Sixty-six books on one line. Turn on a thread to follow one of God’s promises from its first mention to Christ.
Getting around
Threads
- One of God’s promises, traced from its first mention to its arrival in Christ. Fifteen of them, one at a time.
- The books it runs through light up in its color. Gold and a ✦ mark where the promise arrives.
- With no book open, this panel becomes the whole thread — every passage in order, empty books left out.
The tags on each passage
- pattern · prophecy · fulfillment
- What kind of connection it is.
- stated
- The New Testament cites this verse for it.
- pattern
- The New Testament uses the imagery without quoting it.
- traditional
- A long-held reading, not spelled out in the text.
Books
- Dates, themes, what its author was saying, and how it points to Christ.
- The dots under the title are the threads running through it. Choose one to follow it.
- With a thread on, its passages come first, scripture printed in full.
Book order
- Chronological
- Where each book’s events fall in history. Job sits with the patriarchs; prophets sit beside their kings.
- Canonical
- The order they appear in an English Bible.
The shapes
Each book is drawn by genre. Color is never used for this — color belongs to the threads.
Why Emmaus
On the day he rose, Jesus walked to a village called Emmaus with two disciples who did not recognize him and, beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, explained what was written about himself in all the Scriptures. Luke never records what he said. This is an attempt to walk the same road.