Gage's thesis is that Genesis 1-7 constitutes a paradigm for macrocosmic (world) and microcosmic (Israelite) history, so that the history of the prediluvian world is parelleled in the histories of the postdiluvian world. This thesis is supported by an examination of the structural and literary parallels in the historical records; after identifying five major theological themes as having their basis in Genesis 1-7, Gage then traces them through Scripture, showing that the eschatology of the Bible is intimately bound up with the protology of the early chapters of Genesis.

Author - Warren Gage

"Gage proves himself to be a perspicacious student of scripture; he opens up for the sensitive reader insights into the vast panorama of God's creative and redemptive work. Through his observations on the repetition of the foreshadowings found in Genesis 1-7 in the rest of Scripture one perceives with new conviction the fingerprint of God in history and His signature in the Bible."

- From the foreword by Bruce K. Waltke