One of the strangest things we’ve done to the Bible is pretend it fell from the sky. We treat Scripture like a collection of timeless sayings, detached from place, people, and covenant. Verses are lifted, shared, and applied as if they exist in a vacuum—portable truths for any moment, any meaning, any life. But the Bible does not work that way. It never has. SCRIPTURE IS A COVENANT DOCUMENT The Bible is not primarily a self-help manual or a theological reference book. It is a