Our Verse: Isa 28:10 God tells us everything over and over—one line at a time,
one line at a time, a little here, and a little there.

As you remember, the first part of Bible study is getting the data. You do this through “regular reading” Now let's tackle Part 2- Comparing different verses.
That verse in the last episode said, “rightly dividing the word of truth”.
That means comparing different verses to understand God better.

Like a spiritual cryptologist you are analyzing and decrypting God's data in the Bible. You begin to review different passages, “one line at a time” as described in the verse above. The first century Christians did the same thing. They only had the Old Testament, and had heard it since they were little kids. Some of the verses they had memorized suddenly made sense to them as followers of Jesus. They “compared different verses” of the Old Testament with what Jesus did and said “It's true!” They got it. They realized the truth of Scripture by what they had experienced with the Lord Jesus.

Today we have the New Testament, a record of Jesus life. We compare the many promises in the Old Testament with the New Testament story of Jesus and discover the same thing- It's True! It just makes sense! “Comparing different verses”, the second part of Bible study, helps us understand the Bible is true!

Here's an example: Isaiah 7:14 The virgin will conceive a child! She will give birth to a son and will call him Immanuel, meaning ‘God is with us.
We connect this Old Testament prophecy about Jesus with it's New Testament fulfillment in Matt 1:20 and Luke 1:35. These two passages and others validate the birth of Jesus as God's Son.

Here's the Summary:
Gather data about God through “regular reading”.
Analyze that data through “comparing different verses”.
The result? Your faith, your trust in God will grow!

Next on the Mountain: Prophecy. What's that?