BRAGADAYJAH 6

Adam and Eve were both in agony. For the first time in their existence they knew the pain of guilt. In their misery, they heard the voice of their Master/Creator calling them; in their panic they hid themselves briefly before heads bow they stood before God, confessing their nakedness now that their innocence was removed. It was of the man that God addressed his first question, “What has thou done?” Adam entered a rolled up plea; he confessed and denied. Confessed that he had eaten of the fruit, but denied that he had broken the law in that he was just doing what God had ordered him to do, namely cleave to his wife. Before going further God had to do something about this pair of sinners. His redemptive law was not yet written neither in stone, or clay or vellum or papyri; but in his own heart; for as it would be later written, “almost all things are by the law purged with blood; for without the shedding of blood there is no remission.” So what did God do he covered them figuratively with the blood of the Lamb, about whom it would be written, the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. Adam and Eve on that day benefited by God’s mercy effectuated by the blood of Christ which would be shed on Calvary’s cross six thousand years later. More......