The book of Genesis narrates that history in broad, deep, comprehensive sketches, from its first beginning to the time of the patriarchs, whom God chose from among the nations of the earth to be the bearers of salvation for the entire world. And through these operations of God upon the world in theophanies, or revelations by word and deed, the historical development of the human race became a history of the plan of salvation. Not only did He announce redemption along with punishment immediately after the fall, but from that time forward He continued to reveal Himself to them, that He might draw them back to Himself, and lead them from the path of destruction to the way of salvation. By sin, men have departed and separated themselves from God but God, in His infinite mercy, has not cut himself off from men, His creatures. Rom 8:19.) his redemption from the fall will be completed in and with the glorification of the heavens and the earth ( Isa 65:17 Isa 66:22 2Pe 3:13 Rev 21:1). His fall from God brought death and corruption into the whole creation ( Gen 3:17. The history of the world and of the kingdom of God begins with him. The creation of the heaven and the earth, therefore, receives as its centre, paradise and in paradise, man, created in the image of God, is the head and crown of all created beings. Genesis commences with the creation of the world, because the heavens and the earth form the appointed sphere, so far as time and space are concerned, for the kingdom of God because God, according to His eternal counsel, appointed the world to be the scene both for the revelation of His invisible essence, and also for the operations of His eternal love within and among His creatures and because in the beginning He created the world to be and to become the kingdom of God. Commencing with the creation of the heaven and the earth, and concluding with the death of the patriarchs Jacob and Joseph, this book supplies us with information with regard not only to the first beginnings and earlier stages of the world and of the human race, but also to those of the divine institutions which laid the foundation for the kingdom of God. of the lxx, and is called liber creationis by the Rabbins, has received the name of Genesis from its entire contents. The first book of Moses, which has the superscription בראשׁיח in the original, Γένεσις Κόσμον in the Cod. The First Book of Moses (Genesis) Introduction Contents, Design, and Plan of the Book of Genesis
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