1 ADAM+EVE 4 - {The First Book of Adam and Eve 4}

Theme of Chapter 4: —

ADAM LAMENTS THE CHANGED CONDITIONS. ADAM AND EVE ENTER THE CAVE OF TREASURES.

№ 1. BUT Adam and Eve wept for having come out of the garden, their first abode.

№ 2. And, indeed, when Adam looked at his flesh, that was altered, he wept bitterly, he and Eve, over what they had done. And they walked and went gently down into the Cave of Treasures.

№ 3. And as they came to it Adam wept over himself and said to Eve, "Look at this cave that is to be our prison in this world, and a place of punishment!

№ 4. "What is it compared with the garden? What is its narrowness compared with the space of the other?

№ 5. "What is this rock, by the side of those groves? What is the gloom of this cavern, compared with the light of the garden?

№ 6. "What is this overhanging ledge of rock to shelter us, compared with the mercy of the Lord that overshadowed us?

№ 7. "What is the soil of this cave compared with the garden-land? This earth, strewed with stones; and that, planted with delicious fruit-trees?"

№ 8. And Adam said to Eve, "Look at thine eyes, and at mine, which afore beheld angels in heaven, praising; and they, too, without ceasing.

№ 9. "But now we do not see as we did: our eyes have become of flesh; they cannot see in like manner as they saw before."

№ 10. Adam said again to Eve, "What is our body to-day, compared to what it was in former days, when we dwelt in the garden?"

№ 11. After this Adam did not like to enter the cave, under the overhanging rock; nor would he ever have entered it.

№ 12. But he bowed to God's orders; and said to himself, "Unless I enter the cave, I shall again be a transgressor"

[1 Adam+Eve 4:1] — BUT Adam and Eve wept for having come out of the garden, their first abode.

There was a time when all human beings on earth wept for the same thing at the same time, and still their weeping for it could not work it out for them. Nevertheless, it's on record that all mankind wept for losing their first habitation, for being cast out of their first estate and for falling short/off their first abode in their first heaven.

Losing one's own place in the paradise of heaven forever will generate more weeping than losing one's own child/parent/sibling. The greatest bereavement is not that of losing someone you love to death, but that of losing your place|abode in the kingdom of heaven forever. The fallen angels that left their first habitation to marry the daughters of men (Jude 1:6) and begot children of Giants by them, did not weep as much for the lose of their wives and children, as they wept for the lost of their place and access into heaven and presence of God.There are places that have more value than people in your life: To lose such place in eternity would result in great "Weeping and Gnashing of Teeth."

Remember, it's better to cut off a part of your body if necessary to secure a place for you in the kingdom of heaven, than having your whole body secured but yet cast away into hell fire according to the Lord Jesus Christ in "Matthew 5:30, Mark 9:43-50."

[1 Adam+Eve 4:2] —And, indeed, when Adam looked at his flesh, that was altered, he wept bitterly, he and Eve, over what they had done. And they walked and went gently down into the Cave of Treasures.

The first stage at which Adam and Eve saw the effects of what they had done on their own Bodies was when they saw they were naked by the fruit of the forbidden Tree. But here is another stage at which they saw their flesh or bodies were altered from the higher spiritual bodies they used to have into carnal and corruptible flesh. This knowledge of what their flesh had become also brought sorrow and bitter weeping through them for what they had done.

[Proverbs 5:11-13] — "Lest you mourn at the last, when your flesh and your body are consumed, And you say, "How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof; And I have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined my ear to them that instructed me!"

Falling away from life or heaven into death and hell comes with alteration and affliction of one's body: there are basically reducers and falling of the qualities of one's body when he/she descends into hell by damnation or death. On the flip side, ascending or rising from death and hell into life and heaven up above comes with glorifying and upgrading of one's body. See this parable: A child's body compared to the body of an aged/old man. Let the changes in your body structures and texture from when you were a little child to when you are very old remind you of your descending or falling into death and hell from heaven as a baby.

[Job 33:22‭-‬26 NKJV] — Yes, his soul draws near the Pit, And his life to the executioners. “If there is a messenger for him, A mediator, one among a thousand, To show man His uprightness, Then He is gracious to him, and says, ‘Deliver him from going down to the Pit; I have found a ransom’; His flesh shall be young like a child’s, He shall return to the days of his youth. He shall pray to God, and He will delight in him, He shall see His face with joy, For He restores to man His righteousness.

