CHAPTER ONE THE GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD
PROLOGUE
On July 7, 2019, I posted Chapter 7. This blog, STORY OF OUR SALVATION, is now complete. Of course, our part in the story is not. We know we exist because God loved us into existence. We all have a mission. We are here for a purpose. The world is billions of years old. It is now our time to play our part. Do you know your part? We all have a mission, loved into existence by God.
I hope you will return to this blog often, all seven chapters, in hopes that your lives will be filled with love and gratitude for a loving and merciful God that intends for us to know Him on this earth and be with Him in eternal happiness in the next. “What eye has not seen, and ear has not heard, and what has not entered the human heart, what God has prepared for those who love him.” I Corinthians 2:9
INTRODUCTION
In 2019, my blog will focus on the story of our salvation. It is a story written and directed by God thus the Greatest Story ever told. If you want to save the complete story together look for the title THE STORY OF OUR SALVATION and copy and paste to a Word document. I will continue to post other blogs each month as well, but I hope to complete the STORY OF OUR SALVATION this year. TCB
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth and the earth was without form or shape, with darkness over the abyss and a mighty wind sweeping over the waters—Then God said: Let there be light, and there was light. God saw that the light was good. God then separated the light from the darkness. God called the light “day,” and the darkness he called “night.” Evening came, and morning followed—
Let the earth bring forth every kind of living creature: tame animals, crawling things, and every kind of wild animal. And so it happened…God made every kind of wild animal, every kind of tame animal, and every kind of thing that crawls on the ground. God saw that it was good
Then God said: Let us make human beings in our image, after our likeness….God created mankind in his image; in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them. God blessed them and God said to them: Be fertile and multiply,,,
THE FALL OF MAN
GENESIS 3:8-16
“…the man and his wife hid themselves from the LORD God among the trees of the garden. The LORD God then called to the man and asked him: Where are you? He answered, “I heard you in the garden; but I was afraid, because I was naked, so I hid.” Then God asked: Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree of which I had forbidden you to eat?
The man replied, “The woman whom you put here with me—she gave me fruit from the tree, so I ate it. “The LORD God then asked the woman: What is this you have done? The woman answered, “The snake tricked me, so I ate it…. Then the LORD God said to the snake…I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; they will strike at your head, while you strike at their heel.*
COMMENTARY
Adam and Eve hid themselves in shame for disobeying God. Many sinners abandon, deny, or hide from God after sinning. God seeks Adam and Eve out as He seeks us sinners out. God promised our first parents a Redeemer and Savior born of woman, Mary. Mary and Jesus will together stamp out sin and its consequences.
Mary the Mother of God is the woman foretold in the first book of the Bible, Genesis, and revealed in the last book of the Bible, Book of Revelations.
REVELATIONS 12:1-8
“A great sign appeared in the sky, a woman* clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars. She was with child…Then another sign appeared in the sky; it was a huge red dragon, with seven heads and ten horns…Its tail swept away a third of the stars in the sky and hurled them down to the earth. Then the dragon stood before the woman about to give birth, to devour her child when she gave birth She gave birth to a son, a male child, destined to rule all the nations with an iron rod. Her child was caught up to God and his throne.”
COMMENTARY
In the next STORY OF OUR SALVATION blog, I will take up the promise of the Savior in the Old Testament.
We, today, have received the Promise. We have been reconciled by the death and resurrection of Jesus. At our Baptism, Original Sin is removed and (if adult) any other personal sins we have committed; we are infused with Divine life of God, become heirs of heaven, brothers and sisters of Christ.
Wow! Sins wiped out, sons and daughters of God, inherit eternal life, brothers and sisters of Christ. God is good all the time. All the time God is good