The Scarlet Thread By Rev. Mark Buetow
T
he Bible is a big book. When I was a child and my parents read me Bible stories, I always thought they were great stories. But it wasn’t until much later that I realized and learned that the stories in the Bible are actually all connected and related. In fact, they are tied together by what you might call a “scarlet thread,” and that thread is Jesus! Let’s explore how that thread ties the 66 books of the Bible together.
Everything begins in the book of Genesis. It is God who speaks and creates all things. The crown of His creation is mankind, male and female, made in His image. Despite the blessing of His Word, they were deceived by the devil and ate from the Tree of Knowledge and brought sin and death into the world. At that very moment, God revealed a promise (in Genesis 3:15), the promise that the “seed of the woman” would crush the serpent’s head. That was the promise of a Savior. Everything else in the Bible traces that promise to its eventual fulfillment in the Incarnation of the Son of God: His conception, birth, life, suffering and death, and resurrection. Keep an eye on that thread!
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