Now notice Adam and Eve after weeping bitterly, they walked gently into the cave of treasures. That cave was called the Cave of Treasures, not because they would meet treasures inside the Cave but because they would bring and keep treasures inside the Cave. Nevertheless, a Cave full of Earthly Treasures can not worth losing one's own place and glorified body in Heavenly and Spiritual Garden of life. They were slow to leave the Garden of God for the Cave of Treasures: and it was a "DownwardMovement" from the Garden above, down to the Cave of Treasures below.

[1 Adam+Eve 4:3] —And as they came to it Adam wept over himself and said to Eve, "Look at this cave that is to be our prison in this world, and a place of punishment!

Adam who listened to his wife and made wrong decision in sin against God hereby regretted/repented doing so when he wept over himself for being foolish, and he pointed out to Eve the futility of that decision in disobedience to God at the outlook of the Cave he described as prison and place of punishment for them.

Before they made that decision, it was Eve who saw and asked Adam to look at the Tree of Knowledge of good and evil, in its pleasant to the eyes, good for food, and desirable to make one wise. But herein was Adam the one to see and to ask Eve to look at the Cave of Treasures as their prison in this world, and a place of their punishment. Yes, the Cave indeed became their Grave, and the place where they later returned to dust. However, their prison was their refuge and fortress from the devil and evils that later came against them.

[1 Adam+Eve 4:4] —"What is it compared with the garden? What is its narrowness compared with the space of the other?

Adam questioned his wife by comparing the worth of the Cave of Treasures to the worth of the Garden they lose to gain the narrow Cave. It was not a profitable transaction to gain a narrow Cave in suffering but lose the broad and glorious Garden. It was not wise to have lost the Garden of God for a narrow Cave that would imprison its possessor for life and be his grave or place of punishment. Even more so, it's not wise to gain the world but lose your own soul to gain the world without your soul.

[Mark 8:36-37] — "For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?"

[1 Adam+Eve 4:5] —"What is this rock, by the side of those groves? What is the gloom of this cavern, compared with the light of the garden?

Adam questioned the rock of the Cave he was to dwell in, even when the rock was by the side of the groves. And Adam questioned the brilliance or light found in the cave to the greater brilliance and greater Lights in the Garden he lost. Adam and Eve had never known darkness inside the Garden of Eden, for there was no night there in the Garden. Later you may read the first darkness or night Adam and Eve experienced but inside the Cave.

There was a reason those who dwell in heaven above described us who dwell on earth now as dwelling in darkness even though the sun rise and day shine on earth. Just as Adam described the light inside the Cave as "Gloom" compared to the degree and quality of the Lights in the Garden of God, even so our best earthly lights are like darkness compared to the greater Lights in the Realms of Heaven at the Throne of God, who dwells in an inapproachable Light, which all mankind have not seen yet.

[1 Adam+Eve 4:6] — "What is this overhanging ledge of rock to shelter us, compared with the mercy of the Lord that overshadowed us?

Here in earthly world, mankind build/need shelters with rocks, stones, concrete, metals, and nonmetals. But in the lost Garden of God, mankind were not needing those earthly substances for shelter, and that was because the very Mercy of God overshadowed and sheltered them.

Adam berate the overhanging ledge of rock to shelter him and his wife, for they had known and tasted the true and glorious mercy and Shadow of the Almighty God as their refuge, fortress and shelter.

[Psalms 91:1‭-‬2 NKJV] — He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High Shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. I will say of the Lord, “He is my refuge and my fortress; My God, in Him I will trust.”

[1 Adam+Eve 4:7] —"What is the soil of this cave compared with the garden-land? This earth, strewed with stones; and that, planted with delicious fruit-trees?"

Comparing the soil of this earth with the soil of Heavenly Paradise, one would find the Soils of this earth far lower in grade to the Soils in Heavenly Paradise. And so are the qualities, grade and tastes, of plants and trees that grow on earthly ground to those that grow in Heavenly Paradise Ground. Infact, there are Trees, Plants and Flowers, that do not thrive on Earthly soil but do in Heavenly Ground at the Paradise of God. The true Tree of Life that bears 12 manners of fruits all through 12 months of the year, is only found in the Soil of the Paradise of God, not in this Loamy, Silty, Sandy, rocky or Clayey, Soils of this world.

