Feb
15
The Crown of Salvation History…
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…Jesus Christ.
“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth… Then God said, ‘Let us make man in our image, after our likeness…’ And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, ‘You may freely eat of every tree of the garden; but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall die.’… But the serpent said to the woman, ‘You will not die.’… So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food… she took of its fruit and ate; and she also gave some to her husband, and he ate… Then the Lord God said to the woman, ‘What is this that you have done?’ The women said, ‘The serpent beguiled me, and I ate it.’ The Lord God said to the serpent…’I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.’ Therefore, the Lord God sent [man] forth from the Garden of Eden, to till the ground from which he was taken.”
Genesis, the first book of the Old Testament, chronicles the devastating fall of man from the grace of God. Yet, even from the beginning, the promise of a redeemer is revealed. Genesis then goes on to show how God calls Abraham. Abraham then raises his son Isaac, who becomes the father of Jacob. Jacob has twelve sons, one being Joseph, who is disliked by his fellow brothers and secretly sold into slavery in Egypt. There, he comes into the favor of the pharaoh and is appointed governor. Through his ability to interpret dreams, he keeps Egypt safe from famine, and invites his father and brothers to live with him in Egypt. There, the twelve tribes of Israel flourish and multiply until the Egyptians enslave them.
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