What is the Bible about?
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What is the Bible about?
The Bible is all one story. The ending of the last Book in the Bible (Revelation) reads like the finale of the story begun in the first part of the first Book (Genesis).
The first words in Genesis: (click on the links)
"In the beginning God created the heavens and earth" (Genesis 1:1).
Almost the last words in Revelation:
"I saw a new heaven and a new earth" (Revelation 21:1).
"The gathering together of waters He called the sea" (Genesis 1:10).
"And the sea is no more" (Revelation 21:1).
"The darkness He called night" (Genesis 1:5).
"There shall be no night there" (Revelation 21:25).
"God made the two great lights (sun and moon)" (Genesis 1:16).
"The city has no need of the sun nor the moon" (Revelation 21:23).
"In the day you eat thereof you shall surely die" (Genesis 2:17).
"Death shall be no more" (Revelation 21:4).
"I will greatly multiply your pain" (Genesis 3:16).
"Neither shall there be pain any more" (Revelation 21:4).
"Cursed is the ground for your sake" (Genesis 3:17).
"There shall be no more curse" (Revelation 22:3).
Satan appears as the deceiver of mankind (Genesis 3:1, 4).
Satan disappears forever (Revelation 20:10).
Adam and Eve were driven from the Tree of Life (Genesis 3:22-24).
The Tree of Life re-appears (Revelation 22:2).
They were driven from God's presence (Genesis 3:24).
"They shall see His face" (Revelation 22:4).
Man's primeval home was by a river (Genesis 2:10).
Man's eternal home will be beside a river (Revelation 22:1).
(Paraphrased from "Halley's Bible Handbook by Henry H. Halley, Zondervan Publishing House, Grand Rapids, Michigan, page 740)
The Bible is all one story. The ending of the last Book in the Bible (Revelation) reads like the finale of the story begun in the first part of the first Book (Genesis).
The first words in Genesis: (click on the links)
"In the beginning God created the heavens and earth" (Genesis 1:1).
Almost the last words in Revelation:
"I saw a new heaven and a new earth" (Revelation 21:1).
"The gathering together of waters He called the sea" (Genesis 1:10).
"And the sea is no more" (Revelation 21:1).
"The darkness He called night" (Genesis 1:5).
"There shall be no night there" (Revelation 21:25).
"God made the two great lights (sun and moon)" (Genesis 1:16).
"The city has no need of the sun nor the moon" (Revelation 21:23).
"In the day you eat thereof you shall surely die" (Genesis 2:17).
"Death shall be no more" (Revelation 21:4).
"I will greatly multiply your pain" (Genesis 3:16).
"Neither shall there be pain any more" (Revelation 21:4).
"Cursed is the ground for your sake" (Genesis 3:17).
"There shall be no more curse" (Revelation 22:3).
Satan appears as the deceiver of mankind (Genesis 3:1, 4).
Satan disappears forever (Revelation 20:10).
Adam and Eve were driven from the Tree of Life (Genesis 3:22-24).
The Tree of Life re-appears (Revelation 22:2).
They were driven from God's presence (Genesis 3:24).
"They shall see His face" (Revelation 22:4).
Man's primeval home was by a river (Genesis 2:10).
Man's eternal home will be beside a river (Revelation 22:1).
(Paraphrased from "Halley's Bible Handbook by Henry H. Halley, Zondervan Publishing House, Grand Rapids, Michigan, page 740)
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