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During this 40-day journey through the Bible, we will be looking at various one-on-one interactions between God and man (or woman as the case may be). In these interactions, we will look at what God sought from these rather ordinary people and how they in turn responded to God. These were real-world, regular conversations but that always left people changed with a fresh revelation of who God was and how they could know him better.
We read today of the triune creator God (Elohim) walking with Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden and giving them simple instructions for their safety and long-term enjoyment. They doubt His intentions, disobey His instructions and lose out on the communion they enjoyed with Him.
God created Adam from the dust and gave him the command to “Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air and over every living thing that moves on the earth.” Gen 1:28 (NKJV) He created Eve from Adam’s rib and gave her the role of a helper to Adam. The fall that ensued changed these dynamics drastically until Jesus came to the earth. A foreshadowing of his redemptive power is seen in Genesis 3 verse 21 where God makes tunics of skin to clothe Adam and Eve which had to have happened by the shedding of blood. Jesus’ sinless blood covered our sins for all eternity and washed us spotlessly clean. The question remains if we will choose to get closer to God through his son Jesus or if we are content and comfortable knowing him at arm’s length.
Then the LORD God formed a man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.
The LORD God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it. And the LORD God commanded the man, “You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will certainly die.” The LORD God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.”
So the LORD God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man’s ribs and then closed up the place with flesh. Then the LORD God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man.
Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the LORD God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from the LORD God among the trees of the garden. But the LORD God called to the man, “Where are you?” He answered, “I heard you in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid.” And he said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?” The man 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?” The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”
The LORD God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife and clothed them. And the LORD 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 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.
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This is good stuff!