The City Temporal, The Kingdom Eternal

In this long genealogy, and in the Tower of Babel, we see the providence of God on display as He governs the rise and fall of the nations, He restrains the pride of sinful man, and He preserves the promised offspring of the woman, preparing the way for Jesus Christ. In other words, as the 1689 Confession says in chapter 5, paragraph 7, "The providence of God in a general way includes all creatures, but in a special way it takes care of His church and arranges all things to its good."