God's redeeming act from the very beginning
God’s redeeming act
(Genesis 3)
This is the story of how humanity falls from the original state of being; from the splendor and privileges of being created manually by Lord God! (Assuming I am doing the Bible study now among women). Certainly, their were in a state of innocence, enjoyment, happy and probably dancing around or running around the trees like the actor and actress of Indian Movies. Everything was going well; family (man and wife) has no quarrelling, no fights over who is greater or who is lesser, and no worries for their foods and clothing.
Now the story is about to begin. Somebody got jealous and wants to bring some troubles to the couple. This somebody is the “Serpent”, the most subtle creature of all creatures. It is a matter of investigation “who is this Serpent?” In the Book of Revelation, the writer called “the old Serpent”, probably referring to the Serpent of Genesis 3. But In others parts of the Bible, Serpent was quite helpful. For instance, Moses had to lift up “serpent” and whoever looks upon the serpent did not die. So whether Serpent is intrinsically evil or is the serpent was possessed by some kind of spirit remain at large. However, the story said, the serpent beguiled the couple, wife first and then husband. They were together and probably ate the fruit almost at the same time. They’ve just eaten the fruit and new knowledge came. They are not innocence anymore, in fact wiser little; for they now know that they are naked. Indeed serpent also telling some kind of truth but the truth leads them to their fall. They were in deep trouble and could not meet their Master for two good reasons. First, they disobey God and listen to the wrong voice, and secondly, they feel ashamed because they realized that they were naked.
So, they need to do something to get out of it. They tried to sew cloths for themselves so that they can cover their shame but failed. They have done something they were not supposed to do – eating the forbidden fruit. Certainly, the omniscient God knows what they have committed yet He came to have fellowship with them. As we are all accountable to whatever we did, Adam and Eve also accountable for what they have done. But God in His redeeming love did not cease to care for us (the LORD God make coats of skins, and clothed them); despite our sins and mistakes. God punishment was accompanied by hope. He didn’t punish us and left us all alone. He gives hope (her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel). God gave a hope through Eve that “her seed” will bruised the head of devil and devil will “bruise his heel”. This is referring to Jesus Christ – born of a woman (as promise to Eve). The devil thought that he had Him while Jesus was on the cross but on the third day He resurrected from the dead and that was a crushing blow to the devil’s head.
This is the story of how humankind was fallen from the original state. In this story, God unfold His redeeming plan for the fallen humankind.
(Genesis 3)
This is the story of how humanity falls from the original state of being; from the splendor and privileges of being created manually by Lord God! (Assuming I am doing the Bible study now among women). Certainly, their were in a state of innocence, enjoyment, happy and probably dancing around or running around the trees like the actor and actress of Indian Movies. Everything was going well; family (man and wife) has no quarrelling, no fights over who is greater or who is lesser, and no worries for their foods and clothing.
Now the story is about to begin. Somebody got jealous and wants to bring some troubles to the couple. This somebody is the “Serpent”, the most subtle creature of all creatures. It is a matter of investigation “who is this Serpent?” In the Book of Revelation, the writer called “the old Serpent”, probably referring to the Serpent of Genesis 3. But In others parts of the Bible, Serpent was quite helpful. For instance, Moses had to lift up “serpent” and whoever looks upon the serpent did not die. So whether Serpent is intrinsically evil or is the serpent was possessed by some kind of spirit remain at large. However, the story said, the serpent beguiled the couple, wife first and then husband. They were together and probably ate the fruit almost at the same time. They’ve just eaten the fruit and new knowledge came. They are not innocence anymore, in fact wiser little; for they now know that they are naked. Indeed serpent also telling some kind of truth but the truth leads them to their fall. They were in deep trouble and could not meet their Master for two good reasons. First, they disobey God and listen to the wrong voice, and secondly, they feel ashamed because they realized that they were naked.
So, they need to do something to get out of it. They tried to sew cloths for themselves so that they can cover their shame but failed. They have done something they were not supposed to do – eating the forbidden fruit. Certainly, the omniscient God knows what they have committed yet He came to have fellowship with them. As we are all accountable to whatever we did, Adam and Eve also accountable for what they have done. But God in His redeeming love did not cease to care for us (the LORD God make coats of skins, and clothed them); despite our sins and mistakes. God punishment was accompanied by hope. He didn’t punish us and left us all alone. He gives hope (her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel). God gave a hope through Eve that “her seed” will bruised the head of devil and devil will “bruise his heel”. This is referring to Jesus Christ – born of a woman (as promise to Eve). The devil thought that he had Him while Jesus was on the cross but on the third day He resurrected from the dead and that was a crushing blow to the devil’s head.
This is the story of how humankind was fallen from the original state. In this story, God unfold His redeeming plan for the fallen humankind.
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