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Genesis – Revelation: First Things First, Last Things Last
GENESIS AND REVELATION or First Things First, Last Things Last
Similarities
- Both have a new beginning and a new order.
- Both have tree of life, the river, the bride, and the walk of God with man.
- Both have the same moral and spiritual ideals.
Contrasts
Genesis
- Paradise closed (3:23)
- Dispossession through sin (3:23)
- The curse imposed (3:17)
- Access to tree of life denied (3:24)
- Beginning of sorrow and death (3:16-19)
- Garden which sin enters into (3:6-7)
- Triumph of serpent (3:13)
- Walk with God interrupted (3:8-10)
Revelation
- Paradise opened (21:5)
- Repossession through grace (21:24)
- The curse removed (22:3)
- Access to tree of life regained (22:14)
- “No more death, or sorrow” (21:4)
- City, no defilement (21:27)
- Triumph of Lamb over serpent (20:10)
- God tabernacles with man (21:3) (J. Sidlow Baxter, Explore the Book)
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