Dr. Richard Booker - The Miracle of the Scarlet Thread: Revealing the Power of the Blood of Jesus from Genesis to Revelation

For new believers and seasoned Christians,
this practical book reveals fresh insights from the Bible.

Copyright 2008Richard Booker

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My love and gratitude to the following:

The reviewers for reading the manuscript and giving helpful comments and needed encouragement.

My wife and covenant partner in life for over 40 years, Peggy, for typing and retyping the manuscript and for being my friend. Many women have done excellently, but she surpasses them all. To her, I lovingly dedicate this writing.

I also want to acknowledge my covenant friend, Randy McLemore, who went to be with the Lord on June 29, 2002. Randy loved this book, gave away many copies and helped spread its message. He is greatly missed by all who knew him and loved him. His wife, Rita, continues to share this message that was so important to Randy.

H ave you ever sat down to read the Bible, hoping it would all make sense to you, but it didnt make sense? You probably started at Genesis expecting any loose ends to knit together as you weaved your way through.

But a frustrating thing happened on your way to Revelation. As you threaded through chapter after chapter, you noticed the loose ends didnt knit together. In fact, they got more tangled tangled with rituals, events, customs and strange happenings that didnt seem to fit into any pattern.

Instead of finding a finished garment beautifully interwoven with divine truth into a God given pattern, loose ends seem to run in all directions. There didnt seem to be any order to what you were reading. So, in despair, you gave up.

Well, that was me. As a Christian, I had read the Bible, but I never could quite put it all together. What particularly puzzled me was how the Hebrew Bible (what Christians call the Old Testament) and the New Testament were related, if at all. The Bible seemed to be two different books that somehow got stuck under one cover. I never really said that, but in the back of my mind I wondered about it.

From now on when I refer to the Hebrew Bible I will use the phrase Old Testament simply because that is the name mostpeople use when referring to the first part of the Bible. This is not to imply that the Hebrew Bible is outdated and no longer relevant nor that it has been replaced by the New. It is old in the sense that it was written chronologically before the Newer Testament. In fact, the teachings in the New Testament are simply a continuation of the teachings in the First Testament as they find their goal in Jesus.

Little did I know that both Testaments were telling the same story; that God did have an order to His book. He did have a divine pattern.

After God filled me with His Holy Spirit, He began to reveal His pattern to me. He showed me that from Genesis to Revelation, the Bible tells one story. The story is that God has entered into a blood covenant with Himself for mankind through Jesus of Nazareth, the Son of God, Messiah of the Jews, and Savior of the Gentiles. And all who will, may enter into the covenant with Him.

The blood covenant is the scarlet thread that runs through the entire Bible. All other teachings are woven into it. Once you understand the blood covenant, your biblical loose ends will come together. You will see Gods order. You will see Gods heavenly pattern.

Thats why I have written this book to help you see the beautiful Garment of Salvation God has woven in His Holy Word. He wants you to put it on and wear it. If you do, it will change your life forever as it did mine. May the One True God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob bless you as you discover His incredible covenant fully and completely revealed to us through Jesus.

F or many years after becoming a Christian, I tried to find life in the words of the Bible. I really did believe the Bible was Gods inspired word, but it never came alive in my spirit. When I would read the Bible, all the stories ran together. It was like putting together a stamp book. If youve ever done that, you know how dry your mouth is after licking all those stamps. Well thats the way the Bible left me in my soul, dry and thirsty. Of course, thats not the way it was supposed to be, but thats the way it was.

I was blessed with a good education and had been successful in my profession as a computer consultant. Because of my background, order and logic were important to me. This is what I kept looking for in the Bible but somehow it escaped me.

The biggest mystery of all was how the Old Testament and the New Testament were related. I had taken to heart Gods salvation message through Jesus in the New Testament. But I could see very little, if any, practical spiritual value in the Old Testament. I recognized it as a historical collection of Jewish writings but couldnt see how it had anything to do with the carpenter from Nazareth in the New Testament. I always thought that the Old Testament was written for Jews and the New Testament was written for Christians. I thought they were different books for different people. Wow, was I ever wrong!