Learn the Most Important Skill in Biblical Interpretation 

*Thank you Jesus, I’m a changed an.I’m a new creature now and old things has pass away.* *No more homeless,hard drugs I now have a home and a blessed living - a child of God. hallelujah*

I ❤ Bible nerds

Tim is such a gift. His work is going to long outlast his life.

Now compare Mark 4:35-41, Jesus asleep in the boat. Notice the similar words…great windstorm, fear of sailors, asking for help when perishing, divine end to storm. Mark is portraying Jesus as both a better prophet (messenger from God) than Jonah AND as God himself who controls the waters. The patterns carry from the first to the last page. Understanding this has radically changed my life and my understanding of scripture.

This is so useful. Its like a searchlight for finding the intended meaning of a Biblical narrative.

All praise to King Jesus for working his Spirit through Brother Tim, I went astray from God due to dogmatic traditional interpretation. Tim has helped me beyond measure on allowing the Spirit to flow through me to my neighbor. Thank you Brother Tim for submitting to our King and letting him use you as a vessel for the Gospel

In Mathematics one equation can lead to thousands of equations in its application. For example, look up the equation for General Relativity, or Schrodinger’s wave equation, or Maxwell’s electromagnetic equations, even Newton’s equations for the laws of motion. Think of what we have been able to predict about nature from these seemingly small succinct mathematical statements? IMHO The Bible is deeper and much more than our equations do, in attempting to describe God’s creation. We haven’t even scratched the surface, we have only seen the tip of the iceberg!

Father God, my strength is gone. I suffered an heart attack two years ago and I’m battling lupus. Please give me strength. I know things will get better as long as I keep faith and I trust in you. Even as I constantly struggle to provide for my children I trust in you Heavenly Father. Walking with faith is all we can do as christian’s. Like most single mothers things are hard on me.Both of my sons are autistic, it’s a lot on me. I’m constantly struggling to pay rent and constantly struggle to provide for my boys. I’m overwhelmed and now that I’m home schooling them I’m having trouble getting their school supplies. Heavenly and merciful Father, I come before your glorious throne today, in humble adoration please help me overcome my struggles and my constant fear of poverty. I know you have a plan for me Lord Amen!

Amazing the ways God comes to us. If you feel discouraged, depressed, down in the lowest part of a ship, He gets someone to remind you who you are, what you have to do, who your God is. He is the one that says: Arise! Praise the Lord!😊

Love this bible study, its calm and pleasant and easy to follow. They are walking through the bible and teaching others as they walk through scripture. I've sat in bible studies where your going 100mph through a bible study and not walking and learning but rushing and panicking. God bless the Bible project team.

The most useful channel on RU-vid

Loved the course! It gave me so much insight into the story of Jonah! Loving it more now!

Today I was reading Rev 21 and verse 9 sounded familiar. So I went back to chapter 17 and found the same phrase. So for the first time in my life I saw the contrasting parallels between Babylon (the woman) and the New Jerusalem (the bride). It was an amazing moment! And now I am watching this video and Tim's emphasis on repetition :)

Hi everyone, may the Lord bless you from Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic! Thanks for sharing this episode!

You all's bible studies are so important!!! Thank you for your consistency and wisdom and sharing! -Portsmouth, VA

I’ve been looking for sophisticated Bible study for a while, this is truly amazing. Thank you. Jesus is King!

Praise The Lord, everyone And God Bless you all

Thank you for this, Dr. Tim!

BEAUTIFUL! Thank you for these "classrooms"

These classroom lessons are FANTASTIC. Thank you!

This is SO interesting!! I love these so much! THANK YOU for doing these classes. Please keep them coming.

I can feel the growth as I listen. It’s amazing .

What a blessing this is. Thank you ♥️

I appreciate the articulation, observation and teaching SO much! This episode is amazing!

You are amazing! May God continue to bless the work of tour hands and spread the Gospel like never before ❤

may we admire Lord how well written your word is and may it impact how we live our lives!

LOL I'm about to take Ray Lubeck's class next week and was informed that we're going to go through Jonah from other people who took the class hahaha. Hope I'm not cheating listening to this lol.

Thank you, brother Tim! This session has taught me a LOT about the importance of evaluating the scripture narratives with these considerations at hand. May the Lord bless you!

I love this so much. Book of Jonah is one of my favorites and I feel a lot of my thoughts and opinions were perfectly articulated ❤️

this is beyond amazing, this is from someone who doesnt like reading book or literature. the Bible is indeed interesting

Thank you for your channel. A fantastic tool for teaching teens and beginners to the faith get an overview of the bible in a fun way.

I loved this class. Gods love is incredible ❤

The bible is amazing. Such simple stories but cuts deep and grows with you

This is amazing. I have been looking for this kind of guidance with the bible since i was a little girl. Thank you so much for your work

I am AJ from Ghana,Africa, and I am really enjoying the classroom videos... Keep em coming...

God bless you guys @ bible project. The reverence and fire of your love and passion for the Lord and His holy word is beautiful and much appreciated! God bless you all 💛💐🙏

Stunning and profoundly beautiful literature ❤️🙏🏽 I am thankful that God opened my eyes to see clearly. ✨

God bless you tim❤❤❤

Nice lesson Dr. Tim.

