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There is little documentation about the world before this one and yet we know it existed from the records in God’s Word, and it is documented in The Companion Bible. KJV version. First, before we try to set a picture as to what took place, and what life was like; we first have to put in place our spiritual minds.
The study of God’s Word, and unravelling of many obstacles that seems to be put in the way of our best efforts, (not by God I may add) cause untold confusion to would be scholars, and students, searching for the TRUTH. For example where does one start? Who does one approach? How does one know that he or she is on track etc? It is for this very reason I am trying to point as many people in the right direction as possible.
It is crucial to have an open mind and allow yourself to be led by the Holy Spirit, as well as praying to our Father for guidance through our Lord Jesus Christ; while studying God’s Word. The Keys of David are not given to just anyone. So before we start let us ask for guidance in our studies from our Father, Almighty God; through His son Jesus Christ our Lord, and for the guidance of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
When I first began my studies I purchased a Holy Bible, KJV version and began reading it from the beginning to the end, like you would a novel. Needless to say the begatting and endless genealogies I found very boring; but I persevered at a steady pace over many weeks. This technique proved fruitless, and only, at the very least, hardened my determination to seek out the truth from as many, and any source, that I possibly could. This meant vicars, teachers, religious organizations, and individuals, but to no avail. In fact it added more confusion to my quest than when I started. But my stubborn nature of not giving up led me, eventually in the right direction, and reminiscent of a huge jigsaw; it slowly began falling into place.
The questions: Where do we come from? What are we doing here? Where are we going? Have fallen into place only by diligently, and unwaveringly, searching through God’s Word. The answers to these three relevant and vitally important questions could not be found anywhere else even if the truth was known.
To answer and
make sense of these three questions I have to begin in God’s Word, Genesis.
Gen 1:1.
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. In the
beginning God created the heaven and the earth. There is no mention here of
stars, or light, or sun, or moon, nor land, this did not happen until verses
3-31.Well; this very important verse has been passed over without giving it any thought; because it was the first earth, and God was on that earth. God and Christ were the light, and there was no sickness, no illness, no wind or rain, no sun or stars, no tears, no sorrow, and most of all no Death. There was however life, we were in our spiritual bodies going about our lives happily, and healthily. So what happened to this ideal state?
As well as God residing on the earth there was also Christ, and Lucifer. Lucifer had great responsibilities and was very close to God. This state must have lasted for quite some time until things began to take a change for the worse. Lucifer became so full of his own importance and beauty and wanted to be God, but that place was already taken. He wanted to rule in place of God and suggested letting the people rule themselves because God’s ways were too restrictive.( see Satan’s Rebellion)
The seeds of doubt and rebellion had now been sown, even if God had
destroyed Lucifer there and then; the doubt would have remained in the minds of
many more. The harmony and tranquillity had been spoilt, as well as the trust
God had bestowed on Lucifer, and iniquity as well as disobedience began its
penetrating contamination. So much so, that a third of the angels rallied around
and followed Lucifer. This was totally unacceptable to God. The only course
open to our Father was to remove Himself, (His Light) and all the heavenly
beings, (including Lucifer and all his followers.) off the earth. He then
totally destroyed the earth, everything, and everyone on it, by flood. (Not to
be confused with Noah’s flood). Remember though that God created all souls,
and to God these souls will return; God has a
plan
Gen 1:2
And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the
deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
The earth was then just an indistinguishable ruin, an insignificant ball of dark water, void of any kind of life, until the Spirit (Strong’s number 7307 Heb rűwach, (wind, by resemblance, breath, i.e. a sensible [or even violent] exhalation;) of God moved upon the face of the waters. See Bible Studies Gen 1.6 - Gen 12.1.
God had
destroyed the first earth age because of the rebellion and disobedience led By
Lucifer, and now He is restoring His creation again, but with a difference.
The restoration took Six Days, and this statement alone is a stumbling
block for a lot of people.
Gen 1:27 So God created man in His own image, in the image of
God created He him; male and female created He them.
