Transcript
A (0:00)
Welcome to A Year in the Bible with daily Grace. This year, we want to spend a few minutes with you every day walking through our study, Christ in All of Scripture. Each week we will dive deeply into two passages of Scripture, one from the Old Testament and one from the new, seeing how they connect and point to Jesus.
B (0:17)
Whether you are doing the study yourself or just following along with us here, we are hopeful that through studying these passages each week, you will see how Christ is not only present throughout the entire Biblical story, but but the center of it. Hi everyone. Welcome to week 51 of a year in the Bible. My name is Alexa and I'm here with my co host, Beth.
A (0:37)
Hey, friends. I cannot believe that we are already nearing the end of this year. This week is actually the last week that we're going to be spending some time walking through passages of scripture together. But next week we are going to spend Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday reflecting on all that we've learned throughout this year. And we're going to offer you guys some encouragement for you as you move on from this study to study more of Scripture in the coming years. And then we're gonna take a break from Christmas until New Year's, when the next new season of A Year in the Bible is gonna begin.
B (1:06)
Yes. So exciting. But let's not get too far ahead of ourselves. As Beth said, this week is the last week we'll be walking through specific scripture passages together. So we're going to be in Genesis 2. 8 through 9 and Revelation 22:1 3. The goal of this week is to zoom out and look at the beginning of the biblical story alongside the very end. And Christ ties the whole story together by restoring us to the tree of life.
A (1:32)
Exactly. I cannot wait to study these passages with you all this week. We're going to begin today by going over our annotations for Genesis 2, 8, 9. So Alexa, can you read that passage?
B (1:43)
Sure. The Lord God planted a garden in Eden in the east, and there he placed the man he had formed. The Lord God caused to grow out of the ground every tree pleasing in appearance and good for food, including the tree of life in the middle of the garden, as well as the tree of knowledge of good and evil. So Beth, how did it go annotating these verses?
A (2:03)
I really enjoyed looking closely at this passage. The first thing that stood out to me was God's attributes. I noticed the active verb surrounding God in this verse, how he planted the garden and he placed the man there and he caused to grow the different trees. I think these actions just showed me how much control God had in the creation narrative. I know that we know that this is true, but for some reason his intentionality really stood out to me when I was reading this this morning.