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QUARTERLY NEWS LETTER Copyright (c) 2012 All Rights Reserved __________________________ Spring 2012 (Mar., Apr., May) Vol 5 No 2 INSIDE THIS ISSUE Bible Study: Obadiah (Obadyah in Hebrew) Jonah (Yonah in Hebrew) The World of Science: Is the Bible Scientifically Accurate? Our Real American History: The Real Story About Columbus A Personal Word: From Ken Williams __________________________________________________________________ BIBLE STUDY: Obadiah (Obadyah in Hebrew) We have been going through the books of the Old Testament in each of our quarterly Bible studies. We are looking for references to the Promised Messiah, the Lord Jesus Christ. In this issue we look at the Old Testament Prophet Obadiah. The Prophet Obadiah does not appear anywhere else in Scripture. There is no link to tell when he lived, where he prophesied or anything else about him. Most Bible scholars believe that he wrote possibly a year or so after Nebuchadnezzar destroyed the Temple in Jerusalem. The first portion of Obadiah's prophecy has to do with God's judgment of Edom. Edom was the nation south of the Dead Sea, which had caused so much trouble for the people of Israel over the centuries. Yet they were cousins. The nation of Israel came from Isaac's son Jacob, whom God renamed Israel. Edom came from Jacob's twin brother Esau. After Isaac died, Esau moved all of his family to the area east and south of the Dead Sea (Genesis 36), and from him came a great nation as God had promised and a great civilization that lasted into the third century after the time of Messiah's sacrifice. In 1812 the remains of the ancient city of Petra were discovered, a silent witness to the fulfillment of Obadiah's prophecy. In verses 15 and 16, Obadiah sees Messiah as the judge of the nations. He says that just as Edom was annihilated because of its treatment of Israel, God will judge all nations that have tried to oppose God by threatening His people improperly. In verses 17 through 20, Obadiah says that the time is coming when "...on Mount Zion (the Temple Mount) there shall be deliverance (escape), and there shall be holiness" (verse 17a NKJV). When Messiah comes to rule and reign, the Temple of the Holy God will replace the Muslim Dome of the Rock, Israel's enemies will be eradicated, and holiness shall prevail. The second part of that verse says, "The house of Jacob (Israel) shall possess their possessions." Then it outlines all the territory that will be theirs - all of the land God promised to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, but which Israel has never totally posessed in all of its history. Obadiah ends writing about the coming Kingdom of God. He writes, "Then deliverance shall come to Mount Zion to judge the mountains of Esau, and the kingdom shall be the LORD's" (verse 21 KJV). Obadiah says Messiah will "save" Israel. Then He will give them all He has promised them. And finally, He will rule over them and the entire world in perfect holiness. Jonah (Yonah in Hebrew) Jonah was a prophet in Israel during the reign of King Jeroboam II. His name means "dove." The Book of Jonah is probably one of the most loved and yet maligned stories found in the Bible. Sunday School children marvel at the story of "Jonah and the Whale." Liberals scoff at the story as a fairytale. If you believe in a God who could fling the universes into space simply by speaking His intention, then it is not too difficult to believe that such a God "prepared a great fish to swallow Jonah" (Jonah 1:17 KJV). Notice that the Bible nowhere calls the fish a "whale." Certainly, this is one of the spectacular miracles in this book, but by no means is it the only one. Other miracles include: the gourd, the worm, the east wind, and the repentance of the entire city of Nineveh, a Gentile city. It is hard to try to deny the reality of the story that Jonah portrays in his book, since it is quite obvious that Jesus, the Jewish Messiah, some 900 years later referred to Jonah's experience as a real event. Deny Jonah, and you have to deny Jesus as well. One day when Jesus was teaching, some religious leaders from the important sect known as the Pharisees, asked Him for a sign to prove that God had sent Him. Jesus answered, "An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah. For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so will the Son of Man (an Old Testament term for Messiah) be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. The men of Nineveh will rise up in judgment with this generation and condemn it, because they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and indeed a greater than Jonah is here" (Matthew 12:39-41 KJV). While Jonah does not anything about events future to his time, Jesus did say that Jonah's experience in "the belly of the great fish" was a type of His ow death, burial and resurrection. ___________________________________________________________ THE WORLD OF SCIENCE: Is the Bible Scientifically Accurate? It must first be understood that the Bible is not a science textbook. Its purpose is not to speak to scientific subjects. Nor does it go into depth on any scientific subject when it does touch on it. However, whenever (100% of the time) the Bible does touch on a subject with scientific ramifications, it is totally and completely accurate. In spite of the fact that some portions of the Bible were written more