[00:00:00] Welcome to Divine Stream Radio Podcast from the Book of Mysteries by Jonathan Kahn The Book of Ages The teacher took me into the chamber of scrolls. There on two wooden stands rested two open scrolls, one next to the other. The scroll on the left was open to its beginning and the scroll on the right to its end. This on the left, said the teacher, is the book of Genesis, and on the right is the book
[00:00:29] of Revelation. What do they have in common? Genesis is the first book of Scripture, and Revelation is the last. The beginning and the end, he said, written over a millennium apart, one in Hebrew, the other in Greek. Let us look at the beginning of the beginning and at the end of the end, the first three chapters of
[00:00:52] Genesis and the last three last chapters of Revelation. It is here in the beginning, in Genesis, that the curse begins. And it's here at the end, in Revelation, that it's written, there shall be no more curse. In Genesis, death begins. At the end of Revelation, death is no more. In Genesis, the tree of life is
[00:01:17] taken from man and disappears. In Revelation, the tree of life reappears and is given back to man. In Genesis, the first act of creation is God calling the light into being. In Revelation, God himself becomes the light. And in Genesis, God creates the heavens and the earth. In Revelation,
[00:01:40] He creates a new heaven and a new earth. That which begins at the beginning of Genesis finds its perfect resolution at the end of Revelation. Think of it. The Bible was written over many ages, and not by one writer, but by a multitude, each at a different point of time within those ages. No one person was alive to
[00:02:04] direct it or coordinate it, except one, God. Only He could have woven it all together from Genesis to Revelation, from the beginning to the end. So too perfectly does He work His plan of salvation from the creation to the new Jerusalem. And no less perfectly will He work the plan and story of your life. And as it is in the middle of His story,
[00:02:30] you can't quite see where it's all heading. So in the midst of yours. But at the end, it all comes home. In the end, you'll see it all perfectly woven together from the beginning. Until then, you must trust His perfect working in what you don't see, and press on to the end when you will see. For as perfectly as He has
[00:02:55] written His story from Genesis to Revelation, so perfectly is He writing. And will He write your story from the beginning to the end? The mission. Don't try to understand your life from the middle, but know that as you follow His leading, your story will, in the end, become perfect. Read Genesis chapters 1 to 3. Hebrews 3.14.
[00:03:25] For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast unto the end. Hebrews 12.2. Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. Read Revelation chapter 20, verse 1 through to chapter 22,
[00:03:52] verse 3. The Word. Thank you for joining me on Faith in Focus. Remember, these insights are inspired by Jonathan Kahn's The Book of Mysteries. Until next time, may you find strength in the revelation of His love.