During the
creation Gen 1:27 tells us that man was created, male and
female (Strong’s 2145. Heb Zâkâr zaw-kawr remembered,
i.e. a male (Of man or animals, as being the most noteworthy sex). Nothing
here about named Adam, or Eve; and we are almost at the end of the
Sixth Day. God blessed them, and told them to be fruitful and multiply…but
still no mention of that man Adam
II Peter 3:8 “Beloved, be
not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand
years, and a thousand years as one day”
So you could say that the whole of Creation took God 6000 years, and it is covered in the KJV from Gen 1:2 – Gen 1:31. God; says the uniformitarians are willingly ignorant, and then urges those who believe His Word to “be not ignorant.” The only way we can know the date and duration of creation is for God to tell us, and He says He did it all in Six Days, and not so long ago! But it doesn’t matter whether the reader believes it or not, they will get a second chance. Six: Denotes the human number. Man was created on the sixth day; and this first occurrence of the number makes it (and all multiples of it) the hallmark of all connected with man. (See Significance of Numbers.)
Gen 2:1 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all
the host of them.
God our
Father has finished His great work and has rested on the Seventh Day. As if to
verify the first earth age, verse 5 says that every plant of the field
before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: So
these seeds were in the earth already from the former age and needed only water
to begin germination
The water
was provided by the LORD God in verse 6 who sent up a mist from the earth and
watered the whole ground. But where is Adam?
Gen 2:7.And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground,
and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living
soul.
Why would God form another man from the ground when He had already
created man in His own image in Gen 1:26-27?
The
answer is This word 'man'
here in the Hebrew manuscripts is 'eth' Ha' adham'.3 you
thus have the article, eth’ and
the particle Ha’.
This means a 'specific' man, not mankind
in general.
The
particle compounds more emphasis on top of that idea, so God
wanted us to know that He had a particular reason for 'forming' this 'eth'
Ha' adham'
separate from those 'created' in Gen.1: 26-27. It has nothing
to do with whether one race of people were made better than others, for God said in Gen.1:31 that 'it was
very good' as He loves all His children and wants them 'all' to return unto
Him, and not following Satan. This is
not a discriminatory teaching. Our Father put this 'eth' Ha' adham' in His
Paradise for a special reason;
It would be the bloodline
that Jesus Christ would come from.
Everyone knows the story of Adam
and Eve so I’ll move on.
I Tim. 2:6. Who gave Himself a ransom for all, to be
testified in due time.
God’s
justice is inviolate. It does not compromise. For all eternity it
will require the forfeited life of one human being and of the potential race
within him. Therefore, there was only ONE way to release Adam and
his race from death. A SUBSTITUTE must be provided.
That substitute would be “the MAN Christ Jesus, who gave himself; A RANSOM (substitute) FOR
ALL, to be testified IN DUE TIME.”
Heb.
2:9 But
we see Jesus, Who was made a little lower than the angels, for the suffering of
death, crowned with glory and honour, that He by the grace of God should taste
death for every man.
The flesh bodies we have now are the direct result of disobeying God. Adam listened to
his wife Eve, who, in turn listened to the temptations of Satan and brought
about this fallen state. God sent forth, out of the garden of Eden, Adam and
Eve, to till the ground from which he was made. The Cherubims and twirling
sword was put in place to prevent their/our return. (See the Stars Also) and this was the first
attempt of many by Satan to obstruct God’s Plan which he was well aware
of, and set the stage for this Flesh age. For any of us to attain our
original state with God conditions are
in place. We must believe Christ is the son
of God. The history of Gen. 3 is intended to
teach us the fact that Satan’s sphere of activities is in the religious sphere,
and not the spheres of crime or immorality; that his battlefield is not the
sins arising from human depravity, but the unbelief of the human heart.
We are not to look for Satan’s activities to day in the newspaper press, or the
police courts; but in the pulpit, and in professors’ chairs. Wherever the
Word of God is called into question, there we see the trail of “that old
serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan’’
More on this later.
Gen 4:1 And Adam knew Eve his wife;
and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, “I have gotten a man from the
LORD.”
