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1st RULE: You do not talk about 1st RULE: You must talk about BOOK CLUB. FIGHT CLUB 2nd RULE: You MUST TALK about BOOK CLUB. 2nd RULE: You DO NOT talk about 3rd RULE: PERSEVERE -- If someone yells ‘stop,’ goes FIGHT CLUB limp, or tries to tap out of THE READ because of 3rd RULE: If someone says "stop" or too much revelation, the reading is NOT over. goes limp, taps out the fight is 4th RULE: Only one person to a BOOK. over. 5th RULE: One verse at a time, folks. 4th RULE: Only two guys to a fight. 6th RULE: No Jesus, no peace – Know Jesus, know 5th RULE: One fight at a time. peace. 6th RULE: No shirts, no shoes. 7th RULE: Reading will go on as long as it has to. 7th RULE: Fights go on as long as 8th RULE: If this is your first night at BOOK CLUB, Get they have to. ready ! You’ve just joined the cosmic fight, get in 8th RULE: If this is your first night at the BOOK because it’s time for war! FIGHT CLUB, you HAVE to fight.

66 different manuscripts, yet one Book 40 different transcribers, yet one Author written over 2000 years, yet it is timeless 3 languages, yet one complete message Unaffected by human hands or intellect

The Bible isn't a random collection of: Various writings Unrelated stories Works by uneducated authors Eccentric visions Dead languages

Our Goal: To achieve a strategic grasp of the Design of the Bible, build a solid foundation upon its major truths, and attain an awareness to make it all fit together. Week 1} Genesis – Pre-History – Creation & Fall – The Patriarchs – Birth of a Nation Week 2} The Promised Land – The Monarchy – Poetical books – Daniel Week 3} Post Exile History – Major Prophets – Minor Prophets – Un-fulfilled OT Week 4} The NT – Gospels – The Last Week – Acts Week 5} Church Epistles – Hebrew Christian Epistles – The End Times Week 6} Revelation – Conclusion

Organization of the Bible The New w Testame tament: t: The Old Testament: The Story y of a Ma Man The Story of a Nation Spans 3,600 years Spans 1 Lifetime

The Panorama of History The Church 1K 2K 3K 4K 5K 6K 1000 year 7K Kingdom 6,000 Years Israel scattered The Nation of Israel Genesis Rest of OT You Are ( about ) Here 400 years NT

The Old Testament is Incomplete Filled with: Unexplained Ceremonies Unachieved Purposes The OT is in the NT The NT is in the OT Unappeased Longings Revealed Concealed Unfulfilled Prophecies John 5:39 “You search the Scriptures, for in them you think you have eternal life; and these are they which testify of Me .”

39 Book of Beginnings Birth of the Nation Law of the Nation Wilderness Wanderings Laws Reviewed

The Bible is an integrated message system Every detail is anticipated by deliberate skillful design

Equidistant Letter Sequencing of the 5 Books of Moses: Genesis Exodus Leviticus Numbers Deuteronomy TORAH TORAH YAHWEH HAROT HAROT 49 (7x7) 49 (7x7) 7 49 (7x7) 49 (7x7) Written languages do the same thing!

Buckle your seatbelt Dorothy, Because Kansas… is going bye - bye!

To correctly wield the Sword of the Spirit We need to blot out our perceptions and replace them with: The Word of Truth 2 Timothy 2:15 “Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a workman who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly handles The Word Do Your Own Homework! of Truth.”

The Boundaries of Reality Finite Indivisible Units Astrophysics Quantum Mechanics Astronomy Subatomic Particles Largeness Smallness Microbiology DNA

“To infinity, and Beyond?” …. Nope! There are limits of Length, Mass, Energy and Time – they are digital. Physicists have proven there is no ‘infinity’ - either in the area of largeness or smallness; everything appears to be a digital simulation. Our Physical Reality is a virtual experience, with finite limits.

The Bible teaches that time had a finite beginning. Genesis 1:1 “ In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth .” 1 Corinthians 2:7 “… God destined for our glory before time began .”

The story begins in a Garden with Paradise lost Everything in- between… just explains how It concludes in a Garden with Paradise restored

Acts 3:20-21 KJV “ And he shall send Jesus Christ, which before was preached unto you: Whom the heaven must receive until the times of restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began .” Implies an exact return to the original state of things This restitution is so vital to the message of God that every single Old Testament prophet speaks about it.

