Genesis;3;11-24.(NIV)
Let us flash back and join God in the begining and see what is happenning few days after God has created man in His own image and likeness.God has just finished creating everithing and everything is in perfect contition.Man,who has just been created in the image and likeness of God is putn to be the steward of all creation.He is given instructions on how to conduct himself in the Garden.Man disobeys his creator and goes ahead and eats the forbiden fruit from the tree of Knowlege of Good and Evil.In the Garden of Eden ,which ,if viewed from Eden is in the east of Eden,there are two important trees;the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil,and the Tree of Life.Man had been given instruction not to eat from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil.He had been give the right to eat from any tree in the Garden including the tree of Life,except the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil.However ,man has been preocupied by the forbiden tree,and consequently,the devil has used this preocupation to decieve man in desobeying the Lord God Almighty.When God discoveres about this deception,He comes looking for man in the Garden.I hear Him thurdering among the gloriously green and tall trees and asking ;whre are you Adam?God is persuing them lovingly with outstretched arms,but Adam full of guilt is getting deeper in the thicket running away from his loving creator.I hear the man answering back to the Lord God Almighty shiveringly, overwhelmed by guilt and saying;The woman you put here with me,is the problem,she has just given me some of the fruit from the tree ,and have already swallowed it,rather I have already eaten it.In simple terms,Adam is telling his creator,he has already disobeyed him.God in love spares the man the curse but curses the serpent and the ground,however,man is to pay through hard labour and the woman through painful child bearing.Our God is a just God.He has given a fair virdict.He does not stop at that,He provides a solution to the problem man has created.God says there will be enemity between the seed of the woman and the Seed of the Serpent.The seed of the woman will crush the head of the serpent and the serpent will strike the heel of the seed of woman.This has occured on the cross when Jesus is crucified.The serpent is crushed his head.That is why Peter in his epistles says the devil is like a roariong lion looking for someone to devour.When we believe in Jesus,the seed of the woman,the devil is crused for our sake.Then Jesus ushers us to the Tree of life.To get to the Tree of Life one has to pass through The Tree of redemption.The tree of redenption nulifies the effect of the Tree of Kowledge of Good and Evil.