than 3,000 years ago, and all of it was complete by about 2,000 years ago, the Bible does not reflect the scientific understanding of the people of that time, but with what science has most recently discovered. Some critics have laughed at the Bible and its supposed "scientific mistakes." However, those "mistakes," as they called them, have been proven to be scientifically accurate over the past fifty years, one of them as recently at 1999. It was science that turned out to be wrong and the Bible which was right. Science has caught up with revelation. We are not going to look at all of the areas in which the Bible delves into the realm of science. We will check some passages which are scientifically correct even though they were at odds with the thinking and understanding of the scientific and philosophical comunity at the time they were written. Surely the information came by revelation from God, because the human authors would have had no way possible to know what they wrote. Let's begin. FROM THE FIELD OF ASTRONOMY How did Columbus know that the world was round? Remember, the scientific community of the 1400's believed that the world was flat and that if you sailed too far you would fall off the end of the earth. There were even pictures drawn by Columbus' skeptics showing his ships teetering on the edge of the earth about to fall off. Columbus, in his diary, wrote tht God showed him that the world was round. He listed a numer of Scriptures, especially Isaiah 40:22. The Jewish Prophet Isaiah lived and wrote in the 8th Century BC. That would have been 2200 years before Columbus lived. Yet, under the direction of God, Isaiah wrote that God sits (or presides) over "the circle of the earth." The Hebrew word translated "circle" in the King James Version of the English Bible means "roundness" or "sphere." Galileo, the Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer and philospher, blew the minds of the scientific community of the early 1600's when he announced that the earth revolved around the Sun. The Aristotelian scientific understanding of the day was that the earth was the center of the universe, and the Sun moved across the earth. Galileo's theory was not well received by academia to the point that the Catholic Church had to protect him from bodily harm. But the Bible went one step further. King David, in the Psalms, said that the Sun travels on an orbit of its own (Psalm 19:4b-6). Scientists did not discover that truth until the last half of the 20th Century. However, it wasn't until June of 1999 that sientists finally calculated the path of the Sun's orbit and the speed at which the Sun is traveling. According to science, the Sun is traveling at a rate of 600,000 miles per hour, and it will take it a total of 226 million years to make one trip around its orbit. Yet, 3,000 years ago, King David, by supernatural revelation, wrote that fact in the Psalms. Job, who lived about the time of Abraham, knew that light travels in a path (Job 38:19). Yet, until up to about 400 years ago, science taught that light was transmitted instantaneously in blanket coverage. It wasn't until the 16th Century that Sir Isaac Newton potulated that light travels in very small particles in a straight line at speeds of 186,000 miles per second and is a form of radiant energy. Job also wrote about the "light spectrum" (Job 38:24). Yet it wasn't until Newton that it was discovered that light could be "apportioned" or "divided" into its colors through the use of a prism. FROM THE FIELD OF OCEANOLOGY The Water Cycle is something which is a relatively modern understanding when taken in the context of all of human history. Most of the people mentioned in the Bible never saw a salt water ocean or sea, other than the Dead Sea which went nowhere. Most had no idea where the rivers went; or how the clouds were replenished with water. Yet King Solomon (Ecclesiastes 1:7 and 11:3) and later the Jewish Prophet Amos (Amos 9:6b) described the Water Cycle which rains on the earth; the water runds down the rivers to the oceans from which it returns to the clouds to begin the process all over again. Did you know there are springs in the seas? Job wrote about them more than 4,000 years ago (Job 38:16). Again, we have a relatively modern discovery that was in the Bible all along. Today we know that there are fresh water springs all over the ocean floors just as there are on land. One famous such spring is in Hawaii were natives used to dive off the cliffs into the ocean with gourds to get the sparkling fresh water way below the surface as it came from a spring. Until the 20th Century most thinking held that the floors of the oceans were relatively level and sandy. Today we know that the oceans have mountain ranges and deep valleys. As a matter of fact, we have discovered places in the Pacific Ocean that are 5 1/2 and even 6 miles deep. Recently an area nearly 7 miles deep has been found in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Guam. Yet Job wrote about the deep recesses of the oceans more than 4,000 years ago. FROM THE FIELD OF MEDICINE In Genesis 17:12, God ordered all the Israelites to circumcise their boy babies on he eighth day. They, of course, did not know why. But God knew! Today we know too. It is because blood clotting is at its maximum on the eighth day after birth. Vitamin K is responsible for the production of something called "prothrombin." Prothrombin