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20.04.2016 Feature Article

The Bible: Its Beauty, Relevance And Dominion

The Bible: Its Beauty, Relevance And Dominion
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I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library - JORGE LUIS BORGES

A room without books is like a body without a soul – MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO

The renown that riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail; mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession – SALLUST {86-34 B.C.}

It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours. God be thanked for books. They are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages. Books are true levelers. They give to all who will faithfully use them, the society, the spiritual presence, of the best and greatest of our race – WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING

The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man; nothing else that he builds ever lasts. Monuments fall; nations perish; civilizations grow old and die out. After our era of darkness, new races build others, but in the world of books are volumes that live on still as young and fresh as the day they were written, still telling men’s hearts of the hearts of men centuries dead – CLARENCE DAY

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers – CHARLES WILLIAM ELLIOT

My son, there is something else to watch out for. There is no end to the writing of books …. - ECCL. 12:12 {GNB}

The Holy Bible is the climax of books. The greatest book ever written, it is the zenith of godly and true scholarship. Every subject from animation to zoology is within its splendid library of 66 anointed books. It stands at the peak of book making by authorship, spirituality, truth, doctrine, relevance, longevity, beauty, sales volume, proofs, testimonies, dominion, demonization, opposition, piracy, blackmail, and hatred. There’s no book like the Bible in grace and glory, conspiracy and conquest, span and spark, fury and flavour, power and persecution. Authored by the Triune Elohim {GEN. 1:1}, it’s the most unique thing in any library, bookshelf, church, office, book stand, school, family table, book fair, reading competition and book exhibition.

The uniqueness of the Holy Bible is anchored in its authorship by Jehovah the God of Israel through the writing ministry of forty {40} educated and uneducated inspired servants of God. The Holy Scriptures is about the Triune God Who bear record in heaven - God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit – 1 JN. 5:7. The Bible is about the Lord God Almighty Who’s the living Word – JN. 1:1. It’s about the living Word Who became Jesus the written Word – JN. 3:11. The Bible says that Jesus “was clothed with vesture dipped in blood and His name is called the Word of God” – REV. 19:13. Friends, the Holy Bible is all about Jesus! Yes, it’s all about Him – JN. 5:39; 15:26. He’s the walking element on its sacred pages. The Bible is a star-packed tribute to the Bright and Morning Star. Praise the Lord!

SOME FEATURES OF THE BIBLE
The Holy Bible is a book of generations; it’s about the family history of the first Adam and the line of the second Adam, Jesus the Seed of the woman – GEN. 5:1; EPH. 5:24; COL. 3:10.

It was written by Moses – EXO. 17:4.
It’s a book written by Joshua – JOS. 24:26.

It’s a book written by Samuel – 1 SAM. 10:25; 1 CHRO. 29:29.

It’s the book of Jeremiah – JERE. 51:60.

It’s a book of the Lord – ISA. 34:16; MAL. 3:16.

It’s a book of the generations of Jesus the Son of God – PSA. 132:11; ISA. 11:1; JERE. 23:5; MT. 1:1; LK. 3:23; JN. 7:2; ACTS 2:30; ROM. 1:3.

It’s the book of remembrance – PSA. 56:8; 66:16; ISA. 65:6; MAL. 3:16; HEB. 3:13; REV. 20:12.

It’s a book of thanksgiving – JERE. 31:19

It’s a book about righteous wealth – GEN. 30:43

It’s a book of the wars of the Lord – NUM. 21:14.

It’s a book of the law for kings – DT. 17:18.

It’s a book of the law in the ark – DT. 31:26.

It’s a book of the acts of Solomon – 1 KGS. 11:41.

It’s a book of unparallel authority – MT. 18:18-19

It’s a book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel – 1 KGS. 14:19.

It’s a book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah – 1 KGS. 15:7,23.

It’s a book that is sealed – ISA. 29:11; DAN. 12:4; REV. 22:10.

It’s the book of Psalms – ACTS 1:20.
It’s a prophetic book – REV. 22:18-19
It’s a book of the family history of the God of heaven to the God-Man made in His image and likeness whom He enthroned on the earth – GEN. 1:26-2; EXO. 22:2; PSA. 82:6; JN. 10:34.

It’s a book of the greatest and best covenant ever entered into in all creation – GEN. 8:22; PSA. 9:37; ISA. 54:9; JERE. 33:20, 25; JN. 3:16; ROM. 5:88; 1 JN. 4:9.

It’s the constitution of the church of the Lord Jesus Christ – MT. 18:15-18; ACTS 5:1-11; 13:6-11; 1 COR. 4:1-5:6; 6:4.

It’s the manual of the Monarch of the universe to His co-creators on earth.

It’s the greatest gift from the sinless God on high to sinful man in the earth.

It’s a record of the strongest giving strength to the weakest.

It’s a book of righteousness from God to the redeemed of the Lord - ROM. 4:1-3.

It’s a record of partnership between God and man in the plan of redemption.

It’s a book that warns all men who question God’s worth and importance, for those who have lost sight of their own fallibility – DT. 8:17; ISA. 47:8-9.

