Extracted from the Bible In Poetry
From Genesis to Revelation
From Genesis to Revelation
Introduction
Genesis to Revelation the victory that
Jesus won,
Genesis to Revelation the evidence of
God’s Son;
Genesis to Revelation the witness of
God to man,
Genesis to Revelation: truth of
redemption’s plan.
Creation
versus Evolution
Some say it’s
a big bang, they say it’s just a theory,
I believe creation’s
account because it is His story;
I didn’t
come from slime; I have no monkey parts,
God created man; I
believe, sincerely from my heart.
They continue to
preach about random selection,
And claim that this
is true from years of observation;
I believe the Word
of God how this world came to be,
No selection of the
species but by God Almighty.
In the
very beginning was the eternal Godhead,
The
Father and the Spirit and the Word that led
In the
creation of the heaven and the entire earth,
Adam
and Eve, the first before a natural birth.
Sin Enters and Rages
Placed
in Eden's garden and instructed to reside,
Disobeyed
God's command, from Him tried to hide;
From
their privileged spot they were banished,
Their
trouble-free life had now simply vanished.
Into
this great challenge came Cain and then Abel,
One
strived to follow God the other was bent on hell;
Abel
became the first victim, the first ever homicide,
When
at the hands of Cain his own brother, he died.
Cain who
was a farmer, who was living off the sod,
Was
afterward sentenced to live in the land of Nod;
Then
along came Seth, the second God-fearing man,
And
from here continued the growth of the human clan.
Two
multiplied to four and four multiplied to eight,
Thus
growing exponentially into one great state;
Brothers
married sisters and so too their offspring,
Married
one another and children did bring.
And so
the population with rapidity would grow,
Back then
people lived nine hundred years or more;
But
along would also come every imaginable vice
As men
became more evil and paid a lofty price.
But
Enoch had walked with God just as God intended,
Thus he
did not die but simply just ascended;
Some
say he is a type of the rapture that's to come,
When
God prepares the Church for His coming Son.
Enoch
begat Methuselah, the word of God declares,
Who
lived upon the earth nine hundred sixty-nine years;
Some
would rather trust the Guinness book of records,
I
choose to believe Genesis the book of God's concord.
God viewed man He
created while sitting on His throne,
Weren’t
He God Almighty surely He would have groaned;
Determined there and
then he had had all that he could,
Guess what happened
next! Then came a monstrous flood.
Noah
had warned the people each and every year,
But
all they ever did was to mock at him and glare;
Oh,
they had their fun in their contrived play park
Right down to the moment Noah entered the ark.
Then the flood had
come and washed them all away,
The waters purged
the earth for many, many a day,
Next across the sky
was seen a radiant glow,
Of God’s
certain promise, a multi-coloured rainbow.
A New Beginning
Thus a new beginning
had come for the human race,
A tribute to God’s
mercy and His amazing grace;
Commanded to go
forth and replenish the entire earth,
First created from the
dust but now by natural birth.
Earth’s
population grew as God had given increase,
Men began to falter and
their faith in God decreased.
Feeling rather secured
in their self-righteous power,
They tried to climb
to heaven by building up a tower.
But
their silly dream soon became a nightmare
As God
would scatter them all both far and near;
The
tower failed to reach anywhere near God's throne,
As God’s almighty power to man was clearly shown.
A Man of Great Patience
Then we learn of Job
and of his great experience,
Satan had resolved
to make him lose his patience;
Lost his sons and
daughters, left with only his wife,
“Curse God and die,”
she said, “end
your stupid life.”
She was talking
nonsense, was speaking like a fool,
She had allowed the
devil to use her as his tool;
But Job, he took a
stand, tenaciously held his ground,
Making up his mind, “she
won’t
be pulling me down.”
But God had proved
the point; the devil lost the fight,
Job had won a
victory, God had shown His might;
God restored to him much
more than he had before,
Showing to all and
sundry, God has so much in store.
Father
of the Faithful
Enter father
Abraham; called to leave his kin,
And journey to a
land God would show to him.
He marched right on
in faith with God as his Guide,
His confidence also boosted
with Sarah by his side.
Diverting
once to follow the counsel from his wife,
Up
came a predicament, his two sons meant strife;
Ishmael
was forced to go so reluctantly he went,
Isaac
was the promise, the seed that God had sent.
One
day out of heaven the sternest of tests came,
“Abraham, take Isaac and offer him in My Name.”
Abraham
heard and knew it was God that spoke,
Without
doubt he knew that this test was not a joke.
Early
from home he set out and headed for the place,
Determined
to be obedient but trusting God for grace;
Intent
on following through on God's precise command,
Raised
the knife to strike as the angel stopped his hand.
Abraham
had passed the test and God gave him the nod,
“Now I know,” the
angel said, “the fear you have for God.”
From
this we can preview the Lamb that was to come,
The
Lamb slain before the world, God’s own
begotten Son.
Abraham
was truly pleased that God had spared Isaac,
There
in a nearby thicket a lamb was securely trapped;
Provided
by God the Father and placed in open view,
A
shadow of the Lamb to come provided for me and you.
Jacob
followed Isaac, and Joseph his favourite son
Was
the scourge of his siblings, the object of their fun;
He was
sold into Egypt, rose to second in command,
Then
fed all his family when a famine struck the land.
God
was always with him and granted him His favour,
So to
all his family he became a type of Saviour;
He
repaid their evil dealings with kindness and with love,
At
last they came to realize his help was from above.
But
Joseph died in Egypt and there in his coffin lay,
Requesting
that he be moved on an appointed day;
He told
them of God’s visit and of a coming change,
They’d leave the land of Egypt just as God arranged.
Joseph’s bones would not be left in Egypt on that day,
When
God delivers them and sets them on their way;
So down
in the land of Egypt Joseph would remain,
Until the land of Canaan was theirs to make their claim.
Until the land of Canaan was theirs to make their claim.
Stewart Russell © 2013
