← A Year in the Bible with Daily Grace
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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.
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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.
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Hey, friends. Welcome back to another episode of A Year in the Bible. My name is Beth and I am here with my co host Alexa.
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Hi everyone. Today we'll be taking a deeper look at the passage we annotated yesterday, Genesis 2, 8, 9. So Beth, can you tell us about the context of this passage? Where does it fit in the Biblical story?
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So we've been in the prophets for so long that it's weird to not be saying, and once again, we're looking at the minor prophets. But we're doing something new today. But it's not really new. We're going all the way back to the beginning of the story. We're looking at Genesis 2, which comes right after Genesis 1 and is the expansion of the creation story. In Genesis 1, we see an overview of how God created all aspects of the universe, the Earth, and all that is on the Earth. Then in Genesis 2, we zoom in and see more specifically how God created the first man and first woman, and how he placed them in a beautiful and bountiful garden full of delicious food to eat and plants that were pleasing to look at. This garden was intended to be their home with God in it. They would eat from the Tree of Life and cultivate the garden alongside God, their maker. But the passage we annotated gives us a glimpse of what actually happens to their good home. God permits Adam and Eve to eat from any of the trees, except the last one mentioned in our passage, the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. The people disobeyed this one command, which we already talked about at the very beginning of the year. But we see that this disobedience opened the door for sin to enter our world and live in all of our hearts.
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I think we often tend to zero in on the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, but we miss out on talking about the Tree of Life. So can you tell us how the Tree of Life fits into the story?
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Yeah. So I personally think this is a detail of the Creation and Fall story that so often gets overlooked, as you were saying, but it is incredibly important for understanding the overall story of the Bible. If we look at Genesis 3:22 through 23, we see that the primary reason that God gives for removing Adam and Eve from the garden is so that they would not eat from the tree of life. This passage says the Lord God said, since the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil, he must not reach out and take from the tree of life, eat and live forever. So the Lord God sent him away from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he was taken. So this eternal and abundant life was possible through eating this tree and dwelling in the garden with God forever. But now the people were cast out to a land that is not flowing with abundance. Their new home requires difficult toil, and in it they will eventually die, which is exactly what God said would happen if they disobeyed him and ate of the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil. So they were now just experiencing the just consequences for their actions.
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It's always tough to read about the consequences Adam and Eve received knowing that they were specifically told what would happen if they ate from the tree of the Knowledge of Good and evil. Life was theirs, but they received death because of their disobedience. And that naturally leaves us wanting hope. So what hope do we find in seeing God's character in this passage?
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Well, all of this shows us that following God's commands leads to life for his people. And it shows us that he intended his people to have this life and live in a perfect relationship with Him. And because this was his original intention and he is in control of all things, we should not be surprised that the rest of Scripture tells the story of him restoring humanity to this perfect relationship with him and giving him abundant life again. And that is just what we're gonna be unpacking throughout the rest of this week.
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Well, I'm excited to unpack that some more. So we'll be back with you again tomorrow as we continue on in our study this week by talking about our New Testament passage. Thank you for listening to today's episode of A Year in the Bible with Daily Grace. Be sure to check out our show notes for some helpful links and resources related to today's episode. And make sure you're following a daily daily gracepodcast and thedailygraceco on Instagram for more Bible study resources and encouragement. We're looking forward to studying God's Word with you again tomorrow. Bye friends.