Creation, Fall, and Flood: The Need for Jesus

Creation: Jesus Working

It’s important at the start to understand that the Son of God doesn’t come on the scene later in the story.

No, at the beginning, He also was. As the Father spoke and the Spirit hovered (Genesis 1:2), the Creator Son was working in creation.

Genesis 1:1–2 KJV 1900

1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. 2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

John 1:1–3 KJV 1900

1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 The same was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.

Fall: Jesus Needed

Sinless joy is cut short when the serpent approaches the woman in the garden. He tempts her to doubt God’s Word and eat from the forbidden tree.

Even before God pronounced the curse of sin. God proclaimed the gospel of Jesus. While defeating sin, Jesus would suffer on the cross; while bruising the serpent’s head, His heel would be bruised.

Genesis 1:5 KJV 1900

5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.

Flood: Jesus Foreshadowed

After generation and generation of sin...

Genesis 6:5–6 KJV 1900

5 And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. 6 And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.

God decides to wipe out all of humanity and every living creature with a flood - except Noah, a righteous man who “found grace in the eyes of the Lord.”

All of this points to the need for a Savior to come who, like the ark, would preserve everyone who takes refuge in Him and save them from the wrath and judgment of God. This Savior would not just save people from judgment. By dying for the sins of the world and rising again to life, He would take away their greatest problem - sin and death - and bring them into an everlasting covenant with God.