1 ADAM+EVE 2 - {The First Book of Adam and Eve}

Theme of Chapter 2: — Adam and Eve faint upon leaving the Garden. God sends His word to encourage them.

№ 1. BUT when our father Adam, and Eve, went out of the garden, they trod the ground on their feet, not knowing they were treading.

№ 2. And when they came to the opening of the gate of the garden, and saw the broad earth spread before them, covered with stones large and small, and with sand, they feared and trembled, and fell on their faces, from the fear that came upon them; and they were as dead.

№ 3. Because--whereas they had hitherto been in the garden-land, beautifully planted with all manner of trees--they now saw themselves, in a strange land, which they knew not, and had never seen.

№ 4. And because at that time they were filled with the grace of a bright nature, and they had not hearts turned towards earthly things.

№ 5. Therefore had God pity on them; and when He saw them fallen before the gate of the garden, He sent His Word unto father Adam and Eve, and raised them from their fallen state.

[1 Adam+Eve 2:1] — BUT when our father Adam, and Eve, went out of the garden, they trod the ground on their feet, not knowing they were treading.

That was the first time Adam and his wife had their feet tread on the natural ground from whence Adam was taken from. The ground of the Garden of Eden was not like the ground where Adam was formed. The ground of the Garden of Eden was supernatural, heavenly or enchanted, ground; but the natural ground of dust where Adam taken from was the ground God cursed because of Adam's sin, which was to breed thorns, thistles, sufferings and death to mankind.

Therefore, as soon as Adam and Eve went out of the garden, being driven away, they stepped into another ground they had not walked before and they lost the glorious ground of the Garden (Paradise) of God. Mankind fell.

[1 Adam+Eve 2:2] — And when they came to the opening of the gate of the garden, and saw the broad earth spread before them, covered with stones large and small, and with sand, they feared and trembled, and fell on their faces, from the fear that came upon them; and they were as dead.

As a man would be shocked and overwhelmed by fearfulness, pain and regrets, as soon as he crosses the realm of earthly living into the gates of death and hell, which he had never seen or experienced before in his entire past lifetime on earth: Adam and Eve behold some degree fear, shock and lost, as soon as they beheld their imminent exit from their first world into the world of mortality, corruption and realm of sorrows/sweating/labor/pains.

How they saw those inglorious stones by then is like how we see thorns and thistles. As soon as they saw this earth which we are already used to, they fainted or fell as dead out of overwhelming shock, trembling and fears of being cast away into that ground.

[1 Adam+Eve 2:3] — Because--whereas they had hitherto been in the garden-land, beautifully planted with all manner of trees--they now saw themselves, in a strange land, which they knew not, and had never seen.

Adam and Eve were used to being in paradise, as angels were used to being in heaven. The heavenly land there is very different from the earthly lands here, even when that land was on earth.

And the Lord planted a garden in the eastern part of Eden, and He placed the man whom He formed inside the garden He planted. And He made every kind of tree, that gives pleasures to the eye and goodness of food, to grow out of the ground within the garden. Among the trees were the Tree of lite and the Tree of Knowledge of good and evil in the middle of the garden. Then a fountain spring of water began to issue from an underground rock in Eden, streaming to water the garden. The root of the river kept watering the garden but the river's offspring after watering the garden became four heads of rivers. The trees were beautiful and they reflected lights to the garden even at night. The trees imparted pleasures through the eyes.

The trees also supplied food of fruits that were good, so that there was no need for eating herbs or vegetable for drugs because all nutrients and vitamins for nourishment were in the fruits of the trees. And none of the trees had any thorn or thistle on it. Neither was there any of the trees in the garden without any fruit at anytime of the year, for waters and weathers of the garden ensured unceasing fruit|bearing at all times. Nothing like any leaf withering, but all remained fresh with vitality.

The ground of the garden did not need tilling or cultivation before any plant there would germinate. The Lord already planted the garden, and so there was no need for sowing seeds in the garden again, but just to make what was already planted to grow, cared for and kept. Neither did any man needed to water the garden, for flowing spring did water it from the ground-bottom up. The roots, branches, leaves and fruits of the various trees did not compete for soil nutrients or water, but they competed with themselves for attention and attraction. Almost all creatures and treasures of the garden competed for attention through attraction and wonders.

At the fall of mankind, their lots were among the hard and strange lands, intended to become their graves when they die and return to dust.

[1 Adam+Eve 2:4] — And because at that time they were filled with the grace of a bright nature, and they had not hearts turned towards earthly things.

The reason it was more difficult and more painful for Adam and Eve to walk or dwell on this earth as we do easily now was because by then Adam and Eve still had spiritual bodies, not this natural/mortal bodies or flesh we have or they later had to adapt to this earthy ground. Examples:

— By then, Adam and Eve had bodies that do not defecate or urinate, and the structures of their nature do not hunger for food and had no digestive system as corrupted nature of mankind now have.

— By then, Adam and Eve had bodies that do not even know what sexual intercourse was, nor had desires for carnal feelings, that are now part of corrupted or fallen human nature.

— In nutshell, the bodies of Adam and Eve were not yet altered into "Basic Animalistic Instincts" such as hunger for food, lusts, sexual drives, digestive, excretory, perspiratory, etc systems, that is now common with human bodies now.

Adam and Eve were not yet like animals in instincts or feelings, or in carnal flesh that is corruptible. So Adam and Eve were yet in their spiritual and higher bodies like angels, and for that reason their hearts or minds were not fixed on earthly things, carnal, mundane or earthly desires, which have now filled human philosophies, desires and occupied human affections/feelings or attachment to earthly things.

While that higher nature of mankind was better and brighter nature for them, and required for them to dwell and adapt in heaven or Garden of Eden, that higher nature made it difficult for them to adapt being on earth and cast away from heaven or Garden of Eden because they had no heart for earthly things in that nature.

[1 Adam+Eve 2:5] — Therefore had God pity on them; and when He saw them fallen before the gate of the garden, He sent His Word unto father Adam and Eve, and raised them from their fallen state.

God began to pity for mankind, even mankind was yet to fully become mortal flesh and dust. As it written,

[Psalms 103:13‭-‬17 NKJV]

As a father pities his children, So the Lord pities those who fear Him. For He knows our frame; He remembers that we are dust. As for man, his days are like grass; As a flower of the field, so he flourishes. For the wind passes over it, and it is gone, And its place remembers it no more. But the mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting On those who fear Him, And His righteousness to children’s children,