diff --git a/_tools/migrate_concept_journeys.py b/_tools/migrate_concept_journeys.py new file mode 100644 index 000000000..355a4abd5 --- /dev/null +++ b/_tools/migrate_concept_journeys.py @@ -0,0 +1,128 @@ +#!/usr/bin/env python3 +"""Migration: convert concept journey data from concepts.json into unified journey JSON. + +Reads content/meta/concepts.json, finds every concept with non-empty `journey_stops`, +and writes a journey JSON file at content/meta/journeys/concept/{concept_id}.json. + +Idempotent — running twice cleanly overwrites existing files. + +Usage (from repo root): + python _tools/migrate_concept_journeys.py +""" +import json +import os +import sys +from pathlib import Path + +# Resolve repo root from this file's location (_tools/migrate_concept_journeys.py) +REPO = Path(__file__).resolve().parent.parent +sys.path.insert(0, str(REPO / '_tools')) + +from content_writer import save_journey + + +def load_concepts(): + """Load concepts.json and return the list of concept dicts.""" + path = REPO / 'content' / 'meta' / 'concepts.json' + with open(path, 'r', encoding='utf-8') as f: + return json.load(f) + + +def build_concept_journey(concept): + """Convert a concept dict with journey_stops into unified journey format.""" + stops_raw = concept.get('journey_stops', []) + if not stops_raw: + return None + + cid = concept['id'] + title = concept['title'] + + # Ensure description is non-empty (required by save_journey) + description = concept.get('description', '') + if not description.strip(): + description = f'{title} in Scripture' + + depth = 'long' if len(stops_raw) >= 10 else 'medium' if len(stops_raw) >= 6 else 'short' + + # Build hero_image_url from first image if available + images = concept.get('images') + hero_image_url = None + if images and isinstance(images, list) and len(images) > 0: + first_img = images[0] + if isinstance(first_img, dict): + hero_image_url = first_img.get('url') + + # Build tags from related IDs + tags = [] + for wid in concept.get('word_study_ids', []): + tags.append({'type': 'word_study', 'id': wid}) + for pid in concept.get('prophecy_chain_ids', []): + tags.append({'type': 'prophecy_chain', 'id': pid}) + for pid in concept.get('people_tags', []): + tags.append({'type': 'person', 'id': pid}) + for tag in concept.get('tags', []): + tags.append({'type': 'theme', 'id': tag}) + + # Build stops + stops = [] + for i, stop in enumerate(stops_raw): + stops.append({ + 'stop_order': i + 1, + 'stop_type': 'regular', + 'label': stop['label'], + 'ref': stop['ref'], + 'book_id': stop['book'], + 'chapter_num': stop['chapter'], + 'verse_start': None, + 'verse_end': None, + 'development': stop.get('development', ''), + 'what_changes': stop.get('what_changes', ''), + 'linked_journey_id': None, + 'linked_journey_intro': None, + 'bridge_to_next': '[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]' if i < len(stops_raw) - 1 else None, + }) + + return { + 'id': cid, + 'journey_type': 'concept', + 'lens_id': 'theological', + 'title': title, + 'subtitle': None, + 'description': description, + 'depth': depth, + 'sort_order': 0, + 'person_id': None, + 'concept_id': cid, + 'era': None, + 'hero_image_url': hero_image_url, + 'tags': tags, + 'stops': stops, + } + + +def main(): + print('=== Migrating concept journeys to unified format ===\n') + + concepts = load_concepts() + migrated = 0 + skipped = 0 + + for concept in concepts: + stops = concept.get('journey_stops', []) + if not stops: + skipped += 1 + continue + + journey_dict = build_concept_journey(concept) + if journey_dict is None: + skipped += 1 + continue + + save_journey('concept', journey_dict) + migrated += 1 + + print(f'\n=== Done: {migrated} concept journeys migrated, {skipped} skipped ===') + + +if __name__ == '__main__': + main() diff --git a/_tools/migrate_person_journeys.py b/_tools/migrate_person_journeys.py new file mode 100644 index 000000000..c442d745d --- /dev/null +++ b/_tools/migrate_person_journeys.py @@ -0,0 +1,131 @@ +#!/usr/bin/env python3 +"""Migration: convert person journey data from people.json into unified journey JSON. + +Reads content/meta/people.json, finds every person with a non-empty `journey` +array, and writes a journey JSON file at content/meta/journeys/person/{person_id}.json. + +Idempotent — running twice cleanly overwrites existing files. + +Usage (from repo root): + python _tools/migrate_person_journeys.py +""" +import json +import os +import sys +from pathlib import Path + +# Resolve repo root from this file's location (_tools/migrate_person_journeys.py) +REPO = Path(__file__).resolve().parent.parent +sys.path.insert(0, str(REPO / '_tools')) + +from content_writer import save_journey + + +def load_people(): + """Load people.json and return the list of person dicts.""" + path = REPO / 'content' / 'meta' / 'people.json' + with open(path, 'r', encoding='utf-8') as f: + data = json.load(f) + return data['people'] + + +def parse_chapters(raw): + """Normalise chapters field — could be a list or a JSON string.""" + if raw is None: + return [] + if isinstance(raw, str): + try: + parsed = json.loads(raw) + if isinstance(parsed, list): + return parsed + except (json.JSONDecodeError, TypeError): + return [] + if isinstance(raw, list): + return raw + return [] + + +def build_person_journey(person): + """Convert a person dict with journey stages into unified journey format.""" + journey = person.get('journey', []) + if not journey: + return None + + pid = person['id'] + name = person['name'] + role = person.get('role') + + # Ensure description is non-empty (required by save_journey) + description = person.get('bio') or person.get('summary') or '' + if not description.strip(): + parts = [name] + if role: + parts.append(role) + description = ' — '.join(parts) + + depth = 'long' if len(journey) >= 8 else 'medium' if len(journey) >= 5 else 'short' + + stops = [] + for i, stage in enumerate(journey): + chapters = parse_chapters(stage.get('chapters')) + chapter_num = chapters[0] if chapters else None + + stops.append({ + 'stop_order': i + 1, + 'stop_type': 'regular', + 'label': stage['stage'], + 'ref': stage['verse_ref'], + 'book_id': stage['book_dir'], + 'chapter_num': chapter_num, + 'verse_start': None, + 'verse_end': None, + 'development': stage.get('summary', ''), + 'what_changes': stage.get('theme', ''), + 'linked_journey_id': None, + 'linked_journey_intro': None, + 'bridge_to_next': '[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]' if i < len(journey) - 1 else None, + }) + + return { + 'id': pid, + 'journey_type': 'person', + 'lens_id': 'biographical', + 'title': name, + 'subtitle': role, + 'description': description, + 'depth': depth, + 'sort_order': 0, + 'person_id': pid, + 'concept_id': None, + 'era': person.get('era'), + 'hero_image_url': person.get('image_url'), + 'tags': [], + 'stops': stops, + } + + +def main(): + print('=== Migrating person journeys to unified format ===\n') + + people = load_people() + migrated = 0 + skipped = 0 + + for person in people: + journey = person.get('journey', []) + if not journey: + continue + + journey_dict = build_person_journey(person) + if journey_dict is None: + skipped += 1 + continue + + save_journey('person', journey_dict) + migrated += 1 + + print(f'\n=== Done: {migrated} person journeys migrated, {skipped} skipped ===') + + +if __name__ == '__main__': + main() diff --git a/app/assets/db-manifest.json b/app/assets/db-manifest.json index 0cd06bc60..3c613d251 100644 --- a/app/assets/db-manifest.json +++ b/app/assets/db-manifest.json @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ { - "content_hash": "d1d5fbec22de929b", - "build_time": "2026-04-16T17:05:55.314615Z" + "content_hash": "750e7dbf67dabf92", + "build_time": "2026-04-16T17:20:10.368400Z" } diff --git a/content/meta/journeys/concept/covenant.json b/content/meta/journeys/concept/covenant.json new file mode 100644 index 000000000..11733c855 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/meta/journeys/concept/covenant.json @@ -0,0 +1,228 @@ +{ + "id": "covenant", + "journey_type": "concept", + "lens_id": "theological", + "title": "Covenant", + "subtitle": null, + "description": "The binding agreements through which God relates to his people. From Noah's rainbow to Abraham's promise to Moses at Sinai to David's throne to the new covenant in Christ's blood, covenant is the structural backbone of biblical theology.", + "depth": "long", + "sort_order": 0, + "person_id": null, + "concept_id": "covenant", + "era": null, + "hero_image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/Schnorr_von_Carolsfeld_Bibel_in_Bildern_1860_030.png/400px-Schnorr_von_Carolsfeld_Bibel_in_Bildern_1860_030.png", + "tags": [ + { + "type": "word_study", + "id": "berith" + }, + { + "type": "word_study", + "id": "hesed" + }, + { + "type": "prophecy_chain", + "id": "abrahamic_covenant" + }, + { + "type": "prophecy_chain", + "id": "mosaic_covenant" + }, + { + "type": "prophecy_chain", + "id": "noahic_covenant" + }, + { + "type": "prophecy_chain", + "id": "davidic_covenant" + }, + { + "type": "prophecy_chain", + "id": "new_covenant" + }, + { + "type": "person", + "id": "abraham" + }, + { + "type": "person", + "id": "moses" + }, + { + "type": "person", + "id": "david" + }, + { + "type": "person", + "id": "noah" + }, + { + "type": "theme", + "id": "promise" + }, + { + "type": "theme", + "id": "oath" + }, + { + "type": "theme", + "id": "faithfulness" + }, + { + "type": "theme", + "id": "treaty" + } + ], + "stops": [ + { + "stop_order": 1, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Noahic Covenant", + "ref": "Genesis 9:8-17", + "book_id": "genesis", + "chapter_num": 9, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "First covenant: universal scope, unilateral, with all creation. No conditions imposed on humanity.", + "what_changes": "God binds himself never to destroy by flood again. The rainbow serves as the covenant sign visible to both parties.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 2, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Abrahamic Covenant", + "ref": "Genesis 15:1-21", + "book_id": "genesis", + "chapter_num": 15, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Narrows from universal to one family. Still unilateral: God alone passes between the severed pieces.", + "what_changes": "Land, offspring, and blessing are promised. The covenant family that will mediate blessing to all nations begins here.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 3, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Covenant Sign: Circumcision", + "ref": "Genesis 17:1-14", + "book_id": "genesis", + "chapter_num": 17, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "The Abrahamic covenant receives a bodily sign. Every male bears the mark of belonging to the covenant community.", + "what_changes": "Covenant identity becomes physically inscribed. The sign distinguishes Abraham's line from the nations.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 4, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Sinai Covenant Proposal", + "ref": "Exodus 19:1-6", + "book_id": "exodus", + "chapter_num": 19, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Shifts from family to nation. Bilateral: 'if you obey... you will be my treasured possession.' Conditions are introduced.", + "what_changes": "Israel becomes a 'kingdom of priests and a holy nation.' National identity is now covenantal identity.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 5, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Covenant Ratification by Blood", + "ref": "Exodus 24:1-8", + "book_id": "exodus", + "chapter_num": 24, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "The Sinai covenant is ratified with sacrificial blood sprinkled on both altar and people.", + "what_changes": "Blood becomes the medium of covenant ratification, establishing a pattern that persists through the entire sacrificial system.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 6, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Davidic Covenant", + "ref": "2 Samuel 7:8-16", + "book_id": "2_samuel", + "chapter_num": 7, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Narrows further: one family within the nation. Unconditional promise of an eternal dynasty.", + "what_changes": "The throne of David is promised permanence. Messianic expectation is anchored to a specific royal line.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 7, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "New Covenant Promised", + "ref": "Jeremiah 31:31-34", + "book_id": "jeremiah", + "chapter_num": 31, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Declares the Mosaic covenant broken and announces a new one. Law will be internalized, not externally imposed.", + "what_changes": "The problem of covenant-breaking is addressed at its root: the human heart. Universal knowledge of God is promised.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 8, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Spirit and New Heart", + "ref": "Ezekiel 36:25-27", + "book_id": "ezekiel", + "chapter_num": 36, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Expands the new covenant vision: God will replace hearts of stone with hearts of flesh and put his Spirit within his people.", + "what_changes": "The mechanism of covenant obedience shifts from external law to internal transformation by the Spirit.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 9, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "New Covenant in Christ's Blood", + "ref": "Luke 22:19-20", + "book_id": "luke", + "chapter_num": 22, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Jesus identifies the cup as 'the new covenant in my blood.' All prior covenants converge in his sacrificial death.", + "what_changes": "The new covenant is inaugurated. The pattern of blood ratification from Exodus 24 reaches its fulfillment.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 10, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Better Covenant, Better Mediator", + "ref": "Hebrews 8:6-13", + "book_id": "hebrews", + "chapter_num": 8, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Systematic argument that the new covenant is superior to the old. Christ is mediator of a 'better covenant, enacted on better promises.'", + "what_changes": "The old covenant is declared 'obsolete.' The new covenant is shown to fulfill, not merely replace, what preceded it.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": null + } + ] +} diff --git a/content/meta/journeys/concept/creation.json b/content/meta/journeys/concept/creation.json new file mode 100644 index 000000000..857bd9802 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/meta/journeys/concept/creation.json @@ -0,0 +1,170 @@ +{ + "id": "creation", + "journey_type": "concept", + "lens_id": "theological", + "title": "Creation & New Creation", + "subtitle": null, + "description": "God's sovereign act of bringing all things into existence, and his promise to make all things new. The first creation groans under the curse; the new creation awaits the revealing of the sons of God. What was lost in Eden will be restored and surpassed.", + "depth": "medium", + "sort_order": 0, + "person_id": null, + "concept_id": "creation", + "era": null, + "hero_image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Gustave_Dor%C3%A9_-_The_Holy_Bible_-_Plate_I%2C_The_Creation_of_Light.jpg/400px-Gustave_Dor%C3%A9_-_The_Holy_Bible_-_Plate_I%2C_The_Creation_of_Light.jpg", + "tags": [ + { + "type": "word_study", + "id": "tselem" + }, + { + "type": "prophecy_chain", + "id": "adam_type_of_christ" + }, + { + "type": "person", + "id": "adam" + }, + { + "type": "person", + "id": "eve" + }, + { + "type": "theme", + "id": "image of God" + }, + { + "type": "theme", + "id": "cosmos" + }, + { + "type": "theme", + "id": "renewal" + }, + { + "type": "theme", + "id": "restoration" + } + ], + "stops": [ + { + "stop_order": 1, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Creation in Seven Days", + "ref": "Genesis 1:1-2:3", + "book_id": "genesis", + "chapter_num": 1, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "God creates by speaking. Light, sky, land, vegetation, luminaries, creatures, and humanity emerge in ordered sequence. 'It was very good.'", + "what_changes": "The world is established as purposeful, ordered, and good. God is sovereign over all that exists; nothing rivals him.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 2, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Humanity Formed from Dust", + "ref": "Genesis 2:7-9", + "book_id": "genesis", + "chapter_num": 2, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "God forms adam from the adamah, breathes life into his nostrils. Human dignity and creaturely dependence are simultaneously established.", + "what_changes": "Humanity is distinct: made of earth yet animated by divine breath. Image-bearing and dust-origin coexist.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 3, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "God Answers from the Whirlwind", + "ref": "Job 38:1-11", + "book_id": "job", + "chapter_num": 38, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "God challenges Job: 'Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth?' Creation's mystery silences human complaint.", + "what_changes": "Creation serves as theodicy. The incomprehensibility of the created order mirrors the incomprehensibility of divine governance.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 4, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Heavens Declare God's Glory", + "ref": "Psalm 19:1-6", + "book_id": "psalms", + "chapter_num": 19, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "The firmament speaks without words. Day pours forth speech to day; night reveals knowledge to night. Creation is revelation.", + "what_changes": "The created order becomes a mode of divine communication. General revelation through nature complements special revelation through Torah.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 5, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "New Heavens and New Earth", + "ref": "Isaiah 65:17-25", + "book_id": "isaiah", + "chapter_num": 65, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "God declares: 'Behold, I create new heavens and a new earth.' The first creation will be surpassed, not merely restored.", + "what_changes": "Creation theology gains an eschatological dimension. The original 'very good' will be exceeded by a new creation free from curse.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 6, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "All Things through the Word", + "ref": "John 1:1-3", + "book_id": "john", + "chapter_num": 1, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "The Word who was with God and was God is identified as the agent of creation: 'All things were made through him.'", + "what_changes": "Creation is christologically grounded. The one who will become incarnate is the same one through whom all things came into being.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 7, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Creation Groans", + "ref": "Romans 8:19-22", + "book_id": "romans", + "chapter_num": 8, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "The whole creation 'has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth.' It waits with eager longing for the redemption of God's children.", + "what_changes": "Creation is not static but participates in the drama of redemption. The fall affected the entire created order; redemption will restore it.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 8, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "New Creation Realized", + "ref": "Revelation 21:1-5", + "book_id": "revelation", + "chapter_num": 21, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "A new heaven and new earth appear. God dwells with humanity; death, mourning, and pain are no more. 'Behold, I am making all things new.'", + "what_changes": "The arc from Genesis 1 to Revelation 21 is completed. Creation's trajectory is not dissolution but transformation and consummation.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": null + } + ] +} diff --git a/content/meta/journeys/concept/exile-return.json b/content/meta/journeys/concept/exile-return.json new file mode 100644 index 000000000..32b5995bf --- /dev/null +++ b/content/meta/journeys/concept/exile-return.json @@ -0,0 +1,194 @@ +{ + "id": "exile-return", + "journey_type": "concept", + "lens_id": "theological", + "title": "Exile & Return", + "subtitle": null, + "description": "The pattern of displacement and restoration that runs from Eden through Babylon and beyond. Exile is both judgment and refining; return is both geographical and spiritual, pointing to the ultimate homecoming in the new creation.", + "depth": "medium", + "sort_order": 0, + "person_id": null, + "concept_id": "exile-return", + "era": null, + "hero_image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8f/Tissot_The_Flight_of_the_Prisoners.jpg/400px-Tissot_The_Flight_of_the_Prisoners.jpg", + "tags": [ + { + "type": "word_study", + "id": "shalom" + }, + { + "type": "word_study", + "id": "yasha" + }, + { + "type": "prophecy_chain", + "id": "exile_and_return" + }, + { + "type": "prophecy_chain", + "id": "restoration_of_israel" + }, + { + "type": "prophecy_chain", + "id": "dry_bones" + }, + { + "type": "prophecy_chain", + "id": "new_heart" + }, + { + "type": "person", + "id": "daniel" + }, + { + "type": "person", + "id": "ezekiel" + }, + { + "type": "person", + "id": "ezra" + }, + { + "type": "person", + "id": "nehemiah" + }, + { + "type": "theme", + "id": "babylon" + }, + { + "type": "theme", + "id": "captivity" + }, + { + "type": "theme", + "id": "restoration" + }, + { + "type": "theme", + "id": "remnant" + } + ], + "stops": [ + { + "stop_order": 1, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Exile from Eden", + "ref": "Genesis 3:23-24", + "book_id": "genesis", + "chapter_num": 3, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Adam and Eve are driven from the garden; cherubim and a flaming sword guard the way to the tree of life.", + "what_changes": "The primal exile establishes the pattern: sin leads to separation from God's presence. All subsequent exiles echo this first expulsion.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 2, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Abraham's Call from Exile", + "ref": "Genesis 12:1-3", + "book_id": "genesis", + "chapter_num": 12, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "God calls Abraham out of Ur to a promised land. The journey from exile to homeland begins with a single family.", + "what_changes": "Return from exile becomes linked to promise and faith. The land is both gift and destination.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 3, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Exodus from Egypt", + "ref": "Exodus 14:21-31", + "book_id": "exodus", + "chapter_num": 14, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Israel crosses the Red Sea, escaping 400 years of Egyptian bondage. The paradigmatic deliverance event of the Old Testament.", + "what_changes": "Exodus becomes the controlling metaphor for all future deliverances. Every return from exile is a 'new exodus.'", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 4, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Northern Exile to Assyria", + "ref": "2 Kings 17:6-23", + "book_id": "2_kings", + "chapter_num": 17, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "The ten northern tribes are deported to Assyria in 722 BC. The text gives a theological autopsy: they sinned, were warned, refused to listen.", + "what_changes": "Exile is shown to be covenant consequence, not arbitrary punishment. The prophetic warnings are vindicated.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 5, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Babylonian Exile", + "ref": "2 Kings 25:8-21", + "book_id": "2_kings", + "chapter_num": 25, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Jerusalem falls in 586 BC. The temple is burned, the walls broken down, the people deported. The Davidic dynasty is interrupted.", + "what_changes": "The unthinkable happens: God's own house is destroyed. Every theological certainty — temple, monarchy, land — is removed.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 6, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Comfort, Comfort My People", + "ref": "Isaiah 40:1-5", + "book_id": "isaiah", + "chapter_num": 40, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "The voice cries: 'In the wilderness prepare the way of the LORD.' A new exodus through the desert is announced.", + "what_changes": "The exile is not the final word. God's return to his people is described in language that echoes and surpasses the first exodus.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 7, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Cyrus Decree — Return Begins", + "ref": "Ezra 1:1-4", + "book_id": "ezra", + "chapter_num": 1, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Cyrus of Persia issues the decree permitting Jews to return and rebuild the temple. Jeremiah's 70-year prophecy is fulfilled.", + "what_changes": "Physical return begins, but the spiritual restoration promised by the prophets remains incomplete. The second temple lacks the glory of the first.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 8, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "The Prodigal Returns", + "ref": "Luke 15:11-24", + "book_id": "luke", + "chapter_num": 15, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Jesus tells of a son who squanders his inheritance in a 'far country' and returns to his father's embrace. Israel's exile story in miniature.", + "what_changes": "Exile and return become personal and universal. The father's welcome redefines what homecoming means: not merit but grace.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": null + } + ] +} diff --git a/content/meta/journeys/concept/faith.json b/content/meta/journeys/concept/faith.json new file mode 100644 index 000000000..e681b9d7a --- /dev/null +++ b/content/meta/journeys/concept/faith.json @@ -0,0 +1,174 @@ +{ + "id": "faith", + "journey_type": "concept", + "lens_id": "theological", + "title": "Faith", + "subtitle": null, + "description": "Trust in God that takes him at his word. Abraham believed and it was credited as righteousness; the righteous live by faith. Biblical faith is not blind assent but confident reliance on the character and promises of God.", + "depth": "medium", + "sort_order": 0, + "person_id": null, + "concept_id": "faith", + "era": null, + "hero_image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/60/Rembrandt_Abraham_and_Isaac_1634.jpg/400px-Rembrandt_Abraham_and_Isaac_1634.jpg", + "tags": [ + { + "type": "word_study", + "id": "pistis" + }, + { + "type": "word_study", + "id": "aman" + }, + { + "type": "prophecy_chain", + "id": "abrahamic_covenant" + }, + { + "type": "person", + "id": "abraham" + }, + { + "type": "person", + "id": "sarah" + }, + { + "type": "theme", + "id": "trust" + }, + { + "type": "theme", + "id": "belief" + }, + { + "type": "theme", + "id": "righteousness" + }, + { + "type": "theme", + "id": "justification" + } + ], + "stops": [ + { + "stop_order": 1, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Abraham Believed", + "ref": "Genesis 15:6", + "book_id": "genesis", + "chapter_num": 15, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Abraham 'believed the LORD, and he counted it to him as righteousness.' The paradigmatic act of faith in the Hebrew Bible.", + "what_changes": "Faith is established as the basis of right standing with God. Righteousness is credited, not earned.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 2, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Israel Believed at the Sea", + "ref": "Exodus 14:31", + "book_id": "exodus", + "chapter_num": 14, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "After the Red Sea crossing, 'the people feared the LORD, and they believed in the LORD and in his servant Moses.'", + "what_changes": "Faith becomes communal and responsive to divine action. The pattern is established: God acts, the people believe.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 3, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "The Righteous Shall Live by Faith", + "ref": "Habakkuk 2:4", + "book_id": "habakkuk", + "chapter_num": 2, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "In the face of Babylonian invasion and apparent divine silence, the prophet receives the foundational principle: faithfulness is the path of life.", + "what_changes": "Faith is defined against the backdrop of crisis. Trust in God persists even when circumstances contradict the promises.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 4, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Centurion's Faith", + "ref": "Matthew 8:5-13", + "book_id": "matthew", + "chapter_num": 8, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "A Gentile centurion demonstrates faith that amazes Jesus: 'I have not found such great faith even in Israel.'", + "what_changes": "Faith crosses ethnic boundaries. The expected people lack what an outsider possesses, foreshadowing the Gentile mission.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 5, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Help My Unbelief", + "ref": "Mark 9:24", + "book_id": "mark", + "chapter_num": 9, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "A desperate father cries: 'I believe; help my unbelief!' Jesus heals his son despite the father's mixed faith.", + "what_changes": "Faith is shown to be compatible with doubt. Honest struggling faith, not perfect certainty, is sufficient.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 6, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Faith of Abraham Revisited", + "ref": "Romans 4:18-25", + "book_id": "romans", + "chapter_num": 4, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Paul holds up Abraham as the exemplar of justifying faith: 'against hope he believed in hope.' His faith was counted as righteousness.", + "what_changes": "Genesis 15:6 becomes the cornerstone of Pauline soteriology. Faith, not works of the law, is the instrument of justification.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 7, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Faith Defined", + "ref": "Hebrews 11:1-3", + "book_id": "hebrews", + "chapter_num": 11, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Faith is 'the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.' The great catalog of faith heroes follows.", + "what_changes": "Faith receives its most concentrated theological definition. It bridges the gap between promise and fulfillment, visible and invisible.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 8, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Faith and Works", + "ref": "James 2:14-26", + "book_id": "james", + "chapter_num": 2, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "James insists that 'faith without works is dead.' Abraham's faith was 'completed by his works' when he offered Isaac.", + "what_changes": "The faith tradition receives its necessary complement. Genuine faith produces visible action; mere intellectual assent is insufficient.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": null + } + ] +} diff --git a/content/meta/journeys/concept/holiness.json b/content/meta/journeys/concept/holiness.json new file mode 100644 index 000000000..6de60d8b2 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/meta/journeys/concept/holiness.json @@ -0,0 +1,174 @@ +{ + "id": "holiness", + "journey_type": "concept", + "lens_id": "theological", + "title": "Holiness", + "subtitle": null, + "description": "The 'otherness' of God that sets him apart from all creation, and the call for his people to reflect that separateness. Holiness is not merely moral purity but the very nature of the divine presence that both attracts and terrifies.", + "depth": "medium", + "sort_order": 0, + "person_id": null, + "concept_id": "holiness", + "era": null, + "hero_image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/15/Schnorr_von_Carolsfeld_Bibel_in_Bildern_1860_055.png/400px-Schnorr_von_Carolsfeld_Bibel_in_Bildern_1860_055.png", + "tags": [ + { + "type": "word_study", + "id": "qadosh" + }, + { + "type": "prophecy_chain", + "id": "tabernacle_temple" + }, + { + "type": "person", + "id": "moses" + }, + { + "type": "person", + "id": "isaiah" + }, + { + "type": "person", + "id": "aaron" + }, + { + "type": "theme", + "id": "holy" + }, + { + "type": "theme", + "id": "set apart" + }, + { + "type": "theme", + "id": "pure" + }, + { + "type": "theme", + "id": "sacred" + } + ], + "stops": [ + { + "stop_order": 1, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Holy Ground", + "ref": "Exodus 3:1-6", + "book_id": "exodus", + "chapter_num": 3, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Moses encounters the burning bush. God commands: 'Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.'", + "what_changes": "Holiness is revealed as the fundamental attribute of God's presence. It creates a boundary that requires human response.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 2, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Holy Mountain", + "ref": "Exodus 19:10-25", + "book_id": "exodus", + "chapter_num": 19, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Mount Sinai is consecrated; boundaries are set. Touching the mountain means death. The people must consecrate themselves.", + "what_changes": "Holiness is shown to be dangerous to the unprepared. Separation and consecration become prerequisites for approaching God.