Eve‟s harmonious union with her husband could
only be maintained while she remained in
subjection: “Thy desire shall be to thy
husband and he shall rule over thee.”
[Gen 3:16] Adam‟s lot would also serve as his
protection: “Cursed is the ground for thy
[Gen 3: 17-19]
Heavenly angels were hastily commissioned to
guard the tree of life lest sin be perpetually
immortalized. None of the family of Adam was
permitted to pass by their glittering swords to
continue to eat of the tree of eternal life. Adam
and Eve in a state of conscious guilt for their
disobedience were instructed to leave the Garden
of Eden. In unutterable sadness they bade
farewell to their beautiful home and went forth
to dwell upon the earth where now rested the
curse of sin. The Lord mercifully clothed them
with garments of animal skin for warmth. As
they witnessed the drooping flower and falling
leaf in the first signs of decay, Adam and his
companion mourned more deeply than men now
mourn their dead. The death of the frail, delicate
flowers was indeed a cause of sorrow; but when
the goodly trees cast off their leaves the scene
brought vividly to mind the stern fact that death
is the portion of every living thing.
The Garden of Eden remained upon the earth
long after man had become an outcast from its
pleasant paths. The fallen race was permitted to
gaze upon the cherubim guarded home of
innocence. Hither came Adam and his sons to
worship, renewing their vows of obedience.
Only when the tide of iniquity overspread the
world resulting in its destruction by a flood of
waters did the hand that had planted Eden
withdraw it from the earth. In the final
restitution when there shall be a “New heaven
and a new earth” [Rev 21:1] Eden will be more
gloriously adorned than at the beginning.
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Satan‟s immortality was prophesied to come to
an end on a lonely hill: “I will put enmity
between thee and the woman, and between
thy seed and her seed; It shall bruise thy head
and thou shalt bruise His heel.” [Gen 3:15]
sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days
of thy life; thorns also and thistles shall it
bring forth to thee; in the sweat of thy face
shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the
ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust
thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.”