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So, this is coming right out of the sixth day creation and the first thing that pops up is we're ending that where he rests on the seventh day. So, we didn't touch that, I mean we kind of talked about that for a minute when we were going over chapter one, but it doesn't say that until chapter two. And so, he rested from all his works after he created everything in six days. So, we believe in a literal six day creation and that he literally rested for one twenty-four hour day. Now, go to Hebrews four and I know we touched on this, but go to Hebrews chapter four because it brings this up and it's interesting because it brings up the gospel when it brings this up. And something that's interesting is the fact that the works were finished from the foundation of the world and it proves that by him resting on the seventh day. And so, the gospel was from the foundation of the world. We believe in an everlasting gospel that has been since the beginning and it will be there until the end as far as that we're saved by Christ and by him saving us from our sins. In Hebrews chapter one and verse one it says, Now, to get context, chapter three is talking about the generation that died in the wilderness. So, remember that the whole generation of twenty years old and older all died in the wilderness before they went into the promised land. They all died and the reason they didn't go in is because of unbelief. And it's basically saying, and so I believe Paul is the author, but it doesn't really matter. Whoever the author is of Hebrews is saying that the gospel was preached unto them as well as unto us. And so, and he's saying it didn't matter that it was preached unto them if they didn't believe it. If it wasn't mixed with faith in them that heard it. And so, he's talking about the gospel and then it goes straight into four, we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, as I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest, although the works were finished from the foundation of the world. What's he talking about? What rest is he talking about? He's talking about dying and going to heaven. He's talking about to depart and to be with Christ is far better. That rest that we're looking for with Christ. It says, for we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, as I have sworn in my wrath. And so it's giving that parallel with the fact that he finished all his works to the foundation of the world and God rested that seventh day. And so it pictures that, but notice verse four says, for he spake in a certain place, for he spake in a certain place of the seventh day on this wise and God did rest the seventh day from all his works. The works were finished from the foundation of the world. If you go to, and you don't have to turn there, but in Revelation 13, it talks about the lamb's book of life. And this is the famous, you know, passage where it talks about the lamb slain from the foundation of the world. But in Revelation 13 and verse 8, it says, and all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him whose names are not written in the book of life of the lamb slain from the foundation of the world. So this is interesting because it talks about how God's works were finished from the foundation of the world. Jesus was the lamb slain from the foundation of the world. And see how salvation's always been from the foundation of the world and hope of eternal life, which God cannot lie before the world began. Do you see how this all works together? You say, well, but he didn't die until 2000, you know, until, you know, 2000 years ago, right? So he didn't die until then. Well, go to first Peter chapter one and it explains this. And there's many passages, you can go to Hebrews chapter nine where it talks about this, that he must needs have suffered since the foundation of the world. But it says that he came in these last times to suffer once for all. So when Christ came, he suffered and died for all those from the foundation of the world to the end of the world. And there's other places that you go to, but I don't want to belabor this point because really what this chapter is mostly dealing with is the Garden of Eden. So that's what I want to get into. But I do want to touch on this as far as the fact that God's works is as if he had done it. Now obviously Christ still had to go do it, but when Christ, when God promises something, take it to the bank, it's going to happen. And it's as if it happened already. He speaketh of those things which be not as though they were, it says in Romans. But first Peter chapter one in verse 18, just to get some context, in first Peter chapter one verse 18 it says, Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers, but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish, and without spot, who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you, who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory that your faith and hope might be in God. So you see how he was foreordained before the foundation of the world. He was the lamb slain from the foundation of the world, but he wasn't manifest until these last times, meaning that two thousand years ago. And so that he actually came and did it. But to God, I believe the six day creation is as if he had done it. And that's how you make sense of Job 38, and I don't really want to get into this, but Job 38 is one where they go into, actually let's just go there, because that's one, and we'll probably touch on this when we get to Genesis 6, but in Job 38, and if you don't know this, this is where it talks about the sons of God. And so there's a doctrine out there saying that the sons of God are angels in the Old Testament, which I don't believe. I believe sons of God are always referring to saved people. But Job 38 is where God answers Job out of the whirlwind, and there's something that's said here. You know, I'm not going to read all this, but basically in verse one there, Job 38, it says, Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said, Who is this that darkens the counsel by words without knowledge? Gird up now thy loins like a man, for I will demand of thee, and answer thou me. So remember, Elihu had just been going on a tour de force against Job, and God's basically saying, Who's this guy? Right? Now he's answering Job, because that's what Job wanted, was him to answer him. And so then in verse four there, it says, Where was thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? Declare if thou hast understanding. Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? Or who hast stretched the line upon it? Whereupon are the foundations thereof fashioned? Notice it's talking about the foundations of the world here. Who laid the cornerstone thereof when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy? Now this is a perplexing thing, because according to the way the foundations of the earth were laid, it was before he made man. But if you understand that he's making a point here, if you look up the word cornerstone anywhere in the Bible, the only other mention you're going to find is where it's talking about Jesus Christ being the chief cornerstone. So if you understand that Jesus is the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world, and he's the chief cornerstone, then you understand that when the cornerstone was laid, the sons of God shouted for joy. And you can understand this when he says, Abraham, rejoice to see my day, or he saw my day and rejoiced. You can see how that works, because when Christ came, the sons of God shouted for joy. This is a prophecy talking about how Jesus was going to come. Remember, he was the stone which the builders rejected, which became the head of the corner. But he was the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. He was before ordained. He was laid with the foundation of the world, so to speak. So I know that's kind of cryptic, but people try to use that to say, well, see, the sons of God have to be angels because man wasn't made when the foundation of the earth was laid. And so see how they try to use that. But if you understand the fact that this is a prophecy talking about Jesus being the chief cornerstone, remember, and many times it talks about how the apostles and the prophets are the foundation and Jesus Christ being the chief cornerstone. I mean, there's many scriptures on this. But remember, Jesus was foreordained before the foundation of the world. He was the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world, but he wasn't manifest. He didn't really come until when he came the first time. So I know I told you I wasn't going to belabor that point, but go back to Genesis chapter 2. But this stuff's quoted and that's the thing. These chapters are packed because it's quoted so much throughout the Bible. So if you want validity that Genesis is a valid word of God or a text of the Bible, I don't know how you can get around the fact that it is because Jesus quotes it. All these other people quote these passages. And so Genesis 2 alone, there's just a ton of stuff that we'll see that's in the New Testament. But in verse 4 there, it says, it's switching gears. So now if you pretty much take chapter 1 up to chapter 2 verse 3 and then you have your six day creation, God rested on the seventh day. Now in chapter 4, basically it's recapping something. So this is where I've heard someone, I remember someone telling me this, they're like, oh, there's contradiction in Genesis 1 and Genesis 2. Because Genesis 2, you know, the animals were created out of the earth and all this other stuff when it was different in chapter 1. And so, or the animals, basically stuff is out of order. He made man and then he made the animals. What you've got to understand is in chapter 2, it's recapping, it's giving a quick overview of the fact that God created the heaven and the earth, but then it's all about day 6. Day 6 where he made man, where he made this garden, and this is a special thing that he does. He literally makes a new creature out of the ground for Adam to name. And he makes woman. So he makes the help for him, right? The help that's meat for him. And this is all in day 6. So everything that we're going to be reading here pretty much is all day 6 and it's a recap, but it's giving you more information. And so this isn't unprecedented in the Bible that we would come back and kind of basically we're honing in on day 6, which is where I'd want to hone in on, honestly. So it makes sense that he would do that. We're getting more information about how he made man and now we've got this Garden of Eden that we're going to be talking about here. So don't get hung up on that where people try to say, oh, there's a contradiction. It's just recapping a certain day of the event of the creation. This happens all the time if you think about how you would write a book or how you'd write a headline. If you wrote a headline and said, you know, there was a car crash, you know, this car crashed into the bank or something like that, let's just say, and then you start reading a story and it's talking about, you know, events that happened before that. You'd be like, wait a minute, I thought the car crashed into the bank, but you're taking a step back to tell the story. And so this is just the way literature is written and how you're getting more information and going back and looking at it. So anyway, these are the generations in verse 4, of the heavens and the earth when they were created in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens. So notice the plural heavens. So remember at the beginning, in the beginning God created the heaven and the earth, but then you remember the firmaments, how he was making the firmament where the birds fly and then he made the firmament where you have the sun, moon and stars. So now when you see the heavens declare his glory and all this, then that makes sense because he's already split it up into these separate parts. So it's all one heaven, but he just basically made it into different parts. And so in verse 5 there it says, and every plant of the field before it was in the earth and every herb of the field before it grew for the Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the earth and there was not a man to till the ground, but there went up a mist from the earth and watered the whole face of the ground. Now what's interesting about this is the fact that it doesn't rain and that this mist comes up from the earth and we'll even see with the Garden of Eden that the river that's going through the garden is watering the garden, but the only other time that rain is mentioned or the next mention of rain is the flood. So I'm not dogmatic on this, but just scripturally speaking I don't think it rains until the flood happens. Now obviously the fall of man happens between what we're reading here and when the flood happens, right? So it could rain, maybe that mist was just during before the fall of man, but it never says that it rains before that. And so that's interesting to me and it may give you a little more idea of the fact why they didn't believe, you know, I'm not saying they should have believed Noah and what was going to happen, but you can imagine if it never rained and then he's saying it's going to rain, you know, how that would look. So Genesis 7 and verse 4 is where it says for yet 7 days and I will cause it to rain upon the earth 40 days and 40 nights and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth. That's the next mention of the word, of it raining, besides what we're talking about here in chapter 2. So it's interesting, but there's a mist that goes around and so it's not raining. And so, but in verse 7 there it says that God made man a living soul. And so in verse 7 it says the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life and man became a living soul. And so this is very important because man having a living soul is what separates us from everything else in this world. It separates us from all the beasts of the earth and I wanted to talk about this for a minute, but in Job 33, you don't have to turn there, in Job 33 and verse 4 it says the Spirit of God hath made me and the breath of the Almighty hath given me life. So we can see that's true, right, because he breathed into the nostrils of man the breath of life and man became a living soul. And I talked about this before, but the breath of life to me, we have what we would call the spirit and the soul. And some people believe that these are one and the same, I don't believe that. Because in Hebrews, in one of the most famous verses, for the word of God is quick and powerful and sharpened any two-edged sword piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit. So I do believe there's a difference. If you say there's no difference, then you're going to have some problems trying to answer some questions in the Bible. Because the beasts of the earth have spirits, according to the Bible. And the beasts of the earth have the breath of life, because remember God, we'll get there when we get to the flood, but God is going to destroy every beast in all flesh that has the breath of life. That's talking about all the beasts, basically everything that's on the land. Because obviously the fishes and stuff like that are going to survive because it's water, there's going to be more water. I want to talk about this for a second. Go to Ecclesiastes chapter 3. So this is a big deal, that we are made a living soul. And so our soul, or having a soul, is what separates us because I believe this is what gives us our eternal self, so to speak. Meaning that we will go on forever. It may not be in a good manner, but a human being will either have everlasting life and live with God and be with God forever, or they're going to have eternal damnation. But they will be conscious. Their soul, their self, so to speak, will be there forever. But Ecclesiastes chapter 3, start there in verse 19. Ecclesiastes chapter 3 and verse 19, it says, For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts. Even one thing befalleth them, as the one dieth, so dieth the other. Yea, they have all one breath, so that a man hath no preeminence over a beast. For all is vanity. All go into one place. All are of the dust, and all turn to dust again. Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth? So we see from this passage that there's a spirit of man and a spirit of beast. Now obviously there is a separation that it's making here, though, on the fact that it's basically saying that we're all going to die, right, because all go to the earth, all return to the dust. Now no one would deny that as far as a human and a beast or whatever. We're all dying physically. But notice that the spirit of man goeth upward and the spirit of the beast goeth downward. Now I don't believe that the beast has a soul. I believe all mankind has souls. And so go to Ecclesiastes chapter 12 and verse 7, and I want to explain something to you as far as what it's talking about with the spirit that goeth upward. I believe every spirit of every human being goes upward, but I'll explain what I mean by that. Not everybody's going to heaven. But Ecclesiastes chapter 12 and verse 7, it says, Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was, and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it. So where's the spirit going when it's going upward? It's going up to God. Now a simple truth is that when your spirit departs your body, you're dead. That's what determines whether you're alive. James chapter 2, at the last verse there it says, For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also. It's giving that comparison that's saying that when your spirit leaves your body, your body is dead. Does that make sense? The spirit is the life. Think of the spirit as the life, the breath of life so to speak. It's the life. Now I believe every spirit that God has ever given to any man goes back to him that gave it, but not their soul. Now that's where I believe that if the body without the spirit is dead, then I believe the soul without the spirit is dead as well. And the people, basically what I believe is that if someone, let's say we'll use the saved person as an example. When a saved person, when they get saved, they're sealed by the Holy Spirit of promise and their soul is saved. It says the end of our faith which is the salvation of our souls. And so the Bible is very clear about our souls being saved when we believe on the Lord Jesus Christ by faith. So our spirit will return unto God that gave it, but guess what? Our soul is going with it because we never die spiritually. To be asked in front of the body is to be present with the Lord and we never die. We literally have everlasting life the moment we believe on Christ. Our body dies though because our soul and our spirit lead the body. Does that make sense? Now let's look at an unsaved person. An unsaved person dies, their body dies, goes to the grave just like a saved person, but their soul, the spirit leaves the soul, returns to God who gave it, and the soul goes to hell and is dead. Now the reason I think this is important is because at the great white throne judgment, all the souls of the dead that are in hell are going to be given, put back into their body. If the soul and spirit were the same, wouldn't the body be alive then? It would be because if the body without the spirit is dead, then if the soul came back and that was the life, then it would be alive, but they're called the dead. They're never called alive. So anybody that dies without Christ is dead, they're going to be dead for all eternity. So I know this is deep, but basically an unsaved person, their soul, when they die, their soul goes to hell, their body goes to the grave, both their soul and body are dead, and the spirit returns on the God that gave it. That's how I believe Ecclesiastes works as far as what it's saying there. And so the spirit is the life though. Does that make sense? The spirit is the life. And the reason that our soul doesn't die when we die physically is because we're sealed into the day of redemption and our soul has been made righteous. And so when we go to heaven, our soul and spirit go to heaven, and eventually our body will be resurrected and our body will be alive again too. So we'll have soul, body, and spirit all alive. And so anyway, I know that's kind of deep, but that's a big point to make that God made man a living soul. That separates us from the beasts. That separates us from the animals. The animals don't have souls. When the animals die, they just go out of existence. They don't go to hell. So it's not like there's a whole bunch of animals in hell. No, the animals just go out of existence. They don't have an eternal being. And that's what this living soul is. It's eternal being. And so the soul, if it could be living, meaning that you have eternal life, or it could have eternal damnation, but you're still conscious. You're still there. So that was deep, I know. So anyway, go back to Genesis chapter 2 and verse 8. But that's what I believe about the soul and spirit because they are very close. That's why it says, you know, it's the dividing asunder of soul and spirit and it's like the joints and marrow. So they're very close connected. They're very closely connected. Because if you try to really try to nitpick on what's the difference between them sometimes, it's going to be hard. But if you think about, you know, Jesus, when it says that he went to hell for three days and three nights, remember he said unto God, unto thy hand I commend my spirit. He doesn't say his soul. And so when Jesus died, I believe he literally died. His soul was dead. His soul was in hell because he said, I am the first and the last. I am he that liveth and was dead and behold I am alive forevermore. Amen. I have the keys of hell and of death. And so why could he say that he was with Lazarus in paradise that day? Because his spirit was in heaven. Obviously he's God, so he's omnipresent. I mean, you could use that to fix that problem. But anyway, so I thought I was getting off that point. So anyway, Genesis 2, verse 8, the Garden of Eden. So this is the famous Garden of Eden here. So let's look at what it talks about here with the Garden of Eden. So, and the Lord God, in verse 8, planted a garden eastward in Eden and there he put the man whom he had formed. So I believe there's this garden, there's this place called Eden, but then there's a garden in the eastward, eastward in Eden. So it's not like that's all Eden was the garden. And so there's this garden in the eastward part of Eden and he put man in there and it says that, and out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every, every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food, the tree of life also