Gen 4:2 And she again bare his
brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the
ground.
These two verses are also open to confusion by
many; mainly because of the weak doctrine we have been taught for years. The
milk of the word has been so called because it is easy to digest. i.e. (Snake,
apple, etc). To dig deeper and understand the meat of the Word of God, is
to be approved. The Meat of the Word is about to be revealed to
you, so if think you are not ready for this yet, then cease reading
here.
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Gen
4:1-2 Cain and Abel were paternal twins - Superfecundation is the fertilization of two or more ova
from the same cycle by sperm from separate acts of sexual intercourse.
The term is also sometimes used to refer to the instances of two different
males fathering fraternal twins, though this is more accurately known as heteropaternal
superfecundation. This therefore leads to the possibility of twins also
being half-siblings. The term superfecundation is derived from fecund,
meaning the ability to produce offspring.
So now Gen 4: 1 Reveals
that Cain is Satan’s son
Gen
4:2 Reveals that Abel is Adam’s son.
Cain rose up and killed his (half) brother Abel and by so doing, murder had
entered the world. This is Satan’s second attempt to obstruct
God’s Plan, and the genealogy begins down to Noe, or Noah.
Gen 6 Reveals that when men began to multiply, and daughters were born unto
them, the fallen angels (sons of God) saw that the daughters of men were fair
and took them as wives. The progeny of the
fallen angels with the daughters of Adam are called in Genesis 6 Ne-phīl-īm, which means fallen
ones (from nāphal, to fall) What these things were can be
gathered only from Scripture. They were evidently great in size, as well as
great in wickedness. They were superhuman, abnormal beings; and their
destruction was necessary for the preservation of the human race, and for
the faithfulness of Jehovah’s Word. This is Satan’s third attempt to obstruct God’s Plan and
we are only in Gen 6.
The next milestone is Babel Gen 11;This
is Satan’s fourth attempt to obstruct God’s Plan, and the first attempt to
build a One World System.
We come further down the genealogy ladder until we come to Abram, Sarai, and Hagar; Sarai’s Egyptian handmaiden who became pregnant by Abraham.
Gen 17:4
As for Me, behold, My covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be a father of many
nations.
God changed Abram’s name to Abraham, and his wife Sarai to Sarah and both women bare their children. Hagar’s child was named Ishmael; and Sarah’s son was called Isaac; Thus God re-established the seed and thwarted Satan’s fifth attempt. The birth of Ishmael and Isaac set the stage for two out of three players because as Our LORD God has already decreed; there will be many, many blessed nations from both of these. Isaac will represent Israel, and Ishmael the Ishmaelites, Midianites, Arabians etc. Abraham traveled further to Sodom and Gomorrah and asked the Lord to spare the righteous of which there were a few before destroying the two cities. Lot and his family were chosen and told to leave and not look back, but Lot’s wife did and was instantly turned to a pillar of salt. So was the iniquity, and peverseness, of Sodom and Gomorrah ended by God. Abraham was tested by God through his son Isaac and was found to be a Godfearing man, God intervened and prevented Abraham from carrying out the test of loyalty.
Gen 22:18. And in thy seed shall all the nations of the
earth be blessed; because thou hast obeyed My voice.
We carry on down
the genealogy ladder from Isaac – Jacob Gen 27 Esau was the eldest son and by
birthright was entitled to the blessing, but Jacob and his mother tricked
Isaac. Isaac forbade Jacob to take a
wife of the daughters of Canaan. Here was the sixth attempt By Satan to
obstruct God’s Plan. Many dreams of Jacob followed, and his name was
changed to Israel. Satan continues his
attempts to obstruct God’s Plan, all the way through the Bible; to the new
Testament.
The next in
line was Joseph who also had many dreams, who was eventually sold by his
brothers to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver, and they carried him
down to Egypt. This was the seventh attempt by Satan, but God intervened
to prevent the interference of the true bloodline. So Joseph and his family
were enjoying a brief respite in Egypt, and then we come to another very
important milestone here in the Old Testament.