is made on days 5 through 7. Day eight, however, is the only day the amount of prothrombin in the baby's body is above the normal level. It is the prothrombin that clots the blood. Today we don't normally wait eight days, because before the circumcision is performed doctors inject quantities of Vitamin K to speed p the prothrombin production. In Leviticus 17:15, the Israelites were ordered not to eat any meat from animals which had died naturally, or been killed and left by other animals. There was a good reason for that prohibition, although the people to whom the command was given would have had no idea that there was a medical reason for the comand. It wasn't until the 1860's when Louis Pasteur discovered bacteria and the "germ theory" for disease. In Levitius 11:7, God listed certain animals as unclean, and the Israelites were not to eat them. Most prominent in the list was swine (pigs). Today we know that many people over the centuries died from parasites ingested by pigs and transmitted to humans. Today, with proper cooking and storage, pork is deemed to be safe. However, until recent times people were not aware of that, and many died. But God ordered His people not to partake, and therefore they would be safe from related diseases. In Deuteronomy 23:12-14, God ordered human waste to be buried outside the camp. Think of it. There were 3-million plus people in one huge camp out in the desert. That would generate a huge amount of waste. All of it had to be carried outside the camp and buried daily. Back in the Middle Ages, people saved their waste till evening then dumped it out in the back alley. There, the fleas infeste it, got on rats and contaminated them and caused the Black Plague which killed 12-million people. Up to this side of the Civil War, the best medical thought believed that fever, colds and flu-like symptos were caused by too much blood. Blood-letting was the common prescription for many ailments. It is now believed that literally thousands upon thousads of people may have been bled to death by doctors as a treatment for fever or flu-like symptoms, including out nation's first president, George Washington. He was bled five times in two days for flu-like symptoms. His medical report said that he became weaker and weaker until he slipped into unconsciousess. Yet, God told the Peple of Israel when He gave them the Law, that "the life of the flesh is in the blood" (Leviticus 17:11). FROM THE FIELD OF BIOLOGY In Acts 17:25, the Bible says God is "the Giver of life." Man has tried and tried again to create life, but has failed. The experiment which has been mentioned in textbooks most often is the Miller Experiment done back in the 1950's. Usually the textbooks describe the experimenters as have discovered "the building blocks of life." That statement will then be followed by a discussion on Evolution, making it sound like creating life is easy and came about spontaneously. But let's look at the Miller Experiment. The tried to create certain atmospheric conditions which they then shocked with electricity to simulate a lightning strike. The scientists were responsible for news stories that reported that they had found "the building blocks of life." What they actually go was the following: Tar 85% Carboxylic acids 13% (Not important to life) Clycine 1.05% Alanine 0.85% Glutamic acid trace Aspartic acid trace Valine trace There was no protein, which is essential to life. There were only trace amounts of amino acids. What they produced, was tar (hardly "the building blocks of life"). But even if they had succeeded in producing all of the components of a complete cell in the proper amounts and under the proper conditions, they still would have had just a lifeless cell. Evolution, otherwise known as "life from nothing," violates several known Laws of Science. This particular experiment violated the "Law of Biogenesis." This Law states, "Spontaneous generation (the emergence of life from nonliving matter) has never been observed. All observations have show that life comes only from life. Take a look at the scientific evidence left in the earth with regard to its origins. Now try to take that evidene and fit it into the Evolutionary Theory. You are left with tremendous holes and contradictions. Take that same evidence and try to fit it into the Creation Theory and it fits like a tailored glove. Let's take one more reminder that the Bible is not a science textbook. However, when the Bible does touch the subjects of science, it is always correct. It does not reflect the ideas of science that were prevalent during the time it was written. ___________________________________________________________ OUR REAL AMERICAN HISTORY: The Real Story About Columbus Do you think you know the story of Columbus? Not likely if you have read it from accounts written within the last 50 years. The story of Columbus, like the rest of our history, has been rewritten to fit in with "political correctness" and to fit the desires of the "social architects" who are intent on redesigning our society. Likely your understanding of the story of Columbus is something like this: 1. As a boy, Columbus, enamored by the sea, sat along the docks and watched the tall sailing ships come in to port and leave. He noticed when the ships sailed out, the ship disappeared over the hoizon, but the sails were still visible, disappearing from the bottom to top as the ship vanished over the horizon. When the ships came in they appeared top sail first, then the middle sails, the bottom sails, and then the ship itself. From this Columbus figured out that there must be a curve to the earth and that maybe it was actually round and you could get to the east by going to the west. 2. Columbus was an adverturer and fortune hunter. 