{"id":1044,"date":"2016-12-15T11:26:07","date_gmt":"2016-12-15T18:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/?p=1044"},"modified":"2025-12-23T13:02:39","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T20:02:39","slug":"bookends-of-scripture-unite-one-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/2016\/12\/15\/bookends-of-scripture-unite-one-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Bookends of Scripture unite One Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I&#8217;m proceeding through completing certain doctoral courses and preparing for\u00a0others, I&#8217;ll share in these blog posts about things I&#8217;m learning, assignments I&#8217;m completing, and ways I&#8217;m growing through the program. Perhaps some of this will be of interest to some.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, I spent most of the day examining Genesis 1-3 and comparing and contrasting it with Revelation 21-22, the opening and closing chapters of the Bible. It is striking about the parallels that emerged, and I will submit them here for your review. Truly God inspired the whole Bible, and the bookends reveal one, united story.<\/p>\n<p>Click this link to view file: \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/belzglobal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Bookends-of-Scripture.docx\">bookends-of-scripture<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1050\" src=\"http:\/\/belzglobal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Bookends-of-Scripture-jpg-227x300.jpg\" alt=\"bookends-of-scripture-jpg\" width=\"482\" height=\"637\" srcset=\"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Bookends-of-Scripture-jpg-227x300.jpg 227w, https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Bookends-of-Scripture-jpg.jpg 639w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 482px) 100vw, 482px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I&#8217;m proceeding through completing certain doctoral courses and preparing for\u00a0others, I&#8217;ll share in these blog posts about things I&#8217;m learning, assignments I&#8217;m completing, and ways I&#8217;m growing through the program. Perhaps some of this will be of interest to some. Yesterday, I spent most of the day examining Genesis 1-3 and comparing and contrasting &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/2016\/12\/15\/bookends-of-scripture-unite-one-story\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bookends of Scripture unite One Story<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotional-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1044"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1052,"href":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044\/revisions\/1052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}