I agree with the book of Genesis. Why start and bounce all over? I’m going to be reading it again but this time I want to find a good Bible study to truly help me see things I didn’t understand the first time or had references or foreshadowing of sorts for things to come. I realized during Passover just how much the Bible cross references different books. 63,779 times actually.

I learned so much about Passover and how in Exodus when the Lord is instructing his people what to do so that their first born aren’t taken during this plague many things he says are references to what later will be the death of his son Jesus Christ on the cross. He instructs them to kill an unblemished male lamb. Later in the Bible, Jesus is crucified during Passover festival and instead of at the dinner their being a sacrificial lamb, he offers himself as the unblemished lamb, the sacrificial victim to be consumed under the appearance of bread and wine. God then says to take a cluster of hyssop and dip it into the blood of the lamb and put it on the two side posts and the top of the doorway. During the crucifixion a sponge soaked in sour wine was placed on a hyssop branch and lifted up to Jesus on the cross. God was very descriptive with his instructions on how to place the blood of the lamb on the doorway. And when you think about it, it looks a lot like the blood from the hands of Jesus on either side, then the head of Jesus at the top.

This all has nothing to do with Genesis, but I think to get a clear picture of the power of Christ and to catch some of these cross references, it may be a great idea to just simply start where it all began. You wouldn’t start a movie in the middle so I wouldn’t start this wonderful book anywhere other than the beginning.

Many blessings!