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And the Lord God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?” The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.” [NKJV]

The Lord God asked the woman, “Why did you do this?” She replied, “The snake tricked me into eating it.” [GNT]

Then the Lord God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?” “The serpent deceived me,” she replied, “and I ate.” [BSB]

WOMAN, WHAT IS THIS YOU DONE?

God's question to the woman was this, "What is this you have done?" or "Why did you do this?" But the woman's reply was that she was deceived by the Serpent and she ate it. What about the part where "She gave the fruit to her husband and made him eat the forbidden fruit from her hand?" She did not say anything about that part except the part where the Serpent deceived her and she ate, without mentioning part where the Serpent used her or she used her hand to bring down her man or husband.

In the Bible verse above, God's question to the first Woman, (and to every woman), is "What is this you have done or what is this you are doing?" But hardly you find a woman that truly knows and answers this question about what evil she did or yet doing, without mentioning what another person has done or playing the victim for her to be pitied even where she's the perpetrator.

Woman, build up into taking responsibility (which is authority) for your own actions without shifting blame to another person as the cause that made you do them either in retaliation (payback), in rape/use of force, in deception or in seduction. Be the leader (author) in your own actions, not the follower (victim) in your own actions. Try to find the rationality (objectivity), not just the emotions (feelings/instincts), of what you are doing or about to do. Not that you didn't find objectivity the first time you were deceived into doing it, but that when it backfired you suddenly changed from seeing objectivity the way you saw it when you began it, and then you ran to emotional support of blaming another person for it. Though this change or swinging makes you bit secure and free from some blames, it also make you lose your leadership authority or command of headship. You become like men who make promises or decisions when the conditions are favorable, but when the conditions change their words also change and they fail their own promises showing that they should not be trusted nor entrusted with anything headship/authority for being unstable or swinging to easier/favorable sides for convenience in betrayal of trust.

Sarah was the one who gave Hagar as wife to Abraham, and later she turned back to blame Abraham for Hagar's despising her after conceiving. Sarah made a shift from the initial objectivity she saw at that decision.

The objectivity that the Woman (Eve) first saw that made her do what she did was actually the most important part of the answer she should have stood up with in answering this God's Question to a Woman, "What is this you have done?" If she had maintained her stance on the objectivity or rational that made her took those decisions of eating and making her husband eat the forbidden fruit, her actions would still be wrong but her motive would gain some weight and respect for God to still allow her headship or authority with the man. But she failed both in her actions and in her rationality/objectivity of this "what" she had done because she was emotionally driven to blame, implicate or punish the Serpent by playing the victim or follower to the Serpent, instead of playing the leader or author to the man; or both. So she gained the vengeance against the Serpent, but lost authority with the man. Yes, the Serpent became the most cursed creature because of deceiving the woman, but also because the woman was deceived according to her own answer in the verse above she was not allowed to head a family or God's church over a man there in.

[1 Timothy 2:12, 14] — "But I do not permit a woman to teach, nor to use authority over a man, but to be in quietness. … And Adam was not deceived, but the woman, having been deceived, came into transgression."

That word "Deceived" or "Lied to" was first used by a woman in the top Bible verse above, to describe or market (actually "demarked") what she had done.

Though Satan as the Serpent had been a deceiver or liar, the word used for him was "Subtle or Cunning" until the Woman introduced the use of "Deception or Deceit" in describing what the Serpent did instead of her describing what she did when God asked her.

Supposing she "marketed" this which she had done, bringing out the objectivity, rationale, intention, inspiration or motive, she had for doing what she had done, in answering God's question to her: She would have repeated the contents in 'Genesis 3:6' as her drive or objectivity, and then humbly plead for mercy of God: that would be more noble than being deceived.

[Genesis 3:6] — "And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also to her husband with her; and he did eat."

Everything in "Genesis 3:6" was true about that tree and its fruit, and though it is not enough reason to disobey God, it is far more understandable reason if that was her rationality or objectivity — she was a discoverer or she saw things that no man saw or knew about the tree; and her quest for knowledge, discernment and wisdom, for both herself and her husband, made her to eat and to give to her husband also, hoping they become wiser together: but she did not mean to rebel against God's Word for the Serpent told her God would understand if she did what she had done in the quest for becoming more like God and having the eyes of mankind opened to know good and evil. How about this as the Woman's answer to the God's Question to her, "What is this you have done?"

So the Lord God said to the serpent: “Because you have done this, you are cursed more than all cattle, and more than every beast of the field; on your belly you shall go, and you shall eat dust all the days of your life. [NKJV]

Then the Lord God told the serpent, “Because of what you've done, you are cursed more than any of the other animals. You will slide along on your belly and eat dust as long as you live. [FBV]

THE FIRST CURSE

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That would be the first thing/time "the Lord God said to the Devil," which the scriptures delivered to us on this side ever captured. The Serpent began his talk with the woman in this chapter, probing what God has said to her about eating of every tree in the Garden. We are also interested in what God said to the Serpent on that matter and every matter about a man or mankind.

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"Because you have done this" meant that for what the Serpent has done God is judging the Serpent according to his work, not according to God's feelings, nor anger, nor hatred, if any for the Serpent. It's a righteous judgment, according to the Serpent's deed (work). The Serpent was the first to be judged by God according to his work, after being the first to be praised for his wiseness or craftiness among the creatures of the field God made.

Don't forget what the Serpent had done, for which God herein judged him, was not a physical action but a "Doctrine." Because you have done this, God said to the Serpent: "Done this" implied "Taught this (Doctrine or Deception)" by which the woman was deceived into the transgression. The Serpent did not touch the woman but he taught the woman; and in his conversation with her the Serpent mentioned or used the name of "God" more times than the woman, indicating he spoke to her as a kind of a man of God or prophet. The woman only mentioned "God" once but the Serpent used the name of God twice or more times in talking with her, being very subtle in his approach to the woman.

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Until then, no curse was on earth but only Blessings of God upon His Creatures. The first curse, that entered the world in the beginning, was the curse that came upon the Serpent. The Serpent was both the first cursed thing and also the most cursed above all living Creatures of the field. And when the Lord God pronounces a person is/as cursed one, the accursed one shall depart from Him [God] and shall go into perdition or into the lake of fire and brimstone prepared for the devil and his angels.

[Matthew 25:41] — "Then He will say to those on His left, ‘Depart from Me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels."

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The curse upon the serpent was a life-sentence for his wickedness against God, against mankind, against living creatures, and against paradise on earth. The curse was a life imprisonment with hard mobility labor of moving or crawling on the serpent's belly and eating dust all the days of the serpent's life. Therefore, the curse upon the serpent is unbreakable curse, and the serpent cannot be redeemed from the curse during the days of his lifetime. When a curse is irreversible, irredeemable and unbreakable, forever, then the accursed is a son of perdition.

