ABSTRACT
The revelation recorded in the Bible is a jewel which God has given to us in a setting of human history. A religion fit to be a part of actual life cannot be exempt from this law, and revelation itself has become a force in human conduct only by first becoming a factor in human history. In revelation God enters into personal relations with man; but these personal relations would not be spiritually valuable unless they were constituted, maintained, and perfected by the same methods as the personal relations of a man to his fellows. In the New Testament dispensation every believer is regarded as a son of God. Under the old covenant it is the nation of Israel that is Jehovah's son. To understand who Jehovah was, and what he was to Israel, we must return to the deliverance of the Hebrew tribes from Egyptian bondage, to which later ages looked back as the birth of the nation.
