The God of the Bible is the ever-present God. In every age He had a message for that age. He was the ever-present One then. He is still. To the antediluvian world He sent His message. It was rejected and believed, proving a savor of death and of life. The same sun which ripens the wheat ripens also the tares. He had a message for the Pharaoh of the oppression and for the oppressed. Again the message meant death and life; death to the rejecter, life to the receiver. He had a message for the people to prepare the way for the first advent of Jesus, and He sent it by John the Baptizer. Again its rejection meant death, its acceptance meant life.