Ron And His Stories

Ever since I first read this passage and several others like it, I’ve become fascinated with avoiding death entirely and/or several other major complications by means of the Holy Spirit’s blessing. It’s been about nine and a half years since I became Christian, and I can tell you that the Bible has a lot of trippy stuff in it. I’ve always wanted to exalt God in ways people could get excited about (since my conversion in 2009, of course), such as do many miraculous works, heal the sick, raise the dead, and even with some of the most far-out prophetic powers imaginable… all by the Holy Spirit’s power and not my own. Yep, you guess it, though I’m non-denominational by default, I’m pretty huge into the miraculous and to eliminate the ugliness of cessationism. Don’t get me wrong, I think medicine can be good, but there needs to be more of the Holy Spirit’s power transpiring even the best of medical clinics and their good works. Indeed, it is my belief that the gifts of the Spirit (teaching, tongues, prophecy, healings, mercy, words of knowledge, justice (restoration according to what an afflicted one deserves), etc.) are not practiced or preached often enough. Oh, this passage is found in page 3 of my NKJV Bible, page 4 of my NASB Bible, and page 7 of both my VOICE and Amplified Bible (Classic Edition) copies.

I’ve also wanted to not deal with the complications of aging, whether I eat organic food or not, and also, the reality of exemplifying kindness that can’t be destroyed, not to mention being in good circumstances at least once in each scenario I’m in. I want to make it to the Rapture — I mean that I want to be a catalyst to get so many people saved that we won’t need to experience death (for the Rapture is Jesus taking up His people to shield them from worldwide disaster according to Revelation 6-19), but I have more confidence that my niece, Bee, can make it, for she was born just last February, and I’ve discovered that she has the genes to live for more than 100 years. My brother and I, though, we men can’t survive that long, especially since our dad passed seven years ago next May at 55. I just turned 28 last month, and I want to be there for her in everything before I leave this world. The women in my mom’s family live a long time (her grandmother is still alive and kickin’ at 103). Enoch’s story inspires me, and so does Ezekiel’s mind-blowing passages (i.e. chapter 14 about Noah, Daniel, and Job). But I have no intention to freak anyone out with whatever I might say, either in this website or outside of it. Still, I’ve heard stories in which people can feel as young as I am in their 90s in this day and age. And that’s pretty cool! Also, Enoch prophesied something that is now in Jude 14-15, and it’s sorta related to Christ’s Second Coming. But it’s going to be a long time before I get there.

Onwards to Noah’s story… dear God…

Many years pass. Ten generations elapse between Adam and Noah. I just looked up some interesting information of the names between the two. Chuck Missler laid it pretty well on his post about these names. But to give you some brief information, I’ll list out the ten names and their English meanings from the Hebrew:

Adam = man
Seth = [has] appointed
Enosh = mortal
Kenan = sorrow
Mahalalel = [but] the blessed God
Jared = shall come down
Enoch = teaching
Methuselah = [and] His death shall bring
Lamech = the despairing
Noah = rest.

Isn’t it cool? Whether intentionally or not, the first ten generations of human history have the Gospel embedded in their names, especially Noah’s! 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩 Oh, I should mention that this chapter is found in page 3 of my NKJV Bible, pages 3-4 of my NASB Bible I bought less than two years ago, page 7 of my VOICE copy, and pages 6-7 of my Amplified Bible (Classic Edition) copy.

I’ll get to explaining my desire to be with Jesus as Enoch probably wanted in his time (5:22-24), but not on this post. See you soon!

I’m sure if you’ve read a Bible for a short time, you’re probably already aware of what unfolds here in this fourth chapter of Genesis. But in 2009, when I first became Christian, I had no idea this story existed. I didn’t know, like, anything that had transpired in Bible times… except for Jesus’ sacrifice on the cross for all mankind. I had yet to discover it was even for each person! Thank God I never believed otherwise. This chapter is found in pages 2-3 of my NKJV Bible someone had given me two or three years ago, page 3 of my NASB Bible, and pages 5-6 of both my VOICE and Amplified Bible (Classic Edition) copies I bought about three years apart. Also, I put two dates on the title for this post because it’s almost midnight as I write this, and I haven’t written anything in nearly two weeks.