This is so amazing!!! I absolutely love the Revelations being brought forth. Thank you for your anointing, your willingness, and your obedience!

Wow!! I needed this. So useful.🙏🏽

It’s kinda crazy I remember falling in love w the Bible project cuz I’m an illustrator and it’s just amazing but I seriously love coming back after years and years and the guys are looking a little grey and white and old!!!!! Love it

I’m amazed at how this story of Jonah has opened my eyes as to taught your class. Thank you! This was an amazing lesson on juxtaposition and contrast and paralleling chapters. I’ve never seen this before. And another thing an I like Jonah where I’m words but no fear or am I like the sailors that fear God? Also thank you for letting us know about the scammer

Thank you for this!

This is incredible and helped me a lot! Thanks guys!

Very simple to understand instruction. Thanks!

Very good! This will help me tremendously... thx 😊🙏

Excellent! Thank you so much for this

Great stuff this should be going generations and across community.

This was great! ... Really enjoyed it ... I've always felt that the Bible is masterfully written and was masterfully created, but Bible Project, your videos and teachings are taking my initial thoughts to a whole new level where that is concerned ... amazing stuff ... just endlessly meaningful ... obviously a whole eternity would not suffice to plumb the depths of all of the interwoven threads! ... btw I was thinking: while Jonah was going *down*, the sailors were sending vows *up* ... Jonah was moving further and further away *from* God while his pagan companions were moving closer and closer *to* God ... wow, so many lessons here but one thing that stands out to me is that we believers have to be so careful about how we outwork our faith ... so often unbelievers and so-called 'heathens' just 'get it' way better than we do ... Jonah was slumbering spiritually when he probably considered himself a 'woke' prophet of God ... case in point: non-Christians know that Christianity is primarily about love - i.e. that love is supposed to be central to the Christian walk (not just talk), but a lot of believers walk in harshness and judgementalism, hating both the sin *and* the sinner ... ... finally, I would just *love* to see Jonah chapter 1 juxtaposed with the gospel account of the storm on the Sea of Galilee ... again, wonderful information and insight here! ... Tim, thank you so much and thanks too to your students and their perspectives as well!

Loved every bit of this

This is just awesome! 🔥🔥

I love bow nerds that stay humble. Don't let knowledge inflate your ego. God bless you guys

This was amazing and eye-opening. Keep it up! You all are doing good work I love it! God bless you

Fasinating! Thank you.

Stumbled upon this while I was shirking my responsibilities. Now I'm going to finish everything before my time runs out😅

I think Jonah stands in here for Israel / God’s people over all. They’re running from God / spiritually asleep, while *professing* the true faith. Meanwhile the nations around them are “in the storm of God’s wrath” but ready to respond positively to the witness of Israel if they will only stand up and do what God has called them to do.

WOW! Biblical brilliance!

Jonah is a type of Israel, not a type of unbeliever. The story of Jonah (a prophet) is the story of Israel. Israel rejects her calling of being a light to the nations (Jonah runs away). God's election for Israel does not fail. Israel is plunged into the deep (fulfilled in Christ being crucified as the king of the Jews on the cross). Once resurrected, the gospel is then preached to the nations (Christ's commissioning of Paul to preach the gospel to the Gentiles). The end of Jonah (the "gourd") deals with the temporary nature of the law, how it was put in place until "the faith could come."

Ohhhhhh wow………where have you guys been?!?!! 💙💙💙💙💐💐💐💐💐

This is a very good study by which we are blessed. In Jonah 2:10, we learn that the fish "vomited Jonah out upon the dry land." I offer that in the modern American English vernacular, the word, "hurl," also means "to vomit;" again, in the modern American English vernacular. While in conventional modern American English, "to hurl" means "to throw an object with force," as did so the fish.......it hurled Jonah. In the end of the humbling descention, God hurled the penitent Jonah back into the world and restored him for service. Thus, I offer that there are five "hurls" all total in chapters one and two. Interesting...

what bible translation is this? it says instructor’s translation. would like to read it

Deut 6.4-6, Mark 12.28-32, John 17.3, John 20.17, Rom 15.6, Rom 16.27, I Cor 8.6, II Cor 11.31, I Tim 2.5, Rev 3.2, Rev 3.12, and many other scriptures.

Terimakasih, sangat memperkaya. 3 minggu lalu mengupas lebih dalam mengenai kitab suci, dengan menuliskan ulang setiap kata di buku tulis (terjemahan bahasa Indonesia), dan setiap baris satu pokok pikiran dan kitab yang di pilih adalah kitab Yunus. Hari ini, melihat RU-vid ini memperdalam cara untuk melihat kitab suci kususnya yang berbentuk narrative. Beberapa sudah seperti yang telah saya dapatkan. Tidak ada yang kebetulan dalam Tuhan. Saya sangat menyukai cara mengajarnya. Membuat menemukan sesuatu yang indah dan luarbiasa dalam kitab suci. Dan memberikan penyadaran... Yang terakhir akan menjadi yang terdahulu.

