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What captured me in my later 20s and has held me fast for 35 years & ruined me for a life apart from Bible study was the virtually endless foreshadowing in the OT of what would be fulfilled, perfected or explained in the New. How Scripture connected from Genesis to Revelation. ->
Our thoughts move today to the garden where 1 of the most astounding of those connections is found. Don’t miss it. Read Gen 2-3 with careful attention to the fall of man in the Garden of Eden then every Gospel account of Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane. Doesn’t take a scholar->
to see the ties and the blatant reversals put in motion in the Garden of Gethsemane & finished on the Cross. Take a pen & record every single concept or detail that can be found in both accounts. Don’t overlook how the ground was cursed & how Christ would wear a crown of thorns.
Don’t miss that the nakedness of Adam & Eve was covered by skins necessitating bloodshed & death of an animal & Jesus would be stripped of His clothing & bear their-& our-shame on a tree. I want desperately for many to catch this fire. There’s nothing like the study of Scripture.
Of the countless things it accomplishes in us, 1st & foremost the privilege to know God the Father & His Son & our Savior Jesus through the power of the Holy Spirit, it vastly increases our confidence that God has been ordering all things to the last detail according to a PLAN.
An eternal plan pre-dating creation. This knowledge is essential to our sense of security in Christ even in our present perils. We cannot speak for God concerning this pandemic but we can know this: He has most certainly not been dethroned nor has the work of Christ been undone.
Behold the Lamb of God, Beloved. The Lamb slain before the foundation of the world. There’s no story like our story. Every other great story is but a ray of light emanating from the brilliance of God’s most glorious Story of Redemption.
“Making known to us the mystery of His...
“Making known to us the mystery of His...
will, according to His purpose, which He set forth in Christ as a plan for the fullness of time, to unite all things in Him, things in heaven and things on earth.”
Ephesians 1:9-10
Ephesians 1:9-10
Don’t tell me you’re too busy for Bible study. Get your tail in the Scriptures. There’s nothing like it. There is no one like Jesus.