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 3, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Be Holy, for I Am Holy", + "ref": "Leviticus 11:44-45", + "book_id": "leviticus", + "chapter_num": 11, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "The central command of Leviticus: Israel's holiness is to mirror God's holiness. Purity laws are the practical outworking.", + "what_changes": "Holiness becomes a calling, not just a divine attribute. Israel's entire way of life — food, clothing, agriculture — is shaped by the holiness imperative.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 4, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Holy, Holy, Holy", + "ref": "Isaiah 6:1-7", + "book_id": "isaiah", + "chapter_num": 6, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Isaiah sees the LORD in the temple; seraphim cry 'Holy, holy, holy.' The prophet is undone: 'I am a man of unclean lips.'", + "what_changes": "The threefold repetition intensifies the concept to its absolute degree. Holiness produces both terror and cleansing.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 5, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Sanctifying the Name", + "ref": "Ezekiel 36:22-23", + "book_id": "ezekiel", + "chapter_num": 36, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "God will vindicate his holy name, profaned among the nations through Israel's exile. Restoration serves his holiness, not Israel's merit.", + "what_changes": "Holiness becomes the driving motive of redemptive history. God acts 'for the sake of my holy name,' not for human deserving.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 6, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Be Perfect", + "ref": "Matthew 5:48", + "book_id": "matthew", + "chapter_num": 5, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Jesus reframes the holiness command: 'Be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.' The standard is not merely ritual purity but character.", + "what_changes": "Holiness is internalized. External purity codes give way to holiness of heart and motive.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 7, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Holy in All Conduct", + "ref": "1 Peter 1:15-16", + "book_id": "1_peter", + "chapter_num": 1, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Peter quotes Leviticus 11:44 to the church: 'Be holy in all your conduct.' The Levitical call extends to all believers.", + "what_changes": "The holiness imperative crosses the covenant boundary. What was Israel's distinctive calling becomes the universal mark of God's people.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 8, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Eternal Holy, Holy, Holy", + "ref": "Revelation 4:8", + "book_id": "revelation", + "chapter_num": 4, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "The four living creatures ceaselessly declare 'Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty.' Isaiah's vision becomes eternal reality.", + "what_changes": "Holiness is revealed as the eternal atmosphere of heaven. The story that began at the burning bush culminates in ceaseless worship.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": null + } + ] +} diff --git a/content/meta/journeys/concept/judgment.json b/content/meta/journeys/concept/judgment.json new file mode 100644 index 000000000..d470e0aa0 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/meta/journeys/concept/judgment.json @@ -0,0 +1,178 @@ +{ + "id": "judgment", + "journey_type": "concept", + "lens_id": "theological", + "title": "Judgment", + "subtitle": null, + "description": "God's righteous evaluation and response to human sin. Judgment is not arbitrary anger but the necessary consequence of rebellion against a holy God. Yet even in judgment, God's aim is often redemptive — calling his people back through discipline.", + "depth": "medium", + "sort_order": 0, + "person_id": null, + "concept_id": "judgment", + "era": null, + "hero_image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d5/Gustave_Dor%C3%A9_-_The_Holy_Bible_-_Plate_CXL_-_The_Darkness_at_the_Crucifixion.jpg/400px-Gustave_Dor%C3%A9_-_The_Holy_Bible_-_Plate_CXL_-_The_Darkness_at_the_Crucifixion.jpg", + "tags": [ + { + "type": "word_study", + "id": "mishpat" + }, + { + "type": "prophecy_chain", + "id": "day_of_the_lord" + }, + { + "type": "prophecy_chain", + "id": "judgment_on_nations" + }, + { + "type": "prophecy_chain", + "id": "babylon_judgment" + }, + { + "type": "person", + "id": "noah" + }, + { + "type": "person", + "id": "jonah" + }, + { + "type": "theme", + "id": "wrath" + }, + { + "type": "theme", + "id": "justice" + }, + { + "type": "theme", + "id": "discipline" + }, + { + "type": "theme", + "id": "day of the LORD" + } + ], + "stops": [ + { + "stop_order": 1, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "The Flood", + "ref": "Genesis 6:5-7", + "book_id": "genesis", + "chapter_num": 6, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "God sees that human wickedness is great and 'every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.' He resolves to destroy.", + "what_changes": "The first comprehensive judgment establishes the pattern: divine patience has limits, and persistent evil calls forth devastating response.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 2, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Sodom and Gomorrah", + "ref": "Genesis 19:24-25", + "book_id": "genesis", + "chapter_num": 19, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Fire and sulfur rain from heaven, overthrowing the cities of the plain. Even Abraham's intercession could not find ten righteous.", + "what_changes": "Judgment becomes localized and specific. Particular communities bear the consequences of their particular sins.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 3, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "The Ten Plagues", + "ref": "Exodus 7-12", + "book_id": "exodus", + "chapter_num": 7, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Systematic judgments fall on Egypt, each targeting an Egyptian deity. Pharaoh's hardened heart escalates the severity.", + "what_changes": "Judgment serves liberation. The plagues are not purposeless wrath but targeted acts that accomplish redemption.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 4, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Day of the LORD — Darkness", + "ref": "Amos 5:18-24", + "book_id": "amos", + "chapter_num": 5, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Israel expected the Day of the LORD as vindication. Amos inverts it: 'It is darkness, and not light.' God demands justice, not empty worship.", + "what_changes": "Judgment turns inward toward God's own people. Covenant privilege does not exempt from covenant accountability.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 5, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Assyria as God's Rod", + "ref": "Isaiah 10:5-12", + "book_id": "isaiah", + "chapter_num": 10, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "God uses Assyria as 'the rod of my anger' against Israel, then judges Assyria for its arrogance. Even instruments of judgment are accountable.", + "what_changes": "Divine sovereignty encompasses pagan empires. God's use of nations does not excuse their moral culpability.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 6, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Seventy Years of Exile", + "ref": "Jeremiah 25:8-11", + "book_id": "jeremiah", + "chapter_num": 25, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Judah's refusal to heed prophetic warning results in 70 years of Babylonian exile. The covenant curses of Deuteronomy 28 are enacted.", + "what_changes": "Judgment is shown to be neither arbitrary nor disproportionate. The covenant spelled out the consequences in advance; judgment is covenant enforcement.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 7, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Sheep and Goats", + "ref": "Matthew 25:31-46", + "book_id": "matthew", + "chapter_num": 25, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "The Son of Man separates the nations. The criterion is not ritual observance but treatment of 'the least of these.'", + "what_changes": "Final judgment is christological and ethical. Care for the vulnerable is care for Christ himself; neglect is rejection of him.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 8, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Great White Throne", + "ref": "Revelation 20:11-15", + "book_id": "revelation", + "chapter_num": 20, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "The dead stand before the great white throne. Books are opened. Anyone not found in the book of life is cast into the lake of fire.", + "what_changes": "Judgment reaches its absolute and final form. All human history stands before the throne; the distinction between the righteous and the wicked is made permanent.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": null + } + ] +} diff --git a/content/meta/journeys/concept/kingship.json b/content/meta/journeys/concept/kingship.json new file mode 100644 index 000000000..ea3591fc4 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/meta/journeys/concept/kingship.json @@ -0,0 +1,205 @@ +{ + "id": "kingship", + "journey_type": "concept", + "lens_id": "theological", + "title": "Kingship & Kingdom", + "subtitle": null, + "description": "God's sovereign rule over all creation, delegated through human kings and ultimately embodied in the Messiah. 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The royal line is narrowed before Israel even becomes a nation.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 2, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "The Law of the King", + "ref": "Deuteronomy 17:14-20", + "book_id": "deuteronomy", + "chapter_num": 17, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Moses anticipates monarchy and provides constitutional limits: the king must not multiply horses, wives, or silver, and must write out the Torah.", + "what_changes": "Israelite kingship is defined as fundamentally different from pagan models. The king is under the law, not above it.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 3, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Israel Demands a King", + "ref": "1 Samuel 8:4-22", + "book_id": "1_samuel", + "chapter_num": 8, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Israel requests a king 'like all the nations.' God tells Samuel they have rejected divine kingship, but permits the request.", + "what_changes": "The tension between divine and human kingship becomes explicit. Human monarchy is both concession and vehicle for God's purposes.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 4, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Davidic Covenant", + "ref": "2 Samuel 7:12-16", + "book_id": "2_samuel", + "chapter_num": 7, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "God promises David an eternal dynasty. His son will build the temple, and the throne will be established forever.", + "what_changes": "Kingship becomes covenantal. The Davidic line carries the weight of messianic expectation from this point forward.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 5, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Kingdom Torn", + "ref": "1 Kings 11:9-13", + "book_id": "1_kings", + "chapter_num": 11, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Solomon's idolatry triggers the division of the kingdom. Yet God preserves one tribe for David's sake.", + "what_changes": "The failure of human kingship begins. Even the wisest king falls, yet the Davidic promise is not annulled.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 6, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Ideal King Prophesied", + "ref": "Isaiah 9:6-7", + "book_id": "isaiah", + "chapter_num": 9, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "A child will sit on David's throne with the government on his shoulders. His titles exceed any human monarch: Mighty God, Prince of Peace.", + "what_changes": "The messianic king is described in terms that transcend human categories. Divine and human kingship converge in one figure.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 7, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Son of Man Receives Dominion", + "ref": "Daniel 7:13-14", + "book_id": "daniel", + "chapter_num": 7, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "One 'like a son of man' approaches the Ancient of Days and receives universal, everlasting dominion over all peoples and nations.", + "what_changes": "The kingdom vision becomes cosmic. The coming king's reign is not merely Israelite but universal and eternal.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 8, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Triumphal Entry", + "ref": "Matthew 21:1-11", + "book_id": "matthew", + "chapter_num": 21, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Jesus enters Jerusalem on a donkey, fulfilling Zechariah 9:9. The crowds proclaim him 'Son of David.'", + "what_changes": "The messianic king arrives, but on a donkey, not a war horse. Kingship is redefined through humility.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 9, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "King of Kings", + "ref": "Revelation 19:11-16", + "book_id": "revelation", + "chapter_num": 19, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Christ returns as conquering king, wearing many crowns, with 'King of Kings and Lord of Lords' written on his robe.", + "what_changes": "All royal imagery reaches its climax. The humble king of the triumphal entry is revealed as the sovereign ruler of all creation.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": null + } + ] +} diff --git a/content/meta/journeys/concept/law-torah.json b/content/meta/journeys/concept/law-torah.json new file mode 100644 index 000000000..ab7716521 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/meta/journeys/concept/law-torah.json @@ -0,0 +1,170 @@ +{ + "id": "law-torah", + "journey_type": "concept", + "lens_id": "theological", + "title": "Law & Torah", + "subtitle": null, + "description": "God's instruction for covenant life. Torah is not mere legislation but teaching — the revelation of God's character and the path to human flourishing. The law exposes sin, guides conduct, and points forward to Christ who fulfills it.", + "depth": "medium", + "sort_order": 0, + "person_id": null, + "concept_id": "law-torah", + "era": null, + "hero_image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4a/Rembrandt_Harmensz._van_Rijn_079.jpg/400px-Rembrandt_Harmensz._van_Rijn_079.jpg", + "tags": [ + { + "type": "word_study", + "id": "torah" + }, + { + "type": "word_study", + "id": "mishpat" + }, + { + "type": "prophecy_chain", + "id": "mosaic_covenant" + }, + { + "type": "person", + "id": "moses" + }, + { + "type": "theme", + "id": "commandment" + }, + { + "type": "theme", + "id": "instruction" + }, + { + "type": "theme", + "id": "Sinai" + }, + { + "type": "theme", + "id": "obedience" + } + ], + "stops": [ + { + "stop_order": 1, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "The Ten Commandments", + "ref": "Exodus 20:1-17", + "book_id": "exodus", + "chapter_num": 20, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "God speaks directly to the assembled people. The Decalogue establishes the moral foundation: duties to God (1-4) and neighbor (5-10).", + "what_changes": "Divine will is codified. Israel receives not merely guidance but binding covenant stipulations from the mouth of God.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 2, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "The Shema", + "ref": "Deuteronomy 6:4-9", + "book_id": "deuteronomy", + "chapter_num": 6, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "'Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one.' Love God with all heart, soul, and might. Teach diligently to your children.", + "what_changes": "Torah observance is rooted in love, not mere obedience. The law is relational before it is regulatory.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 3, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Torah as Delight", + "ref": "Psalm 19:7-11", + "book_id": "psalms", + "chapter_num": 19, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "The law is 'perfect, reviving the soul.' It is sweeter than honey, more desired than gold. Torah is not burden but gift.", + "what_changes": "Torah piety is expressed as joy and desire. The psalmist celebrates the law rather than enduring it.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 4, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Oh How I Love Your Law", + "ref": "Psalm 119:97-104", + "book_id": "psalms", + "chapter_num": 119, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "The longest psalm is an acrostic meditation on Torah. 'Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.'", + "what_changes": "Torah devotion reaches its literary peak. Every letter of the alphabet is pressed into service to praise God's instruction.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 5, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Law Written on Hearts", + "ref": "Jeremiah 31:33", + "book_id": "jeremiah", + "chapter_num": 31, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "In the new covenant, God declares: 'I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts.' External code becomes internal reality.", + "what_changes": "Torah is not abolished but internalized. The problem was never the law itself but the human heart's inability to keep it.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 6, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Not to Abolish but to Fulfill", + "ref": "Matthew 5:17-20", + "book_id": "matthew", + "chapter_num": 5, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Jesus declares he came not to abolish the Law but to fulfill it. Not the smallest letter will pass away until all is accomplished.", + "what_changes": "The law finds its intended goal in Christ. Fulfillment is neither abolition nor mere continuation but the realization of what Torah pointed toward.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 7, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "The Law Is Holy", + "ref": "Romans 7:7-12", + "book_id": "romans", + "chapter_num": 7, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Paul insists: 'The law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good.' The problem is sin, not Torah.", + "what_changes": "The law is defended against antinomian misreading. Torah remains good; the diagnosis of failure lies in the human condition, not the divine instruction.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 8, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "The Law as Pedagogue", + "ref": "Galatians 3:23-25", + "book_id": "galatians", + "chapter_num": 3, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "The law was a 'guardian' (paidagogos) until Christ came. Now that faith has come, believers are no longer under the custodian.", + "what_changes": "Torah's role is revealed as preparatory and temporary in its supervisory function. Christ's arrival marks the transition from pedagogy to sonship.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": null + } + ] +} diff --git a/content/meta/journeys/concept/mercy-grace.json b/content/meta/journeys/concept/mercy-grace.json new file mode 100644 index 000000000..a35ca0351 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/meta/journeys/concept/mercy-grace.json @@ -0,0 +1,166 @@ +{ + "id": "mercy-grace", + "journey_type": "concept", + "lens_id": "theological", + "title": "Mercy & Grace", + "subtitle": null, + "description": "God's undeserved favor and compassion toward sinners. Mercy withholds deserved punishment; grace gives undeserved blessing. Together they reveal a God who delights to forgive and restore the broken.", + "depth": "medium", + "sort_order": 0, + "person_id": null, + "concept_id": "mercy-grace", + "era": null, + "hero_image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Rembrandt_Harmensz._van_Rijn_-_The_Return_of_the_Prodigal_Son_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg/400px-Rembrandt_Harmensz._van_Rijn_-_The_Return_of_the_Prodigal_Son_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg", + "tags": [ + { + "type": "word_study", + "id": "hesed" + }, + { + "type": "word_study", + "id": "racham" + }, + { + "type": "word_study", + "id": "charis" + }, + { + "type": "theme", + "id": "compassion" + }, + { + "type": "theme", + "id": "lovingkindness" + }, + { + "type": "theme", + "id": "forgiveness" + }, + { + "type": "theme", + "id": "favor" + } + ], + "stops": [ + { + "stop_order": 1, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "The LORD, Merciful and Gracious", + "ref": "Exodus 34:6-7", + "book_id": "exodus", + "chapter_num": 34, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "God proclaims his own name: 'merciful and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness.' The definitive self-revelation.", + "what_changes": "God's character is revealed as fundamentally merciful. This formula becomes the most frequently quoted creed in the Old Testament.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 2, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Pardon in the Wilderness", + "ref": "Numbers 14:17-20", + "book_id": "numbers", + "chapter_num": 14, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "After the golden calf rebellion and the spies' report, Moses appeals to Exodus 34:6. God pardons, but with consequences.", + "what_changes": "Mercy is shown to coexist with judgment. Pardon does not eliminate consequences but preserves the covenant relationship.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 3, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "David Pardoned", + "ref": "2 Samuel 12:13", + "book_id": "2_samuel", + "chapter_num": 12, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "After David's confession of adultery and murder, Nathan declares: 'The LORD has put away your sin; you shall not die.'", + "what_changes": "Grace reaches into the most grievous moral failure. Even the king who should die by his own law receives mercy.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 4, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "As a Father Shows Compassion", + "ref": "Psalm 103:8-14", + "book_id": "psalms", + "chapter_num": 103, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Echoing Exodus 34:6: 'As far as the east is from the west, so far does he remove our transgressions.' The image of a tender father.", + "what_changes": "Mercy becomes intimate and parental. God's compassion is grounded in his knowledge of human frailty: 'He knows our frame.'", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 5, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "How Can I Give You Up?", + "ref": "Hosea 11:1-9", + "book_id": "hosea", + "chapter_num": 11, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "God agonizes over Israel: 'My heart recoils within me; my compassion grows warm and tender.' Divine love wrestles with divine justice.", + "what_changes": "Grace is revealed as costly to God himself. Mercy is not indifference to sin but the triumph of love over just wrath.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 6, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Grace to the Enemy", + "ref": "Jonah 4:2", + "book_id": "jonah", + "chapter_num": 4, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Jonah quotes Exodus 34:6 as a complaint: God's mercy extends even to Israel's worst enemy, Nineveh.", + "what_changes": "Grace shatters national boundaries. The prophet who knows God's character resents its implications for the ungodly.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 7, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Seeking the Lost", + "ref": "Luke 15:1-7", + "book_id": "luke", + "chapter_num": 15, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Jesus tells of a shepherd who leaves ninety-nine sheep to find the one that is lost. Heaven rejoices over one sinner who repents.", + "what_changes": "Grace becomes active and seeking. God does not merely wait for the sinner's return but pursues the lost.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 8, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "By Grace Through Faith", + "ref": "Ephesians 2:4-9", + "book_id": "ephesians", + "chapter_num": 2, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Paul gives the definitive statement: 'By grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God.'", + "what_changes": "Grace is defined as the entire mechanism of salvation. Human contribution is excluded; even faith itself is gift.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": null + } + ] +} diff --git a/content/meta/journeys/concept/mission.json b/content/meta/journeys/concept/mission.json new file mode 100644 index 000000000..ca2f062f7 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/meta/journeys/concept/mission.json @@ -0,0 +1,174 @@ +{ + "id": "mission", + "journey_type": "concept", + "lens_id": "theological", + "title": "Mission & Witness", + "subtitle": null, + "description": "God's purpose to bless all nations through his people. From Abraham's call to be a blessing to Israel as a light to the nations to the Great Commission, mission is not an appendix to Scripture but its heartbeat.", + "depth": "medium", + "sort_order": 0, + "person_id": null, + "concept_id": "mission", + "era": null, + "hero_image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/97/Rembrandt_-_The_Apostle_Paul_-_WGA19120.jpg/400px-Rembrandt_-_The_Apostle_Paul_-_WGA19120.jpg", + "tags": [ + { + "type": "word_study", + "id": "euangelion" + }, + { + "type": "prophecy_chain", + "id": "abrahamic_covenant" + }, + { + "type": "prophecy_chain", + "id": "anointed_to_preach" + }, + { + "type": "person", + "id": "abraham" + }, + { + "type": "person", + "id": "jonah" + }, + { + "type": "theme", + "id": "nations" + }, + { + "type": "theme", + "id": "witness" + }, + { + "type": "theme", + "id": "gospel" + }, + { + "type": "theme", + "id": "blessing" + } + ], + "stops": [ + { + "stop_order": 1, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Blessed to Be a Blessing", + "ref": "Genesis 12:1-3", + "book_id": "genesis", + "chapter_num": 12, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "God calls Abraham and promises: 'In you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.' Election is for mission, not privilege.", + "what_changes": "The purpose of Israel's calling is defined from the outset. Blessing is centrifugal: received in order to be given.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 2, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Kingdom of Priests", + "ref": "Exodus 19:5-6", + "book_id": "exodus", + "chapter_num": 19, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Israel is called to be a 'kingdom of priests and a holy nation.' Priests mediate between God and others; Israel mediates for the world.", + "what_changes": "National identity is missional. Israel exists not for its own sake but as a priestly bridge between God and the nations.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 3, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Light to the Nations", + "ref": "Isaiah 49:6", + "book_id": "isaiah", + "chapter_num": 49, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "God declares: 'I will make you as a light for the nations, that my salvation may reach to the end of the earth.'", + "what_changes": "Mission's scope becomes explicitly universal. The Servant's task is not merely to restore Israel but to bring salvation to the ends of the earth.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 4, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Nineveh Repents", + "ref": "Jonah 3:1-10", + "book_id": "jonah", + "chapter_num": 3, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Jonah reluctantly preaches; Nineveh repents in sackcloth and ashes. God relents from the disaster he had declared.", + "what_changes": "Mission to the nations is shown to be effective, even when the messenger is reluctant. Gentile repentance is genuine and accepted.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 5, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "The Great Commission", + "ref": "Matthew 28:18-20", + "book_id": "matthew", + "chapter_num": 28, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "'Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them... teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you.'", + "what_changes": "Mission becomes the church's defining task. The Abrahamic promise of blessing to all families takes its final commissioning form.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 6, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Witnesses to the Ends of the Earth", + "ref": "Acts 1:8", + "book_id": "acts", + "chapter_num": 1, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Jesus maps the mission: 'You will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.'", + "what_changes": "Mission has a geographic and demographic trajectory: from center to periphery, from familiar to foreign, from Jew to Gentile.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 7, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Paul Turns to the Gentiles", + "ref": "Acts 13:47", + "book_id": "acts", + "chapter_num": 13, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Paul and Barnabas quote Isaiah 49:6: 'I have made you a light for the Gentiles.' The Servant's mission is taken up by the apostolic church.", + "what_changes": "Isaiah's vision is enacted. The prophetic promise of universal mission becomes apostolic practice.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 8, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Every Nation, Tribe, Tongue", + "ref": "Revelation 7:9-10", + "book_id": "revelation", + "chapter_num": 7, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "A great multitude from every nation stands before the throne, crying 'Salvation belongs to our God!' The mission is accomplished.", + "what_changes": "The arc from Genesis 12:3 reaches its fulfillment. Every family of the earth is represented in the redeemed community.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": null + } + ] +} diff --git a/content/meta/journeys/concept/prophecy.json b/content/meta/journeys/concept/prophecy.json new file mode 100644 index 000000000..8397d47f2 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/meta/journeys/concept/prophecy.json @@ -0,0 +1,194 @@ +{ + "id": "prophecy", + "journey_type": "concept", + "lens_id": "theological", + "title": "Prophecy & Fulfillment", + "subtitle": null, + "description": "God speaking through human messengers to reveal his will and his future. Prophecy is forth-telling (proclamation) as much as foretelling (prediction). The prophetic word creates history, and history vindicates the prophetic word.", + "depth": "medium", + "sort_order": 0, + "person_id": null, + "concept_id": "prophecy", + "era": null, + "hero_image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f2/Michelangelo%2C_profeta_Isaia_02.jpg/400px-Michelangelo%2C_profeta_Isaia_02.jpg", + "tags": [ + { + "type": "word_study", + "id": "nabi" + }, + { + "type": "prophecy_chain", + "id": "prophet_like_moses" + }, + { + "type": "prophecy_chain", + "id": "prepare_the_way" + }, + { + "type": "prophecy_chain", + "id": "anointed_to_preach" + }, + { + "type": "person", + "id": "moses" + }, + { + "type": "person", + "id": "elijah" + }, + { + "type": "person", + "id": "isaiah" + }, + { + "type": "person", + "id": "jeremiah" + }, + { + "type": "person", + "id": "ezekiel" + }, + { + "type": "person", + "id": "daniel" + }, + { + "type": "theme", + "id": "prophet" + }, + { + "type": "theme", + "id": "oracle" + }, + { + "type": "theme", + "id": "vision" + }, + { + "type": "theme", + "id": "word of the LORD" + } + ], + "stops": [ + { + "stop_order": 1, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Protoevangelium", + "ref": "Genesis 3:15", + "book_id": "genesis", + "chapter_num": 3, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "God declares to the serpent: 'He shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.' The first prophetic promise in Scripture.", + "what_changes": "The prophetic trajectory begins. A coming figure will defeat evil, though at personal cost. Redemptive history has a goal.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 2, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "A Prophet Like Moses", + "ref": "Deuteronomy 18:15-19", + "book_id": "deuteronomy", + "chapter_num": 18, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "God promises to raise up a prophet like Moses from among the people. This figure will speak God's own words with full divine authority.", + "what_changes": "Prophetic office is institutionalized. The pattern is set: God communicates through appointed human mediators.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 3, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Elijah on Carmel", + "ref": "1 Kings 18:20-40", + "book_id": "1_kings", + "chapter_num": 18, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Elijah confronts 450 prophets of Baal. Fire falls from heaven, vindicating YHWH. 'The LORD, he is God!'", + "what_changes": "The prophet becomes a public figure who confronts national apostasy. Prophetic ministry is not merely predictive but confrontational.