Genesis as a Revelation

Three things can be said regarding Genesis as a revelation of God:

A- It is a great revelation - Genesis discloses that man never could learn for himself. Genesis is the only book of the history of the creation.

B. It is a part of a progressive revelation - The remain of the Bible completes what Genesis begins. Genesis makes the first promise of redemption, and ends with the apparent victory of the sin [Genesis 50:26]. Example: Genesis 3:15 - In This first evangelical promise, we have the seeds of all the history of redemption.

C. It is a revelation of the history of salvation - Notice that in Genesis there are only two chapters describing the history of the universe, and only nine chapters reporting the history of the nations. The book is constantly narrow in his purpose. Thirty nine chapters deal with the history of Abraham, Isaque and Jacob. The book finishes with the children of Jacob in Egypt. These men were “Father’s” of the tribes of Israel. In Egypt they had become a great nation. It is clear that the book of Genesis leads us to the person of Christ. This is not only one mere history of humanity, but God’s plan of salvation in the history.

The study in the book of Genesis will help us to understand more of the unity of the Bible.