The Garden Of Eden

Right from the beginning with our first parents, the Lord made it simple and clear about what life was all about. What their responsibilities were, as well as their boundaries.

In the Garden Of Eden the laws of God were simple and clear:

Firstly, Adam’s responsibility given:

Gen 2:15-16
15  And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.
16  And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:

Secondly, the one thing Adam was not allowed to do:

Gen 2:17  But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.

 After the Lord gave Adam his wife Eve, both, knew what life was all about. They knew that they were living in God’s world, and had to live according to His ways. Otherwise they would not be in fellowship with Him. They knew Truth.

When the serpent convinced Eve to eat from the ‘tree of the knowledge of good and evil’, and Eve persuaded Adam to do the same, both died spiritually (Gen. 3). The spiritual death meant a break in their relationship with Almighty God. Sin came between them and God. They also remained physically mortal. In the garden of Eden was the tree of life, to which they – until then - had access to. If they had remained in fellowship with the Lord, they would have still had access to the tree of life. Now they continued to age towards physical death.

They would remain eternally separated from the Lord unless a way was made for them to be reconciled to Him. The Lord was the only One Who could provide the way for them to be saved from the penalty of their sin. Right there and then the Lord provided a temporary measure to ‘cover’ their sins until the Lord would send His Son to die for all of mankind’s sin.

Genesis 3:21  Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make coats of skins, and clothed them.

The Lord killed some animals, surely two young lambs, to make clothing for them. The shedding of the blood of the animals temporarily covered their sin until God’s Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, died for all once and for all. From there on men offered young lambs as sin offerings to cover their sins. Example Able –

Genesis 4:4  And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the LORD had respect unto Abel and to his offering:

Right from the beginning, after the fall of man into sin, the Lord taught them the principle of ‘without the shedding of blood there is no remission of sin.’

Heb 9:22  And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.

This removes the possibility of anyone earning forgiveness of sin. Sin must be cleansed by the shedding of blood. This is Almighty God’s view, His perspective – Truth.

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