Daniel · Ezekiel · Zechariah · Jeremiah · Matthew · Revelation Dan 7:2; Ezk 37:9; Zec 2:6; 6:5; Mat 24:31; Rev 7:1
The four winds of heaven are a sovereign-totality formula. The same two words scatter Israel into exile, fragment Alexander's empire, breathe life into dry bones, dispatch and restrain cosmic agents, and gather the elect from every quarter of the earth. One formula, one hand, and a canonical arc that runs from scattering to gathering.
Genesis 7:1-8:14
Eighty-three Hebrew verses chiastically center on a single sentence: va-yizkor Elohim et-Noach (Gen 8:1). The Flood narrative is the canonical first iteration of uncreation-and-recreation — Gen 1's cosmogonic lexicon returns inverted, the judgment-execution verbs run forward into the Red Sea at 34% coverage, and the dove-over-water of Gen 8:8-11 becomes the only canonical pair with Jesus' baptism that 1 Pet 3:21 names as antitype.