in the midst of the garden and the tree of knowledge of good and evil. And so he put man in there to till it and to keep it, the Bible says, but notice the famous tree of life's there and the famous tree of knowledge and good and evil. Now obviously we'll see the downfall in chapter 3, but notice that there's a river that's there in verse 10. It says, and a river went out of Eden to water the garden and from thence it was parted and became into four parts. So I believe that throughout Eden, there's a garden of Eden, there's this river, but then when it comes out of Eden, out of the garden of Eden, I believe it heads off in four parts and goes throughout the land, into different parts of the land. And so there's four rivers, there's Pison, Gihon, Hiddekeel and Euphrates. Now what's really interesting about this to me, is that the way they're writing this, they're talking about countries that are after the flood. They're talking about locations that are after the flood. So I believe that when the flood happened it didn't completely destroy the geography of everything. I believe that these rivers were the same rivers that we see as far as Euphrates that we see now and Hiddekeel. Now Hiddekeel is mentioned in Daniel. So these rivers are mentioned and it doesn't just give you a river name because you can say, well they just renamed rivers that had the same name as the rivers that were there before the flood. But it names countries like Assyria. Like the third river, Hiddekeel, it says, that is it which goeth toward the east of Assyria. Assyria is not mentioned until after the flood. And we'll get to that when we get into, once we get into the Tower of Babel and all this stuff, but it will mention Assyria. It will mention Asher, which is the one where Assyria came from. But that's interesting to me. Euphrates, I believe this Euphrates is the same Euphrates that we would think of. And there's an interesting theory when you think about this, and maybe we'll get to it next week, about the four angels that were loosed in the bottom of the river Euphrates. Now we covered this just slightly when we were going through the trumpets and the wrath of God in Revelation, but if you remember the sixth trumpet or the second woe, what happens? He loosed the four angels that were bound in the great river Euphrates. Now what's interesting is that when he kicks the man out of the Garden of Eden, he puts a cherry bim, now cherry bim is plural, so that means that there's multiple, there's at least two, with flaming swords to keep man out from each way. So if you look at that, each way, north, south, east, west, there could be four of them with a flaming sword pointing in each direction. Anyway, we'll do a study on cherry bims, but this could literally be, those cherry bims could be the ones that are loosed from the river Euphrates, because if you think about the flood happened, things probably did get changed around a little bit, so maybe where are these angels that were keeping out, these cherry bims that were keeping out man from getting into the Garden of Eden are under water, but they're still there with flaming swords. It's just something interesting to think about, I'm not saying that's not dogmatic, don't take that one to the bank, but there are angels that are bound in the river Euphrates that are going to be loosed. That much we know for sure, but whether it's talking about these same ones that were keeping out man from the Garden of Eden, I don't know. But it's interesting because Euphrates is mentioned, and stuff like that seems to line up. So anyway, that's a fun little fact, maybe we'll talk about that more next week. But the earth will be like Eden again, so what we see with Eden, with this tree of life, and with all the stuff that's going on with this, we covered this in great detail when we were in, but go to Isaiah 51, Isaiah 51, and I'll read to you Revelation 22, but we already covered this with new heaven, new earth. In Revelation 22 verse 1 it says, And he showed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb. In the midst of the street of it, and on the other side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manna of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month, and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations. See how this matches up perfectly with Eden? You have a river that's running through Eden, and you have the tree of life in Eden. And so, you don't have the tree of knowledge of good and evil, because that's already done, right? So we already have the knowledge of good and evil when we get into the new heaven, new earth. But, in Isaiah 51 and verse 3, it says, For the Lord shall comfort Zion, he will comfort all his waste places, and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the Lord. Joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving and the voice of melody. Remember, New Jerusalem's coming down, which is Mount Zion, and he's going to make it like Eden and like the garden of the Lord, the paradise of God, it calls it. And so, we saw that already with the new heaven, new earth. So basically, where we're at right here is where it started. Then we go through all the fall of man after the flood, then we talked about a thousand year reign where we're kind of getting back to that a little bit, more so before the flood kind of conditions, and then we're coming full circle. New heaven, new earth is coming right back to the garden of Eden. And so, just wanted to show you that real quick. But also, in this, I did want to talk about the fact that the devil was in the garden of Eden before he sinned. So go to Ezekiel, Ezekiel 28, and I know we talked about this, we already covered this a little bit, but I did want to show you this, that at this point, in day six, Satan's perfect and without sin. That's something interesting to think about. Think about a world where Satan's not going around tempting people and sinning, and being the adversary. This is when he was just Lucifer, when he was, now we think Lucifer is a bad connotation, but I believe Lucifer was probably his name before he fell. And so, Isaiah 14 is another place to go to if you want to look for some similarities, but this passage actually says that he was in the garden of God, he was in Eden. So Ezekiel 28 and verse 11, I just want you to see the beginning of this because what this is, is a lamentation upon the king of Tires. And the same thing with Isaiah 14, is it's a proverb for the king of Babylon. So he's talking to a king, but he's likening him unto Satan. So that's why when you're reading some of these passages, he's talking to a king, and then all of a sudden he's talking about Satan. It's strange, but it's because he's making that king basically likened unto Satan, and basically telling the story of Satan through him. So Ezekiel 28 and verse 11, it says, Moreover, the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tires, and saying to him, Thus saith the Lord God, Thou selest up the sum full of wisdom and perfect in beauty. Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God. So obviously we're not talking about the king of Tires, because he wasn't alive when that was going on, when Eden was there. Every precious stone, so this is describing what Satan was, or how he was created. Every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the barrel, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold. The workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou was created. Now it's interesting because it says that it was prepared in thy tabrets and pipes, so I believe this is talking more so about music. And so it's interesting if you study, we'll get into Tubal Cain, and Cain, and he was, you know, like the descendants of Cain, who was of the wicked one, was very gifted in music. And you can definitely see that in our world, and how Satan has a strong hold on music. And so music is a good thing, but it can definitely be used with the devil, and I believe the devil has his minions when it comes to that. But as we go on here, so we kind of get a picture of who Satan is. Verse 14, thou art the anointed cherub that covereth. So he had a very high position. You think of Michael the archangel, he was, Satan was the anointed cherub that covereth. And so if you, we'll study this eventually in Ezekiel, but in Ezekiel there's four cherry bims that you remember that he sees, and each of them have four faces, and they all have four wings, and they're upon the throne of God, and I believe that Satan was one of these. He was the fifth one probably, but he was the covering cherub, I believe he covered them. And so he fell obviously, so he's not there, when Ezekiel's seeing the throne and all that, but he's the anointed cherub that covereth. And I have set thee so, thou wast upon the holy mountain of God, thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire. Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee. So when he was in the garden of Eden, he was perfect. When he was walking up and down the stones of fire in heaven, he was perfect, he was the covering cherub, he was the anointed cherub that covereth. So he was beautiful. And so just all this stuff that it talks about how everything that was about him was beautiful. Think of all the stuff that he was covered with, all these stones, and all these precious stones, and so until iniquity was found in him. So obviously he sinned. Verse 16, but the multitude of thy merchandise, they have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned. Therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God. I will destroy thee, though covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire. Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty. Thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness. I will cast thee to the ground. I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee. So this is an interesting passage on Satan, but what I wanted to really point out here is the fact that he was in the garden of Eden. And remember, when God created everything, if he was in the garden of Eden, clearly, then when he made everything at the day of day six and he says, it is very good, it wouldn't make sense if Satan was in there and iniquity was found in him. So this proves that Satan, when the creation was completely done and God had rested the seventh day, Satan was still perfect and upright and there was no iniquity in him yet. And so it wasn't until after that. Now I don't know how long after that. Now we know it wasn't that long because Adam was 130 when he had Seth. So we know that it's somewhere in a hundred years or so that Adam and Eve fell. So we know it's not like hundreds or thousands. People probably try to put a gap in there, right? They'd be like, oh, okay, well there's millions of years in there, right? Adam lived for a million, you know, Adam lived for 900 and some years. So we know that there's a mark on there. But God put man in the garden to dress it and to keep it. And God gives his first commandment to Adam. So go back to Genesis chapter two in verse 15 and I say the first commandment because you may say, well, he said to be fruitful and to multiply and replenish the earth. I don't believe he says that until he has Eve. And at this point, when he says to not eat of this fruit, Eve's not in the picture yet. Now she's about to be. So that's interesting and it's interesting, something to think about. Did God say this commandment directly to Eve or did Adam say it to Eve? Did Adam tell Eve? Now obviously Eve knew, but did she hear directly from God? And so that's something we'll get into as far as that Adam wasn't deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression. So there's an interesting thing that's going on there. So that's one thing I want to point out here. But in verse 15 it says, And the Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it. Verse 16, And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat. But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it. For in the day that thou eatest thereof, thou shalt surely die. So I believe this is the first commandment that's really given the man is just don't eat of this fruit. You can eat of anything else. Just don't eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Now notice it says, In the day that thou eatest thereof, thou shalt surely die. So we know that when they eat the fruit they don't die physically immediately, but they die spiritually. Go to Romans chapter seven because this really goes into the fact of when does a child need to be saved? When does someone need to be saved? Or if a child died or if he had a miscarriage or a baby died, where would they go? I believe that they would go to heaven if they didn't have the knowledge of good and evil. And so this is really where this comes into is the fact that someone, a baby that comes into the world is not spiritually dead. That's a big point because if they were then they would go to hell. But they're not spiritually dead. Romans seven covers this and this is really where you get into the knowledge of good and evil. Romans chapter seven verse nine it says, For I was alive without the law at once, but when the commandment came, sin revived and I died. So he's not talking physically he's talking spiritually and Paul's saying this. In the commandment, verse ten, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death. For sin, taken occasion by the commandment, deceived me and by it slew me. So there comes a point in our lives where we come to the knowledge of good and evil where the commandment of God slays us spiritually to where we die and we need to get saved. You say, well when is that? I don't believe it's on a certain age, but I believe it's a time where they can understand God or they can understand the fact that they've broken God's commandments. Because obviously a child learns at a very young age that they shouldn't be disobeying their parents. That's very young. But I believe that actually in Genesis chapter two in the last verse kind of gives us a little bit of information as far as how we can tell that. In Genesis chapter two, so go back to Genesis chapter two. Genesis chapter two in the very last verse there, it says in verse twenty-five, it says, and they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed. So my little girl, well obviously Anna is definitely not anywhere close to that, but Clara will just run around stark naked and wouldn't even bat an eye. She's not ashamed of it because you see the innocency of a child and how they don't realize, they're not ashamed of being naked. Now I'm not saying that this is the marker of all markers, but what I'm saying is that I believe when a child's starting, when they would be embarrassed to be naked in front of people, I think they're getting to the point where they understand something. Because Adam and Eve did not know they were naked until they ate of the knowledge of the good and evil. I believe this is kind of a way to see, okay, you're understanding. You're understanding that. Now obviously with this too, I believe there are people that mentally cannot get to that point because they were born with some kind of mental disability. And so