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God gave us a beautiful, bountiful world, but we corrupted it. This theme of God’s goodness, man’s
rebellion, and the consequences of that rebellion, play out in the generations that follow.

Genesis 1-3: God created a perfect world, filled with abundance and free of sin. Through a tree known
as the tree of God and Evil, God presented mankind with a choice: honor Him or act as their own gods.
They chose rebellion and were cast out of the garden, their relationship with God and one another
broken.
Genesis 4-6: Evil increases on the earth as mankind continues to rebel against God until the earth is
filled with violence. God sends a worldwide flood as a consequence for mankind’s sin, saving but one
man named Noah and His family, through whom God begins again. But this man, too, fails, as do his
descendants after him.

Genesis 12-23: God again chooses a man (Abraham) from among all the evil and violent people
populating the earth. He calls this man to Himself and promises to bless him. God then makes a
covenant with Abraham, making it clear that He alone will fulfill it (Gen. 15). In this, we see that only
God can and will remain faithful, a faithfulness which, ultimately, led to the life, death, and resurrection
of His Son.
Genesis 24-50: For the remainder of Genesis, we see God beginning to build a nation from Abraham’s
descendants, through whom His ultimate blessing will come, Jesus. And yet again, we see mankind’s
continual sin.
In each of these stories, God reveals man’s need for rescue and God’s continual rescuing. This points to
Christ and our ultimate rescue found only in Him. Scholars have also noted a close correspondence
between Genesis, the first book in Scripture, and Revelation, the last.
In Genesis, God created the heavens and the earth (1:1). Revelations speak of the “new earth (2:1).” A
tree of life stood prominent in the Garden of Eden and will also grow in the new earth (Gen. 2:9, Rev.
22:2). In Genesis chapter one, God created light; light came from Him, and He separated light from
darkness (1:4). In Revelation He is the source of light and there is no night (21:23). He created the first
heavens and earth (Genesis 1-2), which are temporary; the new heaven and earth will remain through
eternity (Rev. 21:2).
Genesis mentions gold in the land (2:12) whereas Revelation tells of a street of gold within the city
(21:21). God dwelled, or communed, with man in both. Evil enters the garden (Satan, Gen. 3:1-5), but
evil will be banned from heaven (Rev. 21:27). In Genesis, we see how God’s people, originally of one
tongue, broke into nations (Gen. 11). In Revelations, those nations are brought back together once again
and worship Christ in unity (7:9). Genesis reveals a world that has been cursed by sin and the
consequences of that sin—death, sorrow, sickness, tears, thorns and thistles, laborious work, and
separation from evil. Scripture tells us none of these will exist in the new heaven and earth.
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4 Ibid.
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