Welcome to a year in the Bible with Daily Grace.

This year, we want to spend a few minutes with you every day walking through our study Christ and all of Scripture.

Each week we will dive deeply into two passages of Scripture, one from the Old Testament and one from the New,

seeing how they connect and point to Jesus.

Whether you are doing the study yourself or just following along with us here, we are

hopeful that through studying these passages each week, you will see how Christ is not only present

throughout the entire biblical story, but the center of it. Hey friends, welcome back to another

episode of a year in the Bible. My name is Beth and I am here with my co-host, Alexa. Hi, everyone. Today we'll be taking a deeper look at the passage we annotated yesterday, Genesis 2, 8 through 9. So, Beth, can you tell us about the context of this passage? Where does it fit in the biblical story? So we've been in the prophets for so long that it's weird to not be saying, and once again, we're looking at the minor prophets. But we're doing something new today, but it's not really new. We're going all the way back to the beginning of the story. We're looking at Genesis 2, which comes right after Genesis 1 and is the expansion of the creation story. In Genesis 1, we see an overview of how God created all aspects of the universe, the earth and all that is on the earth.

Then in Genesis 2, we zoom in and see more specifically how God created the first man and first woman

and how he placed them in a beautiful and bountiful garden full of delicious food to eat and plants that were pleasing to look at.

This garden was intended to be

their home with God. In it, they would eat from the tree of life and cultivate the garden

alongside God their maker. But the passage we annotated gives us a glimpse of what actually

happens to their good home. God permits Adam and Eve to eat from any of the trees, except

the last one mentioned in our passage, the tree of the

knowledge of good and evil. The people disobeyed this one command, which we already talked about

at the very beginning of the year, but we see that this disobedience opened the door for send

to enter our world and live in all of our hearts. I think we often tend to zero in on the tree

of the knowledge of good and evil, but we miss out on talking about the tree of life.

So can you tell us how the tree of life fits into the story?

Yeah, so I personally think this is a detail of the creation and fall story that so often gets overlooked, as you were saying.

But it is incredibly important for understanding the overall story of the Bible.

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