Understanding Scriptural Prescriptions

UNDERSTANDING SCRIPTURAL PRESCRIPTIONS is a book on how to understand and interpret the Bible. Its contents are products of skills (of line upon line) and research (of history reconciliations) and revelations (of scriptural consistencies) . It is highly probable this book might be the most insightful you would have ever read about the Word of God. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Collins Chukwuka Johnson was born in Lagos-Nigeria where he currently resides with his wife, Juliet Johnson. He is called as an apostle of Christ and an apologist of God's Word. His insight into the Holy Scriptures is adjudged unprecedented. Whoever listened to him or read from him would always end up making similar remarks. His passion is to have the average Christian well equipped with the authenticity of God's Word. According to him, "If there is knowledge gap let it be filled, if there is misrepresentation let it be corrected. If we understand God's Word we can know what pleases Him, if we know what pleases Him we can then decide to please Him." As an Apostle of Christ (1 Cor. 9:1) Recounting his encounters with the Lord Jesus he wrote, "The first time Christ appeared to me I was overwhelmed, and like Peter I fell down at His feet and cried and said, 'Please depart from me for I am a sinful man.' (Luke 5:8) . I was overwhelmed at His level of love and humility for appearing to somebody like me. This was in 2007. I was already a Christian. Without being told I knew it was He. I could see His form with my eyes closed and with my face down - a divine being looking like an impeccable glorious man, yet I didn't remember to make out His facial features. At that point I wasn't interested in how He looked; my only concern was that I don't deserve His presence. Exactly 10yrs later, 2017, He appeared again, but this time I couldn't see any form, I just knew He was standing by my side with the disposition of a friend who came to discuss something very important. Though I felt unworthy yet I wasn't overwhelmed with emotion like at the first. I felt assured, relaxed and peaceful. He started talking to me about His end time agenda for Africa. He showed me where it is captured in the Bible, part of which I have shared in this book. I asked Him some questions which He responded to. And I also seized the opportunity to ask Him for explanations about certain things I couldn't understand in the Scriptures. One of the questions was on how Noah was able to gather the entire animals in pairs to board his Ark. He said at the time of Noah, man could still talk to animals but animals could no longer talk back to man like in the time of Adam. And that all the animals were still herbivorous that is why none preyed on others for about the one year duration they were onboard his Ark. With time, communication was lost and some of them became carnivorous. God had to miraculously open the mouth of a donkey to talk to Balaam, but in the time of Adam it was the norm. The Fall of Adam did not only affect man, it also affected every other creature. That is why it were the few domesticated animals which still retained their original herbivorous nature (a shadow of innocence or righteousness, e.g.sheep, goat, cattle, pigeon, etc.) that could be used as sacrifice for sin in the Old Testament. In the Millennial kingdom, all the animals will have been restored to their original nature." Isaiah 11:6; 65:25. As an Apologist of God's Word (1 Cor. 12:29) In his characteristic nature of always falling back to the Scriptures for verification he continued, "I have to crosscheck all He said with the Bible to be sure I heard correctly, and they tallied. Apart from herbivores representing innocence (or righteousness) ,domesticating them means that they cohabited with man. It is a shadow of the righteous Christ cohabiting with man before He could save man (John 1:14) . John the Baptist couldn't have been the Messiah because the Messiah is expected to live among men, not to dwell in the wilderness."