The Unfolding Drama of Redemption

I was presented to the "Unfolding Drama of Redemption" when I was studying the "Panorama of the Old Testament" . The book was listed by the module facilitator as a suggested bibliography. I had never heard about that book before. I had not heard about Scroggie either. It was a pleasant surprise. When I started reading the book I could not stop. The author presents the God's Redemption Plan as if it were many acts, like a theater play that culminates with the Christ's incarnation, life, death and resurrection. The plan continues in the life of Jesus' church. The reading is very pleasant and the author is a scholar with a deep knowledge of the Scriptures. The author, for example, offers a interesting view of the Ten Plagues of the Egypt sent by God through Moses, saying that each one was associated with an Egypt divinity ( the Pharaoh himself was viewed as a god in the ancient Egypt). I only regret that the book has not been written in Portuguese yet and I long for the day when it will be available for Spanish and Portuguese native speakers. I recommend the book for all those who want to understand the Scriptures and has a deep desire to make It understandable for others.

This book takes you through the entire Bible showing God's plan of redemption for mankind. Someone who reads this book all the way through will have a thorough understanding of the entire Bible and will never look at Scripture the same again.

This study Guide to the Bible is perhaps the most complete and comprehensive work of the twentieth century on the Bible as a whole, aside from William Barclay's Daily Study Bible. A pastor who is approaching eighty and who has been preaching for fifty years told me one could use this work by W. Graham Scroggie along with William Barclay's Daily Study bible and have no need of seminary. Scroggie uses a critical method that answers modernist thought and secular criticism prior to 1975. His matrices which consistently compare events of the bible with time and history and intense logical approach makes this work necessary for any serious Christian study of scripture. Scroggie's love of the comprehensiveness of scripture is throughout the work that presents the bible as an outline of a play with the Prologue being Genesis 1:1 through Genesis 11:9, or Creation through the flood. Then Act I becomes Genesis 11:10 to Malachi. There is then an interlude where the author examines Judaism and Heathenism preparing the World for the Advent of the Messiah. Act Two is Matthew through Jude of the New Testament. The Epilogue of the Play or, "Consummation of the Redeeming Purpose," is, "The Book of Revelation." Scroggie presents the "modern" and "post-modern" world with an answer to the secular academic notion that the Bible is unapproachable other than as myth. This great work shows that argument as a shallow lie.

This is one of the greatest study tools I have ever seen!Once you start to use it you will wonder how you studied before without it!