Promises and Fulfillments in God's Story

We find God’s story in the scriptures. The book of Genesis, the beginning, reveals God to us. We see His character, who He is, and His creation, who we are. Throughout the sixty six books of the Bible, He shows us His plan to make the way for us to be right with Him. We were created to commune with, and to praise Holy God. Natural man fights this spiritual relationship until he or she has a personal encounter with our Holy God. The New Testament is the fulfillment of that which He promised in the Old Testament. One is the continuation of the other. The New Covenant fulfills the Old Covenant. The Old Testament is quoted throughout the New Testament. The New Testament fulfills prophesies found in the Old Testament. The Bible is the most widely and carefully read book of all times. It IS the living Word of God. God and His Word are the same yesterday, today, and forever.

Reading and studying the Bible grows our faith. In it we find the building blocks of our faith. It is the living Word, because when we let it, it speaks to us; God speaks to us through His word. His presence, through His Word, will fill the emptiness that each of us experiences at times in our lives. We try to fill our longings, hungers, and emptiness in all of the wrong places until we have a personal encounter with the Living God found in the Living Word. You cannot believe this because of my experience, you must seek to have your own experience and spiritual encounter.

God gave His law in the Old Testament. We were separated from Him because no one could follow all of the law. In the Word, God uses building blocks to lay out His plan to fulfill His promises to us, preparing the way, to the Gospel Story. Jesus, in the New Testament, fulfills God’s promises and God’s plan. Jesus IS The Messiah. God reveals this throughout His scriptures. All believers become connected, become one in Christ.
He is the final sacrificial lamb. In Revelation, the sixty sixth and last book of the Bible, God shows us, through John, a new heaven and a new earth without the barriers between God and Man. God’s promises have been, are being, and will be fulfilled. We read in Revelation 21 that John was shown “The Holy City, Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God. It was filled with the glory of God….The wall was made of Jasper, and the city was pure gold, as clear as glass…..No temple could be seen in the city, for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple. And the city has no need of sun or moon, for the glory of God illuminates the city, and the lamb is its light… nothing evil will be allowed to enter….but only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life”. As a believer, I know that my name is written in the Lamb’s Book of Life because John tells me in 1John 5:13 that “I write this to you who believe in the Son of God, so that you may KNOW you have eternal life”. I choose to believe in God’s word and I have made Christ The Lord of my life. I believe that He is who He says He is. I believe God’s promises and I believe that He will fulfill what He has promised. Revelation 22 says, “See, I am coming soon, and my reward is with me, to repay all according to their deeds. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, The beginning and the End”.