someone may never even come to the knowledge of good and evil. So what you have to understand is that if God's not willing to perish, it wouldn't make any sense, first of all, that He would allow people to be born to have no opportunity at all to be saved, that has no chance to be saved. And so this is very clear in the Scriptures that a child would go to heaven as long as they didn't come to that point where they would know. Honestly, I think five years old is probably the youngest I've heard of children getting saved, maybe four. But here's the thing, it's different for different children. I think some children it may take until they're seven until they come to that point. What I'm going to do is just keep giving them the gospel as much as I can and I'm not going to be trying to find that point. I'm just going to be giving them the gospel, giving them the gospel, giving them the gospel. But I want you to, first of all, have comfort that if you've lost a child or if you've known someone that's lost a child, especially when you're dealing with miscarriages and all these other things, the Bible is very clear that they're innocent. The child spiritually is alive but their body is sinful. So there is truth in the fact that a child comes out speaking lies but that's their flesh. It's not until their soul is realizing what they're doing and their soul becomes slain, so to speak, by the commandment of the Lord and at that point you're dead in trespasses and sins, you need to get saved. That's what the Bible teaches on this and I believe that in Genesis chapter 2 it gives us a little light on that. The knowledge of good and evil and also the fact of they were naked and they were not ashamed. So that gives us a little idea. Think of children. Children are like that. So anyway, going on here, Genesis chapter 2 and verse 18. Genesis chapter 2, this is where Adam gets a wife. Genesis 2 and verse 18, it says, and the Lord God said, it is not good that the man should be alone. I will make him and help meet for him. Now something that people say all the time, and here's the thing, you can say this all you want, they say she's my help meat but that doesn't really make sense because meat needs worthy or fit for something, right? You know, bring forth fruits, meat for repentance. Now help mate, you could say, I guess, but really he's making them a help that's fit for him or worthy of him, so to speak. And so that's what that means is the help meat for him. It's just a word that means someone that's fit or worthy for that person. And so anyway, it's interesting how this story goes on the fact that he doesn't just start off like I'm going to make you a woman. He starts off with the fact that okay, I'm going to bring up every beast of the field and basically he's creating Adam's own animals. And you can almost look at it as like the Garden of Eden, he's got a pet of every single animal so to speak of every animal that God has created out of the dust of the earth. And so this is where people get confused. They're like, oh, this is a contradiction because he made man and now he's making animals. And so it's like backwards or something. No, it's just the fact that he's doing this specially for Adam. He's bringing up, he's creating these animals. This is day six so he hasn't finished his creation yet. And he's having him name all these animals. And so he's naming all these animals, all the fowls of the air, all the cattle, all the beasts of the field. And it says in there was found, was not found and helped meet for him. So I guess dong was not man's best friend. We needed a woman. But anyway, we see that obviously that wasn't going to do. So God caused Adam to go into deep sleep. Verse 21, it says, and the Lord God caused the deep sleep to fall upon Adam. And he slept and he took one of his ribs and closed up the flesh thereof. And the rib which the Lord God had taken from man made he a woman and brought her unto the man. And Adam said, this is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh. She shall be called woman because she was taken out of man. So this is interesting because he takes a rib. Now I looked this up, now I've definitely heard this before, but I looked this up. According to doctors and according to what I've looked up and read, a rib grows back. It's the only bone in the body that actually grows back. And I was reading this article, it was like the UK Daily Mail, you know, it was like something from like Britain. And they were talking about how they did all these studies and the fact of like they did this study on this person where they took out a rib or a rib was damaged or broken off or taken out or something like that and it grew back. And they were just, you know, this was just like this miraculous thing and they're like, oh, maybe this could be applied to other bones in the body or whatever. I'm like, did you not read Genesis chapter two? You know, because they're acting like this is something new. This is some new phenomenon or something like that. Now it doesn't say that Adam's rib grew back, but it's interesting that he took the one bone or he created man and knowing that I'm going to take a rib and it's going to grow back. And so, but it doesn't show you because it likens this to marriage. Now, that's obviously the point of why he made woman. It's not good for a man to be alone and then he's going to marry her and she's going to be his wife. The fact of the relationship of man and wife and how close that is. And the fact that it's that close that it's like my wife is a part of me. It becomes one flesh. That's why when you go to verse 24, therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother and shall cleave unto his wife and they shall be one flesh. See how that works perfectly? I don't think that was by accident that God literally made woman out of a part of Adam's body to give that correlation and how close that is as far as being one flesh. Go to 1 Corinthians chapter 11 and it actually talks about this in 1 Corinthians chapter 11 when we're dealing with hair lengths, you know, about how women should have long hair and men should have short hair. But it does cover this and I just wanted to talk about marriage just for a second here because this is something that's quoted a lot in the New Testament as far as this passage. So in 1 Corinthians 11 verse 12 it says, Now I praise you brethren that you remember me in all things and keep the ordinances as I delivered them to you. But I would have you know that the head of every man is Christ and the head of the woman is the man and the head of Christ is God. Now the world will just lose their minds when I'm about to read here that the man is the head of the woman. Now in verse 4 it says, every man praying or prophesying, having his head covered dishonors his head. But every woman that prayeth or prophesyeth with her head uncovered dishonors her head for that is even all one as if she were shaven. For if the woman be not covered let her also be shorn but if it be a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven let her be covered. For a man indeed ought not to cover his head for as much as he is the image and glory of God but the woman is the glory of the man. For the man is not of the woman but the woman of the man. So here's where we really get into what we're just talking about. Verse 8, for the man is not of the woman but the woman of the man. Neither was the man created for the woman but the woman for the man. For this cause ought the woman to have power on her head because of the angels. Nevertheless, neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man