2024/02/12

130. The Sign That Is Spoken Against

The first man in Genesis said, "The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me fruit of the tree, and I ate" (Genesis 3:12), and attributed the cause of his fault to God. God, therefore, excluded him from the benefit of the 'enmity God has placed' by saying to the 'human accidental information' (the serpent), "I will put enmity between you [the serpent] and the woman, and between your seed and her seed" (Genesis 3:15). In this way, the first man became the only person to go through life without having any means to distinguish 'human accidental information.' 

The statement, "The man called his wife's name Eve" (Genesis 3:20), tells us that his 'knowledge and memory proportionate to man' was again connected to the 'breath of life' via the 'tree of the knowledge of good and evil' (cf. blog №127). He has become a man who acted on whatever his 'knowledge and memory proportionate to man,' which had taken in 'human accidental information' as his own knowledge without distinction, demanded of him. 

Just as God's word of command, 'Be!' which maintains interaction with individual life through the work of the Holy Spirit, is connected to the life of living beings (cf. blog № 128), so the first man became permanently connected to the 'breath of life' through the 'tree of the knowledge of good and evil' (cf. Genesis 3:22). God expelled him and protected the way to the 'tree of life' so that he would not, in turn, be connected to the 'tree of life' and gain knowledge to live forever (cf. Genesis 3:24). 

The phrase "the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which he was taken" (Genesis 3:23) is inserted here. That was to fulfil God's words to him, "[C]ursed is the ground because of you; in toil you shall eat of it all the days of your life" (Genesis 3:17), so that the task of tilling the ground would be passed on from the first man to male descendants from generation to generation (cf. Genesis 5:29). 

God's plan of redemption of which he had said, "In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; you are dust, and to dust you shall return" (Genesis 3:19) was set in motion. Noah, who had passed through the flood, built an altar to the Lord (cf. Genesis 8:20), Abraham met Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of God Most High (cf. Genesis 14:18), and God appointed Aaron and his sons to be priests (cf. Exodus 29:9). Jesus Christ, the Son of God, who completes the redemption commanded by God, comes in the course of these biblical histories. 

He, of whom Simeon said, "Behold, this child is set for the fall and rising of many in Israel, and for a sign that is spoken against" (Luke 2:34), was born as the 'enmity God has placed' itself which the first man had never had.

Maria K. M.