3. Columbus, and his crew of rowdy seamen, sailed west in their three small wooden ships under the Spanish flag. The crew became more and more anxious aout the possibility of falling off the edge of the earth. After Columbus refused to turn around and return, they threatened to have him "walk the plank." Columbus persuaded the crew to go on for one more day, and they spotted land. 4. Columbus and his crew brutally slew and enslaved the natives of the Islands he discovered, and forced their conversion to Christianity. How much of the above do you think is really true? About 10% of number 1 is true. All of the rest is a total concoction of the revisionists. Would you join me in visiting the real story of Columbus? Columbus's parents were devout Jews living in Spain during the horrific Roman Catholic Church sponsored Inquisition. They were forced to convert to Christianity or die. Columbus's parents were among the Jews who outwardly converted, but in private continued to practice Judaism. Dispite their supposed conversion, they still came under severe anti-Semetic persecution from the Roman Catholic Church, and eventually fled to Italy, where Columbus grew up. Here they decided to study the Jewish Scriptures (the Old Testament) with an eye toward proving that the Christian's Jesus was not the Messiah promised in the Jewish Scriptures. During their study, however, they came to the realization that Jesus of Nazareth was indeed the "Suffering Messiah" spoken of throughout the Jewish Scriptures, and became devoted followers of Christ. They spent one hour every morning and one hour every evening in prayer and in study of the Scriptures, a practice that Columbus also followed throughout his life. The Christian world in Europe was divided into many small kingdoms. They had become very prosperous, and had opened a number of trade routes to the east. However, the great hordes of the Muslim armies were raging across North Africa, a Christan stronghold, plundering, pillaging, raping, and committing unthinkable atrocities. Streets in Christian cities like Carthage ran deep in the blood of Christians who refused to convert to Islam. The Moslems had been stopped from coming into Europe at the Strait of Gibraltar. They had also been stopped following bloody fighting, and miraculous deliverances in Eastern Europe. But the trade routes to the east had also been cut off threatening the very survival of the Christian world. Into this setting came Columbus. Dr. Kay Brigham has translated many of Columbus' writings into English. She says, "It was the Bible, the Holy Scriptures, that motivated him. For he says in The Book of Prophecies (one of the books Columbus wrote and Dr Brigham translated), that he came to their Majesties (the Spanish Monarchs) with this fire. Precisely, this fire was the Holy Spirit. And it was through the Holy Spirit that he was inflamed with a sense of great urgency. It was through the Scriptures that he realized that he was (to use his words) 'the chosen serant of God, like Abraham and David and John the Baptist to announce the new havens and the new earth' as prophesied by Saint John in The Book of the Revelation. And that it was through the Scriuptures that he realized that the preaching of the Gospel in the uttermost parts of the earth would herald the Second Coming of our Lord." It was that fire which he said came from God that forced him to press on with his proposal to sail west to get to the east, even after being turned down in his native Italy. He then traveled to Spain where he spent many more years, mustered great effort, and made numerous presentations to the King and Queen and their courts, before finally being outfitted for his first voyage. Columbus wrote extensively about his studies in the Bible. Between his third and fourth voyages he wrote a huge volume called The Book of Prophecies. It is simply verses of Scripture interwoven with commentary about taking the Gospel to new areas. In it, he acknowledged his own shortcomings. He admitted to being a terrible administrator. He repented for having allowed slavery, cannibalism and human sacrifices (conditions he found among the natives when he arrived) to continue on the islands he discovered. While he did preach the Christian Gospel to the natives, and many turned to Christ; he did not force them to become Christians as some have stated; nor did he even try to interfere with their culture. Was Columbus a fortune hunter as today's history books make him out to be? In his diary he tells us why he set sail for the Indies. "It was the Lord who put it into my mind. I could feel His hand upon me, for the execution of the journey to the Indies. I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps. It is simply the fulfillment of what Isaiah had prophesied; the fact that the Gospel must still be preached to so may lands, in such a short time. This is what convinces me." So, what was it that convinced Columbus that the world was round so that he could get to the east by sailing west? For that, too, Columbus pointed to the Bible. He mentioned