The Story of Redemption
“Underneath all the arches of Scripture history, throughout the whole grand temple of the Scriptures, these two voices ever echo, man is ruined, man is redeemed.” -Cyrus David Foss
It has sometimes been called: the unfolding drama of human redemption; the Bible details both the fall and salvation of mankind. Man is ruined, man is redeemed.
In the beginning, we see Adam and Eve in the garden, at the cusp of eating of fruit of the tree of life. Yet, they are deceived, and eat of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Mankind falls into terrible sin, and is driven from the garden of Eden.
From the third chapter of Genesis, when man falls, we do not see or hear of the tree of life until the very last book of the Bible, in Revelation chapter two, and again in chapter twenty-two.
“He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God.” -Revelation 2:7
And from start to finish, from Genesis to Revelation, there is an enormous struggle for man to find this eternal life that he once briefly held in his hand in the garden of Eden. There is a terrible yearning and heartache as man searches for the elusive rights to life—everlasting life—that life that God once freely extended to him, but now has become so obscure through sin and wickedness.
And yet now in these last times, God’s Son has been manifested to make the path of eternal life clear once again. Jesus Christ has come to overcome our sin, and reconnect us with the life of God that Adam and Eve possessed in the Garden for such a brief and fleeting space of time. Through the cross of Christ, we now have access to the redemption that God has made freely available to all: that we might have a happy ending to the storybook of human redemption.
“For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.” -1 Corinthians 15:21-22
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