More than a Collection of Books Volume 1

 

The books of the Bible comprise one Book

Which is the God-breathed Holy Word,

Holy men wrote as God had inspired

Though many still consider this absurd.

How men think is not the principle thing

It’s still the Best Instruction Before Leaving Earth,

The Bible I mean; you had better get one

For in it you can find your rebirth.

Genesis is the book of beginnings

That tells of the creation of the world,

Of humanity’s fall and redemption’s plan

And ends with the death of a man.

Exodus is the coming out of Egypt

And a forty years trek in the wilderness

Arriving near Canaan after most had died

Only Joshua and Caleb had passed that test.

In Leviticus God gives his law to His children

To govern their sacrifices and festivals,

The Sabbath also is instituted

As the mark or sign of God’s people.

In Numbers there is an ordered census

Including the numbering of the tribes,

The Israelites had moved from Sinai to Moab

Where a second census was prescribed.

Deuteronomy is a re-statement of the law

To give direction to the new generation,

Moses passes on the leadership to Joshua

Then climbs Pisgah for his pending graduation.

Joshua continued where Moses had left off

And presided over the conquest of Jericho,

After a great defeat in the campaign at Ai

He conquered the lands where his feet did go.

Judges demonstrates God’s strength

Particularly in the light of human weakness

And each of these leaders that He used

Showed it was God who passed the test.

  

Ruth is the love story of a Gentile girl

Who was married to a prominent Hebrew man,

What is significant with this Old Testament book

Is Boaz and Ruth’s role in the redemptive plan.

1st Samuel chronicles the acts of two kings

King Saul is the first and king David’s the next,

It begins with Samuel’s birth and childhood

Then the acts of those kings both bad and good.

2^nd Samuel is dedicated to David the king,

Part one records his victories and conflicts,

Part two shows his defeats when out of God’s will

And his consequent punishment when he slipped.

1^st Kings tells of the close of king David’s stint

And of the golden reign of king Solomon,

The dividing of Israel into North and South

And of the successive kings of those kingdoms.

Stewart Russell © 2017