The entire Bible is about Jesus, from beginning to end (Genesis to Revelation). He can be found in each of the Old Testament’s 39 books as well as the New Testaments 27 books. Yes, our Savior is in all 66 books of the Christian Bible.

Genesis is the name of the first book of the Holy Bible. It was written by Moses, who wrote the Bible’s first five books (The Pentateuch). He wrote it well over 14 centuries before Jesus was born and it was the Children of Israel, wandering through the desert who first heard it spoken.

Throughout the Bible, it is explained to us that man is a creature full of sin, but that our loving God has sent a Savior to pay the cost of this sin, so that we may enjoy Him for all eternity. God begins telling us this story here in the book of Genesis.

Since God is omniscient (all-knowing) He was well aware that man’s sinful behavior would cause him to fall (thus needing to be redeemed). God immediately began the course for us to recommune with Him.  In Gen 3:15, for the first time we are promised the coming of a Savior who will redeem man from his sinful state. And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed; He shall bruise you on the head, and you shall bruise him on the heel.” – Genesis 3:15 NASB

It is in Genesis that we are introduced to some of the patriarchs of the faith (Abraham, Isaac and Jacob). Along with Joseph, (a type of Christ), who’s every move in life, had God’s obvious hand of guidance on it. The last two-thirds of this book tell us his story.

The Old Testament was full of pictures that were revealed to us in the New Testament and nowhere is this clearer than in Genesis. It is here that we first see a Substitutionary Sacrifice. In Genesis 22, Abraham is just about to sacrifice his son (Isaac) on an altar, but God stops him just in time…and provides a ram to be sacrificed instead. This is a picture of God’s sinless Son dying for the sins of many (a substitutionary sacrifice).   

In Genesis it was the Son from the Trinity that created the universe…”By Him everything was created”–Col 1:16.

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