in the Lord. For as the woman is of the man, even so is the man also by the woman but all things of God. So you're saying goodnight what in the world are you talking about? So basically in the beginning the woman was made out of man but all men are born of women. Does that make sense? That's what that's saying, right? Is the fact that all, it says even so is the man also by the woman. That's what that's talking about because women are literally who bring men into the world and so that's how that works. But notice the, we talked about this with the sun and the moon last week and the fact that the moon is the glory of the sun and the woman is the glory of the man and see how those things work together and the roles of men and women. And so this is something that I'll probably preach a whole sermon on as far as something that our society just bocks at, they hate. They hate the fact of the man being the leader, the head of the home, the main provider and the woman being subject unto their husbands. And so, but Genesis chapter 2 is something that is quoted by Jesus, it's quoted by the apostles, it's quoted by other people in the Bible as far as this, you know, man leaving father and mother and cleaving unto his wife and they too shall be one flesh. Go to Matthew chapter 19, Matthew chapter 19 and this is the last point, I mean, we're going to go to Ephesians chapter 5 as well. But do you see how it makes sense that the husband is the authority when the woman came out of man? It's showing this from the very beginning. And so obviously from the fall of man, there's different things that we'll see in chapter 3 of the fact that the man's going to rule over the woman and all these different things because of the fall. And so I don't believe necessarily all those things applied before the fall, but I do believe that the idea of what it was talking about, 1 Corinthians 11 does apply, did apply, you know, as far as all that goes. But we do know, and obviously in the new heaven, new earth, we're not going to be given a marriage, we're not going to be marrying. So in that aspect, I believe those roles as far as what we're dealing with now will be different. You still will be a female though. So, you know, there's this weird doctrine out there that when we're all resurrected, we're all going to be male. So yeah, I don't agree with that. So I believe that you'll still be your gender, but you won't, like my wife won't be subject unto me anymore. And so, but anyway, so we get into Matthew chapter 19 verse 3, it says, Matthew 19 verse 3, it says, the Pharisees also came unto him, tempting him and saying unto him, is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause? And he answered and said unto them, have you not read that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female? And said, for this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife, and they twain shall be one flesh. He's quoting Genesis chapter 2 verse 6, wherefore, so he's adding to this and adding what he's saying on here, he's saying, wherefore, they are no more twain but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder. So he's putting his seal on that saying, hey, that's the way it's supposed to be, don't let man put it asunder. And so, they're obviously coming to him saying, hey, is there any cause, right, for, you know, for every cause you could just divorce. So he's drawing a hard line, and we'll do a whole sermon on that as well as far as divorce and remarriage and all that. But go to Ephesians chapter 5. So marriage, marriage at the very beginning of the Bible. Genesis chapter 2, Adam was married to his wife. And so, they were man and wife before the fall. Because it calls him his wife, or it says that she's his wife. So, Ephesians chapter 5 verse 22, and I want to read this just to get, you know, exactly what we're dealing with here as far as the relationship between husbands and wives. And this is something that's lost in our society as far as what our roles are to be. But from the foundation of the world, God set us up to be, you know, he made man and he made the wife to be his help. And so, it's not to say that the woman is any less needful or any less valuable. That's not what God says. That's not what the Bible says. That's not what I'm saying. But there is a difference between man and woman. And so, from the very beginning, even before the fall, there was a difference as far as the roles and anatomy. Come on now. But in Ephesians chapter 5 and verse 22, it says, wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands as unto the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church, and he is the savior of the body. Now, I've heard, you know, because right before this in Ephesians chapter 5, it talks about submit yourselves one to another. And I've literally had pastors and preachers say that, well, we need to submit ourselves unto our wives as well. I've heard them say that. And when, obviously, we're supposed to be submitting ourselves unto certain people as men, right? I was to submit myself under the pastor when I was under a church. I'm still supposed to submit myself unto God. But I submit myself unto my boss, and wouldn't you as a man that's working in the workforce, right? And so, but to say, you know, that's where they get into that 50-50, like we're in this 50-50, you know, like power struggle, so to speak, in the home. And that's not what it teaches here, though. Let's just see what the Bible says. It says that the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church. Now, let me ask you a question. Are we supposed to, is Christ supposed to be submitting himself unto us? Would that make any sense for Christ to submit unto our will and what we want to do? No. And so, that's a strong statement, that the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church. And verse 24 says, Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything. See that? Just as much as I'm supposed to be subject unto Christ in everything, that's the way the wives are to be the husbands. Now, here's what the husband's jobs are. So, the wife, submit yourselves unto your own husbands. Verse 25, husbands love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church and gave himself for it. And it goes on with the church here as far as representing what the church is supposed to be to Christ. But that's what we're supposed to do. We're supposed to die for our wives. We're supposed to love our wives unto death, and we're supposed to provide for our wives, and we're supposed to do a lot for our wives. And so, I feel like, you know, we want to come down on women like, submit, submit. We need to do our part, too. And so, yes, the wife is supposed to submit. Even if your husband's not the best guy in the world, even if he's not doing everything he should be doing, and you could make a hit list on everything that he does wrong, you are to submit unto him. Now, obviously, if he tells you to do something that's against the Bible, then that's different. If he tells you to do something that's completely a commandment to sin, you know, that's different. But most of the time, especially when people talk about things like this, it's not something like that. It's not, you know, he's telling me to chug a beer. He's telling me to do that. You know, it's not that. It's usually like you think that something should be done better. And so, you need to submit unto your own husbands. And husbands, you need to love your wives, and you need to love them as if you were going to die for them. And so, don't get into this power trip of, okay, I'm the leader. I'm