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Scofield's Notes

Learn the Bible Using C. I. Scofield's Study Reference

For over 90 years people have relied on this reference work in their daily study of God's Word. Written originally in 1909, C. I. Scofield's intent was to provide a concise but complete tool that would meet the need of someone just beginning to read the Bible. Cyrus Scofield was born in Lenawee County, Michigan, but during the American Civil War after his conversion to evangelical Christianity in 1879, Scofield assisted in the St. Louis campaign conducted by Dwight L. Moody and in 1883 Scofield was ordained as a Congregationalist minister, and he accepted the pastorate of small mission church founded by that denomination.

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Book of Genesis

Genesis 1:2

Bible Verse:
The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.

Exposition:
Without form and void jeremiah 4:23-27 ; isaiah 24:1 ; 45:18 clearly indicate that the earth had undergone a cataclysmic change as the result of divine judgment. the face of the earth bears everywhere the marks of such a catastrophe. there are not wanting imitations which connect it with a previous testing and fall of angels. see ezekiel 28:12-15 ; isaiah 14:9-14 which certainly go beyond the kings of tyre and babylon.