Often we wonder what an ideal life feels like. No diseases, no trouble at home or outside, peace, perfect peace everywhere. No clutter in life, everything going as smooth as it can go, wishes and dreams fulfilled, promises kept, a life so perfect that angels would envy us.
That was Eden.
The garden was so perfect – songs of praises echoing in its atmosphere, blissful worship in Adam and Eve’s hearts for their Creator Father in Heaven. Nothing to envy, nothing more to strive for – a perfect paradise.
Tragically, then came the fall.
A fall so damaging and destructive that the angels pitied us, the demons laughed at us and before we could barely understand what was going on, we were out of the garden. We have never stopped falling since that day until help descended from heaven in the form of the Lord Jesus. Even after that ultimate act of redemption at the Cross, people choose to fall as they have long forgotten the taste of heaven and the blessings of Eden. They have become so comfortable in their present state that they have forgotten the Saviour’s open arms to go to when in need.
The Consequences and manifestations of the fall were a hundredfold. Man had lost his own soul and the promise of eternity, along with his health, God given wealth and all his possessions. Yet, he could not fully grasp the life-altering extent of his loss because he barely had any knowledge of what gifts had been entrusted him in the first place. Before he could exercise the dominion promised by the Father, he had relinquished it over to the devil. Eternal life had been snatched away; he was now a mere mortal. Death, a new enemy had entered into the world, and he had no defence against it. Death and chaos reigned where there once was life and order.
A song was once written about lucifer, now home to darkness, but once called the son of morning:
Thus says the Lord God:
“You were the seal of perfection,
Full of wisdom and perfect in beauty.
You were in Eden, the garden of God;
Every precious stone was your covering:
The sardius, topaz, and diamond,
Beryl, onyx, and jasper,
Sapphire, turquoise, and emerald with gold.
The workmanship of your timbrels and pipes
Was prepared for you on the day you were created.
“You were the anointed cherub who covers;
I established you;
You were on the holy mountain of God;
You walked back and forth in the midst of fiery stones.
You were perfect in your ways from the day you were created,
Till iniquity was found in you.
“By the abundance of your trading
You became filled with violence within,
And you sinned;
Therefore I cast you as a profane thing
Out of the mountain of God;
And I destroyed you, O covering cherub,
From the midst of the fiery stones.
“Your heart was lifted up because of your beauty;
You corrupted your wisdom for the sake of your splendor;
I cast you to the ground,
I laid you before kings,
That they might gaze at you.
“You defiled your sanctuaries
By the multitude of your iniquities,
By the iniquity of your trading;
Therefore I brought fire from your midst;
It devoured you, And I turned you to ashes upon the earth In the sight of all who saw you.
All who knew you among the peoples are astonished at you;
You have become a horror, And shall be no more forever.”
Ezekiel 28:13-19
He rejoiced because the song now suited man more than him! “O how you fell to my machinations! I have ruined you and your generation, the generation that the Lord God had promised you. Now you have nothing but rags; left naked and alone in the dark with no one to rescue you and I have all the power and energy that once was yours.”
His rant filled the skies, his shout of victory resounded in the heavens. It was like as if death itself gloated before Adam and Eve.
And they were alone.
The voice of the Lord called to them, but they were too overwhelmed to even realise that.
It called again,
“Adam, Adam, where are you?
And they heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden. Then the Lord God called to the man, “Where are you?”
-Genesis 3:8,9
Adam and Eve were never strangers to the Lord and nor was He to them. It was a communion that took place regularly every day and every hour of the day. They were never alone. There were angels, angelic beings, birds and animals and every living thing on earth that kept them company. Now they were ashamed and afraid – the first emotions that sin’s negative energy brings.
They were strangers to the population of Eden now. The population that had until then coexisted in absolute peace, was now in utter chaos. Living beings including animals turned and preyed on each other everywhere and fulfilled their hunger and thirst for blood. Carnivores were born. They never ate grass anymore. They needed flesh and blood to fulfil their hunger. Bloodlust had entered the world. Negative energy prospered. It was as if a huge black hole had invaded Eden and was growing in power and strength, increasing in intensity as it devoured everything in its way.
There was that voice again in the middle of the chaos, “Adam, my son, where are you?”
And then Adam answered, “Lord, I cannot bear to see you after I have brought death into the world! It is my fault, I have sinned! I fell hard, along with the woman you have given me! Now we cannot face you nor bear your glory, and so we hid ourselves among the trees.”
More to come…
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