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 4, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Immanuel Prophecy", + "ref": "Isaiah 7:14", + "book_id": "isaiah", + "chapter_num": 7, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Isaiah declares: 'The virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.' A sign given to the house of David.", + "what_changes": "Prophecy becomes explicitly messianic. The coming figure is not merely a leader but 'God with us' in the most literal sense.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 5, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Seventy Weeks", + "ref": "Daniel 9:24-27", + "book_id": "daniel", + "chapter_num": 9, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Gabriel reveals a timeline: seventy weeks are decreed for the people and the holy city. An anointed one will be 'cut off.'", + "what_changes": "Prophecy acquires temporal specificity. The divine plan operates on a revealed timeline, not arbitrary timing.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 6, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Ruler from Bethlehem", + "ref": "Micah 5:2", + "book_id": "micah", + "chapter_num": 5, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "From Bethlehem Ephrathah, 'too little to be among the clans of Judah,' shall come a ruler whose origin is 'from of old, from ancient days.'", + "what_changes": "Prophecy pinpoints geography. The specificity of Bethlehem will become a criterion for identifying the Messiah.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 7, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "All the Scriptures Concerning Himself", + "ref": "Luke 24:25-27", + "book_id": "luke", + "chapter_num": 24, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "The risen Jesus walks with the Emmaus disciples, interpreting 'in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself.' Moses and all the prophets are christological.", + "what_changes": "The entire prophetic corpus is revealed as christocentric. Every prophecy finds its coherence in one person.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 8, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Testimony of Jesus Is the Spirit of Prophecy", + "ref": "Revelation 19:10", + "book_id": "revelation", + "chapter_num": 19, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "The angel declares that 'the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.' Prophecy's essential content and goal is Christ.", + "what_changes": "The prophetic tradition receives its definitive hermeneutical key. Prophecy is not about predictions but about a person.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": null + } + ] +} diff --git a/content/meta/journeys/concept/redemption.json b/content/meta/journeys/concept/redemption.json new file mode 100644 index 000000000..f1c8728fa --- /dev/null +++ b/content/meta/journeys/concept/redemption.json @@ -0,0 +1,175 @@ +{ + "id": "redemption", + "journey_type": "concept", + "lens_id": "theological", + "title": "Redemption", + "subtitle": null, + "description": "The act of buying back what was lost or enslaved. Israel was redeemed from Egypt; the kinsman-redeemer restored family land; Christ redeems humanity from bondage to sin and death. The price is always costly — ultimately, the blood of the Lamb.", + "depth": "medium", + "sort_order": 0, + "person_id": null, + "concept_id": "redemption", + "era": null, + "hero_image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/Figures_Crossing_of_the_Red_Sea.jpg/400px-Figures_Crossing_of_the_Red_Sea.jpg", + "tags": [ + { + "type": "word_study", + "id": "gaal" + }, + { + "type": "word_study", + "id": "yasha" + }, + { + "type": "word_study", + "id": "soteria" + }, + { + "type": "prophecy_chain", + "id": "kinsman_redeemer" + }, + { + "type": "prophecy_chain", + "id": "passover_lamb" + }, + { + "type": "prophecy_chain", + "id": "suffering_servant" + }, + { + "type": "person", + "id": "moses" + }, + { + "type": "person", + "id": "boaz" + }, + { + "type": "person", + "id": "ruth" + }, + { + "type": "theme", + "id": "ransom" + }, + { + "type": "theme", + "id": "liberation" + }, + { + "type": "theme", + "id": "exodus" + }, + { + "type": "theme", + "id": "freedom" + } + ], + "stops": [ + { + "stop_order": 1, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "I Will Redeem You", + "ref": "Exodus 6:6-7", + "book_id": "exodus", + "chapter_num": 6, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "God uses four 'I will' declarations to Moses, including 'I will redeem you with an outstretched arm.' The root ga'al — kinsman-redeemer — is invoked.", + "what_changes": "Redemption is first defined in terms of deliverance from slavery. God acts as kinsman-redeemer for an enslaved people.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 2, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Boaz the Kinsman-Redeemer", + "ref": "Ruth 4:1-10", + "book_id": "ruth", + "chapter_num": 4, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Boaz exercises his right as go'el, redeeming Naomi's land and taking Ruth as wife. Law, love, and lineage converge.", + "what_changes": "Redemption takes on personal and relational dimensions. The redeemer acts out of loyalty and love, not mere legal obligation.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 3, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "I Have Redeemed You", + "ref": "Isaiah 43:1-3", + "book_id": "isaiah", + "chapter_num": 43, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "God declares: 'Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name, you are mine.' A new exodus is promised.", + "what_changes": "Redemption becomes intimate and named. God redeems not a faceless mass but individuals known by name.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 4, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Redeemed Without Money", + "ref": "Isaiah 52:3", + "book_id": "isaiah", + "chapter_num": 52, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "God will redeem Israel 'without money.' No purchase price is paid to Babylon; God's sovereign power alone effects the release.", + "what_changes": "Redemption is shown to be purely gracious. No exchange is required; God's authority alone is sufficient.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 5, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Ransom for Many", + "ref": "Mark 10:45", + "book_id": "mark", + "chapter_num": 10, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Jesus declares that the Son of Man came 'to give his life as a ransom for many.' The kinsman-redeemer concept is christologically fulfilled.", + "what_changes": "Redemption acquires its ultimate price. The redeemer pays not with silver or authority but with his own life.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 6, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Redeemed from the Curse", + "ref": "Galatians 3:13-14", + "book_id": "galatians", + "chapter_num": 3, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Christ 'redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us.' The exchange is explicit: he takes the curse, we receive the blessing.", + "what_changes": "Redemption addresses the deepest bondage: not Egypt or Babylon but the curse of the law itself. The scope of redemption reaches its fullest extent.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 7, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Purchased by Blood", + "ref": "Revelation 5:9-10", + "book_id": "revelation", + "chapter_num": 5, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "The Lamb is worthy because 'by your blood you ransomed people for God from every tribe and language and people and nation.'", + "what_changes": "Redemption is revealed as universal in scope. The redeemed community encompasses every human category; the ransoming blood has unlimited reach.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": null + } + ] +} diff --git a/content/meta/journeys/concept/resurrection.json b/content/meta/journeys/concept/resurrection.json new file mode 100644 index 000000000..09fd70c71 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/meta/journeys/concept/resurrection.json @@ -0,0 +1,190 @@ +{ + "id": "resurrection", + "journey_type": "concept", + "lens_id": "theological", + "title": "Resurrection", + "subtitle": null, + "description": "The restoration of bodily life after death. Foreshadowed in Isaac's near-sacrifice, hinted in the prophets, dramatized in Ezekiel's dry bones, and accomplished in Christ's empty tomb, resurrection is the linchpin of Christian hope.", + "depth": "medium", + "sort_order": 0, + "person_id": null, + "concept_id": "resurrection", + "era": null, + "hero_image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/Schnorr_von_Carolsfeld_Bibel_in_Bildern_1860_251.png/400px-Schnorr_von_Carolsfeld_Bibel_in_Bildern_1860_251.png", + "tags": [ + { + "type": "word_study", + "id": "zoe" + }, + { + "type": "word_study", + "id": "anastasis" + }, + { + "type": "word_study", + "id": "egeiro" + }, + { + "type": "word_study", + "id": "qum" + }, + { + "type": "prophecy_chain", + "id": "resurrection_foretold" + }, + { + "type": "prophecy_chain", + "id": "dry_bones" + }, + { + "type": "prophecy_chain", + "id": "jonah_sign" + }, + { + "type": "prophecy_chain", + "id": "firstfruits" + }, + { + "type": "person", + "id": "lazarus" + }, + { + "type": "theme", + "id": "life" + }, + { + "type": "theme", + "id": "death" + }, + { + "type": "theme", + "id": "tomb" + }, + { + "type": "theme", + "id": "firstfruits" + } + ], + "stops": [ + { + "stop_order": 1, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "My Redeemer Lives", + "ref": "Job 19:25-27", + "book_id": "job", + "chapter_num": 19, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Job declares: 'I know that my Redeemer lives, and at the last he will stand upon the earth. In my flesh I shall see God.'", + "what_changes": "The first explicit hope of bodily vindication after death appears. Even before resurrection theology develops, the seed is planted.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 2, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Death Swallowed Up", + "ref": "Isaiah 25:6-8", + "book_id": "isaiah", + "chapter_num": 25, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "On the mountain of the LORD, God 'will swallow up death forever' and 'wipe away tears from all faces.'", + "what_changes": "Death is declared temporary, not permanent. The prophetic vision includes the reversal of death itself.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 3, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Dry Bones Live", + "ref": "Ezekiel 37:1-14", + "book_id": "ezekiel", + "chapter_num": 37, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "The valley of dry bones is reconstituted: bones, sinews, flesh, breath. 'I will open your graves and raise you from your graves, O my people.'", + "what_changes": "Resurrection imagery is applied to national restoration, but the language transcends metaphor. Death's reversal becomes thinkable.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 4, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Many Who Sleep Shall Awake", + "ref": "Daniel 12:2-3", + "book_id": "daniel", + "chapter_num": 12, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "The most explicit OT resurrection text: 'Many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life.'", + "what_changes": "Individual, bodily resurrection becomes an explicit eschatological expectation. The righteous and the wicked face different destinies.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 5, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "The Empty Tomb", + "ref": "Luke 24:1-12", + "book_id": "luke", + "chapter_num": 24, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "The women find the stone rolled away and the tomb empty. Two angels declare: 'He is not here, but has risen.'", + "what_changes": "Resurrection moves from prophecy to event. The hope of centuries becomes historical reality on the third day.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 6, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "The Resurrection Tradition", + "ref": "1 Corinthians 15:3-8", + "book_id": "1_corinthians", + "chapter_num": 15, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Paul transmits the earliest resurrection creed: Christ died, was buried, was raised on the third day, and appeared to Cephas, the Twelve, and over 500.", + "what_changes": "The resurrection is documented as tradition received and transmitted. Multiple witnesses establish its historicity.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 7, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Firstfruits of Those Who Sleep", + "ref": "1 Corinthians 15:20-28", + "book_id": "1_corinthians", + "chapter_num": 15, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Christ's resurrection is 'the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.' As in Adam all die, so in Christ shall all be made alive.", + "what_changes": "Christ's resurrection guarantees the future resurrection of all believers. His rising is not an isolated event but the beginning of a harvest.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 8, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "First Resurrection", + "ref": "Revelation 20:4-6", + "book_id": "revelation", + "chapter_num": 20, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Those who had been faithful 'came to life and reigned with Christ.' The first resurrection anticipates the final transformation.", + "what_changes": "Resurrection is the gateway to co-reign with Christ. The hope of bodily rising is inseparable from the hope of sharing in Christ's kingdom.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": null + } + ] +} diff --git a/content/meta/journeys/concept/sacrifice-atonement.json b/content/meta/journeys/concept/sacrifice-atonement.json new file mode 100644 index 000000000..db603dd3a --- /dev/null +++ b/content/meta/journeys/concept/sacrifice-atonement.json @@ -0,0 +1,194 @@ +{ + "id": "sacrifice-atonement", + "journey_type": "concept", + "lens_id": "theological", + "title": "Sacrifice & Atonement", + "subtitle": null, + "description": "The system of blood offerings that addresses human sin and restores relationship with a holy God. From Abel's firstborn lamb through the Levitical system to Christ's once-for-all sacrifice, atonement reveals both the gravity of sin and the depths of divine love.", + "depth": "medium", + "sort_order": 0, + "person_id": null, + "concept_id": "sacrifice-atonement", + "era": null, + "hero_image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/39/Schnorr_von_Carolsfeld_Bibel_in_Bildern_1860_143.png/400px-Schnorr_von_Carolsfeld_Bibel_in_Bildern_1860_143.png", + "tags": [ + { + "type": "word_study", + "id": "kaphar" + }, + { + "type": "word_study", + "id": "hesed" + }, + { + "type": "prophecy_chain", + "id": "suffering_servant" + }, + { + "type": "prophecy_chain", + "id": "passover_lamb" + }, + { + "type": "prophecy_chain", + "id": "day_of_atonement" + }, + { + "type": "prophecy_chain", + "id": "isaac_sacrifice" + }, + { + "type": "person", + "id": "abel" + }, + { + "type": "person", + "id": "abraham" + }, + { + "type": "person", + "id": "isaac" + }, + { + "type": "person", + "id": "aaron" + }, + { + "type": "theme", + "id": "blood" + }, + { + "type": "theme", + "id": "propitiation" + }, + { + "type": "theme", + "id": "forgiveness" + }, + { + "type": "theme", + "id": "lamb" + } + ], + "stops": [ + { + "stop_order": 1, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "First Animal Covering", + "ref": "Genesis 3:21", + "book_id": "genesis", + "chapter_num": 3, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "God provides garments of skin for Adam and Eve after the fall. An animal dies to cover human shame.", + "what_changes": "The pattern of substitutionary covering is introduced. Sin requires a death to address its consequences.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 2, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "The Binding of Isaac", + "ref": "Genesis 22:1-14", + "book_id": "genesis", + "chapter_num": 22, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Abraham is tested to offer Isaac, but God provides a ram as substitute. 'On the mountain of the LORD it shall be provided.'", + "what_changes": "The principle of divine provision of the sacrifice is established. God himself will supply what he demands.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 3, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Passover Lamb", + "ref": "Exodus 12:1-13", + "book_id": "exodus", + "chapter_num": 12, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "A lamb without blemish is slain; its blood on the doorposts causes the destroyer to pass over. Deliverance through substitutionary blood.", + "what_changes": "Sacrifice becomes communal and commemorative. The annual Passover ritualizes Israel's foundational experience of redemption through blood.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 4, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Day of Atonement", + "ref": "Leviticus 16:1-34", + "book_id": "leviticus", + "chapter_num": 16, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "The high priest enters the Most Holy Place once a year with blood for the sins of the nation. The scapegoat carries sins away.", + "what_changes": "National atonement is systematized. Two goats illustrate two aspects: propitiation (blood sprinkled) and expiation (sins removed).", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 5, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Blood is the Life", + "ref": "Leviticus 17:11", + "book_id": "leviticus", + "chapter_num": 17, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "The theological rationale for blood sacrifice is stated explicitly: 'The life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it to you on the altar to make atonement.'", + "what_changes": "Sacrifice is grounded in theology, not mere ritual. Blood represents life given in place of life forfeited.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 6, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Suffering Servant", + "ref": "Isaiah 53:4-12", + "book_id": "isaiah", + "chapter_num": 53, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "The Servant bears the sins of many, is pierced for transgressions, crushed for iniquities. His suffering is vicarious and voluntary.", + "what_changes": "Sacrifice becomes personal and prophetic. A single figure, not an animal, will accomplish what the entire sacrificial system pointed toward.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 7, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Lamb of God", + "ref": "John 1:29", + "book_id": "john", + "chapter_num": 1, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "John the Baptist identifies Jesus as 'the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world.' All prior sacrificial imagery converges.", + "what_changes": "The sacrifice is no longer prospective but present. The one to whom all lambs pointed has arrived.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 8, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Once for All", + "ref": "Hebrews 9:11-14", + "book_id": "hebrews", + "chapter_num": 9, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Christ entered the heavenly sanctuary 'not with the blood of goats and calves but with his own blood, thus securing an eternal redemption.'", + "what_changes": "The repetitive cycle of animal sacrifice ends. A single, unrepeatable sacrifice accomplishes what countless offerings could only anticipate.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": null + } + ] +} diff --git a/content/meta/journeys/concept/shepherd.json b/content/meta/journeys/concept/shepherd.json new file mode 100644 index 000000000..f135c3f9d --- /dev/null +++ b/content/meta/journeys/concept/shepherd.json @@ -0,0 +1,174 @@ +{ + "id": "shepherd", + "journey_type": "concept", + "lens_id": "theological", + "title": "Shepherd & Flock", + "subtitle": null, + "description": "The image of God as shepherd caring for his people. From Abel the first shepherd through David the shepherd-king to Christ the Good Shepherd, this metaphor captures divine provision, protection, and intimate knowledge of each sheep.", + "depth": "medium", + "sort_order": 0, + "person_id": null, + "concept_id": "shepherd", + "era": null, + "hero_image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/Schnorr_von_Carolsfeld_Bibel_in_Bildern_1860_091.png/400px-Schnorr_von_Carolsfeld_Bibel_in_Bildern_1860_091.png", + "tags": [ + { + "type": "word_study", + "id": "poimen" + }, + { + "type": "word_study", + "id": "raah" + }, + { + "type": "prophecy_chain", + "id": "david_shepherd_king" + }, + { + "type": "person", + "id": "david" + }, + { + "type": "person", + "id": "abel" + }, + { + "type": "theme", + "id": "flock" + }, + { + "type": "theme", + "id": "pasture" + }, + { + "type": "theme", + "id": "Psalm 23" + }, + { + "type": "theme", + "id": "care" + } + ], + "stops": [ + { + "stop_order": 1, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "God Who Has Shepherded Me", + "ref": "Genesis 48:15", + "book_id": "genesis", + "chapter_num": 48, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Jacob blesses Joseph's sons, naming God as 'the God who has been my shepherd all my life long to this day.'", + "what_changes": "The shepherd metaphor is applied to God for the first time. Divine care is described in terms of the most familiar occupation in the ancient world.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 2, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "The LORD Is My Shepherd", + "ref": "Psalm 23:1-6", + "book_id": "psalms", + "chapter_num": 23, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "David's psalm of complete trust: green pastures, still waters, the valley of the shadow of death, the overflowing cup, goodness and mercy.", + "what_changes": "The shepherd image becomes Israel's defining expression of divine care. Every element of pastoral provision is theologized.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 3, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "David Shepherds Israel", + "ref": "Psalm 78:70-72", + "book_id": "psalms", + "chapter_num": 78, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "God chose David from the sheepfolds to shepherd his people. 'With upright heart he shepherded them and guided them with his skillful hand.'", + "what_changes": "Human kingship is described as shepherding. The good king mirrors the divine shepherd's care for the flock.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 4, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Woe to the False Shepherds", + "ref": "Ezekiel 34:1-10", + "book_id": "ezekiel", + "chapter_num": 34, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Israel's leaders are condemned as shepherds who feed themselves instead of the flock. The sheep are scattered and devoured.", + "what_changes": "The shepherd metaphor becomes a standard of judgment for leaders. Failed shepherding is covenant-breaking with the most vulnerable.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 5, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "God Will Shepherd His Flock", + "ref": "Ezekiel 34:11-16", + "book_id": "ezekiel", + "chapter_num": 34, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "God himself declares: 'I myself will search for my sheep... I will rescue them... I will feed them with good pasture.'", + "what_changes": "God replaces failed human shepherds with himself. The divine shepherd will do what human leaders refused to do.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 6, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "The Good Shepherd", + "ref": "John 10:11-18", + "book_id": "john", + "chapter_num": 10, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Jesus declares: 'I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.' He knows his sheep by name.", + "what_changes": "Ezekiel 34's promise of God shepherding his flock is fulfilled christologically. The good shepherd is simultaneously divine and self-sacrificing.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 7, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Shepherd and Overseer of Souls", + "ref": "1 Peter 2:25", + "book_id": "1_peter", + "chapter_num": 2, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Believers who were 'straying like sheep have now returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.'", + "what_changes": "The shepherd image extends to spiritual oversight. Christ shepherds not merely bodies and communities but souls.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 8, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "The Lamb Will Shepherd Them", + "ref": "Revelation 7:17", + "book_id": "revelation", + "chapter_num": 7, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "The Lamb at the center of the throne 'will be their shepherd, and he will guide them to springs of living water.'", + "what_changes": "The paradox is complete: the Lamb who was sacrificed becomes the eternal shepherd. Vulnerability and authority merge in the final vision.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": null + } + ] +} diff --git a/content/meta/journeys/concept/spirit-of-god.json b/content/meta/journeys/concept/spirit-of-god.json new file mode 100644 index 000000000..dd0368210 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/meta/journeys/concept/spirit-of-god.json @@ -0,0 +1,182 @@ +{ + "id": "spirit-of-god", + "journey_type": "concept", + "lens_id": "theological", + "title": "Spirit of God", + "subtitle": null, + "description": "The divine presence and power at work from creation's first breath to Pentecost's flames. The Spirit empowers prophets and kings, gives life to dry bones, indwells believers, and guarantees the coming resurrection.", + "depth": "medium", + "sort_order": 0, + "person_id": null, + "concept_id": "spirit-of-god", + "era": null, + "hero_image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Schnorr_von_Carolsfeld_Bibel_in_Bildern_1860_254.png/400px-Schnorr_von_Carolsfeld_Bibel_in_Bildern_1860_254.png", + "tags": [ + { + "type": "word_study", + "id": "ruach" + }, + { + "type": "word_study", + "id": "pneuma" + }, + { + "type": "prophecy_chain", + "id": "spirit_poured_out" + }, + { + "type": "prophecy_chain", + "id": "new_heart" + }, + { + "type": "person", + "id": "elijah" + }, + { + "type": "person", + "id": "elisha" + }, + { + "type": "person", + "id": "ezekiel" + }, + { + "type": "theme", + "id": "breath" + }, + { + "type": "theme", + "id": "power" + }, + { + "type": "theme", + "id": "indwelling" + }, + { + "type": "theme", + "id": "pentecost" + } + ], + "stops": [ + { + "stop_order": 1, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Spirit over the Waters", + "ref": "Genesis 1:2", + "book_id": "genesis", + "chapter_num": 1, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "The Spirit of God hovers over the face of the deep. The first act of creation begins with the Spirit's brooding presence.", + "what_changes": "The Spirit is associated with creation and the bringing of order from chaos. Creative power is pneumatological from the beginning.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 2, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Spirit upon the Judges", + "ref": "Judges 3:10", + "book_id": "judges", + "chapter_num": 3, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "The Spirit of the LORD comes upon Othniel, and he judges Israel. A recurring pattern: the Spirit empowers specific leaders for specific tasks.", + "what_changes": "The Spirit's work becomes charismatic — given for a task, then withdrawn. Empowerment is temporary and functional.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 3, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Spirit Transferred to David", + "ref": "1 Samuel 16:13-14", + "book_id": "1_samuel", + "chapter_num": 16, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Samuel anoints David; the Spirit rushes upon him 'from that day forward.' Simultaneously, the Spirit departs from Saul.", + "what_changes": "The Spirit is linked to anointing and kingship. The transfer marks divine election and rejection.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 4, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Spirit upon the Branch", + "ref": "Isaiah 11:1-3", + "book_id": "isaiah", + "chapter_num": 11, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "The coming Davidic ruler will be endowed with the Spirit in fullness: wisdom, understanding, counsel, might, knowledge, fear of the LORD.", + "what_changes": "The messianic king will not merely receive the Spirit temporarily but will be permanently characterized by the Spirit's sevenfold endowment.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 5, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Valley of Dry Bones", + "ref": "Ezekiel 37:1-14", + "book_id": "ezekiel", + "chapter_num": 37, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "The Spirit breathes life into dead bones. National resurrection is accomplished through the Spirit's creative, life-giving power.", + "what_changes": "The Spirit's role expands from individual empowerment to corporate, national resurrection. The Spirit recreates what death has destroyed.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 6, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Spirit Poured Out on All Flesh", + "ref": "Joel 2:28-29", + "book_id": "joel", + "chapter_num": 2, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "God promises to pour out his Spirit on all flesh — sons, daughters, old, young, servants. No social or gender limitation.", + "what_changes": "The Spirit's work will no longer be restricted to select leaders. Universal outpouring replaces occasional charismatic endowment.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 7, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Pentecost", + "ref": "Acts 2:1-4", + "book_id": "acts", + "chapter_num": 2, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "The Spirit descends as tongues of fire. All present are filled. Peter identifies this as Joel's prophecy fulfilled.", + "what_changes": "The age of the Spirit begins. What was promised through the prophets becomes the permanent, universal experience of the church.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 8, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus", + "ref": "Romans 8:9-11", + "book_id": "romans", + "chapter_num": 8, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Paul declares that anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him. The Spirit who raised Jesus will also give life to mortal bodies.", + "what_changes": "The Spirit becomes the defining mark of belonging to Christ. Indwelling, not occasional empowerment, is the new normal.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": null + } + ] +} diff --git a/content/meta/journeys/concept/suffering.json b/content/meta/journeys/concept/suffering.json new file mode 100644 index 000000000..aaff1c1f5 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/meta/journeys/concept/suffering.json @@ -0,0 +1,182 @@ +{ + "id": "suffering", + "journey_type": "concept", + "lens_id": "theological", + "title": "Suffering & Lament", + "subtitle": null, + "description": "The experience of pain, loss, and grief that pervades human existence. Scripture neither explains suffering away nor ignores it, but places it within the context of covenant relationship — where lament is itself an act of faith.", + "depth": "medium", + "sort_order": 0, + "person_id": null, + "concept_id": "suffering", + "era": null, + "hero_image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Michelangelo_Buonarroti_-_Sistine_Chapel_Ceiling_-_Jeremiah.jpg/400px-Michelangelo_Buonarroti_-_Sistine_Chapel_Ceiling_-_Jeremiah.jpg", + "tags": [ + { + "type": "word_study", + "id": "ani" + }, + { + "type": "word_study", + "id": "pathema" + }, + { + "type": "prophecy_chain", + "id": "suffering_servant" + }, + { + "type": "prophecy_chain", + "id": "psalm_22_suffering" + }, + { + "type": "person", + "id": "job" + }, + { + "type": "person", + "id": "jeremiah" + }, + { + "type": "person", + "id": "joseph-patriarch" + }, + { + "type": "theme", + "id": "lament" + }, + { + "type": "theme", + "id": "grief" + }, + { + "type": "theme", + "id": "theodicy" + }, + { + "type": "theme", + "id": "perseverance" + } + ], + "stops": [ + { + "stop_order": 1, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Curse and Toil", + "ref": "Genesis 3:16-19", + "book_id": "genesis", + "chapter_num": 3, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Pain in childbirth, conflict in marriage, thorns in the ground, death as the final horizon. Suffering enters human experience as consequence of the fall.", + "what_changes": "Suffering is established as universal and connected to human rebellion. The world as experienced is not the world as originally designed.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 2, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Job's Undeserved Suffering", + "ref": "Job 1:1-2:10", + "book_id": "job", + "chapter_num": 1, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "A blameless man loses everything. The retribution principle — the righteous prosper, the wicked suffer — is shattered.", + "what_changes": "Suffering is revealed to be irreducible to simple moral calculus. The question 'Why do the righteous suffer?' is posed with full force.