Friday, September 24, 2010
to be read Friday, September 24
22 Then the Lord God said, ‘See, the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil; and now, he might reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever’— 23therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which he was taken. 24He drove out the man; and at the east of the garden of Eden he placed the cherubim, and a sword flaming and turning to guard the way to the tree of life.
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If the man and woman couldn't trust God to make them right with him....why would they entrust their very lives to him, too. That was a question God was not willing to entertain.
Thankyou Linda for such a good comment, and so biblically true. I think that God drove Adam and Eve from the garden because of His concern that man not live forever in his now pitiful cursed condition. This was an act of merciful grace to prevent them from being sustained forever by the tree of life. God had something far greater planed for them and His glory would truely shine.
(22-23)God had already been burned by his most cherished arch angel, Lucipher. For this Lucipher was banned from the heavenly kingdom. The precedent of law has been set. Therefore, man & woman must go out and earn back God's trust by learning what true faith in eternal life is. The true faith that was intitially seeded in man at his creation. This is the life he gave man when God breathed the breath of the Holy Spirit in him. God tells man that true faith no longer will come easy & without cost(struggle).
Therefore, no longer will the flesh have eternal life. At that moment, all of the earthly kingdom began to erode, including the flesh. However the spirit that God breathed in man is not of the flesh, thus that is why we still have hope of an eternal life at His table in His heavenly kingdom. The Tree of Life is not lost to us forever. There is a way. Matt 7, Luke 14 & Rev 22.
(24)This is the 2 gates that is spoken of in Matt 7. Of the cherubim, this is the Ark of the Covenant that holds the commandments of the old testament & the new & the book of life containing all the names of God's children & only His children. The 10 as handed down through Moses & the Gospel of our Lord & Savior Jesus Christ which is at the entrance to the narrow gate that leads to eternal life. The sword, the firey wrath of God that spins, is at the entrance of the broad gate to eternal hell. Luke 14, Philippians 4:3, Rev 3 & Rev 22
To put this in easy terms, look at it as going to a ball game. At the end of the path going up to the stadium there is a ticket taker with 2 of those turn stiles behind him. One is so narrow you have to really struggle to get through it. The other is so large that you could go through it with a cruiseliner trunk attached to your hip where the baggage remains with you forever. Now, the ticket taker is holding a book of only those tickets purchased with great struggle & he has been commanded that only those ticket holders who purchased them with great struggle are to be allowed to go through the narrow gate. Getting through the narrow gate depends upon which ticket you purchased in the flesh, the easy one that allowed you to change the Lord's words of the gospel to conform with sins of the flesh, or the one that came with a cost(struggle) as Jesus did while He was in the flesh.
This is what the Lord is speaking through me. True faith is obedience to His laws as commanded in the Gospel which means we turn from sin of the flesh & struggle the rest of our earthly lives to truly relfect who He is because from the moment of true faith, it is He that directs our path. Our flesh becomes an example to the earthly world of His eternal life as well His life while in the flesh. Those that died before the new covenant will be judged according to the old, and all those after, according to the new. We are all sinners. But if we struggle & do not change the law of the gospel as commanded by Him and we do not conform His words to the sins of the human flesh, so as not to defile His life & works, thus bringing shame upon him instead of ourselves, we shall have eternal life.
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