I first became aware of the existence of organizational patterns among the books in the Bible from a book by J. Sidlow Baxter titled "Explore the Book", originally published in 1966. This evangelical Christian was a foremost Bible scholar, and the author of many books on Bible related subjects. "Explore the Book" included a section in which he showed how the entire Bible is not only organized into the Old and New Testaments, but also is further divided into sub-groupings of books, within both Testaments, which give the appearance of an intentional design. .

Prior to my reading of Baxter's book in the early 1980's, I was generally familiar with the way in which dedicated men had assembled the Canon of Scripture over the centuries, finally producing the Bible that we have today, though I must confess, I was unaware of any profound underlying organization of books within the Bible, certainly not one resulting from the direct guidance and oversight of the Holy Spirit. Moreover, I don't believe that modern-day Bible historians who subscribe to the infallibility and inerrancy of Scripture necessarily extend that view to the relative placement in the Bible of the various Old and New Testament books themselves.

Any student of the Bible will realize quickly that the Bible is not organized chronologically, but it is not clear that the particular arrangement of books in the modern Bible has any particular design or purpose. Indeed, the ancient Hebrew Old Testament consisted of only 22 books. Moreover, they were arranged differently, although they were simply grouped in such a way that they actually comprised all of the Old Testament books in our current full Bibles. Of course, it was not until after the first century that the New Testament came into being, and it was not until then that the Old Testament books was also divided and rearranged to produce the 39 Old Testament books we have today. Consequently, these superficial alterations over the centuries seem quite arbitrary.

Nonetheless, Topic I will show that the present organization of books is definitely not arbitrary, but has been designed to reflect God's entire Plan of Redemption, with the advent of the first century coming of the Son of God. Furthermore, that design will direct our attention to the fact that the Hebrew Letters, those final nine books in the New Testament are actually prophetic, and intended to apply during the period of The Kingdom. Therefore, this Topic will show that the Bible’s very organization reflects the Lord's on-going intervention into the way His Word is communicated, and becomes powerful documentary evidence to its validity, and of special relevance at this particular time.