{"id":4461,"date":"2024-01-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-02T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/handstotheplow.org\/reading-plan\/january-2\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T16:55:20","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T21:55:20","slug":"january-2","status":"publish","type":"reading-plan","link":"https:\/\/handstotheplow.org\/am\/reading-plan\/january-2\/","title":{"rendered":"January 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Insight from Genesis 2:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Genesis 1\u20133 is similar to the end of the book of Revelation. In many ways, Genesis and Revelation are similar. But, at the same time, they are very different. The story being told in the Bible starts with the creation of the heavens and the earth (see Genesis 1\u20132). It ends with the creation of the new heavens and the new earth (see Revelation 21\u201322). The story of the Bible starts with people living in a small garden with a main river and the tree of life in it. The story ends with people in a very large garden city with a main river and the tree of life growing on the banks of the river. The story starts with people who do not eat from the tree of life. It ends with people eating from the tree of life. Genesis 2 is a celebration of the first marriage. Revelation 21 is a celebration of Christ\u2019s marriage to his bride\u2014the church. Genesis starts with a serpent who should have been judged by Adam but is allowed to escape. Revelation ends with the serpent being judged by the last Adam (Jesus) and being thrown into an eternal prison. In the beginning of the Bible, the garden is small and has only two people in it. At the end of the Bible, however, the garden has grown to fill the world and is filled with people from every nation! It is the joy and obligation of the preacher to discover the one story being told in this one very large book (Genesis through Revelation).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"give_campaign_id":0,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_crdt_document":""},"class_list":["post-4461","reading-plan","type-reading-plan","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/handstotheplow.org\/am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reading-plan\/4461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/handstotheplow.org\/am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reading-plan"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/handstotheplow.org\/am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/reading-plan"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/handstotheplow.org\/am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}