Adam and Eve, living in the perfect original creation, rebelled. Their descendants were so wicked God had to destroy the world with a global flood. Now only righteous Noah and his family survived. But even his descendants had to be forced to obey God’s command to spread around the world. Abraham’s children, the Israelites, disobeyed time and time again and eventually were judged by Assyria and Babylon.

One major message of the Old Testament is we can’t save ourselves! We need Jesus. Only the God-man could fully keep God’s law and be the perfect substitute for our sins. Praise God Jesus came to save us from our sin!