What was God thinking about when He placed Adam in the Garden of Eden? Didn’t He know that the much more clever serpent (Satan) would attempt to take the Kingdom away from man through deceit and spiritual warfare?
This is a plain indication of God’s righteous judgment so that you will be considered worthy of the kingdom of God, for which indeed you are suffering. (2 Thessalonians 1:5)
God wants royal sons and daughters who are worthy of His kingdom. He wants His royal family to learn how to trust, obey, and worship Him in all situations, but achieving this status takes time, training, and testing of our faith in Him.
For Adam and Eve, the Garden of Eden was their classroom. They were trained over a period of time, maybe even decades, and then the serpent (Satan) administered their final test to them.
Now, remember: Adam and Eve had authority to rule over everything on the earth as God’s ambassador. They could have ordered the serpent to shut up and go away, but they didn’t use their authority that day to do so. Instead, they listened, believed the serpent’s lies, and sinned.
If you are faithful in little things, you will be faithful in large ones. But if you are dishonest in little things, you won’t be honest with greater responsibilities. (Luke 16:10 NLT)
Because Adam was unfaithful with the handling of His authority to rule in the Garden of Eden and to keep just one commandment, Adam never did receive full authority to rule over the whole earth.
Therefore, Adam’s treason in the Garden resulted in his − and through his lineage − all of mankind’s spiritual death, a life apart from the Spirit of God. So, instead of being a son in the Kingdom of God with royal benefits, Adam and all the rest of mankind after him became slaves in the kingdom of darkness, under the cruel god of this world: Satan.
But even with Adam’s failure, our Father had another garden and a second Adam in mind so the Kingdom of God would eventually rule on earth.
(Excerpt from Storming the Kingdom by Larry Nevenhoven, 2014, an Amazon eBook)
Adam’s sin resulted in the fall of mankind in the Garden of Eden, but sadly, another fall happened there. God’s government on earth fell so that the god of this world became Satan along with his demonic horde.
(Continued in Part 5…if you’re interested, the full series to date can be seen here.)
Larry Who 