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The Progress of Redemption: The Story of Salvation from Creation to the New Jerusalem is unavailable, but you can change that!

With a christological focus, author Willem A. VanGemeren traces the unfolding of God’s redemptive plan through 12 epochs, stressing analysis, synthesis, and application in his study of each period. His distinctive trifocal synthesis relates each biblical text to its surrounding literary, canonical, and redemptive-historical context. Striking an intelligent balance on the continuity-discontinuity...

and relates creation to the history of Israel. It does not attempt to demonstrate that the Creator-God is Yahweh. Rather, it presents Yahweh as the Creator. The creation narrative also forms a prologue to the history of redemption. This narrative was revealed to a people who had come to know Yahweh as the God of the mighty acts of redemption and of Mount Sinai. This God is the Creator and the Ruler over all the world. The emphasis of the two chapters can be best appreciated by gleaning from the Psalms
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