Most people believe that
we are suffering as a result of the sin of Adam and Eve committed in the Garden of Eden
and we are under that same curse.
In one of my recent article,
I indicated that whosoever that tempted someone and he fell into sin, that very
person becomes the devil and the Satan and he must give account of his action and bear his or her own punishment on
the day of judgment (Rev. 22:12).
Therefore, the serpent, Adam
and Eve each bore their own punishment accordingly. No one bear the punishment
of another. Those curse ended up with
them as soon as they entered into their grave and does not proceed to their
descendants. In the case of Eve, we would quote symbolically that the seed of the
woman will bruise the head of serpent and that her seed was Jesus Christ who
bruised the head of the serpent on the cross during his dead. That is symbolic
in meaning but in the real sense, the serpents inside the Garden of Eden were
very friendly with them but not those serpents outside. So if mistakenly, they bruise their heads,
they will bite them on their heels as usual and a snake bite is very fatal
because he is very poisonous. The same
applies to scorpions and other animals not only the serpent. That serpent in
the Garden is used to represent those enemies outside the garden that did not know
them when they left the garden. That was
what that statement actually implies.
More evidently, Adam was to
become a farmer outside the Garden of Eden. In the garden everything was
supplied in abundance and what Adam did was to keep the garden clean to ensure
it was not over grown by weeds. The Gardener job was too much for him so God
provided Eve for him as a help mate. Now as God drove them out of
the Garden of Eden, Adam will begin to farm and sweat will rush down all over his
face in the heat of the sun. Thorns will hurt him. Thorns were there since from
the creation of the world as vegetation for healing and for other purpose. It
was not a curse for Adam but will be injured by those thorns as a farmer and if
he was not very careful will be bitten by a snake as he accidentally bruises his head as a farmer. So he must be
very careful.
Adam will suffer that alone
especially when Eve will put to birth or during her pregnancy. He will do
almost all the domestic job while his wife will be watching at him. As for Eve
during her pregnancy and time of birth, she will depend on Adam for food as she
could not be able to help until to a certain time she is relieved. This is also
not a curse for Eve as it is normal that woman depend on men for food during those
critical conditions involving menstrual pain and during child birth based on
the fact that even the animal that did not eat the apple surfer such pains
during birth so it is not for human being alone. Other women put to birth
peacefully but others do not including menstrual pain. It varies from one
woman to another.
In Genesis God was in a way educating them of the experience they will begin to encounter in life outside the Garden of Eden which is being interpreted as curse. Therefore his throwing them out of the garden is the main punishment he gives to them only the serpent case was different because he was the devil that deceived them.
In Genesis God was in a way educating them of the experience they will begin to encounter in life outside the Garden of Eden which is being interpreted as curse. Therefore his throwing them out of the garden is the main punishment he gives to them only the serpent case was different because he was the devil that deceived them.
Evidently, as Adam population
increased, he could hire others to do the whole planting and harvesting for him
like as most rich farmers do who pay the daily wages. Adam would suffer that
alone at the beginning but as they multiplied, he no longer suffers again; he
stays home and enjoys the fruit of his labour and hire others to work for him and pay them as a rich farmer like the
rich Abraham and his cattle. In the
same way his son Cain suffered and later was very rich who was the first to
build a city and as a king after he separated from his mother and father to a
strange land called ‘Nud” and named that city after the name of his son "Enoch".
In that case, Cain no longer suffer the
same applies to Adam his father as well.
More evidently, It was not a
curse for Eve to depend on Adam for food based on the fact that most women feed
men and are bread winners in most families because of the position they occupy in government
offices and businesses. Women are made Queens
like Queen Esther of old and First Lady and President of nations. Managing big
businesses and many more. Even women use their house maid to help them for the
domestic works during child delivery. But it happened to Eve to depend on Adam
for food because they were alone at that time. (Genesis chapter 3 and 4).
As for the serpent, it was a
dragon walking on four legs like a big lizard but was cursed to creep on his
belly for deceiving Adam and Eve; so his own case was different because he was
given an unusual punishment from God by creeping on the ground like the King of
Babylon whom God changed to animal walking on four legs according to the book of Daniel. In that case, it was that very particular
dragon called "serpent" that was cursed and not every dragon and serpent you see.
Based on the fact that we
still have dragons walking on four legs like lizard breathing out fire from its
mount available in several parts of the world. According to the book of Genesis, he created
all according to their kinds or species. So we have two species of Dragons, one
creep on the ground known as Boer; some Boa constrictor has rainbow color and
the other walk on four legs as a big Lizard. Watch the DVD the “War of the
Dragon” Therefore if all the dragons and serpents were descendants of the first
serpent and dragon in the Garden of Eden then it means all of them will creep on
the ground and lick the dust as a curse from God. Therefore, it was that particular serpent or
dragon that was cursed and not his descendants and so it applies to Adam and
Eve descendants. Therefore we are not under the curse of Adam and Eve in any
form.
More evidently, in Exodus
chapter 20, God gave his commandment to Moses and also pronounced the
punishment that will follow it in case we fail to keep to it. He stated that he
will visit the iniquity of the father to the third and fourth generation; but
God did not pronounce such laws and punishment to Adam and Eve before they ate
the apple. The third and fourth
generation of Adam and Eve had expired since long time ago even before the
birth of prophet Enoch who was of the seventh generation of Adam. (See Jude)
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