God has given us one book that can change the entire direction of our lives, the Bible.

And in this study, journeying through scriptures, we will take a brief big-picture look at every book of the Bible,

tracing God's unfolding story from Genesis to Revelation.

Our prayer is that this journey will stir your heart to open God's word daily.

Let's join Scott Pauli for today's study.

I want you to imagine a bookshelf with several books on it, would you please?

And on each end of that row of books are bookends holding them up, a starting point and an ending point. As we've walked through the New Testament, there are multiple letters.

These are epistles, New Testament books. And on each end of these books that detail for us

the church age, there are bookends. There is a book that begins and ends this particular

section of the Bible for us, and both of those

books are transitional books. On the left, that book end is the book of Acts, the Acts of the

Holy Spirit, and in the life of the apostles, in the early church. On the right hand side, that

book end is the little book of Jude. And just as the book of

Acts has been referred to as the Acts of the Apostles or the Acts of the Holy Spirit and in the

lives of the apostles. Jude is the acts of the apostates, those who turn from the truth, who

reject it, who resist it, who fight against it. And like Acts, Jude

is a transitional book. So Acts shows us the early days of the church age, and then Jude shows us

the closing days of the church age. And this will help you to kind of see where Jude fits into

our New Testament. Because it describes for us a

period of time when people by and large have turned from revealed truth and how we're to act and

respond in all of that. It's placed very appropriately, I think, as the next to last book in our

New Testament because it's like a vestibule leading

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