We may not have literally read were God blessed the serpent before but we know the serpent was blessed by being very crafty (wiser) than beasts of the field and fruitful to bear seed of the serpent; but we hereby read God cursed the serpent for the woman's sake.

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The serpent that was craftier than any beast of the field became the serpent that is cursed more than all cattle and beasts of the field, for deceiving the woman of God. It also means the Serpent himself was deceived because he did not see the curse or consequences of deceiving someone coming from God's Judgment of his deed. The serpent that was asking the woman of what God said about man's eating of every tree in the garden, and assuring her she will not surely die, (like one of these Pentecostal Pastors that decree and declare prophetically to sinners as if their own words of declarations would supersede the Word of God if they are louder), was himself ignorant of the righteous Judgment of God but only knew a part about the tree of knowledge of good and evil and the prosperity message of that tree he preached and mentored the woman into having. For what he had done to the woman (to the church), he was cursed; and reduced from being the most informed (wisest) among the living creatures of the field into becoming the most abominable and cursed creature among the living creatures.

This is the first lesson that demonstrates, "Any wisdom, knowledge or counsel, against God is either a deception or a curse, or even both."

[Proverbs 21:30] — "There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against the LORD."

[Galatians 1:8-10] — "But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel contrary to the one we preached to you, let him be under a curse! As we have said before, so now I say again: If anyone is preaching to you a gospel contrary to the one you embraced, let him be under a curse! Am I now seeking the approval of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? If I were still trying to please men, I would not be a servant of Christ."

And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her Seed; He shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise His heel.” [NKJV]

And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed. He will crush your head, and you will strike His heel. ” [BSB]

THE GOSPEL OF THE ENMITY

Though the Serpent was foremostly cursed, the Serpent was still dangerous and a potent threat because of this enmity God promised or implemented between the Serpent and the Woman.

1 The Curse was potent: it paralyzed and reduced the Serpent. Nevertheless the Curse did not touch the Serpent's head except that Serpent shall eat dust. This made the Serpent sleek but dangerous seeing the curse only arrested the belly of the Serpent and what goes into his belly, but left out the Serpent's head, tails and offspring (seed) of the Serpent.

2 The Enmity was added here: to arrest and end remaining threats and potencies the Serpent still had to cause problems and damages to the glorious creatures of God, particularly mankind.

In this top Bible verse above, God promised "Retribution" in the name of "Enmity" between the two parties, the Serpent and the Woman, which extended to their offspring (seeds). Instead of God to use the Curse only to fulfill the payback or retribution, God rather reserved some rights and privileges for the Woman and her Seed to use their own hands or will to decide what happens to the Serpent and his seed. But the Serpent too was given the privilege to also bite or inflict damages to the Woman's Seed. For though the curse made the Serpent eat dust, it did not remove the ability to bite, crush, sting, venomize, or inflict wounds with his mouth. Therefore the Serpent that shall eat dust shall also have "teeth" or "power" to bite.

Thus, the vengeance or retribution was awarded to both parties, and it appeared to be in favor of the Serpent here because there was no Seed of the fallen Woman that could have stood up and defeated or harm the Serpent's head in any battle or contest between mankind and the Serpent's head that later became 7 heads when the Serpent was seen as the great Red Dragon in "Revelation 12." But the Word or Promise of God cannot fail, though mankind have fallen or failed.

By implication, the way for the Seed of the Woman to be able to both endure the deadly Serpent's bite on His Heel and still be able to crush the Serpent's head in a battle or fight, without the interference of God or Angel, was by God raising the grace and abilities in the fallen Seed of the Woman to degrees far greater than the Serpent previously knew and had. Thus, God just got the Serpent curious to know who or which of the Woman's Seed will have such grace and power to withstand and crush the Serpent's head. But God kept the mystery of the Woman's Seed either foolish or confusing to the Serpent.

For that part of the prophecy or promise of God to be fulfilled, it means the Woman's Seed must have these four:

*4 — The Woman's Seed must come, though she be a Virgin: This means He must be the Seed of the Woman without the Man: Seed of a Virgin. This was done in the Virgin Birth of the Lord Jesus Christ.

*3 — The Woman's Seed must both inherit and sustain the enmity of the Woman which God implemented between the Woman and the Serpent: This means He must make neither friendship nor affinity with the Serpent the devil; not even being unequivocally yoked together with the enemy just as true light has no fellowship with darkness.

[James 4:4‭-‬7 NKJV] — Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, “The Spirit who dwells in us yearns jealously”? But He gives more grace. Therefore He says: “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.” Therefore submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you.‬

[Matthew 16:23 NKJV] — But He turned and said to Peter, “Get behind Me, Satan! You are an offense to Me, for you are not mindful of the things of God, but the things of men.”

*2 — The Woman's Seed must survive the Serpent's Bite or the Serpent's greatest chances of Retribution or Enmity. This means He must survive the Devil's Stealing, Killing and Death or Destruction thrown at that Seed of the Woman. This was done by and in the Resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ.

*1 — The Woman's Seed must be both worthy and able to bruise or crush the Serpent's Head, even without interference of God.

So which of the Seed of the Woman met all those criteria for guaranteeing the "Gospel of Enmity" between the Woman and the Serpent? For though God made this gospel as promise to the Serpent in awarding retribution, it was the first Gospel of redemption for mankind.

To the woman He said, I will greatly increase your sorrow and your conception. In pain you shall bear children, and your desire shall be toward your husband, and he shall rule over you. -- [Genesis 3:16]

To the woman He said, “I will greatly increase your pain from conception to labor. In pain will you give birth to children. Your desire will be toward your husband, yet he must rule over you.” [Genesis 3:16TLV]

GOSPEL IN THE PENALTY AGAINST THE WOMAN AND HER RELATIONSHIPS

God Himself said this to the Woman, and consider the severity of the statement: for in our days there are social civilizations that would consider this as inappropriate thing to say or to do to a woman. Such philosophy includes, “You don’t hit a woman, you don’t make a woman cry, you don’t disrespect a woman, you don’t put a woman to sorrow and painful labors for that’s domestic violence and abuse, you don’t force a woman to be subject to the man/husband because that’s removing women’s right against woman’s emancipation and gender equality, etc.”

To some extent I agree with them, for Adam should never say or do those things to the Woman or to his wife, Eve (the Bone of his bones and flesh of his flesh). But while a man should not say or do that, God Himself is the Judge and Lord of all, and He alone could say and do those and even more to Women both here on earth, in death and in hell fire. I tell you, before God began the punishment of the man, He began the punishment of the woman. Woman first received the wrath of God before Man did; and averagely, more women are receiving God’s judgment than the men.