Excellent❤

You mention a good/solid commentary to support Bible Study....I'm curious which commentary/commentaries you believe fall into that good/solid category.

Where can we find the recap Bible books that is shared as we read each Bible book?

Yes, a good commentary is helpful (as is this video!)... but there are entire cultures who gladly learn Hebrew and Greek to read and enjoy the original text

awesome stuff. only curiosity is the inclusion of "chapters" in the analysis.

Holy crap you guys I just found a hyperlink! The seven days of creation I was matching them up with the Heavenly spheres in Paradiso by Dante and it sure adds up! Forth sphere is the sun. Yeah I didn’t think any further though I’ll get back to ya!

Muy bueno, saludos y bendiciones

Thank you

That's Amazing

Which edition of the NASB do you recommend? The original or the 1995?

I identify as a Bible nerd. I love content like this!

Hi, Tim! What translation do you use?

In your guys podcast, whats that song you guys always play before talk or transitioning?

This is great. Thank you. Can you please advise on good commentaries both NT & OT. Thanks

Jonah is me "F this, I'm gonna have a nap instead".

Fear/Wisdom/Love

It's strange to see the face behind the voice. Your videos have been an enormous help in my studies. Thank you. Keep up the good work.

I've listened to you a lot. I thought you were like a genius teenager.

“Prepared.” Consider all of the things that were prepared.

Hmm, how do we invite our brothers and sisters into the depths of this Bible beauty? Maybe we write a song that highlights the down-down-down, or contrasts the vow words-vs-actions?

Hi, you mentioned the NASB bible that is great for this quilt design can you give me another Bible that is also good for this? Btw, I enjoyed immensely your class. Thank you for all the hard work you do. God bless!! ❤

Matthew 6:33 seek ye first the kingdom of God❤❤

Hey Tim, when are we hanging? You never invited me and I live on the other side of the country. But I just think you’re the coolest dude ever

Do we know why a lot of the podcast videos have been taken down?

Very good and beautiful. It blessed me. Who separated the books into chapters? Was it the Hebrew original authors, or the people who canonized the Word of God? Are these literary methods and the division of chapters intentional by whoever divided them in the chapters we have?

Also the biblical text starts from an oral tradition so distillation and focus are central

Please let me know what translation you are using here!!? It's beautiful and would love to purchase this English translation using the Most High's "original names" (Yahweh/Elohim) etc. PLEASE PLEASE let me know!!!!

I love GOD

The fear of the Lord is profound respect for our God.

Jonah? BSM bros! Let’s go!

I did this class. Where I got the idea to use a concordance. I should go through and Listen to the classes again because I’m still confused about Jonah being dead for 3 days n coming back to Life and Jesus being dead for 3 days n coming back to life. Was Jonah changed like Jesus?

Love the Bible Project! Which version of the Bible is this reading from? I have an NIV Bible.

What Bible study software does Tim use?

Quilt is everywhere ❤

I'm still having a hard time understanding the word "fear" of the Lord when we're supposed to LOVE God and God supposedly IS Love, according to I John. How can you both LOVE and FEAR the same person? I can't figure out how to do BOTH. As John wrote in I John 4:18 (NASB), "There is no fear in love, but perfect love drives out fear, because fear involves punishment, and the one who fears is not perfected in love." Also, in 4:7-8 (NASB, the preferred translation here), John wrote: "Beloved, let’s love one another; for love is from God, and everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. The one who does not love does not know God, because God is love." So it seems that John agrees with me that love and fear are in conflict. Is there anyplace where Tim Mackie explains this contradiction where God has to TERRIFY people into loving Him? I can understand the pagans being afraid of Yahweh because they have lots of gods, many of whom aren't very nice. But it doesn't say here that this experience caused them to LOVE the God who brought the storm over their ship and caused them to lose their cargo before they figured out God's own "chosen" people He was attacking, while they were just collateral damage. Doesn't God love EVERYONE? So are we to assume that all natural disasters and bad things that befall people are God's wrath being carried out? Because that's sure what this story of Jonah sounds kike to me. This is a MASSIVE stumbling block for me. Also, is it possible to get a copy of the "Instructor's Translation" being used for these classroom lessons? (I'm signed up for the class, but there is SO much reading for every week's lesson, I haven't even gotten up to the first CLASSROOM lesson after about 12 weeks; keeping the weekly assignments in an e-mail folder to I can do them when I catch up. I have a congenital reading disability. And having to interpret EVERY SINGLE WORD of the Bible individually in order to "interpret" & understand it ... I'm 61 years old & have been trying my whole life to read the Bible, but I just CAN'T finish it because I can't understand it! And, yes, I DO pray for the Holy Spirit to help me understand and have study Bibles & read all the footnotes, & the more I read, the more I feel like I'm going BACKWARDS. It feels like I've been punished all my life just for being BORN! I certainly didn't ask to be born and honestly wish I HADN'T been. I would NEVER wish all my hereditary health & neurodevelopmental conditions on ANYONE else, ESPECIALLY someone I loved, which is why I have no children. As far as my part of the family line goes, this cruel syndrome ends with me.) Thank you.

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