Week 1 Genesis 1-24
The bible can be divided in different ways. One is to break it down into two scenes:
Scene One – Genesis 1 – 3
Scene Two – Genesis 4 – Revelation 22.
I read all of Scene One today. It’s about how things were in our world a long time ago, and then how things turned over. Life in Scene One was good, and then it wasn’t good. What happened in Scene One makes it just about the saddest story in the history of the world.
Tomorrow I’ll start reading Scene Two – and I’ll be reading it for the rest of the year. It’s about how things are in the world now. Today I saw how things were; tomorrow I’ll begin seeing how things are.
I have trouble imagining what life in Scene One was like, everything being good and all. But I don’t have any trouble recognizing Scene Two. I look at the news, look out the window, look in the mirror and see a busted-up landscape of broken-down good.
In the first scene the good God made a fine home for Adam and Eve and Adam and Eve burned it to the ground, more or less. Now in Scene Two I’m left sifting through the raw materials of my inheritance, ashes of a significantly inferior world.