August 5 - The King James Bible
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The circumstances under which the Bible came about are almost unbelievable. It was written by about 40 different men over a 1600 year period from B. C.1492 to 100 A.D. These writers include Moses, Joshua, Samuel, Ezra, David, the Sons of Kohath, Asaph, Heman the Ezrahite, Haggai, Zechariah, Hezekiah, Ezra, Solomon, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Daniel, Nebuchadnezzar, Hosea, Joel, Amos, Jonah, Micah, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John the apostle, Paul, James, Peter, John of Revelation, and Jude.

The writers were from all walks of life. There were kings as David and Solomon, statesman as Daniel and Nehemiah, priests as Ezra, educated men as Moses and Paul, uneducated men as Peter, James, and John, a herdsman named Amos, a tax collector named Matthew, a medical doctor named Luke, and mighty seers as Isaiah, and Jeremiah.

These men were from different lands. Moses was from the wilderness, some were from the cliffs of Arabia, or the hills and towns of Palestine. Some wrote from Shushan in Persia, some by the River Chebar in Babylon, and some from the dungeons of Rome and Asia Minor. There was one who wrote from the lonely Isle of Patmos in the Aegean Sea.

These men wrote with no intention of producing a part of a book as the Bible and were often not aware that others were writing. Yet, in spite of these unusual circumstances, they wrote a book that is consistent with itself and has never been proven in error.

Secondly, the construction of the Bible attests to its validity. The Bible is actually composed of 66 separate and independent books in two divisions. Each of these books has its own theme and analysis. Yet, each book is essential to the complete understanding of the Bible: No book of the Bible may be thoroughly understood without all the others. The Bible is so interrelated that every book, chapter, verse, and even punctuation is essential to understanding the whole. In spite of this arrangement which seemingly would surely produce an incoherent mess, no other book is more harmonious than the Bible: like a great jigsaw puzzle, each piece fits into the whole. This one book, made up of these 66 books: forms one continuous story (humanity in relation to God) and has one great theme (the person & work of Christ).

The scope of subject matter covered in the Bible makes it a book alone in a class of its own. No other book covers with such detail such a broad subject. The Bible is a history from eternity before the creation to eternity after time and all in between. The Bible tells the human story from beginning to ending, and traces the nation of Israel from beginning to ending. The Bible describes the earth from stem to stern. Only the Bible describes sin, Satan, God, and gives the redemption story. All of this, plus much more, is found in the Bible, yet the Bible is a relatively small book. Many accounts of WWI alone far exceed the size of the Bible, and many larger books tell far less than the Bible.

Impossible predictions in the Bible:

Genesis 6:14-17 predicted a great flood would come and cover the whole earth. Genesis 7:10-24 shows it did. Science today admits that at one time, every inch of this earth was covered with water. Consider the fossils of animals in caves with grass in their lungs.

Genesis 7:2-6 gives the unlikely prophecies of Abraham which have come true. Genesis 50:24-26 declares that Joseph’s bones would leave Egypt and Exodus 12:31-40 records they did. Joshua 24:32 confirms the bones of Joseph were brought up from Egypt.

Isaiah 44:28-45:4 prophecy of Cyrus the Persian 2OO years before he was born. The prophecy was fulfilled in Daniel 5:30-31 and Daniel 6:1 when Darius the Mede was placed over the kingdom of Babylon. The fulfillment of the prophecy was also recorded in II Chronicles 36:22.

Jeremiah 34:3 records the impossible prediction that Zedekiah would see the King of Babylon, yet would never see Babylon though he would go there. Only God could have known his eyes would be put out by the King of Babylon, as recorded in II Kings 25:6-7.

Mark 5:17 – Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.

Matthew 24:35 – Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.

Isaiah 40:8 – The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever.

I Peter 1:23-25 - Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever. 24 For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away: 25 But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you.