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In Genesis we’ve seen some of the most important developments in the foundation of the Israelite nation, which is the foundation for everything that was to come later. We have seen Christ and His role as the logos, the word of the Father. We have seen that He existed with the Father from the beginning as a principle part of the Great Trinity. It was no different when he appeared on earth as the Son of God. While here, He was the mouthpiece of the Father. “Have I been so long with you, and yet you have not come to know Me, Philip? He who has seen Me has seen the Father; how can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? “Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father is in Me? The words that I say to you I do not speak on My own initiative, but the Father abiding in Me does His works” (John 14:9-10). Jesus was the exact representation of the Father and He only spoke what was given Him by the Father to speak. As John said: “All things came into being through Him,[Christ] and apart from Him nothing came into being that has come into being” (John 1:1-3) again, the Father working through the Son.

The father was the Creator of the heavens and the earth, but it was given Christ to speak it into existence. in heaven Even now the Father has given the Son (Christ) all authority and earth. As He said in His parting words: “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth” (Matthew 28:18). The same thing is true of our forefathers Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. The Father had all this in mind from before the world was created. “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed US with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and blameless before Him. In love He predestined us to adoption as sons through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the kind intention of His will,” (Ephesians 1:3-5). And: “For those whom He foreknew, He also predestined to become conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brethren; and these whom He  predestined, He also called; and these whom He called, He also justified; and these whom He justified, He also glorified” (Romans 8:29-30). Finally: “Yet we do speak wisdom among those who are mature; a wisdom, however, not of this age nor of the rulers of this age, who are  passing away; but we speak God’s wisdom in a mystery, the hidden wisdom which God  predestined before the ages to our glory; the wisdom which none of the rulers of this age has understood; for if they had understood it they would not have crucified the Lord of glory; but just as it is written, “Things which eye has not seen and ear has not heard, And which have not entered the heart of man, All that God has prepared for those who love Him” (1 Corinthians 2:6-9; Isaiah 64:4).

The process of creation gave birth to the creative Word of God which would be used by prophets in creating what was to come in the process leading to Christ. Abraham laid the foundation for faith to be reckoned as righteousness, just as Christ proclaimed faith in Himself as salvation. Isaac produced the twins of which one would be called Israel, the beginning of a nation. Jacob gave birth to the 12 Sons of Israel upon which a nation would be built. Joseph was Christ, the savior and deliverer of a nation. Those who did not love God, or follow Him, gave existence to the enemies of God that would have to be subdued over the coming ages. The reasons for this were clearly defined. Even after God destroyed the world by a flood, the evil slipped through and recreated itself on this side of the deluge.

The evil that slipped through the Flood created the enemies of Israel throughout their history. Yet despite the Satanic opposition God, using real people who made real mistakes, formed the beginnings of the Nation of Israel through Abraham, Isaac and Jacob (later renamed Israel). However, without Jacob, a manifestation of Christ on the earth, the small race would have been destroyed. Joseph, after being imprisoned for 11 years (“Until the time that his word came to pass, The word of the Lord tested [refined him] him” Psalm 105:19) was raised to the throne of Pharaoh and saved his family so they could become a great nation. You don’t see God moving through all the surrounding pagan nations but you find Him moving through Israel His chosen people.

God was true to His word and remained faithful revealing His Son on earth at the chosen time to bring salvation to all His people.