Genesis 3:20-21 And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living. 21 Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make coats of skins, and clothed them.
How ironic that as the mother of all living the first thing she gave unto Adam was the forbidden fruit that brought death. Eve means life yet for the first pair on earth they were to live a living death until God called them home. Not only would they forever live under the cloud they created but every one of their offspring would be born to die.
The picture painted in Genesis 3 has to be one of the saddest in the Bible. What is set in motion affects the entire creation on earth as well as in heaven. The tsunami will continue until God destroys the heaven and earth we now see and brings forth new ones in Rev. 21. How profound are the words of Paul in Romans 14:7 where he said "For none of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself." Our decisions and actions affect others just as Adam and Eve's did. Whether we live obedient to God or rebellious toward God is going to show up in our children and their children. Our lives can be a wellspring of life to them or it can bring forth death. Life, if we train our children in the ways of God (Prov. 22:6, Eph. 6:4) or we can carelessly raise them and contribute to their rejection of the eternal life that comes through Jesus.
God, in His love and care for His fallen creatures, prepares them for what He must now do. Before God sends them forth into the hostile world he clothes them in the skins of animals that He has killed in order to clothe their nakedness. The covering of fig leaves was not sufficient and God was not going to do less for His man creation than he had done for His animal creation.
The first death recorded in the Bible is the death of an animal(s) to protect fallen man. Oh what a picture we are given of what is to take place approximately 4,000 years later. An innocent animal must die because of sin. We are not told what the animal was but I would venture that it was a lamb. In the foreshadowing of the Lamb of God that we have pictured here I can conceive of no other. Innocent life taken that the guilty might live. The terrible price of sin started in the Garden. The final installment for payment of that sin came many many years later but when it came it came in such fashion that God could say: "PAID IN FULL".
Poetry Corner
Isaiah 53:4 Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. 5 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
How Beautiful
How beautiful are His nail-pierced hands…
hands that carried my sorrows.
I know His great arm
shields me from harm.
Christ has me hidden
from sunrise to sunset-
as every day melts
into every night.
How beautiful are His nail-pierced hands…
hands that carried my sorrows.
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