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Name: The Bible Recap
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Author: Tara-Leigh Cobble

Tara-Leigh Cobble

A One-Year Guide to Reading and Understanding the Entire Bible

4.2 (51 Bewertungen)

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What’s in it for me? Read, understand, and love the Bible, while drawing nearer to God and his infinite love.

The Bible is a lengthy collection of 66 individual books. For some, it’s as overwhelming and challenging as it is essential and beautiful. Perhaps you too have tried to read it in the hope of better understanding God. But instead of drawing you closer to him, it actually became a barrier. The different stories, with their variety of perspectives and styles, served only to confuse and exhaust you leaving you frustrated and lost in your faith.

You're not alone. There are some common mistakes that people make when reading the Bible. It’s easy for the faithful reader to try to find themselves in the text, seeing the Word as a to-do list, a series of steps to earn God's favor. This leads them to focus on the same few passages while ignoring the rest. In turn, this results in drawing conclusions about God without reading the whole Bible. But how can you live your life around a book you haven’t read and a God that you don't know?

This is where The Bible Recap comes in – a chronological and day-by-day analysis and explanation of the entire text. By dedicating just 1 percent of each day to a few passages at a time, the Bible can be fully understood and appreciated in a year. While we can’t provide you with an entire year's worth of learning, this Blink serves as a rough guide to a few of the Bible’s most significant and meaningful passages.

We recommend that you use it in conjunction with the relevant scriptures themselves. It will take the mystery out of the scripture and give you a glimpse into the light of God.

Genesis and the Start of Everything

The best place to start the Bible is – funnily enough – at the beginning: Genesis and the six days of creation.

The first few chapters shouldn't be seen as an attempt to answer any questions about life – rather, Genesis serves to reveal God and his mercy. There are some who believe that the Lord created the earth in six literal days, while others suggest that each "day" was a prolonged period lasting tens of thousands of years. This is unclear, and beside the point. What is clear is that this wasn’t an accident – God is the creator.

And he knew what he was doing. When God created Adam and Eve, their inevitable sin was no surprise. In fact, his plan accounted for it. He tells them in Gen 2:17 that “in the day that you eat” of the tree of knowledge, they’ll surely die. He speaks of when not if. He knew it was going to happen!

And in this, you can see God's mercy. He lets Adam and Eve live despite saying that they’ll die if they eat the fruit. Even in their sin, he follows them out of his love for mankind and shows both mercy and discipline.

His mercy and love for humanity are seen again when he sends the flood to wipe out the corrupted bloodline of Adam. He forms a covenant with Noah, instructing him to build the arc and save himself and his family.

It’s Noah’s family – eight individuals in total – that God commands to multiply and fill the earth. This starts the line of descendants up to when he sends the Messiah, about 2,000 years later.

So, what can we take from these first few chapters that make up the book of Genesis? As Adam and Eve ran from him, God pursued them; but it wasn’t to punish them. Instead, he sought them out to clothe them. When mankind fell, he still loved us. And he continues to love us.

All of this shows God's absolute love and dedication for humanity and the fact that he had a plan from the start.

The Trials of Job

Have you ever felt like the world is out to get you? That nothing’s going right? That forces out of your control keep bringing you down and making your life a misery? It's in those dark times that you should dig into the book of Job.

Job comes along about 400 years after the great flood, and things don’t seem to be going too well for him. A blameless, good, and God-fearing man, Job finds himself at the center of a conversation between God and Satan. Satan wants to test Job – killing his servants, destroying his livestock, and plaguing him with horrible sores.

The Wisdom of Ecclesiastes

Imagine you had the time and resources to live however you want. How would you go about living your most joyful life? This is exactly what the preacher – most likely Solomon – sets out to discover in the book of Ecclesiastes.

He starts by throwing himself into work. But where does this lead? Great buildings eventually fall down, technology becomes obsolete, and any money earned gets reduced through taxes. Despite working hard, the preacher discovers that he still feels empty – possibly even more so than before!

The Start of the New Testament and the Coming of Jesus

After the end of the Old Testament, there’s a period known as the 400 years of silence. There’s no recorded word or sign from God. But mankind is quite busy. The Jewish people, having been driven out by the Babylonians, are taken over first by the Persian Empire and then by the Roman Empire.

The Jewish people are tired; exiles and slaves in their own land, oppressed by one of the cruelest empires ever seen. Put simply, they’re ready for a savior.

Betrayal at the Last Supper

At the last supper, Jesus announces to his 12 disciples that he’ll be betrayed by one among them. When all his friends but one call him Lord, Jesus affirms who it is. Judas has sold Jesus to the Romans for 30 silver pieces.

A detail about the last supper is only mentioned in the Gospel of John – Jesus washes his disciples' feet. This is usually the job of a slave or a servant, but Jesus does it anyway.

Revelation and the Beauty that Lies Ahead

The Bible ends with the words of John – likely the apostle – from a tiny prison on an island. After trying and failing to burn him alive, the Romans settled on just locking him away. And here he wrote a letter with the revelation of Jesus, in the form of a series of visions leading up to Jesus’s return.

Some of these visions are violent and frightening, but Jesus tells us to “fear not.” And why should a true believer be scared? If you trust and love Christ, then you know that you’ll be walking by his side in these final days.

Final Summary

The Bible is a huge book that can be read over and over again for its countless lessons about life and the way of God. The parts covered in this Blink are just a small taste of what insights The Bible Recap has to offer.

By taking the Bible one bite-sized chunk at a time, it can be understood in its entirety – not just as a checklist of how to live a good life. And through this understanding, we can see the true character of God.

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Worum geht es in The Bible Recap?

The Bible Recap (2020) is a chronological and easy-to-understand explanation of what many consider to be the most important book in the world. By offering short and simple analyses of a few passages at a time, it breaks down this huge work of scripture into easily consumable chunks, designed to be read one a day for a year.

Wer The Bible Recap lesen sollte

Confused faithful who’ve tried and failed to read the Bible
Passionately devoted people looking for a deeper understanding of God's word
The religiously curious who want to take some of the mystery out of this ancient book

Über den Autor

Tara-Leigh Cobble is dedicated to spreading Bible literacy. Her daily podcast, The Bible Recap, has over 25 million downloads and aims to help listeners read and understand the Bible. She’s also the creator of Discipleship Group, a network of Bible study groups that allows hundreds of men and women around the world to meet online and study the scripture.

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