The following gem is from Gary A. Anderson, The Genesis of Perfection: 
Adam and Eve in Jewish and Christian Imagination:
Everything needs a purpose or a goal, even a good story. And somewhat paradoxically to understand how a good story begins we need to have some knowledge of how the whole comes to closure. Because the end configures the beginning, there is a sense in which we can say the end comes first. This idea has some rather dramatic consequences for how Jews and Christians have interpreted Genesis. They do not so much read it as it stands as re-read it in light of its proper end or goal.
YES!
And why should I care?
Because it’s the most important thing you need to know in order to make sense of the Bible?