🟦 Introduction – Why the Beginning Matters

The beginning is more than just a point in time. In the Bible, the beginning is a revelation—a foundational layer upon which everything else is built. Genesis is not only the first book of the Bible, it is also the origin of truth, the place where God’s thoughts are first spoken and fundamental spiritual principles are revealed.

In a world where truths are constantly renegotiated and identities questioned daily, Genesis calls us back—to the roots. Here we discover who we are, who God is, what love truly means, how death entered the world, and how the great controversy began.

This lesson takes us to the origins of the most important prophetic and theological concepts. For only those who understand the beginning will comprehend the end. And those who recognize the Creator in the garden will also recognize Him in the judgment—not as a stranger, but as the One who has always said: I am who I am.

📘 Lesson 2 – Genesis Foundations

2.1 The Principle of “First Mention”

The Roots of Truth – Why the Beginning Matters

🟦 Introduction – The Beginning Matters

There is a saying: “He who understands the beginning, understands the path.”
In an age where information is consumed quickly and superficially, it’s easy to lose sight of the origin. But the Bible begins with Genesis for a reason — the “Book of Beginnings.” In Genesis, God lays the foundational patterns of truth. What is first introduced here gains deeper meaning throughout Scripture, but never a new identity.
Those who know the roots will understand the fruit.

📖 Bible Study – The God Who Does Not Change Gives Unchanging Truth

Isaiah 40:7–8: “The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God will stand forever.”
Malachi 3:6: “For I, the Lord, do not change.”
Hebrews 13:8: “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.”

These verses affirm a powerful principle: God’s nature, will, and Word are unchanging.
In a world where “truth” is often seen as flexible, subjective, or even irrelevant, Scripture reminds us that God’s truth is stable, steadfast, and trustworthy.

The principle of “first mention” is more than just a study technique. It is an invitation to trace the divine thread of God’s purpose from the very beginning.

Examples:

• The first time the “serpent” appears (Genesis 3), it is a deceiver. Later in Revelation 12, it is called the “ancient serpent, Satan.” No contradiction – but continuity.

• The first Sabbath (Genesis 2) is a day of rest, relationship, and holiness. That meaning remains – through Exodus, the Gospels, and even Revelation.

God’s truth grows in depth, not direction. It does not shift course, but rather unfolds in richness.

✨ Spiritual Principles – Truth Is Not a Feeling

• Divine truth has origin and destination: It begins in Genesis and culminates in Christ.

• What God defines as truth once, remains truth forever.

• Understanding grows with light, but never contradicts the original word.

• The Bible is a unified stream, not a collection of disconnected wells.

🧭 Everyday Application – Clarity in a World of Opinions

📌 Read Genesis not as a children’s story, but as your foundation.
What begins there – sin, redemption, worship, marriage, Sabbath – shapes the whole of biblical understanding.

📌 Trust the first picture God gives.
When a symbol first appears (e.g., woman, animal, light), it is rarely redefined arbitrarily.

📌 Be alert to theories that “sound new” – even if they seem logical.
Subtle attacks on the Bible often start with harmless phrases like:
“That was just cultural back then.”
“Today, we understand it differently.”
“Science now knows better.”

God’s truth needs no modern approval to remain valid.

✅ Conclusion – The Beginning Carries Heaven Within

First impressions matter – with people, and with truth.
Those who take the beginning of the Bible seriously will see: God begins with order, clarity, and purpose.

When we read the first chapters of the Bible with a prophetic lens, we discover:
Everything that comes later – judgment, redemption, second coming – is already there in seed form.

God is the same. His Word is the same. Our foundation is secure.

💬 Thought of the Day

Truth does not change – only our willingness to recognize it.

✍️ Illustration – The Root Beneath the Asphalt

Berlin. Late autumn.
Chestnut leaves dance across the streets.

Jonas, 37, a high school biology teacher, walks through Tiergarten Park, headphones in, listening to a podcast on “evolutionary ethics.”
He stops before an old tree, its roots slowly but surely breaking through the asphalt.

“Fascinating,” he murmurs. “So much strength… and all because of what’s unseen.”

That evening, he reads from a children’s Bible with his daughter. The story of Creation.
“Daddy, why did God make light first?”

He pauses.
“Because… light shows what’s really there.”

And suddenly it clicks.

The first chapters of the Bible aren’t just the beginning of a story. They’re the foundation.
Not poetry. Not naïve. But strong – like roots under asphalt.

Jonas reaches for his grown-up Bible. He opens to Genesis 1.
Not to read a fairy tale –
But to discover a truth that remains.

📖 “The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God will stand forever.” (Isaiah 40:8)