(6) Gen 48:17-21
20.
And he blessed them that day, saying, “In thee shall Israel bless, saying ‘God
make thee as Ephraim and as Manassah: and he set Ephraim before Manassah.
21.
And israel said unto Joseph, “ Behold, I die: but God shall be with you, and
bring you again unto the land of your Fathers.
Gen
49:10 The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from
between his feet,until Shiloh come;(Our Lord Jesus Christ) and unto
Him shall the gathering of the people be. The third player on the stage; Christians.
Rom
8:17. And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with
Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified
together.
We are still in
Genesis (the Old Testament) and as these important verses testify Joseph’s
blessing went to Ephraim (Great Britain) and Manassah (USA) Ephraim
was set before Manassah, and he also said, “God will bring you again unto the
land of your fathers”. Also, “That The sceptre shall not depart from
Judah…until Shiloh come.” This is talking about the future when Israel
is taken into captivity by the “Assyrian”, and “Judah” by Nebuchadnezzar.
(“The
Lost Tribes”) and Shiloh will come on the 7th
Trump heralding in the Messiah’s
1000 year reign in the New Earth. Who said the O.T. is out of
date, and old fashioned? It is just another attempt at covering the truth of
God’s Word so most people will be in a state of confusion by Satan and his
cronies. This is why we have to be on our toes, and study to prove ourselves
worthy of God; getting to the meat of the word. How can anyone hope to
understand Revelation; if they do not understand Genesis. They go together like
a ship and a sail, like a horse and a rider,. Like ALPHA & OMEGA, THE BEGINNING AND THE END. If we do not study God’s Word for ourselves, how on earth
can we identify false prophecy.
Title Of The
Book
Man calls it “The Revelation of
St. John The Divine”.
But its God-given title is in
the first verse, “ The Revelation of Jesus
Christ”, that is, the Unveiling, Revealing, and Presentation to earth
and heaven of the Lord Jesus Christ (Messiah)
as “KING of Kings and LORD of Lords”.
The
Revelation
Just incase you hadn’t noticed, we have
now jumped from Genesis to Revelation to join up the two most important books
in the Holy Bible, and to indicate that the whole Bible is all about Christ. He is therefore the master key to the Divine
revelation of the Word. The whole Bible is about Him directly or indirectly,
and as everything centres in and around Him, apart from Him it cannot be
understood. We see that Genesis and Revelation, “the first’’ and “the last’’
books of the Bible, are inseparably linked together. Genesis “is the beginning’’ and
Revelation the ending of the written Word, even as the Lord, the
Incarnate Word, spake of Himself.
Rev 21:6 And He said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega,
the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain
of the water of life freely.
Rev 22:13 I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the
first and last.
Revelation is the compliment of Genesis. Either without the other would be unintelligible.
Rev1: 3. Blessed is he that readeth, and
they that hear the words of the prophecy, and keep those things which are
written therein: for the time is at hand.
We
read in Genesis about the fall of man through Satan, and how a perfect
sacrifice was to be found and substituted, and how God put in place a plan to
protect the seed line, which would bring forth our Lord and Saviour,
Jesus Christ. The birth and life of Jesus is very well documented, what I
would like to cover is the significance of His death on the cross.
Christ
died on the cross to take away the sins of the world. The Pharisees,
Sadducees, and Scribes were the religious leaders of the day who strictly kept
the Laws of Moses by, sacrifices, washing of cups and utensils, blood
offerings, washing of hands, etc, these were the arbitrary rituals, it was the Law
or Torah: ["This is the Torah which Moses set before
the Children of Israel" (Deut. 4:44, 29:20, 30:10). The term occurs in the
later books of the Bible as "the Torah of the Lord" and the "Torah
of Moses" and thus distinguishes the Pentateuch from the rest of
the Bible (Josh. 1:7; Ezra 3:2, 7:10; Neh. 8:8; Mal. 3:22). Thus, the primary
connotation of the word "Torah" is the Pentateuch, the
first five books of the Old Testament.] They believed that by obeying the Torah
they would inherit the Kingdom of God; but to carry out these rituals and
traditions on a daily basis for the rest of one’s life, correctly, and
punctually, even if one was ill, is to say the least; arduous, they had to be
perfect, and the only perfect Man is
Our Lord Jesus Christ.
