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The Message of Genesis 1–11: The Dawn of Creation is unavailable, but you can change that!

The early chapters of Genesis proclaim the origin of the world and of human life on earth. They uncover the origins of evil. They illuminate the meaning of freedom. They express the harmony of creation, evoke wonder as God is portrayed in his creative power and beauty, and ultimately show us how and why we are—offering hope for the renewal of our natural world and for the healing of our broken...

‘get up to catch the sunrise’, whereas Squaries ‘get up to catch the 8:15’! The rest of the Old Testament illustrates both these aspects of time. Time is both a chronological sequence of events and it is also, and especially, significant times—times of divine action, or of human opportunity. Ecclesiastes, among the later Wisdom writings, gives well-known expression to this second aspect: ‘For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven …’.69 In the New Testament the same
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