Protoevangel
23rd June 2006, 08:16 PM
This was inspired by a Bible lesson I participated in last month, on the Trinity in the Old Testament. It's also on my blog, but I wanted to post it here.
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"Also for Adam and his wife the LORD God made tunics of skin, and clothed them."
- Genesis 3:21 NKJV
Adam and Eve were vegetarians; death was just now entering the world for the first time. The concept, the reality, of death was totally foreign to them, until now...
Wow, do you think that God slaughtered these animals in front of Adam and Eve? I do. Can you imagine the sinking feeling as they watched the blood of these animals flow, and the poor animal's breath slowly fading away, and their kicking gradually weaken... All because they had disobeyed? Knowing that God chose these innocent animals to take the punishment that they rightly deserved.
Have you ever screwed up... really, really bad? And then later realized it was SO MUCH worse than you had ever imagined? Could you imagine knowing that every person who exists or ever will exist will suffer because of your mistake?
Is it not much the same for each and every one of us? Does not our every action and thought validate and demonstrate the correctness of that first sin, the sin of our ancestors, Adam and Eve, the sin that is really and truly ours (mine), and not theirs alone?
Let us praise and thank God for in His mercy of all mercies, He called us out of darkness into the light of His glorious Gospel; He delivered us from the captivity of Satan and took upon Himself (as the unblemished lamb) the punishment that we so rightly deserve! Let us give thanks unto God for this free gift of Salvation; through obedience and by the Works that He has prepared for us to do. Call upon Him, give thanks to Him, praise Him, and confess Him. These are all good works. Let them flow from a cheerful heart... because you have remission of all of your sins in Christ, the innocent, perfect Lamb, that has been slaughtered so that we may be clothed in His righteousness.
Amen!
.
"Also for Adam and his wife the LORD God made tunics of skin, and clothed them."
- Genesis 3:21 NKJV
Adam and Eve were vegetarians; death was just now entering the world for the first time. The concept, the reality, of death was totally foreign to them, until now...
Wow, do you think that God slaughtered these animals in front of Adam and Eve? I do. Can you imagine the sinking feeling as they watched the blood of these animals flow, and the poor animal's breath slowly fading away, and their kicking gradually weaken... All because they had disobeyed? Knowing that God chose these innocent animals to take the punishment that they rightly deserved.
Have you ever screwed up... really, really bad? And then later realized it was SO MUCH worse than you had ever imagined? Could you imagine knowing that every person who exists or ever will exist will suffer because of your mistake?
Is it not much the same for each and every one of us? Does not our every action and thought validate and demonstrate the correctness of that first sin, the sin of our ancestors, Adam and Eve, the sin that is really and truly ours (mine), and not theirs alone?
Let us praise and thank God for in His mercy of all mercies, He called us out of darkness into the light of His glorious Gospel; He delivered us from the captivity of Satan and took upon Himself (as the unblemished lamb) the punishment that we so rightly deserve! Let us give thanks unto God for this free gift of Salvation; through obedience and by the Works that He has prepared for us to do. Call upon Him, give thanks to Him, praise Him, and confess Him. These are all good works. Let them flow from a cheerful heart... because you have remission of all of your sins in Christ, the innocent, perfect Lamb, that has been slaughtered so that we may be clothed in His righteousness.
Amen!