It’s the book of life – PSA. 69:28; REV. 20:12.

God, Moses, David and Jesus respectively, established that names can be blotted out of the book of life – EXO. 32:33; 32:32; PSA. 69:27-28; REV. 3:5; 22:19.

For every man who desires true success in life, the Book of the Law must be his constant companion – DT.17:1-19; JOS. 1:8; PSA. 1:2.

The all-knowing God made the heavens and the earth and He is a God of absolute knowledge – GEN. 1:1-31; 2:1-25. Creation was a purposeful act of God – GEN. 1:26. The Holy Bible tells us authoritatively that the earth was not born out of the fatal error that the scientific community calls the Big Bang. In summary, the Theory of Evolution is a flat lie – no animal in any zoo has ever metamorphosed into a man!

By a careful study of the writings of Prophet Jeremiah, Daniel received insight when the Babylonian captivity will come to an end. “In the first year of his reign, I was studying the sacred books and thinking about the seventy years that Jerusalem would be in ruins, according to what the Lord had told the prophet Jeremiah” – DAN. 9:2 [GNB}. {See 2 CHRO. 36:21; JERE. 25:11}. Anointed men and women in all era wrote and are still writing about the Bible because there will be no end to book publishing – ECCL. 12:12. If the good deeds of the Lord Jesus “were all written one by one, I suppose that the world could not hold the books that would be written” – JN. 21:25 {GNB}.

The Bible is a gallery of gallantry, heroism, women, widow’s and children’s rights. It’s the defender of the poor, powerless, voiceless, the stranger and the dispossessed. Family and societal values, the common good, positive mentorship, religious accord, parental rights and business secrets ooze out of its pages. Tender and compassionate friendships reach us in living ways from the Bible. Stories of immorality, murder, incest, rape, rebellion, coup, genocide, raids, idolatry, prostitution, avarice, occultism, sorcery, magic and divorce from its pages show the futility of man’s effort to live outside of God. The wicked, the ungodly and hedonistic elements are given opportunity to mend their ways and be reconciled to God. In intent and fact, the Holy Scriptures is creative in nature, is a carrier of the blessings of God, makes winners out of losers, functions as a true healing agent {PSA. 107:20}, and brings colour out of chaos.

The Bible revealed vessels ordained by God in predestination for His service. One such example was Paul the Apostle who was recruited from the opposition to become the New Testament era’s greatest evangelist, missionary, pastor, church planter, writer, the most renowned spokesman of the Christian faith, and the most thoroughly converted saint. Above all, Apostle Paul was a dedicated lover of books – 2 TIM. 4:13. The prayer of the saints today can haul in the greatest opponents of the gospel of the Lord Jesus into His glorious service. Praise the Lord!

The Hebrew word qudesh means a male devotee to licentious idolatry, who is practicing prostitution with the same sex. Homosexuals are idolaters and prostitutes! The Bible informs that homosexuality is an extreme sexual immorality and murderous engagement. The blithe of this sin was such that not up to ten righteous men and women were found in a city famous for pride, rebellion, indecency, wickedness and homosexual gang-rape – GEN. 19:1-29; DT. 29:23; JERE. 49:1; 50:40. Homosexuality may deceptively look chic in the west today, it may falsely appear to be the cutting-edge, but remember that God dealt with “Babylon the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of Chldees’ excellency,” which was destroyed “as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah” – ISA. 13:19. Child of God, make no mistake about it: Homosexuality is already overthrown – AMOS 4:11; 2 PET. 2:6; JUDE .

Expectedly, Satan has gone about trying to dilute, downgrade and destroy the Word of God via His willing agents. The Holy Bible records an instance when magic practitioners and fake prophets who pretended by incantation to raise the dead, reveal tomorrow, heal the sick, counteract evil by charms, interpret dreams, and determine the sex of children before birth, owned up to their deceptions. Their so-called books of occult sciences were burnt – ACTS 19:19. These included heathen superstitious beliefs of seeking guidance by meteors, planets, signs of the zodiac, sorcery and witchcraft - EZE. 13:1-9. The Holy Spirit is definite and final that all men who romance demons under the guise of astrology are condemned by God – EXO. 22:18; DT. 18:10; 1 SAM. 15:23; ISA. 47:13; JERE. 27:9; LK. 12:29; ACTS 8:9-11; 16:16; REV. 16:13-16; 19:20.

However, the above is by no means all that the Holy Bible talks about. No man can preach the whole Bible in a lifetime. Indeed, the Word of God is inexhaustible - HEB. 4:12. Praise the Lord! Friend, read and study the Holy Bible prayerfully and systematically. Consult a Bible reading plan from spirit-filled churches and ministers. Readers are leaders by reason of beneficial knowledge. Every man who refuses to read is on the same platform as a man who can’t read.

A Pastor, historian, and writer, Joseph Emeka Anumbor is the author of THE INTERCOURSE OF TROUBLED THOUGHTS, a critically acclaimed discourse on homosexuality published by AuthorHouse Inc, Indiana, USA.

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