30 Days through Scriptures: Day 1

My Bible has a chart in the front of it that gives 180 chapters that give the basics of Scriptures. I am starting to read through them at 6 chapters a day. I will try to blog them, but we all know that is not really going to happen. But here goes nothing...

Genesis 1-4, 7-8

In today's reading, I saw the first 3 main stories in the Scriptures. Creation, Fall/Cain & Abel, Flood. I know that Fall and Cain and Abel are separate (possibly 50 years apart), but death is a result of the fall so I put the 2 together.

Creation - God made everything. Light, earth, heaven, sky, water, land, trees, plants, sun, moon, fish, kangaroos, and humans. God made everything just by talking.

A couple weeks ago I tried to create some cheese by speaking it into existence (true story). It didn't work. In fact, nobody could speak anything into existence that was trying to. Only God can do that.

And He spoke the universe into existence. That is pretty awesome. Earth is a tiny speck in the universe and Brent is a tiny speck on Earth. Maybe God is bigger than I am. Hmm...

So, everything is all good and then Genesis 3. Adam and Eve disobey God's one rule. And now sinning is not something we do... it's a way of life. (It is something we do, but it is more accurately how we live)

And with sin comes death (see Cain and Abel). With sin comes all the pain and consequences of our sin (see spanking... I still contend I deserved every last one of them and probably about 1000 more that I did not receive).

But the best part about sin is that God doesn't quit on humans. Adam and Eve lose their 1st 2 sons due to Abel's death and Cain's running away... and God provides another son.

Even though humans are already rejecting God, God provides a way for their Salvation. Remember Jesus came from the line of Seth (not Cain or Abel).

The Earth's population increases (probably quite drastically, due to a lack of birth control and a high life expectancy (around 900)). And with the increase in population comes an increase in sin.

God sees that nobody wants to obey Him, so He pushes the reset button. Thankfully, Noah follows God, builds a boat, and saves his family and some animals. The world's population goes back down to 8.

But once again, even though sin is rampant and sin leads to death... God provides a way for their Salvation. Jesus also came through the line of Noah and his son, Shem.

Right away in the Bible, as early as Genesis 3, God's plan for redemption is seen. It is amazing to me that God (who is omniscient) would create humans knowing what it would cost Him.

But God had a plan the whole time, and over the next 30 days we will see it unfold and by the end we will see it finish... (SPOILER ALERT!!!) and for those of you wondering what happens in the end of the book. God wins.