Adam was a son of God, perhaps the first such creature in the physical realm. Certainly, he was the first earthling. He was perfect—sinless. He had no personality flaws, no mental defects, or emotional issues to deal with. He was undoubtedly a handsome, chiseled physical reflection of God's strength and beauty. His diet was the most nutritious and healthy food any human has ever had. And food was everywhere. Adam did not need to go hunting or fishing. He didn't have to plow the soil in the sweat of his face. Just pluck it right off the tree or bush. God introduced his earthly creation to the principle of ownership and lordship when he explained to Adam that one particular tree belonged exclusively to God. Its fruit was not to be eaten. No, it was not to be touched. The results would be dire for taking what belonged to God. Adam would die and revert back into the elements of the ground from whence he came.
Adam lived for quite a few years as a bachelor. It is not a lifestyle he chose. He had no choice. There were no women. Adam could see that the birds and animals had mates; perhaps he anticipated that someday he would too. And then, one day, Adam woke up from surgery, and there she was! God presented Adam with Eve. "At last"! Adam exclaimed. It was a marriage made in heaven, literally. Eve must have been a stunner. She was hand-made by God! She had to have been a ravishing beauty, a perfect, lovely compliment to Mr. Universe, Adam. They were going to live happily ever after in paradise. And then God laid another command upon the first man and wife. Have sex and be fruitful and fill the earth. 'Oh man! I'm on it!' Adam must have thought.
We do not know how much Jehovah told Adam about the spirit world. Obviously, Adam knew that God was a spirit. Jehovah somehow made his invisible presence felt when he strolled through the garden about the breezy part of the day. It likely was God's routine to walk and talk with the man he had created. But one day, when Jehovah came to visit his son, he was nowhere to be found. "Where are you?" Jehovah called out. And then Adam came out of hiding. Why on earth was Adam hiding? The man explained: “I heard your voice in the garden, but I was afraid because I was naked, so I hid myself.” Ah, the man had become guilty as sin. What happened? God asked the man: “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree from which I commanded you not to eat?”
Because God had made man in his image, Adam had an inborn sense of right and wrong. He had a conscience. And his conscience was perfectly attuned to God. Adam never felt shame. He never felt guilt. He had walked about the garden for years completely naked with no self-consciousness or embarrassment about his nakedness. But once Adam did what he knew was wrong, guilt, shame, and fear and a loss of his relationship with God came to the fore. He was self-condemed. And he knew it. Life could never be the same again. Paradise was lost. Adam was no longer the perfect man he once was. The leisurely chats with God were over. As a sad testament to what the human race has become, instead of manning up and taking responsibility for disobeying God, Adam blamed Eve and implied God was at fault: “The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit from the tree, so I ate.” God played along and then turned to Eve, asking her: “What is this you have done?” And what was Eve's reply? “The serpent deceived me, so I ate.”
What Eve said was true. The serpent deceived her. Although Eve was a full-grown woman, she was a child in her innocence and ignorance. She had a beautiful mind but no life experience. She hadn't spent years in Jehovah's company as had her husband. She was born yesterday, literally. She did not realize that snakes could not talk. Had she known that an envious angel whom Jehovah had entrusted as their overseer and protector had treacherously determined that he was the one who ought to be obeyed and worshipped, had she known that one of God's heavenly sons had schemed to use a reptile to disguise his identity, Eve would have run in horror. Satan may have maneuvered Eve to Jehovah's special tree with the serpent in the tree, perhaps making it appear as if the serpent had eaten some of the forbidden fruit so as to deceive Eve into concluding that the reptile could speak and was wise because it had eaten the fruit. Paul later confirmed that Eve was thoroughly deceived. Adam was not. Still, Eve knew God had commanded them not to touch the tree. That was all she needed to know.
So, the once-perfect cherub became the father of the lie, cunningly deceiving the naive Eve, knowing she would seduce Adam into joining her, all so he could selfishly insert himself into the place of Jehovah. But Jehovah went along with the disguise and spoke to the serpent: “Because you have done this, you are the cursed one out of all the domestic animals and out of all the wild animals of the field. On your belly you will go, 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 her offspring. He will crush your head, and you will strike him in the heel.”
Some of Adam's imperfect offspring, us, might reason that Jehovah was too harsh in throwing Adam and Eve out of the garden and sentencing them to death. Isn't Jehovah merciful and forgiving? Yes, but we need to understand that perfect creatures do not make mistakes. When a perfect creature, be it human or spirit, knowingly, deliberately disobeys God, it is bad, really, really bad. Besides, God had already warned Adam and Eve that the penalty for taking what belonged to Him was death. They knew that. There was no ambiguity. Had Adam not been perfect, he would have said, "Look, I blew it. I am sorry. Please forgive me." But he didn't. He couldn't. That is because he didn't make a mistake.
How could God let them off the hook, so to speak? Satan had already accused God of lying. The Slanderer would have been validated if God had not imposed the sentence he had decreed. The spirit schemer knew that since Adam and Eve had no children in Eden, if God kept his word and put them to death, then God's purpose to fill the earth with perfect people would fail. The Devil also knew that after God had created Eve from Adam's rib, he announced that his creation was perfect and that he was done creating. If God created two fresh humans to replace Eve and Adam, then Jehovah would be guilty of violating his own self-imposed sabbath. The arrogant angel must have imagined that he had outsmarted God.
But God's enigmatic denunciation of the serpent in Eden laid it all out. God was going to allow a sinful, dying human race to develop outside Eden and, at a later time, bring about restoration. But how could God redeem a degenerate race such as ours? By ransom. But how could a ransom price be had? God loved the world so much that he gave his only-begotten Son. By transferring the perfect life of his only-begotten heavenly Son into the womb of a Jewess virgin, Jehovah grafted into the dying race a perfect man to correspond to the value of the original man. Paul called Jesus "the second man" and the "last Adam." Unlike the first man of dust, Jesus obeyed God to the end, a torturous, horrific death. By giving his perfect human life, Jesus paid God what we owe him - our lives. And because Jesus was not a new creation, having already been in existence, Jehovah did not violate his sabbath.
Now, all that is left is for Christ to return as King of the world for which he died. Satan knows he is coming. He and his wicked demons are preparing for war. The nations are feverishly preparing for it, too, although they have no clue who the real enemy is. That is because the original serpent, the one called Devil and Satan, is misleading the entire inhabited earth into war against God Almighty. The Devil intends to take mankind hostage and turn the planet into a lifeless, radioactive cinder if Christ moves to take him out. Let Jesus save mankind from a holocaust of their own making if he can. And so, we shall see.
“Look! I am coming as a thief. Happy is the one who stays awake and keeps his outer garments, so that he may not walk naked and people look upon his shamefulness.” And they gathered them together to the place that is called in Hebrew Armageddon." - Revelation 16:15,16
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