Today felt like I needed to read the beginning of Genesis and the end of Revelation. Then came across this passage where Jesus was asked something, and immediately referred to the garden, and then the new city at the end, to answer it!

We ask our personal questions in a continuum which stretches back to the garden and forward to the new city! The place of complete restoration. And our lives exist somewhere in that tandem between!

When assessing some situation think back to the garden and forward to the new city, and see it in the light of both-the original plan, redemption and the living hope of where the true story is heading. Keep it in that continuum. All the secrets of God are in those two uninterrupted spaces. The light of understanding shines from both ends in The Book.

When they would ask Jesus a question, He would answer in view of the garden, His work on earth and the future city of God. All the patterns of the kingdom are present in those two bookends of history! And all the light we need to contextualize our own stories in the present! Looking backwards and forwards helps contextualize our daily problems was the practical wisdom which came from today’s study!