The Genesis Judgments: Windows into God's Final Judgments

One evening while working late, I went to the kitchen for a glass of water and saw a cockroach dart across the counter. I froze. It wasn’t just the bug itself that unsettled me, but what it meant: dirt, contamination, a threat to everything clean in that space. I simply reached for something to eliminate it.

As poor an illustration as this is, it teaches us something about the nature of sin and the need for judgment. When people cling so closely to sin that they cannot be separated from it, judgment becomes inevitable—for the preservation of what is pure and good. The judgments recorded in Genesis illustrate this principle in striking ways.

From the opening chapters of Genesis, one truth stands out: God made humanity capable of good. Genesis stated repeatedly that everything God made was good. Even after the entrance of sin, this capacity, though marred