When God created Adam and Eve, he created them in His own image and likeness, which implies that they were made "god's". They were gods in the likeness of men.
And when the people saw what Paul had done, they raised their voices, saying in the speech of Lycaonia, “The gods have come down to us in the likeness of men”. Acts 14:11
Also they were men made in the likeness of God.
And God said, “Let us make man in our image, according to our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth”.
Genesis 1:26
So what the tempter said to Eve was strange and ridiculous.
And the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die. For God knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like gods, knowing good and evil”.
Genesis 3:4-5
Can you imagine someone made in the image and likeness of God being told she would be like God! Wow, what a deception!
This is why God "painfully" declared
They do not know,
they do not understand,
they walk on in darkness.
All the foundations of the earth
are shaken.
I said, ‘You are gods,
and all of you are
children of the Most High’.
Psalms 82:5 - 6
In the garden of Eden, there were three categories of tress, one for food, the second a tree of good and evil and thirdly, the tree of life.
They were commanded not to partake of the tree of good and evil but no understanding their true identity made them succumb to the deception of the devil.
Adam and Eve's failure to understand their true identity called for a major and costly sacrifice.
The LORD God also made garments of skins for Adam and for his wife, and clothed them.
Genesis 3:21
The making of garments of skin pointed to the fact that a lamb was slain. And since the life of the flesh is in the blood, "Jesus" who was the lamb that was slain to cloth them had his "life giving" blood flowing through the tree of life ( the communion table).
And the LORD God said, “See, the man has become like one of us, to know good and evil. And now, he must not put out his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever Therefore the LORD God sent him out of the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which he was taken. So he drove the man out, and at the east of the of the garden of Eden he placed cherubim and a flaming sword which turned every direction, to guard the way to the tree of life. ”
Genesis 3:22-24
Man was chased out of the garden so he would not lay hold of the tree of life, eat of it and ratify his "sin" as a god. So God expelled man from his presence - the garden of Eden.
Jesus returned and as the bread of life (the communion table) to bring us back into the garden - his presence.
This is why the veil was torn to grant mankind a re-entry into the presence of God.
And immediately the veil of the temple was torn in two from the top to the bottom. And the earth shook, and the rocks split, and the tombs opened up, and the bodies of many of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised, and came out of the tombs after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared to many.
Matthew 27:51-53
Now that the veil is torn and access no more denied, and we now armed with the access code of the blood, we can not eat freely of the tree of life - ratifying our eternal life status in redemption.
“I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. And the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world”.
John 6:51
This is just a preview of the significance of Easter. May you gain access to the things behind the veil and have the very life of Christ flow in you.
Whatever is dead or dying in you would bounce back to life in the precious name of Jesus.
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"May you gain access to the things behind the veil and have the very life of Christ flow in you."
ReplyDeleteAmen!!