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“But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die” (Genesis 2:17).
This is a very serious verse, for it represents the responsibility under which God placed man in the Garden of Eden. He had everything he could wish for there, but there was one command; he was not to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. If they did so, God said that they would die, or perhaps more accurately, “dying thou shalt die.”
Sad to say, as we all know, first Eve and then Adam did eat of the fruit of this tree, and brought sin and all of its bad effects into this world. God’s words came true, for disease and gradual deterioration of our bodies and minds begin to take place when we are still young, and it gradually gets worse until eventually we die. Some die young, while others live to be very old, but death comes to all, because all have sinned. However, as we will see, God knew all this would happen, and already had a plan to bring man into even greater blessing through the Lord Jesus.
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