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“For dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return” (Genesis 3:19).
Here is one more judgment that God pronounced upon man—he would have to die. He had originally been made of “the dust of the ground” (Genesis 2:7), and now God said that he would return unto dust when he died. If man had not sinned, he would never have died, but with sin came death, just as God had said. When God gave man the commandment not to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, He told man that he would die if he did so. Now what God had said came to pass.
Again, our blessed Savior for our sakes took part in this judgment also. He died for our sins. It is true that in the grave His body never decayed, but Scripture records that He said, “Thou hast brought Me into the dust of death” (Psalm 22:15). Dust speaks in Scripture of desolation—a state of misery and loneliness, and the Lord Jesus felt all this keenly when He died on Calvary’s cross. He felt the isolation, as He suffered there all alone, for your sins and mine.
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