ABSTRACT
Before we can conclude our review of the sixth day of the creative work, we must note again how we have traced the successive work of preparation in the preceding five days. During this time God has been preparing the temple for the presence of a worshipper. Up to the close of the work as reviewed in our last paper, namely, the creation of the animal, the Heavenly Father has been finishing a house for a tenant. But now suddenly and dramatically the account takes on a new and loftier phraseology, as the record tells of the creation of the worshipper to inhabit this temple. In the foregoing activities of God, He has been depicted as outside His creation, directing by His mighty power certain forces in construction. There has been an attitude of aloofness in the repeated phrase, “Let there be”; but now He is represented as coming forth after consultation and with mature deliberation crowning all of His work by personally forming the last creature. So that of man alone it can be said, “he has been shaped by the hand of God and quickened by His divine breath.”
