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The Book of Genesis

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which God has intended, and the purpose of and existence will be at last fulfilled. This little Israel and through Israel, these stories of Genesis,

to live the life

creation

people

and last

is



fact the entire Bible, imply, that golden age shall at

in

be

so

realized,

by

pictured

gloriously

the

inspired

prophet In the end of days

it

shall

come

to pass

That the mountain of the Lord's house

shall

be established as the

top of the mountains,

And it shall be exalted above the hills And peoples shall flow unto it. And many nations shall go and say 'Come

ye,

and

us go up to the mountain of the Lord,

let

And to the house of the God of Jacob; And He will teach us of His ways, And we will walk in His paths' For out of Zion

shall

go forth the law.

And the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. And He shall judge between many peoples, And shall decide concerning mighty nations afar off; And they shall beat their swords into plowshares, And their spears into pruning-hooks Nation shall not lift up sword against nation. Neither shall they learn war any more. But they shall sit every man under his vine and under And none shall make them afraid

his fig-tree,

Lor the mouth of the Lord of hosts hath spoken.

The next thought theme

is,

in the logical

unfolding of the general

of course, the election and training and disciplining

of Israel for duction, this

The Tower

its is

great mission.

As was stated in Abraham cycle

the thought of the

of Babel story, therefore,

is

the Intro-

of stories.

not only the con-

group of the stories of Genesis, but it is also the connecting link between this first group of stories and the Abraham cycle. With this introduction we are prepared to consider the Abraham stories in detail.

clusion of the

first