about God’s dealings with his people through additional revelation? Mystery writers often work into the first chapter of their novel incidents that appear irrelevant or perplexing. The significance of those events becomes obvious in later chapters. Because the Bible stands entire and complete, no passage should be interpreted or applied in isolation from all that God has spoken. Each text should be interpreted within the book in which it appears. But each of the books of the Bible makes up a part of the entire revelation. Sometimes what we may overlook in the beginning of the Scriptures
