Each book of the Bible will be found on examination to stand related organically to one another; and that each occupies its necessary and sequential order. In _Genesis_, you have the beginning of things, the germ and outline of everything afterwards revealed. _Exodus_ gives the redemption by blood of a people foreseen and covenanted in Genesis, their deliverance by the hand of God from the power of the king and the dangers of the land. In _Leviticus_, the redeemed people draw nigh to God by virtue of the blood of sacrifice and find access to the presence of God through the intercession of a priest. In _Numbers_, this blood-redeemed people are seen on their journey to the better land; we read of their trials, their temptations, their unbelief, their backslidings and continual moral failure by the way, and the never-failing grace and love of a covenant-keeping God who leads them in a pillar of cloud by day and of fire by night. In _Deuteronomy_, the people have the way over which they have come, and the dealings of God, rehearsed to them, and are instructed and prepared for the land whither they go. In _Joshua_, the _second_ generation (which stands always for regeneration) gets into the promised land. _Judges_ tells how, after being blessed with all covenant blessings in the covenant land, the people fell into a state where every man did that which was right "in his own eyes." _Ruth_, the Gentile woman, becomes the bride of a Hebrew Lord; and the covenant promise of God concerning Israel goes straightway down from a Gentile mother and a Hebrew father towards the throne which is set up in David and owned of God as the throne of Christ. The books of _Samuel, Kings_ and _Chronicles_, take up the story of the kingdom, and the Old Testament leads us on through symbol, figure and open prophecy, to a Coming Messiah and a glorious kingdom till, when we reach the last verse in Malachi, we lean across four centuries of prophetic silence, waiting to greet that promised Christ who shall be born in Bethlehem; and who is to be called the Son of the Highest; who is to sit on the throne of his father David, "to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice, from henceforth even forever." We listen for the angelic song and the salutation to men of good will; and we are expecting, later on, to see Zion's king riding up the slopes to the Holy City and all the people coming forth to cry, "Hosanna to the Son of David," and "Blessed be he that cometh in the name of the Lord." When you open the New Testament you find four books--Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. The order of these books is fixed--it cannot be changed. If _Mark_ be substituted for _Matthew_, then the New Testament begins without an account of the birth or genealogy of our Lord Jesus Christ; no intimation is given that he is born king of the Jews, and is the expected Messiah.