The Most High Ruleth by Arlen L Chitwood and published by Classics.
There is a universe that God not only brought into existence but one over which He also exercises absolute, sovereign control. And the Bible is God's revelation to man concerning His actions in the preceding respect, especially as these actions relate to man and the earth. Man is a latecomer in the universe. He was created after God's creation of the material universe, after God's creation of angels, and after God's government of the universe had been established and was in full operation. Man's existence dates back only six millennia; and he was brought into existence for the specific purpose of replacing a disqualified, provincial ruler in God's kingdom, one who had been ruling for a prior unrevealed period of time.
Man was created to replace the ruler whom God had, in the beginning, placed over the earth (Ezek. 28:14). This ruler, Satan, disqualified himself because of his rebellion against God's supreme power and authority (Isa. 14:12-15). And man was subsequently brought on the scene to take the sceptre and, with the woman, rule this one province in God’s kingdom in the stead of Satan and his angels (Gen. 1:26-28). Thus, matters surrounding both man's fall and redemption revolve around the reason for his creation: “...let them [the man and woman together] have dominion...”