I am inspired to write this to warn women who think that God is like the society where women are treated like goddesses and queens, and favored above the men. The Lord God is the Righteous Judge, and He judges both male and female, men and women, weak and strong, each person is righteously judged according to his/her deeds and roles. Woman, you are not getting away with the things you do against the man or against the Word of God; and Man, you are not getting away with the things you do against the woman or against the Word of God. God is no respecter of men, neither is God a respecter of women, in God’s righteous judgment.

So a man must never maltreat his wife nor even do what God is doing to her in the top Bible Verse above: It’s not a man’s thing to do, but God’s thing to do. Let God judge between you and your wife or your husband, not you judging your wife or your husband by your own self. Like Sarah said to Abraham her husband, “…the LORD judge between me and you.”

She said this because Abraham was gaining another woman in a way that meant robbing or defrauding the first woman, Sarah, his wife. You see she did not take the law into her hands, neither did she take Abraham to court or law enforcement agents to settle them; but she allowed the LORD to be the judge between she and her husband.

And the danger with man maltreating his wife includes, “The man’s prayers shall be blocked or hindered” and “The man’s faith is cut off and he is considered worse than infidel or worse than unbeliever” before God. Imagine Abraham that was supposed to be a great example of faith, suddenly become worse than unbeliever simply because he did not provide for his wife and family as the Lord Jesus Christ loved and nourished His Church.

-- [1 Peter 3:7 TLV] -- In the same way, husbands, live with your wives in an understanding way. Though they are weaker partners, honor them as equal heirs of the grace of life. In this way, your prayers will not be hindered.

Sarah’s was example of a wife maltreated by her husband, but she let the LORD be the judge between she and her husband without letting any other man into the secret of her husband seeing another woman  to the point that the woman he’s sleeping with is robbing or maltreating her in her own matrimony. What of example of a husband maltreated by his wife, and he did not take laws into his own hand to either fight, beat or oppress her, but he only reported her to the Lord God, who became the Judge between him and his wife? That was Adam, who reported Eve his wife to God; and God judged her in the top bible verse above.

According to Adam, “The woman (wife) You gave to be with me gave me of the forbidden tree, and I ate.” Though Adam’s fault was that he listened to his wife more than he listened to God, yet because he had reported his wife to God the Judge He must punish her as the Lord must punish the Church that is not subject to Him but feeds His people with things offered to idols (wrong doctrines) and fornication (worldliness).
To the woman He said, I will greatly increase your sorrow and your conception. In pain you shall bear children, and your desire shall be toward your husband, and he shall rule over you. -- [Genesis 3:16]
In comparing and contrasting with that which the LORD God said to the Serpent before, let me make these two points under this top bible verse above:

1 This Penalty against the Woman came without previous warning like the one that came against the Serpent. This is to imply that there was no previous “Warning” nor “Precedence” that such punishment would befall him or her for doing what they did. The only previous warning of God was against eating of the forbidden tree, with assurance of death to man if he eats of the forbidden tree. But no previous warning of God about what will befall the person who would seduce, deceive or give another person false/wrong doctrines or immorality of eating it. Therefore, neither the Serpent nor the Woman saw the Penalties coming against their giving wrong advice, wrong doctrines, misleading information or seduction of the other person. They taught the penalties or consequences would only affect the people who broke the commandment, not knowing they who taught, deceived or seduced the people shall also be dealt with more severely with unseen and unheard curse, sorrow, pains etc.

2 This Penalty against the Woman would affect her in relationship with the man like the one that came against the Serpent affected the Serpent in relationship with the woman and her Seed. The relationship between the Serpent and the Woman was turned into enmity. But between the woman and her husband, the relationship is not enmity but with complications in affinity inspite of sorrows involved in her desire for the man and for childbearing. She would have to bear pains, sorrows or sufferings, not from enemies or strangers this time, but from her own family husband and fruit bearing. Therefore, the penalty against the woman brought complications in relationships between the woman and her own body (menstruations and complications of conceptions), and between the woman and her own husband.

Nevertheless, her labor comes with reward for it; it is not laboring in vain, but laboring and bearing in gain. Gain is the fruit of the Woman’s endurance and labor, not Vain. God had to turn her sorrows into joy and gain because of us the Church and disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ yet to come. As it is written,

-- [John 16:20-22 MKJV] -- Truly, truly, I say to you that you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice. And you will be sorrowful, but your sorrow shall be turned into joy. The woman has grief when she bears, because her hour has come. But when she brings forth the child, she no longer remembers the anguish, because of the joy that a man is born into the world. And therefore you now have sorrow. But I will see you again, and your heart will rejoice, and no one will take your joy from you.

Then to Adam He said, “Because you have heeded the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree of which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat of it’: “Cursed is the ground for your sake; in toil you shall eat of it all the days of your life. [NKJV]

And He said to the man, “You listened to your wife and ate the fruit which I told you not to eat. Because of what you have done, the ground will be under a curse. You will have to work hard all your life to make it produce enough food for you. [GNT]

WHEN GOD CONVICTS SINNER THAT FEELS RIGHTEOUS

Notice that God convicted Adam or showed Adam his fault first before or while making His ruling here.

1 When God spoke with the Serpent, He did not convict the Serpent because the woman already convicted or indicted (accused rightly) the Serpent, which was adopted without argument or controversy.

2 When God spoke with the Woman, He did not convict the Woman because the Man already convicted or indicted (accused rightly) the Woman, which was adopted without argument or controversy.

3 But here as God spoke with the Man here, He first convicted the Man because no one or no conscience already convicted or indicted (accused rightly) the Man, who still felt he was blameless in the matter for he was not the actor but the pawn in the matter.

Here was God's conviction(s) to Adam: (Instead of one conviction now, it became two or more convictions because He allowed God to search him out Himself instead of him judging himself so that God would not have to judge him):

"A" — Convicted Adam of listened to his wife rather than to God.

Some think that the ears do not commit sin by hearing or listening, only the mouths are capable of committing sins: But the first sin of Adam the first human was the sin of listening or hearing to someone.

[Luke 8:18] — "Be careful therefore how you hear: for whoever has, to him shall be given; and whoever has not, from him shall be taken even that which he seems to have."

[Ecclesiastes 7:21] — "Do not pay attention to every word that is spoken, or you may hear your servant cursing you."
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"B" — Convicted Adam of eating of the tree God told him not to eat, even though Adam did not touch the tree nor pluck the fruit from the tree.

