As it was from the beginning… Part Three

Continuing from Part Two (Click Here to read Part Two)

Next we see in the book of Genesis, that God determines it is not good for this man to be alone, and causes a deep sleep to come upon him and took a rib from him and closed up the flesh instead thereof.

Reflecting back again to the book of Genesis for details, we see that it was God that formed up from the ground a listing of things and brought them to Adam to see what he would name them… and then we see that God brought the woman also to Adam and Adam also is shown to have said she was a listing of things (refer to the bible on these details) because she was taken out of man.

Not there is a lot more very profound points to explore in just this portion so far… but for now, let’s move on just a bit more and take a look at a few more points… so that we can see not only what it was that the man taken from the dust of the ground was told not to do or he would “surely die”….

Genesis 2:25:  And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.

Now comes the record of another voice in the garden….

Genesis 3:1:  Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?

Now let’s see a couple of points in this verse before moving on… “the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field”… “which the Lord God had made”.  Now refer back just a moment to the “beast of the field” and where it is that they were formed from according to Genesis….

Now carefully look with me as to what the bible states happened next.  The serpent said to the woman, ‘YEA, hath God said, ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden”?

The serpent spoke of what “God said” and posed it as a question to the woman.  Now bear in mind that according to Genesis when God gave the man taken from the dust of the ground the commandment “thou shalt not”… the woman was not made yet.  Yet that is not the point to pay attention to…. well not just yet anyway… but the serpent starts off inferring that he knows what it is that God has said but poses it as a question.

Genesis 3: 2: And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden:

Genesis 3:3: But of the fruit of the tree which [is] in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.

Okay, hold up here just a minute…. now we just seen from the bible what it was that God is shown to have told man before woman was made… so where does the woman get this information to share with the serpent…. and why is it added to?  (Just like a man to tell you something and get it wrong right ladies?  LOL)

Well let’s move on… we’ll come back to that part later… I’m sure… but the point here is that the serpent is trying to speak for God… look carefully…

Genesis 3:4:  And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:

Genesis 3:5: For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.

Now we can go into a lot of various directions here.. but there is a consistency of lesson/message that radiates throughout the bible…”as it was from the beginning” that has been here right before our eyes, all the time that we’ve missed…. one that the prophets later on warn people about…. that Jesus said that man was to live by…… so what is it??

So let’s move ahead here… (but carefully examine all that the bible has to say on each point.. don’t miss anything)….

Genesis 3:9: And the LORD God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where [art] thou?

Genesis 3:10: And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I [was] naked; and I hid myself.

Genesis 3:11:  And he said, Who told thee that thou [wast] naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?

Now let’s review here a few key points…. the Lord God called unto Adam “where are you”? Adam response, I heard your voice in the garden and was afraid, because I was naked and I hid myself.

Now wait a minute… do you see that… Adam was in that same garden, naked and not ashamed before this happened and now …. he’s naked and afraid and hiding from God??

But look at what the bible says that God said next… “who has told you” that you are naked? Have you eaten of the tree that I commanded you not to eat?

Who has told you…. who has told you… this is the first thing that the bible said that God said to Adam….

So before we get into Adam’s attempt at the “blame game” to blame someone else for his own actions…. let’s look for a moment that the first thing that God questioned Adam about what “who has told you”……

Now… read along in Genesis and you’ll see the rest of what took place…. pay attention to those details… and then look at this passage…

Genesis 3:17: And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed [is] the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat [of] it all the days of thy life;

The first thing that the bible states that God said to Adam was that because he “hearkened to the voice” of another… he had let someone else who was not God tell him something and he followed the voice of another…. and went against what it was that he knew that God said for him to do.

Now as earlier pointed out, the bible makes it clear that it was God that spoke instruction and commandments to all things… including giving the first “thou shalt not” with a “promise” to the man taken from the dust of the ground… “ye shall surely die”.

The serpent spoke to the woman of what God knew… of what God said… and she was beguiled and did eat and gave to Adam and he did eat.

However, the point is that they both allowed someone else to tell them something about God, what God knew, what God said, and “hearkened to the voice” of one that was not God!!

In the moment that it says that they did so, their entire view of themselves changed.  They had been naked and were not ashamed before… and now was naked… afraid and was hiding themselves from God.

Do you see the profound message/lesson from the beginning of the bible that Genesis records for us and is echoed throughout its pages??

Man is to live by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God…. man’s problems will always being at any point that he is finds himself hearkening to the voice of another, who is not God about what God knows, what God has said, and what it is that God would have them to do to be more like God…

This “tradition” of hearkening to the voice of another who is not God about what God knows, what God says, what it is that God would have one to do to be more like God… is the very thing that alters how man seen himself… how he sees those that are in his life, and will cause him to be afraid…. to the point that he will hide himself among the other trees in the garden even when God is calling out “where are you”…..

Man was to hear from God directly.  God reveals Himself…. blesses and gives instruction Himself to all that He creates from its beginning…. it is not until we hearken to the voice of another…. and let someone else convince us of who God is, what it is that God would have us to know, what it is that God says, or even what it is that we are to do to be more like God… that we take on the view of ourselves, as Adam did, and see ourselves from the point of what someone else has said and convinced us to do who is NOT GOD!

This is the way in which, “in the day” that ye do so, “ye too shall surely die”… for your life will be ever impacted, influenced, conditioned and your thinking and view of yourself, others around you, and the garden in which you were placed will be altered!

This “death” resulting from the hearkening to the voice of another, this tradition set up by Adam, is the very thing that the prophets said “all shall be taught of God” and the reason why Jesus is shown in the pages of the bible to have said to the devil in his own time of temptation… “man shall not live by bread alone, but by EVERY word that PROCEEDS from the mouth of GOD”… for that is how it was to have been from before the foundation of the world….. and when we carefully examine in the pages of the bible… all those commandments that God gave Jesus to share with His disciples… we see that each one of them helps break one free from the traditions that have been set forth as a result of having hearkened to the voice of another who was not GOD… and reconcile man back to God…. to hearing from God… to living by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God to each of us…. so that one has “eternal life”…. “knowing the one true God and Jesus Christ”….

It was always to be God that reveals Himself… that blesses…. that speaks and gives whatever it is that one is to do or not to do Himself to His creation…. there isn’t any means by which one can have one’s total and complete trust in God other than by doing so….

What has been “hidden from the foundation of the world” was revealed by Jesus Christ so long ago…  the way it all started from the beginning…. outlined in the pages of the bible for anyone with the ability to read to see and know and hopefully not continue the tradition of man taken from the dust of the ground…. making the word of God (what proceeds from the mouth of God) of none effect by keeping that same “tradition” of Adam.

As we see outlined it all began when someone else in the garden began trying to speak for God, to tell God’s creation what it was that God knew, what it was that God had said to them was wrong, and what it was that would make them more like God….. it’s what the serpent in the garden did from the beginning… it’s what the devil is said to have tried with Jesus Christ…. and if we are ever going be able to “overcome the devil” and “cast out demons”… and not “surely die” … then it is going to have to begin with “man living by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God”… and if it is not and has not come from the mouth of God… or if some one else tries to tell you who God is, what God says on something, or what it is that God would have you to do or to know… or what it is that God says you need to do to be more like God…. don’t you “hearken to the voice of another” and repeat what Adam did!

It wasn’t to be so from the beginning…… ♥

Ask God, Hear God …. live by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God to you….