WHY IS EARTH DYING? (GEN-07)

Whatever happened to Paradise?
There was a perfect earth with no sin when Genesis 2 ends.

What a place it must have been with all of the glow of Creation unshrouded by sin. Every creature was good; every part of the universe was singing the glory of God. No groaning under the burden of sin was yet present from the creation. But then something drastic happened. What? Adam and Eve’s sin. Look at Genesis 3 with me.

To Eve, God said, “I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth, in pain, you shall bring forth children, Yet your desire shall be for your husband, and he shall rule over you” (Gen. 3:16). The pain of childbirth and the subjection of a wife to her husband are direct results of the Fall.

To Adam, God said, “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat from it’; cursed is the ground because of you; in toil, you shall eat of it all the days of your life. Both thorns and thistles it shall grow for you, and you shall eat the plants of the field; By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground because from it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust, you shall return” (3:17-19).

Then, the man was put out of the garden. “Then the Lord God said, ‘Behold, the man has become like one of Us, knowing good and evil; and now, lest he stretches out his hand, and take also from the tree of life, and eat, and live forever’–therefore the Lord God sent him out from the garden of Eden, to cultivate the ground from which he was taken” (3:22-23).

Paradise Lost

When Adam sinned, the earth was corrupted, and he immediately lost his kingdom and crown.

Because all mankind fell in Adam because he lost his kingdom and his crown, we do not now see the Earth as being subject to man. The earth originally was subject to man, and it supplied all his needs without his having to do anything. He had only to accept and enjoy the earth as it provided for him. Then, tempted by Satan, man sinned, and his tempter usurped the crown. There, you see the change in the chain of command. Mankind fell to the bottom, and the earth, under the evil one, now rules man. If you pay much attention to ecology, you know that we do not rule this world; it rules us. With all our modern technology, we must constantly fight against the earth for our survival.
(GEN-07; 991114AM)

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