How Long and How Many

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 23, 1873

How Long and How Many.

How long do you think it took to write the Bible? Fifteen hundred years. From Moses, who wrote Genesis, to St. John, who wrote Revelation, it was that long, long time.

How many people helped to write it? More than thirty. There were Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Paul, and Peter. There were Moses, Ezra, David, Daniel, and Samuel. Some were shepherds, some farmers, some fishermen, some tent-makers, some kings, some judges, some princes; some were learned, some were unlearned; and yet they all agree in what they write. There is not so much as a word of disagreement in the whole book. How could that be? Because God did the thinking of the Bible. The thoughts in the Bible are all God's thoughts. Those thirty men only did the writing. They wrote just what God told them. How many different sections of books are there in the Bible? Sixty-six, all bound together, making one beautiful whole. It is a blessed book. Prize it above all the books in the wide, wide world. Make it the man of your counsel and the guide of your life. Your life can never be a failure if you follow its instructions. You will live to purpose, and save your soul, and not thyself only shall be saved, but others through thee.