The same biblical measurements.
A different geometric interpretation.
Project Arc's Architecture
Project Arc investigates whether the exact same biblical measurements, interpreted within their original context, reveal a different geometric architecture for Noah's Ark, the Wilderness Tabernacle and its seven furnishings, Solomon's Temple, and the New Jerusalem. The Second Temple (Herod's Temple) is the exception.
Project Arc's Noah's Ark
Context Is King:
The First Rule of Hermeneutics
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Which dead-in-the-water vessel does science prefer?
What vessel would you and your family rather live on for about a year?
A long, narrow shoebox vessel—or a wide, stable round ark?
Would God design the inferior option, or the superior one?
Science favors the round survival vessel for a dead-in-the-water flood scenario 10/10 times. Which would you choose for your family?
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A Vessel Built to Survive
Most modern reconstructions portray Noah's Ark as a giant ship built for travel.
Yet Genesis describes no rudder, sail, keel, oars, bow, stern, or destination. Noah was never instructed to navigate.
He was instructed to survive.
The Ark's purpose was not transportation—it was preservation.
The Hebrew word tevah appears only twice in Scripture: Noah's Ark and Moses' ark. Moses' ark was not a ship—it was a vessel of preservation.
Could that shared terminology be intentional?
Project Arc investigates whether Noah's Ark functioned more like a giant survival vessel than a conventional ship—designed for flotation, stability, strength, and endurance rather than navigation.
Which design best fits the biblical context?
Let context put it to the test.
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Genesis 6:13-17
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
14 Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.
15 And this is the fashion which thou shalt make it of: The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.
16 A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof; with lower, second, and third stories shalt thou make it.
17 And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; and every thing that is in the earth shall die.
Length-to-Beam Ratio
6:1 — Propulsion & Steerage ✅ 1:1 — Dead-in-the-Water Stability ✅
Ship? Ark?
Built for Duration,
Not Destinatioin.
The Exodus Wilderness Tabernacle
The Wilderness Tabernacle
The Wilderness Tabernacle may preserve the most detailed architectural blueprint in Scripture.
Exodus 26 records the Tabernacle's assembly step by step, emphasizing how the curtains were joined with 50 blue loops and 50 gold clasps on their 4-cubit ends (Exodus 26:4–6). The Hebrew repeatedly highlights the ends and the outermost curtain, inviting readers to follow the construction sequence before assuming the final geometry.
Project Arc investigates whether that sequence reveals an approximate 314-cubit circumference, while the surrounding courtyard measures 100 × 50 cubits.
Coincidence—or intentional design?
Project Arc preserves every biblical measurement exactly as written and asks a single question:
Which design best fits the biblical blueprint when Scripture interprets Scripture?
In 2014, mechanical engineer Andrew L. Hoy rediscovered the architecture of the Exodus Wilderness Tabernacle through his study of the biblical text. His findings are presented in detail in his book, The House of El Shaddai. That work sparked my own investigation into biblical architecture.
Find out more at Project314.org
The Wilderness Tabernacle may preserve the most detailed architectural blueprint in Scripture.
Exodus 26 records the Tabernacle's construction in remarkable detail. Project Arc investigates whether its construction sequence, interpreted within its biblical context, reveals an approximate 314-cubit circumference.
Coincidence—or intentional design?
Project Arc preserves every biblical measurement exactly as written and asks one question:
Which design best fits the biblical blueprint when Scripture interprets Scripture?
Professionally rendered architectural blueprints.
Project Arc's
Solomon's Temple
Built According to a Pattern
Built According to a Pattern
Solomon's Temple did not begin with Solomon.
Its pattern was first revealed to David.
Every measurement, chamber, furnishing, and courtyard followed a divinely revealed design.
Before construction began, every stone was prepared off-site so the Temple rose in complete silence.
No hammers.
No chisels.
No construction noise.
Scripture describes a sacred center surrounded by three ascending levels of side chambers, two towering pillars, the great Sea of Copper, ten lavers, and carefully arranged furnishings.
What if Scripture preserves architectural details we've overlooked?
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Henry Sulley's Temple of Ezekiel's Prophecy (1887) inspired generations of Bible students to explore Ezekiel's Temple through biblical architecture rather than tradition alone.
Could there be even more to discover?
Solomon's Temple
vs
Second Temple
vs
Herod's Temple
Three Temples.
Three Different Sets of Measurements.
Most illustrations portray these temples as essentially
the same building with only cosmetic changes.
Solomon’s Temple
60 × 20 × 30 cubits
(1 Kings 6:2 — God)
Second Temple
60 × 60 cubits
(Ezra 6:3 — King Cyrus)
Herod’s Temple
100 × 100 × 100 cubits
(Herod the Great)
The differences are striking.
The First Temple is often assumed to follow the same basic form as the Wilderness Tabernacle—but the measurements suggest otherwise.
The Second Temple, authorized by King Cyrus, introduces a radically different footprint. Centuries later, Herod expands the structure again on a monumental Greco-Roman scale.
Were these simply larger versions of the same building?
Or do the changing measurements reflect changing architectural ideas, historical circumstances, or interpretations of the biblical pattern?
Project Arc invites you to return to the measurements themselves—not tradition—and ask a simple question:
What if the differences matter more than we have assumed?
The 2024 PLOS ONE Archaeomagnetic Study of the Ishtar Gate, Babylon 569 BC.
Babylonian Architecture?
Have we been viewing biblical architecture through a
Babylonian–Greco-Roman–Modern Western Architectural Lens rather than through the architectural context of Scripture itself?
Project Arc's New Jerusalem
The New Jerusalem
The Bible begins in a garden.
It ends in a city.
The New Jerusalem is Scripture's final architectural vision—the eternal dwelling place of God with His people.
Every foundation.
Every wall.
Every gate.
Every measurement.
Nothing appears accidental.
The city is described as foursquare, with equal length, breadth, and height.
But what do those measurements represent?
Could "foursquare" mean "width-quartered"?
From Noah's Ark...
to the Wilderness Tabernacle & 7 Furnishings...
to Solomon's Temple...
to Ezekiel's Temple...
Could Scripture reveal a consistent architectural pattern from beginning to end?
Project Arc explores whether the New Jerusalem is the culmination of that pattern.
Could the final city be the final piece of the puzzle?
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Revelation 21:15-17
15 And he that talked with me had a golden reed to measure the city, and the gates thereof, and the wall thereof.
16 And the city lieth foursquare, and the length is as large as the breadth: and he measured the city with the reed, twelve thousand furlongs. The length and the breadth and the height of it are equal.
17 And he measured the wall thereof, an hundred and forty and four cubits, according to the measure of a man, that is, of the angel.
Why Do the Shapes Matter?
Project Arc is not investigating biblical architecture for geometry alone.
The shapes matter because Scripture matters.
If we've overlooked patterns in Scripture, then reexamining them may help us return to the biblical text with greater care, humility, and wonder.
The goal is to edify believers and encourage everyone to examine Scripture more carefully.
2 Timothy 3:16
All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness.
Project Arc explores the possibility that the Second Temple stands alone as Scripture's only linear, shoebox-shaped structure, while the other biblical structures—and the seven furnishings—display recurring nonlinear architectural patterns.
