When walking through the woods, if you come upon a balanced stack of stones, you immediately recognize it as not natural. Someone has been there before and has stacked them.
I have already shared one such stack. In the chapter Our Defense, I shared how Destin Sandlin on Episode 300 of “Smarter Every Day” explored the design of the tail of a single-celled bacterium. It is hard to conclude anything else than it was designed at the hand of the Creator. It is a classic stack of stones.
Well, we have just walked by another such stack. Peter explained that:
And after you have suffered a little while, the God of all grace, who has called you to his eternal glory in Christ, will himself restore, confirm, strengthen, and establish you.
The word “establish” (themelioō) is literally to lay a foundation with you as one of the stones. Our Lord Jesus Christ is the cornerstone and we each take our place in the course and we form a spiritual house.
As you come to him, a living stone rejected by men but in the sight of God chosen and precious, you yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
Fast forward, if you would, to the end of Revelation, and switch authors and read as John describes how the bride of Christ is to be revealed. It would be natural for him to envision the bride as a beautiful virgin with a flowing robe. But no, inspired by the Holy Spirit, John describes the bride of Christ this way:
Then came one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues and spoke to me, saying, “Come, I will show you the Bride, the wife of the Lamb.” And he carried me away in the Spirit to a great, high mountain, and showed me the holy city Jerusalem coming down out of heaven from God,
The internal consistency of scripture is not natural. That stack of stones it represents is so high that it declares the authorship of the Holy Spirit.
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