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Basic Information About Genesis

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Basis Information About the book of Genesis

Almost all of the great doctrines, principles and truths are revealed in Genesis:

    • God is revealed
    • God’s purpose and plan is revealed
    • Man’s state, past, current, future and eternal
    • Satan and his plan
    • Salvation
    • Justification by faith
    • Separation
    • The Translation (some call the Rapture)
    • The Incarnation
    • Death and resurrection
    • Israel and her future
    • God’s judgment
    • Sin
    • The Gentile Nations
    • The coming Antichrist is announced

   All of these issues and more are revealed in Genesis. Want to know and understand the Book of the Revelation of Jesus Christ, then read, study and understand Genesis.

   Genesis is quoted more than 70 times in 17 New Testament books. There are amazing similarities and contrasts between Genesis (the 1st book of the Bible), and Revelation (the last book of the Bible also considered either the 63rd or the 66th book, depending on how you treat the books of 1st and 2nd Samuel, 1st and 2nd Kings, and 1st and 2nd Chronicles — I consider Revelation to be the 66th book in the Bible).

   Now let us do some baby math — I suggest you link to our other site called www.MysteryofNumbers.com.

   One of the reasons I consider that there are 66 books in the Bible is that the numbers tell a story. Double 6 or 2 digits; two is the number of witness, 6 is the number of man; thus, baby math tells me the story that the Bible is a witness to man of God. From beginning to end, God witnesses of Himself. One important thought I want to leave with you is that in all things balance is a good thing. It is very easy to become distracted, and diverted from the precepts in Scripture, meaning that you should not become a one string instrument whereby the only note that you can play is the note of numbers and math.

   We not only have baby math, but we also have what is called ‘the law of first mention.’ The law of first mention is the comparison of the very first mention of a word, or phrase compared to the following mentions of the word or phrase to the very last mention. How a word is first used usually defines its future scope. If I haven’t confused, you then I have done my job properly! For now, I want to mention a few of the similarities and contrasts in the Bible.

Similarities in Genesis and Revelation

  • In both Genesis and Revelation, we have a new beginning — a new order.
  • In both Genesis and Revelation, we have the tree of life.
  • In both Genesis and Revelation, we have a river.
  • In both Genesis and Revelation, we have the bride.
  • In both Genesis and Revelation, we have the walk of God with man.
  • In both Genesis and Revelation, we have paradise.
  • In both Genesis and Revelation, we have the same moral and spiritual ideals.

The contrasts between the first and last book of the Bible are:

  • The first paradise is closed. (Genesis 3:23)
  • In Revelation, the new paradise is opened. (Revelation 21:25)
    • In Genesis we have the curse imposed. (Genesis 3:17)
    • In Revelation we have the curse removed. (Revelation 22:3)
  • In Genesis we have access to the tree of life denied. (Genesis 3:24)
  • In Revelation we have the access to the tree of life renewed. (Revelation 22:14)
    • In Genesis we have the beginning of sorrow and death ( Genesis, Chapter 3)
    • In Revelation we have no more sorrow, and no more death. (Revelation 21:4)
  • In Genesis we have a defiled garden. (Genesis 3:6-7)
  • In Revelation we have an undefiled city. (Revelation 21:27)
    • In Genesis we have time established.
    • In Revelation we have time no longer, but we have eternity.
  • In Genesis we have the sea, the sun, and the night established.
  • In Revelation we have no sea, no sun, and no night.

   In Revelation we have the last marriage — the marriage of the Lamb.

   In Genesis we have the first promise. (Genesis 3:15)

 Write in a book. The LORD said unto Moses, Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua:. . . (Exodus 17:14)

And the LORD said unto Moses, Write thou these words: for after the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with thee and with Israel.(Exodus 34:27)

Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever: (Isaiah 30:8)

Thus speaketh the LORD God of Israel, saying, Write thee all the words that I have spoken unto thee in a book. (Jeremiah 30:2)

The Weak and the Base

Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.

For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called:

But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty;

And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are: That no flesh should glory in his presence. (1 Corinthians 1:25-29)

Hid from the Wise and Revealed to Babes

At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes. (Matthew 11:25)

© Copyright 2008, Mary Haigh

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All Scripture references are from the Kings James Bible. (KJB)

　

 

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