Musing – Gen. & Rev. - “In the Beginning” and “in the End”

Hebraic Musing – Gen. & Rev. - “In the Beginning” and “in the End”

Part 2 of 2.  Last week, Johanna portrayed references to the Torah she found in the Book of Revelation.  Similarly, in an “Hebraic Insight” published about four years ago, I listed 22 examples of how God “finalized” in the Book of Revelation what He created or started in the book of Genesis.  You might call this overview “Creation and De-creation” or “The Relationship between Genesis and Revelation.” This is just another example of why we cannot fully understand the New Testament unless we understand it as fulfillment of the Old Testament. What God creates in Genesis, the beginning of time, He wraps up in Revelation, the end of time. Examples:[1]

Genesis 1:1               In the beginning God created …
Revelation 22:13      I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.

Genesis 1:3               God said “Let there be light”…
Revelation 21:23      The city does not need the sun … glory of God gives it light …

Genesis 1:6               God said, “Let there be an expanse between the waters to separate water from water.”
Revelation 8:10–11  The third angel sounded his trumpet, and … A third of the waters turned bitter …

Genesis 1:8               God called the expanse “sky.”
Revelation 20:11      Then … Earth and sky fled from his presence … no place for them.

Genesis 1:11             Then God said, “Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees …”
Revelation 8:7          The first angel … earth was burned up, a third of the trees … all the green grass …

Genesis 1:14             God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from night ”
Revelation8:12         The fourth angel … a third of the sun … of the moon … of the stars … turned dark.

Genesis 1:20             God said, “Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth …”
Revelation 8:8–9      The second angel sounded … and … a third of the living creatures in the sea died …

Genesis 1:26             God said, “Let us make man in our image, in our likeness …”
Revelation 9:15        And the four angels … ready … were released to kill a third of mankind.

Genesis 1:27             God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him …
Revelation 21:3        Now the dwelling of God is with men …God himself will be with them… be their God.

Genesis 2:1–2           Thus the heavens and the earth were completed… God had finished … he rested …
Revelation 21:5–6    He who was seated on the throne said, “I am making everything new!” … “It is done.”

Have you see the pattern?  Everything that God started in Genesis, He tied off or finished in the Revelation:

a)    Sin is introduced in Genesis 3.     Sin is done away with in Revelation 20:3: He threw him into the Abyss, and locked and sealed it over him, to keep him from deceiving the nations …

b)    The curse is pronounced in Genesis 3.    The curse is destroyed in Revelation 21.

c)    Death enters in Genesis 3.      There is no more death after Revelation 21.

d)    Man is banished from Eden in Gen. 3.    Man’s presence is welcome in the Garden of Eden. Rev. 22.

e)    The Tree of Life is guarded in Genesis 3.   The right to the Tree of Life is available in Revelation 22.

f)    Sorrow & suffering introduced in Genesis 3.    There is no more sorrow or suffering after Rev. 22.

g)    Nimrod founds Babylon in Genesis 10.      Babylon finally falls in Revelation 18:21: Then a mighty angel picked up a boulder the size of a large millstone and threw it into the sea, and said: “With such violence the great city of Babylon will be thrown down, never to be found again.”

h)    God uses a flood to destroy sinful men in Genesis 6–9.    Satan tries to destroy the elect in Rev. 12.

i)     God signs His covenant with a rainbow in Genesis 9.     Then He seals it in Revelation 10:1: Then I saw another mighty angel … robed in a cloud, with a rainbow above his head; his face was like the sun …

j)     Sodom and Egypt are introduced as signs of evil and corruption in Genesis 13.      Sodom and Egypt become the two witnesses in Jerusalem in Revelation 11:8: Their bodies will lie in the street of the great city, which is figuratively called Sodom and Egypt, where also their Lord was crucified.

k)    A bride is chosen for Abraham’s son in Genesis 24.     In Rev.19 & 21 Abe’s seed becomes the bride

l)     The marriage of the first Adam takes place in Genesis 2.     The last Adam is married in Revelation 19.

m)   Satan’s dominion is established in Genesis.     Christ’s dominion is established in Revelation.

So we see that what God created in Genesis at the beginning of time, He wraps up in Revelation, at the end of time.

Point to Ponder

Can you really understand and fully appreciate the New Testament
without studying the Old Testament, especially the Torah?

Yosef   a.k.a.  Joe Brusherd                                                 December 16, 2014

Books author “Hebraic Insights”; “Biblical Marriage”; “Musings v.1 – A Victorious Life”
Weekly e-mails “Hebraic Musings”
Yosef1@cox.net   or  www.InsightsByYosef.com

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[1] All Bible references are from NIV