded them [mankind] not to ascribe [their happiness] to God... He also gradually changed the government into tyranny, seeing no other way of turning men from the fear of God, but to bring them into a constant dependence upon his power.

At Pentecost, God marked the start of the fall of Babylon. For at the beginning of the Kingdom of Babylon (Gen. 10:8, 10; 11:8-9), the LORD confused the language (Gen. 11:9) so those who had understood each other could not. At Pentecost, the beginning of the undoing of Babylon, God removed that barrier (Acts 2:6-11) so those who had not understood each other could.

With minor correlations, the Bible helps its readers connect Pentecost with Babel. At Babel the wicked were scattered... from there over the face of all the earth (Gen. 11:8-9). At Pentecost devout men from every nation under heaven (Acts 2:5) were gathered and the multitude came together (Acts 2:6). At Pentecost they were all with one accord in one place (Acts 2:1) while at Babel they had one language and one speech (Gen. 11:1). The wicked dwelt there building a city named Babel [confusion] (Gen. 11: 2, 4, 9). At Pentecost devout Jews were dwelling (Acts 2:5) in a city named Jerusalem [peace] (Acts 2:5). Unbelievers were made drunk with the wine (Rev. 17:2) of Babylon's wickedness while at Pentecost unbelievers falsely accused the apostles of being drunk with wine (Acts 2:13).

The text has another lesson. At the Tower of Babel, the Lord punished godless men when He confused the language so that they may not understand one another's speech (Gen. 11:7-9). After living so long under the curse of sin, it actually confused men to have the curse removed, for the multitude... were confused, because everyone heard them speak in his own language (Acts 2:6). So, the way things ought to be confuses men who have lived so long under sin. To learn more about the substantive meaning in the events of Pentecost, please consider getting Bob Enyart's Plot manuscript or audio studies!

* The Plot: When you realize that the "plot" of the book of Acts helps to illuminate the real meaning in the Ananias and Sapphira story, you'll wonder how much more you can learn if you because proficient in understanding the plot of the entire Bible! Of course, Every story has a plot. And a story's details can be confusing unless you understand its overview. Grasping the big picture will help you reconcile many seemingly contradictory, and controversial Bible passages. Achieve a fuller understanding of God's plan from Genesis to Revelation and equip yourself to share God's Word with friends and family. Consider listening to The Plot series based on Bob's life's work, his book, The Plot.