If God makes promises in His Word, you can guarantee that the story is not over until all of the promises have come to pass. The covenants and prophesies link the ancient stories. What has been fulfilled foreshadows what is coming later in the story and ties the millennia of narratives together.

Does the Bible sometimes seem random to you? What does Hezekiah have to do with Philemon? How is Enoch connected to Ruth? What do battles in ancient Mesopotamia have to do with the church? Is the Bible really all one story?

Here are eight proofs that the Bible is one story.

1. The Bible has One main character. From Genesis to Revelation, God is the protagonist. Genesis 1:1 declares, “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.” Revelation 21 proclaims that “God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.” Even in the middle, Daniel is not the main character of the book of Daniel. He’s not even in chapter 3. But God is. And this is true throughout the Scriptures.
2. The Bible has One author. All Scripture is given by inspiration of God (2 Timothy 3:16). Many individuals over thousands of years contributed, but they were moved by the Holy Spirit to write what they wrote (2 Peter 1:21).
3. The setting of the Bible sets up the conclusion. What began in a perfect garden in Genesis 1 ends in a perfect garden in Revelation 22. Creation moves towards new creation. God began with His people and will dwell with them once more in the end.
4. The conflict leads to the climax. Man sinned and marred God’s creation. God made man to reflect His image, fellowship with Him, and have dominion over His creation (Genesis 1:26-28). The Bible ends by show how God brings His original plan for His creation to pass. The distruper is not the victor. Christ crushes the serpent’s head at the cross and rises, defeating death. Because of Christ’s victory, at the end of the Bible, man once again reflects the image of God as God designed him to do. He fellowships with God, redeemed from his sin. And he has dominion over creation, ruling and reigning with Jesus in the Millennial Kingdom.

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