Books of the Bible Are Complete in Themselves

Each Book of the Bible is Vital to What Precedes and Succeeds.

Read the Bible books one at at time.  Read a book in a week. This is not impossible. How much time do you spend watching T.V. or surfing the internet in 24 hours? How much time on newspapers, magazines, and fiction? The longest of the Bible books doesn’t take more time than some of us devote to these other activities in a day.

Divide Bible Reading Into Sections

Some of the larger books in the Old Tesatment are: Genesis, Exodus, Deuteronomy, and Isaiah. These might take some hours to read with care. If  this is too much for one sitting, divide them into seven equal parts. Put your reading into strict limits. Don’t give yourself time to lose the impression made by the first reading before you get to the second. And don’t suppose that you can grasp the content and the intent of any book in a single reading.

You don’t suppose that as you walk down the corridors of a gallery and look at the pictures. You see some pictures, but you don’t really know what they are about. You must sit and study the picture.

More Interesting Facts About the Bible

Bible Subjects include God, man, sin, redemption, justification, and sanctification.

Grace and Glory.

Jesus.

Christ quoted from 22 Old Testament books. In Matthew there are 19 Old Testament quotations; Mark, 15; Luke, 25; John, 11;  Hebrews 85 (quotations and allusions); Revelation, 245.

Christ quotes from the very passages most avoided by the Bible’s critics: The flood, Lot, manna, brazen serpent, Jonah.

Some Bible Trivia

There are 31,102 verses in the Bible.

There are approx. 775,693 words in the Bible.

The longest chapter is Psalm 119.

the shortest chapter is Psalm 117.

Ezra contains all the letters of the alphabet except “J”.

The longest verse in the Bible is Esther8:9.

The shortes verse in the Bible is John 11:35

The longest book in the Old Testament is Psalms.

The longest book in the New Testament is Luke.

Old Testament Versus the New Testament

The old commences what the New completes. The Old gathers around Sinai, the New around calvary. The Old is associated with Moses, the New with Christ. (John 1:17)

Bible Authors

The authors of the Bible were kings and princes, poets and philosophers, prophets and statesmen. Some were learned in the arts of the times, while others were unschooled fishermen. Other books are soon out of date. But this book, the Bible, spans the centuries. Most books must be adapted to age, but old and young alike love the Bible. Most books are provincial and interest only those in whose language they were written. But not the Bible. It was written in what are now called “dead languages.”