In 2019 I visited the Creation Museum in Kentucky and saw the 7Cs of history there; maybe that was still on my mind.
The first “C” of our “walk through history” is the creation of all
things. In the book
of Genesis (which means “beginnings”), God tells us he created
everything in six days.
2: Corruption
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth, and
everything was
very good (Genesis 1–2).
The next “C” is “Corruption,” and is
found in Genesis 3.
Adam & Eve were tempted by Satan, saying “did God really say”, the
same argument he uses today.
3. Catastrophe
The world had become so evil that God instructed Noah to build an
Ark – a massive ship around 500 feet long!
He blotted out every living thing that
was on the face of the ground, man and
animals
and creeping things and birds of the heavens. They were blotted out from
the
earth. Only Noah was left, and those who were with him in the ark.
4: Confusion
The disobedient descendants of Noah decided to stay in one place, building a
tall tower (at Babel) that they hoped would help keep them all together.
“Come,
let us go down and there confuse their language, so that they may not
understand one another’s speech.” So the Lord dispersed them from there over
the face of all the earth, and they left off building the city. (Genesis 11:7–8)
So everyone moved into separate groups and moved all over the
world!
5: Christ
God’s perfect creation was corrupted by Adam when he disobeyed
God. This disobedience brought sin and death into the world. Because of Adam’s
disobedience, and because we have all sinned personally anyway, we are all
deserving of the death penalty and need a Saviour.
“She will bear a son, and you shall call
his name Jesus, for he will save his people
from
their sins.”
God solved this “problem” by
sending his Son Jesus Christ—completely human and completely
God.
6: Cross
Adam disobeyed God’s command not to eat the forbidden fruit; Jesus
fulfilled the Creator’s purpose that he dies for the sin of the world.
Jesus Christ, the Creator of all things was not defeated by death.
He rose three days after he was crucified, showing that he has
power over all things, including death, the “last enemy”!
This is why the Apostle Paul wrote, “O death, where is your
victory? O death, where is your sting?
When we believe in Jesus Christ and understand what he has done
for us, we are passed from death into life. The names of those who receive him
are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life — so when they die, they will go to be
with him forever!
7: Consummation
God, in his great mercy, has promised not to leave his creation in
its sinful state,
He has promised to remove, in the future, the curse he placed on
his creation
He will make a new heaven and a new earth one day—one which we
can’t even begin to imagine. In this new place, there will be no death, no
crying, and no pain.
Nobody will be sad!
