Those of us who believe that the whole of Scripture has been fulfilled in Christ, must now consider what is beyond the book of Revelation. What purpose does the Bible now serve beyond a static book relating to us God’s plan of salvation? This is where the revelation of the Bible Wheel comes into focus; it builds upon the foundation of the Bible and transforms it into an active, living, growing book whose depth never ends, projecting it beyond the 1st century to be a relevant book for all time.
What we see displayed in the Bible Wheel is the connectivity of the Old Testament to the New Testament, integrating the two into an inseparable unit, completing and fulfilling the whole picture of God’s plan of redemption. This consummation of purpose can take us beyond the New Jerusalem of Revelation; to an understanding of what our present condition in the Kingdom of God is….giving us a view from a higher dimension. Without this melding of the two into one a total picture cannot be seen, hence our perception of its eternal truth becomes blurred. We must blend the dynamic/abstract thought of the Hebrews with the static/ concrete thought of the Greeks to arrive at that which is whole and complete.
The Bible Wheel allows us to hear the music of the Old Testament echoed back from the New Testament, and to see the allusions of Scripture visually with connectivity and form. As the trumpet which is blown in the Old Testament is echoed back from the New it creates the full sound of all the harmonics.
Now the question must be asked: when the Old is seamlessly meshed with the New what is the message that it is revealing to us? I would like to answer that question with the idea that only when the two become one and a whole picture emerges can an understanding begin that takes us Beyond Preterism.
When a person comes to the understanding that the Bible is a fulfilled book (displayed in the revelation of the Bible Wheel) that was not written about us, and realizes that it is the eternal truths it contains that apply to people of all times, then they can begin to go beyond the “waiting” mindset which thinks that the Bible must be completed before one can experience the kingdom of God. As long as the Bible is viewed as an incomplete, unfulfilled book one gets trapped into a mode of being in limbo, that is to say life cannot progress to another level because the age that we are in now must have a completion before the kingdom age can begin….thus progress is in a state of being suspended.