You are are in the Fight… Whether you realize it or not.

Recommendation: The Invisible War - Donald Grey Barnhouse

Donald Grey Barnhouse : The Invisible War “ Although the Lord had the power to destroy Satan with a breath, He did not do so. It was as though an edict had been proclaimed in heaven: ‘ We shall give this rebellion a thorough trial. We shall permit it to run its full course. The universe shall see what a creature, though he be the highest creature ever to spring from God’s Word, can do apart from Him.

Donald Grey Barnhouse : The Invisible War ‘We shall watch this experiment, and permit the universe of creatures to watch it, during this brief interlude between eternity past and eternity future called time. In it the spirit of independence shall be allowed to expand to the utmost. And the wreck and ruin which shall result will demonstrate to the universe, and forever, that there is no life, no joy, no peace apart from a complete dependence upon the Most High God, possessor of heaven and earth.’”

Tonight during Gen Genesi esis s Genesis 1-2 Creation Genesis 3 Fall of Man Genesis 4 Cain & Able Genesis 5 Genealogy of Noah Genesis 6-9 Flood of Noah Genesis 10-11 Tower of Babel Genesis 12-20 Abraham - just a Genesis 21-26 Isaac quick Genesis 27-36 Jacob All the major doctrines 2,500 years! Genesis 37-50 Joseph are found in Genesis

Genesis can be the most frustrating book for the Christian because we have grown up under the prejudices of evolution, astronomy and just plain old… There are only 2 World Views: * Everything is either a result of a colossal cosmic accident * We are the result of a deliberate highly skillful design Your view will lead to the answers of the 4 basic human questions: 1. Who am I? 2. Where did I come from? 3. Why am I here? 4. Where am I going when I die?

? Genesis 1:1 “ In the beginning God (**) created the heavens and the earth .” If you can accept the 1st verse, the rest is easy! 7 words 28 letters - Elohim is a plural noun used as singular In the beginning God, the Alpha and Omega , created the heavens and the earth.

* The number of Hebrew words is 7 * The number of letters is 28, which is evenly divisible by 7 * The number of letters in the first 3 words is 14, which is evenly divisible by 7 * The number of letters in the last 4 words is 14, which is evenly divisible by 7 * The number of letters in the 4th and 5th words is 7 * The number of letters in the 6th and 7th words is 7 * Number of letters in “God, heaven, earth” is 14, which is evenly divisible by 7 * Number of letters in the 4 remaining words is 14, which is evenly divisible by 7 * Numeric value of the first, middle & last letters is 133, evenly divisible by 7 * Numeric value of first & last letters of all 7 words is 1393, evenly divisible by 7 * There are actually 30 clusters of 7 in this amazing verse!

Universal Cosmic Constants * Two Dimensionless Constants (any unit of measurement) 𝜌 = 3.1416 e = 2.7183 * Two Principal Creation Passages Genesis 1:1 John 1:1

Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. ׃ץראה תאו םימשה תא םיהלא ארב תישארב 𝜌 3.1416 x 10 17 = The number of letters x the product of the letters The number of words x the product of the words 2.7183 x 10 65 = e John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. Ἐν ἀρχῇ ἦν ὁ λόγος, καὶ ὁ λόγος ἦν πρὸς τὸν θεόν, καὶ θεὸς ἦν ὁ λόγος.

Scientists today still don ’ t know the origin of time , energy , space , & matter Genesis 1:1 answers these pesky, tough questions that seem to baffle scientists. “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth .” time space matter energy

Recommendations:

If you believe in evolution – man has been around for 3 million years… the same growth rate would yield a population today of: Human 150,000 people per Population Chart square inch!

Breaking the Laws of Science Evolution defies Entropy & the 2 nd law of thermodynamics: Everything declines over time. The state of entropy in the universe will always increase over time.

Breaking the Laws of Science Disorder E As we go forward in time… N TIME T R The second law of thermodynamics states: O “Things go from a state of order to a state of disorder.” P Y Order

Breaking the Laws of Science Species go extinct… they don’t… appear!

Evening Morning • The days of the creative week begin with evening ( erev ) and end with morning ( boker ). • But on the 7th day, there is no mention of evening or morning. Why?