Anyway, we see that Cain murders his only brother at the time, and that’s not right, what he did. God later promises that anyone who purposely kills a human being will also meet a violent death by a human being themselves, intentionally or otherwise (Genesis 9:6). But before I say anything else about this, let me first comment about how lovemaking was apparently discovered after banishment from Eden (3:23-4:1). Do you think Adam and Eve would’ve done it if no one had eaten off of the tree of knowledge of good and evil (3:6)? I think they would. It says in Genesis 1:28, “Be fruitful and multiply,” right? But I think it’s pretty cool how Cain was the firstborn meant for glory in his own calling that God had given him. Funny how he didn’t think God and him were on the rocks, but at least Abel (his brother) gave to Him by faith, as we see in Hebrews 11:4.

Cain had a shot to love God by faith, too, thus pleasing Him (for we cannot please Him without faith; see Hebrews 11:6), yet for some reason, he chose a bad road — he was the world’s first murderer, and I really wish he hadn’t done that. Funny enough, murder can be forgiven, for Jesus died to transform even the most wicked hearts to come alive in Him. I find it interesting that the VOICE commentators mentioned that Cain was jealous of Abel’s offering (found on a brief note between verses 7 and 8). I think he had no interest after he believed his offerings could never be accepted. At the end of the dialogue (verses 9-15), God tells Cain anyone who kills him would experience His vengeance (I almost said “suffer” 😫🤐). Yet, his descendant, Lamech, arrogantly boasted that if Cain was avenged seven times, then he was to be avenged 77 times. Also, don’t worry about who Cain’s wife (verse 17) was; it was one of his sisters that Adam and Eve had brought into the world. We don’t know how much time passes between these events across this chapter, but I know they all live for several hundred years each, for there was water in the air blocking the harmful UV (ultraviolet) rays that give us sunburns. This didn’t get disposed until the Flood, but more of that later.

Also, I once read or heard that Lamech’s boast in verse 24, Jesus reversed in Matthew 18:22 with forgiveness. I think forgiveness is a lot better than vengeance and being out for blood. It even says in Hebrews 12:24 that His blood speaks a better world than the blood of Abel. There’s the “Nod” thing in verse 16 that’s worth mentioning: it’s east of Eden, and one time, the Eagles released an album titled “East of Eden.” I’ve never heard anything from that one, as far as I can remember, but I did like their 70’s music. Hopefully, the frontman had accepted Christ before he died in 2016. I pray for the rest of the band members to become Christians, too.

The final two verses tell of a third boy born to Adam and Eve named Seth. It’s a pretty common name nowadays, too, and after many years, Seth fathered a boy named Enosh, and we see that people began to worship God during that time. Hopefully, there were some honest people. I think there always were in each generation since Adam and Eve’s creation. Also, I should say that Adam and Eve were created without belly buttons, but because everyone else (including me, you, your best friend, your brothers/sisters, obviously) was born of a woman, we all have belly buttons. In the U.S. and many other nations of the world, the umbilical cord is cut as soon as each boy or girl is born. But now’s not the time for me to speak of anatomy, for it can get TMI, and I want this blog to be appropriate for those at the age of 12 and under. Of course, there’s some graphic incidents that the Bible records, but I do not wish to get into that. Yet I can’t not get pissed off at the abominations of rape and sexual harassment/assault — thankfully, I won’t need to go there today. I also want to be careful with whom I’m sharing this information to, and I know that the truth can fall into the wrong hands, plus, it’s awhile away from the Sodom and Gomorrah story, so bear with me, now.

Look forward to chapter five with you!

