Bible Book OrderUsing Scripture to Order the Books of the Bible
This website defines a new book order for the Bible based on the book of Isaiah. By matching each book of the Bible to a chapter in Isaiah God's intended book order emerges. We refer to this book order as "the Bible's Book Order" or "Isaiah's Book Order."
Since each book of the Bible has a matched chapter in Isaiah, the process of setting the books in order also prophetically reveals the writtings that belong in the canon. By analogy, you could think of Isaiah as the roll-call for the books in the Bible class. That some Scripture, like Isaiah, would list the inspired Scriptures and their arrangement is consistent with the claims of Scripture regarding God's direct involvement in the creation of Scripture. That God wrote the Bible means God has to witness to what he wrote and how it all hangs together and works. He does this most clearly in the book of Isaiah.
Isaiah also functions as a prophetic commentary on the stories of the Bible. Each chapter has stanzas that match various stories in the related book, in order, and provide editorial, usually from God's perspecitive, on what was happening. Sometimes Isaiah provides a back story or piece of information that unlocks the matched story. Some characters, often highly respected, don't fare so well when seen in light of the prophetic word. At times it's a bit like reading a gossip rag or People magazine.
The website is organized into the following 4 studies.
Isaiah's Book Order
Isaiah's Book Order, already described above, lists all known matches between Isaiah and the Bible.
The Title Sentences
The Title Sentences study is one of several other studies that came to life, rather spontaneously, once the book order was taking shape with Isaiah. This study shows how a message is contained in the names of the books of the Bible. To see the message you set the books in their correct order and translate their names. The result is a coherent message 12 sentences long.
The Book Chain
The Book Chain shows how the books of the Bible flow together when in their proper order. The closing thought of one book becomes the filter for understanding the next book. This study tracks how the books connect at their edges.
The Letter Map
The Letter Map maps the 22 letter Hebrew/Aramaic alphabet to the 66 books of the Bible. The result is book triads where the related books share remarkable correlations. This refactor of Isaiah's Book Order appears to be a second, alternative, reading plan and forms the basis for fully recovering the ancient meanings of the letters, which is beyond the scope of this project, but covered at Bible Languages.