Genesis conclusion? That’s an oxymoron. Genesis means beginning, the start of everything. A conclusion is an end, a way of summing up the facts, because the deal is done.
How can a genesis be compatible with a conclusion? The two words simply don’t fit together.
Let’s see about that. Let’s use the Word to mate Genesis + Conclusion and see what we come up with.
We’ll start with Genesis 1:1:
“In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.”
Yeah, well, see, we already know that. What’s the big deal?
See it like it says it. Read the real meaning into this verse. See deeper than the actual words, and scope out just how fantastic these words really are. This was the start of everything. Of everything. Creationists tell us this verse encompasses a mere 168 hours. Secularists insist we’re looking at billions of years. The core truth is that it was the first time for everything that existed. It wasn’t here, and then it was. Wow! Genesis made real.
Now let’s move to Revelation 22:20-21:
“He who testifies to these things says, ‘Surely I am coming soon.’ Amen. Come, Lord Jesus! The grace of the Lord Jesus be with all. Amen.”
Here we have the final words in the Bible. The end, the words that sum the story up, yeah, the conclusion. This short passage takes the story of Adam and Eve, Noah, Moses, the three Hebrew children, Isaiah, Jesus, Paul, Peter, and all the rest, and it wraps it up in 26 words. That’s the perfection of God, to be able to sum up the greatest literary work in history in only 26 words.
What do these 26 words really tell us?
Jesus testifies… He screams his message out before the world, with vigor, and without recourse. The entirety of humanity will know of him. His story of salvation will echo in the halls of posterity and in the hearts of men and women everywhere.
He is coming again… He didn’t die on that cross. Jesus, the physical body, and Jesus, our Lord, were reunited, and he now sits at the right hand of the Father, preparing to come back for his church.
Christ comforts us in the meantime… Jesus returned to his Father’s side, but he didn’t leave us desolate and without hope. The comforter, the Holy Spirit, is with us daily, and we can draw strength from his presence.
That’s the Genesis Conclusion. God started the story, and he’s told us how it ends. He was there at the beginning, and we can look forward to what’s on its way. As the old hymns say, our redemption draweth nigh.
We can rejoice in the beginning and look forward to the end, because Christ is our redemption and our salvation.
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