The Scenes
Once upon a time…
An illustration of times in life beyond the bounds of time and place.
We learned (with our eyes closed) that sometimes the only way for the blind to see beyond the ends of the infinite line of time is to listen to our Guide rather than than embrace the false vision of a fallen world.
Then the LORD God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to cultivate it and tend it.
Genesis 2:15 NASB20
The Characters
- Narrator
- a Guide, who has led our Narrator through scenes so far near the beginning of time and engages us in conversation and thought about God’s word and character
- Cahyin – קַ֫יִן proper name, masculine Cain, Kain eldest son of Adam and Eve
- a farmer (or a gardener)
- Abel – הֶבֶל Hebel, heh’-bel; , the son of Adam:—Abel.
- a shepherd
- the LORD – יְהֹוָה Yᵊhōvâ
- Eve – חַוָּה khav-vaw’ Eve = “life” or “living”
- (living with the grief of the death of her son Abel and the sin of her son Cain)
- the Serpent – נָחָשׁ naw-khawsh’, From נָחַשׁ nâchash, naw-khash’; a primitive root; properly, to hiss
- the Hunter, cunning, constantly questioning God and known by many names
Now Abel was a keeper of flocks, but Cain was a cultivator of the ground.
Genesis 4;2b NASB20
Some takeaways from Act 1
He has sown the seeds of envy and will harvest the thistles of thanklessness.
Insight of the Guide about the Gardener, Cahyin
“Not only is this tragic death of their son Abel new to them,” my guide pointed out to me, “the impact of DEATH itself has just gripped Adam and Eve — two parents who the LORD had told many years before,
‘You shall surely die.’”
Genesis 2:17 וּמֵעֵץ הַדַּעַת טוֹב וָרָע לֹא תֹאכַל מִמֶּנּוּ כִּי בְּיוֹם אֲכָלְךָ מִמֶּנּוּ מוֹת תָּמֽוּת׃
You open your eyes in a place of darkness. And darkness and deception are the place where the hunter hides.
If you look closely you will find the hunter wherever there is disobedience to God.
Now the serpent was more cunning than any animal of the field which the LORD God had made.
Genesis 3:1a NASB20
Introducing the first adam:
COMMENTARY: Adam did not create Eve. Some Bibles translate 'Adam' as 'man' because Scripture commonly uses the word to mean (literally) mankind (by contrast to creatures of God not in His image).
Lexicon :: Strong’s H120 – ‘āḏām אָדָם
Then the man said,
“At last this is bone of my bones,
And flesh of my flesh;
She shall be called ‘woman,’
Because she was taken out of man.”
Reintroducing ‘Eve’
Lexicon :: Strong’s H802 – ‘iššâ אִשָּׁה
For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother, and be joined to his wife H802; and they shall become one flesh.
Genesis 2:24 NASB20
COMMENTARY: Note that WIFE and WOMAN are the same word: אִשָּׁה 'iššâ
Once upon a time…
… there was a woman. She was wife of the man. They both sinned. And almost immediately their own children (even as grown men) also sinned.
It was only then that Eve would have wailed wantonly with tears of remorse.
For by their sin, she and her husband would first witness death — as the LORD God had warned — DEATH of their son by the blood-stained hands of the first son of the first adam who disobeyed God.
They had ALL been deceived by the constant, cunning questioning by the hissing hater of God.
Did God really say..?
To be continued..
God willing…
