The Bible is an Eastern Book - Bishop Pillai - pt-1

Remember, the Bible is an Eastern book, and it speaks about the Eastern people, their thinking, their way. All the parables of our Lord are based on Eastern thinking, Eastern culture. So I am simply here to share with you, my brothers and sisters in Christ, those
wonderful customs and traditions which play a great part in the Bible.

And unless you understand those customs, those idioms, you will never get the truth of the Word of God as you should. So that has been my ministry to all of God, to the Western world. We say East and West.

When I say East or Orient, it means all the people that live across the water. That side of the Mediterranean Sea, or that side of the Suez Canal, or beginning of the Suez Canal, those countries, Mediterranean countries, countries on the Indian Ocean, Arabian Sea, those are the countries what we call Eastern world, from where the religions came. All the religions came from that part of the world.

So when I say East, you know what I am talking about. All the countries where the dark people are, are called Eastern world. All the countries where the white people are, are called Western world.
I am East, you are West. I am Orient, you are Occident.