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The Bible For Dummies
A Final Testament
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THE BIBLE
 
The Greek word
biblion
means “book” or “collection of writings”.The
biblion
called the “Bible” is a collection of scrolls.They say the scrolls were written between
1400
 
BC
and
100
 
AD
.They say the scrolls were written in the main by scribes and seers ofthe Jewish nation, but four scrolls were written by non-Jews.The Jew’s nation is said to have come from Abraham and Sarah.They were a couple of Chaldean drop-outs.They lived a couple of thousand years before the birth of their mostfamous descendant, the man from Nazareth, Jesus Christ.Remove the first eleven chapters of the Bible, and what’s left is thetwo thousand years of Hebrew history from Abraham to the ruin of thenation peopled by his offspring in
70
 
AD
.Hebrews who survived were scattered into all nations.It’s possible, though not certain, the writings began somewhere nearthe five hundredth anniversary of Abraham’s death.1
 
It’s also possible that written reports of Hebrew history didn’t showup until one hundred or more years later, but what’s a century to peopleliving in the 21
st
century, four thousand years after Abraham died?If written reports did begin five hundred years after Abraham died,it would’ve been about the time Jews were released from their bondageto Egypt. Once four hundred years of slaving for the Egyptians passed,Abraham’s people were free again as their God had promised.While in Egypt, Abraham’s offspring swelled from seventy souls intothe mini-multitude liberated by Moses about
1500
 
BC
.The Israelites were removed from Egypt and resettled in their veryown conquered land, formerly known as Canaan.Abraham’s God ruled this land.Abraham’s children were his subjects.It was the first manifestation of the Kingdom of God on Earth.It’s claimed the same kingdom will be seen again.It’s claimed the next time it shows up it’ll have the authority, power,and will to take the whole planet.The first promise in the Bible was sealed by animal sacrifice.The promise is found in a covenant God made with Adam and Eve.Adam and Eve were the first humans inserted into this creation.Adam and Eve were also this creation’s first rebels.God’s covenant provided Adam and Eve with the means to break awayfrom the pitiful state their rebellion had brought on themselves, as wellas all their future sons and daughters.Before the redemption was achieved, however, humankind would knowthe rigors of illness, aging, and death.Cain, their first son, gave his parents nothing but sorrow, a foretasteof the anguish many parents would feel throughout time.Time, as found in the first chapters of
Genesis
, isn’t much more thana downward march, the passing record of the failure of the descendantsof Adam and Eve. Here and there an exception is encountered, but untilAbraham showed up, things weren’t looking good.The Bible really starts with Abraham’s appearance, for it’s here thatreaders come face to face with true religion, redemption, and reward.The first eleven chapters of
Genesis
are introduction, a path leadingto the true genesis of our race, to its true beginning and its relationshipto its God. The rest of the Bible yields an history of the Hebrew nationfrom Abraham’s years and on to the glorification of Abraham’s promisedson, Jesus, the Christ. It was the life, death, resurrection, and glory ofthis “seed of the woman” God used to accomplish the promise to reversethe effects of the first human rebellion.2
 
He’s the Christ, an anointed one.He’s the Great King.He’s the son of God.He’s the son of Abraham.He’s the son covenanted to David and all humankind.He’s the second Adam, firstborn of humanity’s chosen children.He’s the number one son to be born from the dead.He’s the beginning.He’s the end.He’s the fulfillment of prophecy after prophecy.He’s all this and more.He’s a key God turned to unlock a door through which a promise madeto Abraham could also become available to all humans.The twenty seven books known as the “new testament” paint picturesof the birth, life, death, resurrection and glorification of God’s anointedone, his Christ, the son promised to Abraham.These books also portray the lives of Christ’s apostles (messengers).The apostles became witnesses, having seen the fulfillment of certainsignificant events in God’s plan and purpose with humanity.They wrote of a rebirth of the knowledge of truth.They also wrote of opposition, ridicule, and death while in the custodyof Jewish authorities and their political cronies.The apostles witnessed that Israel’s God really did accomplish a mostcrucial part of his plan: manifestation of the promised son.They witnessed that Israel’s God really did put in play a way by whichnon-Hebrews could also become partakers in his divine purpose, a way bywhich non-Hebrews could also share in Abraham’s covenant.The new testament scrolls were acted out in less than a century, butthere are prophecies in the new testament, along with those still waitingto be fulfilled from the old, which peer two thousand years forward to aday when life on Earth becomes so gross that the only thing able to stopcorruption of all the globe is the intervention of Israel’s God. The primefeature of this intervention is the return of the promised son. Assistedby his raised and revived brothers and sisters, the son of God will fulfillall the remaining stipulations of his Father’s covenant.The returned Christ will establish a kingdom that will govern until theend of the Great Age, until all who lived under the reign of his realm are judged and given their due.The royal family ruling Earth will be brothers and sisters of Christ.They’ll be sons and daughters of God.They’ll own divine natures.They’ll be immortal.They’ll display divine power.3
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This isn't part of the Dummies series

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