The Bible Wheel displays the 5 New Testament history books as a “Key” which completes the 2nd cycle, thus letting the prophecies of the Old Testament concerning the coming of Christ find their fulfillment, completing the 2nd cycle, and revealing the “Seal” of the Tri-Radiant Halo. The 22 Epistles which make up the 3rd cycle finish the structure of the Wheel, thus completing the whole pattern….allowing connections to be made through word relations on Spokes, and alphabetically.
So, then what does this pattern that seems to prove the Bible was designed by God, tell us about it application for us today? Some of the first things that come to mind are the way the prophecies of a coming Messiah contained in the Old Testament are fulfilled in the first century, those fulfillments being contained in the first 5 New Testament history books, thus completing the 2nd cycle, forming a symbolic seal which integrates the 1st cycle with the second, and the Old with the New.
What this tells me more than anything else is that the Bible is a complete set of books. Its purpose, I feel is to show the historical progress of mans perception of God through their myths, customs, and traditions, which ultimately climaxes with Christ’s true revelation of God recorded in the New Testament.
Looking at the Bible any other way manifests many contradictions and errors, simply because the way God is portrayed in the Old Testament is far different than the way He is presented by Christ in the New Testament, and there is no way these two portrayals can ever be reconciled as both revealing God’s true nature. With this in mind it becomes evident that what the Bible Wheel is presenting to us is a sealed, finished work, recording God’s place in the history of man….all, but the revelation of God through Christ, is the human perspective of God, through their many myths, customs, and traditions. It is this revelation of God through Christ that completes the cycle and manifests the seal, declaring a finished work!
As the perception of a child changes with their maturity, they see things in a completely different manner as the eyes of their understanding develop a depth of wisdom, knowing things that were not able to be comprehended until the level of empathic capacity reaches its fullness. Such is the case with the development of mankind’s perception of the Biblical presentation of God; it must mature and develop. This is why the Bible can be used as a true measure, showing where a Believer is at in their stage of development, by the way in which they interpret Scripture.
The Bible contains many types of writings, showing where people of different time-periods were at in relation to their idea of God, through myths, traditions, and customs. It is how we as modern thinkers apply those ideas that is a direct reflection of our level of understanding the purpose of the Bible….not as a book to draw us back into immature ways of thinking, but rather as a window into our past with which to look and see how far we’ve come.