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The miracle of its preservation
No less amazing than the Bible’s origination, is its preservation.
“Forever, O Lord, Thy Word is settled in heaven” scripture says.
The Bible is not the “book of the month,” it’s the book of the Ages!!!
No book has been the object of more attacks, more scorn than the Bible.
No book has ever been despised and rejected like the Word of God.
It has been burned, ridiculed, outlawed, but amazingly, the more it is attacked, the more it multiplies!
Voltaire in his day said, “in 100 years the Bible will be a forgotten book, only to be found in museums.” 100 years later, Voltaire was dead, and his house was purchased by the Geneva Bible Society for the printing and distribution of Bibles! A preacher said like this:
Many a man has preached the funeral of the Bible, only to find out that the corpse outlives the pallbearers!
John Cummings said, “the empire of Caesar is gone, but the Word of God still survives, the legions of Rome are mouldering in the dust, but the Word of God still survives.
The avalanches that Napoleon heaped upon Europe have melted away, but the Word of God still survives:
The pride of the Pharoahs has fallen, but the Word of God still survives. Tradition has dug for it a grave:
Many a Judas has betrayed it with a kiss. Many a Demas has forsaken it, but the Bible still survives!”
The Bible is a miracle in it’s origination…it’s preservation too.
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The miracle of it’s circulation
No book has been circulated like the Bible. By far the #1 seller of all time. Many people have given their lives for the cause of circulating the Word of God. The Gideon’s are just 1 organization doing this, and each year they distribute over 80 million Bibles worldwide…and I have friends who risk their lives to smuggle the Bible into countries whose leaders forbid it’s distribution and some church members don’t even carry theirs to church what a shame!
John Wycliffe gave his life to translating the Bible from Latin to English, against the wishes of the Pope (Wycliffe had spoken out against the Pope that he was not infallible) After his death, the church actually dug up his bones and burned them, and threw the ashes into the Thames River what a beautiful picture, though, of what he did for the Bible, for the river carried his ashes to the ocean, and ocean currents spread them all over the world, and everywhere that waves lap the shore, the Word of God has been distributed.
Brother Andrew used to smuggle the Bibles into iron corridor countries, during USSR regime.
Richard Wurmbrand was tortured for spreading the Gospel and circulating the Bibles.
Many people smuggled the Bibles into Russia when it was under USSR regime. Many were caught and killed. People sacrificed their lives happily for the sake of circulating the Bible and parts of the Bible.
It’s a miracle book in its origination, preservation and circulation.