thousand years of human history. God wastes no time with the past, but speaks almost entirely concerning the future. This will be clear to you when I simply remind you that only one verse in the entire Bible is devoted to telling us all that God wants us to know about where the world came from, and only one chapter in the Bible to telling us where we human beings came from. All the rest of Scripture deals with the future of the world, and where we are going to spend eternity. The first verse of the