02/10/2026
If you haven't already done this, I encourage you to.
Read the Old Testament through the eyes of the New Testament, and suddenly you will have an enlightening moment in your study of the Scriptures. The whole of the Old Testament message was always pointing to the coming of Israel's Messiah, who is fulfilled in Messiah Jesus.
As a matter of record, there are two Covenants in the Old Testament: one with Abraham (Messianic) and one with Moses (Law); both Covenants are fulfilled in the New Covenant in Messiah Jesus.
Messiah Jesus fulfills both these Old Testament Covenants; He does not do away with them, but in Him they are fulfilled. Once we understand this, we see how important it is for us to recognize that God, from the beginning, had designed a way and method to redeem a world gone wrong. Eden wasn't the beginning; it was the first step to the redemption of a world. We know that people were living at the time of Eden, according to the Bible itself, saying she came from Nod. (The Land of Nod is a biblical location mentioned in Genesis as the place where Cain was exiled after murdering his brother Abel, described as being "on the east of Eden.")
There is so much to learn about the Biblical narrative if we truly seek to know. We are missing many historical books in our Canon of Scriptures that are important for understanding the whole of the narrative. I am determined not to let the institutional church interfere with my study of all of God's history with our world. The Book of Enoch is important and was quoted several times by New Testament writers, yet the Canon doesn't include it, and I think that is a mistake. Many scholars believed Jesus quoted from Enoch as well.
We are blessed with much more documentation from the early periods of history than at any other time in human history, and it would be a shame to waste all that knowledge. Let's use our technology for the glory and knowledge of God.
