Adam was created out of the earth on the sixth day. His name means ‘red’ earth. The Tree of Knowledge of Good & Evil and the Tree of Life are also in the midst of Eden. As Jesus Christ is typed as the ‘Tree of Life,’ so the Law is symbolised as the ‘Tree of Knowledge.’

A Tree of Death: The Lord commands Adam not to eat from the Tree of Knowledge for in the day he eats of it he will die. And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, of every tree of the garden you may freely eat but of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, you shall not eat of it, for in the day that you eat thereof You Shall Surely Die. (Genesis 2:16)

God’s Word Rejected

When the Serpent tells Eve she will not die, but will become as a god to know good and evil she believes the Serpent and rejects God’s command. She eats, and then gives to Adam and their eyes are opened to reveal their nakedness.

The Serpents lie, is that he says to eat of this Tree is to live… (i.e; you shall not surely die) He opposes God’s Word.

The Curses of the Earth

As a result, God curses the ground for Adam’s sake and tells the Woman, that she will bring forth children in sorrow and that her husband will rule over her. They are driven out of Eden and thereafter death reigns.

And the LORD God said to the serpent; Because you have done this You are Cursed Above All Cattle and Above Every Beast of the field; on your belly shall you go and dust shall you eat all the days of your life: And I Will Put Enmity Between You and The Woman and Between Your Seed and Her Seed; it shall Bruise Your Head, and You Shall Bruise His Heel. (Gen 3:14-15)

The Serpent is cursed and cast on his belly to eat the dust of the earth. A deep hatred will endure between the serpent’s seed and the woman’s seed. Her seed shall bruise the head of the Serpent’s seed and His seed shall bruise the heel of the Woman’s seed. The Serpent on his belly as per the 1st sign given to Moses, represents God’s Law cast down, and the curses that come from this.

Who is The Serpent?

‘He laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years’. (Revelation 20)

We see Satan as a the Serpent in the Garden of Eden and the Dragon in Revelation. Ezekiel also speaks of Satan being in Eden.

A Tree of Death

Jesus says; ‘is it not written in your Law that I said you are gods’ (John 10:34)

Paul says; ‘for by the Law is the knowledge of sin’ and again: ‘I find then a law that when I would do good, evil is present with me’ (Romans 7:21)

Moses says concerning the Law; ‘I call heaven and earth as witnesses today against you, that I have set before you life & death, blessing & cursing’ (Deut 30:19)

It is the knowledge of the Law that instructs us in what is good or evil. The knowledge of what is clean & unclean comes by the fleshly Law of Sinai. The Sinai Law is the Tree of Knowledge.

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