What a great conviction or indictment! Instead of one, it became double transgressions against Adam. That is, Adam figuratively ate of the forbidden tree twice, though he did it once: One he listened to his wife when the wife already ate the fruit of that tree, and became like an extension of the forbidden tree to him. So as soon as his wife already ate of the forbidden tree, she was in transgression or she was metaphorically a part of the forbidden tree, and her hand was as a Branch of the forbidden tree extending the fruit to Adam. So, Adam listening to his wife after she was initiated then was already as Adam feeding from the forbidden tree…

Well, all these may not make sense to you now, but when you experience God's power of conviction or judgment interpreting/analyzing things to you, you would be amazed how things you thought were blameless or innocent suddenly become faulty and despicable. Ask Job who thought he was righteous and blameless until God massively convicted him, and he abhorred himself and repented in dust and ashes. Even Job claimed he was not hiding his sin as Adam was hiding according to "Job 31:33."

[Psalms 19:11-14] — "Moreover by them is Your servant warned: and in keeping of them there is great reward. Who can understand his errors? Cleanse You me from secret faults. Keep back your servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me: then shall I be upright, and I shall be innocent from the great transgression. Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in Your sight, O LORD, my strength, and my redeemer."

Better judge yourself to avoid the Lord doing it Himself, and even when you judge yourself you may not see some errors in your spirit because you are relatively blind to some of your own errors or faults. Therefore, God's judgment is way better than yours, but still judge yourself and approach His judgment with humility.

[Proverbs 16:2] — "All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but the LORD weighs the spirits."

There's an "Aura" everyone carries in his/her soul-spirit being, just as every man carries unique body odor. The aura of your soul-spirit being either reveals you are "foul spirit" or you are "pure/virtuous spirit" in divers degrees. The evil and uncleanness people do are written in the aura of their spirit-soul being forever, and the purity or fruits of the Spirit people bear are also written in the aura of their spirit-soul being forever. So it's hard to endure or stay with some people no matter how rich and wealthy they are in gold and material wealth, because they have foul aura and are repulsive, though they have prosperity.
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"C" — Holding Adam responsible as the "Cause" for the "Curse" on the ground. The third way God convicted Adam was by putting blame on him or implicating Adam by holding Adam responsible for something that's about to get damaged or result from what he did in the past: It is called, "Imputing sin" on someone.

Shebi Adam think say him sabi push blame on the woman? God go teach am how to push blame.

For God cursed the ground for the sake of Adam: and then almost every man blamed Adam for the death and sufferings and for losing the first paradise, and even the ground blamed Adam for the curse on it, and so the ground rebelled against yielding easily to Adam's efforts. Infact, in the New Testament, Paul blamed Adam couple of times, saying, "My one man's transgression, many were made sinners" or "In Adam, all men died." Etc.

Remember, Adam began blaming the Woman and the Lord who gave her to be with him for giving him the fruit: and Adam was feeling blameless. Now, God imputed blame implicating, indicting Adam as the cause or the reason for the fall of mankind and the ground for his sake, all the days of his life before he died. But thank God for the Lord Jesus Christ, who took away the sins of Adam and the sins of all men upon Himself and died to end sins.

Both thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you, and you shall eat the herb of the field. [NKJV]

It will produce weeds and thorns, and you will have to eat wild plants. [GNT]

Both thorns and thistles it will yield for you, and you will eat the plants of the field. [BSB]

REAPING WHERE ONE DID NOT SOW

In principle of God's Judgment, "What a man sows, he'll reap." But in the Bible verse above, Adam would be reaping the thorns and thistles he did not sow and eating the herbs he did not plant.

[Matthew 25:24] — "Then he which had received the one talent came and said, Lord, I knew You that You are an hard Man, reaping where You have not sown, and gathering where You have not strewed:"

This could mean a blessing or curse, a Garden of Eden or desert. Adam experienced it (reaping where he did not sow) both as a blessing and later as a curse, both as a Garden of Eden and later as a desert. In the top Bible verse above, God was reversing it from being a blessing to becoming a curse, from a Garden of Eden (blessed ground) where the ground produced trees for Adam and he ate fruits to a cursed ground where the ground produced thorns and thistles for Adam and he ate herbs instead of fruits.

[Hebrews 6:7-8 BSB'19] — "For land that drinks in the rain often falling on it and that produces a crop useful to those for whom it is tended receives the blessing of God. But land that produces thorns and thistles is worthless, and its curse is imminent. In the end it will be burned."

The ground that was cursed for Adam's sake would still have the Fertility or productive capacity to yield or bear thorns, thistles, wild plants or wild herbs and even poisonous plants, etc., but would not easily yield the fruits of what Adam would sow in it. This means, when God cursed the ground for Adam's sake, the curse did not disable the ground's productive strength; instead the ground also produced offspring and harvests for the curse, for the curse of the ground for Adam's sake became seed sown.

So that curse was not just destructive, but reproductive and multiplicative, having abilities to grow descendants or offspring. The curse is like the tares the enemy planted in the field, while the ground is like the field: and the Lord said, "Let them grow together with the good plants until the harvest…" So the same fertility and strength the ground assigns to the good plants, it also assigns to the evil or cursed plants. Whatever gets sown is entitled to getting reaped or growths.

Be not deceived, "Whatever a man sows, that shall he also reap." [Galatians 6:7]. But Adam did not sow the curse nor the thorns/thistles, yet even those things he did not sowed he would reap together with eating herbs he did not sow. That's because the curse that sowed those things in the ground is "Curse for Adam's sake." He did not sow the "Curse," but sowed the "Cause for the Curse" which is same as sowing the Curse.

[Jeremiah 12:10, 13] — "Many Pastors have destroyed My vineyard, they have trodden My portion under foot, they have made My pleasant portion a desolate wilderness. … They have sown wheat, but shall reap thorns: they have put themselves to pain, but shall not profit: and they shall be ashamed of your revenues because of the fierce anger of the LORD."

Causing the anger of the Lord to come is a way of reaping thorns (curse) which you did not sow. Let it not be for your sake or your cause why God's fierce and destructive anger is sown as curse or plague on earth.

Please add Mosquitoes and other sting-piercing insects to the list of thorns and thistles mankind are experiencing, after all Mosquitoes and stinging insects/animals have their stingers as thorns, thistles or needed syringes that takes away good blood from people and animals, and inject parasites/diseases into them instead. Therefore, Mosquitoes and stinging animals are injections and thorns but are evil injections because they are not injecting herbs (medicines) into people as thorns/thistles, but injecting sicknesses and parasite

In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for dust you are, and to dust you shall return.” [NKJV]

You will have to work hard and sweat to make the soil produce anything, until you go back to the soil from which you were formed. You were made from soil, and you will become soil again.” [GNT]

By the sweat of your brow you will eat your bread, until you return to the ground— because out of it were you taken. For dust you are, and to dust you shall return.” [BSB]

 

Under the curse, man's face had to produce sweat before the ground would produce food for the man, and yet both the food and the man shall return to the ground from they were taken from. Basically, the tree of knowledge of good and evil told man they were naked, but God told man they were dust: Adam neither knew he was naked nor knew he was dust before the serpent got into the woman.

