The Bible opens with the sentence: In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.   (Genesis 1:1) The creation of the world is discussed extensively in a separate study. How God created heaven is not revealed in the Bible. What is known is that heaven is populated by beings created by God. We come […]

Ezekiel 28:16 says: Through your widespread trade you were filled with violence, and you sinned. What is interesting is the fact that the word ‘trade’ is the translation of the Hebrew word ‘rakullah’. According to the OLB to be translated as: merchandise, trade. The printed Strong’s concordance translates it as: trade (as peddled). (trade, such […]

The text: God is light; in him there is no darkness at all.   (1 John 1:5) In the chapter ‘Who is God’ we saw that when Moses asks God: What is your name, God answers him: I AM WHO I AM. This is what you are to say to the Israelites: ‘I AM has sent […]

The apostle James writes a remarkable little piece about the tongue in his epistle. He says in chapter 3 verse 2: We all stumble in many ways. Anyone who is never at fault in what they say is perfect, able to keep their whole body in check. The way in which a person speaks influences […]

Satan was created as an angel. Satan was created by God as angel, with a high position in heaven. It is written of him: Son of man, take up a lament concerning the king of Tyre and say to him: ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: “‘You were the seal of perfection, full of […]

Here we want to explain something about the structure of the Bible, which is the ‘Manual for life’. The Bible is divided into two large sections, i.e. the Old Testament (O.T.) and the New Testament (N.T.). THE OLD TESTAMENT. The Old Testament is the first section of the Bible. The first pages describe how the […]

The Bible testimony opens with the words: In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.   (Genesis 1:1) This presents the eternal existence of God as a fact. God, enormously creative and artistic, created the world and the universe. God, a Personality in the invisible world. In the Western world we have little feeling […]