Every Verse in the Bible is Written with the Whole in View

John 7:37-39: In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink.

We see that same phrase “in the last day” that we saw when Christ said, “And I will raise him up at the last day;” or, “He will rise in the resurrection at the last day;” or, “The word…shall judge him in the last day.”

You know, God does not write like we do. We do not write a letter or an e-mail to someone, having all the other things we have written in mind. In our writing, we do not try to make sure that what I am writing today to this person is in harmony with everything I have written in the past to this person or to other people. We do not think that way, and our way of communicating is more present-oriented – it reflects our present thought or our present situation. We do not try to fit what we are writing with everything in the past and everything in the future. No way. That is not how men write, but this is not the writing of men. This is the writing of God. God writes in an astounding way and in a brilliant way. Every word, every verse, and every single letter is written with the “whole” in view of all of God’s divine communication, from the very beginning until the very end. The entire Word of God is cohesive.

For example, here, God is using this phrase, “in the last day,” and He is using the same Greek words as in these other places, and that is highly significant. It is not coincidental. It is not something that just fell into place randomly. This is the God who built the whole universe, and we can see complex design in everything, like our own DNA, and in the cells of human beings and any living thing, and it is so intricately put together. It is brilliantly designed. The mind of God is unfathomable. We cannot know it. His thoughts are higher than our thoughts, as the heavens are higher than the earth. We are tiny, finite, feeble creatures and, yet, we really think we know a lot. We think we are really something, but we do not know anything, but God does. God knows everything, so it is nothing for Him. It is impossible for us to keep everything in mind and to make sure that all the words we have ever spoken are in harmony like pieces of a puzzle, with no contradictions between what we said today and what we said 10 years ago.

But with God, that is how He writes, and He is fully aware that He has used this same phrase (“in the last day”) in John 6, in John 11, and in John 12. He is fully aware that He has linked these words to the end of time – to the resurrection, the Rapture and Judgment Day. He is fully aware, and now He has taken these words and linked them to the Feast of Tabernacles, purposefully and intentionally, because it was designed by God for that very purpose to reveal to us that the Feast of Tabernacles will be spiritually fulfilled and “fully come” at the end of the world.