The Lord said to Adam, “But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eateth of it for in the day that thou eateth thereof thou shalt surely die” (Genesis. 2:17). The Lord gave Adam just one law. Only one, yet as we know, they couldn’t and didn’t keep it. They ate from the forbidden tree of death, yet little did they know, they had just ingested the knowledge and mind of an evil spirit; The spirit of lies, deception, sickness and death. The day that they ate from that tree was a dreadful day, a very sad dark day indeed. 

 

What was the knowledge of that foreign spirit? Unknowingly, they fell from the knowledge of the glory of an indwelling God of light, love, and grace into the dark mind and knowledge of the devil, the god of this world. This god was the god of illicit lust, pride, fear, misery, terror, war, and shame. The spirit of this fallen world would give them his own corrupt mind of independence, self-sufficient rebellion and separation from their Creator. The crown of pride had replaced the Crown of Glory, and now they would glorify and take pride in their own self-accomplishments, that is, “the works of their hands.”  The spirit of this world had invaded our first parents, stealing away their glorious divine mind and replacing it with “the crown of pride.” It was the devil’s own fallen wisdom. Now this crown of pride would fill their fallen bodies of vanity with sin and death, wrath, lust, and the sense of aloneness and separation from their heavenly family (Phil. 3:21; Rom. 9:22; I John 2:16). The “spirit of error” now ruled their minds, taking the place of the Spirit of “the tree of eternal life.” Lies and deception had dominion over their whole spirit, soul, and body.

 

Man’s divine Spirit-consciousness became darkened while his fallen flesh, that is, his soul and body, fell far from the presence of their Creator and from their first created state of being.  God’s Glory and Wisdom is “The tree of Life” who previously filled their bodies full of glory and light (Proverbs 3:18; Matt. 5:22).  If they had only eaten from the “Tree of Life,” they would have lived forever in God’s glory and wisdom and had dominion over God’s recreated world.

 

WHAT DID ADAM LOSE?

 

• He lost his Spiritual Heavenly Life and became earth-bound and spiritually dead in trespasses and sins (Eph. 2:1; Rom. 5:12)

• He lost his union (oneness) with the God Head

• He lost his Identity as a son of God, became a son of Satan (I John 3:10)

• He lost his Shekinah Glory. He was stripped of his glorious garment of light and became naked, and his body became diseased and dead (Gen. 3:7; Rom. 8:10)

• He lost his Lordship and power and became weak and vulnerable (Gen.3:17-19.

• He lost his divine Mind, and fell into a fleshly carnal mind (Rom.8:6-8)

• He lost his divine consciousness of the Heavenly angelic realm, and became earthly minded, full of fear and shame (Gen 3:10)

• He lost his divine Wisdom, and becoming darkened and foolish

• He lost his divine Understanding, and was blinded by his own understanding of false goodness and false evil (Rom. 3:11)

• He lost his divine fruitfulness, and bore children in pain and sorrow (Gen 3:16)

• He lost the divine Presence of God, and became self focused (Gen. 3:10)

•  He lost his divine nature, and adopted a fallen satanic nature (Eph. 2:2-3)

• He lost his universal dominion over all things put under his feet (Psalms 8:6)

• He lost his dominion over the powers of the Satanic dark forces, and became weak and vulnerable to the rulers of darkness of this world: The principalities and spiritual rulers in dark places (Eph. 6:12).

• He lost his world dominion over plants, animals and all the earth (Gen.1:26)

• He lost his perpetual righteousness, and became a perpetual sinner (Rom. 3:12; Rom. 6:17))

• He lost the inner voice of God; now God calls to him from the outside (Gen. 3:8)

• He lost his bodily everlasting life and became temporal and perishing (II Cor. 4:16)

• He lost his divine senses thereby losing his divine seeing and hearing (John 3:3)

• He lost his eternal NOW and became subject to the vanity of time and space

• He lost the breath of God and now breaths the earthly atmosphere and is subject to earth’s turbulent weather.   

• He lost his right to the Tree of Life and lives from the tree of death (Gen. 3:22)

• He lost his Father’s house and could no longer call Him, “Abba”.

 

THE MIND OF THE TREE OF LIFE

The Tree of Life also had knowledge as well. The two trees represented two different wisdoms, or minds. Whose mind and knowledge does this tree of life have? Proverbs 3:18-19 says that God’s “Wisdom is the Tree of Life to everyone one who lays hold of her; and happy is every one that retains her. The Lord by His own Wisdom hath founded the earth; and by His divine understanding, He established the heavens.” God, the Father couldn’t have created heaven and earth without His Wisdom (Pro. 8:22-31), so how can fallen man navigate through this miserable life of sorrow and woe without God’s Wisdom? The answer is obvious: if we think we can, we would foolishly waste our lives away, which many do. So the obvious answer is, we could not! Without God’s glory, all we can do is walk in our own foolish wisdom, and vain selfish pride.

