Adam, Noah and Abraham

Book excerpt: The first three major patriarchs, Adam, Noah, and Abraham, herald the first three millennia of creation in a progressive revelation of the Trinity that represents a kind of main chorus in the song of our salvation. The accounts of their offspring form a refrain echoing the main chorus of the fundamental Messianic bloodline just as the song we sing in this life is an echoing of the harmony in heaven. This song of salvation is ultimately heard not only in the lives of individuals but also the natural history of the world. The manifest rhythms move us inexorably to the end times of our original creation in a vital convergence of prophecy and history that represents quite literally a folding up of all time and space in the one Body of Christ.