Also because of the
difficulty involved these Pharisees were pompous, and expected the people to
follow their ways even though little or no doctrine was offered. (Sound
familiar?)
Matt
5:17,18
17.
Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to
destroy but to fulfil.
18. For
verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall
in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.
The Transfiguration of
Christ is the culminating point of His epic life, just
as His Baptism is its starting point, and His Ascension is its end. Moreover,
this glorious event has been related in detail by the appearance of Moses, to
hand over as it were, the Law and the Dispensation to Jesus. This throws a
light on the reason for the Transfiguration, which is lost in the accepted
versions of the Gospels. Elias also appears, so as to make with Moses, the “two
witnesses” required by Law. They recognise Jesus as the Christ, and witness to
him as the great Prophet whom God should raise to succeed and take the place of
Moses as the Legislator of the New Dispensation. (See Luke
9:28-35)
Jesus was crucified, dead and buried, only to
rise again three days later displaying emphatically, the overcoming of death,
which for so long had power over us, and to most still does today The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto Him, to shew unto his servants things which
must surely come to pass; and he sent and signified it by His angel unto
His servant John.
Most of Revelation is
yet future to us, albeit near future, the new earth, and the new heaven. It is
the continuing struggle between Satan and Messiah for us sinners.
Gen 3:15 And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her Seed; It shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise His heel.’ This denotes the temporary suffering of the Seed (Christ), and the complete destruction of Satan and his works. His (Christ) heel has now been bruised, and the head of Satan is about to be crushed.
Unbelievably,
there are still many who are confused by Revelation, and by God’s Word, who in
turn confuse others. These are the false prophets mentioned in…
Mat 24:11 And
many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.
Mat 24:12 And because iniquity
[lawlessness] shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.
2 Pet 2:1
But there were also false prophets
among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will
secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the sovereign Lord who
bought them--bringing swift destruction on themselves.
2 Pet 2:2 Many will follow their shameful ways and will bring the way of
truth into disrepute.
2 Pet 2:3 In their greed these teachers will exploit you with stories they
have made up. Their condemnation has long been hanging over them, and their
destruction has not been sleeping.
These false prophets
are of old and they are called Kenites. These Kenites returned to Judah with a remnant
of Hebrews from captivity in Assyria and worked their way into positions of
higher authority. The Kenites formed a part of the Midianite tribal grouping.
They journeyed with the Israelites to Canaan (Judges 1:16); and their
encampment, apart from the latter's, was noticed by Balaam. Balaam is a diviner
in the Torah, his story occurring towards the end of the Book of Numbers. The
etymology of his name is uncertain, and discussed below. Every ancient
reference to Balaam considers him a non-Israelite, a prophet, and the son of
Beor, though Beor is not so clearly identified. Though other sources describe
the apparently positive blessings he delivers upon the Israelites, he is
reviled as a "wicked man" in the major story concerning him. Balaam
attempted to curse God's people. He failed all three tries, each time producing
blessings, not curses (Numbers 22-24).
Confusion (Babel,
Babylon) is rife today and far too widespread for any human to correct, simply
because, like the Pharisees, they have been allowed, by God, to flourish among
the wicked, and adulterous generations, of their time and ours today; without
any indignation, or challenge as to the legitimacy of their position, thus
proving how low we have fallen.
Wickedness, and evil
are seen to be in the ascendancy today with lukewarm milk of the word being
delivered to the few congregations who attend church, and no mention at all of
the promised kingdom, nor the advent of Our Lord Jesus Christ, nor the reason
for that advent.
They are awaiting the
second advent of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Jews are waiting for the first, (as
well as the future two Witnesses) and Satan is aware of this, he will appear
first to fool this apostate world into believing he is the Messiah, both Jew
and Christian, and to some extent the Islamic people.