numerous passages of Scripture, including the writings of the Prophet Isaiah written some seven hundred years before the time of Christ, and more than 2,000 years before Columbus was born. In it, the Prophet pictures God as "hovering" or "presiding" over the "circle" or "sphere" of the earth. Columbus said that God pointed out to him in the Bible that the world is round. Before we leave our subject, let's not forget about the mutiny on board as the three small ships sailed westward. Today historians try to tell us the seamen became anxious about falling off the end of the earth. However, Columbus tells us a different story in his diary. Columbus' crew was made up of persecuted Jews in Spain who he talked into going with him. Columbus requird all crew members to be present and participate in morning and evening prayers. His Jewish crew, upset with his parent's Christian conversion, rebelled. They were going to force him to "walk the plank." They recanted when Columbus made attending morning and evening prayers optonal. He took no revenge against his crew for their actions. We have come so full-circle in our efforts to take God out of our schools, our government and our society, that we have even stooped to fabricating our own history. ___________________________________________________________ A PERSONAL WORD: From Ken Williams This past December I completed a new book, which was published in January. This was never intended to be a book, but about three years ago, after 12 years of compiling and teaching the material, it seemed that the Lord was indicating that a manual, to go along with the teaching, would be beneficial. It all began in 1996 when my wife and I went on a trip to the Holy Land, including Israel and Jordan. Many of the things I had studied in the Bible, just seemed to jump into reality. More importantly I came in contact with some of the culture of the land which helps interpret how the people to whom the Bible was written understood it. Upon our return, our pastor asked me to put together an elective Sunday School class on understanding the Scriptures through understanding the culture of Bible times. He gave me a ton of information including numerous files. We put together a six month study which my wife and I have taught numerous times over the years on Sunday mornings, Sunday evenings and Wednesday evenings, and even taught portions in other churches around the area. When I was a teenager, I went to an Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship Missionary Conference at Winona Lake, Indiana. One of the speakers was a very eloquent man. Dr. Pike spent a great deal of time talking about culture as being one of the most difficult things for missonaries to learn, even more difficult than the language. He told the story of a young missionary family that was forced to leave a village in disgrace because they had spoken to their dog. In that culture, that was considered to be incest. As one who has traveled to South America, the Carribean, Europe and the Midde East, I have become interested in, and studied cultures, in which people do not think in the same way we do in the West. Not only do they not think the same way; they do not even follow the same avenues of logic that we follow. Let me give you an example. In the Middle East over the last fifty or so years, we have seen great turmoil. The Israelis kill a Palestinian then the Palestinians must kill an Israeli. However, when you go back to the Old Testament, you discover the same thing. As a matter of fact, the next of kin to the dead person was responsible to kill a member of the killer's family. And if they did not take up that responsibility, it was considered immoral. God decreed that in Israel there should be Cities of Refuge, so a person who killed another by accidentally could stay there and be out of the reach of his pursuer. Life in the Middle East has changed little from Old Testament days, except for electricity, cell phones, cars and television. Many Bedouin tribes still live in goat hair woven tents, entire families with many generations together just as Abraham lived. By way of introduction, I want to give another example that you may be able to comprehend much more easily than the example about killing another person. This has to do with the Parable of the Prodigal Son. In the story in Luke 15, there are two sons and a father. The younger son decides he doesn't want to be under the father's thumb any longer (a huge revolt against the culture of that time). He demands his inheriance and takes off to find his fortune - sew his "wild oats," we might call it. Wait a minute! The father is not dead. How does he get his inheritance? Religious conservative Jews, even today, still follow a practice of regularly saving for each male child. They say Moses required it. That's one of the reasons there are so many college graduates and businessmen from Jewish families. When they graduate from high school, they have their college education alreay paid for (and then some). If they decide rather to go into business, they go in virtually debt free. This prodigal takes the wealth that was supposed to be used to set him up in business, and begin his home and family, and he squanders it. Interestingly enough, even if the father had died, this son would never have received half the proceeds of the family farm. Jesus pointed out specifically that this was the younger son. When