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"eyes"? and what do these words signify as used in Revelation 5? ¶ 24.
Is there reason to expect that God would grant certain ones from time to
time an increased understanding of his plan? and if so, why? ¶ 24.
What does the harp symbolize? ¶ 25.

Where is the record of the divine plan found? ¶ 25.
What does this record reveal concerning man? ¶ 25.
By whom has God spoken his fundamental truths? ¶ 25.
What is the law of God? ¶ 25.
Define law. ¶ 25.
Where is the law of God found? ¶ 25.
What is the meaning of the word David? ¶ 26.
Whom did David picture or typify? ¶ 26.
What did David's use of the harp typify or picture? ¶ 26.
What is pictured or symbolized by the ten strings of David's harp? ¶ 26.
Name the ten fundamental truths represented by the strings on the harp.
¶ 26.
How can one learn to use the harp of God? ¶ 27.
What effect is produced upon one who skillfully uses the harp? ¶ 27.

OMNIPOTENT GOD
Harps of eternity! begin the song, Redeemed, and angel harps! begin to
God, Begin the anthem ever sweet and new, While I extol Him holy,
just, and good. Life, beauty, light, intelligence, and love! Eternal,
uncreated, infinite! Unsearchable Jehovah! God of truth! Maker,
upholder, governor of all: Thyself unmade, ungoverned, unupheld.
Omnipotent, unchangeable, Great God! Exhaustless fullness! giving
unimpaired! Bounding immensity, unspread, unbound! Highest and
best! beginning, middle, end. All-seeing Eye! all-seeing, and unseen!
Hearing, unheard! all knowing, and unknown! Above all praise! above

all height of thought! Proprietor of immortality! Glory ineffable! Bliss
underived! Of old Thou build'st Thy throne on righteousness, Before
the morning Stars their song began, Or silence heard the voice of praise.
Thou laid'st Eternity's foundation stone, and saw'st Life and existence
out of Thee begin.
--Pollok
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CHAPTER II
String 1: Creation
The subject of creation here treated relates particularly to the earth and
the creatures of the earth, the chief one of which is man. We will not
attempt to discuss at length the creation of other planets, nor of the
other creatures. Attention is merely called to the Scriptural statement
that the beginning of God's creation was the Logos, which term is
translated in our Bibles "the Word". The record reads: "In the
beginning was the Word, and the Word was with [the] God and the
Word was [a] god". (John 1:1) God is a name applied to Jehovah, the
Almighty One. It is sometimes applied to other mighty ones also;
whereas the name Jehovah applies exclusively to the great eternal God.
The Logos, the Word, was a god, a mighty one. "The same was in the
beginning with God. All things were made by him, and without him
was not anything made that was made." He was Jehovah's great active
agent in the creation of all things created.
[29]Since the Bible was written for man's benefit, the Genesis account
of creation has to do with man and his place of habitation. There we
read: "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth". He
created the sun, for light by day; and the moon, for light by night, upon
the earth. God then created the birds and fowls that fly through the air,
and the fish of the sea. He created the cattle and the creeping things,
and all the beasts of the earth. All this was before the creation of man.
He had formed the earth many centuries before man's creation, and he
created it that man might have a place to live. He caused his prophet to

write: "I have made the earth and created man upon it. For thus saith
the Lord that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth
and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed
it to be inhabited."--Isaiah 45:12,18.
[30]God created the first man and woman out of the elements and gave
them power to produce and bring forth children, and all the human race
sprang from the first pair. God was the Father and the earth the mother
of Adam. The first man was named Adam; the first woman, Eve. "God
created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him;
male and female created he them. And God blessed them, and God said
unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it;
and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air,
and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth."--Genesis 1:
27,28.
[31]We are all interested in knowing how Jehovah created the first man,
Adam. "And the Lord God formed man of the dust