For Suii^ay
July 1
By Dr. Paul Cait4fll
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Genesis i «nd 2
For tht next three months the
Sscenl theme of our lessons will
b« "Studies In ' Genesis.” During
that time one will hare excellent
opportunity to become better ac
quainted with many of the basic
truths that are vital to our faith.
The book of Genesis logically
fulls Into two divisions. In the
first (chapters 1 to 11) we have
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a picturesque account of creation
and of God’s dealings with man
from Adam to Abraham. In the
latter (chapters 12 to 50) we be
hold the call of Abraham, who is
to become, through his family and
through those who are to come
after.him, a blessing to all man
kind, lor it is of his lineage there
is to come eventually a Saviour,
Jesus Christ the Lord.
Let those who anticipate fol
lowing this lesson series begin
now to read afresh the entire
book of Genesis. Some portion of
It should be read each day in pri
vate devotion, giving special em
phasis of course to the portions
included in each lesson.
The First Cause
What ever else the book of
Genesis teaches, it makes one
thing crystal clear; namely, that
back of creation is a great First
Cause, a holy, sovereign God. ‘‘In
the beginning God we read
in the very first line of the Scrip
tures (Gen. 1:1). And then re
peatedly one reads, as he views
the vast panorama of divine crea
tive activity, ‘‘And God said ....
And God said .... And God said
. . . . And God said .... And G(jd
said” until, lo, all the mighty
works of creation have found
their place on the earth.
God Almighty, by his own
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words flung our world Into
istence and peopled It with
beings of his choice. K
an a45cldent, onr world,
into being for the simple reason
that bao^ of It aU there
preaie Tower who had reeMlng
'1 himself ti;e powers of creatton.
It VIP bi’ creati'.f laind, and
will. a"d •-lower, cult brought
]order uuu bea,-,y out Of tho cha
otic waste and void that eadated
before "the Spirit of God Bffked
npon tho face of the waters,’
The Scriptures toll us that God
created "the heaven and the
earth.” He was the great First
Cause, the Originating Force. The
word “create" as here used im
plies that God brought Into being
elements without the use of pre
existing materials (see vv.1,21,
27). He Is not merely reshaping
materials that already existed In
other forms—It Is not a matter
of merely remolding. He Is rep
resented as “creating" the world
of matter, the world of life on the
animal level, and life on the hu
man or spiritual level.
In the words of the writer to
the Hebrews we are to understand
“that the words were framed by
the word of God, so that things
which are seen were not made
of things which do appear” (Heb.
11:3). The world has drifted far
away from this basic conception
of the origin of things. We have
all but forgotten how the world
came into being, and for that
matter whose it is. If people as
a whole, and thereby nations.
could but understand that our
world Is God‘s by virtue of crea
tion, and that it is thereby sacred
—every inch of soil, and every
inhabitant among the sons of
men—surely we would not find It
so difficult to get along together
as we now find it.
Tho Beauties Of Aature
In the creation of the natural
world, God flooded the earth
with a galaxy of radiant beauty.
Who is there that has walked out
into the cool woodlands in early
spring and 'beheld the glory of
the wild flowers that appear lu
riotous profusion, or sauntered a-
longside the waving fields of gold
en grain at harvest time, or stood
and looked upon the variegated
hues of autumn without thank
ing God for the hallowed beauty
of nature? TTie story of his cre
ative activity as he brought into
being the beauties of nature will
ever challenge the appreciation of
the believer’s heart.
First, there came at his word
—^llght. "And God said, Let there
be light: and there was light.”
It was fitting that light should
come first, for we are told that
in the beginning "darknMs was
upon the face of the deep.” Tuis
took place on the first day.
How long this day was we shall
not attempt to say. As Dr. Samp-
ey has well stated, “The earth,
on which we live, is probably
much older than we ever Imagin
ed it was in our childhood. God
takes time to accomplish His
work. One day Is with the Lord as
a thousand years and a thousand
years as one day. God Is not In a
hurry .... In the language of
the Bible the word day often re
fers to a period of Indefinite
length."
Next came the creation of air
and water. ‘'And God said, Let
there be a firmament In the midst
of the waters, and let it divide the
waters from the waters.” One
needs only to think of his dally
needs to realize the goodness of
God In giving ns the “air” (firm
ament) and water.” This took
place on the second day and made
possible the habitation of the
earth.