This finishes the story of how Eden became paradise lost. This passage is found in page 2 of my NKJV Bible, page 3 of my NASB Bible, and page 5 of both my VOICE Bible copy and Amplified Bible (Classic Edition) text. I noticed that the VOICE didn’t line up with the Hebrew of how this passage was originally written. I thought it was interesting, but I don’t like how humans forfeited Eden and we’re now stuck in multiple cultures in which work is more valued than relationships are. To hopefully bring people together, though, I talked to a friend of mine about going up to northern Arizona to chill on a boat for a day or two. I also want to invite about eight other people to do this. But neither of us have a boat. Someone in our church might, but if no one has one, my words just show how badly I suck at planning. And I plan to have the ten of us go on an entourage of some parts of northern Arizona next May; indeed, I think it’s a good time to submit my vacation request for that. (It’s early/mid-January at the time I write this 😅) I still work at Fry’s, and I’ve been there for a year, now, so I am able to submit my request for one, now. Thank God for unions that still exist!

On another note, I once heard that Adam and Eve weren’t sent away from Eden as punishment, but to avert a tragedy of living forever and knowing good and evil without God present lest none go to Heaven until the Last Judgment (Revelation 20:11-15), however, I don’t think God was interested in withholding good from anyone. It’s not as though He hands out a prize only to make you crash into a wall or something. But now that I mention it, someone may be saying among the teachers that God did this both to protect and withhold… I don’t think that’s true. If God were to protect someone from life, He’d be anything but good. Why it seems like a good getaway is elusive to everyone, I don’t know, but one thing I know is sure: it shouldn’t be elusive to anybody. Also, I should mention that God intentionally left the sentence in verse 22 unfinished — I think He was unwilling to picture a world in which humans could live forever but sin without stopping. But it does remind me of what Voldemort did in the Harry Potter series to try to avert death for himself — weird how he killed enough people to make an army of Inferi (Dark creatures in the fantasy world). Harry Potter himself did deliver Voldemort over to his own defeat by simply blocking his spells… for the Elder Wand didn’t work for him, seeing that Harry Potter owned it… none of us knew.

It’s pretty cool if we can see the end from the beginning, but since most of the world doesn’t know the end of the Bible story (and anyone of us who does know it can be brutalized into thinking of something else and be fixated on it), anything that tries to help seems like random chance, and it’s also as though we can’t get an answer on time. If God’s timing is planned in a certain way, and if I can see it, it would be fine, but I simply cannot think about sovereignty. There’s a teaching in the Church that speaks multiple theories about it, and it is the reason why the global church community is, for the most part, apostate (with few exceptions, but apostate means “one who turns from a faith or religion”). I don’t want to say too much, but I can mention that sooner or later, Satan strikes back with his own teaching whenever a saying of freedom is (re)discovered. Jesus said that the truth makes free (John 8:32), but Satan is so successful that we feel as though nothing can work… will Jesus ever be glorified again? Well, the good news is, though, I heard about a billion-soul harvest in which a billion people across the world get saved almost simultaneously, but I don’t know when that’s going to happen. I do believe it’s part of Bible prophecy, though. When will the Rapture happen? We don’t know…

See you in chapter four!

I loved Christmas this year, for I got to experience it with my niece, who encountered Christmas for the first time ever! She considered my gift of some Mega-Blocks her favourite, out of many! How blessed of a man am I?! 🤩😍❤ We went to her great-grandmother’s house again this evening for dinner, and while she was pretty overwhelmed with the whole thing, she was at least comfortable on her mom’s lap. (Her dad is my brother.) My mom was in Tucson, but I didn’t mind because I was able to enjoy some good gifts from her, both for today and tomorrow, when I turn 28. (Fun fact: I was born at 11:11 a.m. that day.) We also saw some Christmas lights in some of the neighborhoods near Bee’s house (that’s my niece’s name), and it was very fun, but she was asleep the whole time, so while she’ll be able to see some more for another two or three weeks, she’s not very impressionable, so she isn’t able to remember a lot right now. But not many infants are. I know I don’t remember anything about my infancy.

