“For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive… ‘The first man Adam became a living being’; the last Adam, a life‑giving Spirit… The first man was from the dust of the earth; the second man is from heaven.” (1 Corinthians 15:22, 45–47)
The Gospel announces the finished work of the Lord Jesus Christ — the last Adam, the second man. Paul tells us that Christ accomplished what Adam failed to do. I grew up believing that, even if I didn’t yet see how the whole Bible fit together. Scripture felt like a collection of stories, genealogies, proverbs, psalms, prophecies, and end‑times puzzles. I knew the heart of the Gospel — that Jesus died for my sins and that salvation is by faith — and that truth remains as precious to me now as when my parents first taught it to me.
But over time I realized that reading the Bible as scattered moral examples was not good for my faith. I heard sermons that said, “Be courageous like David,” or “Don’t be wicked like Jezebel,” and slowly the Bible became a rulebook. The grace of the Gospel was overshadowed by constant talk about what I must do.
Then I began to see something different. Whenever Paul called believers to obedience, he grounded it in who they already were in Christ and in what God had already accomplished. A single story — from Genesis to Revelation — was unfolding: the victorious work of the Lord Jesus Christ, the second Adam. Passages like Romans 5 opened my eyes to the architecture of Scripture, where Adam’s failure and Christ’s obedience stand as the two great pillars of human history. Even familiar stories took on new meaning. David’s victory over Goliath was not a lesson in courage but a pointer to the greater Son who would win the battle no one else could fight.
The mission of this website is to help readers see the Bible as this unified, Christ‑centered, covenantal story. Obedience is no longer a burden I carry to earn God’s favor; it is the fruit of the victory my Savior has already won.
I invite you to explore this story with me — the story of the second Adam, the One who has secured life, glory, and a new creation for His people.
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From Genesis 3:15 and Genesis 49:8–12 to Revelation 5:5, Scripture reveals that all of history centers on the Second Adam, the true King of the Kingdom. He is the Lion of Judah, the Root of David, exalted to the Father’s right hand so that every knee in heaven, on earth, and under the earth will bow before Him (Philippians 2:10).
When Jesus taught His disciples to pray, “Your kingdom come…” (Matthew 6:10), He was directing their hope toward the ultimate kingdom of unending glory. In contrast to the passing kingdoms of this world, He told Pilate, “My kingdom is not of this world” (John 18:36). His is the everlasting kingdom. The Gospels announce the arrival of the “Kingdom of Heaven” or the “Kingdom of God,” and the angel Gabriel promised Mary that her Son’s kingdom “will have no end” (Luke 1:33).
There is no denying that Scripture uses the lives of God’s people as examples (1 Cor 10:6; James 5:17). Yet these examples only make sense within the larger story that gives them their place and purpose. This Historia Salutis—the History of Salvation—begins with creation and culminates in the everlasting enthronement of the Lord Jesus with His bride in glory. The Gospel announces that Christ has secured this end. The long span between the beginning and the consummation displays the sovereign work of God as He brings “many sons to glory” in Christ (Hebrews 2:10).