After Adam and Eve
ate the fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, “they heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day.” Adam and Eve were ashamed. Their eyes had been opened to the physical world, and they didn’t want God to see what they had done, so they hid from God among the trees of the garden. The Lord God called to the man, “Where are you?” Adam answered and said, “I heard you in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid.” God said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?” Instead of taking responsibility for himself, Adam pointed his finger at Eve, his wife. This is the beginning of the blame game, where a man and a woman point and blame. Adam said, “The woman you put here with me - she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it.” Then the Lord God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?” And the woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.” Eve pointed her finger and blamed the snake! Isn’t this how temptation works? People like to blame Satan instead of taking responsibility for themselves. So the Lord God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this, “Cursed are you above all livestock and all wild animals! You will crawl on your belly and you will eat dust all the days of your life. And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.” This is the moment God spoke out the curse that would one day take out the whole earth. But In the midst of cursing them, man, woman and Satan - the Lord God made a way through the Seed of the woman - that would later be known as the remnant of Christ. Notice in this passage that Satan will do all that he can to strike the heel of God’s children, but God had a plan to save mankind. God planted His Seed in the womb of the woman, to crush the head of Satan, and all his children. To the woman God said, “I will make your pains in childbearing very severe; with painful labor you will give birth to children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.” In the cursed world, the one that we currently live (not the New Jerusalem) we see the effects of feminism and witness women trying to control men. We also see the opposite- men exercising authority and power over women. To Adam, God said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate fruit from the tree about which I commanded you, “You must not eat from it,’ “Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat food from it all the days of your life. It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat the plants of the field. By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return.” Men would now be working hard, until the day they die, and return to the ground. Nowhere in the cursed world, does it say men will be going to heaven. God clearly states men will return to dust. Then the Lord God spoke to someone and said, “The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever.” This is when humans lost eternity. But God made a Way for His Seed through the gene of faith. So the Lord God banished Adam from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken. After he drove the man out, "he placed on the east side of the Garden of Eden cherubim and a flaming sword flashing back and forth to guard the way to the tree of life.” Genesis 3:8-24 And this is when paradise was lost. Genesis Three tells the story of the Fall of Man.
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