the father died, under the Middle Eatern system, the older son would take over as the head (the father) of the entire clan, and the younger son would have to obey his older brother. That surely would not go over in our Western society today. Eventually, broken and broke, the younger son returns home. He begs his father to take him in as a hired servant. But the father restores him to his full position as son. He throws a big banquet for his wayward boy. During the banquet, the older boy comes in. When he finds out the celebration is going on for his younger brother, he throws a "hissy-fit." Did you ever wonder why? Maybe you wondered where the older brother was when the younger returned. Well, if you understood the culture, you would realize that the older brother had to fill in for the younger brother while he was gone. The youngest son had to play shepherd for the family flock. It's still that way today in the rural areas of the Middle East. So, instead of his position as the older brother, he had to go out and do what his younger brother should have been doing; and he was bitter. Where was David when Samuel went to the house of Jesse to anoint a new king? All of his brothers were there. Samuel stood before each, and God said, "This is not the one." Finally he asked Jesse if he didn't have any more sons. "Yes," Jesse replied, "David, the youngest, is out in the fields watching the flocks." I've heard many messages on the Prodigal Son over the years. Some have been humorous because they were based on a Western cultural application to a Middle Eastern story. That's not to say that the speaker was not making some valid points. But those points could not be made from this particular parable. During this study we look at numbers of your favorite Bible stories and incidents, as well as some more obscure passages of Scripture. You will see many of them really come to life, as you understand them in the light of the culture in which they were spoken or happened. Little things that you never saw before suddenly have a whole new light shed on their meaning. Have you ever heard the story of the Lost Coin? It's found just before the Parable of the Prodigal Son in Luke 15. I have heard many wonderful messages on this parable. However, most of them were based on a Western understanding rather than a Middle Eastern understanding. Remember, when Jesus told this parable, He was speaking to people with a Middle Eastern Culture and a Middle Eastern mindset. So we need to understand it in those terms. The woman had ten coins and lost one. I have heard some preachers spend a great deal of time making a point as to how poor this woman must have been to spend so much time, and go to so much effort to find this one lost coin. They didn't understand that this coin had nothing to do with her family's wealth. This coin was a part of the wealth given to the woman by her parents when she was married to her husband. It was woven into her headdress. Divorce was easy in those days (and still is today in Arab lands). If a man became disenchanted with his wife, he simply had to look at her and repeat the word "divorce" three times and she was out on the street. She had no rights. She could take nothing with her. All she would have would be the clothes on her back. Into her headdress was sewn all of her personl wealth consisting of coins, gems and other items of value given to her by her family when she left home. In the event she was divorced, she would have nothing of value to get along - to tide her over. This coin not only had material value; it had great sentimental value. As a matter of fact, it had much more sentimental value to a Middle Eastern woman than you and I, with our Western philosophy, can even begin to imagine. This is why she calls in her frends and had a big celebration when she found the lost coin. What is the point of this story? "Likewise, I say unto you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth" (Luke 15:10). Jesus said the joy of finding that lost coin was like the joy in Heaven when a sinner repents. How would the joy of finding an ordinary lost coin be like the joy in Heaven when a sinner repents? Do you see the difference when that coin is of great material value and great sentimental value - a virtual family heirloom? Understanding the culture, understanding the customs, understanding the thinking patterns, makes all the difference in the world. I have titled the book Understanding the Bible By Understanding the Culture & Customs of Bible Times. It has 27 chapters. There are drawings to illustrate the discussion. There are pictures I took in the Holy Land. Each chapter ends with Questons (and answers) for Review, Things to Remember, and What does This Mean to Me? I hope you will order your copy today. New Study Manual Now Available... Understanding the Bible By Understanding THE CULTURE & CUSTOMS OF BIBLE TIMES * Over 200 pages * 27 Chapters * Illustrative drawings * Photo from the Holy Land * And much more Great to use as a study manual for Sunday School or Bible Study classes. Each chapter ends with "Review Qustions," "Things to Remember" and "Wht DoesThis Mean to Me?" Send $12.95 USD plus $4.00 shipping and handling to: Ken Williams Ministries P. O. Box 95 Centerton, AR 72719 Order 7 or more books (one, or mixed titles from any page on this website) and take a 10% discount. 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