We also made a gingerbread house (though Bee didn’t take part in it; she’s still learning how to use her arms and legs), and it took a while, but we got it done. I was going to watch The Last Jedi for the first time at their house (Bee and her parents), but we knew that traffic would be high after Christmas, but really, I didn’t want to smell bad around Bee because I didn’t bring a change of clothes, I have work tomorrow, and I sweat badly while I sleep. I want to keep the gravy train of good memories going. Indeed, it was already after 10 p.m. when I found the movie on Netflix. But while we were driving home where I’m writing this now, we took the 202 eastbound in northern Mesa, and a live version of “Santa Claus Is Comin’ To Town” was playing on the radio. Needless to say, I think I saw God in that moment, for my brother and I understood that life is really about a journey, and never really a destination. Once we took our exit from there, we traveled south for several miles, and it had no median the whole time… until we got close. I truly believe that we should enjoy the journey to where we’re going in life. My brother is 22, and so someone can criticize both of us for being Millenials, but I think God is on the move with our generation, and I think my niece can understand and love these truths we’ve learned one day, too. I also told him about a theory I discovered about Smash Bros., the Nintendo-exclusive fighters genre franchise. You can find the video that came our recently on YouTube… or better yet, just click the link here!

Anyway, hope you enjoyed this one. Merry Christmas, friends!

It’s Christmas Eve as I write this, and I won’t make it long, but let me just say that many of us never think too much about this account of a covering being akin to Jesus on the cross for all people. I don’t have much of a clue why, but I know that a lot of people who claim to know the Bible don’t know any of the books’ names. Even so, it is refreshing to go to church this Christmas Eve night. It was about Jesus’ birth as usual, but I heard nothing concerning anything non-traditional, yet it was good for me to take communion (with bread and grape juice… yeah, our church doesn’t serve alcohol 😅) for a change. I’ve had a lot of hard feelings about church in general for several months; in fact, if it weren’t for the Two Rivers Awaken ministry, I wouldn’t even be going to one! I think it’s because I’ve heard things I can find in churches where Calvinism and other loveless doctrines are preached and encouraged. I don’t know how to react. I hold nothing against them; I just wish I could focus on Jesus and enjoy Him while hearing ANYTHING from a speaker. It’s also made it hard for me to read many Bible passages — note of irony: I’m writing on a difficult chapter that for some reason is easy for many to accept 😂😂😂— I actually feel sick sometimes just thinking about it.

What we don’t tend to think about is what many other people around the world are going through this Christmas time, from intense persecution in nations where Jesus is declared “illegal,” to poverty-stricken communities, to prosperous but expectation-driven regions of the world — the list is endless. I heard Band-Aid 1984’s “Do They Know It’s Christmas” song many times before, but it wasn’t until nine days ago that I heard the lyrics for myself, so it became a favourite for me. (Yes, I spelled “favourite” like how it’s spelled in other English-speaking nations around the world, don’t judge me 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣) I’ll leave you this video for the song to get there from this post 😊

Anyway, it’s pretty cool how God not only spoke a promise of humanity’s redemption, but almost in the same breath, gave Adam and Eve clothing to wear so they wouldn’t be embarrassed. I think everyone who accepts Jesus as Lord and Saviour will have clothing in Heaven and New Jerusalem so no one sees them naked. I don’t think pornography is a good idea; too much abuse happens as a result. Thank God for Fight The New Drug!

Of course, the holidays can be hard for many people, but it doesn’t have to be a difficult season. I do wonder why expectations haven’t really decreased in my culture, though… but all insanity explanations aside, merry Christmas from me and my roommates to you!

P.S. I forgot to mention that this passage is found in page 2 of my NKJV Bible, page 3 of my NASB Bible, and page 5 of both my VOICE and Amplified Bible (Classic Edition) translations I have.

