Forgotten, Framed, and Still Faithful

We have seen how God originally created a perfect world that was later murdered by human rebellion. We then see the dire consequences of sin beginning with the expulsion of the first man and woman out of the garden, and then God making this profound promise that the seed of the woman would crush the serpent's head in Genesis chapter three and verses 15, which is a foretelling of the Messiah's decisive victory over Satan at Calvary. [00:01:54] (30 seconds)  #GenesisPromise

We're often taught to read the bible like we would read the adventures of Winnie the Pooh as a collection of short stand alone stories. And so often we read stories like Noah's Ark or the story of Abraham as stand alone tales with perhaps a moral lesson to learn. But the biblical stories are part of a much broader storyline. [00:00:01] (28 seconds)  #BibleStoryline

Genesis was not written like the Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, it was written much like the Adventures of Alice in Wonderland. When we read Alice in Wonderland to our children, they always want to know what happens next. Why? Because they understand that each part hangs together as one story, and finds its highest point at the end of the book, not at the end of a single episode. [00:00:30] (32 seconds)  #StoriesConnect

To think for example, that we can understand the story of Abraham's sacrifice of Isaac in Genesis chapter 22, without reading the first 21 chapters of the book is like flipping to the tea party Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and thinking that the point of the story is that we should never dine with someone who is crazy or wears bad hats. We will have entirely missed the story and the plot line completely. [00:01:03] (32 seconds)  #ReadGenesisWhole