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 3, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "My God, Why Have You Forsaken Me?", + "ref": "Psalm 22:1-18", + "book_id": "psalms", + "chapter_num": 22, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "The psalmist cries out in abandonment. Surrounded by enemies, mocked, physically broken. Yet the psalm turns to praise in its second half.", + "what_changes": "Suffering becomes liturgical and prophetic. Lament is given a canonical form that later generations will use, including Jesus himself.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 4, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Man of Sorrows", + "ref": "Isaiah 53:3-6", + "book_id": "isaiah", + "chapter_num": 53, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "The Servant is 'despised and rejected, a man of sorrows.' He bears griefs, carries sorrows, is wounded for others' transgressions.", + "what_changes": "Suffering becomes vicarious and redemptive. One person's suffering can accomplish atonement for many.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 5, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Hope in the Midst of Suffering", + "ref": "Lamentations 3:21-33", + "book_id": "lamentations", + "chapter_num": 3, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "In the ashes of Jerusalem: 'The steadfast love of the LORD never ceases; his mercies never come to an end.' Hope surfaces from the deepest grief.", + "what_changes": "Suffering does not have the last word. Even in the worst imaginable circumstances, divine faithfulness endures.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 6, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "The Way of the Cross", + "ref": "Mark 8:31-34", + "book_id": "mark", + "chapter_num": 8, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Jesus begins teaching that the Son of Man must suffer, be rejected, and be killed. He calls disciples to take up their cross.", + "what_changes": "Suffering becomes volitional and paradigmatic. The Messiah's suffering is not failure but divine necessity, and discipleship means following the same path.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 7, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Present Suffering, Future Glory", + "ref": "Romans 8:18-25", + "book_id": "romans", + "chapter_num": 8, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Paul declares that 'the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed.'", + "what_changes": "Suffering is set within an eschatological framework. Present pain is real but penultimate; glory is the final reality.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 8, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Sharing Christ's Sufferings", + "ref": "1 Peter 4:12-13", + "book_id": "1_peter", + "chapter_num": 4, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Believers are told not to be surprised by suffering but to 'rejoice insofar as you share Christ's sufferings.' Suffering is participation in Christ.", + "what_changes": "Suffering acquires christological meaning for every believer. Union with Christ includes union in his suffering.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": null + } + ] +} diff --git a/content/meta/journeys/concept/temple-presence.json b/content/meta/journeys/concept/temple-presence.json new file mode 100644 index 000000000..a04a2b834 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/meta/journeys/concept/temple-presence.json @@ -0,0 +1,182 @@ +{ + "id": "temple-presence", + "journey_type": "concept", + "lens_id": "theological", + "title": "Temple & Divine Presence", + "subtitle": null, + "description": "The place where heaven meets earth and God dwells among his people. From Eden as the first sanctuary through tabernacle and temple to Christ as the true temple to the church as living stones, God's presence defines sacred space.", + "depth": "medium", + "sort_order": 0, + "person_id": null, + "concept_id": "temple-presence", + "era": null, + "hero_image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Schnorr_von_Carolsfeld_Bibel_in_Bildern_1860_112.png/400px-Schnorr_von_Carolsfeld_Bibel_in_Bildern_1860_112.png", + "tags": [ + { + "type": "word_study", + "id": "doxa" + }, + { + "type": "word_study", + "id": "kabod" + }, + { + "type": "prophecy_chain", + "id": "tabernacle_temple" + }, + { + "type": "prophecy_chain", + "id": "temple_rebuilt" + }, + { + "type": "person", + "id": "solomon" + }, + { + "type": "person", + "id": "moses" + }, + { + "type": "person", + "id": "ezekiel" + }, + { + "type": "theme", + "id": "tabernacle" + }, + { + "type": "theme", + "id": "glory" + }, + { + "type": "theme", + "id": "shekinah" + }, + { + "type": "theme", + "id": "dwelling" + } + ], + "stops": [ + { + "stop_order": 1, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Bethel — House of God", + "ref": "Genesis 28:16-17", + "book_id": "genesis", + "chapter_num": 28, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Jacob awakens from his ladder vision: 'Surely the LORD is in this place, and I did not know it.' He names it Bethel — house of God.", + "what_changes": "Sacred space is first experienced as surprising encounter. God's presence is localized but unpredictable.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 2, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Tabernacle Blueprint", + "ref": "Exodus 25:8-9", + "book_id": "exodus", + "chapter_num": 25, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "God commands: 'Let them make me a sanctuary, that I may dwell in their midst.' The tabernacle is built according to a heavenly pattern.", + "what_changes": "God's presence becomes architecturally structured. The tabernacle is a portable Eden, mediating divine presence within the camp.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 3, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Glory Fills the Tabernacle", + "ref": "Exodus 40:34-35", + "book_id": "exodus", + "chapter_num": 40, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "The cloud covers the tent of meeting, and the glory of the LORD fills the tabernacle. Even Moses cannot enter.", + "what_changes": "The promise of Exodus 25:8 is fulfilled. God's kavod — his weighty, luminous presence — takes up residence among his people.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 4, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Glory Fills Solomon's Temple", + "ref": "1 Kings 8:10-13", + "book_id": "1_kings", + "chapter_num": 8, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "The cloud fills the temple so that the priests cannot stand to minister. Solomon dedicates the house with prayer and sacrifice.", + "what_changes": "The tabernacle's portability gives way to permanence. Jerusalem becomes the fixed center of God's earthly presence.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 5, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Glory Departs", + "ref": "Ezekiel 10:18-19", + "book_id": "ezekiel", + "chapter_num": 10, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Ezekiel watches the glory of the LORD leave the temple threshold and ascend from the city. The ichabod moment of Israel's history.", + "what_changes": "The temple without the glory is merely a building. God's presence is shown to be free, not captive to a structure.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 6, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "The Word Became Flesh", + "ref": "John 1:14", + "book_id": "john", + "chapter_num": 1, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "The Word 'tabernacled' (eskenosen) among us, 'and we have seen his glory.' The incarnation is the new temple.", + "what_changes": "God's presence is no longer mediated through a building but through a person. Jesus himself is the locus of divine glory.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 7, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Your Body Is a Temple", + "ref": "1 Corinthians 6:19", + "book_id": "1_corinthians", + "chapter_num": 6, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Paul declares that the believer's body is 'a temple of the Holy Spirit.' The temple concept is radically individualized.", + "what_changes": "Every believer becomes a sacred space. The Spirit who filled tabernacle and temple now indwells each member of Christ's body.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 8, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "No Temple Needed", + "ref": "Revelation 21:22", + "book_id": "revelation", + "chapter_num": 21, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "The new Jerusalem has no temple, 'for its temple is the Lord God the Almighty and the Lamb.' The mediation of sacred space is transcended.", + "what_changes": "The temple trajectory reaches its telos: unmediated presence. The building that pointed to the person gives way to the person himself.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": null + } + ] +} diff --git a/content/meta/journeys/concept/wisdom.json b/content/meta/journeys/concept/wisdom.json new file mode 100644 index 000000000..a87b96eeb --- /dev/null +++ b/content/meta/journeys/concept/wisdom.json @@ -0,0 +1,166 @@ +{ + "id": "wisdom", + "journey_type": "concept", + "lens_id": "theological", + "title": "Wisdom", + "subtitle": null, + "description": "The skill for living that begins with the fear of the LORD. Biblical wisdom is not abstract philosophy but practical knowledge rooted in covenant relationship — knowing how to navigate life in alignment with the Creator's design.", + "depth": "medium", + "sort_order": 0, + "person_id": null, + "concept_id": "wisdom", + "era": null, + "hero_image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Schnorr_von_Carolsfeld_Bibel_in_Bildern_1860_112.png/400px-Schnorr_von_Carolsfeld_Bibel_in_Bildern_1860_112.png", + "tags": [ + { + "type": "word_study", + "id": "hokmah" + }, + { + "type": "word_study", + "id": "sophia" + }, + { + "type": "person", + "id": "solomon" + }, + { + "type": "theme", + "id": "fear of the LORD" + }, + { + "type": "theme", + "id": "prudence" + }, + { + "type": "theme", + "id": "understanding" + }, + { + "type": "theme", + "id": "folly" + } + ], + "stops": [ + { + "stop_order": 1, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Fear of the LORD", + "ref": "Proverbs 1:7", + "book_id": "proverbs", + "chapter_num": 1, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "The programmatic statement of Israel's wisdom tradition: 'The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge.'", + "what_changes": "Wisdom is anchored in theology, not mere pragmatism. True knowledge begins with right relationship to God.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 2, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Wisdom Personified at Creation", + "ref": "Proverbs 8:22-31", + "book_id": "proverbs", + "chapter_num": 8, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Wisdom speaks as a person present at creation: 'Before the mountains were settled... I was there.' She was 'beside him, like a master workman.'", + "what_changes": "Wisdom is elevated from practical skill to cosmic principle. The created order itself embodies divine wisdom.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 3, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Where Is Wisdom Found?", + "ref": "Job 28:12-28", + "book_id": "job", + "chapter_num": 28, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "A hymn to wisdom's inaccessibility. No human effort can discover it; 'God understands the way to it.' The conclusion: fear the LORD.", + "what_changes": "The limits of human wisdom are exposed. True wisdom is not achievable by human striving but received as divine gift.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 4, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Vanity of Vanities", + "ref": "Ecclesiastes 1:1-11", + "book_id": "ecclesiastes", + "chapter_num": 1, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Qoheleth declares all things 'hevel' — vapor, breath, meaningless under the sun. The wisdom tradition confronts its own limits.", + "what_changes": "Wisdom literature gains its necessary counterpoint. Conventional wisdom cannot explain all of life's inequities.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 5, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "The Whole Duty of Humanity", + "ref": "Ecclesiastes 12:13-14", + "book_id": "ecclesiastes", + "chapter_num": 12, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "After exhaustive investigation, the conclusion: 'Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man.'", + "what_changes": "Skeptical wisdom circles back to faith. Even the most rigorous questioning ends at the same starting point as Proverbs 1:7.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 6, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Greater Than Solomon", + "ref": "Matthew 12:42", + "book_id": "matthew", + "chapter_num": 12, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Jesus declares that 'something greater than Solomon is here.' The queen of the South came for Solomon's wisdom; a greater wisdom is now present.", + "what_changes": "Wisdom is no longer merely a tradition or a body of teaching but a person. Christological wisdom supersedes sapiential wisdom.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 7, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Foolishness of God", + "ref": "1 Corinthians 1:18-25", + "book_id": "1_corinthians", + "chapter_num": 1, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "The cross is 'foolishness to those who are perishing' but 'the power of God' to those being saved. God's wisdom inverts human categories.", + "what_changes": "The cross redefines wisdom entirely. What appears as ultimate folly — a crucified Messiah — is revealed as ultimate wisdom.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 8, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "All Treasures of Wisdom in Christ", + "ref": "Colossians 2:2-3", + "book_id": "colossians", + "chapter_num": 2, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "In Christ 'are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.' Proverbs 8's personified Wisdom finds its ultimate referent.", + "what_changes": "The entire wisdom tradition is christologically fulfilled. The search for wisdom ends in a person, not a principle.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": null + } + ] +} diff --git a/content/meta/journeys/concept/word-of-god.json b/content/meta/journeys/concept/word-of-god.json new file mode 100644 index 000000000..56c51e17b --- /dev/null +++ b/content/meta/journeys/concept/word-of-god.json @@ -0,0 +1,170 @@ +{ + "id": "word-of-god", + "journey_type": "concept", + "lens_id": "theological", + "title": "Word of God", + "subtitle": null, + "description": "The creative and revelatory speech of God. By his word the heavens were made; by his word the prophets spoke; in the Word made flesh God's fullest self-disclosure arrived. Scripture is the written form of this living, active word.", + "depth": "medium", + "sort_order": 0, + "person_id": null, + "concept_id": "word-of-god", + "era": null, + "hero_image_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d8/Codex_Sinaiticus_open_full.jpg/400px-Codex_Sinaiticus_open_full.jpg", + "tags": [ + { + "type": "word_study", + "id": "logos" + }, + { + "type": "person", + "id": "moses" + }, + { + "type": "person", + "id": "isaiah" + }, + { + "type": "person", + "id": "jeremiah" + }, + { + "type": "theme", + "id": "revelation" + }, + { + "type": "theme", + "id": "inspiration" + }, + { + "type": "theme", + "id": "truth" + }, + { + "type": "theme", + "id": "logos" + } + ], + "stops": [ + { + "stop_order": 1, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "God Said, 'Let There Be Light'", + "ref": "Genesis 1:3", + "book_id": "genesis", + "chapter_num": 1, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "The first recorded speech of God. Creation happens through divine speech: God says, and reality conforms.", + "what_changes": "The word of God is established as performative and creative. What God speaks, exists. Language and reality are linked at the deepest level.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 2, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Man Lives by Every Word", + "ref": "Deuteronomy 8:3", + "book_id": "deuteronomy", + "chapter_num": 8, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Moses reminds Israel: God humbled them with manna 'that he might make you know that man does not live by bread alone, but by every word from the mouth of the LORD.'", + "what_changes": "The word of God is established as life-sustaining. Physical provision is secondary to the sustenance of divine speech.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 3, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "The Still Small Voice", + "ref": "1 Kings 19:11-13", + "book_id": "1_kings", + "chapter_num": 19, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "God is not in the wind, earthquake, or fire, but in the 'still small voice.' Elijah wraps his face and listens.", + "what_changes": "The word of God is shown to come in unexpected modes. Divine communication need not be spectacular to be authoritative.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 4, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "My Word Shall Not Return Empty", + "ref": "Isaiah 55:10-11", + "book_id": "isaiah", + "chapter_num": 55, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "God's word goes out and accomplishes its purpose, like rain that waters the earth and makes it bring forth and sprout.", + "what_changes": "The word of God is declared effective and irrevocable. It cannot fail to accomplish what it was sent to do.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 5, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Fire and Hammer", + "ref": "Jeremiah 23:29", + "book_id": "jeremiah", + "chapter_num": 23, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "'Is not my word like fire, declares the LORD, and like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?'", + "what_changes": "The word of God has destructive and transformative power. It cannot be domesticated or made comfortable.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 6, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "The Word Was God", + "ref": "John 1:1-5", + "book_id": "john", + "chapter_num": 1, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "'In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.' The logos of Genesis 1 is a person.", + "what_changes": "The word of God is revealed as personal and divine. The concept that began as divine speech becomes incarnate in Christ.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 7, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Living and Active", + "ref": "Hebrews 4:12", + "book_id": "hebrews", + "chapter_num": 4, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "The word of God is 'living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and spirit.'", + "what_changes": "The word of God penetrates and judges the inner person. It is not merely informational but transformationally incisive.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 8, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "His Name Is the Word of God", + "ref": "Revelation 19:13", + "book_id": "revelation", + "chapter_num": 19, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "The returning Christ is named 'The Word of God.' The creative word of Genesis, the prophetic word of the OT, and the incarnate Word of John 1 converge.", + "what_changes": "The word of God reaches its eschatological climax. The one who spoke creation into being returns to speak the final word over all creation.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": null + } + ] +} diff --git a/content/meta/journeys/person/abraham.json b/content/meta/journeys/person/abraham.json new file mode 100644 index 000000000..00b23b62a --- /dev/null +++ b/content/meta/journeys/person/abraham.json @@ -0,0 +1,152 @@ +{ + "id": "abraham", + "journey_type": "person", + "lens_id": "biographical", + "title": "Abraham", + "subtitle": "Father of the faith; receiver of the covenant", + "description": "Abram of Ur was already 75 when God's voice broke into his life with an unconditional command and an impossible promise: leave everything, go to an unknown land, and from you will come a great nation through which all peoples on earth will be blessed (Gen 12:1-3). He went. What followed was a 25-year journey of deepening faith punctuated by spectacular failures: he lied about Sarah being his wife (twice), he fathered Ishmael as an attempt to manufacture the promise's fulfillment. At age 99, God changed his name from Abram ('exalted father') to Abraham ('father of many nations') and instituted circumcision as the covenant sign. The birth of Isaac at 100 to a barren 90-year-old was the miraculous hinge of history. The test of Mount Moriah — God's command to offer Isaac as a burnt offering — is the supreme act of faith in the OT. Abraham's hand was stayed at the last moment; God provided a ram. Abraham died at 175, having seen the promise only from a distance.", + "depth": "long", + "sort_order": 0, + "person_id": "abraham", + "concept_id": null, + "era": "patriarch", + "hero_image_url": null, + "tags": [], + "stops": [ + { + "stop_order": 1, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "The Call", + "ref": "Gen 12:1-9", + "book_id": "genesis", + "chapter_num": 12, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "God calls Abram out of Ur through Haran to Canaan with an extraordinary promise: land, descendants, and blessing to all nations. At 75, Abram leaves everything familiar and goes.", + "what_changes": "Faith begins with obedient response to God's voice, even when the destination is unknown.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 2, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Egypt Detour", + "ref": "Gen 12:10-13:18", + "book_id": "genesis", + "chapter_num": 12, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Famine drives Abram to Egypt where he lies about Sarah. God protects her and they return wealthy. Abram separates from Lot, and God reaffirms the land promise.", + "what_changes": "God preserves his promises even through our failures and faithlessness.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 3, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Covenant Ceremony", + "ref": "Gen 15:1-21", + "book_id": "genesis", + "chapter_num": 15, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "God makes a formal covenant with Abram. Abram believes and it is credited as righteousness. God alone passes between the cut pieces, bearing the full covenant obligation.", + "what_changes": "Righteousness comes through faith, and God himself guarantees his promises.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 4, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Ishmael", + "ref": "Gen 16:1-16", + "book_id": "genesis", + "chapter_num": 16, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "After a decade without the promised heir, Sarai gives Hagar to Abram. Ishmael is born — a human attempt to fulfill God's promise through human effort.", + "what_changes": "Trying to manufacture God's promises through human scheming produces lasting consequences.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 5, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Covenant of Circumcision", + "ref": "Gen 17:1-27", + "book_id": "genesis", + "chapter_num": 17, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "God changes Abram's name to Abraham and Sarai's to Sarah. Circumcision becomes the covenant sign. God promises Isaac within a year — Abraham laughs.", + "what_changes": "God transforms identity and marks his people with visible signs of covenant belonging.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 6, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Sodom and Intercession", + "ref": "Gen 18:16-19:29", + "book_id": "genesis", + "chapter_num": 18, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Abraham intercedes for Sodom, bargaining God down to ten righteous. The city is destroyed, but Lot is rescued. Abraham is revealed as a prophetic intercessor.", + "what_changes": "The righteous person stands in the gap, interceding even for those under judgment.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 7, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Isaac's Birth", + "ref": "Gen 21:1-7", + "book_id": "genesis", + "chapter_num": 21, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Sarah conceives and bears Isaac at age 90, exactly as God promised. The laughter of disbelief becomes the laughter of joy. Hagar and Ishmael are sent away.", + "what_changes": "God fulfills impossible promises in his own timing — nothing is too hard for the Lord.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 8, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "The Binding of Isaac", + "ref": "Gen 22:1-19", + "book_id": "genesis", + "chapter_num": 22, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "God tests Abraham by commanding him to sacrifice Isaac on Mount Moriah. Abraham obeys, trusting that God can raise the dead. God provides a ram and reaffirms the covenant with an oath.", + "what_changes": "Supreme faith surrenders even the promise itself back to the Promiser, trusting God to provide.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 9, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Sarah's Death and Legacy", + "ref": "Gen 23:1-25:11", + "book_id": "genesis", + "chapter_num": 23, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Sarah dies and Abraham purchases the cave of Machpelah — his only land ownership in Canaan. He secures a wife for Isaac from his homeland. Abraham dies at 175, buried beside Sarah.", + "what_changes": "Faith perseveres to the end, holding the promise without seeing its full fulfillment.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": null + } + ] +} diff --git a/content/meta/journeys/person/barnabas.json b/content/meta/journeys/person/barnabas.json new file mode 100644 index 000000000..99c99df3e --- /dev/null +++ b/content/meta/journeys/person/barnabas.json @@ -0,0 +1,77 @@ +{ + "id": "barnabas", + "journey_type": "person", + "lens_id": "biographical", + "title": "Barnabas", + "subtitle": "Apostle; \"Son of Encouragement\"; Paul's first partner", + "description": "Joseph of Cyprus was renamed Barnabas — 'Son of Encouragement' — by the apostles, and the name defined his ministry. His first act in the narrative was selling a field and laying the money at the apostles' feet. When Saul returned to Jerusalem after his Damascus conversion and everyone was afraid of him, it was Barnabas who brought him to the apostles and vouched for his authenticity. When reports of a Gentile church forming at Antioch alarmed Jerusalem, they sent Barnabas to investigate — and he saw the grace of God and was glad. He traveled to Tarsus and retrieved Saul, bringing him to Antioch where they taught together for a year. The Holy Spirit set them both apart for the first missionary journey (Acts 13:1-3). The journey took them through Cyprus and into Galatia — founding churches at Pisidian Antioch, Iconium, Lystra, and Derbe. When crowds tried to sacrifice to them as gods at Lystra (calling Barnabas Zeus), their anguish was real. Their partnership ended sharply over John Mark: Barnabas wanted to give his cousin a second chance after he had abandoned them on the first journey; Paul refused. They separated — Paul taking Silas, Barnabas taking Mark back to Cyprus. Paul later acknowledges that both he and Barnabas had the right to be financially supported by churches (1 Cor 9:6), and ultimately affirms Mark as useful for ministry (2 Tim 4:11).", + "depth": "short", + "sort_order": 0, + "person_id": "barnabas", + "concept_id": null, + "era": "nt", + "hero_image_url": null, + "tags": [], + "stops": [ + { + "stop_order": 1, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Son of Encouragement", + "ref": "Acts 4:36-37", + "book_id": "acts", + "chapter_num": 4, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Joseph, a Levite from Cyprus, sells a field and lays the money at the apostles' feet. They nickname him Barnabas — 'Son of Encouragement.' Generosity defines his first act.", + "what_changes": "The church recognizes character through actions — Barnabas's name becomes his nature.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 2, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Vouching for Paul", + "ref": "Acts 9:26-30; 11:22-26", + "book_id": "acts", + "chapter_num": 9, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "When the Jerusalem church fears converted Saul, Barnabas brings him to the apostles and vouches for his story. Later, Barnabas goes to Antioch and brings Saul from Tarsus to teach the growing church.", + "what_changes": "The encourager sees potential in people others fear — Barnabas's trust in Paul changes the course of Christian history.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 3, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "First Missionary Journey", + "ref": "Acts 13:1-14:28", + "book_id": "acts", + "chapter_num": 13, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "The Holy Spirit sends Barnabas and Saul from Antioch. They preach across Cyprus and southern Galatia, planting churches. The narrative shifts from 'Barnabas and Saul' to 'Paul and Barnabas' as Paul's leadership emerges.", + "what_changes": "The best mentors empower their protégés to surpass them — Barnabas gracefully yields the lead role.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 4, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Split with Paul", + "ref": "Acts 15:36-41", + "book_id": "acts", + "chapter_num": 15, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Paul and Barnabas disagree sharply over taking John Mark on their second journey. They part ways — Barnabas takes Mark to Cyprus, Paul takes Silas to Asia Minor. Both missions bear fruit.", + "what_changes": "Disagreement among godly leaders is painful but not necessarily sinful — Barnabas's investment in Mark ultimately produces the Gospel of Mark.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": null + } + ] +} diff --git a/content/meta/journeys/person/daniel.json b/content/meta/journeys/person/daniel.json new file mode 100644 index 000000000..866107beb --- /dev/null +++ b/content/meta/journeys/person/daniel.json @@ -0,0 +1,107 @@ +{ + "id": "daniel", + "journey_type": "person", + "lens_id": "biographical", + "title": "Daniel", + "subtitle": "Statesman-prophet in Babylon; interpreter of dreams", + "description": "Daniel was a young Judean nobleman deported to Babylon in 605 BC, along with Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah (Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego). In Nebuchadnezzar's court they refused the king's food and were sustained by God on vegetables. Daniel was given the gift of interpreting dreams: he interpreted Nebuchadnezzar's dream of the statue of metals, the dream of the great tree, and was placed over the wise men of Babylon. Under Belshazzar he read the handwriting on the wall (MENE, MENE, TEKEL, PARSIN) — and Belshazzar was killed that night. Under Darius he was thrown into the lions' den for praying toward Jerusalem — and was unharmed. His later chapters contain the most developed apocalyptic visions in the OT: the four beasts, the Ancient of Days, the Son of Man receiving an eternal kingdom, the 70 weeks, and the resurrection of the dead.", + "depth": "medium", + "sort_order": 0, + "person_id": "daniel", + "concept_id": null, + "era": "exile", + "hero_image_url": null, + "tags": [], + "stops": [ + { + "stop_order": 1, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Exile and Resolve", + "ref": "Dan 1:1-21", + "book_id": "daniel", + "chapter_num": 1, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Daniel and his companions are taken to Babylon as teenage captives and enrolled in the king's service. Daniel resolves not to defile himself with the king's food — faithful in the smallest matters.", + "what_changes": "Covenant faithfulness begins with small, daily choices — integrity in private precedes influence in public.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 2, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Nebuchadnezzar's Dream", + "ref": "Dan 2:1-49", + "book_id": "daniel", + "chapter_num": 2, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "When no wise man can tell the king his dream, Daniel receives the vision from God. The statue of four kingdoms will be shattered by a stone not cut by human hands — God's kingdom will crush all others.", + "what_changes": "God reveals mysteries to the humble and governs the rise and fall of every empire in history.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 3, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "The Fiery Furnace", + "ref": "Dan 3:1-30", + "book_id": "daniel", + "chapter_num": 3, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego refuse to bow to Nebuchadnezzar's golden image. Thrown into the furnace, they are joined by a fourth figure. They emerge without even the smell of smoke.", + "what_changes": "Faithful resistance to idolatry may lead into the fire — but God walks with his people through it.