A Genesis Promise of Redemption

I’ve just started reading Genesis again and whilst the stories are really familiar there always seems to be something new that I’ve not picked up before! After Adam and Eve have sinned in Chapter 3, they face the consequences of sin – pain, hard work, death and separation from God. However, in the midst of this, God still shows compassion on them. In Genesis 3v21 it says ‘The Lord God made for Adam and for his wife garments of skins and clothed them.’ God still met their needs and provided for them, he still demonstrated love for them despite their sin and whilst disciplining them he still took care of their physical needs.

It also gives us a glimpse of how sin must be dealt with – by innocent blood because God made them clothes out of animal skins. He would have killed and skinned the animals shedding their innocent blood as a sacrifice for Adam and Eve’s sin. This points to Jesus – he dealt with our sin once and for all time. His innocent blood was shed for us so that we can have eternal life and he made a way back so that we can be restored and have a full relationship with God through him. Genesis 3v15 also points to the coming of Jesus and his victory over Satan. What Adam lost through sinning, Jesus bought back for us when he died for our sin. Where Adam failed, Jesus won. As it says in Romans 5v19 ‘For as by the one man's disobedience the many were made sinners, so by the one man's obedience the many will be made righteous.’