These are vanity to man:

● ▪Man had to sweat to eat food, and then had to eat food to sweat again, etc.

● ▪Man was taken out of dust to struggle all the days of his life, only to return to the dust again from where he's taken.

● ▪The ground was cursed for man's sake, and yet the man shall return to the ground that was cursed for man's sake; implying the man shall again be partaker of the cursed ground.

Nevertheless, the death was the end of the curse and suffering on the surface of the earth to the man, and door to new beginning or world to man. God, who made the man a living soul also, forms the spirit of man within the man. The man who returns to dust of the ground may still be retaken and reformed from the dust of the ground above being a living soul to be a living spirit.

Take up this Assignment:
[1 Corinthians 15:20-22] — "But now Christ has come back from the dead. He is the very first person of those who have died to come back to life. Since a man brought death, a man also brought life back from death. As everyone dies because of Adam, so also everyone will be made alive because of Christ."

THE ROOT OF THE VANITIES AND THE GOSPEL OF LIFE
The “Vanities of life” have these 6 points to say from the top bible verse above:
●▪ Under the curse, man's face had to produce sweat before the ground would produce food for the man, and yet both the food and the man shall return to the ground from they were taken from.

●▪ Basically, the tree of knowledge of good and evil told man he was naked, but it was God who told man he was dust: Adam neither knew he was naked nor knew he was dust before the serpent got through the woman. The One who told the man he was dust told him more truth but also did him more damage by that truth and revelation than the one who told the man he was naked: For by telling the man he was naked, it only shortened his glory; while by telling the man he was dust, it shortened his life and death arose.

These are vanity to man:

●▪ By sweat of his face, the man shall eat bread; but because no amount of sweat of his face would guarantee him the right to eat of the tree of life, the man will still return to the dust in death and mortality at the end of his days no matter how much he had eaten: For it’s not in how much food eaten, but in how much days (time) left.

●▪Man had to sweat to eat food, and then had to eat food to sweat again, etc.

●▪Man was taken out of dust to struggle all the days of his life, only to return to the dust again from where he's taken.

●▪The ground was cursed for man's sake, and yet the man shall return to the ground that was cursed for man's sake; implying the man shall again be partaker of the cursed ground. 

The “Gospel of life” have these 3 points to say from the top bible verse above:

a The “Gospel of the Returning of Man:” There is a “Returning” which means a “Restoration.” Return is better than U-turn: for Return means “Restoration” while U-turn means “Repentance.”

b The “Gospel of the Returning of Man:” The man was to return to the ground where he was taken from, but did you know He or what made the man to be taken from there the first place would still be there to take the man again from there the second time? That urge, that strong desire or that Person who delighted to take the man from the dust would even come down stronger and go into that dust to take the man again from the dust in what is called Resurrection from the dead. There shall be a “Re-Taking of the man again from the dust/death, after the man is returned to the dust where he was taken from the first time. As it is written,

[Isaiah 26:19 TS2009] - Let your dead live, together with My Dead Body, let them arise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in dust; for your dew is a dew of light, and let the earth give birth to the departed spirits.

Again, it is written,

[1 Corinthians 15:20-22] — "But now Christ has come back from the dead. He is the very first Person of those who have died to come back to life. Since a man brought death, a Man also brought life back from death. As everyone dies because of Adam, so also everyone will be made alive because of Christ."

c The “Gospel of the Son of God better than the Tree of life:” The man was prevented from reaching and eating of the tree of life so that this Word of God about his returning to dust in the top bible verse above would be fulfilled; but in returning to dust Something and Someone greater than the tree of life, giving eternal life better than the tree of life, came to him in dust to take him from the dust forever and give him the eternal life he could not access by the tree of life. This is called, “Salvation of Adam.”

This is even better and easier, for he did not have to struggle to reach the tree of life and then to get its fruit, so that coming to where the tree of life stands would be necessary; rather he can now have or receive everlasting life by faith wherever he is and no matter the distance apart, just by believing in the Son of God, Jesus Christ. As it is written,

[John 3:16 MKJV] - For God so loved the world that He gave His only-begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.

And Adam called his wife’s name Eve, because she was the mother of all living. — [NKJV]

And the man called his wife’s name “Awwah,” because she became the mother of all living. -- [TS2009]

See why no miscarriage, no abortion, no stillbirth, no barrenness, could succeed in this Woman's Womb…

EVE – MOTHER OF ALL LIVING

She had not yet become pregnant with a child neither had any man known (had sex with) her when she became “Eve” the Mother of all living. It’s not by her children nor by sexual intercourse as in by flesh or carnal children, but by spiritual or children of promise or by the Word of God and the Seed of the Woman, the Lord of Glory. It’s like how a virgin, Mary, who had not known (had sex with) man being a virgin was the blessed among women because of the fruit of her womb, who was the Lord of glory. Sarah too was a mother of spiritual children and mother in superior capacity, being called, “Sarah” which meant, “Mother of many nations and kings” even when she had no single child and had been barren.

If you became a mother only by your physical and carnal children of the flesh, you are a mother after the flesh. But being a Spiritual Mother is as being like the Heavenly City of Jerusalem in heaven above. As it is written,

[Galatians 4:26-29] - But the Jerusalem above is free—she is our Mother. For it is written: “Rejoice, O barren woman who bears no children. Break forth and shout, you who suffer no labor pains. For more are the children of the desolate than of the one who has a husband.” Now you, brothers and sisters—like Isaac, you are children of promise. But just as at that time the one born according to the flesh persecuted the one born according to the Spirit, so it is now.

Behold the wisdom of God that defeated that of the Serpent pertaining the woman. Certain things about the woman were kept hidden and secret before the fall of man, but were revealed after the fall of man; and if the devil had known them he would not have deceived the woman in the way he did but would have used another method. It’s as it happened in mysteries of Christ, which if the devil knew he would not have crucified the Lord of Glory.

It’s all in the mystery of “the Motherhood and the Seed of the Woman” – the Lord of Glory. Not even Adam knew those mysteries about the Woman until God began to declare them after the Serpent was cursed for her sake.

Before then, all Adam knew about her were in connection with her being a Woman or a Wife for she was taken out of him. Those were the things that point to her failure, but she became transformed by the grace of God and another hidden calling and grace of God in her emerged after her most terrible mistake.

