The Old Testament
Theme: Christ is Coming!
The Messiah, the Christ, the One Who will save mankind from sin and provide us with eternal life in heaven is needed. And He is coming. That is the simple, yet profound theme of the Old Testament.
Part One—The Perfect Creation (Genesis 1-2)
The first chapter of the book of Genesis (“beginnings”), through 2:3, tells us of God’s creation of the universe and man. He did it (“worked”) in six days and “rested” the seventh, as a pattern of what He would install in His first law, the Law of Moses. Because of Dawinian evolution, all sorts of literary gymnastics have been applied to these “seven days,” but they each had an “evening and a morning”—like our days do—and without Darwinism, we’d never think they were anything but our 24-hour days. If language doesn’t mean what it says, then it means anything and thus means nothing.
Folks, Darwinian evolution may be the biggest lie in human history. It is the false theory that underlies EVERYTHING the modern Left believes—a rejection of God and absolute moral values. If you are interested in a good expose’ of Darwinism, let me suggest you read Jonathan Wells book, Icons of Evolution. It’s not too technical for lay readers.
Genesis 2 is not, as skeptics argue, a “second creation account,” it simply centers in on God’s ultimate creation, man. And woman. God’s first institution—marriage and the family—is established here, in its perfection. Marriage is between one man and one woman, not between a man and a man or a woman and a woman, and not between a man and multiple wives. As we shall see in a later discussion (and Paul said in Acts 17:30), God overlooked certain imperfections in the “times of ignorance,” but does so no more. We have the full revelation of God now (Jude 3), and ignorance is no longer any excuse.
“Then God saw everything that He had made, and indeed it was very good” (Genesis 1:31). A perfect creation.
Sadly, it didn’t last long.