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In
the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
In
the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He
was in the beginning with God. All things were
made by Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made.
And
the Lord God formed man out of the dust of the earth, male and female He
created them, in His own image, and breathed into them the breath of life.
God
saw everything that He had made, and indeed it was very good.
The
Lord God planted a garden, and there he placed the man and the woman. And God
said, “You
may eat of every tree in the garden except of the tree of the knowledge of good
and evil, for in the day you eat of it you will surely die.”
But
the serpent tempted them, and they did eat of
the forbidden fruit.
Immediately,
their fellowship with God was broken, and they were
cast out of the garden so they could not eat of the tree of life and live
forever in their sinful condition.
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But
God did not leave them without hope, for He promised, “I will put
enmity between the serpent and the woman, and between the [serpent's] seed and her Seed;
He shall bruise [the serpent's] head, and [the serpent] shall bruise His heel.”
The
world was plunged into the darkness of sin, but the Promise of a Savior shone a
glimmer of hope that the people who walked in darkness would one day see a
great light.
To
cover Adam and Eve’s nakedness, God killed a lamb to begin teaching them that
“without the shedding of blood there is no remission of sin.”
Many
dark years passed. Then the Lord God found a
man who worshiped Him. He said to Abram, “Get out of
your country, from your kindred and from your father’s house, to a land I will
show you. I will make of you a great nation. I will bless you … and you shall
be a blessing … and in you all the families of the earth shall
be blessed.”
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Through
Abraham, God would prepare a nation to bring forth the Savior.
Later,
God gave Moses the Law. The sacrificial
system would point to the day and help people to understand when God would give
His only uniquely begotten Son as the Lamb of
God which takes away the sins of the world.
And
the Word became flesh and dwelt among us….
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