The woman’s story was not just the first story of a man who fell into transgression and sin, but also the first story of a transformed man who received grace through the Lord Jesus Christ. Yes, Adam and Eve first received the Lord Jesus Christ before any other man/woman on earth ever received the Lord Jesus Christ. The Woman became Eve, meaning the Woman became the mother of all living. I have seen a woman I used to know as a harlot, became so transformed by the grace of God into becoming a sister in the Lord Jesus Christ and a mother of her children: and I was ashamed of having written her off when she was a harlot or sinner.

Adam became a living soul when God breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, but Eve became the mother of all living when God declared the destiny and calling of her Seed, who would give life to all the living, and declared her bringing forth children of her womb even though it was to be in sorrow and pains.

After the woman gave the man the forbidden fruit, the man still gave the woman the name Eve. What had happened only prevented them from bringing all of us into everlasting life before death, but did not prevent them from bringing all of us into living.

That name, Eve or Awwah (Hauwa, or Evah) means “Life-giver.” It's not only the tree of life that had life to its name, for Eve now had life to her name as a life giver also though not as the tree of life gives. Adam gave her the new name, Eve and held her tighter to him as his wife in the top bible verse above, against divorcing her or still accusing her for the forbidden fruit she ate and brought into their family. This meant Adam shifted from looking at her “Past” into looking at her “Future;” from looking at where she was taken from and what she took with her and brought to their family (her transgression) into now looking at her future and those who shall come out of her, (including the Lord Jesus Christ and us who came out of her) as a new source of hope and redemption for the fallen man.

Again, I repeat: The name "Eve" means "Living" or "Enlivening." Adam gave her that name, Eve, because she was the mother of all the living, not the mother of the dead. Before they would die, many shall become living through them. She might not be the mother of all the seeds, but she's the mother of all the living even before she conceived any child of her womb. Multiplying her sorrow, pangs and travails of conception, to childbearing was not meant to keep her from being the mother of all the living, but to keep her from wasting the living.

As for her, it's no longer about being a woman because she was taken out of the man, but now about being Eve because the living children shall be taken out of her. Though she had giving her husband a fruit of death, the fruit of her womb is not the fruit of the dead but the fruit of the living. It was not possible for the womb of Eve to bear any dead person, or stillbirth or miscarriage or aborted child, no matter the sorrow in her child bearing. She’s the mother of all living, and she never aborted or killed any living. No seed of Adam was wasted in her, and no living died inside her. That’s a true “Mother of all Living.”

Declare that you yourself or your wife will be mother of the living, not mother of the dead; that none of your children shall be born dead, nor still birth, nor miscarriage, nor abortion of the living, from your womb or your wife's womb; and that even if anyone of your child dies prematurely he/she shall continue to live and his/her blood shall keep speaking just as though Abel was dead and yet he lived on and his blood kept speaking, for the mother of Abel (Eve) was the mother of the living. The forbidden fruit of death in her part could not make her mother of the dead, but grace made her mother of the living.

Also for Adam and his wife the Lord God made tunics of skin, and clothed them. [NKJV]

And the Lord God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife, and He clothed them. [BSB]

GOD PROVIDED AND CLOTHED THEM

In this Bible verse above, God did two things for the man and his wife:

1 God made for them garments or coats of skins;

2 God clothed them with the garments He made for them.

The two deeds may be very related or supposedly seen as one act, but there's difference between God providing your clothes and God Himself clothing you with them. There's greater honor and fashion in God clothing you and your wife/husband Himself, more than God providing the clothes for you to clothe yourself. It's like a promotional ceremony of military officer, wherein a superior dresses the man who's receiving the promotion or higher rank.

Some said God would not do for you what He has empowered you with ability to do yourself or do for yourself: but I do not fully agree with that.

Infact, there are things God gave you ability to do yourself or for yourself, which you should not still do yourself or for yourself but seek/wait for God to do them for you no matter how much power and ability you have to do them for yourself. One of those things is "Exalting yourself," another is trying to save your own life against lose it for the Savior Jesus Christ. It's not in whether you would successfully do them yourself and for yourself but in the reality that unless the Lord builds a city those who build labor but in vain. Adam and Eve fell because they were deceived into trying to do for themselves the knowledge of good and evil or becoming as the gods, against waiting for the Lord to make them and make for them what they needed or desired.

Nevertheless, I am not sure Adam and Eve could make for themselves garments of skins at that stage, neither am I sure they could put on the garments God made for them by themselves without God's help. Let us yearn for this from God above all our homes on earth — To be clothed by God Himself with garments of immortality, rather than with garments of skins as Adam and Eve were in the Bible verse above. To be clothed with garments of skins makes people susceptible to things that penetrate animal skins as the animals; but to be clothed with immortality makes people become immortal or be like the angels of Elohim rather than the animals under skins.

[2 Corinthians 5:3-5] — "If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked. For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed on, that mortality might be swallowed up of life. Now He that has worked us for the selfsame thing is God, who also has given to us the earnest of the Spirit."

Here are the two basic points in this commentary:

1*1 — Seek God to clothe you with immortality or eternal light above God clothing you with skin or flesh.

2*2 — Seek God to minister to you above God providing for you. He's not just "Jehovah Jireh" but also the Minister.

In the spiritual realms, providing is different from ministering; and somehow, more honor is given to the people who minister above the people who provide. It is not, "I was naked you provided clothes for Me (as a provider);" but this, "I was naked you clothed Me (as a minister)." It is not, "I was hungry you provided food for Me (as a provider);" but this, "I was hungry you fed me (as a minister)." It is not, "I was thirsty you provided water for Me (as a provider);" but this, "I was thirsty you gave Me drink (not just gave Me water, but gave Me drink of water or any drink as a minister)." It is this, "I was sick, in prison, etc., and "you ministered to Me" not "you provided for Me."

You must differentiate between "Ministering to the saints" and "Providing for the saints." God made for them garments of skins (Provided for them), and God clothed them (Ministered to them). Pastors and Teachers are to feed the Flock/Sheep, not just to provide food for them. It's not enough for the parents to provide the food for the baby, but they have to feed the baby the baby because the baby may not be able to feed on the food provided. Imagine God called me to be a teacher of His Word, and at the end of my assignment I stand before Him and in giving account of my ministry I tell God that I bought and shared thousands of Bible and Christian Books to people who could read, instead of feeding them I provided them with the food packages for them to feed themselves. Is that actually an "Account of my Ministry?" Is that not instead an "Account of my Goodworks or my Charity/Generosity?" Ministry is different from Charity works or Goodworks: Your Ministry is your Services, not your Provisions or Offerings. I am not just giving you foodstuffs, I am feeding you.

