I see the Bible as having a unique internal structure: like that of a suspension bridge. Genesis and Revelation form the towers upon which the bridge's roadway hangs suspended on cords of prophecy. We'll do 'big picture' stuff like this before delving into individual prophecy passages. That way, individual passages have a useful and instructive structural connection to each other and to the Bible as a whole . . . . which is what it is, really, a 'whole'!

1. II. THE BIBLE AS A
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The Bible’s Content Hangs From Two Towers:
Genesis and Revelation,
Alpha and Omega

2. II. THE BIBLE AS
A SUSPENSION BRIDGE
Nothing instills confidence in a builder than spending a few
minutes with his or her competently prepared master plan.
Seeing the builder’s completed and coherent vision for a project
gives one confidence in the usefulness of the separate steps.
God has had such a master plan from before the beginning.
I would display it here for you in the form of a suspension
bridge, one that competently takes us
from Genesis to Revelation.

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5. The Bible, too, as the expression
of Jesus that it is,
has a beginning and an end–
Genesis and Revelation
I AM THE ALPHA
AND THE OMEGA,
THE BEGINNING
AND THE END . . .
These two books have a unique
relationship:
They start and finish one story
The finish mirrors the start in many
ways. Revelation reflects Genesis.
Prophesied events connect the start
to the finish all along the way.
The Bible’s narrative timeline hangs
suspended, event by event, between
these two books . . . .
The Bible has a structure like a
suspension bridge!

6. Draped Cable
Vertical Cables
Roadway
Tower
The Bible as a Suspension Bridge
1.Anchoring Towers:
2.Roadway:
3.Draped Cable:
4.Vertical Cables:
Gen 1–3+Rev 20-22
The ‘Dispensations’
Individual Books
Biblical prophecies
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7. Garden
locked
Man
banished
Pain
tears
Death
reigns
Satan
deceives
God walks with man
A river waters the garden
Alpha Tower:
GENESIS CHAPTERS 1-3
Elements listed in time order
Bottom to top
Every suspension bridge
needs two towers,
identical in size and
shape, one the mirror
image of the other.
Tree of Life
God creates the Garden
Light bathes creation
God performs act of Creation
And so it is with the
Alpha-Omega Bridge.

8. Omega Elements
Garden
locked
Events appear
in time order
Man
banished
Bottom to top
Pain
Does the
tears
sequence look
Death
reigns
a wee bit
Satan
familiar?
deceives
!
uldgarden
At sho the
I river waters
God walks with man
Omega Tower:
REVELATION
CHAPTERS
20-22
City
opened
Man
welcomed
Curse
removed
Death
banished
Satan
banished
God dwells with man
A river waters the eternal city
Tree of Life
Tree of Life
God creates the Garden
God creates the Eternal City
Light bathes 1st creation
Light bathes 2nd creation
God performs act of Creation
God performs act of re-Creation

9. Garden
locked
atched
M
set!
The Bible’s
Alpha-Omega
Towers
City
opened
Mir ro
r
images
!
Man
banished
Man
welcomed
Pain
tears
Curse
removed
Death
reigns
Death
banished
Satan
deceives
Satan
banished
God walks with man
God dwells with man
A river waters the garden
A river waters the eternal city
Tree of Life
Tree of Life
God creates the Garden
God creates the Eternal City
Light bathes 1st creation
Light bathes 2nd creation
God performs act of Creation
God performs act of Creation

10. Eleven Mirror-Image Sets of
Corresponding Verses

11. GENESIS:
THE ALPHA TOWER
REVELATION:
THE OMEGA TOWER
G 3:8–God walks
with Adam
R 21:3–God dwells
among men
G 2:10 A river waters
the Garden
R 22:1–A river waters
New Jerusalem
G 2:9–Tree of Life in
Garden’s center
R 22:2–Tree of Life in the
center of New Jerusalem
G 2:8–God creates
the Garden
R 21:2–God creates
New Jerusalem
G 1:3–Light bathes the
first creation
R 21:23–Light also bathes
the second creation
G1:1–God creates the
heavens and earth
R 21:1–God creates the
new heavens and earth

12. GENESIS:
THE ALPHA TOWER
REVELATION:
THE OMEGA TOWER
G 3:24–Garden locked
R 21:25–Gates opened
G 3:24–Man banished
from Garden
R 21:3, 22:3–Man welcomed
back to New Jerusalem
G 3:17–Ground Cursed
R 22:3–Curse removed
G 3:16–Pain and tears
R 21:4–No more pain
and tears
G 2:3–Death reigns
R 20:14–Death abolished
G 2:13–Satan deceives
R 20:10–Satan punished

13. ...
SO
I presented a simile that says,“God
designed His Word like a suspension
bridge.”
I gave you reasons to see God’s Word like
a suspension bridge’s towers!
What can this notion, if you accept it, tell
us about God, the designer of Creation,
the Writer of the Bible and the Author of
our salvation?

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