Measure Upon Measure – Curse – The Restoration Of God - Part 5 Series

MEASURE UPON MEASURE – CURSE – THE RESTORATION OF GOD - Part 5

CHAPTER THREE - THE THIRD CONSEQUENCE

The third CONSEQUENCE of man’s sin through the fall has resulted in a vast array of problems on this earth. It is bordering on the impossible with our confinement to the present world conditions, to imagine a perfect world where all was at harmony and the climate was always correct; the fruit was perfect in every aspect and no afflictions or pestilences were anywhere to be found. Adam with Eve tended the paradise in which God had placed them.

Their lives were immersed in the uncorrupted beauty with the wonderful synchronised and harmonious co-dwelling of all animal life, and the ordered fertility and unhindered productivity of all that grew in the ground. That’s how it was with no stress or concerns. However all changed.

SERENITY RUINED

We have already seen how sin has caused a terrible hemorrhaging in God’s created order about which it had been written, “and God saw that it was good.” With Serenity Ruined, all around are the undeniable evidences of a world in departure from the harmony and meaning with which the original creation was infused. Sin destroyed everything that was perfect.

What has brought about such a disruptive departure along with the chaotic disorder which is all part and parcel of our world? The bible is unequivocal in the answer - there was a large scale CURSING that was responsible for it. The mention of this cursing is first encountered in Genesis 3:14, after the progression of events resulting in the fall, had surfaced. The man blamed the woman and indirectly, God, in verse 13; and the woman blamed the serpent. Then God addressed the serpent:

And the Lord God said to the serpent in Genesis 3:14-15, {{“Because you have done this, cursed are you more than all cattle, and more than every beast of the field; On your belly you shall go, and dust shall you eat all the days of your life. And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed. He shall bruise you on the head, and you shall bruise him on the heel.”}}

SIN’S RESULTS

Those two verses contain much material that would probe the Satanic origin of sin, but that would be tangential for us here. There are however some conclusions I wish to draw from these verses.

(a). FIRSTLY, God’s initial, direct confrontation with the snake results in a precise pronouncement of a curse that ensued the snake was humiliated more than all other animals, that is, it was subjected to a greater cursing. Its domain would be the dust of the ground even though we know numbers of snakes live in trees. We can only surmise at this juncture that the serpent must have enjoyed a place of beauty and honour in the garden paradise that distinguished it from other members of the animal creation. As a result of allowing itself to be Satan’s agent, great therefore is the curse upon it.

It has been suggested that originally the snake moved in an upright position or at least was able to “stand”. We can’t speculate, but there is one certainty. Whoever lifts up his spirit against God will be brought to the lowest depths. Pride was the original sin. It belonged to Lucifer who schemed he could overthrow God and he received a just punishment. He was thrown down; down from heaven, just like the snake was thrown down to the dust. Man’s original sin was disobedience.

(b). The SECOND fact suggesting itself to us is that there was a widespread curse upon all living creatures, this being prompted by the phrase, “more than all cattle and more than every beast of the field.” The cursing upon the whole of all animal creation has one manifestation at least - it has caused the preying of one member on another which we naturally accept in the world of men as the established order, or the law of nature, or survival of the fittest, but it once was not so. Sin’s Results are awful, indeed.

Darwin would reject the original harmony of all animal life in his godless evolution. He based all this satanic delusion on the survival of the fittest and imagined that over millions of years, mindless chaos (he called it evolution) could randomly arrive at the immensely complex life forms and even produce the unfathomable human brain. There is no accounting what man can conjecture when God has been cast away.

(c). The THIRD aspect derived from the two verses is the strong prophetic angle of verse 15. God is addressing Himself beyond the snake to Satan in person. Here we have been informed that there will be enmity between the righteous and unrighteous lines and this is clearly seen in the history of Israel.