No. 4
Genesis 2 and 3
The first man and woman who lived on this earth were Adam and Eve. God gave them their home in a most beautiful garden, called Eden, in a part of the world we now call Asia. A river flowed from the garden to water the trees and plants. There were no weeds or thorns among the lovely plants, and God gave the fruit of all to them for food, except from one tree. Of that, Adam was told not to eat.
Adam gave names to all the birds and animals. There must have been much. pleasure for them to see and learn of all in such a lovely place, and best of all the Lord Himself talked with them.
We do not know how long they lived so happily. But one sad day Eve listened to an evil voice, the voice of Satan, which spoke by a serpent, and made her think that it would be good to eat of that tree of which God had warned them not to She believed the words of Satan, a wicked one, instead of the Lord who had made her, and took of the fruit for herself and also gave to Adam.
But instead of this making them better, it made them afraid, and when God wand to talk with them, they hid among the trees. He then told the serpent it must ever after crawl on the ground. He told Eve she must have sorrow; and Adam, that there would now be thorns and thistles among his plants, and that there would come a time when he must die.
They had made themselves clothes of fig’ leaves—but the Lord pitied them, and made them better ones of skins. He provided a substitute to die instead of the them, which was a picture of the death of the Lord Jesus Christ for sinners. But God must send them out of the garden, to keep them from eating of another tree, called “the tree of life,” which would cause them to live forever, sinful and afraid. And an angel with a sword of fire was placed to guard that tree.
ML 05/24/1936