Monday, October 22, 2018

   Ps 94 14 For the LORD will not reject his people;
he will never forsake his inheritance.
  15  Judgment will again be founded on righteousness,
and all the upright in heart will follow it."

 Adam and Eve were created to rule the world without opposition. But when they fell into sin, the entire creation was cursed by God. Satan tempted man to question Gods warning that man would die if he disobeyed God. Satan was the first enemy of man who offered another kingdom in which man would rule. He said If you eat of the knowledge of good and evil you will be like God. This is the first introduction of violence into the world. Satan gave man the idea that man could become his own god. He was cursing man.

We must  understand that creation was spoken into existence in the perfect unity of the law, covenants, decrees, statutes and promises. Man was living in a garden that was ruled by Gods perfect word. Satan redefined Gods word with spiritual attack. Gods warning to man was given with the sovereign decree that the garden would be a place where man experience opposition of the Serpent. Adam never experience being opposed to his wants. God had made man with the ability to rule over the creation. This is why I believe after the fall that man did not consider murder a capital offense. Because the first man was able to do whatever he wanted. The spiritual attack in the garden was to dethrone God and thus bring chaos into the world of perfect fellowship and unity of all creation. There is only one weapon of defense against the redefinition of Gods word. Man in the garden did not understand that the power of the law was in the curse. Adam did not use the weapon to oppose the temptation of Satan because he was not experienced with being threatened. He accepted the abuse of  the devil not understanding that God was working for his best interest.

God never gave man the power to be successful through the logic of mans understanding. All of creation is the reality of Gods perfect word. In accepting Gods word, man was able to rule over creation without opposition. This is why God responded to the first curse of the devil by cursing the whole creation. God had to pronounce death on all corruption.If God had not pronounced the judgement of  the law against sin of our first parents then man could not be restored to his original authority over the earth. Although the first man was dethroned by deception, his offspring who are familiar with death overcome the devil in cursing the curse.

God responded to the sin of the first man by making a covenant of redemption.  This covenant comes with the promise that God will never forsake His people. God had to back up these words by pronouncing death upon all corruption in order to renew all things. He has given His elect the ability to pronounce the curse upon the redefinition of His word in order to contain his people in this renewal.