Scripture Reading: Genesis 4:1-11, Genesis 5:3-31, Genesis 6:3, Revelation 12:10-12, Revelation 21:6, Revelation 22:1-2
After reading today’s passages, use the guiding content below to help you reflect, respond, and engage with one another.
In the beginning, sin corrupted humankind, resulting in death and decreased earthly lifespans. In the end, death will be no more, and we will experience eternal, abundant life in God’s presence.
In prayer and in the comments, reflect on any images from today’s passages that were familiar to you. What images point to the different or “beyond” nature of what’s to come?
Enoch how he walked with God and did not died. Then the story of Cain and Abel. But Genesis 6 verse 3 “And the Lord said, “My spirit will not remain with mankind forever, because they are corrupt. Their days will be 120 years. ” It brings me back to the fall in Genesis 3.
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I have been so relieved each day to read the chosen scripture from Revelation, which seems so counterintuitive to the way I have historically shied away from that particular book. For the first time, I am seeing the contrast like this—not the fall in Genesis to Jesus coming in the gospels, but the utter deprivation of mankind in Genesis to the complete restoration by God and the Lamb in Revelation. It’s thrilling to my soul to know that better is coming! All things will be made new.
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Living for such a long time sounds ludicrous….how were they not so frail and weak?
It only sounds ludicrous because of what society has introduced to our minds and bodies to corrupt them and how sun has destroyed our life spans. With God and His natural design, life is strong and sustainable at any age!
Pondering: “the leaves of the tree shall be for healing the nations”!
Me too. Walking through the woods calms my spirit so this verse made me think of how I feel walking under leaves, but there is a deeper message – so pondering this too.
Something new from our normal will be eternal life! And it is so exciting to look forward to being in sanctuary for eternity, rather than hell. God loves us and has given us a choice… and I am so glad that I chose to ask Him into my heart
Praise God for life in Him