Jeff Cavins

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And when we look at the early world, you're going to be reading for five different days and going through the first 11 chapters of Genesis.

And that is the beginning of our entire journal, is the first five books of Genesis.

And we give it a color, turquoise, because it reminds us of the Earth viewed from space.

If you were to go way up there in space, look down, you see this beautiful turquoise ball.

and that reminds you of creation.

And so when you look at Genesis 1 through 11, there is going to be an awful lot at the very, very beginning.

And what you're going to encounter in these first five days is you're going to encounter themes,

and patterns which are going to be revisited as you read throughout the year.

It might be in June or it might be in September that you're going to think, wow, I've been here before.

This is really, really interesting.

And so another thing to remember about reading the first 11 chapters of Genesis is that it's a history of the early world, but it's not written as a type of history that we are used to.

We're used to, okay, just tell me the facts and how it happened.

But in the first 11 chapters of Genesis, God is going to explain to you the beginning and creation of the world, creation of Adam and Eve, how we ended up falling, the introduction, of course, of Lucifer, Satan, how we fell, what are the consequences, and wow, where do we go from here?

That's what we're going to be covering here, but it is written in Hebrew poetry form.

And so when you read about the serpent and you read about the garden, all true, but it's written in a very creative way.

Now, does that make it less historical?

No.

No.

It doesn't at all.