[1 Adam+Eve 4:8] —"And Adam said to Eve, "Look at thine eyes, and at mine, which afore beheld angels in heaven, praising; and they, too, without ceasing.

Before the fall of mankind, mankind had eyes that could see far into heaven and beheld angels at any distance apart and heard them praising God without ceasing. Mankind had outstanding Vision and Sight. They could also hear, understand and communicate with beasts and animals. Unfortunately, the Serpent used being like the gods or angels to deceive the Woman into eating the forbidden fruit. And mankind fell when Adam ate in disobedience to God, and instead of being like the gods or angels, mankind could hardly see the angels who are ministering spirits and flames of fire.

[1 Adam+Eve 4:9] —"But now we do not see as we did: our eyes have become of flesh; they cannot see in like manner as they saw before."

Some degree of Blindness and Veiling of the Eyes have happened to mankind. Ironically, when they ate the forbidden fruit their eyes were opened or illuminated to know good and evil. But then as soon as their eyes were opened to know good and evil, their Visions drastically reduced in capacity and their perception veiled. You noticed they heard the Voice of God walking in the Garden, because their Seeing reduced: Instead of Seeing the Lord God, they couldn't see Him but heard His Voice approaching or walking. Nevertheless, they began to look and see themselves more, but looking and seeing God and His angels lesser, because their eyes were reduced to the eyes of flesh.

[1 Adam+Eve 4:10] —"Adam said again to Eve, "What is our body to-day, compared to what it was in former days, when we dwelt in the garden?"

Even though Adam was made a living soul, and was basically having a body of earthy material when he was brought into the garden, Adam's body then was not yet doomed to return to the dust or ground whence he was taken from unlike when Adam was cast out of the garden.

№°°¹ — Being only a living Soul to dwell in the Garden of God, made Adam's earthy Body to be glorified with spiritual and celestial attributes.

№°°² — But being a dying Soul and a castaway from the Garden of God, made Adam's earthy Body became depraved with dying, weakness and suffering attributes.

His body began to sweat and to stink following God's word that man must sweat before eating food from the ground, which began to yeild thorns and thistles to man with lower harvest due to the depravity of the Earth's ground for man's sake.

[I Corinthians 15:42‭-‬50 NKJV] — So also is the resurrection of the dead. The body is sown in corruption, it is raised in incorruption. It is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness, it is raised in power. It is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body. And so it is written, “The first man Adam became a living being.” The last Adam became a life-giving spirit. However, the spiritual is not first, but the natural, and afterward the spiritual. The first man was of the earth, made of dust; the second Man is the Lord from heaven. As was the man of dust, so also are those who are made of dust; and as is the heavenly Man, so also are those who are heavenly. And as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly Man. Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; nor does corruption inherit incorruption.

[1 Adam+Eve 4:11] —After this Adam did not like to enter the cave, under the overhanging rock; nor would he ever have entered it.

Adam found the cave under the rock repulsive to him, and had no desire to even walk into it. It was after he berated his fallen condition and the Cave that reminded him more of the things he lost than what he found, that Adam found the Cave even more repulsive and would never have entered into the cave by his own human free will.

[1 Adam+Eve 4:12] —But he bowed to God's orders; and said to himself, "Unless I enter the cave, I shall again be a transgressor"

Adam taught himself to still choose the Will of God above his own human choice or feelings. He had learnt never to disobey God again, especially for his own interests as unlike he did at listening to his wife and eating the forbidden fruit.

How many people would willingly choose to enter into their own prison, suffering, punishment, or Judgment, after know what awaits them if they enter or go through the door before them, just because it's the Will of God when it's not their own will?

The Lord Jesus Christ would not have drank of that Cup of His captivity, suffering and death, if not for His submission to the Will of God for Him to agree to drink of the Cup rather than cup passing from Him. [Matthew 26:42].

For Adam, it was like entering the Cave in submission to the Will of God after he earlier described the Cave as prison and place of punishment.