If _Luke_ be given the place of _Matthew_, little mention will be found of the Jewish kingdom of heaven; and our Lord will be seen with a leaning towards the Gentiles. If the Gospel of _John_ begin the New Testament instead of _Matthew_, then we shall read of him who is Son of God rather than King of the Jews, and the expectation raised by Malachi will seem unfulfilled. But the moment the order named is followed all is perfect, all is harmony. _Matthew_ presents our Lord Jesus Christ as the Son of _Abraham_ and Son of _David_; heir of the covenant _land_, and the covenant _throne_, and at once links the New Testament with the Old. _Mark_ announces that this King of the Jews came into the world to be the _Servant_ of God and a blessing in his service to men. _Luke_, although he announces our Lord Jesus Christ as King, sets him forth pre-eminently as _The Man_, going among men, eating and drinking with them, and speaking in such plain and simple terms that the "common people heard him gladly." In _John_, this Jewish King, this Servant of God and men, this Man among men, who received sinners and ate with them, is revealed as the Mighty God, the eternal _Word_, the Holy One of Israel, who came down to visit his people, was made flesh and "tabernacled" among them, as of old he dwelt in the tabernacle of the wilderness in the Shekinal glory above the Mercy Seat and between the outstretched wings of the golden Cherubim. Take away the book of _Acts_, and nothing can be known of the origin of the church and its apostolic history. Without the book of Acts the epistles are wholly unintelligible when they refer to the Church. Do without the _Second_ epistle to the _Corinthians_, and you have no revelation of the state of the Christian dead either as to their location or condition. Without the _Second_ epistle to the _Thessalonians_ you cannot fix the identity of the Antichrist. Leave out the epistle to the _Hebrews_ and there is no key to _Leviticus_. Without the book of _Daniel_ it is impossible fully to understand the book of _Revelation_. No matter at what period the book of _Revelation_ may have been written, it can have but one place in the Bible, and that the last. It must have this place because it shows us the foreview of Genesis fulfilled: the seed of the woman has bruised the serpent's head, Satan has been bound and Paradise is regained. The Old and New Testaments stand related to each other as the two halves of a perfect whole. In the Old Testament the New is _concealed_; in the New Testament the Old is _revealed_. _Genesis_ finds its key in the first chapter of _John's_ Gospel, and identifies the creator of heaven and earth with him who was made flesh and dwelt among us as the Son of God. _Exodus_ is explained by the _First_ epistle to the _Corinthians_, in which we learn that "Christ" is the "Passover sacrificed for us." _Leviticus_ is expounded by the epistle to the _Hebrews_.