On the third day, God gathered
together the waters ‘‘unto one
place" and caused “dry land” to
appear. He resolved the land and
the sea Into form and brought
into being plants: ‘‘herbs yield
ing seed after their kind, and
trees bearing fruit, wherein is
the seed thereof, after their
kind.” Hence, the delicate pink
of the apple blossoms, and the
sweet-scented blossoms of the
plum tree all come from him.
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They are the words of his creation
—all of them!
On the fourth day we have the
creation of lights. “And God said.
Let there be lights in the firma
ments of heaven to divide the day
from the night: and let them be
for signs, and for seasons, and
for days and years.” Here we
have the sun and the moon .preci
ous emblems of his love, and set
forever in the heavens to bless
us with light. With thqpsalmlst
let us proclaim, “The he^ens de
clare the glory of God, and the
firmament showeth his handi
work. Day unto day uttereth
speech, And night unto night
showeth knowledge” (Psalm 19;-
l.f).
The Animal World
Following the creation of lights
we hftve the creation of the ani
mal world. God brings into being
fish and fowls and land animals?
First God creates the lower ani
mals, those Inhabiting the water:
“And God said, Let the waters
swarm with swarms of living crea
tures, and let birds fly above the
earth in the open firmament of
heaven.” Following this, God cre
ated the land animals, “living
creatures after their kind, cattle
and creeping things, and beasts
of the earth.”
The Creatton Of Man
It Is In the creation of man,
however, that God reaches the
climax of his creative activity,
for In man he left the stamp of
his own Image: “And God“sald,
Let us make man In our image,
after our likeness: and let them
have dominion over the fish of
the sea, and over the bfrds of the
heavens, and over the cattle, and
over all the earth, and over ev
ery creeping thing that creepeth
up on the earth.” What a heritage
—dominion over all the rest of
Gori’s created beings on the earth!
Hence, in the creation of man,
G'jd gave to the world an Intelli
gent, rational being, one capable
of feeling, and possessing the
glorious faculties of thought—
verily “a living soul.” To man,
along with his companion and
helpmate, God gave the solemn
command to "Be fruitful, and
multiply, and replenish the
earth,” and reminded him that
he had been endowed with a
stewardship which gave him dom
inion over all other creatures
that God had made.
A “Good" Work
One expression that occurs over
and again in the opening chapter
of Genesis ought not to be over
looked in the study of this lesson.
It is the expression, “And God
saw that it was good” (See vv.
4,10,12,18,21,25,31). God’s hand
iwork In every phase of his cre
ative activity was good. That is
to say. It was “choice,” pleasing,”
“delightful.” The word “good” as
used here stands for the old He
brew word tov which always im
plies excellency. There was noth
ing half-way about the handiwork
of God. His work was good.
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veteran Ameripaa tettleahip and
the wriM watch pt a Jap aaleMe
filer.
The ancient battlewagoa, whose
name cannot be rerealed, la one
of those war vessels which were
renovated after Pearl Harbor-
on# of those weatherbeaten old-
timers which are doing anch an
excellent Job against the mtemy.
The wrist watch is a souvenir
of battle. It landed on the deck
of the warship along with other
small pieces of Japanese property
plane and persons, which shower
ed down in a violent storm of
battle smoke and spray.
That shower was Just an inci
dent In four terrific minutes in
which the oldtimer shot down
five Kamikaze planes.
The wearer of the wrist watch
piloted the fifth enemy plane. Four
other suicide aircraft already had
been brought down by antiair
craft fire—the fourth plane dis-
Intergratlng in flame and smoke.
Then the fifth plane—the one
whose pilot wore the wrist watch
—came tearing through the
smoke, guns blazing.
When the suicide craft was on
ly two hundred and fifty or three
hundred yards away, every twen
ty-millimeter gun on the old bat-
tlewagon cut loose against it. As
one of the gunners later told As
sociated Press correspondent Rob-
bln Coons, “We kept firing, all
the way In—and It crashed.”
But it was a close call for the
aged warship. The crash and ex
plosion of the falling plane sent
water flying all over the vessel,
over Its superstructure. It shook
the old wagon. It knocked men
around. It sent the enemy pilot’s
wrist watch flying on deck. But
the battleship and all its crew
were Intact.
The crew won the praise of the
ship’s air defense officer. Lieu
tenant commander Jack Bishop,
whose mother lives in Hatties
burg, Mississippi. Says Bishop,
“Those boys learned their stuff
and they carried it out under
fire.”
That’s the story of the Jap
wrist watch—^Just an incident In
the day of an old battlewagon
that still fights with the zest of
youth.
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