Bible Blossom - Storyteller's Handbook

C REATION AND THE F ALL • 41

Setting

The Garden of Eden

• The Lord • The serpent • The woman • The man

Major Characters

Plot

Introduction and Rising Action 1. After the disobedience of the first human pair, they hide themselves from God in fear and shame. 2. When the Lord comes to find them, he discovers that they have eaten the forbidden fruit. Climax 3. The Lord pronounces a curse on the serpent, the woman, and the man. 4. Within his curse upon the serpent the Lord gives his first promise of redemption: the seed of the woman would come to crush the serpent’s head, but the serpent would crush his heel. 5. The promise means that God would send a savior in the line of human beings who would defeat the devil and set humanity free, but who would suffer greatly in the process. 6. The curse upon th woman multiplies her pain in childbirth, and the curse upon the man increases the futility and difficulty of his labor. Falling Action and Resolution 7. The man names his wife Eve, mother of all living. 8. The Lord graciously provides animal skins as clothing for the man and the woman.

This symbol represents a type of Christ in the Old Testament, foreshadowing some aspect of his person or work which Jesus of Nazareth would fulfill at his appearing. Jesus is the anti-type (i.e., the one to whom the type points and anticipates) of many of the objects, ceremonies, episodes, people, and events within the Old Testament. Truly, Jesus of Nazareth is the theme of the Bible (John 5.39-40; Luke 24.27, 44-48).