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 4, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "The Lions' Den", + "ref": "Dan 6:1-28", + "book_id": "daniel", + "chapter_num": 6, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Under Darius, Daniel's rivals engineer a decree forbidding prayer to anyone but the king. Daniel prays openly as always. He is thrown to the lions, and God shuts their mouths.", + "what_changes": "When human law conflicts with divine command, the faithful choose God's authority and trust his deliverance.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 5, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Vision of the Son of Man", + "ref": "Dan 7:1-28", + "book_id": "daniel", + "chapter_num": 7, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Daniel sees four beasts representing empires, then 'one like a son of man' approaching the Ancient of Days and receiving an everlasting kingdom. This vision shapes all subsequent messianic expectation.", + "what_changes": "Human empires are beastly and temporary — God's kingdom, given to the Son of Man, will never end.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 6, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Seventy Weeks and Final Visions", + "ref": "Dan 9:20-27; 10:1-12:13", + "book_id": "daniel", + "chapter_num": 9, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Daniel prays for Jerusalem's restoration. Gabriel reveals seventy 'sevens' until the Anointed One. Final visions show coming conflicts and the promise of resurrection: those who sleep in the dust will awake.", + "what_changes": "God's timetable for redemption is precise — and the story does not end in death but in resurrection.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": null + } + ] +} diff --git a/content/meta/journeys/person/david.json b/content/meta/journeys/person/david.json new file mode 100644 index 000000000..9d2ce8bb6 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/meta/journeys/person/david.json @@ -0,0 +1,137 @@ +{ + "id": "david", + "journey_type": "person", + "lens_id": "biographical", + "title": "David", + "subtitle": "Shepherd-King; man after God's own heart; ancestor of Jesus", + "description": "David entered the story as an afterthought — when Samuel came to anoint a king from Jesse's sons, seven were presented before the youngest was remembered from the fields. He was ruddy and handsome. The Spirit of the LORD came on him powerfully from that day. He killed Goliath with a sling stone while Saul's army trembled, entered the king's service, fell into a friendship with Jonathan so deep it would define the meaning of loyalty. His years as a fugitive — fleeing Saul's jealousy through the wilderness of Judah — produced some of the Psalms' most searching cries to God. After Saul's death, David was anointed first over Judah at Hebron (seven years) then over all Israel at Jerusalem. He brought the Ark to Jerusalem, danced before it with abandon, and desired to build God a permanent house. God's response — the Davidic Covenant of 2 Samuel 7 — reversed the offer: God would build David a dynasty, a throne that would last forever. Then came Bathsheba. The rape-by-power of another man's wife, the murder of Uriah, Nathan's parable, and David's shattering confrontation with his own sin — the second half of his story is one of Scripture's most unflinching examinations of the consequences of sin in a leader's family. Yet he was never abandoned.", + "depth": "long", + "sort_order": 0, + "person_id": "david", + "concept_id": null, + "era": "kingdom", + "hero_image_url": null, + "tags": [], + "stops": [ + { + "stop_order": 1, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Shepherd Boy Anointed", + "ref": "1 Sam 16:1-13", + "book_id": "1_samuel", + "chapter_num": 16, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Samuel passes over Jesse's impressive older sons and anoints the youngest — a ruddy shepherd boy tending sheep. The Spirit of the Lord comes upon David from that day forward.", + "what_changes": "God's choice defies human expectations — he looks at the heart, not the exterior.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 2, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Goliath", + "ref": "1 Sam 17:1-58", + "book_id": "1_samuel", + "chapter_num": 17, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "While Israel's army cowers, David faces the giant Philistine with a sling and five stones. He declares that the battle belongs to the Lord and strikes Goliath down.", + "what_changes": "Faith in God's power, not superior weapons, defeats seemingly impossible opposition.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 3, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Fugitive Years", + "ref": "1 Sam 19:1-27:12", + "book_id": "1_samuel", + "chapter_num": 19, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "David flees Saul's murderous jealousy for roughly a decade, gathering a band of outcasts. He twice spares Saul's life. He hides among the Philistines. Many psalms emerge from this crucible.", + "what_changes": "The anointed king must wait in suffering before reigning — character is forged in the wilderness.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 4, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "King of Judah, then All Israel", + "ref": "2 Sam 2:1-7; 5:1-12", + "book_id": "2_samuel", + "chapter_num": 2, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "David reigns from Hebron over Judah for seven years, then is anointed king over all twelve tribes. He conquers Jerusalem and makes it his capital — the City of David.", + "what_changes": "God's promises unfold gradually — partial fulfillment precedes full inheritance.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 5, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "The Davidic Covenant", + "ref": "2 Sam 7:1-29", + "book_id": "2_samuel", + "chapter_num": 7, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "David wants to build God a house; God turns it around and promises to build David a house — an eternal dynasty. This covenant becomes the foundation of all messianic hope.", + "what_changes": "God's gifts always exceed our plans for him — the eternal throne surpasses any earthly temple.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 6, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Bathsheba and Nathan", + "ref": "2 Sam 11:1-12:25", + "book_id": "2_samuel", + "chapter_num": 11, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "David commits adultery with Bathsheba, arranges Uriah's death, and is confronted by Nathan's parable. David confesses; the child dies. Solomon is later born to Bathsheba.", + "what_changes": "Even the greatest saints are capable of grievous sin — but genuine repentance receives genuine forgiveness.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 7, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Absalom's Rebellion", + "ref": "2 Sam 13:1-18:33", + "book_id": "2_samuel", + "chapter_num": 13, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "David's son Absalom stages a coup. David flees Jerusalem weeping. Civil war follows, and Absalom is killed. David's grief is devastating: 'O my son Absalom! If only I had died instead of you.'", + "what_changes": "Sin's consequences ripple through families — the sword Nathan prophesied never departs from David's house.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 8, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Final Words and Legacy", + "ref": "2 Sam 23:1-7; 1 Chr 28:1-29:25", + "book_id": "2_samuel", + "chapter_num": 23, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "David's last words affirm God's everlasting covenant. He prepares materials for the temple, charges Solomon, and leads Israel in worship. He dies after a 40-year reign.", + "what_changes": "A life marked by both towering faith and devastating failure ends clinging to God's covenant promise.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": null + } + ] +} diff --git a/content/meta/journeys/person/deborah.json b/content/meta/journeys/person/deborah.json new file mode 100644 index 000000000..dfabbe1de --- /dev/null +++ b/content/meta/journeys/person/deborah.json @@ -0,0 +1,62 @@ +{ + "id": "deborah", + "journey_type": "person", + "lens_id": "biographical", + "title": "Deborah", + "subtitle": "Judge, prophet, military leader of Israel", + "description": "Deborah was a prophet, the wife of Lappidoth, and a judge of Israel who held court under the Palm of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel. She was the only judge who functioned primarily as a judicial figure — people came to her to have disputes settled — in addition to her military-prophetic role. When she summoned the commander Barak and gave him God's command to assemble troops and engage Sisera's iron chariots at the Kishon River, Barak's condition revealed the weight of her authority: 'If you go with me, I will go; but if you don't go with me, I won't go.' She agreed, but warned him that the honor of killing Sisera would go to a woman. She led the army into battle herself — 'Arise! For this is the day in which the LORD has given Sisera into your hand. Has not the LORD gone out before you?' — and Sisera's entire army fell by the sword, with Sisera fleeing on foot to the tent of Jael, who drove a tent peg through his skull while he slept. The Song of Deborah (Judges 5) is one of the oldest sustained poems in the OT and one of the finest examples of ancient Hebrew verse — celebrating the battle, honoring the tribes who came, castigating those who didn't, and ending with Sisera's mother waiting for a son who would never return.", + "depth": "short", + "sort_order": 0, + "person_id": "deborah", + "concept_id": null, + "era": "judges", + "hero_image_url": null, + "tags": [], + "stops": [ + { + "stop_order": 1, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Judge and Prophet", + "ref": "Judg 4:1-10", + "book_id": "judges", + "chapter_num": 4, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Deborah holds court under a palm tree, judging Israel's disputes. She summons Barak and delivers God's battle plan against Sisera's 900 iron chariots, but Barak refuses to go without her.", + "what_changes": "God raises leaders regardless of gender — Deborah combines judicial, prophetic, and military authority.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 2, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Victory and Song", + "ref": "Judg 4:14-5:31", + "book_id": "judges", + "chapter_num": 4, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Deborah accompanies Barak into battle. God routes Sisera's army; Jael kills Sisera with a tent peg. Deborah and Barak sing one of the oldest poems in Scripture, celebrating God's victory.", + "what_changes": "God uses unexpected people and unconventional means — the mighty general falls to a woman with a tent peg.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 3, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Forty Years of Peace", + "ref": "Judg 5:31", + "book_id": "judges", + "chapter_num": 5, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Under Deborah's leadership, the land has peace for forty years — the longest rest in the judges period. Her faithfulness creates a generation of stability.", + "what_changes": "Godly leadership produces lasting peace — the fruit of faithfulness extends far beyond a single battle.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": null + } + ] +} diff --git a/content/meta/journeys/person/elijah.json b/content/meta/journeys/person/elijah.json new file mode 100644 index 000000000..b60b20f46 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/meta/journeys/person/elijah.json @@ -0,0 +1,107 @@ +{ + "id": "elijah", + "journey_type": "person", + "lens_id": "biographical", + "title": "Elijah", + "subtitle": "The Tishbite prophet; forerunner of the Messiah", + "description": "Elijah appeared from nowhere — 'Elijah the Tishbite, from Tishbe in Gilead' — and stood before Ahab to announce a three-year drought as a consequence of Israel's Baal worship. During this time he was fed by ravens at the Kerith Ravine and sustained by a widow's miraculous jar of flour at Zarephath, where he also raised her son from death. The confrontation on Mount Carmel — 450 Baal prophets vs. one prophet of the LORD — is one of the OT's most dramatic moments: two altars, two bulls, the fire contest. Elijah's prayer: 'Let it be known today that you are God in Israel and that I am your servant.' The fire fell. Then immediately afterward, in the wilderness under a broom tree, he collapsed in suicidal depression: 'I have had enough, LORD. Take my life.' An angel came twice with food and water: 'the journey is too much for you.' At Horeb he heard God not in the wind or earthquake or fire but in a gentle whisper. His final act was to cast his cloak over Elisha. He was taken to heaven in a chariot of fire without dying — one of two people in the OT (with Enoch) who bypassed death.", + "depth": "medium", + "sort_order": 0, + "person_id": "elijah", + "concept_id": null, + "era": "prophets", + "hero_image_url": null, + "tags": [], + "stops": [ + { + "stop_order": 1, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Drought Announcement", + "ref": "1 Kgs 17:1-6", + "book_id": "1_kings", + "chapter_num": 17, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Elijah appears without introduction, declaring to Ahab that no rain will fall except at his word. God sends him to hide by the brook Cherith, fed by ravens.", + "what_changes": "God's prophet speaks with heaven's authority and is sustained by heaven's provision.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 2, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Widow of Zarephath", + "ref": "1 Kgs 17:7-24", + "book_id": "1_kings", + "chapter_num": 17, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "When the brook dries, God sends Elijah to a Gentile widow in Sidon. Her flour and oil never run out. When her son dies, Elijah raises him — the first resurrection in Scripture.", + "what_changes": "God provides through unlikely channels and demonstrates his power over death itself.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 3, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Mount Carmel", + "ref": "1 Kgs 18:1-46", + "book_id": "1_kings", + "chapter_num": 18, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Elijah confronts 450 prophets of Baal on Mount Carmel. He taunts them, drenches the altar with water, and prays. Fire falls from heaven, consuming sacrifice, stones, and water. The people fall prostrate.", + "what_changes": "The question of every generation: 'How long will you waver between two opinions?' — God answers with fire.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 4, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Flight to Horeb", + "ref": "1 Kgs 19:1-18", + "book_id": "1_kings", + "chapter_num": 19, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Jezebel threatens his life and Elijah flees to Horeb in despair. God meets him not in wind, earthquake, or fire, but in a gentle whisper. He commissions Elijah to anoint his successors.", + "what_changes": "Even the mightiest prophet hits bottom — God meets exhaustion with presence, provision, and a renewed commission.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 5, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Naboth's Vineyard", + "ref": "1 Kgs 21:1-29", + "book_id": "1_kings", + "chapter_num": 21, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "When Ahab and Jezebel murder Naboth to steal his vineyard, Elijah delivers devastating judgment: dogs will lick Ahab's blood and eat Jezebel. Ahab humbles himself and receives a temporary reprieve.", + "what_changes": "God defends the powerless against royal injustice — no throne is above covenant law.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 6, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Chariot of Fire", + "ref": "2 Kgs 2:1-12", + "book_id": "2_kings", + "chapter_num": 2, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Elijah crosses the Jordan with Elisha, is taken to heaven in a whirlwind with chariots of fire. He never dies — one of only two people in Scripture taken directly to God.", + "what_changes": "God vindicates his faithful servants in ways that transcend death — Elijah's departure points to the resurrection.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": null + } + ] +} diff --git a/content/meta/journeys/person/elisha.json b/content/meta/journeys/person/elisha.json new file mode 100644 index 000000000..8e0702778 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/meta/journeys/person/elisha.json @@ -0,0 +1,92 @@ +{ + "id": "elisha", + "journey_type": "person", + "lens_id": "biographical", + "title": "Elisha", + "subtitle": "Elijah's successor; miracle-worker", + "description": "Elisha was plowing with twelve yoke of oxen when Elijah threw his cloak over him — the prophetic act of commissioning. He slaughtered his oxen, burned his equipment, and followed. When Elijah's translation came, Elisha's request was bold: 'Let me inherit a double portion of your spirit.' He saw him taken: the chariot and horses of fire, the whirlwind. He took up Elijah's cloak, struck the Jordan, and the waters parted. His ministry lasted roughly 60 years. Where Elijah was fire and confrontation, Elisha was nurturing and accessible: he purified a spring, multiplied a widow's oil, raised the Shunammite's son from death, healed Naaman's leprosy and refused payment, fed 100 men with 20 loaves, made an axe head float, and saw a heavenly army surrounding a besieged city when his servant panicked. Even after his death, a corpse thrown into his tomb revived on contact with his bones.", + "depth": "medium", + "sort_order": 0, + "person_id": "elisha", + "concept_id": null, + "era": "prophets", + "hero_image_url": null, + "tags": [], + "stops": [ + { + "stop_order": 1, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Called from the Plow", + "ref": "1 Kgs 19:19-21", + "book_id": "1_kings", + "chapter_num": 19, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Elijah throws his mantle on Elisha while he is plowing. Elisha slaughters his oxen, burns the equipment, and follows — a total break with his former life.", + "what_changes": "Following God's call requires decisive action — there is no going back to the plow.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 2, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Double Portion", + "ref": "2 Kgs 2:1-15", + "book_id": "2_kings", + "chapter_num": 2, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Elisha refuses to leave Elijah's side and asks for a double portion of his spirit. After Elijah's ascension, Elisha picks up the fallen mantle and parts the Jordan — the prophetic succession is confirmed.", + "what_changes": "Persistence in following one's mentor and bold faith in asking receive a double portion of God's Spirit.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 3, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Ministry of Miracles", + "ref": "2 Kgs 4:1-44", + "book_id": "2_kings", + "chapter_num": 4, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Elisha multiplies oil for a widow, raises the Shunammite's son, purifies poisoned stew, and feeds a hundred with twenty loaves. His miracles are largely compassionate, meeting ordinary people's needs.", + "what_changes": "Prophetic power serves everyday people — God cares about widows' debts and children's lives.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 4, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Naaman's Healing", + "ref": "2 Kgs 5:1-27", + "book_id": "2_kings", + "chapter_num": 5, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "The Aramean general Naaman comes seeking healing from leprosy. Elisha's instructions seem absurdly simple: wash in the Jordan seven times. Naaman resists, then obeys and is healed.", + "what_changes": "God's grace crosses national boundaries and works through humble obedience, not impressive rituals.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 5, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Death and Beyond", + "ref": "2 Kgs 13:14-21", + "book_id": "2_kings", + "chapter_num": 13, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Elisha dies of illness. King Joash weeps over him. Later, a dead man thrown into Elisha's tomb revives on contact with the prophet's bones — power that outlasts death.", + "what_changes": "The prophetic legacy extends beyond death — God's power is not confined to a single lifetime.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": null + } + ] +} diff --git a/content/meta/journeys/person/esther.json b/content/meta/journeys/person/esther.json new file mode 100644 index 000000000..8123b215e --- /dev/null +++ b/content/meta/journeys/person/esther.json @@ -0,0 +1,77 @@ +{ + "id": "esther", + "journey_type": "person", + "lens_id": "biographical", + "title": "Esther (Hadassah)", + "subtitle": "Queen who saved her people", + "description": "Esther (Hadassah) was a Jewish orphan in Susa, raised by her older cousin Mordecai after her parents died. She was taken into Ahasuerus's harem and eventually chosen as queen. When Haman, the king's chief minister, obtained the king's seal to exterminate all Jews throughout the Persian Empire, Mordecai pressed Esther with one of Scripture's great challenges: 'Who knows but that you have come to your royal position for such a time as this?' (Esth 4:14). Esther's response was courageous: she called the Jewish community to fast three days, then approached the king unsummoned — a capital offense unless the king extended his scepter. He did. She invited him to two banquets, drawing the moment out with studied patience, before making her accusation of Haman. The reversal was complete: Haman was hanged on the very gallows he had built for Mordecai, the Jews were given the right to defend themselves, and the feast of Purim was established to commemorate the deliverance.", + "depth": "short", + "sort_order": 0, + "person_id": "esther", + "concept_id": null, + "era": "exile", + "hero_image_url": null, + "tags": [], + "stops": [ + { + "stop_order": 1, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Chosen as Queen", + "ref": "Esth 1:1-2:23", + "book_id": "esther", + "chapter_num": 1, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "After Queen Vashti's removal, Esther — a Jewish orphan raised by her cousin Mordecai — wins the king's favor and becomes queen of Persia. She conceals her Jewish identity.", + "what_changes": "God positions his people in places of influence through ordinary circumstances — providence wears no label.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 2, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Haman's Plot", + "ref": "Esth 3:1-4:17", + "book_id": "esther", + "chapter_num": 3, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Haman, enraged by Mordecai's refusal to bow, engineers a decree to annihilate all Jews in the empire. Mordecai challenges Esther: 'Who knows whether you have come to royal position for such a time as this?'", + "what_changes": "Providence places us where we are for purposes larger than our own comfort — courage is required.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 3, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Courageous Petition", + "ref": "Esth 5:1-8; 7:1-10", + "book_id": "esther", + "chapter_num": 5, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Esther risks death by approaching the king unbidden. Over two banquets, she reveals Haman's plot and her Jewish identity. Haman is exposed and hanged on the very gallows he built for Mordecai.", + "what_changes": "Courage at the right moment reverses the plans of the wicked — those who plot destruction are destroyed by their own schemes.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 4, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Deliverance and Purim", + "ref": "Esth 8:1-10:3", + "book_id": "esther", + "chapter_num": 8, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "The king cannot revoke Haman's decree but issues a counter-decree allowing the Jews to defend themselves. They prevail, and the festival of Purim is established to commemorate their deliverance.", + "what_changes": "God — unnamed throughout the book — works behind every scene. His people's survival is never accidental.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": null + } + ] +} diff --git a/content/meta/journeys/person/ezekiel.json b/content/meta/journeys/person/ezekiel.json new file mode 100644 index 000000000..850948c95 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/meta/journeys/person/ezekiel.json @@ -0,0 +1,92 @@ +{ + "id": "ezekiel", + "journey_type": "person", + "lens_id": "biographical", + "title": "Ezekiel", + "subtitle": "Priest-prophet of the exile; vision of restored glory", + "description": "Ezekiel son of Buzi was a priest-in-training when he was deported to Babylon in 597 BC. He settled at Tel-Abib by the Chebar River and began receiving visions five years into the exile. His inaugural vision is the most visually extravagant in the OT: four living creatures, four wheels full of eyes, spinning within wheels, a crystal expanse, and above it all a figure like that of a man on a throne. He was called 'son of man' 93 times. His prophetic acts were radical body-language: lying on his side for 390 days, eating bread cooked on dung, shaving his head and dividing the hair. When Jerusalem fell, his wife died and he was forbidden to mourn as a living sign. His later visions are among the most hope-filled in Scripture: the valley of dry bones vivified by the Spirit (ch 37), the shepherd king David who would tend the scattered flock (ch 34), and the vast restoration Temple of chapters 40-48, with a river flowing from its threshold that grew from ankle-deep to swimming depth.", + "depth": "medium", + "sort_order": 0, + "person_id": "ezekiel", + "concept_id": null, + "era": "exile", + "hero_image_url": null, + "tags": [], + "stops": [ + { + "stop_order": 1, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Throne Vision in Exile", + "ref": "Ezek 1:1-3:27", + "book_id": "ezekiel", + "chapter_num": 1, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "By the Kebar River in Babylon, Ezekiel sees God's throne-chariot — living creatures, wheels within wheels, fire and lightning. God is not confined to Jerusalem's temple; his glory is mobile and present among the exiles.", + "what_changes": "God's presence is not bound to sacred geography — he meets his people wherever they are, even in exile.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 2, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Sign-Acts of Judgment", + "ref": "Ezek 4:1-5:17; 12:1-28; 24:15-27", + "book_id": "ezekiel", + "chapter_num": 4, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Ezekiel performs dramatic sign-acts: lying on his side for months, shaving his head, digging through a wall, and receiving the death of his wife without mourning. His body becomes God's sermon.", + "what_changes": "When words fail, embodied prophecy breaks through — the prophet's suffering mirrors the people's fate.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 3, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Glory Departs", + "ref": "Ezek 8:1-11:25", + "book_id": "ezekiel", + "chapter_num": 8, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "In a vision, Ezekiel is transported to Jerusalem's temple. He sees abominations — idols, sun worship, weeping for Tammuz. God's glory rises from the cherubim, moves to the threshold, and departs eastward.", + "what_changes": "God's patience has limits — persistent unfaithfulness drives his presence away from the very place he chose to dwell.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 4, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Oracles Against Nations", + "ref": "Ezek 25:1-32:32", + "book_id": "ezekiel", + "chapter_num": 25, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Ezekiel pronounces judgment on surrounding nations — Ammon, Moab, Edom, Philistia, Tyre, Sidon, and Egypt. Israel's God governs all nations, not just his covenant people.", + "what_changes": "God's sovereignty extends over every empire — no nation acts outside his jurisdiction.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 5, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Valley of Dry Bones", + "ref": "Ezek 36:22-37:14", + "book_id": "ezekiel", + "chapter_num": 36, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "God promises a new heart and new spirit. Ezekiel prophesies over a valley of dry bones; they reassemble, receive sinews and flesh, and breathe — a national resurrection from death itself.", + "what_changes": "Nothing is too dead for God to resurrect — his Spirit can bring life from the most hopeless circumstances.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": null + } + ] +} diff --git a/content/meta/journeys/person/ezra.json b/content/meta/journeys/person/ezra.json new file mode 100644 index 000000000..0ee2622b4 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/meta/journeys/person/ezra.json @@ -0,0 +1,62 @@ +{ + "id": "ezra", + "journey_type": "person", + "lens_id": "biographical", + "title": "Ezra", + "subtitle": "Scribe; priest; covenant restorer", + "description": "Ezra was a priest and scribe 'skilled in the Law of Moses' who led a second group of exiles from Babylon to Jerusalem around 458 BC — eighty years after Zerubbabel's first return. He carried royal authorization from Artaxerxes I covering silver and gold for the Temple, freedom for all who wished to return, authority to appoint judges, and power to enforce the Law of Moses across the satrapy. He arrived to find that the returned community, including priests and Levites, had intermarried extensively with the surrounding peoples. Ezra's response was catastrophic grief — he tore his cloak, pulled hair from his head and beard, and sat appalled until evening. Then he prayed in public confession that was so comprehensive and self-abasing that 'a large crowd of Israelites — men, women and children — gathered around him. They too wept bitterly.' The community agreed to dissolve the mixed marriages — a requirement that Ezra carried out over a period of months. His most lasting act came after Nehemiah rebuilt the walls: he stood on a high wooden platform before the assembled people and read from the Book of the Law of Moses from daybreak to noon. The Levites circulated through the crowd and helped the people understand what was read. The people wept; Nehemiah and Ezra told them not to grieve: 'The joy of the LORD is your strength' (Neh 8:10).", + "depth": "short", + "sort_order": 0, + "person_id": "ezra", + "concept_id": null, + "era": "exile", + "hero_image_url": null, + "tags": [], + "stops": [ + { + "stop_order": 1, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Return from Babylon", + "ref": "Ezra 7:1-28", + "book_id": "ezra", + "chapter_num": 7, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Ezra, a priest and scribe 'skilled in the Law of Moses,' receives Artaxerxes' authorization to lead a second wave of returning exiles and to teach the law in Judah.", + "what_changes": "The scribe-priest bridges exile and restoration — knowledge of God's word is the foundation for rebuilding.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 2, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Dangerous Journey", + "ref": "Ezra 8:1-36", + "book_id": "ezra", + "chapter_num": 8, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Ezra gathers exiles at the canal. Ashamed to ask the king for military escort after boasting of God's protection, he proclaims a fast. They arrive safely in Jerusalem.", + "what_changes": "Faith means acting on what we profess — Ezra's public testimony becomes the basis for private trust.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 3, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Mixed Marriage Crisis", + "ref": "Ezra 9:1-10:44", + "book_id": "ezra", + "chapter_num": 9, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Ezra discovers that returned exiles, including priests and Levites, have married foreign women. He tears his garments, prays in agonized confession, and leads a painful community purification.", + "what_changes": "Covenant faithfulness sometimes requires painful choices — religious syncretism threatens the community's identity and mission.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": null + } + ] +} diff --git a/content/meta/journeys/person/gideon.json b/content/meta/journeys/person/gideon.json new file mode 100644 index 000000000..1089eb02c --- /dev/null +++ b/content/meta/journeys/person/gideon.json @@ -0,0 +1,77 @@ +{ + "id": "gideon", + "journey_type": "person", + "lens_id": "biographical", + "title": "Gideon (Jerubbaal)", + "subtitle": "Judge; led 300 men against the Midianite hordes", + "description": "Gideon was threshing wheat in a winepress — hiding it from Midianite raiders — when the angel of the LORD greeted him: 'The LORD is with you, mighty warrior.' His response was half-protest, half-theology: if the LORD is with us, why has all this happened? He tested the divine call three times (the ephah of food, the fleece wet while the ground was dry, then the fleece dry while the ground was wet) before obeying. God then reduced his 32,000 men to 300 — sending away all who were afraid, then all who knelt to drink — so that Israel could not claim the victory was their own. The 300 surrounded the Midianite camp at night with torches, trumpets, and clay jars: 'A sword for the LORD and for Gideon!' Disoriented, the Midianite army turned on itself in the panic and fled. Gideon pursued, captured, and killed the two Midianite kings. When offered permanent kingship, he declined: 'I will not rule over you, nor will my son rule over you. The LORD will rule over you' — one of the most theologically clear statements of theocracy in the OT. Then immediately he asked for the gold earrings of the plunder, made an ephod, and placed it in his town — and 'all Israel prostituted themselves by worshiping it there, and it became a snare to Gideon and his family.' His death was followed by his son Abimelech's violent coup — 70 brothers killed on a single stone.", + "depth": "short", + "sort_order": 0, + "person_id": "gideon", + "concept_id": null, + "era": "judges", + "hero_image_url": null, + "tags": [], + "stops": [ + { + "stop_order": 1, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Called While Hiding", + "ref": "Judg 6:1-24", + "book_id": "judges", + "chapter_num": 6, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "An angel finds Gideon threshing wheat in a winepress, hiding from Midianites. God addresses him as 'mighty warrior' — a title of faith, not current reality.", + "what_changes": "God sees what we will become, not what we currently are, and calls us by our future identity.