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