This much should seem very familiar with nothing confusing yet. Now let’s say
you want to go backward 5 Books, and you click the “Reverse Direction” check
box and enter 5 for Books:
We find ourselves at “Revelation 1:6 [18]”, or the 18
th
Word of the 6
th
Verse of the
1
st
Chapter of Revelation. You are probably wondering how we can move
backward by 5 Books and still be in the Book of Revelation?
Here’s how: Your starting location wasn’t at the beginning of the Book of
Revelation. It wasn’t even the beginning of a Chapter or Verse either. You were
on the 12
th
Chapter of the Book and on the 6
th
Verse of the Chapter and the 18
th
Word of that Verse.
When you directed it to go back 5 books, it counted back 5 books from Revelation
to find “2 Peter”. Since you were on 12:6 [18] of Revelation, it tries to apply that
to “2 Peter” to put you at the same relative location as you were before, just 5
Books back. But 2 Peter doesn’t have a “2 Peter 12:6 [18]”, as 2 Peter only has 3
Chapters.
It then counts forward 12 Chapters, counting 2 Peter 1 as the first Chapter, and
you come to Revelation 1. It then moves to the 6
th
Verse from there and then the
18
th
Word from there. Now in this example, there happens to be more than 6
Verses in Revelation 1, and that Verse happens to have move than 18 Words. If
they didn’t, it would have continued on to the next Chapter and/or Verse as
necessary to get to the equivalent of “12:6 [18]” from “2 Peter”.
Most likely what you really wanted to do was go back 5 Books from Revelation
1:1 [1], not Revelation 12:6 [18]. If you had been at “Revelation 1:1 [1]” and
gone back 5 Books, it would have taken you to “2 Peter 1:1 [1]”:
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