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 2, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Tearing Down the Altar", + "ref": "Judg 6:25-40", + "book_id": "judges", + "chapter_num": 6, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Gideon destroys his father's Baal altar at night, then twice tests God with a fleece. His courage grows incrementally, and God meets his weakness with patience.", + "what_changes": "God accommodates weak faith while building it — he works with people where they are.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 3, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "The Reduced Army", + "ref": "Judg 7:1-25", + "book_id": "judges", + "chapter_num": 7, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "God reduces Gideon's army from 32,000 to 300, ensuring that Israel cannot claim the victory as their own. With trumpets, torches, and jars, the 300 rout the Midianite horde.", + "what_changes": "God deliberately reduces human resources so that his power is unmistakable — victory belongs to the Lord.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 4, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Decline into Idolatry", + "ref": "Judg 8:22-35", + "book_id": "judges", + "chapter_num": 8, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Gideon refuses the title of king but makes an ephod from captured gold, which becomes an idol. After his death, Israel immediately returns to Baal worship.", + "what_changes": "Even successful deliverers can plant seeds of future apostasy — the line between worship and idolatry is thin.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": null + } + ] +} diff --git a/content/meta/journeys/person/isaac.json b/content/meta/journeys/person/isaac.json new file mode 100644 index 000000000..0feaff7d1 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/meta/journeys/person/isaac.json @@ -0,0 +1,92 @@ +{ + "id": "isaac", + "journey_type": "person", + "lens_id": "biographical", + "title": "Isaac", + "subtitle": "Son of Promise; the silent patriarch", + "description": "Isaac is the most passive of the three patriarchs — things happen to him more than through him. He was born to a 100-year-old father and 90-year-old mother as the literal impossibility that proved God's promise. As a young man he was laid on an altar by his father and bound, a knife raised over him, before the angel stopped the hand: 'Now I know that you fear God.' He did not resist. He was 40 when Abraham's servant brought Rebekah from Paddan-Aram; he was comforted after Sarah's death. He and Rebekah were 20 years childless before she conceived — another barrenness, another prayer, another miracle. The twins Jacob and Esau divided his house: he preferred Esau, Rebekah Jacob. His blessing of Jacob — thinking he was Esau, deceived by goat skin and savory stew — was given in full form and could not be recalled. He died at 180.", + "depth": "medium", + "sort_order": 0, + "person_id": "isaac", + "concept_id": null, + "era": "patriarch", + "hero_image_url": null, + "tags": [], + "stops": [ + { + "stop_order": 1, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Child of Promise", + "ref": "Gen 21:1-7", + "book_id": "genesis", + "chapter_num": 21, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Born to Abraham and Sarah in their old age, Isaac is the miracle child whose very name means 'laughter.' His birth fulfills God's impossible promise.", + "what_changes": "God's promises are fulfilled not through human effort but through divine power.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 2, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "The Binding", + "ref": "Gen 22:1-19", + "book_id": "genesis", + "chapter_num": 22, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Abraham takes Isaac to Mount Moriah to sacrifice him. Isaac carries the wood up the mountain — a willing participant whose life is spared when God provides a ram.", + "what_changes": "The beloved son offered on the mountain foreshadows the ultimate sacrifice God will provide.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 3, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Marriage to Rebekah", + "ref": "Gen 24:1-67", + "book_id": "genesis", + "chapter_num": 24, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Abraham's servant journeys to Mesopotamia and finds Rebekah through providential signs. Isaac meets her in the fields at evening and is comforted after Sarah's death.", + "what_changes": "God guides the faithful toward his purposes through providence, even in ordinary moments.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 4, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Wells and Conflict", + "ref": "Gen 26:1-33", + "book_id": "genesis", + "chapter_num": 26, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "During famine Isaac stays in Gerar, where he repeats his father's deception about his wife. He digs wells, faces conflict with the Philistines, and eventually finds peace at Rehoboth.", + "what_changes": "Faithfulness and patience ultimately produce room to flourish, even amid opposition.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 5, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Blessing and Death", + "ref": "Gen 27:1-40; 35:28-29", + "book_id": "genesis", + "chapter_num": 27, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Old and blind, Isaac is deceived into blessing Jacob over Esau. The blessing, once given, cannot be revoked — God's purposes work even through human deception. Isaac dies at 180.", + "what_changes": "God's sovereign choice overrides human schemes, working through imperfect people and circumstances.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": null + } + ] +} diff --git a/content/meta/journeys/person/isaiah.json b/content/meta/journeys/person/isaiah.json new file mode 100644 index 000000000..ffdaad983 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/meta/journeys/person/isaiah.json @@ -0,0 +1,77 @@ +{ + "id": "isaiah", + "journey_type": "person", + "lens_id": "biographical", + "title": "Isaiah", + "subtitle": "The evangelical prophet; \"the fifth gospel\"", + "description": "Isaiah son of Amoz ministered in Jerusalem under four kings — Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah — across some 40 years of tumultuous history that saw the fall of the northern kingdom to Assyria (722 BC) and Sennacherib's siege of Jerusalem (701 BC). His call vision (Isa 6) is the most theologically rich in the prophetic corpus: he saw the LORD high and lifted up, the seraphim crying 'Holy, holy, holy,' the threshold shaking, the smoke filling the Temple. His own response — 'Woe to me! I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips' — and God's cleansing with a coal set the template for prophetic vocation. His oracles fall into two movements: judgment on Israel, Judah, and surrounding nations (chs 1-39), and then the astonishing comfort of chs 40-66, which open with 'Comfort, comfort my people, says your God.' These later chapters contain the four Servant Songs (42:1-7; 49:1-6; 50:4-9; 52:13-53:12), especially the fourth — the Suffering Servant of ch 53 — which the NT quotes more than any other OT text. Tradition records that he was sawn in two under Manasseh (Heb 11:37).", + "depth": "short", + "sort_order": 0, + "person_id": "isaiah", + "concept_id": null, + "era": "prophets", + "hero_image_url": null, + "tags": [], + "stops": [ + { + "stop_order": 1, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Vision of the Holy One", + "ref": "Isa 6:1-13", + "book_id": "isaiah", + "chapter_num": 6, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "In the year King Uzziah dies, Isaiah sees the Lord high and lifted up. Seraphim cry 'Holy, holy, holy.' Isaiah confesses his uncleanness, is purified by a coal, and volunteers: 'Here am I, send me.'", + "what_changes": "Authentic ministry begins with a vision of God's holiness that exposes our unworthiness and compels our response.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 2, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Prophet to Kings", + "ref": "Isa 7:1-14; 36:1-39:8", + "book_id": "isaiah", + "chapter_num": 7, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Isaiah advises Ahaz during the Syro-Ephraimite crisis, offers the sign of Immanuel, counsels Hezekiah during Sennacherib's siege, and warns that Babylon will eventually carry Judah away.", + "what_changes": "The prophet speaks truth to power — whether the king listens determines the nation's fate.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 3, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Oracles of Judgment", + "ref": "Isa 1:1-5:30; 13:1-23:18", + "book_id": "isaiah", + "chapter_num": 1, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Isaiah indicts Judah for injustice, idolatry, and empty religion. He announces judgment on the nations surrounding Israel. The vineyard song (ch. 5) captures God's disappointment with his people.", + "what_changes": "God holds his own people to a higher standard — privilege brings responsibility, and empty worship provokes judgment.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 4, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Visions of Restoration", + "ref": "Isa 40:1-31; 52:13-53:12; 65:17-25", + "book_id": "isaiah", + "chapter_num": 40, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Isaiah pivots to comfort: a voice crying in the wilderness, a suffering servant pierced for transgressions, a new heavens and new earth. These chapters provide the theological vocabulary the New Testament uses to interpret Christ.", + "what_changes": "Beyond judgment lies restoration — and the agent of that restoration will suffer and be exalted.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": null + } + ] +} diff --git a/content/meta/journeys/person/jacob.json b/content/meta/journeys/person/jacob.json new file mode 100644 index 000000000..49f2ccff9 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/meta/journeys/person/jacob.json @@ -0,0 +1,137 @@ +{ + "id": "jacob", + "journey_type": "person", + "lens_id": "biographical", + "title": "Jacob (Israel)", + "subtitle": "Patriarch; renamed Israel; father of the Twelve", + "description": "Jacob's story is one of the most psychologically complex in Genesis — a man defined by his name ('he grasps the heel / he supplants') who spent his life grasping at things God had already promised him. He bought Esau's birthright for lentil stew; he obtained Isaac's blessing through a disguise; he fled to Paddan-Aram with nothing. There, the deceiver met his match in Laban, who substituted Leah for Rachel on the wedding night. He worked another seven for Rachel, and six more for livestock — emerging with two wives, two concubines, twelve children, and enormous wealth. The encounter at Jabbok — wrestling through the night with a divine figure, refusing to let go without a blessing, having his hip dislocated — is the OT's defining image of persistent prayer. God changed his name to Israel: 'You have struggled with God and with humans and have overcome.' His final blessing of the twelve sons in Gen 49 is a prophetic poem shaping the character of each tribe.", + "depth": "long", + "sort_order": 0, + "person_id": "jacob", + "concept_id": null, + "era": "patriarch", + "hero_image_url": null, + "tags": [], + "stops": [ + { + "stop_order": 1, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Birth and Birthright", + "ref": "Gen 25:19-34", + "book_id": "genesis", + "chapter_num": 25, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Jacob emerges grasping Esau's heel — a wrestler from birth. He exploits Esau's hunger to acquire the birthright, revealing both his ambition and his understanding of what the covenant means.", + "what_changes": "God's election works through unexpected people, but grasping for blessing through deception brings consequences.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 2, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Stolen Blessing", + "ref": "Gen 27:1-45", + "book_id": "genesis", + "chapter_num": 27, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "With Rebekah's help, Jacob deceives blind Isaac and receives the patriarchal blessing. Esau's fury forces Jacob to flee for his life to Haran.", + "what_changes": "Deception may gain the blessing but fractures relationships and forces exile.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 3, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Bethel Vision", + "ref": "Gen 28:10-22", + "book_id": "genesis", + "chapter_num": 28, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Fleeing alone, Jacob sleeps at Bethel and dreams of a stairway to heaven with angels ascending and descending. God confirms the Abrahamic covenant to him personally.", + "what_changes": "God meets the fugitive with grace, confirming promises to those who don't yet deserve them.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 4, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Laban's Household", + "ref": "Gen 29:1-31:55", + "book_id": "genesis", + "chapter_num": 29, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Jacob serves Laban 20 years, is deceived with Leah on his wedding night, works another 7 years for Rachel, and fathers 12 sons. The deceiver is himself deceived.", + "what_changes": "God uses even dysfunctional family dynamics to build the twelve tribes of his covenant people.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 5, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Wrestling at Peniel", + "ref": "Gen 32:22-32", + "book_id": "genesis", + "chapter_num": 32, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "The night before facing Esau, Jacob wrestles with God until dawn. His hip is wrenched, his name is changed to Israel — 'he struggles with God.' He limps into the dawn transformed.", + "what_changes": "Transformation comes through struggling with God, not through human cleverness — and leaves its mark.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 6, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Reconciliation with Esau", + "ref": "Gen 33:1-20", + "book_id": "genesis", + "chapter_num": 33, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Jacob bows seven times before Esau, who runs to embrace him. The brothers weep and reconcile. Jacob settles at Shechem.", + "what_changes": "Grace makes reconciliation possible where only enmity seemed certain.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 7, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Loss of Joseph", + "ref": "Gen 37:31-35", + "book_id": "genesis", + "chapter_num": 37, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Jacob's favoritism toward Joseph provokes the other sons to sell Joseph into slavery. They present the bloody coat, and Jacob mourns inconsolably.", + "what_changes": "The consequences of favoritism ripple through generations, but God is at work even in loss.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 8, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Journey to Egypt", + "ref": "Gen 46:1-49:33", + "book_id": "genesis", + "chapter_num": 46, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Jacob travels to Egypt, is reunited with Joseph, blesses Pharaoh, adopts Ephraim and Manasseh, and delivers prophetic blessings over all twelve sons before dying.", + "what_changes": "The patriarch who began as a grasper ends as a prophet, speaking God's purposes over the next generation.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": null + } + ] +} diff --git a/content/meta/journeys/person/jeremiah.json b/content/meta/journeys/person/jeremiah.json new file mode 100644 index 000000000..25ed7bc5b --- /dev/null +++ b/content/meta/journeys/person/jeremiah.json @@ -0,0 +1,107 @@ +{ + "id": "jeremiah", + "journey_type": "person", + "lens_id": "biographical", + "title": "Jeremiah", + "subtitle": "The weeping prophet; prophet of the New Covenant", + "description": "Jeremiah was called to prophecy before his birth, commissioned against his explicit protest, and spent his entire ministry speaking to people who did not want to hear him. Active from c. 627 BC through the fall of Jerusalem in 587 BC, he watched the last kings of Judah disregard every warning he was given. He was placed in stocks, thrown into a cistern of mud, had his scroll burned by King Jehoiakim, and was arrested as a traitor. His 'confessions' — raw personal laments addressed to God — are the most intimate prophetic self-disclosure in the OT. His final 'why' (20:14-18) — 'Cursed be the day I was born' — is matched only by Job. Yet he continued. His greatest legacy was the New Covenant oracle of Jer 31:31-34: God would write his law on human hearts, forgive sins completely, and establish a relationship so direct that 'no longer will they teach their neighbor, because they will all know me.' This became the theological charter of the NT.", + "depth": "medium", + "sort_order": 0, + "person_id": "jeremiah", + "concept_id": null, + "era": "prophets", + "hero_image_url": null, + "tags": [], + "stops": [ + { + "stop_order": 1, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Called Before Birth", + "ref": "Jer 1:1-19", + "book_id": "jeremiah", + "chapter_num": 1, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "God tells the young Jeremiah: 'Before I formed you in the womb I knew you.' Jeremiah protests his youth, but God touches his mouth and commissions him to tear down and build up nations.", + "what_changes": "God's calling precedes our existence — age and ability are irrelevant to divine commission.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 2, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Temple Sermon", + "ref": "Jer 7:1-15; 26:1-24", + "book_id": "jeremiah", + "chapter_num": 7, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Jeremiah stands in the temple gate and declares that God will destroy it as he destroyed Shiloh. The priests and prophets demand his death, but officials intervene.", + "what_changes": "Religious institutions are not immune to judgment — God values obedience over sacred real estate.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 3, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Persecuted Prophet", + "ref": "Jer 20:1-18; 37:1-38:13", + "book_id": "jeremiah", + "chapter_num": 20, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Jeremiah is beaten, put in stocks, imprisoned in a cistern, and lowered into mud to die. Ebed-Melech rescues him. Jeremiah curses the day of his birth but cannot stop speaking God's word.", + "what_changes": "Faithfulness to God's message brings suffering — the prophet's pain mirrors God's grief over his people.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 4, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "New Covenant Promise", + "ref": "Jer 31:31-34; 32:1-44; 33:1-26", + "book_id": "jeremiah", + "chapter_num": 31, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "While Jerusalem is under siege, Jeremiah buys a field in Anathoth as a sign of hope. He announces the new covenant: God will write his law on hearts, forgive sins, and restore the land.", + "what_changes": "The darkest hour contains the brightest promise — God's commitment to restoration is most visible when destruction seems certain.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 5, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Fall of Jerusalem", + "ref": "Jer 39:1-18; 52:1-34", + "book_id": "jeremiah", + "chapter_num": 39, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Jerusalem falls to Babylon in 586 BC. The temple is destroyed, the people deported. Nebuchadnezzar releases Jeremiah and lets him stay in the land. Everything Jeremiah warned about comes true.", + "what_changes": "The prophet vindicated too late — 40 years of warning ignored, but the new covenant promise endures beyond the rubble.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 6, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Forced to Egypt", + "ref": "Jer 42:1-43:7", + "book_id": "jeremiah", + "chapter_num": 42, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "The remaining Judeans ask Jeremiah for God's guidance, then ignore it. They flee to Egypt, dragging Jeremiah with them. The weeping prophet ends his days in the land of his people's original bondage.", + "what_changes": "Even at the end, the faithful prophet is carried where he doesn't want to go — obedience doesn't guarantee comfort.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": null + } + ] +} diff --git a/content/meta/journeys/person/jesus.json b/content/meta/journeys/person/jesus.json new file mode 100644 index 000000000..6df4013ea --- /dev/null +++ b/content/meta/journeys/person/jesus.json @@ -0,0 +1,197 @@ +{ + "id": "jesus", + "journey_type": "person", + "lens_id": "biographical", + "title": "Jesus of Nazareth", + "subtitle": "The Christ; Son of God; Saviour of the world", + "description": "The Gospels present Jesus of Nazareth as the intersection of all Scripture's lines: the Seed of the woman (Gen 3:15), the offspring of Abraham (Gal 3:16), the Son of David (Matt 1:1), the Prophet like Moses (Acts 3:22), the Servant of Isaiah 53, the Son of Man of Daniel 7, and the eternal Word of God made flesh (John 1:14). Born in Bethlehem during Herod's reign, he grew up in Nazareth and entered public ministry around age 30. His three-year ministry centered in Galilee and culminated in Jerusalem. His teaching was authoritative unlike the scribes, his miracles undeniable, his claims unprecedented: 'Before Abraham was, I am' (John 8:58); 'I and the Father are one' (John 10:30); 'I am the resurrection and the life' (John 11:25). He was betrayed by one of his twelve, tried by two high priests and two Roman officials who both found him innocent, flogged, crowned with thorns, and crucified. Buried in a borrowed tomb, he rose on the third day — witnessed by Mary Magdalene, by the twelve, by more than 500 people (1 Cor 15:3-8). He appeared for 40 days before ascending from the Mount of Olives.", + "depth": "long", + "sort_order": 0, + "person_id": "jesus", + "concept_id": null, + "era": "nt", + "hero_image_url": null, + "tags": [], + "stops": [ + { + "stop_order": 1, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Birth", + "ref": "Matt 1:18-2:23; Luke 2:1-20", + "book_id": "matthew", + "chapter_num": 1, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Born in Bethlehem to a virgin, laid in a manger, worshiped by shepherds and magi. Herod's massacre forces the family to flee to Egypt. Prophecy is fulfilled at every turn.", + "what_changes": "The King of kings enters the world in vulnerability and obscurity — God's power concealed in a cradle.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 2, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Temple at Twelve", + "ref": "Luke 2:41-52", + "book_id": "luke", + "chapter_num": 2, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "At twelve, Jesus stays behind in the temple, astonishing teachers with his understanding. He tells his parents he must be 'in my Father's house' — the first recorded words revealing his divine identity.", + "what_changes": "Even in childhood, Jesus knows who he is and whose he is — identity precedes ministry.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 3, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Baptism and Temptation", + "ref": "Matt 3:13-4:11", + "book_id": "matthew", + "chapter_num": 3, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "John baptizes Jesus; the Spirit descends and the Father declares 'This is my Son.' The Spirit then drives Jesus into the wilderness for forty days of temptation. He defeats Satan with Scripture.", + "what_changes": "Anointing is followed by testing — the Son of God faces what Adam faced and prevails where Adam failed.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 4, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Galilean Ministry", + "ref": "Matt 4:12-13:58", + "book_id": "matthew", + "chapter_num": 5, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Jesus announces the kingdom, calls disciples, delivers the Sermon on the Mount, heals the sick, casts out demons, and teaches in parables. Crowds flock; opposition grows.", + "what_changes": "The kingdom of God breaks into the present through Jesus' words and works — but its nature surprises everyone.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 5, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Feeding and Walking on Water", + "ref": "John 6:1-71", + "book_id": "john", + "chapter_num": 6, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Jesus feeds 5,000 with five loaves and two fish, then walks on water. He declares 'I am the bread of life.' Many followers leave; Peter confesses 'You have the words of eternal life.'", + "what_changes": "Jesus provides what only God can provide — but his provision demands faith that goes deeper than full stomachs.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 6, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Transfiguration", + "ref": "Matt 17:1-13", + "book_id": "matthew", + "chapter_num": 17, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "On a high mountain, Jesus' face shines like the sun. Moses and Elijah appear. The Father speaks from a cloud: 'This is my Son, whom I love; listen to him.' Peter, James, and John are terrified.", + "what_changes": "The veil parts briefly — the disciples glimpse the glory hidden beneath the servant's form.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 7, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Triumphal Entry", + "ref": "Matt 21:1-17", + "book_id": "matthew", + "chapter_num": 21, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Jesus rides into Jerusalem on a donkey, fulfilling Zechariah 9:9. Crowds wave palms and cry 'Hosanna.' He cleanses the temple, overturning tables — the King claims his Father's house.", + "what_changes": "The king enters his capital — but on a donkey, not a war horse. His kingdom redefines power.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 8, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Last Supper", + "ref": "Matt 26:17-30; John 13:1-17:26", + "book_id": "matthew", + "chapter_num": 26, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Jesus washes his disciples' feet, shares bread and wine as his body and blood, predicts betrayal and denial, and prays his high priestly prayer. The new covenant is inaugurated at a table.", + "what_changes": "The servant-king institutes the new covenant through sacrificial love — the meal that defines the community.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 9, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Gethsemane", + "ref": "Matt 26:36-56", + "book_id": "matthew", + "chapter_num": 26, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Jesus prays in agony: 'If it is possible, let this cup pass from me. Yet not my will, but yours be done.' His sweat falls like drops of blood. The disciples sleep. Judas arrives with soldiers.", + "what_changes": "The Son submits his human will to the Father's purpose — obedience at the point of greatest cost.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 10, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Trial and Crucifixion", + "ref": "Matt 26:57-27:56", + "book_id": "matthew", + "chapter_num": 26, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Jesus is tried before the Sanhedrin, Pilate, and Herod. He is scourged, mocked, and crucified between two criminals. Darkness covers the land. He cries 'My God, why have you forsaken me?' and dies.", + "what_changes": "The sinless one bears the world's sin — forsaken so that the forsaken might be reconciled.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 11, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Resurrection", + "ref": "Matt 28:1-15; John 20:1-29", + "book_id": "matthew", + "chapter_num": 28, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "On the third day the tomb is empty. Jesus appears to Mary Magdalene, the disciples, and Thomas. He eats, talks, shows his wounds. He is not a ghost but a resurrected body — the firstfruits of the new creation.", + "what_changes": "Death is not the final word — the resurrection vindicates Jesus' claims and inaugurates the new creation.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 12, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Ascension", + "ref": "Acts 1:1-11", + "book_id": "acts", + "chapter_num": 1, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Forty days after the resurrection, Jesus commissions his disciples to be witnesses to the ends of the earth, promises the Holy Spirit, and ascends into heaven. Angels promise he will return the same way.", + "what_changes": "The ascension is not departure but enthronement — Jesus reigns from heaven and sends his Spirit to empower the mission.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": null + } + ] +} diff --git a/content/meta/journeys/person/john-ap.json b/content/meta/journeys/person/john-ap.json new file mode 100644 index 000000000..68b1dd9e0 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/meta/journeys/person/john-ap.json @@ -0,0 +1,92 @@ +{ + "id": "john-ap", + "journey_type": "person", + "lens_id": "biographical", + "title": "John (Apostle)", + "subtitle": "Beloved disciple; theologian of love", + "description": "John son of Zebedee was a fisherman from Galilee, the younger brother of James, both of whom Jesus nicknamed 'Boanerges' — Sons of Thunder — presumably for their temperament. He was one of the three in Jesus's innermost circle (with Peter and James), present at the Transfiguration, at Gethsemane, and at the raising of Jairus's daughter. In the Fourth Gospel he is widely identified as 'the Beloved Disciple' — the one who reclined next to Jesus at the Last Supper, who ran to the tomb and saw and believed before encountering the risen Christ, and to whom the dying Jesus entrusted his mother. At Pentecost he was arrested with Peter, faced the Sanhedrin with him, and was described by Paul (Gal 2:9) as one of the 'pillars' of the Jerusalem church. He and Peter went to Samaria to pray for the new converts there. Church tradition consistently reports that after Mary's death he settled in Ephesus, was exiled to the island of Patmos under Domitian, and died of old age — the only apostle not martyred. Irenaeus and Eusebius preserve extensive traditions of his Ephesian ministry.", + "depth": "medium", + "sort_order": 0, + "person_id": "john-ap", + "concept_id": null, + "era": "nt", + "hero_image_url": null, + "tags": [], + "stops": [ + { + "stop_order": 1, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Called with James", + "ref": "Mark 1:19-20", + "book_id": "mark", + "chapter_num": 1, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Jesus calls John and his brother James from their father Zebedee's fishing boat. They leave immediately. Jesus nicknames them 'Sons of Thunder' for their fiery temperament.", + "what_changes": "Jesus calls passionate people and channels their intensity — thunder becomes the voice of love.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 2, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Inner Circle", + "ref": "Mark 5:37; 9:2; 14:33", + "book_id": "mark", + "chapter_num": 5, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "John belongs to the inner three — present at Jairus's daughter's raising, the Transfiguration, and Gethsemane. He reclines next to Jesus at the Last Supper, the disciple 'whom Jesus loved.'", + "what_changes": "Intimacy with Jesus deepens understanding — closeness to Christ is the foundation of all ministry.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 3, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "At the Cross", + "ref": "John 19:25-27", + "book_id": "john", + "chapter_num": 19, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "John is the only male disciple at the crucifixion. Jesus entrusts Mary to John's care: 'Here is your mother.' John takes her into his home.", + "what_changes": "Faithfulness at the cross — staying when others flee — creates new bonds of family in God's kingdom.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 4, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Epistles of Love", + "ref": "1 John 1:1-4; 4:7-21", + "book_id": "1_john", + "chapter_num": 1, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "The aged apostle writes letters grounding the church in love, truth, and assurance. 