prophecies

[jackie d]

if Eve had done the same, she would not have ever eaten of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil..... she herself, tried to outdo satan and added to the Word of God.... (and not even touch it)

Hi Mike...I put in bold letters, above, the words I don't understand that you spoke. I must have missed something. Would you please direct me to where this occurs so that I can see it for myself?

thank you, I hope that you both are doing well.

[irishcowboy]

Hi Jackie,

we are both doing wonderful........ God has been good to us.... Teresa will be (slated to ) graduating spring of 2009.... she came across a private school, which we think might be a good thing.... it is overseas, was originally set up for missionary children (k-12) but now has about 2/3 of its student population as being local, and only about 1/3 being missionary children, they now have 4 campuses..... would be cool if the Lord sent us there....

anyways, i hope the following helps.... maybe it will....

Gen 2:16 And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:

Gen 2:17 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.

Gen 3:1

[jackie d]

Adam may not have wanted to hurt the feelings of the Wife God had given him.... it would have been better if he had hurt her feelings rather then God's

thanks for your reply Mike...

I have to disagree on this point you made...I don't think it had anything to do with protecting her feelings...remember the Lord said, should you eat of it you will die. But LOOK Eve had already eaten of the fruit and she was not dead at all. So, Eve at this time basically played the role the serpent had played with her. The serpent convinced Eve she wouldn't die and she did not. Eve proved to Adam that God's word couldn't have been true for she was standing right there alive and well...

I have had people argue with me about this but I truly believe that what stopped them from eating the fruit was that God said they would die. When I am told that I will die if I do something, I assume that the death would be immediate. The first death they experienced was not physical death but a spiritual death caused by sin creating separation from God.

Just as Jesus said those who take part in the first resurrection will not taste the second death. Paul let's us know that those who are baptised die to our old lives and are reborn-spiritually-in Christ.

So back to Adam and Eve...the first death of being separated from God through their sin would lead to second death which of course would be a physical death of body and soul to perish in eternity if not restored to God through Christ's offering and sacrifice....

sorry I got a little off topic....

Now I do believe you are right about people being concerned about how what they have been given will be received. We simply need to get over ourselves and follow in obedience to the Lord in these matters.

Something that I have been given for a long time now is dreams. And I have learned that my responsibility is to simply tell the dream and leave it to people to discern it on their own. Whatever they want to take from them, if anything at all is on them. I've been obedient and it can end there...there should be no blood on my hands in this approach...

again, thanks so much for your reply

[terter]

Scripture doesn't contradict itself, those scriptures are referring to a spiritual death, not natural.

[jackie d]

Scripture doesn't contradict itself, those scriptures are referring to a spiritual death, not natural.

yep..I don't think anyone here said they did nor were any of us alluding to it. read the post again...I think you'll see that too.

the point being made terter, is that I don't believe Adam and Eve knew it was a spiritual death at all....