There churches that celebrate those who give fatter offerings and Provisions above those who minister in songs, minister in serving the table, serving food, servicing the church, sweeping and cleaning the church, church workers etc. But in the kingdom of God, those providing services (ministering) to the saints are giving greater honor than those who sit and receive the services but only give the greatest offerings, provisions, donations, etc.

Then the Lord God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of Us, to know good and evil. And now, lest he put out his hand and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever”— [NKJV]
 

Then the Lord God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of Us, knowing good and evil. And now, lest he reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life, and eat, and live forever...” [BSB]
 

Here you will understand that the program and dealing of God with mankind was changed, and the reason is clear. God had to change how he was relating or dealing with mankind because mankind had become unworthy of God’s first program and dealing with them by two reasons, one is breaking God’s commandment or covenant and two is knowing good and evil.
 

Keywords:

• Word of Knowledge
• Becoming as God(s) – may be good or evil
• How is that a fall when it is becoming as God?
• His hand – Not by hand, to live forever (immortality)
• Knowledge gained him God’s acknowledgement but took from him God’s trust
   

In the bible verse above, “The Lord God said…” and that which the Lord God said was the last word God said or spoken both in this chapter and in the bible’s account of Adam being in the paradise of Eden before the eventual fall of man out of Eden. And actually, in this word is the basic reason mankind was cast out of heaven (the first heaven or Eden); and therefore, the fall of man.
 

This Word of God in the Bible verse above was a “Word of Knowledge” that preempted the “Knowledge of good and evil” in mankind. Before the knowledge of good and evil could conceive in man the idea of eating of the tree of life and living forever, the “Word of Knowledge” or “Foreknowledge” of God said or revealed it to the Godhead. Before any knowledge reveals any thought/idea to you or to any man, the Word of Knowledge (Foreknowledge) would have revealed it to God already. This means, there is a preemptive or foreknowledge that predicts or foretell to God what every other knowledge would reveal to man. Example, in “Ezekiel 38:10” God revealed ideas or thought that will come into people’s mind beforehand.
 

O LORD, you have examined me, and you know me. You alone know when I sit down and when I get up. You read my thoughts from far away. You watch me when I travel and when I rest. You are familiar with all my ways. Even before there is a single word on my tongue, you know all about it, LORD. You are all around me—in front of me and in back of me. You lay Your Hand on me. Such knowledge is beyond my grasp. It is so high I cannot reach it. Where can I go to get away from Your Spirit? Where can I run to get away from You? If I go up to heaven, You are there. If I make my bed in hell, You are there. If I climb upward on the rays of the morning sun or land on the most distant shore of the sea where the sun sets, even there Your Hand would guide me and Your Right Hand would hold on to me. If I say, “Let the darkness hide me and let the light around me turn into night,” even the darkness is not too dark for You. Night is as bright as day. Darkness and light are the same to You? -- [Psalms 139:1-12 GW]
 

Back to the top bible verse above, where we see man becoming as God(s) but not sure whether that’s good or evil for the man. A question arose thus, “How is that a fall when it is becoming as God?”
 

Why do we say “The Fall of Adam” or “Fall of Man” if God admitted the man became as one of the Godhead? Shouldn’t that be celebrated as man’s achievement rather than mourning over that as man’s fall?
 

Becoming as God without God means a great fall. If you successfully become as God without God Himself making you as God, you are fallen. The fall of mankind and the fall of Lucifer were both linked to becoming as God without God’s doing or approving that. As it is written,
 

How are you fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! How are you cut down to the ground, who didst weaken the nations! For you have said in your heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High. Yet you shall be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit. - [Isaiah 14:12-15]
 

Even Lucifer attempted being like the most high, but without the Most High approving it with grace. The antichrist too would become as God without God approving it with grace, and that would become his great fall into perdition. As it is written,
 

Who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sits in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God. - [2 Thessalonians 2:4 KJV]
 

Again,
 

Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyrus, Thus said the Lord GOD; Because your heart is lifted up, and you have said, I am a God, I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas; yet you are a man, and not God, though you set your heart as the heart of God: - [Ezekiel 28:2 KJV]
 

So the first mistake already made was Adam becoming as God (in knowledge of good and evil) without God approving that with grace. But the second mistake must be prevented, which would be “Adam becoming immortal” by his own hand (without God approving that with grace).
 

His hand – Not by hand, to live forever (immortality). In the top bible verse, the bible versions I cited mentioned something the man’s hand must not be allowed to do for the man to live forever. Some other bible versions did not mention hand, but hand of man was key in understanding the point here.
 

• It was by the hand of man that they became as God in knowing good and evil. It was not by the hand of the serpent or any angel, but by the hand of the woman, which also means by the hand of man.
   
• It must not be by the hand of the man for them to become immortal or live forever through reaching out his hand and taking from the tree of life.
   

Eternal life or immortality for man must be by God, not by man’s hands. You must be saved by grace through faith, not by your works, lest any man should boast (Ephesians 2:8-9). God does not want the tree of life to be what gives man eternal life; but wants man to have eternal life through Him (the Lord Jesus Christ) before man eats of the tree of life. So by the time we eat of the tree of life, we would have already gotten eternal life or already living forever before the tree of life becomes just icing of the cake.
 

Eternal life is inside the Son of God, the Lord Jesus Christ. It is not inside heaven for you to have it, neither is eternal life kept for you on a tree for you to go and get it there: Eternal life is kept for you inside God the Lord Jesus Christ for you to believe and abide in Him and He gives you eternal life for you to live forever through His Resurrection from the dead and endless life.
 

Behold, the man gained the Knowledge of good and evil and gained God’s acknowledgement but lost God’s trust. It’s like a boy-child who was getting the privilege of bathing among naked bathing women and ladies when he was without knowledge or ignorance as a little child; but as soon as the boy gained knowledge and aware of certain things, he gained some acknowledgment but lost trust or privilege of such exposures.

therefore the Lord God sent him out of the garden of Eden to till the ground from which he was taken. [NKJV]
 

So the Lord God sent them out of the Garden of Eden and made them cultivate the soil from which they had been formed. [GNT]
 

Therefore the Lord God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken. [BSB]
 

DISTRACTED BY OCCUPATIONS
 

In this Bible verse, even though the main reason God was casting mankind out of the Garden (heaven) was to keep mankind from stretching out their hand and eating of the tree of life and thereby living forever by their own innovation or handwork, God wisely made it appear to mankind that it was for the purpose of tilling the ground or doing an earthly project (distracting them from setting their mind on spiritual, heavenly and eternal things, because they were occupied with goals, purposes and activities of earthly things - tilling the ground).
 

