Genesis Vol 3.pdf - College Press

PART TWENTY -FIVE :
THE GENERATIONS OF TERAH
(Gen. 11:27-32)
The Central Theme (Motif) of tbe Bible
The Bible is not, was never intended to be, a book of
science, or a book of philosophy (which is exclusively
human speculation), or even a history of the human race.
It is, rather, the history of a single genealogical Line, the
Line that flowered and terminated in the story of Messiah,
the Redeemer. It is, therefore, preeminently the Book of
Redemption: its content is the story of the progressive
unfolding (actualization) of the divine Plan of Redemption.
It is in fact the record of the actualization of God’s
Cosmic Plan in its fulness, in which Redemption is revealed
as the final phase of the Creation. As it is made clear in
Biblical teaching throughout, our God, the living and true
God, “declares the end from the beginning’’ (Isa. 46:9-11).
It is His Will, His Eternal Purpose (Eph. 2:8-12) that
the Cosmic Process, which began when He first spoke the
Word, “Light, be!” shall attain fulfilment in the Last
Judgment, at which time His saints, the Sheep of His
Pasture (Psa. 79:13; 100:3) shall be presented as “conformed
to the image of His Son” (Rom. 8:28-20) “clothed
in glory and honor and incorruption” (Rom. 2:2-7; cf.
Acts 17:31, Matt. 25:31-46, Rev. 20:11-1J, 21:l-8, 22:l-
5). As any plan is to be evaluated by its end product,
the Divine Plan will be so evaluated in that last great Day,
the “time of the restoration of all things” (Acts 3:21)
by its end-product, the glorified saint. And even if it
should turn out that only one redeemed soul, only one
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overcomer” (Rev. 3: 5, ,12, 21, etc.) , will be presented as
having ultimately “attained” (Phil. 2: 10-1 J), the Cosmic
Plan will be joyously acclaimed by all existing intelligences
as victorious, indeed worth all it has cost Father, Son, and
Holy Spirit, not on the basis of the number redeemed, but
on the ground of the ineffable quality of the redemption
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