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BONABERI

Many thanks for those books which you're sending they will help me a great deal. On August 29th I will be 2 years old in the truth, still quite a babe isn't it? I had started reading the “Real Devil’ online some time ago and really loved it. Due to work constraints I could not go through all the pages but managed to print some of them out which I have already given to one of my contacts. With the coming of the whole book this time around at my disposal I hope to make quite good use of it.

Bro Cyril Noze Zang

BUEA

Thanks very much for the New Testaments which are of great use, not only to the youths in fellowship, but also to the brethren,who have gone down on it to revisit some details about Bible doctrine. They help very well, but it would be nice to have the whole Bible.

Bua Moses

Job, in his moments of trial, speaks about our life spans on earth. He uses the phrase, “appointed time”. Job is asking a question: whether there is a time defined for everyone of us as to how long our present lives will be. In other words Job is saying that our days are numbered and that we are as hired servants in this world, therefore meaning that we have a very short life-span, full of worries and vanity. Job 7:13.

In 2 Peter 3:8, we are reminded that one day before God is as a thousand years. It therefore means that nobody has ever lived up to one day, as seen in God’s terms, though some like Adam, Methuselah, etc. who lived above nine hundred years, nearly to a thousand years, symbolically show how man’s life span is very short as expressed in the eyes of the Almighty God.

Job’s use of the words “appointed time”, have got a deeper meaning. The actual Hebrew meaning is “time of service” or “warfare”. Since our days are numbered and we know that we shall die, or ‘fall asleep’, we have to deal with our given life spans like armies do on war fronts, we have to fight sin and spiritual trials as if it were a physical war. When we are able to overcome sin, then it will mean that our time of service (warfare) was a good one.

In Job 14:14, Job says that he will make use of all the days of his appointed time (warfare), until change or reward comes; we are not exempted. Paul writes to Timothy to “war a good warfare”, meaning to fight sin in the flesh, 1 Tim.1:18. Paul later confirms his own fight in 2 Tim.4:7, that he has “fought a good fight”.

In conclusion, while we are still alive in this evil world, a generation of vipers as John the Baptist and Jesus called it, let us please do our best during our probations and war against sin. For our days in this life are numbered, “appointed time”, a time of service like the Levitical priesthood, Num 8:24,25.

Bro Moses Tole

NKWEN

I was enriched after reading your work Bible Basics for Muslims. In fact it has given me a good insight of many things. I'm a born Christadelphian in Cameroon and was baptized in 2003. I'll be happy if you can forward me some of your articles or any book that can help me have a good understanding of the Bible. I also enjoy your editorials in the Gospel News.

Bro. Amin