Sixty-six books on one line. Turn on a thread to follow one of God’s promises from its first mention to Christ.
Getting around
Threads
- One of God’s promises, traced from its first mention to its arrival in Christ. Fifteen of them, one at a time.
- The books it runs through light up in its color. Gold and a ✦ mark where the promise arrives.
- Each thread has a page of its own — the whole arc in order, with the books it never touches left out. It opens whenever a thread is on and no book is.
The tags on each passage
- pattern · prophecy · fulfillment
- What kind of connection it is.
- stated
- The New Testament cites this verse for it.
- pattern
- The New Testament uses the imagery without quoting it.
- traditional
- A long-held reading, not spelled out in the text.
Books
- Dates, themes, what its author was saying, and how it points to Christ.
- The graphic behind the title is the book itself, laid out end to end with one bar to a chapter. The chapters a promise lands in stand out from the rest, and gold marks where a promise arrives in Christ.
- The colored dots near the top of the page are the threads running through it. Choose one to follow it.
- With a thread on, its passages come first with the scripture printed in full, and the graphic shows that thread alone.
- Each book’s kind — narrative, law, prophecy, letter — is named in words beside it. Color is never used for that; color belongs to the threads.
Book order
- Chronological
- Where each book’s events fall in history. Job sits with the patriarchs; prophets sit beside their kings.
- Canonical
- The order they appear in an English Bible.
Why Emmaus
On the day he rose, Jesus walked to a village called Emmaus with two disciples who did not recognize him and, beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, explained what was written about himself in all the Scriptures. Luke never records what he said. This is an attempt to walk the same road.