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you this: the explanation of an unfortunate curse of what man and woman did to everything once they ate of the tree of knowledge of good and evil (see verse 6). As a result, none of us can live a life that honors God if we don’t have the Holy Spirit living in us. And I do mean “living” as like having a permanent address, you know, living in a house or an apartment or college dorm. But the Holy Spirit doesn’t charge you anything to abide in Jesus. I don’t think we should charge God anything, for He does what He wants, right? But all gifts are good that come from Him (James 1:17). And He won’t break your heart, either. We shouldn’t do anything to break His heart ourselves.

The six-verse passage is found in page 2 of the NKJV Bible I have, pages 2-3 of my NASB Bible I bought last year, page 5 of the VOICE copy I bought 23 months ago (January 2017), and in pages 4-5 of my Amplified Bible that I’ve had for a few years, now. In verse 15, we find the first promise of Jesus Christ, the Anointed One to save the earth, when God said, “He will bruise and tread your head underfoot” (AMPC) to Satan. I also just noticed the content of the verse before He said that; I think God put enmity between all demons and all humans. And it’s crucial we see it as such. But in verses 16-19, there are some brutally painful predictions of what every human being goes through without Jesus, at least in marriage and work. Thank God I never have been married yet, nor had I been employed nine years ago last July when I became Christian (my first job I received June 2017, though my start date wasn’t for another two months). I don’t want to be a dominant dirtbag to my wife, single or otherwise. Unfortunately (and you’ll find this often both in and out of the churches), women are told to submit to men, and a man can actually forget what he’s in a marriage for. Shouldn’t we give ourselves to our wives? But it would be much appreciated if they did the same for us. I won’t make mine do it — I’m still a single bachelor anyway 😅 — I just hope there’s mutual love between us both in the future. As it stands now, though, I don’t have a lot of good finances in my life. I want to bless my wife one day, and I want to be free of debts by the time I even ask her out. I also want to oppose abuse in every way, shape, or form, even the ones I don’t know about yet.

I notice that what God said to Adam in verses 17-19 is the same for everyone else, for even though He didn’t curse the ground or anything to make any human’s life miserable here (nor did He curse Eve; I think Satan has wanted to indoctrinate as many guys as he could), reality bites harder than a hundred thousand piranhas on your skin while you’re swimming in the Amazon River. I actually don’t think anger is something I can accept when it’s about anything but injustice. And even then, I don’t think it’s worth it to hurl insults at someone.

On anger itself, though… I don’t think that’s part of being a human being, even if you’re male. I know someone can declare this heresy, but I disagree with them completely. (A heresy is a teaching that knowingly contradicts something truthful.) I’m a man myself, and I’ve never liked the whole “to be a man is to be angry” thing. But I don’t want to talk about this — instead, I’m rather shocked that gender division is still happening. It’s 2018, this should’ve been put far behind everyone when Christianity was becoming more and more popular in the world. Yet for some reason, people crept in unnoticed and started twisting the truth in greater and greater capacities. I feel like we’re at a point where the Church could lose its meaning forever. It was written in the Scriptures that we are the light of the world as Christians, not bearers of darkness pretending to be light!

(Awhile later…) Wow, sorry, I just realized I was still writing this post! I was on Facebook 😂😂😂 — I have many things to say against godlessness being encouraged in the Church at large and outside of it, but I can’t fit it all into this post, so I’ll speak later. But tomorrow night, get ready for the first story of God’s provision for humans after the Fall of Man, as this chapter is traditionally called.

This note on the VOICE is pretty straightforward (it’s found on pages 4-5 in my copy), and since many of you probably already know about this (even though I don’t think a lot of people will read this over the next several months), I don’t need to explain a whole lot about them. But I will say this: a lot of things written in the Old Testament actually bear fruit for death, just as Paul said in Romans 7 — yet he did soon write that these writings aren’t even sin (verse 7), which is pretty funny, because I didn’t know that something giving awareness could be both good for you and make lots of craziness happen at the same time. I hope not to spend a lot of time in the Old Testament anyway, since I find that there are lots of good things to write about once I reach the New Testament. But I am doing the notes in canonical order (from Genesis to Revelation without going backwards even one verse), and, spoiler alert: this will take a long, long time, probably ten to fifteen years… I don’t know. It could take more than 20 or even 30-50 years. I could reach my 80s without having finished this. But I won’t get into any particular timeline or anything beyond this chapter now…

