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Originally Posted by Sam
Does anybody have any idea how much time there was between the time Adam was formed from the dust of the earth and when Eve was formed from material from his side?
Or how long after YHWH brought those two together in the Garden as a breeding pair until they disobeyed God as recorded in Genesis chapter 3?
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I once played with the thought that they sinned before the sixth day ended, when they were created. I wondered why the Lord told us in
Hebrews 4 that the REST into which God planned for man to enter, starting with the opportunity at the seventh day, was not entered into by Adam, since the day after his creation would have been the sabbath day -- God's rest.
Heb 4:3-4 KJV For 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. (4) 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 REST for man to enter was first given to man the very first seventh day!
And notice that the COOL OF THE DAY can be rendered, the end of the day.
Gen 3:8 GNB That evening they heard the LORD God walking in the garden, and they hid from him among the trees.
To be sure, Satan had to foil man from gaining God's LIFE in himself by way of the fruit of life, and multiplying with that Life in him. Adam had already multiplied ONCE in seeing EVE created from his side. To stop the continuation, the devil went to the woman through whom Adam would continue to multiply. THE SOONER THE BETTER!
Notice that the very things God said about Adam's purpose were judged by God.
Gen 1:28 KJV And God blessed them, and God said unto them,
Be fruitful,
and multiply,
and replenish the earth,
and subdue it:
and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
Gen 3:16-19 KJV Unto the woman he said,
I will greatly
multiply thy sorrow and thy conception;
in sorrow thou shalt
bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to
thy husband, and he shall rule over thee. (17) And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it:
cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life; (18) Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field; (19) 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.
What a series of contrasts from the original note in
Gen 1:28. Instead of multiplying in joy to see children fill the earth, they would see sorrow multiplied. Instead of both of them ruling earth, Eve would be ruled by her husband and Adam would sweat to see the earth bring forth to him. Instead of subduing earth, Adam would forever labour with the earth, only to return to it in a death he was never meant to experience.
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