Isaiah 66:24, the last verse in the Book of Isaiah, reads: [24] And they shall go forth, and look upon the carcases of the men that have transgressed against me: for their worm shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched; and they shall be an abhorring unto all flesh.
"Revelation ends with the lake of fire, so the last book in the Bible corresponds with the theme in the last chapter of the Book of Isaiah, chapter 66.
"The last book in the Bible is the 66th book and you couldn't make that up--you couldn't force that into reality if you didn't know how many books were going to be in the Bible. There would be no way to do that," says Richard Jordan.
"For years I've read through the Book of Isaiah and marked down in each chapter places where they correspond. The 33rd book in the Bible is the Book of Micah. You have to know what's in Micah when you read Isaiah 33 to see the correspondence and that's always challenged me to know what's in those books.
"In Leviticus 26, the third book in the Bible, God gives them this whole culture of curses that come upon them because they haven't kept the law. In Isaiah 3, here comes the results of Israel not doing what Leviticus told them to do.
Isaiah 4:5: [5] And the LORD will create upon every dwelling place of mount Zion, and upon her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night: for upon all the glory shall be a defence.
"Where do you see the pillar of cloud by day and the pillar of fire by night? That's the Book of Numbers and the imagery in Numbers, the fourth book in the Bible, shows up all of a sudden in what's going on here in Isaiah 4 in regard to the Second Coming of Christ.
"Deuteronomy, the fifth book of the Bible, is set 38 years after the Exodus. Israel's had the law for this period of time and now God doesn't just say like in Leviticus 26, 'If you don't keep them I'm going to do this.' Now, He says, 'All right, you din't keep them; now I'm doing this.'
In Isaiah 5:8: [8] Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth!
Verse 11: [11] Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, till wine inflame them!
Verse 18: [18] Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope:
Verse 20: [20] Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
Verse 21: [21] Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!
Verse 22: [22] Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink:
"You've got these six woes, these six curses that come, pronounced upon Israel because they don't keep the laws laid back there in Deuteronomy 28 specifically.
"Among other things, you have a preincarnate appearance of Jesus Christ in Joshua 5 as you have in Isaiah 6.
"You think, 'Wow, the symmetry!' People say, 'Why do you believe the King James is the Word of God?' Because I study it, and the more you study it, the more you see there's just things going on here that couldn't be explained any other way.
"How in the world would you know where to separate the Book of Isaiah in these themes 66 times if you didn't know there were going to be 66 books in the Bible? How would you know in the day of Isaiah to only have 39 judgment chapters because there were going to be 39 books in the Old Testament in a Gentile bible, not a Hebrew bible?
"There aren't 66 books in a Hebrew bible; it's our Bible that has 66 books. There aren't 66 books in a Catholic bible; there's only 66 books in a King James Bible, the Protestant Bible.
"You look at that and say, 'Somebody knows what's coming before it came.' I taught this one time before and entitled the study, 'The Original E.T.', because only somebody who's outside of time, who knows what the future is before the future is, could do this. That's why that Book is not like any other book.
"When you read religious writings and those of preachers who denigrate the Bible into the status of other books, it doesn't work. I listened to some preachers on the radio last week and they're saying, 'Agh, you King James guys,' and the reason they're doing that is because the King James Bible doesn't allow them to teach what they want to teach.
"They got to get rid of it in order to teach the doctrine they want to push. They have to get rid of the authority of the English Bible because it won't teach what they want it to teach.
"If you don't want the word 'eternal' to be 'eternal,' for example, you can't use the King James Bible as the Word of God. If you don't want the words to be what they are in English, then you have to say, 'Well, what we really need is the original language, some other language.'
"The more I study it . . . To me it's like you climb up a tree and you go out on a limb and you just keep studying and you go further out on that limb, and further out, and further out. Every time you look around somebody's trying to saw it off between you and the trunk and it's okay if you're confident in the limb, but I can't see somebody hanging on to the slump of the tree; they don't want to get out on the limb.
"You see somebody else down on the ground scared to climb the tree. So it just depends on how far you're willing to climb and what you're willing to trust, but this is the kind of stuff that gets me WAAAY out on the limb."
(to be continued and new article tomorrow)
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