• Title Page
• Introduction
• Christ in the Pentateuch
  • Genesis
  • Exodus
  • Leviticus
  • Numbers
  • Deuteronomy
• Christ in the Historical Books
• Christ in the Poetical Books
• Christ in the Prophets
• Christ in His Life on Earth
• Christ in Resurrection Power
• Christ in Future Glory

Christ in the Pentateuch

Genesis

Genesis is in many respects the most important book in the Bible. Almost all the truths of God’s revelation are contained here in germ.

“In the beginning God.” The very first word gives God His right place.

“In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth … And God said—Let Us make man in our image, after our likeness” (Genesis 1:1, 26). Here we have the verbs created and said in the singular, the name of God in its plural form—Elohim—and the plural pronoun Us. “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by Him, and without Him was not anything made that was made” (John 1:1-3). “The Lord possessed Me in the beginning of His way, before His works of old. I was set up from everlasting from the beginning, or ever the earth was. When He prepared the heavens I was there … when He appointed the foundations of the earth” (Proverbs 8:22-29). “Thou lovedst Me before the foundation of the world,” Jesus said to His Father when He was about to lay down His life for us (John 17:24). Thus in the beginning of all things we see our everlasting Savior, the Son of God, “whom He hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also He made the worlds” (Hebrews 1:2).

Genesis is “the book of beginnings,” as the name implies.

(1) The beginning of Creation. The account of creation reveals the unity, power, and personality of God. It denies atheism—in the beginning God. It denies polytheism—one God, not many. It denies pantheism—God is before all things and apart from them. It denies materialism—matter is not God. It denies the eternity of matter—in the beginning God