Where is the Bible?
“Forever, O Lord, your word is firmly fixed in the heavens.“ Psalm 119:89
If you be so fortunate as to own a Bible, you are the envy of a great many people in ages gone by. You own your very own copy of the Holy Scriptures! You have the Bible. But so do other people. It leads one to ask, Where do all these Bibles come from? Where is the Bible stored anyway?
The psalmist tells us that the Bible lies beyond the reach of man’s destroying arm. The Bible is stored off-world, on God’s cloud. This makes sense since the Bible is a uniquely spiritual creation. It’s a heavenly Matrix, a portal to another Realm. It is God’s tesseract which allows earthlings to peer into the heavenly dimensions. It is truly extraterrestrial and wonderful.
Our physical Bibles have been handed down to us through the blood, sweat, and tears of many saints. But your Bible could be destroyed; the ink that forms the words could be blotted away or melted. Pages can be torn out and lost. Even the Bible on your phone can be deleted. If all those things happened to every Bible in the world (and on the World Wide Web!), would God’s word be gone? Of course not, for its truth is firmly fixed in the heavens forever. But God will preserve his word on earth until his Son returns on the clouds to reign.