The fall of Man THE FALL OF MAN, Along with the creation of angels, God also created the physical world, and humanity, which was made in the very image of God. Like the angels, humankind had the ability to choose to reject or obey God’s commands. God created man and then woman, Adam and Eve, and placed them in the Garden of Eden. Humanity, like the angels, could choose to obey or reject the command in the Garden. Adam and Eve, made in the image of God, were given dominion over the earth; they were to subdue the earth and have dominion over it, being made in the image of God. 28 Then God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.” Genesis 1;28 God also permitted Satan, the fallen angel to tempt Adam and Eve. By questioning God’s nature and commands in the Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve, like 1/3 of the angels paid attention to Satan, and rejected God’s command. They rebelled against God and fell. They turned over their rights of dominion to Satan, who was thengiven authority over humanity. In rejecting God’s command Adam forfeited his assignment. For this reason, Satan could tempt Jesus on the mountain, and offer him the kingdoms of the world, if Jesus would fall down and worship him. 5 Then the devil, taking Him up on a high mountain, showed Him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time. 6 And the devil said to Him, All this authority I will give You, and their glory; for this has been delivered to me, and I give it to whomever I wish. 7 Therefore, if You will worship before me, all will be Yours. 8 And Jesus answered and said to him, Get behind Me, Satan! For it is written, You shall worship the Lord your God, and Him only you shall serve. Luke 4:5-8 Though Adam and Eve delivered the nations. The nations (the descendent of humanity) to Satan, God established a plan of redemption through the seed of Eve, the woman. A descendent (a seed) of the woman would crush the head of the Serpent (Satan). The war, which began in the Spiritual realm, now entered the physical world, as God promised that the judgment on Satan, would come through the offspring of the woman. The Messiah, a descendent of Eve, would one day crush Satan. 14 So the Lord God said to the serpent: Because you have done this, You are cursed more than all cattle, And more than every beast of the field; On your belly you shall go, And you shall eat dust All the days of your life. 15 And I will put enmity Between you and the woman, And between your seed and her Seed; He shall bruise your head, And you shall bruise His heel. Genesis 3:14-15 After man’s fall, followed by God’s declaration, humanity became the battleground between the forces of God and the forces of Satan. The Spiritual War now entered the physical world. From the time of Cain and Abel, we see two groups of descendents emerge from Adam and Eve, one who seeks God and one who rejects God, like our spiritual counterparts the angels. For this reason, God called out a people from the earth, who would serve him. These people are the redeemed of the earth. They are the Lord’s army representing God in the Spiritual War, opposing the work of Satan. Meanwhile, Satan and his fallen angels works to corrupt and subvert God’s people, trying to prevent his final end.
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