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About The Book
To pick up
Understanding God’s Overall Plan by David Murdoch and open to
the beginning pages is to begin an educational journey that you
will never forget for the rest of your days on the Earth. As a
Christian Educator for some 25 years I have never witnessed a
writing effort quite like this, I was captivated from chapter
one. The facts that David shared in this book did not let go of
me until I turned the last page. You need to be ready for this
to happen to you.
In the classroom, I used to tell my students that the hardest
thing for anyone to do is to tell another person’s story. When
that person is from the religious western culture like we have
here in the western world and the story they are trying to tell
is that of Israel and their historical relationship with God, it
should give the diligent Bible Student more than pause. It is in
the silence of that pause, where David Murdoch begins to ring
the bell of accuracy in the account of the relationship of not
just God and Israel but God and man.
The overall plan of God is not just about Israel. From the very
beginning it is clear that God had a World Plan. David sets the
record straight on that issue very early in this book. When you
were a child, did you ever play the game telephone? You build a
long line and the first person in the line whispers something in
the ear of the person next to them and they in turn do the same
thing until the message gets to the end of the line. If you have
played this game, you remember that most of the time the message
at the end of the line, was most often completely different from
what it was when it started at the beginning of the line. It was
a fun game and we all laughed and had fun with it. But our
spiritual heritage is no game and getting it wrong is no
laughing matter. Understanding God’s Overall Plan removes all
the distortion and returns the reader to the original message of
the way things were and the plan God has for us.
David serves up industrial strength spiritual concepts that
stand in the face of our western culture’s idea of what we think
the Bible is telling us. Like most things western man tries to
figure out, he does not always get it right. This is not a book
with just an opinion for you to consider as you read. David
takes you back in time and language to give you the clear
meaning of the events and plans that God has always had for His
children.
Learning is not comfortable by nature. It is God’s way of
unsettling the comfort zone of our nest. Did you know that a
mother eagle plucks up the pointy sticks and twigs in the bottom
of her nest to make the nest less comfortable for her young, so
they will leave the nest and learn to fly? Understanding God’s
Overall Plan pokes at our comfortable concepts of God and his
relationship with man and causes the reader to leave the nest
and interact with the turbulent winds of truth.
Not every young eagle masters the turbulent winds and learns to
fly in the first effort. The mother eagle spends time flying in
front of her young making the wind smoother so the young bird
can master flight. This is exactly what this book did for me. I
had come up through traditional channels of education and I was
quite comfortable with them. Some of the truths that David
shared unsettled me like those pointy sticks at the bottom of my
comfortable nest. I found myself praying to the Lord for
guidance. What seemed to rise up strong in my spirit was this
phrase, Tim, when you seek the truth you must not really care
which way it falls, if it is the truth then it is what you need.
Suddenly I was at perfect peace with those pointy concepts David
was sharing. I was no longer trying to make them agree with my
traditional ideas.
David will openly tell you not to take his word for what he
shares with you in this book. He will also tell you that should
you find anything that he shares to be wrong he will immediately
change it. That is a strong stand for any author to make. As you
continue to read Understanding God’s Overall Plan you begin to
understand why and how this author makes such a bold and
deliberate statement. David Murdoch is not standing alone on
this rock of truth discoveries. Men like Strong whose exhaustive
concordance, the King James Version of the Bible and Webster’s
Dictionary which Bible teachers and preachers have used for
generations, stand with this author. In my case, David used
books in my own library to prove his case of being on solid
ground. I strongly recommend that you make this book part of
your library and study its concepts.
Finally, let me say that I have come to know David Murdoch as a
serious Bible student who would rather have the truth no matter
how unsettling it is. His heartfelt desire is to leave the nest
and confront the turbulent winds of life, letting his Heavenly
Father teach him how to fly. David has learned that in those
turbulent winds there are updrafts that will lift you to greater
heights of understanding and a closer relationship with God.
Thanks for the lift, David.
Tim Shook
(Note to Reader)
Tim Shook has a Master of Arts Degree in Christian Education
from George Fox University.
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