Epworth UMC - Rehoboth Beach, DE

So when when you first read Genesis, you find out that god is the god of Abraham. So god is a family god. And then when, you know, you get to, Israel and the 12 tribes of Israel, god is the god of those tribes. So it's gone from just a single family to a little bit more to those tribes. And then when those tribes go into exile, they struggle to understand, that, you know, god wasn't just the god of their nation, but god would be present even when they were taken somewhere else in the world. And so they had to recognize that God was the God of the whole entire world.