This time, you will end up at Ecclesiastes 8 instead of Ecclesiastes 7. This is
because Ecclesiastes 7 is the 666
th
Chapter of the Bible, if you start outside the
Bible and beginning counting, with Genesis 1 being your first Chapter (i.e. the
Absolute Chapter).
But, if you are already at Genesis 1 and you start counting Chapters, and you
wanted to move forward 666 chapters from where you are at (i.e. move Relative to
your current location), you wouldn’t count the Chapter you are on, but you’d flip
the page and Genesis 2 would be “one chapter forward”. Genesis 3 would be “two
chapters forward”, and so on. And thus you get Ecclesiastes 8:1 as being 666
Chapters after Genesis 1:1. If instead, you would have entered 665 Chapters, you
would have been at Ecclesiastes 7:1:
All of this should seem very straight forward (or I hope it does). So where does
the confusion come in that I mentioned? Well, before I introduce you to the
confusion, if what you’ve seen so far is confusing, go back and study this much
and understand it thoroughly before moving on. Otherwise, meet the confusion…
Relative Mode Confusions
The Passage Navigator Relative Mode can be confusing if you don’t start with the
location that you have in mind to start with. This can best be illustrated by
example. And for that, I’m going to pick a random location. Let’s pick
“Revelation 12:6 [18]”, or the 18
th
Word of the 6
th
Verse of the 12
th
Chapter of
Revelation, which is Book 66 of the Entire Bible.
You can get there several different ways. You can navigate the Scripture Browser
to Revelation 12:6 and go to the 18
th
Word (use the Status Bar as a guide) and with
that word highlighted press Ctrl-G [Command-G] (or select “Passage Navigator...”
from the menu or click the Passage Navigator icon
).
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