Claim. In the Old Testament Age, God’s providential goal was not to recover sons and daughters but to find people who could serve Him as loyal servants — the highest position fallen humanity could occupy at that stage.
Elaboration. Because fallen humanity fell below all creation, God first had to lift people to the level of servant: “God tried to bring people who were not even good enough to become servants in the satanic world and made them servants of servants in God’s world” (1.1. The Old Testament Age was the age of the servant, 154-334, 1964.10.5). Sacrificial offerings of material things served to reclaim people from Satan’s side. Even Abraham and Jacob triumphed as God’s servants, not sons. God “was not even looking for adopted sons” — simply gathering what the text calls “useless material” (ibid, 136-222, 1985.12.29). The Blessing — establishing family in God’s name — was structurally impossible in this era, since servants, like archangels, cannot marry.
See also. csg-restoration-ascent-servant-to-parents, csg-angels-mediated-gods-ot-providence