This is the actual Bible owned by Dr. M. R. DeHaan, founder and teacher of the nationally known Radio Bible Class of bygone years. Look how “studied” it is! I saw it in Grand Rapids, Michigan at the offices of “Our Daily Bread.”

Old Bibles, nearly coming to pieces, used time and time again! Handled reverently, truth be told! And before I realized it, the “picture” became a “parable!”

Today’s Bible Lesson …

Every Bible, in one sense, is an old Bible!

Having now been written, completed, for thousands of years. Psalm 119:89 literally does claim for the Scriptures: “For ever, O LORD, thy word is settled in heaven.”

Then, in an equally true sense, the same Bible is eternal! Old … but ever fresh! 1st Peter 1:23 preaches about: “The word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.”

It’s pages may become brittle, but never its Message!

By the way, the Bible Dr. DeHaan loved and used so faithfully was a King James Version … with the Scofield  Reference notes incorporated. It accepted and promoted the “dispensationalist” view of God’s Program!  (Dr. C. I. Scofield)

Old fashioned, that hermeneutic, indeed.

But still accurate!

And off to the left in the photo, barely discernable, is the Preacher’s little plaque which bears the words “Perhaps Today!”

That’s what Dr. DeHaan believed, and Dr. Scofield and their cohorts!

I believe it too.

Jesus can come, is coming … “perhaps today!”

I’ve said it before, quoting thousands …

One picture is (or at least can be) worth a thousand words!

And today’s photo just might be indeed.

Wow!

— Dr. Mike Bagwell