However, what I think is problematic is when someone uses a Scripture like Ezekiel 23 to preach death and condemnation in every form one can imagine. I get that there’s a lot wrong with the world and there are probably some nations that won’t survive the next ten to fifteen years, even with God’s help in trillions of butt-loads of provisions (for He never fuels anyone’s greed), but no one needs to say that God’s going to condemn someone. It’s despicable. It’s heinous. It’s unbiblical, dare I say. I do enjoy going more in-depth into something, though.

Finally, I should mention that I’m writing on this note before I make another note about a Bible passage because I want to remind whomever’s reading this that Jesus isn’t the Author of death (Satan is the author of death, yet he’s been disarmed by a longshot; see Hebrews 2:14), but He is the Author of life, and His eternal life is to everyone who accepts Him (for He died and rose again for each person); plus, it is stronger than anything Satan is able to do. Even offence doesn’t stop Him indefinitely. But it can be a huge stumbling block to anyone who crosses its path.

See you later in Genesis 3! (Don’t worry, I’ll speak of a good provisional message on Christmas Eve tomorrow night.)

Hi, friends! It’s been over a week since I’ve written on here. I’ve been coming up with something I can consider good (but particularly what the Holy Spirit wants me to write), but it’s just hard, since this is one of the most controversial chapters in the Bible. And, spoiler alert, you won’t see this for the last time. I sent a link of my previous post to a friend and she liked it 😊 — also, this passage is found in page 2 of my NKJV and NASB Bibles, pages 4-5 of the VOICE Bible copy I have, and page 4 of the Amplified Bible (Classic Edition) copy I bought long ago.

I won’t get into who blamed who a lot in any of this, because, let’s face it, it’s a total waste of time. I’ve been blamed of a lot of random things growing up, and it continued into my adulthood by a large extent — I think it was a spirit of blame or even Satan himself going after me since boyhood. I pray against it and rebuke him in the Name of Jesus!! Of course, we know that Adam and Eve disobeyed God, but we don’t know why. Yet I don’t think it was unforgivable what they were doing, though the legacy they made resulted in many horrifying things, including bad immigration laws trying to keep out foreigners that are trying to find safety here in the U.S. (There are people that are offended by this, but I don’t care because I’m ruthless 😂😂😂) Anyway, this is the first episode of shame that had happened as we see in the Bible, seeing that Eve probably was insecure about something. I don’t know if it was a womanly thing or not, but I guess the answer is for another time. I also pray that my niece, Bee, doesn’t get any evil spirits following her anywhere. It’s not worth it.

In verse nine, the Lord God said to Adam and Eve, “Where are you?” — though He know where they were very well. I think He was interested in having a conversation with them there, but He felt the first-ever disconnect from humans that day, too. Also, I think I should mention this now… the Lord God goes beyond gender. We call Him “He” because “She” would only refer to females, and men and women need each other. It’s not “God the Mother” or anything, you know? It’s weird how some congregations picture God as if He were female — yet His love is better than life (Psalm 63:3). Also, the content of verse 11 is worth mentioning; God says, “Who told you that you were naked?” Any ideas as to any reasons why God said this other than the disobedience and loss of connection thing? Let me know in the comments or in person (or by Facebook Messenger or Instagram direct), because I’m not putting this on any social media site. But Eve is right about the serpent deceiving her — I don’t know how it happened, but I can’t spend any time investigating the root causes of the fall of man.