God began doing this to mankind, making them to focus and occupied on earthly or worldly things, neglecting the spiritual, heavenly and eternal things: thereby, God hides the most important purposes and secrets of eternal life from mankind, while they are busy chasing after vanities (tilling the ground they were taken from, but never able to take anything out of this world).
 

When God was banishing the man from the paradise of God, He made the banishment appear like He was drafting or sending the man to perform a course, a work or assignment somewhere else. Adam was the to be sent out by God from heaven (paradise/garden) to the ground to fulfill his husbandry purpose on the earth's ground. As it is written,
 

[Ecclesiastes 3:9-11] — "What do working people gain from their hard labor? I have seen the burden that God has laid on men to occupy them. It is beautiful how God has done everything at the right time. He has put the world in people’s minds so that mortals will not know what God is doing from the beginning to the end of time."
 

However, the Lord Jesus Christ sets His Disciples free from the bondage of living for earthly or worldly things, neglecting the spiritual, heavenly, needful and the eternal things. He instructed His disciples, seek first the Kingdom of God, and do not lay up treasure on earth but in heaven. Set your mind on things that are above in the heavens where Christ is sitted at God's Right Hand; not the carnality and distraction of earthly things.
 

Though the Book of Adam and Eve show us that Adam and Eve struggled to regain the Garden heaven instead of getting occupied with earthly things (tilling the ground), the Bible verse above painted the picture of God sending or casting them out but giving them a purpose or assignment for the ground just to occupy them.
 

If you are wise, you will set your mind and heart more on heavenly, needful, spiritual and eternal things, than your occupations, career, family, business, school, marriages, eating and drinking, and earthly things generally. Do not waste your lifetime, there's eternity after this life.
 

●    ▪The mission for which God sent Adam out of the first heaven to do on the ground was to keep him far away from the tree of life in the heaven or garden.
 

●    ▪The mission for which God sent Adam out of the first heaven to do on ground was to make him serve his sentence or penalties as suffering for his sin.
 

●    ▪The mission for which God sent Adam out of the first heaven to do on ground was to occupy Adam until he dies.

 

●    ▪The mission for which God sent Adam out of the first heaven to do on ground was a restitution to the ground, returning Adam back to the ground he was taken from,  as God returned the woman back to the man she was taken from.
 

●    ▪Basically the mission for which God sent Adam out of the first heaven to do on ground was to place Adam in position where all that God said to them would be fulfilled upon them.
 

Nevertheless, the banishment or mission ends when Adam is dead and then, Adam would be returning to the third heaven and to access the tree of life through the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

So He drove out the man; and He placed cherubim at the east of the Garden of Eden, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to guard the way to the tree of life. [NKJV]

So He drove out the man and stationed cherubim on the east side of the Garden of Eden, along with a whirling sword of flame to guard the way to the tree of life. [BSB]

"MAN WAS BANISHED, BUT NOT BANNED, FROM HEAVEN"

In this bible verse above, God drove mankind out of the Garden [banished but not banned], then placed Cherubim at the East of the Garden [meaning mankind was driving out from the West of the Garden], and also set up special kind of “Laser Beam” or “Cutting Light” called “Flaming Sword” that turns all direction to guard the Way to the Tree of life. 

Notice, 

• A. The purpose was not to guard the Tree of life, but to guard the Way to the Tree of life, making the Way harder.
• B. The Flaming Sword – “Fire+Sword” was neither cutting nor burning any of the trees of the Garden, yet turned all directions.
• C. The Cherub was not placed by the Tree of Life, but by the East Side of the Garden: Even the Cherub was not get to the Tree of Life himself, but he guarded the way to it.

Now understand, it appeared sending the man out of the garden's heaven did not get the man out, and so God rather drove the man out of the garden's heaven. God banished man from the garden containing the tree of life, and still placed His cherubim and flaming sword to guard the way to the tree of life. It was not the devil that took those measures to deny mankind access to the tree of life, but God did so. In life, the devil does not care the Way you get things for yourself; but God cares and judges the way. In that case, the road map to gaining life (tree of life) became the road to getting killed or way to die for the life so desired. Man had to give up his life to gain the greater life (everlasting life) the tree of life offers. Any man who must get to the tree of life then must be killed either by the cherubim or the flaming sword. This is similar to the road map the Lord Jesus revealed to us, saying, 

[John 12:24-25] — "Truly, truly, I say to you, Unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it abides alone; but if it dies, it brings forth much fruit. He who loves his life shall lose it. And he who hates his life in this world shall keep it to life eternal."

God drove the man out but He did not keep the man out. The cherubim and flaming sword were brought to keep/guard the way to the tree of life, but not to close or shutdown the way. It was to make the way to the tree of life harder, but not impossible, to the man from whence the man could just put forth his hand to take of the tree of life to where the man must now put forth his heart and his life for same access to the tree of life. Just as God was not blocking the man from eating food but made it harder for him (so that man had to sweat before he finds his food from the ground), so also God wanted the man to go through the losing of his life to find the eternal life such as is in the tree of life. This is about faith and value, not about rejection. 

God drove the man out of the garden but brought cherubim and flaming sword into the garden to guard the way to the tree of life. In that realm, the way is the same as the door or gate. Having access through a way means having access through a door or gate. Supernatural Security Forces took over man's work in the first heaven or garden of God as soon as the man was driven or cast out.

Nevertheless, mankind now have a new and living Way, and a new and living Door, to access the tree of life; not just in that garden anymore where man was driven away from, but in a new and far better paradise and new City that is eternal through the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. This new Way or Door to eternal life is not a way that cherubim or supernatural security forces need to guard or keep; but the Way or Door that keeps cherubim and keeps everything in the New Heaven and New Paradise. The Lord Himself is the Way and the Door, and He is the Son of man.

Take up this Assignment:

[Revelation 22:14-‬15]—Blessed are those who do His commandments, that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter through the gates into the city. But outside are dogs and sorcerers and sexually immoral and murderers and idolaters, and whoever loves and practices a lie.

[Luke 13:25-30] — "And once the Master of the house has risen up and has shut the door, and you begin to stand outside and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us, and He shall answer and say to you, I do not know you; from where are you; then you shall begin to say, We ate and drank in Your presence, and You have taught in our streets. But He shall say, I tell you, I do not know you; from where you are. Depart from Me, all workers of unrighteousness! There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth when you will see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, and all the prophets, in the kingdom of God, and yourselves being thrust out. And they will come from the east and the west, and from the north and the south, and will recline in the kingdom of God. And behold, there are last ones which will be first, and there are first ones which will be last."