Continued
from the last episode
Text
of Interest:
“But
as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into
the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. But
God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all
things, yea, the deep things of God.”
1 Cor 2:9 – 10 (KJV)
Case Study Text:
“And
so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was
made a quickening spirit. Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but
that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual. The first man is
of the earth, earthy: the second man is the Lord from heaven.”
1
Cor 15:45 – 47 (KJV)
Furthermore, the man’s insatiable
attachment to the physical environment beclouded his sense of reasoning that
among the oodles of trees that bears numerous fruits in the Garden he couldn’t
take to eat but the one he was advised not to take. Now let’s consider this,
everything that God created complied with the law of obedience, which means as
they were called out, they obeyed the voice of God and came into existence.
When it gets to the turn of the man, God didn’t call the man out but formed him
and made him a living being, therefore, the only way to be certified as God’s
creation is for the man to comply by obeying the instruction that God gave him.
It is important to note that everything that God called into existence emanated
from the invisible, so for anything to take existence in the visible it must
obey the voice of God, a failure to obey would mean that such a thing will not
manifest visibly and physically (though there was none that didn’t obey God). As
the man was not called but formed, to be confirmed as a creation of God it is
necessary that he must undergo this process (Rom 8:14 – 15).
The consequence of failure of the man
to obey God’s instruction is that he will become an outsider in God. God
created the man in His own image but for the man to confirm himself as an image
of God, he has to obey the voice of God as other things did. Again, the
resultant effect of the failure of the man Adam to obey God is that he lost his
right to exist as an image of God and as a result he starts to exist in his own
image and gave birth to children in his own image not in the image of God (Gen
5:3). So, in the word of God is life, outside the word of God there is no life.
Adam’s disobedience to the word of God eventually rendered him lifeless, though
he was in existence but without life (Prov 4:20 – 23, Eph 2:5).
Notice that from the story of the
creation in Genesis chapter one, there is only one negative word that appeared
on it and that is darkness. This darkness was terminated by God as He began
creating things. This is an indication that God never created anything negative,
all that He created were declared good. In chapter two the word die occurred
not as a direct creation of God, but as a byproduct of an action if taken.
Which means inasmuch as the action is not taken the existence of death will not
be known or established. Consequently, the manifestation or the creation of
death lies in the hand of the activator. Just the same way God did not create sin;
it comes into existence as a result of disobedience.
However, before we answer the question
of why God created the tree of knowledge of good and evil, let’s start by
answering the question of why God created the tree of life. We have seen that
inherent in the tree of knowledge of good and evil is death, in the same way
life is inherent in the tree of life. Therefore, the content of this fruit from
the tree of life is life and not just life but life eternal; of which if Adam
had eaten it, he would have been established in God. On the other hand the
content of the fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil is death and
not just death but death eternal and as Adam took it he received death and lost
the opportunity of being planted in God. That resulted in a separation between
him and God.
It is very clear now that the tree of
life is the life that would have lighted the man Adam if he has taken it (Jn
1:4). Like I said earlier, inherent in the fruit of the tree of life is life
and the manifestation of that life in one’s life comes with light. As Adam
refused to take the fruit from the tree of life, he lost life and light never
manifested in his life, which means that he dwelled in darkness all the days of
his physical existence here on earth (Jn 1:5). One remarkable thing to note is
this, if Adam had eaten the fruit from the tree of life, he would have received
life and became immortal and at that state he will never die and whatever he
takes again will not lead him to death (Gen 3:22 – 23). The fruit from the tree
of life therefore is an antidote to death, and because it manifests light is
also an antidote to darkness.
To be continued…..
Till I come your way again, keep on
basking in the Arena of Indubitable Truth!
Chukwuemeka C. Asiegbu
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