THE K I N G ’ S BUS I NESS ever we pitch our tent we should build our altar.—K. L. B.
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this knowledge God gave them the opportunity to do what they knew to be Tight. They failed to do so and God sent the flood to wipe the human race from the face of the earth, saving only Noah, who did what he knew ;to be right, and his family. 3. God sent Noah and his family forth from the ark to multiply and replenish the earth. Their descendants, instead of follow ing God’s command, collected them selves into a city and built thè tower of Babel. God smote the tower and gave confusion of tongues which scattered the people because they could not understand each other. Out of this dispersion God called Abram. This first section of the book we might divide into four parts, the principal facts of which are quite well known to us, Creation, Pall, Flood, and Nations. The second section of the book, Chap ters 12-50 which we are to study this Quarter, we can also divide into four parts, the central figure of each part being a character well known to us, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Joseph. God’s Purpose in the call of Abraham was three-fold: 1. To establish a nation to be a repository for His truth. 2. To establish a nation that should be the channel for, the incoming Messiah. 3. To establish a nation which would be a testimony to Himself among the 'nations of the world. The Messiah (Christ) has come. God has given us His truth in the Bible, but He still wants to do this third thing with every Christian, namely, to use him or her as a testi mony before unbelievers. God’s Promise in the call of Abra ham was four-fold: 1. Abraham had left the land of his fathers to go he knew not where. (Heb. 11:8). God promised him a land. 2. Abraham left his own immediate relatives to go into a strange land. God promised him nations where before he only had a family. 3. As compensation of his sur render of all, God promised to bless him apd make him a blessing to others. 4.
Girls, it is impossible to study a small portion of the Bible independent of that which goes immediately before or after. A diamond only reveals its greatest beauty w h e n MY properly set, and any GIRLS portion of God’s Word must be in its proper set ting to be fully understood and appre ciated. The lessons of this Quarter each deal with eight or ten verses. To get the deepest meaning out of these verses we must have some knowledge of the entire book of Genesis as we go along. Read each week the chapters that come between the lessons. The Importance of the Book of Genesis. Genesis covers more time than any other book in the Bible unless it be Revelation. Revelation goes on into the future forever and forever. Genesis goes back into the past forever and for ever. Scientists try to fix the date of the beginning of things. The Bible fixes it, but not by naming the year. It merely says “ In the beginning God cre ated the heavens and the earth.” (Gen. 1 :1). That is far enough back to sat isfy the most critical. The New Testament refers to the Book of Genesis over sixty-six times. (One instance Heb. 11:1-23). Jesus Christ quotes from it in fifteen differ ent places. (One instance Matt. 19:4-6). Genesis contains the seed plot or ground work of the other sixty-five books of the Bible. Genesis has been called the “ Book of Beginnings.” Chapters 1-11 deal with Primeval History, chapters 12-50 with Patri archal History. In the first eleven chap ters God has given man three chances to live as he ought to live. 1. He cre ated man and woman wholly pure and innocent. They sinned by disobeying God and in partaking of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. 2. Having
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