Genesis 2 -Genesis 3
Genesis 2
1: Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.
2: And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.
3: And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.
4: These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens,
5: 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.
6: But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.
7: And 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.
8: And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.
9: And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow 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.
10: And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads.
11: The name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;
12: And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone.
13: And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia.
14: And the name of the third river is Hiddekel: that is it which goeth toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth river is Euphrates.
15: And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.
16: And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:
17: 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.
18: And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.
19: And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.
20: And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him.
21: And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof;
22: And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.
23: 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.
24: Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
25: And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.
Genesis 3,
1: Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
2: And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden:
3: But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.
4: And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:
5: For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.
6: And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.
7: And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.
8: And they heard the voice 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 amongst the trees of the garden.
9: And the LORD God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou?
10: And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.
11: And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?
12: And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.
13: And the LORD God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.
14: And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:
15: And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
16: 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.
20: 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.
22: And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:
23: Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.
24: So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.
The tree of the knowledge of good and evil we find in the early part of the book of Genesis. What is the Tree of the knowledge of good and evil. What makes me sure man is a soul is the fact that man can know good and man can know evil, but man can not know both good and evil together at a go. Remember good always comes first in the term knowledge of good and evil. Man can not first know good, and then know evil at a go. Man can not survive this. Man would simply die.
So what is the Tree of the knowledge of good and evil? Let me use this example. Let's say God tells you in a vision you should not take a sort of wine. This sort of wine represents a type in the Bible, the one they used to take in the past, which represents someone whose sin has not been forgiven totally.(There are many words used for wine in the Bible, Yayin and Tirosh being examples of words used for wine and new wine respectively, for example, though the word Yayin is more frequently used than any other word.) This wine is represents both something physical and something spiritual. When God tells you not to take the wine you were living in your house with your friends (a pastor and his wife, and your best friend, making four of you). So the wine was in a fridge, your mother's fridge, but in the dream it was sort of owned by the pastor, and his wife.
So this wine, God in the dream tells you not to take. The wine represents the sort of power the pastor is using which might be demonic(physically), and it also represents spiritually a drink of the cup of demons as we find in 1 Corinthians chapter 10. So if you take of this cup of wine, this sort of demonic doctrine from this pastor, which is that you need deliverance from your sickness, even after Jesus had already died for your sins and redeemed you, this would be like a Tree of the knowledge of good and evil for you, because it is like committing fornication, as it were, with the devil. Their doctrine, represented by the bottle of wine represents a doctrine among the many doctrines, a Christian should never take (See the relationship between the Tree of life and the Tree of the knowledge of good and evil in my other essay about the Tree of the knowledge of good and evil) in his "Garden of Eden",(just as 'Adam should not take from one particular tree only, lest he die) lest he or she die, both physically and spiritually.
So the Tree of of the knowledge of good and evil represented something both Adam and Eve should never take. Note that Eve is not the same as 'Ishah, the wife of 'Adam. 'Ishah, the first wife (or 'Ishah, woman) of 'Adam, is like the wife of this pastor, who is also a bone of his bones, and flesh of his flesh, for they both belong to the same family of Christ, spiritually, though they are not members of the same family, Physically (They were living in the same house spiritually). By partaking in the doctrine of the pastor and his wife, it is then like taking from the Tree of the knowlegde of good and evil, with this first 'Ishah. Later God brought another 'Ishah to 'Adam who represented his real wife, or should I say his real husband, that is Jesus Christ, but because the glory of God is both male and female, and 'Adam believed God in such a way, that he was born into the kingdom of God by the female part of the glory of God, this woman represented that one "That was the mother of all the living," not the father of all the living. Eve in the Bible and "the mother of all the living," are quite different entities in the account in Genesis. We should believe God in such a way, so we are born by the Son of God, represented by the Sun, rather than by a woman, represented by the moon. This we can do, by believing our sins have been completely washed by the Lord Jesus Christ, and keep from from always confessing our sins that have been washed once and for all, forever in the past by the death of our lord Jesus Christ.
