Mysteries of the Bible (5)

The Bible is book of great power, glory, and Mystery!   So many do not realize the awesome power of this fantastic book.   It is more than a mere book, it is the Word of God and yet there it sits, ignored by the masses.   Sometimes the greatest treasures of life can be right before us and we never realize it.   Look at that Bible, see it, now take it and open it and begin your journey.   It will change your life.

Here is a mystery and yet something that is so sublime.   In the Bible are the instructions of how to get you from this physical life to a new world.   The Bible contains the road map from this earth to the world we call, heaven.   That is a powerful truth.   In many ways, a great mystery.  Again, by mystery I mean there are things we cannot fully comprehend.   Yes, we can understand some things about it,  but not all.   There is a mystery to all the Bible.

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"Therefore, get rid of all moral filth and the evil that is so prevalent and humbly accept the word planted in you, which can save you. "  (James 1:21).

The above passage teaches several great truths.  One of which is this.  The Word of God posses the power to save us.   What does that mean?   It means as humans in this world we are lost in sin (Rom. 3:23).   The Word has the information and instructions that unlocks the code so that we can be fully forgiven, saved, and with confidence,  face death, and be transported from this life to a spiritual realm known as paradise and heaven.

We often take journeys.   We travel here and there.   Sometimes it is for business and other times for pleasure.   Life is a journey.   From birth to the grave we are all on a great journey.   Many things happen in life that are a mystery and we may never be able to explain.  Most live their lives and never see the awesome glory of God all around them.   Some, have the ability to see what others cannot see.   They see the glory that is God.   They are in tune with the spiritual.   If you read the Bible just for the words and facts you will miss the power.   See in it the blueprint for a way out of this life and to the glory of God.

In the Bible are words.   Words of power.   Such transforming power for this life and the life to come.   No other book on earth contains the secrets revealed for transformation from this physical world to the new world of Heaven.  Oh, there are others that claim such but cannot deliver.   Do not be misled by them.  They are trap doors that lead to ruin.  Only the Bible has the real secret revealed.      It is an amazing thought.   If you never learn anything in life but this message, then you are in good hands.  Follow the map that leads to life eternal.

Following the Bible in this life is a great adventure.   At death, we face the end of our physical journey and the beginning of a new existence.   Here is what the Bible says of heaven.

Revelation 21

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A New Heaven and a New Earth

21 Then I saw “a new heaven and a new earth,”^[a] for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea. ² I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband. ³ And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Look! God’s dwelling place is now among the people, and he will dwell with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God. ⁴ ‘He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death’^[b] or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.”

⁵ He who was seated on the throne said, “I am making everything new!” Then he said, “Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true.”
⁶ He said to me: “It is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. To the thirsty I will give water without cost from the spring of the water of life. ⁷ Those who are victorious will inherit all this, and I will be their God and they will be my children. ⁸ But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars—they will be consigned to the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death.”

The New Jerusalem, the Bride of the Lamb

⁹ One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb.” ¹⁰ And he carried me away in the Spirit to a mountain great and high, and showed me the Holy City, Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God. ¹¹ It shone with the glory of God, and its brilliance was like that of a very precious jewel, like a jasper, clear as crystal. ¹² It had a great, high wall with twelve gates, and with twelve angels at the gates. On the gates were written the names of the twelve tribes of Israel. ¹³ There were three gates on the east, three on the north, three on the south and three on the west. ¹⁴ The wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them were the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.
¹⁵ The angel who talked with me had a measuring rod of gold to measure the city, its gates and its walls. ¹⁶ The city was laid out like a square, as long as it was wide. He measured the city with the rod and found it to be 12,000 stadia^[c] in length, and as wide and high as it is long. ¹⁷ The angel measured the wall using human measurement, and it was 144 cubits^[d] thick.^{[e] 18} The wall was made of jasper, and the city of pure gold, as pure as glass. ¹⁹ The foundations of the city walls were decorated with every kind of precious stone. The first foundation was jasper, the second sapphire, the third agate, the fourth emerald, ²⁰ the fifth onyx, the sixth ruby, the seventh chrysolite, the eighth beryl, the ninth topaz, the tenth turquoise, the eleventh jacinth, and the twelfth amethyst.^{[f] 21} The twelve gates were twelve pearls, each gate made of a single pearl. The great street of the city was of gold, as pure as transparent glass.
²² I did not see a temple in the city, because the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple. ²³ The city does not need the sun or the moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gives it light, and the Lamb is its lamp. ²⁴ The nations will walk by its light, and the kings of the earth will bring their splendor into it. ²⁵ On no day will its gates ever be shut, for there will be no night there. ²⁶ The glory and honor of the nations will be brought into it. ²⁷ Nothing impure will ever enter it, nor will anyone who does what is shameful or deceitful, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s book of life.

It is also possible that you will be alive when Jesus comes to end the world.  If that happens you will be changed in a moment of time.  Here is what the Bible says of that:

1 Thessalonians 4:13-18

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Believers Who Have Died

¹³ Brothers and sisters, we do not want you to be uninformed about those who sleep in death, so that you do not grieve like the rest of mankind, who have no hope. ¹⁴ For we believe that Jesus died and rose again, and so we believe that God will bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in him. ¹⁵ According to the Lord’s word, we tell you that we who are still alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will certainly not precede those who have fallen asleep. ¹⁶ For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. ¹⁷ After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever. ¹⁸ Therefore encourage one another with these words.


Yes, the Bible is great!   It is a divine book from the mind of the Almighty.   In it are the words of life.   In it are the words of transportation from this world to a new world!