The Plan
Put yourself in this position - you own a huge company. You devise a plan to change and improve your company without downsizing or laying anyone off. In fact, when your plan is finished your employees and clients will be in much better shape physically, financially, and mentally, than they are now.
Your write your plan down step by step and you set up an exacting timeline. Not only do you give all of your employees and clients a copy of your plan, you publish on the Internet, in social media, newspapers and magazines across the globe - so that everyone can see what you are doing, when, and how.
Right now you're thinking - improving your company is good. Telling your employees and clients is risky because they will be keeping a very watchful eye on everything you do, and constantly comparing it to your plan. If you screw up in the smallest way you set yourself up for redicule and litigation. Plus, one little error anywhere in the plan puts the whole thing under suspicion. Publishing your plan so that anyone and everyone can see it, follow it, and comment on it, is suicide.
Well, the Bible is God's plan.
He got 40 different scribes, over a period of 2500 years, to write down eveything he told them to. These guys were from different countries and spoke different languages, a few knew each other, many didn't. When the scribes were finished, God gave the pile to a bunch of other guys and told them what writings he wanted and what writings he didn't. He told them exactly how he wanted it put together. When it was done to his satisfaction he had it published. Anyone in the world can get a copy in their own language. It is the best selling book ever published.
Isaiah 46:9-11 - "Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me, Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure: Calling a ravenous bird from the east, the man that executeth my counsel from a far country: yea, I have spoken it, I will also bring it to pass; I have purposed it, I will also do it."
God's plan has proceeded exactly as written from "In the beginning" (Genesis 1:1) to the locust armies of today (Revelation 9:3) without an error, blunder, or mistake.
Wait! Are there no errors in the Bible? Yes, there are, thanks to the art of translation. There are even places where translators tried to help us out by adding their own 'simplifying' thoughts. However, the King James Version has tools that help find these places and work with the wording of the original manuscripts.
The 3 Sections of the Bible
Set a Bible on its spine on a table or in your lap. Put your left hand at Genesis 2 and your right hand at Revelation 21.
The Bible, to the left of your left hand (Genesis 1:1 to Genesis 2:7), is the creation. The time period that covers these 1 1/2 to 2 pages is, at a minimum 13.5 billion years (with a 'b') - true.
The Bible to the right of your right hand (Revelation 21:6 to Revelation 22:21) is the 'welcome to heaven, let's take a tour'section. The time period that covers these 1 1/2 to 2 pages is eternity.
The Bible between your hands (Genesis 2:7 to Revelation 21:6), is the heart of God's plan. It spells out His plan for Adam and his progeny, Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, David, Jesus The Messiah, his first and second coming, all the way up through judgement day. The time period for this part of the Bible is exactly 7000 human years, or one week (7 days) in God's Time is Different.
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