'God is love' — John's theology distills decades of reflection into its purest form.", + "what_changes": "The Son of Thunder becomes the Apostle of Love — a lifetime with Jesus transforms our deepest nature.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 5, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Revelation on Patmos", + "ref": "Rev 1:9-20; 21:1-22:21", + "book_id": "revelation", + "chapter_num": 1, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Exiled on Patmos, John receives the Revelation of Jesus Christ. He sees the risen Lord among the lampstands, the throne room of heaven, the Lamb's victory, and the new Jerusalem descending.", + "what_changes": "The last living apostle receives the Bible's final word — and its final prayer: 'Come, Lord Jesus.'", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": null + } + ] +} diff --git a/content/meta/journeys/person/joseph-ot.json b/content/meta/journeys/person/joseph-ot.json new file mode 100644 index 000000000..dcf9d325f --- /dev/null +++ b/content/meta/journeys/person/joseph-ot.json @@ -0,0 +1,122 @@ +{ + "id": "joseph-ot", + "journey_type": "person", + "lens_id": "biographical", + "title": "Joseph", + "subtitle": "Beloved son; Egypt's prime minister; type of Christ", + "description": "Joseph was the eleventh of Jacob's sons, the firstborn of the beloved Rachel, and his father's clear favorite — the coat was a visible statement of preference his brothers could not ignore. They threw him into a cistern, sold him to Ishmaelite traders for twenty pieces of silver, dipped his coat in blood, and told Jacob he was dead. Joseph arrived in Egypt as a slave in Potiphar's household, rose to manage it, was falsely accused by Potiphar's wife, and thrown into prison. In prison he interpreted the dreams of two royal officials. Two years after the cupbearer was restored, Pharaoh dreamed of seven fat and seven thin cows. Joseph interpreted: seven years of abundance followed by seven years of famine. Pharaoh made him second-in-command of Egypt. When the famine came, his brothers arrived to buy grain. Joseph's revelation of himself — weeping so loudly the Egyptians could hear him — and his words 'You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives' (Gen 50:20) are one of Scripture's most profound statements about divine sovereignty through human evil.", + "depth": "medium", + "sort_order": 0, + "person_id": "joseph-ot", + "concept_id": null, + "era": "patriarch", + "hero_image_url": null, + "tags": [], + "stops": [ + { + "stop_order": 1, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Dreamer", + "ref": "Gen 37:1-11", + "book_id": "genesis", + "chapter_num": 37, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Joseph, Jacob's favored son, receives dreams of his family bowing to him. His father's gift of a richly ornamented robe and his own naivety provoke murderous jealousy.", + "what_changes": "God-given vision can isolate before it elevates — faithfulness is tested by those closest to us.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 2, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Sold into Slavery", + "ref": "Gen 37:12-36", + "book_id": "genesis", + "chapter_num": 37, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Joseph's brothers strip his robe, throw him in a cistern, and sell him to Midianite traders for twenty shekels of silver. He is carried to Egypt as a slave.", + "what_changes": "Betrayal by those who should protect you is the deepest wound — but not the final word.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 3, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Potiphar's House", + "ref": "Gen 39:1-20", + "book_id": "genesis", + "chapter_num": 39, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Joseph prospers in Potiphar's house because the Lord is with him. He resists Potiphar's wife's seduction and is falsely accused and imprisoned.", + "what_changes": "Integrity doesn't guarantee immediate vindication, but God's presence sustains the faithful in every circumstance.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 4, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Prison and Interpretation", + "ref": "Gen 40:1-23", + "book_id": "genesis", + "chapter_num": 40, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "In prison, Joseph interprets dreams for Pharaoh's cupbearer and baker. The cupbearer is restored but forgets Joseph for two more years.", + "what_changes": "God's gifts operate even in darkness, and forgotten faithfulness will be remembered in God's timing.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 5, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Before Pharaoh", + "ref": "Gen 41:1-57", + "book_id": "genesis", + "chapter_num": 41, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Pharaoh's dreams baffle Egypt's wise men. Joseph interprets seven years of plenty followed by seven of famine, and is elevated to second-in-command over all Egypt.", + "what_changes": "Sudden reversal from prison to palace — God's timing transforms suffering into strategic positioning.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 6, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Testing the Brothers", + "ref": "Gen 42:1-44:34", + "book_id": "genesis", + "chapter_num": 42, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Joseph's brothers come to Egypt for grain without recognizing him. Joseph tests them through multiple encounters, discovering whether they have changed since selling him.", + "what_changes": "True reconciliation requires evidence of transformed character, not just regret.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 7, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Reconciliation", + "ref": "Gen 45:1-15; 50:15-21", + "book_id": "genesis", + "chapter_num": 45, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Joseph reveals himself, weeping. He brings his family to Egypt and provides for them in Goshen. After Jacob's death, Joseph reassures his brothers: 'You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good.'", + "what_changes": "Providence redeems even the worst human evil — what was meant for harm, God uses for the saving of many lives.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": null + } + ] +} diff --git a/content/meta/journeys/person/joshua.json b/content/meta/journeys/person/joshua.json new file mode 100644 index 000000000..691b30733 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/meta/journeys/person/joshua.json @@ -0,0 +1,107 @@ +{ + "id": "joshua", + "journey_type": "person", + "lens_id": "biographical", + "title": "Joshua", + "subtitle": "Moses's successor; conqueror of Canaan", + "description": "Joshua son of Nun was Moses's aide from youth (Exod 17:9; Num 11:28; Exod 33:11), one of the twelve spies sent to Canaan (Num 13), and one of only two — with Caleb — who gave a faithful report and urged the people to trust God's promise. For this he was preserved through the forty years of wilderness wandering while an entire generation died. God commissioned him at Moses's death in terms that have defined the meaning of courage for three millennia: 'Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the LORD your God will be with you wherever you go' (Josh 1:9). His campaign to take Canaan moved methodically: the Jordan crossing on dry ground, the circumcision at Gilgal, the fall of Jericho (marching and trumpets), the ambush at Ai, the alliance with Gibeon, the long southern campaign, the northern campaign at the Waters of Merom. The book of Joshua is frank about what was not yet taken — the conquest was incomplete. His farewell address to the tribes at Shechem (Josh 24) is one of the OT's greatest covenant renewal texts: a survey of all God had done, an unflinching offer of choice, and his own declaration: 'But as for me and my household, we will serve the LORD.'", + "depth": "medium", + "sort_order": 0, + "person_id": "joshua", + "concept_id": null, + "era": "exodus", + "hero_image_url": null, + "tags": [], + "stops": [ + { + "stop_order": 1, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Moses' Apprentice", + "ref": "Exod 17:8-16; 24:13; 33:11", + "book_id": "exodus", + "chapter_num": 17, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Joshua first appears as a military commander defeating Amalek. He accompanies Moses up Sinai and remains in the tent of meeting. Decades of apprenticeship prepare him for leadership.", + "what_changes": "Great leaders are formed through long seasons of faithful service under others.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 2, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Faithful Spy", + "ref": "Num 13:1-14:10", + "book_id": "numbers", + "chapter_num": 13, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Joshua and Caleb alone bring a faithful report from Canaan: the land is good and God can give it. The other ten spies spread fear, and the people nearly stone Joshua and Caleb.", + "what_changes": "Faithful minority reports may be rejected in the moment but vindicated by God in time.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 3, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Commissioned as Leader", + "ref": "Josh 1:1-18", + "book_id": "joshua", + "chapter_num": 1, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "After Moses' death, God commissions Joshua with a repeated command: 'Be strong and courageous.' The people pledge their allegiance to Joshua as they did to Moses.", + "what_changes": "God's work continues through new leaders — his presence, not the leader's ability, is the source of courage.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 4, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Conquest of Canaan", + "ref": "Josh 2:1-11:23", + "book_id": "joshua", + "chapter_num": 2, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Israel crosses the Jordan, conquers Jericho, suffers defeat at Ai due to Achan's sin, then campaigns through southern and northern Canaan. The land is subdued in approximately seven years.", + "what_changes": "God fights for his people but demands holiness — sin in the camp has corporate consequences.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 5, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Land Distribution", + "ref": "Josh 13:1-21:45", + "book_id": "joshua", + "chapter_num": 13, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Joshua divides the land among the twelve tribes by lot. Caleb claims Hebron as his inheritance. Cities of refuge are established. The promise of land is fulfilled.", + "what_changes": "God keeps his promises down to specific parcels of land — every tribe receives its inheritance.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 6, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Farewell and Covenant Renewal", + "ref": "Josh 23:1-24:33", + "book_id": "joshua", + "chapter_num": 23, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Joshua gathers Israel at Shechem, recounts God's faithfulness, and challenges them: 'Choose this day whom you will serve.' The people covenant to serve the Lord. Joshua dies at 110.", + "what_changes": "Every generation must make its own choice to follow God — inherited faith must become personal commitment.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": null + } + ] +} diff --git a/content/meta/journeys/person/mary.json b/content/meta/journeys/person/mary.json new file mode 100644 index 000000000..a95ba7ddd --- /dev/null +++ b/content/meta/journeys/person/mary.json @@ -0,0 +1,92 @@ +{ + "id": "mary", + "journey_type": "person", + "lens_id": "biographical", + "title": "Mary (Mother of Jesus)", + "subtitle": "Mother of Jesus; Theotokos (\"God-bearer\")", + "description": "A young woman of Nazareth, almost certainly a teenager, betrothed to a carpenter named Joseph. The angel Gabriel's greeting was entirely unexpected. What followed was the most extraordinary announcement in human history: she would conceive by the Holy Spirit and bear the Son of God. Her response — 'I am the Lord's servant. May your word to me be fulfilled' (Luke 1:38) — is the model of human response to divine initiative. She then composed the Magnificat (Luke 1:46-55), a poem that draws on Hannah's prayer, the Psalms, and Isaiah with extraordinary depth, reversing all human expectations about power and status. She raised Jesus in Nazareth alongside Joseph, presented him at the Temple, found him there at 12 in conversation with the teachers, and 'treasured all these things in her heart.' At the cross, when all the male disciples had fled, she stood there. Jesus entrusted her to John's care with his dying breath. She was present in the upper room at Pentecost (Acts 1:14).", + "depth": "medium", + "sort_order": 0, + "person_id": "mary", + "concept_id": null, + "era": "nt", + "hero_image_url": null, + "tags": [], + "stops": [ + { + "stop_order": 1, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "The Annunciation", + "ref": "Luke 1:26-38", + "book_id": "luke", + "chapter_num": 1, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "The angel Gabriel appears to a young woman in Nazareth and announces she will conceive by the Holy Spirit and bear the Son of the Most High. Mary responds: 'I am the Lord's servant. May your word to me be fulfilled.'", + "what_changes": "God's greatest work begins with humble consent — Mary's 'yes' opens the door for the incarnation.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 2, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Magnificat and Birth", + "ref": "Luke 1:46-55; 2:1-20", + "book_id": "luke", + "chapter_num": 1, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Mary sings a revolutionary song: God lifts the humble and scatters the proud. She gives birth in Bethlehem, wraps Jesus in cloths, and lays him in a manger. Shepherds come to worship.", + "what_changes": "God's revolution begins not with armies but with a mother's song and a baby's cry.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 3, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Temple Dedication", + "ref": "Luke 2:22-40", + "book_id": "luke", + "chapter_num": 2, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Mary and Joseph present Jesus at the temple. Simeon prophesies that Jesus will be a light to the nations — and that a sword will pierce Mary's own soul.", + "what_changes": "The privilege of bearing the Messiah includes the pain of watching him be rejected — joy and sorrow intertwine.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 4, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Wedding at Cana", + "ref": "John 2:1-11", + "book_id": "john", + "chapter_num": 2, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "At a wedding in Cana, Mary tells Jesus the wine has run out. He initially resists, then transforms water into wine — his first sign. Mary tells the servants: 'Do whatever he tells you.'", + "what_changes": "Mary's role shifts from mother to first disciple — pointing others to obey her son.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 5, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "At the Cross", + "ref": "John 19:25-27", + "book_id": "john", + "chapter_num": 19, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Mary stands at the foot of the cross watching her firstborn die. Simeon's sword pierces her soul. Jesus entrusts her to the beloved disciple.", + "what_changes": "The mother who said 'yes' at the annunciation endures the full cost of that consent at Calvary.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": null + } + ] +} diff --git a/content/meta/journeys/person/moses.json b/content/meta/journeys/person/moses.json new file mode 100644 index 000000000..230978f73 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/meta/journeys/person/moses.json @@ -0,0 +1,167 @@ +{ + "id": "moses", + "journey_type": "person", + "lens_id": "biographical", + "title": "Moses", + "subtitle": "Lawgiver; Mediator of the Covenant; Prophet par excellence", + "description": "Moses was born under a death sentence — Pharaoh's decree that all Hebrew infant boys be drowned in the Nile — and survived because of his mother's faith and a providential chain that placed him in Pharaoh's own household. He was educated in all the wisdom of Egypt (Acts 7:22) yet killed an Egyptian taskmaster, fled to Midian, married Zipporah, and spent 40 years as a shepherd — apparently forgotten. At 80, God appeared at the burning bush with a name ('I AM WHO I AM') and a commission. Moses resisted every step: he was not eloquent, no one would believe him, please send someone else. But he went. What followed was the most dramatic display of divine power in the OT: ten plagues, the Passover night, the parting of the Red Sea, and desert provision of manna, quail, and water from a rock. At Sinai he received the Torah in direct communion with God — 'face to face, as one speaks with a friend' (Exod 33:11). His face shone afterward. His failure came in striking the rock rather than speaking to it (Num 20). He died on Mount Nebo at 120, his eyes still clear, having seen the Promised Land from a distance.", + "depth": "long", + "sort_order": 0, + "person_id": "moses", + "concept_id": null, + "era": "exodus", + "hero_image_url": null, + "tags": [], + "stops": [ + { + "stop_order": 1, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Birth and Rescue", + "ref": "Exod 2:1-10", + "book_id": "exodus", + "chapter_num": 2, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Born during Pharaoh's genocide, Moses is hidden by his mother, placed in a basket on the Nile, and adopted by Pharaoh's daughter. The deliverer is raised in the oppressor's household.", + "what_changes": "God's providence places his chosen instruments exactly where they need to be, even in enemy territory.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 2, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Flight to Midian", + "ref": "Exod 2:11-25", + "book_id": "exodus", + "chapter_num": 2, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Moses kills an Egyptian, flees to Midian, marries Zipporah, and spends 40 years as a shepherd. The palace-educated prince becomes a desert nobody.", + "what_changes": "God's preparation often involves stripping away human credentials and teaching dependence through obscurity.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 3, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "The Burning Bush", + "ref": "Exod 3:1-4:17", + "book_id": "exodus", + "chapter_num": 3, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "At the burning bush, God reveals his name — I AM WHO I AM — and commissions Moses to deliver Israel from Egypt. Moses protests five times; God provides signs and Aaron as spokesman.", + "what_changes": "God calls reluctant people and equips them despite their objections — his power is perfected in weakness.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 4, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Confrontation with Pharaoh", + "ref": "Exod 5:1-12:42", + "book_id": "exodus", + "chapter_num": 5, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Moses delivers God's demand — 'Let my people go.' Ten plagues systematically dismantle Egypt's gods. The Passover lamb's blood protects Israel's firstborn. Pharaoh finally relents.", + "what_changes": "God's power confronts every rival claim to authority, and deliverance comes through substitutionary blood.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 5, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Red Sea and Wilderness", + "ref": "Exod 14:1-17:16", + "book_id": "exodus", + "chapter_num": 14, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "God parts the Red Sea, destroying Pharaoh's army. Israel sings in triumph but quickly complains. God provides manna, quail, and water from the rock. Amalek attacks and is defeated.", + "what_changes": "Salvation is entirely God's work — and those he saves must learn daily dependence on his provision.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 6, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Sinai Covenant", + "ref": "Exod 19:1-24:18; 32:1-34:35", + "book_id": "exodus", + "chapter_num": 19, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "God descends on Sinai, gives the Ten Commandments, and establishes the covenant. While Moses is on the mountain, Israel makes the golden calf. Moses intercedes and God renews the covenant.", + "what_changes": "The mediator stands between a holy God and a sinful people — a role that points to Christ.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 7, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Tabernacle", + "ref": "Exod 35:1-40:38", + "book_id": "exodus", + "chapter_num": 35, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Israel builds the tabernacle according to God's design. When it is completed, God's glory fills it so powerfully that Moses cannot enter.", + "what_changes": "God desires to dwell among his people — and provides the means for a holy God to live with sinful humans.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 8, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Wilderness Wandering", + "ref": "Num 13:1-14:45; 20:1-13; 21:4-9", + "book_id": "numbers", + "chapter_num": 13, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Spies report on Canaan; ten bring fear, two bring faith. Israel rebels and is condemned to 40 years of wandering. Moses strikes the rock in anger and forfeits entry to the promised land.", + "what_changes": "Unbelief forfeits what God freely offers — even the greatest leaders face consequences for disobedience.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 9, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Korah's Rebellion", + "ref": "Num 16:1-17:13", + "book_id": "numbers", + "chapter_num": 16, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Korah and 250 leaders challenge Moses and Aaron's authority. The earth swallows the rebels, and Aaron's rod buds overnight to confirm God's chosen priesthood.", + "what_changes": "God himself vindicates those he has chosen to lead — rebellion against his appointed authority is rebellion against him.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 10, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Farewell Sermons", + "ref": "Deut 6:1-9; 30:11-20; 34:1-12", + "book_id": "deuteronomy", + "chapter_num": 1, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Moses delivers three sermons recapping the law and covenant. He sets before Israel life and death, blessing and curse. He commissions Joshua, blesses the tribes, and dies on Mount Nebo.", + "what_changes": "The faithful leader finishes well — preparing the next generation and trusting God with what he cannot complete.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": null + } + ] +} diff --git a/content/meta/journeys/person/nehemiah.json b/content/meta/journeys/person/nehemiah.json new file mode 100644 index 000000000..c5eaa2157 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/meta/journeys/person/nehemiah.json @@ -0,0 +1,77 @@ +{ + "id": "nehemiah", + "journey_type": "person", + "lens_id": "biographical", + "title": "Nehemiah", + "subtitle": "Cupbearer of the king; Jerusalem's wall rebuilder", + "description": "Nehemiah was the cupbearer to Artaxerxes I — a position of extraordinary intimacy and trust. The king noticed his sadness, asked why, and Nehemiah — with a quick silent prayer — made his request: send me to rebuild Jerusalem. The king agreed and gave him letters of authority. Nehemiah arrived in Jerusalem at night, rode around the broken walls alone before revealing his mission, then summoned the people: 'You see the trouble we are in: Jerusalem lies in ruins... Come, let us rebuild the wall of Jerusalem.' The wall was rebuilt in 52 days despite sustained opposition — threats, ridicule, conspiracy — as the workers built with one hand and held a weapon with the other. His memoir is full of arrow prayers, honest frustrations, and direct address to God. His prayer 'Remember me, O my God, for what I have done for these people' recurs like a refrain.", + "depth": "short", + "sort_order": 0, + "person_id": "nehemiah", + "concept_id": null, + "era": "exile", + "hero_image_url": null, + "tags": [], + "stops": [ + { + "stop_order": 1, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Weeping for Jerusalem", + "ref": "Neh 1:1-11", + "book_id": "nehemiah", + "chapter_num": 1, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "As cupbearer to King Artaxerxes in Susa, Nehemiah receives word that Jerusalem's walls are broken. He weeps, fasts, and prays for months before acting.", + "what_changes": "Effective action begins with grief over what is broken and sustained prayer before God.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 2, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Royal Commission", + "ref": "Neh 2:1-20", + "book_id": "nehemiah", + "chapter_num": 2, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Nehemiah risks his life by appearing sad before the king. Artaxerxes grants him leave, letters of safe conduct, and timber for the gates. Nehemiah inspects the walls at night before announcing his plan.", + "what_changes": "Strategic planning combined with courageous faith turns despair into actionable vision.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 3, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Building Under Opposition", + "ref": "Neh 4:1-23; 6:1-19", + "book_id": "nehemiah", + "chapter_num": 4, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Sanballat, Tobiah, and Geshem mock, threaten, and scheme to stop the work. Nehemiah arms the builders: half stand guard while half build. The wall is completed in just 52 days.", + "what_changes": "Opposition to God's work is guaranteed — the answer is prayer, vigilance, and refusal to stop building.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 4, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Covenant Renewal", + "ref": "Neh 8:1-10:39", + "book_id": "nehemiah", + "chapter_num": 8, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Ezra reads the law publicly. The people weep with conviction, then celebrate with joy. A national confession recounts God's faithfulness and Israel's failures. The community recommits to the covenant.", + "what_changes": "Walls protect a community, but the Word forms it — rebuilding infrastructure without rebuilding devotion is insufficient.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": null + } + ] +} diff --git a/content/meta/journeys/person/paul.json b/content/meta/journeys/person/paul.json new file mode 100644 index 000000000..463b90c21 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/meta/journeys/person/paul.json @@ -0,0 +1,167 @@ +{ + "id": "paul", + "journey_type": "person", + "lens_id": "biographical", + "title": "Paul (Saul of Tarsus)", + "subtitle": "Apostle to the Gentiles; author of 13 epistles", + "description": "Saul of Tarsus was simultaneously the most unlikely and most qualified person to become the apostle to the Gentiles. A Pharisee of Pharisees, Roman citizen, trained under Gamaliel, zealous enough to hunt down and kill Christians — he was present at Stephen's stoning, approvingly holding the coats. On the road to Damascus, a light from heaven struck him blind and a voice spoke: 'Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me? I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting.' Three days blind and fasting, he was found by the reluctant Ananias who addressed him as 'Brother Saul.' His three missionary journeys across the Mediterranean — roughly AD 46-57 — planted churches across Cyprus, Galatia, Macedonia, Achaia, and Asia Minor. He was beaten with rods three times, shipwrecked three times, stoned once. Imprisoned in Caesarea for two years, then Rome for two more, he used both imprisonments to write. His final letter (2 Timothy) is a testament from a Roman cell: 'I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.'", + "depth": "long", + "sort_order": 0, + "person_id": "paul", + "concept_id": null, + "era": "nt", + "hero_image_url": null, + "tags": [], + "stops": [ + { + "stop_order": 1, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Pharisee and Persecutor", + "ref": "Acts 7:58-8:3", + "book_id": "acts", + "chapter_num": 7, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Saul approves Stephen's execution and begins systematically destroying the church, entering houses and dragging believers to prison. He is, by his own later testimony, the chief of sinners.", + "what_changes": "The greatest opposition to the gospel can be transformed into its greatest advocacy — no one is beyond God's reach.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 2, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Damascus Road", + "ref": "Acts 9:1-19", + "book_id": "acts", + "chapter_num": 9, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "En route to arrest Christians in Damascus, Saul is blinded by light and confronted by the risen Jesus: 'Why do you persecute me?' Three days of blindness end when Ananias lays hands on him. Saul is baptized.", + "what_changes": "Conversion overturns everything — the hunter becomes the hunted, and grace rewrites the most hostile biography.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 3, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Arabian Wilderness", + "ref": "Gal 1:15-24", + "book_id": "galatians", + "chapter_num": 1, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Paul retreats to Arabia and then Damascus for three years before visiting Jerusalem. His gospel comes by direct revelation, not human instruction. He emerges with a theology forged in solitude with God.", + "what_changes": "Radical transformation requires time in the wilderness — God's deepest teaching happens away from public platforms.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 4, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Antioch and First Journey", + "ref": "Acts 13:1-14:28", + "book_id": "acts", + "chapter_num": 13, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "The Holy Spirit sends Barnabas and Saul from Antioch. They plant churches across Cyprus and southern Galatia, facing Jewish opposition and Gentile worship. The pattern of Paul's ministry is established.", + "what_changes": "The Spirit initiates mission — human planning serves divine sending, and opposition is part of the plan.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 5, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Jerusalem Council", + "ref": "Acts 15:1-35", + "book_id": "acts", + "chapter_num": 15, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Paul and Barnabas defend Gentile freedom from circumcision before the Jerusalem council. James mediates. The decision: Gentiles are saved by grace through faith, not by becoming Jews first.", + "what_changes": "The church's most important theological decision preserves the gospel's core: grace alone, faith alone.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 6, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Second and Third Journeys", + "ref": "Acts 16:1-20:38", + "book_id": "acts", + "chapter_num": 16, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Paul crosses into Europe, plants churches in Philippi, Thessalonica, Corinth, and Ephesus. He preaches on Mars Hill, faces riots, and writes his major letters. At Miletus, he bids farewell to Ephesian elders.", + "what_changes": "The gospel crosses every boundary — geographic, ethnic, cultural, intellectual — transforming cities and provoking empires.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 7, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Arrest in Jerusalem", + "ref": "Acts 21:17-23:35", + "book_id": "acts", + "chapter_num": 21, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Paul is mobbed in the temple, arrested by Romans, and defends himself before the crowd and the Sanhedrin. A plot to assassinate him is foiled. He is transferred to Caesarea under military escort.", + "what_changes": "Obedience to God's leading sometimes walks directly into chains — Paul's imprisonment is not failure but fulfillment.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 8, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Trial and Appeal to Caesar", + "ref": "Acts 24:1-26:32", + "book_id": "acts", + "chapter_num": 24, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Paul stands trial before Felix, Festus, and Agrippa. He proclaims the gospel to each ruler. Agrippa says 'You almost persuade me.' Paul appeals to Caesar — his ticket to Rome.", + "what_changes": "Legal proceedings become evangelistic platforms — every courtroom is a pulpit for the one who lives to testify.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 9, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Shipwreck and Rome", + "ref": "Acts 27:1-28:31", + "book_id": "acts", + "chapter_num": 27, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Paul's voyage to Rome includes a shipwreck on Malta, miraculous healings, and finally arrival in Rome. He lives under house arrest, welcoming all who visit, preaching the kingdom 'without hindrance.'", + "what_changes": "Acts ends with the gospel unhindered — not with Paul's freedom but with the Word's freedom. The mission continues.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 10, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Prison Epistles and Final Letters", + "ref": "2 Tim 4:6-8", + "book_id": "2_timothy", + "chapter_num": 4, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "From prison Paul writes his deepest theology and his final charge to Timothy: 'I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.' Tradition holds he was beheaded under Nero.", + "what_changes": "A life poured out as a drink offering — the apostle finishes with faith, hope, and the crown of righteousness awaiting.