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POSSESS YOUR POSSESSIONS

Obadiah 17

VOLUME 8

Rev. Dr. Robert E. Donaldson

Published by World Wide Web Witness Inc.

October 2010

ISBN 978-0-9808498-6-8

PREFACE

This is the eighth volume of Possess Your Possessions.

There are such a lot of them to possess!

It takes time
even to review some of them!

Preface to Volume I

Preface to Volume VIII

In the light of the Lord, the splendour of His countenance, expressed in the definitive and decisive form of His written word, there are major shafts of glory, minor matters of illumination (as in times past, some portion of the text might be illuminated with colours and contrivances of an exquisite and artistic character, markers of beauty rather than of great immediate impact) and historical expressions that give a practical orientation to the principles, procedures, purposes and plans of the Almighty.

These are graciously made available to man.

Such has been the slaughter of the saints, the invasion of the Church, the secularisation of the spiritual in the minds of many, the effrontery of the unfaithful masquerading as the faithful, rather as in the days of Antiochus Epiphanes in the sometimes gruesome history of Israel, when valour was called for, that it is necessary to seek to help those who are arrested or even diverted in their spiritual development, by assiduous attention to what is written, irrespective of cultural, social, political and imperial ambitions of many, whether these be dressed expressly in spiritual terms as in Islam, or not, as in the European Union and the United Nations. Moreover there are many who love these things, and to meditate on them.

Accordingly, this eighth volume of Possess Your Possessions is presented, and in it some of the sparkling wonders of the word of God one seeks to present, as if to draw to the attention of another passenger in a car on a journey, the wonders of the land through which we pass; except in this case, the 'land' is the word of God, written for all to see over some one and one half millenia, and now blazoned for all to heed, for two more millenia. Like God, it does not change; for it is His word. Its impact however needs also to be found in the milieu of events, and savoured, realised, applied and appreciated.

It is as if in the journey, a car had come to a sudden halt three inches from the brow of a precipice, a sea cliff, with some undercutting from the weather, and the passengers were considering, or some of them, getting out for a stroll while looking afar across the sea, and delighting in the thought as they step out, if not with abandon, then at least with joie de vivre.

There are times when it is better to speak.

CONTENTS

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CHAPTER ONE

THE CREATOR,

THE DESIGNER,

THE SAVIOUR,

THE HISTORIAN

AND

THE BEGINNING AND THE END

CHAPTER TWO