Tuesday, June 2, 2026

As in the beginning . . . 'Wow, the symmetry!'

Here's a comparison study on Genesis and the Book of Revelation:

Adam studies the creatures and gives names to every one of them in the earth. In Revelation, you see the Lord Jesus Christ giving a new name to the saints. 

Adam and Eve are deceived by Satan and fall into sin and in Revelation, you see the deception of Satan where the nations of the earth are deceived by him and fall. Adam is defeated by Satan, but in Revelation, Christ defeats Satan. Paul says He's going to bruise Satan under our heel shortly, says Richard Jordan.

Adam "fell" and he became naked. In Revelation, when the saints are redeemed they're not naked; they're clad with the white raiment that's called the reward for the righteousness of the saints over there.

Before you get your glorified body, what do you have on while you're up there in heaven? Paul in II Corinthians 5 calls it being naked; being a soul without a body. The old body is in the grave and the new body hasn't come. What we'll be clothed in is a garment of light, as Adam and Eve were before their fall. Perhaps maybe we'll be like those robes over there in Revelation. 

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In Genesis, you see the early development of religion, of art, science, culture as they're conceived by sinful descendants of Adam with the design of filling up man's mind to take him away from God.

In Revelation, you see man's art and his religion, his science, in all of their splendor, but you see them judged and destroyed by God in Revelation 18.

In Genesis, God sends a flood to destroy a wicked and adulterous, evil generation. In Revelation, you see that Satan sends a flood to destroy a chosen generation, an elect generation. In Genesis, the earth is deluged by water and in Revelation the earth is consumed by fire when Christ comes back.

There's a company that passes through the Flood in safety in Genesis, finally finding rest and worship out there on the top of Mt. Ararat. When you look at Revelation, you see a company pass through the tribulation in safety; a little remnant finally finding rest and worship up on Mt. Zion. It's that 144,000 in Revelation 14.

In Genesis, you see a guy by the name of Nimrod; the great rebel, the king. He becomes founder of the ancient kingdom of Babylon, the seat of infamy and apostasy--the seat of the original rebellion against God and the original development of idolatry.

In Revelation, you see the ultimate fulfillment in the person of the Antichrist, that great rebel and king who becomes the revivor of Babylon--MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.

In Revelation, the nations are gathered, not scattered. In Genesis, you see Sodom and Gomorrah, the center of corruption. In Revelation, you see Sodom and Gomorrah as titles for the city of Jerusalem because of her spiritual declension and apostasy.

You see the nation Israel in Genesis and all of history crystallized around the nation Israel. All the history of the world and man is focused right on Abraham and his descendants. In Revelation, everything again crystallizes around the people of Israel.

There's a warfare in Genesis 14 against Abraham's family and it's overthrown and destroyed in a beautiful type of the Second Coming. In Revelation, there's a war against Abraham's people again and it, too, is overthrown. Look at Revelation 12 and 13.

One of the wonderful touching things in Genesis 24 is Abraham sends out his servant to seek a bride for his son Isaac. It's a marvelous type of what God will do in reality, and you'll see it in Revelation where a bride is sought and found there for God's Son.

There are two messengers in Genesis who go acting for God on behalf of His people seeking to get Lot out of Sodom. Fascinatingly, in Revelation 11 there are two messengers who go acting for God on behalf of His people seeking to get His people out of the city of Jerusalem that He calls Sodom and Gomorrah! Israel's Redeemer is prophesied in Genesis to spring forth from the tribe of Judah. Revelation is the place He's called the Lion of the tribe of Judah.

You see the same thing with regard to the serpent. In Genesis, the serpent deceives man. In Revelation, it says he deceives the nations no more. In Genesis, the serpent's dominion began and in Revelation it ceases.

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"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 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."