The next several verses are difficult, and I don’t want to get a view in which it would be corrupt; plus, it’s easy to manipulate those next six verses — it’s easy to manipulate many parts of the Bible, unfortunately — and I want to be in the right mind when I write on the next several verses, so bear with me, now. Will I write on them next week? Well, here’s some good news: I don’t have work until next Wednesday, and Christmas is a paid holiday that everyone at my Fry’s store is taking! Now that’s some good news! But tomorrow, I’m actually going to church and I might hear a message or two over the next few days there. I’ve begun to have hard feelings about churches in general over the last two months, but I’ve been more than willing to come to my Two Rivers Awaken group since I first found out about it five years ago and when Jesus called me into it six months later. Have a question why these hard feelings have existed before? Ask me in the comments!

Hope you’re having a good Christmas so far! (Yeah, this is a weird place to be in during late December…)

Here, we see that Satan contradicts the Lord more than once. God recompenses him for this in verses 14-15. We’ll get to it in a short or long while (whichever my work week permits in the seven days following Saturday — there’s still no schedule yet due to busyness), but to see this scene in one of the first chapters in the Bible is one heck of a plot twist. The premise of the entire chapter and what God says to us is fairly straightforward from our standpoint, but Eve had no idea what on earth the devil was plotting against her and Adam that day. Neither of them should have given in to him. But I don’t want to talk about anyone’s sin right now. Yet I will say this: what a lot of churches say you deserve, what many unchurched people (Christian or otherwise) say you deserve, and what God says you deserve are all three different things, and to an extent, their theology can actually contradict each other. Personally, I don’t believe that God says any one person has never deserved a chance to know Him. That’s impossible. For Jesus’ sacrifice on His cross makes it possible for anyone to accept Him. I know I won’t add to it, nor will I take away from it. I think this is biblical to believe.

To give you some background information on how Satan became so crafty, the story is simple: he was created as Lucifer, but literally deified himself and got his followers to abandon the Holy One and rebel against Him (Isaiah 14:12-14). There are other Scriptures that explain this in other ways, but so far, the only three others I know of are Ezekiel 28:12-19, Luke 10:18, and 1 John 3:8. And since he has succeeded in tempting Eve to eat the fruit so that Adam would do the same, all of us have been enslaved to him, until Jesus died and rose again. Yet not everyone knows about this, nor is everyone saved, seeing that hate and idol worship is huge in this world still, even in the tail end of 2018. And sadly, not everyone has a human preach Jesus to them in this life. Thank God that He makes up for it by trying to get others to recognize Jesus by good teachings, though (Romans 2:14-15). And I know what you’re thinking, “It’s a pretty weird teaching to believe,” but you know how some people are with overtly blasphemous things like the idea that God didn’t create someone for salvation or that condemnation was set for them before time began. They’re those types of people who do many hateful and godless things and say nothing but problematic statements (for the words out of the mouth is the abundance of the heart; see Matthew 12:34), and if they don’t get their way even in the slightest forms or ways, they throw a fit and manipulate many to accept them. Sometimes they can lie about being friendly to you. They do this to everyone. Don’t entrust yourself to them.

At least, though, the food in the garden was good, and I’m sure God was willing to grow more. Even with this terrible incident (verses 6-8), He made more vegetation happen. But death was included by means of Satan’s power. Funny how the tree of knowledge of good and evil was forbidden to everyone. I think God wanted them to love Him without them getting worried about what can happen. But do you think Adam and Eve would have succeeded in staying in Eden (see verses 22-24) if Satan hadn’t gotten to them at all? I don’t really think they would’ve sinned, to be honest. People have told me that even without Satan, Adam and Eve were still capable of disobedience due to the free will that God had gifted them with, and that people don’t need Satan to be enslaved on every occasion, in essence, but they didn’t want to disobey Him… or at least, Eve never wanted that. Satan tricked her, didn’t he? (See 1 Timothy 2:14.) I don’t know what Adam was thinking. But we’ll get into the ideas of men and women in the next post!

P.S. I forgot to mention that this five-verse passage is found in page 2 of both the NKJV and NASB Bibles I have, and is also found in page 4 of both the VOICE and Amplified Bible (Classic Edition) translations I had bought about three years apart.