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Genesis Chapter 12 - part 2
Steve Deal speaks about the story we are all born into — the grand biblical narrative running from Eden to the New Jerusalem. Using Genesis 12 as his launching pad, he argues that God's promise to Abraham only makes sense when you understand everything that preceded it: Lucifer's rebellion, the fall, the corruption of humanity in Genesis 6, the flood, and the scattering of the nations at Babel, where God assigned each nation to a member of his divine council. All those nations went their own way and fell into idol worship — and it was into that context that God called one man, Abram, to be the beginning of something entirely different.
Steve shares his belief that Eden, Jerusalem, and the New Jerusalem all occupy the same plot of ground — the place where God has always intended to meet with his people face to face. This is why the enemy concentrated his forces there. The Canaanites filled that sacred ground with child sacrifice and the worship of fallen beings, and the giant clans that had re-emerged after the flood were clustered specifically in that territory — the enemy closing rank around the very place God would one day reclaim. Everything in between — the tabernacle, the temple, the sacrificial system — was a shadow pointing back to the original Eden and forward to the New Jerusalem. The whole Bible, Steve argued, is the story of God recovering what was lost and returning to dwell with his people on that same ground.
Steve then traces the thread of "the seed" from Genesis 3:15 — where God promised the serpent that the offspring of the woman would crush his head — all the way through to Abraham and ultimately to Jesus, citing Paul in Galatians 3:16. The virgin birth, the cross, the resurrection — all on that same hill — were the fulfilment of a plan announced in Eden before Adam and Eve had even left the garden.
He closes by landing the whole message in the present moment, reminding the congregation that we live between the cross and the New Eden. The cosmic battle has been won, billions of souls are coming into the kingdom, and the invitation is simple — believe, repent, be baptised, and be filled with the Holy Spirit. The promise that began in a garden, he said, has been travelling through six thousand years of history to reach each person in that room.
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By Bloom Co ChurchSteve Deal speaks about the story we are all born into — the grand biblical narrative running from Eden to the New Jerusalem. Using Genesis 12 as his launching pad, he argues that God's promise to Abraham only makes sense when you understand everything that preceded it: Lucifer's rebellion, the fall, the corruption of humanity in Genesis 6, the flood, and the scattering of the nations at Babel, where God assigned each nation to a member of his divine council. All those nations went their own way and fell into idol worship — and it was into that context that God called one man, Abram, to be the beginning of something entirely different.
Steve shares his belief that Eden, Jerusalem, and the New Jerusalem all occupy the same plot of ground — the place where God has always intended to meet with his people face to face. This is why the enemy concentrated his forces there. The Canaanites filled that sacred ground with child sacrifice and the worship of fallen beings, and the giant clans that had re-emerged after the flood were clustered specifically in that territory — the enemy closing rank around the very place God would one day reclaim. Everything in between — the tabernacle, the temple, the sacrificial system — was a shadow pointing back to the original Eden and forward to the New Jerusalem. The whole Bible, Steve argued, is the story of God recovering what was lost and returning to dwell with his people on that same ground.
Steve then traces the thread of "the seed" from Genesis 3:15 — where God promised the serpent that the offspring of the woman would crush his head — all the way through to Abraham and ultimately to Jesus, citing Paul in Galatians 3:16. The virgin birth, the cross, the resurrection — all on that same hill — were the fulfilment of a plan announced in Eden before Adam and Eve had even left the garden.
He closes by landing the whole message in the present moment, reminding the congregation that we live between the cross and the New Eden. The cosmic battle has been won, billions of souls are coming into the kingdom, and the invitation is simple — believe, repent, be baptised, and be filled with the Holy Spirit. The promise that began in a garden, he said, has been travelling through six thousand years of history to reach each person in that room.