1. When man disobeyed God’s word and ate from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil—from which God had commanded him not to eat—sin and death entered the world. Instead of Christ reigning over the Earth, death reigned because of disobedience. Man lost the ability to subdue and dominate the Earth until the seed of the woman, Christ, came to rescue him from the kingdom of sin and death (Romans 5:12, 14).
2. God had to place terror and dread upon all the animals of the Earth and all the birds of the sky because man had lost the authority granted to him. When God created man, it was to exercise authority and rule over creation. However, by not choosing the tree of life—which represents God Himself—and instead opting for the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, man disconnected himself from God and became linked to death, to the devil. As a result, he began to carry the sinful nature, a kind of genetic inheritance from the devil, injected into him by the serpent (Genesis 9:2).
3. Adam and Eve understood that without the shedding of blood, there is no forgiveness of sins. The shed blood of that animal replaced the blood of man, providing forgiveness for human sin. This symbol would be meaningless if Christ had not appeared to become the Lamb of God, who died on the cross and shed His blood for the forgiveness of our sins (Gen. 1:29; 9:4; Heb. 9:22).
4. The Earth plays a prominent role in God’s purpose (Zech. 12:1b). God made the heavens and the Earth prominently, preparing them to place man upon them. And the most important part of man is not the physical body, but the spirit that God formed within him. Through the spirit, man cooperates with God to do His will. (Daily Food, book 1, week 2, Monday, p. 27).
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