The Story of the Bible
The whole Bible is one story, and its center is Christ, the Old concealed in the New, the New revealed in the Old. Inside Orthros the story is walked in forty-five stations, across these eight epochs.
I
CREATION
In the beginning, God made heaven and earth, six days spoken into being, and the breath of life breathed into man. The story opens with light, and it will end with light.
II
PATRIARCHS
Abraham is called out of Ur with a promise; Jacob sees a ladder set up on the earth, its top reaching to heaven. The promise is carried, for now, in a single family.
III
EXODUS
The sea parts, the Law is given at Sinai, bread falls from heaven. A people is led out of slavery, and every step of the road is a shadow of things to come.
IV
KINGDOM
David's harp, and David's throne, and to David, a promise: a Son whose kingdom will have no end. The psalms he sang are still the Church's prayer book.
V
PROPHETS & EXILE
The vineyard of the Lord is laid waste; the people are carried to a strange land. And there, in the dark, the prophets keep the promise burning, a Virgin shall conceive.
VI
THE INCARNATION
THE CENTER OF THE STORY
God became man. The story does not merely continue here; it turns. Every thread the Old Testament carried, the ladder, the bush, the ark, the throne, is gathered into one Person, born in a cave in Bethlehem.
VII
THE CHURCH
Fire descends at Pentecost, and the Gospel goes out to all nations, the age of the martyrs, the Fathers, and the councils. It is the age we are still living in.
VIII
THE END
The story that opened with light closes with a city that needs no sun. Behold, He makes all things new, and the age to come has already begun at every Liturgy.
“Beginning at Moses and all the prophets, He expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning Himself.”
LUKE 24:27
In the app, every station opens, with its scripture, its icon or its ornament, and the thread that draws it to Christ.