Bouncing From Genesis to Revelation
Written by Elinor Montgomery – emontgomery@cogeco.ca
November 24, 2001
God was in the beginning, as He shall be in the end until everlasting. He is the Alpha and the Omega, and Jesus was with Him. Jesus is the Word made flesh. His testimony is the testimony of prophecy. His Word is truth, such that every interpretation of the Word can be bounced backward like a ball to Genesis and, if it connects, should bounce forward all the way to Revelation through each and every chapter of the book without hitting any obstruction of the Word. A correct interpretation will not falter at Genesis or at any other chapter in between to drop and fall, but if it should falter, then one must reconsider the interpretation while looking for the error that causes the blockage. If God’s hand is on written interpretation today, the message, like the messages of the many writers who under His guiding hand wrote the various books of the Bible, will bounce freely back and forth through the whole book, in the same manner as His written Word does.
There are certain basic principles that God establishes in the first book of Genesis. He opens His book powerfully with a panoramic view of His plans for mankind. He establishes a protected Covenanting Way for fallen man to return back to Him. He shows us we are doomed to die for having chosen to eat the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, which Satan put before the woman, as she acted in direct disobedience to His command.
God says there is a choice for us to make between life and death, a choice He will offer through His mercy, in His time, and exactly as promised through the prophetic Word. He offers us a way of salvation that will involve sacrifice to bring us out of the control of evil in our lives and back into the light. He foretells of Jesus’ broken body and the resurrection by a rainbow of light broken on the waters of this world, and established in the heavens as the promise of God’s salvation.
The Way of the Covenant is only for a nation, begun with Abraham as the father, containing a crossover blessing. The name of Israel is given to this nation that has two companies within it, the second of which will receive the greater blessing. To be of this nation, one must begin with a firm decision to leave the known world and allow God to lead one along the Way to a promised Kingdom, belonging only to those who are among the multitude of descendants of Abraham, known as the Israelites. He shows not only that there will be a nation called Israel, but also that there will be a chosen Son of the Father whom the nation shall reject, with Joseph giving a picture of this coming Savior.
Like Joseph, He will appear to have died to His brothers, as He is taken away to once more appear as the chosen ruler over all the land. All of Israel would have died were God not to have used what was intended for evil to be put to good. Both would be the provider of life-giving bread and would forgive and bless their brothers one day, at which time the brothers’ eyes would be opened to see who both of these men really were. As Joseph blessed his true brother, Benjamin over and above the others, so too will Jesus bless His bride, the brothers and sisters who are true sons of God, with a greater blessing than the half brothers of believers of the nations.
Through Jesus, just as through Joseph, God will bless many people from all of the nations who will come to Him for the bread of life. The promise of forgiveness is given to the rejecting nation, to all whose eyes will one day be opened, and who then will accept Him, as did the brothers of Joseph. Israel is going to bow to their Messiah and recognize Him whom they pierced, in a similar way that the brothers of Joseph bowed before him and recognized him, whom they had turned over to the Egyptians to take away into slavery. Yes, God gives a complete picture of salvation through Jesus in the book of Genesis. He is the Way guarded by the cherubim back to the tree of life.
God also shows us Eve to be the mother of all living. It has been established in her that only a woman can birth children for God, yet Adam and Eve by sinning, could no longer birth any children, except those of darkness born to their father the prince of this world, Satan, in the image of their father the beast whom they worshipped. Because Adam listened to the voice of his wife, his seed was corrupted forever and all the generations of their offspring to follow were doomed to die.
The Spirit of life was breathed into the nostrils of man by the breath of God. Woman was taken from man, the Son of God from whose rib she was created. Man, whose spiritual relationship to God was established, would be required in turn to be the spiritual leader for the woman. It would be the duty of her husband to see that she was spiritually strong enough to resist the lures of Satan that would draw her to the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. The first son of God failed the test of Satan miserably, by reversing his role as spiritual leader over the woman, to instead allow the woman to lead, as he listened to and followed her voice that led into disobedience.
God’s first created son could never have been a substitutionary blood sacrifice for his wife. Both Adam and Jesus were born of the Spirit and of a heavenly Father, but the rest of mankind would be born of the polluted seed of man. By Jesus dying and sending the Spirit to man, all who invited Him into their lives in faith as believers, could be born again of the Spirit. Each one of us who does so, becomes as a woman birthing herself through a rebirth by the infilling of the Holy Spirit into a new creation as a son or daughter, a man child of God, in much the same way Jesus was born of God and not by the corrupted seed of man. We must be reborn into a new creation with Jesus as our husband, the giver of the Spirit and the giver of life. All are ‘born-again’ children of His bride and His bride is the woman, the apostolic Church, wearing the apostolic crown of twelve stars.
She will have multiplied fruit and multiplied sorrow, for she is a partaker of the cross and it will be painful to become an overcomer of Satan’s dark flood waters. Her only desire as an overcomer, will be for Jesus, her husband, to have Him rule over her and keep her safely with Him cradled in the bosom of God. All of this is found in Genesis, so that as we read about the woman birthing against the flood of evil in Revelation, it bounces back through the birthing of Jesus, back through the prophets and all the way back to Genesis, where it strikes at the source and returns to be caught, received and eaten like a scroll that is both sweet and bitter at the same time.
Now is the time of birthing. Just as there are two trees, a good tree and a bad tree, it is time likewise for two women, a bride and a harlot, to come forth, who will each eat from a different tree. One’s desire shall be for her husband, Jesus, to rule over her, so that she can bring forth the good fruit, being those who will rule and reign with the Father and Son. The other is the harlot, whose only desire is for Satan, her lover, whom she shall ride all the way to the bottom of the sea. Jesus supplies a narrow Covenanting Way for very few, a way that leads to His Kingdom. Satan provides a broad road for many, a road that leads to destruction.
Elijah called the people of Israel to make a choice between two opinions. (1 King 18:21) If the Lord is God, follow Him; but if Baal, then follow him. But the people were silent and there was no voice. They answered him not a word. The second company of Israel is the same today as were the people of ancient Israel. The Institutional Church takes the name of Christ, by calling itself Christian, but she refuses to worship the only Christ. Instead, she welcomes unity of worship with those of the Muslim faith who worship Allah and their leader Mohammed, forming a generic type of worship in this land, which disallows the kingship and supremacy of Jesus. Is this not the stumbling block of which God warned Moses on the mountaintop?
At the same time, the followers of Islam seek to kill those called Christians in all the Muslim countries of the world, under violent regimes. The voice of the woman shall arise and speak out against the duplicity of the nature of God’s people. There is but a short period of time to make choices, for very soon, the voice of the bride and the bridegroom shall be heard no more. Hear the last call of the Spirit and the bride. Be not as the voice of Eve to her husband, but be the voice of an overcomer who speaks through the Spirit of her husband that infills her. “Come!” The Spirit and the bride say, “Come!” Let whosoever desires come that they too may have the right once more to the tree of life and to enter through the gates of Israel into the city of the New Jerusalem, to be forever with the Lord.
And so the ball bounces back to the prophets and forward again to Revelation, with the cry of the prophet being that of the call of the bride. It is the same Covenant Way of the garden, with the promise going to Noah, then moving along the path to Abraham, on to a nation, and finally to a man called Jesus, Who passes it over to the church. It will culminate in a final voice making the last call of that of the Spirit and the bride. Come, be a voice for the bridegroom, the Kingfisher of men.