Rev 6:2
And I saw, and behold, a white horse: and he that sat on Him had a bow; and a
crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer. (Not to be identified with the white horse and rider of Rev
19:11, for here is the beginning of the series of terrible judgements).
Rev 12:9
And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil and
Satan, which decieveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his
angels were cast out with him.
Satan
Arrives First, (That is before Christ).
Revelation 6:12. Sixth
Seal: 6: - (Denotes
the human number).
12: – (Denotes Government perfection, which have to do with government in the heavens and the earth).
Revelation 9:13 - Sixth Trumpet: 9:
(Denotes Finality of Judgment).
13: (Denotes rebellion,
apostasy, defection, disintegration, revolution).
Revelation 16:12 - Sixth Vial: 10+6:
(10 Denotes ordinal perfection. 6.Denotes the human number).
12
(Denotes
Government perfection, which has to do with government in the heavens
and the earth. (Goliath, Nebuchadnezzar,
and Antichrist) are all emphatically marked by this number).
Old Testament events serving as "ensamples" for the latter day
events, does this historical blueprint fit for our future? Instead of flesh
pagan kings coming upon Jerusalem to siege and physically destroy, the latter
day king of Babylon will be Satan and his angels as thorns and briers treading
upon Jerusalem to do a spiritual destruction. According to Revelation 12:6 (note
the numbers) forward, Satan and his angels will be booted out of Heaven
down to this earth for the future tribulation; and that latter day working by
the king of Babylon will be one of great deception. That is the type of
devastation upon Jerusalem for the latter days.
The setting up of the “The New World Order” which is
very close to completion, should sound alarm bells ringing everywhere and
especially in the churches, but it is all resoundingly, and eerily, quiet.
The Man of Sin who
has been around for some time, even in Paul’s day.
Add
to this the king of Babylon, and The Mark
of The Beast in the near future we are almost at the time. (See the Fig
Tree 1 Fig Tree 2
The ones who worship the beast thinking he is the Messiah are going to be awfully embarrassed when Our Lord Jesus Christ arrives. They have only themselves to blame for listening to false prophets, and for not checking the Word of God out for themselves, Biblical Understanding., for not trimming their wicks, for playing the five foolish virgins.
Followed by Our Lord and Saviour Jesus
Christ (Second Advent)
Revelation 8:1 - Seventh Seal.
8 - (Denotes resurrection, regeneration, a new beginning or
commencement). (1) Denotes unity,
and commencement
Revelation 10:7 - Seventh Trumpet. 10 – (Denotes ordinal perfection, after
the ninth digit, when numeration commences anew.) (7) Denotes spiritual
perfection.
Revelation 16:17 - Seventh Vial. 16 – (Denotes ordinal perfection (10)
+ the human number (6).( the
MAN Christ Jesus) (17) Denotes a
combination of spirit and order
Corinthians 15:52. In
a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet; for the trumpet
shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be
changed.
Isa 65:17 For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.
Isa 66:22 For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make,
shall remain before Me, saith the LORD, so shall your seed and your name
remain.
Rev 21:1 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth for the first heaven and
the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.
Conclusion.
The ”Tree of life’’
(Rev 22:2)
In the midst of the street of it,
and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner
of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were
for the healing of the nations.
And the “water of
life’’
Rev 22:1 And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as
crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.
Rev 22:17. And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth
say, come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take
the water of life freely.
Are seen to be the
central subjects of the new earth. No longer will there be any “curse’’
…
Rev 22:3 And there shall be no more curse: but the throne of God
and of the Lamb shall be in it; and His servants shall serve Him;
In place of the “fall’’
we have restoration. Instead of expulsion-“lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life,
and eat, and live forever.’’ (Gen3:22) – is the
gracious invitation to those who “have right to the tree of life’’
(v22),
…come.
And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.
(Rev 22:17)
The Benediction.
Rev22:21 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen. Not only completes the correspondence of
the structure, but appropriately closes the whole of the book of God. “Grace and truth came by Jesus Christ .
John
1:17 For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus
Christ.