 

The Lord calls to Adam…” Where art thou?” And Adam said, “I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked, and I hid myself.” What happened? Adam heard God’s voice calling him, but this time the voice was outside of him, and strangely it was cold in the garden. Never before had the first couple felt cold, their environment and atmosphere had changed. But there was a deeper change. Adam previously had God’s voice within him, but now the voice is no longer hidden within, it is without calling to him. The first thing Adam did was hide from the presence of the Lord. Didn’t Adam previously have the presence of God within his being? Didn’t the glorious presence of the Shekinah glory permeate through his body and swallow up his earthly nakedness with the glorious Light of God’s own glory?  

 

Now shame flooded his soul, and his nakedness spoke volumes to his now fallen mind.  His first created body was not naked, it was clothed with glory; it was called the “garment of praise.” But now his body was void of the Shekinah, and it became the naked “garment of shame.” Adam also lost his ultimate divine authority and power over the creation, as well as over all the satanic gods who are the fallen principalities and powers, and who now master mankind and rule the earth. These dark cosmic forces ruled by satan himself are anti-God: anti-Christ, anti-man and are the second heaven cosmic criminals who are NOW ruling the universe through lost and evil mankind. Adam and Eve were the losers; they lost their way and their glory when they lost their glorious divine consciousness and mind!

 

Adam’s Father asked, “Who told you, that you were naked?” Could it be that the dark devilish forces of this world mocked him, while sneering at his lost power and dominion over their demonic rule? I believe that is why God asked that strange question, “Who told you?”  The devil and all his army of demonic forces celebrated Adam’s fall. That meant that the devils would now rule the earth and its atmosphere, and the first and second heaven as well. But most of all, they now had dominion over God’s newly created son, who was created in his Father’s own image. All creation had previously been ruled by Adam, he had dominion and Lordship over the earth, over the fallen principalities, and over all God’s creatures.  Now our first parents exchanged their original “Crown of Glory” for the devil’s “Crown of Pride.” The sin of rebellion had foolishly caused their unfortunate fall.

THE CROWN OF PRIDE

The devil himself lost his glory when he rebelled against God (Ez. 28:17-18). “Thy heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness.” “Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities.” Instead of remaining filled with God’s light and glory, satan exchanged the truth of his created form for a lie (he thought he would take God’s place by becoming his own power, glory, and light) and instead he worshiped his created form instead of his Creator God (Rom. 1:25). Man’s fall was predicated by satan’s deception, but was satan, himself deceived? His mind seduced him into believing that he could be more powerful than his Creator. Satan’s lust for power, and greed for dominion overcame him, and he took the fatal leap backwards and apostatized into the dark principle. His intoxication for ultimate power and control over all,  was his downfall. He knew exactly what he was doing,

 

The same harlot spirit seduced Adam to forfeit his first created God—given glorious wisdom for the harlot mind of the devil, who was the arch-enemy of his Father. Through his fall, Adam inherited the mind and knowledge of that rebellious cosmic criminal, who fell from his first heavenly estate and was cast out of heaven to the “ground” (Ezekiel 28:17). Now man became a “child of the devil.”[1]  Thankfully, man’s fall was redeemable, unlike satan’s fall that fixed him eternally as a devil. Satan said in his heart, “I will be…,” while Adam was deceived and tricked into rebellion against God. Adam didn’t really want to take God’s place; he wanted it both ways. His own way, and God’s way too. Remember Jesus said, “You cannot serve two masters.” It is impossible, so man became a slave to the devil.

 

 “I, I, I” was man’s first knowledge of himself. I hid myself; I was naked. I was afraid. No longer were Adam and Eve glorified beings; they were fallen lost sons, stolen away by the trickery of their adversary, the devil.

Satan had deceived and tricked them into disobedience and rebellion against their Creator. The consequence for eating of that tree was death. Death meant that they were separated from God’s glory, and now blame, separation, and flesh-consciousness became their mind-set.

The Crown of Pride just raised his ugly head inside the first couple: “I, I, I,” independent-I. Satan, their new master, himself believes that he is an independent-sufficient-I. For Lucifer said in his heart, “I will ascend into Heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God; I will also sit upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north. I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most high God” (Isa. 14:12-14). Now Adam and Eve falsely think like satan, who believes that his created being is God.  They “changed the truth into a lie, and worshiped and served the creature more than the Creator” (Romans 1:25a).

Will Continue Next Month

 

 

[1] (I John 3:10), Eph.2: 1-3, I John 4:6, I John 3:10, I John 4:4, Rom. 9:23, Rom. 6:17, John 8:44, Eph. 5:8, Col. 1:13, Col. 2:13, Rom. 3:10, Rom. 3:12, Rom. 3:13, Rom. 3:14, Rom. 3:16, Rom. 3:17, Jer. 17:9, Rom. 7, 2Cor. 4:4, Psalm 14:1-3, 2Cor.4:4, Eph.2:12-13, Eph. 4:18, Eph. 4:19.