Adam

 

God, created the heavens and the earth in six days and on the seventh day He rested.

 

The six days are a simplified description of how God did this. Today we would describe this process as evolution. The pinnacle of his creation was achieved on the sixth day, when man appeared.

We know each day represents an unknown period of time because in Hebrews 4 we are told that the obedient can still enter God’s rest.

 

Man’s job was to look after God’s creation. God blessed them and said to them “be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it”.

 

God then rested from His work. His work was now finished because He had given the job of looking after the earth to mankind.

 

God did not desert mankind. He made the seventh day holy and all mankind could enter God’s rest, provided they where obedient. Man was meant to look after the earth under God’s supervision.

 

Man was only ordered not to feed from one tree “do not feed from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil”.

 

Adam and Eve

Adam was the first man to enter God’s rest. He would have been prepared and would have understood what God wanted him to do. We are told that God formed him and God made him a living being. Adam was the first spiritual man or the first living being.

 

Adam was placed into a garden (oasis) that was lush with trees that produced edible fruit or were pleasing to the eye. In the centre of this garden were two trees. They are centred in the middle of the garden because they are crucial to the well being of the garden.  

In the middle of the garden were the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

God’s only instructions to Adam was to freely feed on all the trees in the garden except for the tree of ‘the knowledge of good and evil’.

The tree of life is a euphemism for the presence of God and the garden is a euphemism for the world. It is stepping into God’s rest. In this place Adam would have been told what needed to be done in the garden and what shouldn’t be allowed to take place. If he hadn’t  turned out to be disobedient he would have been Lord of Lord’s and King of King’s.

 

The tree of the knowledge of good and evil is best understood by looking at the Amplified Bible.

 

The tree of the [experiential] knowledge (recognition) of [the difference between] good and evil. 

 

It is saying that mankind cannot recognise the difference between good and bad in the projects they undertake. Projects that start off with good intensions, turn out to be bad for the garden.

Good projects would include things like garden, wood working and engineering tools, the wheel and antibiotics . 

Evil projects would include A.I., nuclear bombs, Bombs, napalm and genetically modified anything. In short all things used in wars, including weather manipulation and things that cause pollution. In short Adam was ment to keep the garden beautiful.

 

The Fall 

The serpent deceived Eve (Eve was Adams church). We know this because we are told that there was a problem in finding a suitable helper for Adam. This implies there was a choice. Eve was formed by God and pleased Adam.

 

The serpent put doubt in Eve’s mind by saying “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?”

 

The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, but God did say, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.’”

 

“You will not certainly die,” the serpent said to the woman. “For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”

Eve saw that the tree was good for gaining wisdom, so she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it.

 

Adam should have stopped Eve from touching the tree because it resulted in the church hiding from God, which has resulted in man acting as if he was God.

This has resulted in God’s creation being damaged. We are in a period of mass extinction, war, poverty and pollution. Crime is rife and people feel increasingly unsafe in their own neighbourhoods.

 

Consequence

The tree of life has now fragmented into many false religions because man has turned away from God. The serpent still uses the same lie “You will not certainly die,” 

He says this to all denominations, making them believe that when they die they will go to heaven and live forever, with God, because they alone have the correct religion. God reaches out but man will not fully commit to enter into God’s rest, and as a result the world spirals in a downward direction.

 

To the serpent

God said, “Because you have done this 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 means that the serpent will feed on spiritual children, (Adam was made out of dust) all his life. There will be hostility between the woman’s children (spiritual children) and the serpent. The woman’s children will crush the churches leadership because it is from the serpent and the serpents children will strike at the man’s heel or behind his back.

 

To the woman

He said “Because you have done this “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. 

This means as spiritual children arise within the church, her husband will attack them causing her pain.

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To Adam

To Adam he said, because you listened to you wife and ate fruit from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat from’ “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 until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return.”

Because of Adam the world is cursed. Adam also lost his anointing.

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Genesis 3:20-24

The end of chapter 3 gives hope for the future.

It starts off by telling us that Adam named his wife Eve because she would become the mother of all the living (spiritual). The word ‘would’ is used to indicate a future event.

God now uses a euphemism to explain the loss of innocence that occurred after Adam and Eve fed from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

We are told that Adam and Eve were both naked and they felt no shame. After they had both eaten from the tree the first thing that happened was the eyes of both of them were opened.They then realised they were naked and started sowing fig leaves together to cover their nakedness. When God called them they then hid from him and when asked why they said “because I was naked”. God then asks them “who told you that you were naked? And then asked, have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?”

The nakedness of Adam and Eve before they ate the forbidden fruit is symbolic of their innocence. They felt no shame.

After they had eaten they hid from God and God knew why. He then clothed them. This is about mankind’s loss of innocence. 

The chapter then finishes with a conversation between God and Jesus and God 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.”

So the Lord God banished him from the Garden of Eden and 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. 

The ‘Garden of Eden’ is heaven and mankind has been prevented from entering heaven because they act like God but bring only misery and they degrade God’s creation.

God drove man out of the ‘Garden’ and he placed cherubim and a flaming sword flashing back and forth to guard the way back to the tree of life. Cherubim are children and this is how God sees church leaders, today. The flaming sword is their tongue which is used against spiritual people. As described earlier in this document concerning consequences and punishment for disobedience.