Yes—Volume II, God willing, will also be coming out later this year.

We could choose to end this four-part series by presenting Volume II as a season-ending cliffhanger, but let’s not rush ahead. Volume II deserves its own story, told in its own time.

For now, Genesis & Matthew deserves our full attention. When these two books are fitted together in the right way, the beauty that emerges is absolutely stunning. For me, pairing Genesis with Matthew flowed like water—it felt natural, clear, and remarkably straightforward.

I’ll close with this.

The book Five Years with Orthodox Jews carries the subtitle:
How Connecting with God’s People Unlocks Understanding of God’s Word.

The idea is simple but profound: when you place yourself in a posture of connecting with—and learning from—the Jewish people, rather than teaching or correcting them, God responds with revelation. That revelation comes both through the Jewish people themselves and directly from Him.

I watched this happen again and again over those five years, with many different Christians who approached with the right attitude. And it happened to me as well. I wrote that book to share much of what was revealed.

And if you choose to connect with God’s people in that same spirit, He will do it for you too. He is faithful. God desires for each of us to have an exciting journey with Him—one that is perfectly fitted and framed for how He made us. That journey, overall (even amid many trials along the way), is thrilling beyond words. I wrote Five Years with Orthodox Jews to show you how to connect—and be blessed.

Then, late last year, as the Echoes Bible volumes began to become available, something dawned on me: The Echoes Bible is simply another wave of that very same principle. It, too, is unlocking understanding of God’s Word—only this time, on a scale far larger and more glorious than I ever imagined possible on a train bound for London in 2005.

Paul tells us that it is God’s good pleasure to do abundantly more than anything we can ask or think. Yes, every day has its troubles, but those troubles keep us grounded in Him and connected to one another. We need each other.

And the Echoes project needs people who are not afraid of something different—people humble enough to believe there is more beauty to be seen in the Bible than they have already seen. It needs people willing to admit that each of our paths still needs to become “straighter”—that there, by the grace of God, go I—and that in community, the fullness of God is found.

So I hope you’ll try one of these books and see the beauty of God within them. The first half of Leviticus & Romans is the hardest and deepest, but the second half sings. Numbers & 1 Corinthians blows my mind every time I open it. You don’t need to start at the beginning—just go right to your favorite passages. And Deuteronomy & 2 Corinthians helps me understand how Paul lives on the edge, even as he carries a thorn in his flesh. This last volume is more densely packed with echoes than the others, and I think it is the most straightforward of the three.

But lest you think that finding these echoes makes me some kind of expert, remember this: just because you stand in a valley and hear the echoes doesn’t mean you can interpret all the sounds.

This much I do know: Paul is a master builder, and he built his letters on the Torah. I’m inviting you to step beside this man and—perhaps for the first time in your life—look over his shoulder, see what he sees, and rejoice in what he writes.

It may be just like you are reading the bible again for the first time.

God bless you all.
And thank you, Gidon, for your unwavering friendship.

THANK YOU FOR READING!