In Genesis 1, God revealed that His doings take our darknesses into His light; our lacks into His plenty —- “The evening and the morning were the first day:” and in our lives we can expect Him to, if we are willing, always change darkness into light.
In Genesis 2, God shows us that we have removed ourselves from the nearly prohibition free Garden of Eden and introduced ourselves to shame and a felt need to hide: a hole in our heart happened to all of us; a hole which He alone can heal.
In Genesis 3, the Lord teaches us by questioning, “Adam, where are you.” How foolishly Adam sought to hide from Him: we are prone to do the same and He is ever asking us to confess that we have gotten off track.
We are here. We will die. We cannot change either. Nor could we change the mind of God: Jesus is coming. Wrong can be made right; but only through mercy and forgiveness. A baby is coming who alone can take away our sins. Into the darkness days on earth that light –“Which lights every man who comes into the world –“ is shining and saying; “Adam, where are you?” and saying, “Come unto me all ye that are burdened and heavy lady. And I will give you rest.”
In Genesis 4, the Lord having warned him; “Sin lies at the door;” to all world conditions these questions, “Adam, where are you?” – “Where is thy brother?” And we see the need on earth that we: “Love God with all thy heart and soul and mind and strength; and thy brother as thyself.”
And we are introduced in the writings of Moses to an altogether different answer to human woe. Justice could have condemned every one of us into an endless struggle – that is religion as it was being practiced then – and is practiced since. But the Lord was introducing that His way to turn our caused darkness into His caused day would be through forgiveness, and mercy, and His placing Himself in our place. He would take upon Himself the just penalty for our wrong-doing. Jesus was coming. The anointed One was coming. Messiah was coming.
He was wounded for our transgressions. He was wounded for our iniquities. Surely He bore our sorrows — the Man of Sorrows would soon turn to daylight the darkness we had brought into the world: “Our night was turned to day; and our sins were washed away.”
He who spoke and it was so, has spoken this Gospel: read the Bible.
In Genesis 5: “Enoch walked with God” and in Genesis six: “Noah fond grace in the eyes of the Lord.” God saying “Where are you” and “Have you….” Some with honest reply – some not and fooling no one but themselves.
Genesis 6,7, 8 and 9 and we see our own life destinies: one or the other: darkness changed to light or no. The rest of the Bible is histories of lives lived, choices made, and of divine intervention throughout.
Abraham will be taken out for God’s purpose; as a nation whose God is the only God, his posterity selected for completing God’s self disclosure and for bringing baby Jesus into the world. Then Israel – a people and a nation precariously hated; but called the people of God – not understanding why Jesus spoke as He did, died as He did… nor why death could not hold Him — nor that He was the baby about which Moses wrote – and Isaiah — and so many more… then Israel waits and the Gentiles are given opportunity to become vessels – ambassadors – witnesses: His church.
Then, as with Noah, globally real and true, not believed by many but just as real, saved or lost the same; Noah found grace: “By grace are you saved by faith: it is a gift of God not of works lest we could boast at how religiously good we are.” (my translation)
False religion and futile emerged right away; involved foolish excuses, pitiful practices – even the death of others and other wickedness: dependence on self rather than Savior.
But the Savior was coming: He came; Jesus is coming again: and Israel? Hatred for Israel having the land it was once given will increase in numbers such that only God can save Israel.
The church – mid-messengers of God in whose midst were the real and the imposter – same as was in Israel: remember, “Enoch walked with God.” Moses wrote that. Where Enoch went will have gone the genuine Jew and the genuine Christian: to be with the Lord. God’s “longsuffering” will have served His desire to bring many sons to glory.
Now the final cleanup: He will defend the Jews again. Oh human foolish ones, why do you speak such ignorance? Why do you plunge into hatred of you brother and of God? What do you think you will gain; oh you of short lives on earth?
Genesis is the book of beginnings. In it the end can be seen by those whose eyes are opened. Justice and Judgment stand obviously to us as necessary. This is the main language of religions. Unique; exceptional, extraordinarily wonderful is the Gospel which is really written in the hearts of me but missing in their origins of thoughts. That is the kindness and effectiveness of mercy through forgiveness that is not totally missing on earth. Families sometimes employ it: friends too. But forgiveness must cost someone else justice would be violated. The world and all that is within is run by the law of just recompense. What is sown is reaped. What goes around; comes around.
The Bible explicitly teaches — in the Old; someone is coming— in the new; He came; withdrew granting men opportunity to Aye or Nay, and is coming again at the end. The Bible is explicit in offering — in the Old that we “choose life – or death:” — in the New that we chose whom the Father sent – the Son of His mercy. “He came unto His own” really for ever person for “God so loved the world,” said His Son. First, said to the Jew, then, of course, to the Gentile – to every person.
Adam, where are you? – Where is thy brother? — What is your disposition toward my Son? If we tell Him where we are, we will need to confess our sins. If we explain to Him our treatment of others — do we not see that before creation the Father’s plan was to save us from our sins and to bring us – washed by the blood of His Son — the Old Testament making sense by His New Testament. God’s family, children of God, created and re-created by God: Born again – born from above. Eternally brethren: His Son our Elder Brother: the end for which the beginning was purposed.
Buddy