Since the Book of Genesis is inspired Scripture, every Bible-believing Christian would agree that it matters (at least in that sense). But is Genesis still relevant considering that we are living in the Last Days spoken of in Hebrews 1:2?

The answer is a definite yes, and we can have assurance that is the case because (1) God’s Word does not change, and (2) Genesis 1-11 is still the foundation for the rest of Scripture. Even though Christians are not living under the Old Covenant (such as the laws and ceremonies delineated in Leviticus), the Old Testament is still inspired Scripture that God has preserved for our edification (see 1 Corinthians 10).

Not only has God given us a wealth of prophetic insight and information in the Old Testament, but He has also given us the basis for all our Christian doctrines (including eschatology) in the first Book of the Bible: Genesis.

Why is the world the way that it is? Genesis 1-11 gives us the answer. What is sin? Genesis 1-11 gives us the answer. Why did Jesus come into the world to save sinners? Genesis 1-11 gives us the answer. Why is Jesus coming back? Genesis 1-11 gives us the answer. We can go on and on!

Tragically, many Christians are not aware that Genesis is a goldmine of world history. For example, did you know that Cain built the first city in all human history? Genesis 4:17 tells us, “And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bare Enoch: and he builded a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch.”

Have you ever wondered why we have a seven-day week? In that same chapter, we are told that mankind was capable of crafting instruments (Genesis 4:21) and practicing metallurgy (Genesis 4:22).

Genesis 5:1 opens with the following signature: “This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him.” The presence of the word “book” signifies that mankind at that time was fully capable of reading and writing.

Since we are living during a time in which books are being re-written and historical lessons forgotten, there is a great need for Christians to return to the Bible as the true, authoritative account of world history.

The Book of Genesis is not a collection of fables; rather, its authors (by the grace and guidance of God) have given us the foundational information we need to build our thinking and to answer the popular questions of our age.

Do our children and grandchildren know that the virgin birth was not a New Testament invention but a promise from God that had been long foretold? A promise that God gave to the serpent in the Garden of Eden (see Genesis 3:15). Do they know that God has promised to restore our broken world to the “very good” state we read of in Genesis 1:31?

My prayer is that we would look to the infallible Word of God, beginning in Genesis, and build our thinking upon that foundation. May we stop measuring the infallible Word of God against the fallible ideas of man and start measuring the fallible ideas of man against the infallible Word of God!

My thoughts on the Hamas attack on Israel in October of 2023. I blame the UN and all the nations of the world that demanded Israel must agree to a two-state solution. That will never work. Israel is fundamentally and spiritually at odds with its Islamic neighbors. The Muslims are led by radicals who believe they will not usher in their Islamic golden age until Israel is wiped off the map (see Psalm 83).

Being a Jew and being told you must have radical Islamic jihadists as your neighbor is like being told you and your young family should live beside Ted Bundy, Jeffery Dahmer, Charles Manson, and John Wayne Gacy. These jihadists are specifically groomed by Satan to carry out persecution, war, terror, and slander against God’s ancient and chosen people.

The international pressure on the Israelis led to this attack. The Israelis always knew it would never work because they know (much better than the UN) how much the Islamists hate them (and yes, with a dark, supernatural hatred). These Arabs have been their enemies for not hundreds of years but probably thousands of years. And the way you treat a Jew is the way God will treat you (Gen. 12:3, 27:29; Num. 24:9).

By the way, if you read the Old Testament, there is no question God gave the Holy Land to Israel. It is and was their promised ancestral homeland, and it always will be, according to the promises of the Eternal God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob (Israel [see 2 Kings 17:34]. The oracles of God were given to the Jews (Romans 3:2, 9:4-5), not Arabs, Asians, Africans, or Americans. If the Arabs would recognize the Jews’ legitimacy and their right to their ancestral homeland, there would be no problem. But Psalm 120:7 describes the situation. “I am for peace: but when I speak, they are for war.”

We as Americans should not only support Israel because they are the only democracy in the Middle East, but because they are the people of the Bible, and thus people of the promise. If we turn against Israel, we will become a hell hole like most of the rest of the depraved Islamic world and the misery of communistic nations.

Despite the overwhelming circumstances Israel faces today, we, as Christians who believe in Bible prophecy, know that Israel will win and win big! When the Lord Jesus Christ arrives with his church at the 2nd Advent (see Rev. 19), Israel will finally embrace their long-awaited Messiah and Deliverer. “And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob: For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins” (Romans 11:26-27).

This “covenant” Christ will make will be with Israel and Judah (see Hebrews Chapter 8) – “the new covenant.” Apostle Paul recounts the Prophet Jeremiah’s prophecy:

“For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah: Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord. For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people: And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest. For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more” (Hebrews 8:8-12).

This covenant will be cut with Israel and Judah on the very first day of the Millennium. The earth will be regenerated, and the twelve Apostles will rule the restored tribes of Israel (see Matt. 19:28 KJV). The Millennial Temple will be built according to the Prophet Ezekiel’s vision of specifications (see Ezek. 40-48). For 1,000 years, Satan will be bound, and the saints of the Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ, will be his kings and priests! (see Rev. 20.)

“…Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation; And hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth” (Rev. 5:9-10). Amen.