going to do everything. Just, you know, submit everything I do, and, you know, don't ask any questions. Here's the thing. I ask my wife opinions. I ask her what she thinks about things, and sometimes she just tells me what she thinks about certain things. In the end, I make the decision. In the end, I make the final call. But there have been times where she's changed my mind, and I'm like, yep, you know what, actually that makes more sense. So, there's nothing wrong with your wife actually talking to you and talking about how you're going to do things. Your wife's probably intelligent. I mean, my wife's very intelligent. And so, I like to take her advice every once in a while, and, you know, two heads are better than one. But in the end, I make the choice. The husband needs to make the choice, good or bad, okay? And ultimately, that's what the wife wants. My wife doesn't want all the responsibility of making those choices because in that position of authority, you have to take the responsibility for what happens. And so, be not many masters knowing that we should receive the greater condemnation. And yes, I like being the leader, but at the same time, because I'm the leader, I have to take responsibility for everything. If my family fails, it's my fault. If my wife were to leave me, it's my fault. If my children were to grow up for the devil, it's my fault. Ultimately, it's my fault. I failed as the husband. I failed as the father. And that's ultimately my fault. So, I need to own up to that and take care of that. But verse 31, it says, for this cause shall a man leave his father and mother and shall be joined unto his wife and they too shall be one flesh. This is exactly what Genesis 2 said. Verse 32, so has anything changed from the foundation of the world here? No, this is the same from the foundation of the world. Verse 32, this is a great mystery, but I speak concerning Christ and the church. Nevertheless, let every one of you in particular so love his wife, even as himself, and the wife see that she reverence her husband. Say that out in the world today. You need to reverence your husband. I mean, these libtards would lose their minds. I mean, lose their minds. I mean, these feminists, I think they literally have an aneurysm if you said that to them, that you need to reverence your husband. But you know what? All these feminists and all these libtards out there that want to preach and teach to everybody, all this women lib stuff, they're miserable. They are miserable. And so, they're working all their jobs. They can't have kids because they have to go work all their jobs. They can't stay at home with their kids. And if they do have kids, they have to put them in daycare and then they can't spend time with them because they don't want to have, you know, put all their eggs into the basket of their husband. You know, it takes a lot of trust for your wife to say, you know what, I'm not going to have a career and I'm going to put all my trust in you to take care of me. That takes a lot to submit unto your husband, put all your trust in him that he's going to take care of everything so that you can take care of the kids. And so, that's how marriages stay alive, my friends. That's how you stick together because we need each other. You know, obviously, I have no inclination to leave my wife, but do you think I would even want to? You know, like the fact that who's going to take care of my kids? What's going to happen if that happens? You know, people that get divorces that have kids and all this stuff, all the money that has to be spent on all this stuff, all the headaches that go through that, who would even want to do that? Or, you know, it's just baffling to me. But the world is selling you a bill of goods when it comes to what the perfect life is. The blessed life is having a wife that loves you, having children that you can raise with your wife at home, and that's the best life you can have. It may not be the most expensive, lavish life that you can imagine, but there's nothing better than it. And so, the Bible teaches this, that you should marry, bear children, that women should God the house, that they submit unto their husbands, and that the husbands love their wives as their selves and give their lives to their wives as Christ did for the church. You keep that in mind in your marriage, and it'll never fail. Just keep that in mind. And so, that's something we need to get back to today, and no one's marriage is perfect, okay? Let's just say that out in front. No one's marriage is perfect. We all have ups and downs, and none of us are living this fairy tale, Hollywood-esque, you know, marriage life. That's just, it's all, you know, Hollywood, all it's doing is putting up a hologram of what's not real, so that when you get into a real marriage and you get into a real relationship, it just crumbles, and then you think that you've made a mistake. Just get it in your minds that you're not always going to have the butterflies that you had when you first got married or you first met your wife or you met your husband or whatever, that it's not always going to be there. But you just need, and here's the thing, it's going to get better in time, and you know what, I love my wife more today than when I married her, and there's that love that keeps growing and growing and growing, and you know, I would never want another. And you've got to keep into the word, you've got to keep into this structure that God has set up. You stay in that structure. And here's the thing, men want different things than women want in a relationship. There's nothing better than when my wife says I'm the boss. I know you say, well, you're an ego, you know, you're eccentric, you know. No, when my wife is obeying, and even just straight out says you're the boss, what we're doing is what you say, you know, and obviously she's not saying it like, she's usually just saying it lightly, right? But the thing is, is that that says a lot to me about the fact that, hey, I'm doing something right here. You know, my wife is doing, you know, a godly woman that wants to do right, and so that's what men want. They want reverence. They want respect. You know, I'm all for a hug, but that's what the wife wants, the affection, the love, you know, the attention. Man, if you just give us respect, we'll be good to go. We need other things too. Obviously, we need the love and the affection too, but there is a difference between what we're looking for and the Bible covers it. So, Genesis chapter 2 is a great chapter with the Garden of Eden. It covers marriage. It covers the fact that in the day that you eat that fruit of the knowledge of good and evil, that's when you die spiritually, and so that's an important point from the very beginning of making as far as when does someone have to be saved, and so, you know, when it comes to children, that answers that, and we'll probably do a whole sermon on that because there are other passages that cover that. I talked about it in our Revelation 7, so if you weren't here for Revelation 7, you know, look that up, and I do cover that with some other scriptures too, and so the Garden of Eden, now it's all downhill from here, so once we get to chapter 3, but interesting stuff. So, let's end with a word of prayer. Dear Heavenly Father, Lord, we thank you for this evening, and Lord, we pray that you be with us as we go home, give us safe travels, and Lord, we do pray that you be with us as we go back to work, and Lord, I pray that you heal us from any sicknesses and keep us healthy, and Lord, we love you and pray all this in Jesus Christ's name. Amen.