All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works.

2 Timothy 3.16

The order the Hebrew Alphabet forms the foundation of God’s Wheel. If this sequence were altered the structure would fall into disarray. God therefore embedded the order of the alphabet within the text of his eternal Word, ensuring that it would remain unchanged throughout all time, for "the word of the Lord endureth for ever."

Therefore, in as much as Scripture is the Word of God, so also must the order of the Hebrew alphabet be understood as divinely ordained. Significant portions of the biblical text, including several Psalms, most of Lamentations, and last 22 verses of Proverbs, are built upon it. The most notable example, Psalm 119, is composed of 176 verses divided into 22 groups of 8 verses wherein the verses in each group begin with the corresponding letter of the alphabet. The first eight verses begin with Aleph, the next eight with Beyt, the next eight with Gimel and so forth until the alphabet is exhausted. Most versions of the Bible display this structure by placing the name of the corresponding letter above each section.

Beyond establishing the order of the letters, these Alphabetic Verses provide essential insight into their meaning and how they govern the dominant themes of the Spokes. It is noteworthy that the actual names of six of the letters - Yod, Kaph, Samekh, Ayin, Peh, and Shin – are presented by God in these passages. The KeyWords for each letter can be viewed on the page called Alphabetic Verses By Letter.

The acrostic Psalm 34 contains one of the most striking examples of how God carefully designed the entire body of Scripture in accordance with the alphabet. The 16^th Hebrew letter is Ayin. It denotes an Eye, which also is how God used it the verse corresponding to Ayin in Psalm 34:

The eyes of the LORD (עיני יהוה ‎, ayini YHVH) are upon the righteous, and his ears are open unto their cry.

AV Psalm 34:15

This verse is quoted in one and only one book of the Bible, 1 Peter (vs. 3.12), which occupies Cell 60 on Spoke 16, governed by the Letter Ayin! Consider what this means: The verse just quoted forms a unique link between the large-scale structure of Scripture and the alphabetic design of Psalm 34. The content of the link reveals the meaning of the letter governing Spoke 16. Furthermore, the geometric nature of the link remained imperceptable until the Bible was displayed in the form of the Wheel, so that the Wheel has predictive power leading to new Biblical knowldege, which is the ultimate test for any scientific hypothesis! Here is an image of what is going on:

After years of intuitively tracing out the patterns running through God's divine tapestry, I finally articulated the process in words and images I think anyone should be able to understand in my new (added 12/17/2002) article Three Levels. Its a must read if you find your head spinning.

Another striking example of the divine use of the Hebrew letters in the design of the Wheel is found in the name of the fifteenth letter, Samekh (סמך ‎), which means support, uphold, or sustain. God used this word in the following pair of Alphabetic Verses:

Uphold me according unto thy word, that I may live: and let me not be ashamed of my hope.

AV Psalm 119.116

The LORD upholdeth all that fall, and raiseth up all those that be bowed down.

AV Psalm 145.14

Turning now to the Wheel, we look to Spoke 15, governed by the letter Samekh (ס ‎). The name of the first book on this Spoke, Ezra (עזרא ‎), comes from the root עזר ‎ (ezer), signifying help as in the verse "God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble." Moses used this root when he named his son Eliezer (אליאזר ‎), saying "for the God (אלהי ‎, Elohi) of my father was mine help (עזרי ‎, ezri)." The intimate relation of these two words is confirmed in the verse, "Behold, God is mine helper: the Lord is with them that uphold my soul." The scriptural link between Ezra and the meaning of the letter Samekh manifests in the appearance of the Book of Ezra upon Spoke 15 of the Wheel.

The word ezer also appears in the text of Ezra as part of one of its dominant themes. As a leader of God’s people, Ezra knew the absolute necessity of relying utterly upon the Lord for his direction, his help, and his sustenance lest his so-called faith be revealed as vanity, a sham. Like an Old Testament version of the Apostle James, he knew it was essential that his actions matched his words. Therefore, when faced an option to seek help at the expense of his word, he chose the way of God, as it is written:

Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river of Ahava, that we might afflict ourselves before our God, to seek of him a right way for us, and for our little ones, and for all our substance. For I was ashamed to require of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help (עזר ‎) us against the enemy in the way: because we had spoken unto the king, saying, The hand of our God is upon all them for good that seek him; but his power and his wrath is against all them that forsake him.

Ezra 8:21-22 (Spoke 15, Cycle 1)

This is characteristic of the Old Testament; each book typically contains one or more verses where a word relating to the meaning of the prophet’s name is used as part of the theme.

Moving down Spoke 15 from Cycle 1 to Cycle 3, we find the full spiritual implications of this theme – enacted by Ezra in the history Israel – explained in the first chapter of the Book of James:

For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was. But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed. If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain. Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

The Book of James bears distinctive characteristics that set it apart from all other books in the New Testament. It is a corrective to potential abuse of the doctrines of solo gratia and sola fide, that is, that salvation is by grace alone through faith alone. James' strong emphasis upon the importance of actually doing good works greatly confused Luther who could not reconcile this with Paul's plain teaching that "by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast." His inability to see God's purpose in James was so strong that he called this great book "an epistle of straw." Yet now, in light of its integration with Hebrew alphabet and the other books of the Bible, we can see how perfectly it fits within the whole of God's revelation. This also is an example of the integration of Thread 1 (BibleWheel) and Thread 2 (Isaiah-Bible Correlation), there being many between Isaiah 59 and James, the 59th Book of the Bible.

The ultimate significance of this theme of support and help is set forth in the second chapter of James:

What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him? If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food, And one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body; what doth it profit? Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone.

These verses reveal, in the plainest language possible, the fundamental significance of the letter Samekh (). Each Spoke is governed by its corresponding Hebrew letter with the same elegant simplicity displayed here, resulting in the divine integration of the entire Bible with the 22 letters upon the eternal pattern of the Wheel. As should be clear from this brief introduction, the cosmic significance of the letters can not be overstated. They provide nothing less than the true Key to the full revelation of the Wheel of God’s eternal Word.