Well, let's pick up the "problem" which God aquired during his creative acts.. His archangel Lucifer is now leading a counterfeit kingdom, set on unthroning God, and Man, created in God's image has also defected and joined allegience to Satan's kingdom.
Did you ever wonder why God didn't just destroy everything and start all over again? The answer is simple. Nothing had happened that was not part of His Sovereign knowledge and plan. God already had in plan and in motion, through his attribute of grace, a marvellous plan to redeem sinners and still fulfil his intention of having humans praise and worship Him and be in His image.
There were two problems and two solutions set in motion.
1. how to reclaim his usurped kingdom
2. how to provide redemption for mankind
And it was His greatest attribute that was to be used to create the solution.. LOVE
After the Fall of mankind, God began his judgements, firstly on the serpant, and then on man and woman. God prophesised in Gen 3:14-15 that he had a redemptive plan for man, that involved the crushing of Satan and his kingdom through the seed of mankind. This is the first description of the coming of the God-Man Christ Jesus who would fulfill that prophecy.
Through the death and resurrection of Jesus, God would accomplish two things.. the reclaiming of His kingdom and redemption of mankind. Revelation 13:8 shows that this was part of his plan, even before the world was created.
The entire Old Testament then is an unfolding of this plan. Every event in world history is part of the unfolding of this plan. The conflicts, the wars, the events of bible history, that will lead to the cross and the oneday return of Christ. History is truly His-Story.
I'll pick this thread up next post, and it will include a lot of things from believers post.