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": null + } + ] +} diff --git a/content/meta/journeys/person/peter.json b/content/meta/journeys/person/peter.json new file mode 100644 index 000000000..6dbdeee3f --- /dev/null +++ b/content/meta/journeys/person/peter.json @@ -0,0 +1,137 @@ +{ + "id": "peter", + "journey_type": "person", + "lens_id": "biographical", + "title": "Peter (Simon)", + "subtitle": "Chief apostle; rock of the church", + "description": "Simon bar Jonah was a fisherman from Bethsaida, living in Capernaum with his wife and mother-in-law, when his brother Andrew brought him to Jesus. Jesus looked at him and renamed him: 'You will be called Cephas' — Rock. He was impulsive, brash, and courageous to the point of foolishness: he walked on water until he looked at the waves; he rebuked Jesus when he predicted his death; he drew a sword in Gethsemane and cut off a man's ear; and then, three times that same night, he denied he ever knew Jesus. Each failure was met with grace. His Pentecost sermon was the church's founding proclamation — 3,000 were baptised. His vision of the sheet with clean and unclean animals, and his subsequent willingness to enter a Gentile home and baptise Cornelius, were pivotal moments in the church's self-understanding. Even so, Paul had to rebuke him publicly at Antioch for withdrawing from Gentile table fellowship under pressure from Jerusalem (Gal 2:11-14).", + "depth": "long", + "sort_order": 0, + "person_id": "peter", + "concept_id": null, + "era": "nt", + "hero_image_url": null, + "tags": [], + "stops": [ + { + "stop_order": 1, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Called from the Nets", + "ref": "Matt 4:18-20; Luke 5:1-11", + "book_id": "matthew", + "chapter_num": 4, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Jesus calls Simon and Andrew from their fishing boats. After a miraculous catch, Peter falls at Jesus' knees: 'Go away from me, Lord; I am a sinful man.' Jesus says: 'From now on you will fish for people.'", + "what_changes": "Jesus calls imperfect people and transforms their ordinary skills into instruments of his kingdom.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 2, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "The Great Confession", + "ref": "Matt 16:13-23", + "book_id": "matthew", + "chapter_num": 16, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "At Caesarea Philippi, Peter declares 'You are the Messiah, the Son of the living God.' Jesus blesses him and names him the rock. Minutes later, Peter rebukes Jesus for predicting his death and is called 'Satan.'", + "what_changes": "Genuine revelation and profound misunderstanding can coexist — growth in faith is uneven.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 3, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Denial", + "ref": "Matt 26:69-75; Luke 22:54-62", + "book_id": "matthew", + "chapter_num": 26, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "On the night of Jesus' arrest, Peter denies knowing him three times. When the rooster crows, Jesus turns and looks at Peter. Peter goes out and weeps bitterly.", + "what_changes": "Even the strongest declarations of loyalty can crumble under pressure — but failure is not final for those who repent.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 4, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Restoration", + "ref": "John 21:15-23", + "book_id": "john", + "chapter_num": 21, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "The risen Jesus reinstates Peter with three questions matching his three denials: 'Do you love me? Feed my sheep.' The restoration is specific, personal, and commission-renewing.", + "what_changes": "Grace doesn't just forgive — it restores and recommissions. Peter's failure becomes the foundation for deeper ministry.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 5, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Pentecost Preacher", + "ref": "Acts 2:14-41", + "book_id": "acts", + "chapter_num": 2, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Filled with the Spirit, Peter preaches to thousands in Jerusalem. The fisherman who denied Jesus before a servant girl now proclaims him boldly before the city that crucified him. Three thousand believe.", + "what_changes": "The Spirit transforms cowardice into courage — the same person, empowered differently.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 6, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Cornelius and Gentile Inclusion", + "ref": "Acts 10:1-11:18", + "book_id": "acts", + "chapter_num": 10, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Peter's vision of unclean animals and Cornelius's conversion break open the Gentile mission. Peter declares: 'God does not show favoritism.' The Spirit falls on Gentiles without circumcision.", + "what_changes": "God uses visions and circumstances to demolish the theological assumptions of even his most faithful servants.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 7, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Prison and Miraculous Release", + "ref": "Acts 12:1-19", + "book_id": "acts", + "chapter_num": 12, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Herod arrests Peter and plans his execution. The church prays earnestly. An angel leads Peter out of prison past sleeping guards. He knocks on the door; they think it's his ghost.", + "what_changes": "Prayer accomplishes what human effort cannot — and God's deliverances often exceed what even the praying church expects.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 8, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Letters and Legacy", + "ref": "1 Pet 1:1-9; 2:9-10; 5:1-11", + "book_id": "1_peter", + "chapter_num": 1, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Peter writes to scattered believers, calling them 'a chosen people, a royal priesthood.' He develops a theology of suffering as participation in Christ's sufferings. His second letter warns of false teachers and affirms Christ's return.", + "what_changes": "The impulsive fisherman becomes a pastoral theologian of suffering — the man who fled the cross now teaches others to embrace it.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": null + } + ] +} diff --git a/content/meta/journeys/person/ruth.json b/content/meta/journeys/person/ruth.json new file mode 100644 index 000000000..04ddda299 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/meta/journeys/person/ruth.json @@ -0,0 +1,77 @@ +{ + "id": "ruth", + "journey_type": "person", + "lens_id": "biographical", + "title": "Ruth", + "subtitle": "Moabite widow; model of covenant loyalty", + "description": "Ruth was a Moabite — from a nation Israel regarded with suspicion, descended from Lot's incestuous union, excluded from the assembly of Israel to the tenth generation (Deut 23:3). She had married one of Naomi's sons in Moab. When both her husband and Naomi's other son died, Naomi urged both daughters-in-law to return to their own families. Orpah wept and went. Ruth clung. Her speech of loyalty — 'Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay. Your people will be my people and your God my God' (Ruth 1:16-17) — was a declaration of covenant transfer. She gleaned in Boaz's fields; her humility and devotion caught his eye. When Naomi recognized Boaz as a kinsman-redeemer, Ruth followed her instructions to the letter: she lay down at Boaz's feet on the threshing floor — a bold, culturally coded marriage proposal. Boaz honored it with complete integrity, secured the legal right, married Ruth, and their son Obed was Naomi's restoration and David's grandfather.", + "depth": "short", + "sort_order": 0, + "person_id": "ruth", + "concept_id": null, + "era": "judges", + "hero_image_url": null, + "tags": [], + "stops": [ + { + "stop_order": 1, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Loss and Decision", + "ref": "Ruth 1:1-22", + "book_id": "ruth", + "chapter_num": 1, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Ruth loses her husband in Moab. When Naomi decides to return to Bethlehem, Ruth makes her famous declaration of loyalty: 'Where you go I will go, your God will be my God.' She chooses covenant over comfort.", + "what_changes": "Covenant loyalty (hesed) sometimes means choosing hardship and the unknown over the safe and familiar.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 2, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Gleaning in Boaz's Field", + "ref": "Ruth 2:1-23", + "book_id": "ruth", + "chapter_num": 2, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Ruth gleans in the field of Boaz, a relative of Naomi's husband. Boaz notices her, provides for her, and protects her — showing the same hesed Ruth has shown Naomi.", + "what_changes": "God's providence works through 'coincidences' — Ruth 'happened' to glean in the right field at the right time.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 3, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "The Threshing Floor", + "ref": "Ruth 3:1-18", + "book_id": "ruth", + "chapter_num": 3, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Following Naomi's instructions, Ruth goes to the threshing floor and asks Boaz to 'spread his garment' over her — a proposal of marriage and redemption. Boaz is honored but notes a closer kinsman.", + "what_changes": "Redemption involves risk and vulnerability — Ruth puts herself forward, trusting Boaz's character.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 4, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Redemption and Legacy", + "ref": "Ruth 4:1-22", + "book_id": "ruth", + "chapter_num": 4, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Boaz redeems Naomi's land and marries Ruth at the town gate. Their son Obed becomes grandfather of David. The Moabite outsider enters the royal messianic line.", + "what_changes": "God's redemptive purposes include outsiders — the kinsman-redeemer who buys back what was lost foreshadows Christ.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": null + } + ] +} diff --git a/content/meta/journeys/person/samson.json b/content/meta/journeys/person/samson.json new file mode 100644 index 000000000..92ab49048 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/meta/journeys/person/samson.json @@ -0,0 +1,92 @@ +{ + "id": "samson", + "journey_type": "person", + "lens_id": "biographical", + "title": "Samson", + "subtitle": "Judge; Nazirite; strong-man of Israel", + "description": "Samson was a Nazirite from birth in a time of Philistine oppression, set apart by God with a specific calling and a specific condition: the source of his supernatural strength was his uncut hair. He was also a man of catastrophic personal impulses. He married a Philistine woman against his parents' protest, lost the wedding riddle contest through his wife's betrayal, killed 30 Philistines to pay the debt, found his wife given to another man, tied 300 foxes in pairs with firebrands and burned the Philistines' grain, killed 1,000 Philistines with a donkey's jawbone, visited a prostitute in Gaza, carried the gates of Gaza on his shoulders, and fell for Delilah — whom the Philistine lords paid to find the source of his strength. Three times he lied to her. The fourth time, worn down by her persistent nagging, he told the truth. She shaved his head while he slept. He woke and 'did not know that the LORD had left him.' Captured, blinded, and grinding grain in a Philistine prison, his hair began to grow. At the great festival to Dagon, they brought him out to entertain the 3,000-strong crowd. He asked a servant boy to place his hands against the two central pillars. He prayed for strength one more time: 'let me die with the Philistines.' He pushed — and the entire temple fell. He killed more in his death than in his life.", + "depth": "medium", + "sort_order": 0, + "person_id": "samson", + "concept_id": null, + "era": "judges", + "hero_image_url": null, + "tags": [], + "stops": [ + { + "stop_order": 1, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Nazirite Birth", + "ref": "Judg 13:1-25", + "book_id": "judges", + "chapter_num": 13, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "An angel announces Samson's birth to his barren mother, dedicating him as a Nazirite from the womb. He is set apart for God's purpose before he takes his first breath.", + "what_changes": "God's calling begins before birth — but calling and character must grow together.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 2, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Timnah and the Lion", + "ref": "Judg 14:1-20", + "book_id": "judges", + "chapter_num": 14, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Samson demands a Philistine wife, kills a lion with bare hands, and poses a riddle at his wedding feast. When the riddle is solved through his wife's betrayal, Samson retaliates violently.", + "what_changes": "Extraordinary gifting without self-discipline creates a pattern of provocation and retaliation.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 3, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Escalating Conflict", + "ref": "Judg 15:1-20", + "book_id": "judges", + "chapter_num": 15, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Samson burns Philistine crops, is bound by his own people, breaks free and kills a thousand Philistines with a donkey's jawbone. God provides water from the ground.", + "what_changes": "God uses even deeply flawed vessels to accomplish his purposes against the enemies of his people.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 4, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Delilah and Downfall", + "ref": "Judg 16:1-22", + "book_id": "judges", + "chapter_num": 16, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Samson loves Delilah, who pressures him to reveal the secret of his strength. He tells her about his Nazirite vow; she shaves his head while he sleeps. The Philistines capture, blind, and enslave him.", + "what_changes": "Persistent compromise erodes spiritual strength — the one who defeats armies is undone by his own appetites.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 5, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Final Act of Faith", + "ref": "Judg 16:23-31", + "book_id": "judges", + "chapter_num": 16, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Blinded and humiliated, Samson is brought to the Philistine temple for entertainment. He prays one last prayer, grasps the pillars, and brings down the temple — killing more Philistines in death than in life.", + "what_changes": "God's grace restores even the most compromised — Samson's greatest act of faith is also his last.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": null + } + ] +} diff --git a/content/meta/journeys/person/samuel.json b/content/meta/journeys/person/samuel.json new file mode 100644 index 000000000..6c5b30a99 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/meta/journeys/person/samuel.json @@ -0,0 +1,107 @@ +{ + "id": "samuel", + "journey_type": "person", + "lens_id": "biographical", + "title": "Samuel", + "subtitle": "Last judge; kingmaker; first major prophet", + "description": "Samuel was the son of Hannah and Elkanah, conceived after years of barren prayer and dedicated to God before his birth — brought to Shiloh as a young child to serve under Eli the High Priest. He was lying down in the sanctuary when he heard his name called three times and ran each time to Eli, who finally recognized it as the voice of God. The word the LORD gave him that night was a devastating judgment on Eli's house — and Samuel 'let none of his words fall to the ground.' He became the last of the judges and the first of the prophets — the figure who stood at the hinge of Israel's history and inaugurated the monarchy. He anointed Saul as king when Israel demanded one like the surrounding nations, but Saul's repeated disobedience forced Samuel's hand: 'Does the LORD delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as much as in obeying the LORD? To obey is better than sacrifice, and to heed is better than the fat of rams. For rebellion is like the sin of divination, and arrogance like the evil of idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the LORD, he has rejected you as king' (1 Sam 15:22-23). He then went to Bethlehem and anointed the youngest of Jesse's eight sons, a shepherd boy tending his flock. He did not live to see David's coronation. His authority was such that Saul, in desperation before the battle of Gilboa, asked a medium to call Samuel up from the dead — and the shade that appeared still rebuked him with the same unsparing clarity.", + "depth": "medium", + "sort_order": 0, + "person_id": "samuel", + "concept_id": null, + "era": "kingdom", + "hero_image_url": null, + "tags": [], + "stops": [ + { + "stop_order": 1, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Dedicated Before Birth", + "ref": "1 Sam 1:1-28", + "book_id": "1_samuel", + "chapter_num": 1, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Hannah, barren and grieving, prays desperately at Shiloh. God grants her a son, and she dedicates Samuel to the Lord's service before he is weaned.", + "what_changes": "God hears the prayers of the desperate and turns personal grief into national redemption.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 2, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Called in the Night", + "ref": "1 Sam 3:1-21", + "book_id": "1_samuel", + "chapter_num": 3, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "The boy Samuel hears God's voice calling his name in the night. Eli teaches him to respond, and God reveals that judgment is coming on Eli's house. Samuel is established as a prophet.", + "what_changes": "God speaks to those who are willing to listen — even children — and his word does not return empty.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 3, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Judge Over Israel", + "ref": "1 Sam 7:1-17", + "book_id": "1_samuel", + "chapter_num": 7, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Samuel calls Israel to repentance, leads them in sacrifice at Mizpah, and God thunders against the Philistines. Samuel judges Israel from Ramah in a circuit through Bethel, Gilgal, and Mizpah.", + "what_changes": "Spiritual renewal precedes national deliverance — a leader who prays accomplishes more than one who fights.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 4, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Israel Demands a King", + "ref": "1 Sam 8:1-22", + "book_id": "1_samuel", + "chapter_num": 8, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Samuel's corrupt sons prompt Israel to demand a king 'like all the other nations.' Samuel warns of kingship's costs, but God tells him to grant the request — they have rejected God, not Samuel.", + "what_changes": "God permits what he doesn't prefer, working his purposes even through his people's misguided choices.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 5, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Anointing Saul", + "ref": "1 Sam 9:1-10:27", + "book_id": "1_samuel", + "chapter_num": 9, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Samuel privately anoints Saul as king, then presents him publicly. Saul is tall, handsome, and initially humble — a king chosen by human criteria who begins with promise.", + "what_changes": "Outward appearance and initial humility do not guarantee lasting faithfulness.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 6, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Anointing David", + "ref": "1 Sam 16:1-13", + "book_id": "1_samuel", + "chapter_num": 16, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "God sends Samuel to Jesse's house to anoint a new king. Samuel passes over all the impressive older sons; God chooses David, the youngest shepherd boy. 'The Lord looks at the heart.'", + "what_changes": "God's criteria for leadership are invisible to human eyes — he chooses based on the heart, not the résumé.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": null + } + ] +} diff --git a/content/meta/journeys/person/saul.json b/content/meta/journeys/person/saul.json new file mode 100644 index 000000000..4e0d045a1 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/meta/journeys/person/saul.json @@ -0,0 +1,107 @@ +{ + "id": "saul", + "journey_type": "person", + "lens_id": "biographical", + "title": "Saul", + "subtitle": "First King of Israel; the rejected king", + "description": "Saul son of Kish was the first king of Israel — tall, handsome, from the tribe of Benjamin, genuinely impressive. His early reign had moments of real charisma and courage: he rallied the tribes to rescue Jabesh-Gilead, defeated the Ammonites, showed mercy to those who had doubted him. But two acts of disobedience exposed a character that substituted pragmatism for obedience to God's explicit commands. At Gilgal, anxious because his troops were deserting and Samuel was delayed, he offered the burnt offering himself — a priestly act he had no right to perform. Samuel arrived immediately after: 'You have done a foolish thing... your kingdom will not endure.' Then, against explicit instructions to destroy everything of the Amalekites, he kept the best livestock and spared King Agag — rationalizing it as reserved for sacrifice. Samuel's rebuke was final: 'The LORD has torn the kingdom of Israel from you today and has given it to one of your neighbors — to one better than you.' A distressing spirit then troubled Saul, and he fell into cycles of rage and remorse. His jealousy of David — kindled by the women's song comparing their kills — became consuming: he hunted him across the wilderness of Judah for years, twice placing himself entirely in David's power only to be spared. He consulted a medium at En Dor the night before his final battle, heard Samuel's voice pronounce his doom, and fought the next day at Gilboa. His sons died. He fell on his own sword. David's lament for him was genuine and unguarded.", + "depth": "medium", + "sort_order": 0, + "person_id": "saul", + "concept_id": null, + "era": "kingdom", + "hero_image_url": null, + "tags": [], + "stops": [ + { + "stop_order": 1, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Anointed King", + "ref": "1 Sam 9:1-10:27", + "book_id": "1_samuel", + "chapter_num": 9, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Saul, a tall Benjaminite searching for lost donkeys, is privately anointed by Samuel and publicly chosen by lot. The Spirit rushes upon him and he prophesies among the prophets.", + "what_changes": "God can use anyone — but anointing is not the same as ongoing obedience.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 2, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Early Victories", + "ref": "1 Sam 11:1-15", + "book_id": "1_samuel", + "chapter_num": 11, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "The Spirit empowers Saul to rally Israel and rescue Jabesh-Gilead from the Ammonites. The people confirm his kingship at Gilgal in a moment of national unity.", + "what_changes": "Spirit-empowered leadership produces decisive action and unites God's people around a common mission.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 3, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "First Disobedience", + "ref": "1 Sam 13:1-15", + "book_id": "1_samuel", + "chapter_num": 13, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Facing the Philistines at Gilgal, Saul grows impatient waiting for Samuel and offers the sacrifice himself. Samuel announces that Saul's dynasty will not endure — God seeks a man after his own heart.", + "what_changes": "Impatience with God's timing reveals a heart that trusts its own judgment over God's commands.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 4, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Amalekite Disobedience", + "ref": "1 Sam 15:1-35", + "book_id": "1_samuel", + "chapter_num": 15, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "God commands Saul to destroy Amalek completely. Saul spares King Agag and the best livestock, claiming it was for sacrifice. Samuel declares: 'To obey is better than sacrifice.' God rejects Saul as king.", + "what_changes": "Partial obedience is disobedience — religious activity cannot substitute for genuine submission to God's word.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 5, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Jealous Pursuit of David", + "ref": "1 Sam 18:6-26:25", + "book_id": "1_samuel", + "chapter_num": 18, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "After David kills Goliath, Saul's jealousy grows into paranoid rage. He hurls spears, sends assassins, and hunts David across the wilderness for years. David twice spares Saul's life.", + "what_changes": "Jealousy unchecked becomes obsession — the one who should mentor the next generation instead tries to destroy him.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 6, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Witch of Endor and Death", + "ref": "1 Sam 28:3-25; 31:1-13", + "book_id": "1_samuel", + "chapter_num": 28, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Desperate before battle, Saul consults a medium at Endor. Samuel's ghost confirms his doom. The next day, Saul dies on Mount Gilboa, falling on his own sword after his sons are killed.", + "what_changes": "A life that began with the Spirit's power ends in occult desperation — the trajectory of a heart that refuses to repent.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": null + } + ] +} diff --git a/content/meta/journeys/person/solomon.json b/content/meta/journeys/person/solomon.json new file mode 100644 index 000000000..62e1deaf0 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/meta/journeys/person/solomon.json @@ -0,0 +1,92 @@ +{ + "id": "solomon", + "journey_type": "person", + "lens_id": "biographical", + "title": "Solomon", + "subtitle": "King of wisdom and wealth; temple builder", + "description": "Solomon inherited the most powerful kingdom Israel had ever seen and the covenant promise of an eternal throne. He began well: at Gibeon, God offered him anything. He asked for 'a discerning heart to govern your people and to distinguish between right and wrong' (1 Kgs 3:9). God gave him wisdom beyond measure — and wealth and honor besides. The building of the Temple — seven years, the greatest architectural undertaking in Israel's history — was the apex of his reign. His dedication prayer (1 Kgs 8) is one of the most theologically rich prayers in Scripture. Then the cracks appeared. Seven hundred wives and 300 concubines, many from the nations God had explicitly prohibited marriage with, 'turned his heart after other gods' (1 Kgs 11:4). He built high places for Chemosh, Molech, and Ashtoreth. God announced the kingdom would be divided after his death. Solomon reigned 40 years.", + "depth": "medium", + "sort_order": 0, + "person_id": "solomon", + "concept_id": null, + "era": "kingdom", + "hero_image_url": null, + "tags": [], + "stops": [ + { + "stop_order": 1, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Succession and Wisdom", + "ref": "1 Kgs 1:1-3:28", + "book_id": "1_kings", + "chapter_num": 1, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Solomon secures the throne, consolidates power, and asks God for wisdom rather than wealth or long life. God grants him wisdom surpassing all — plus the riches and honor he didn't request.", + "what_changes": "Wisdom begins with knowing what to ask for — seeking God's priorities above personal ambition.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 2, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Building the Temple", + "ref": "1 Kgs 5:1-8:66", + "book_id": "1_kings", + "chapter_num": 5, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Solomon builds the temple over seven years with Phoenician help. At the dedication, God's glory fills the temple so densely that priests cannot stand. Solomon's prayer consecrates it as a house of prayer for all nations.", + "what_changes": "The temple fulfills God's desire to dwell among his people — but even Solomon acknowledges heaven cannot contain him.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 3, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Golden Age", + "ref": "1 Kgs 4:20-34; 10:1-29", + "book_id": "1_kings", + "chapter_num": 4, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Israel reaches its greatest extent and prosperity. The Queen of Sheba visits and is overwhelmed. Solomon composes 3,000 proverbs and 1,005 songs. Wisdom flows and nations come to listen.", + "what_changes": "The pinnacle of human wisdom and prosperity still points beyond itself to something greater.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 4, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Wives and Apostasy", + "ref": "1 Kgs 11:1-13", + "book_id": "1_kings", + "chapter_num": 11, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Solomon marries 700 wives and 300 concubines from foreign nations. They turn his heart to other gods. He builds high places for Chemosh and Molech. God announces the kingdom will be torn from his son.", + "what_changes": "No degree of wisdom immunizes against compromise — the heart that turns from exclusive devotion falls furthest.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 5, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Decline and Death", + "ref": "1 Kgs 11:14-43", + "book_id": "1_kings", + "chapter_num": 11, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "God raises adversaries against Solomon. Jeroboam is prophetically promised ten tribes. Solomon dies after a 40-year reign. His legacy is permanently divided: incomparable wisdom and catastrophic apostasy.", + "what_changes": "A life can begin with humble prayer and end with divided loyalty — vigilance must last a lifetime.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": null + } + ] +} diff --git a/content/meta/journeys/person/stephen.json b/content/meta/journeys/person/stephen.json new file mode 100644 index 000000000..9314deb20 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/meta/journeys/person/stephen.json @@ -0,0 +1,62 @@ +{ + "id": "stephen", + "journey_type": "person", + "lens_id": "biographical", + "title": "Stephen", + "subtitle": "First Christian martyr; deacon of blazing testimony", + "description": "Stephen was one of the Seven — appointed by the Jerusalem church to oversee food distribution for Hellenistic Jewish widows who were being overlooked. He was not merely an administrator: he 'did great wonders and signs among the people' and engaged so effectively in debate that his opponents could not withstand his wisdom or the Spirit by which he spoke. Dragged before the Sanhedrin on charges of blasphemy against Moses and the Temple, his face was said to look like the face of an angel. His defense speech (Acts 7) is the longest speech in Acts and one of the most sophisticated: a retelling of the entire OT narrative — Abraham, Joseph, Moses, the Exodus, the Tabernacle, the Temple — building to a devastating accusation: Israel has always resisted the Holy Spirit, always killed the prophets, always rejected God's chosen deliverers. 'You stiff-necked people!' The Sanhedrin erupted. He was dragged outside the city walls and stoned — the first Christian martyr. He died looking into heaven, seeing the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God, and praying 'Lord, do not hold this sin against them.' Among those present, holding the coats: Saul of Tarsus.", + "depth": "short", + "sort_order": 0, + "person_id": "stephen", + "concept_id": null, + "era": "nt", + "hero_image_url": null, + "tags": [], + "stops": [ + { + "stop_order": 1, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Chosen as Deacon", + "ref": "Acts 6:1-7", + "book_id": "acts", + "chapter_num": 6, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Stephen is one of seven men chosen to serve the Hellenistic widows in the Jerusalem church. He is described as 'full of faith and of the Holy Spirit' and 'full of God's grace and power.'", + "what_changes": "Practical service and spiritual power are not separate categories — Stephen embodies both.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 2, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "The Speech", + "ref": "Acts 7:1-53", + "book_id": "acts", + "chapter_num": 7, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "Before the Sanhedrin, Stephen delivers the longest speech in Acts — a sweeping retelling of Israel's history showing that God's people have always resisted the Holy Spirit and rejected God's messengers.", + "what_changes": "Scripture rightly read becomes a mirror — Israel's history of rejecting prophets reaches its climax in rejecting Jesus.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": "[BRIDGE TO AUTHOR]" + }, + { + "stop_order": 3, + "stop_type": "regular", + "label": "Martyrdom", + "ref": "Acts 7:54-60", + "book_id": "acts", + "chapter_num": 7, + "verse_start": null, + "verse_end": null, + "development": "As the crowd rages, Stephen sees heaven open and Jesus standing at God's right hand. They stone him while he prays: 'Lord, do not hold this sin against them.' Saul watches, approving.", + "what_changes": "The first Christian martyr mirrors Christ's death — forgiving his killers while commending his spirit to God.", + "linked_journey_id": null, + "linked_journey_intro": null, + "bridge_to_next": null + } + ] +}