Tom Gorup

Genesis 1 is Part of God’s Preparation for Our Salvation When God planted the trees in Eden, he was making sure there would be wood for both a manger and a cross. When God poured out oceans and rivers, he was preparing for our baptism into Christ in the waters of the Jordan. When he sowed the fields with wheat, he was readying the world for bread that would clothe Christ’s body in the meal of meals. When he made the heavenly lights, he ensured there’d be a star to guide wise men from the East, and a sun to darken when fools affixed his Son to a tree. And when the Lord made Adam and Eve in his own image, he was prophetically winking at his Incarnation, when he would make our nature his own everlastingly. From the beginning of the world, God so loved the world that he prepared it for the day when he would remake it—remake us!—in his Son.