Adam

In the beginning God…  

Rededication 250 USA

With the last few journal entries we’ve gone over some wild tales about the Son and the Father and the LOVE they shared; then we learned of the river of God. Today we expand on the next chapter, Adam.

In the beginning there was a tenderness with GOD. So much so that he created a man and then a woman from that very man, we call them, Adam and Eve. This was the beginning of mankind. His Creation was good. He spent a day of rest enjoying this newly unfurled love! He gave basic instructions of what to do and not do.

• So God created human beings in His own image. In the image of God he created them; male and female he created them (Genesis 1: 27 NLT).

• Then God looked over all he had made, and he saw that it was very good! And evening passed and morning came, marking the sixth day (Genesis 1: 31 NLT).

• The LORD God placed the man in the Garden of Eden to tend and watch over it. But the LORD God warned him, ‘You may freely eat the fruit of every tree in the garden…, except the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. If you eat its fruit, you are sure to die (Genesis 2: 15-17 NLT).’”

Adam received these instructions and shared them with his wife, Eve. They both had an understanding of what was good. But there was something else looming in the garden of Eden… something so sly, so crafty and shrewd, that it was distinct in its appearance and speech more than any other creature. The snake or serpent.

• The serpent was the shrewdest of all the wild animals the LORD God had made (Genesis 3: 1 NLT).

Regularly, the LORD God would walk in the garden and discuss things on Adam’s mind. What he named the animals, birds, plants, and so on. They had fellowship and it was sweet. But somewhere in the midst of the day… Adam was approached.

This was an angle of warfare, but Adam’s innocence did not prepare him for the deception he was under. And for that matter neither was Eve… 

We know the story, the serpent beguiled Eve to take and eat of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil and then she gave it to her husband to partake too.

• So she took some of the fruit and ate it. Then she gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it, too (Genesis 3: 6 NLT).

• …the man and his wife heard the LORD God walking about in the garden. So they hid from the LORD God among the trees (Genesis 3:7 NLT).

As the story goes, the treachery was uncovered and everything changed. The seeds of distrust, anger, deceit, fear, and a bunch of others were planted that day in the garden. How long had the seeds been planted? How long had the serpent and Adam conspired against Eve? Adam had stood there, allowed his wife to believe the lie, and ultimately pay the penalty for the disobedience. Eve was the scape goat…

In an instance, all of creation had changed. Sin entered the world and it went from being good to wicked in a matter of decades or centuries. Cain slew Able, and then came the giants. So by the time Noah came along, God was readying His backup plan.

• The LORD observed the extent of human wickedness on the earth, and he saw that everything they thought or imagined was consistently and totally evil (Genesis 6: 5 NLT).

• So God said to Noah, ‘I have decided to destroy all living creatures, for they have filled the earth with violence. Yes, I will wipe them all out along with the earth!’ “Build a large boat from cypress wood and water proof it with tar, inside and out…(Genesis 6: 13-14 NLT).”

God did what had to be done because of the wickedness his creation had consumed and summoned. But alas, God the Father had a backup plan. When He dispersed Adam and Eve from the garden of Eden, he took it and planted it in the hearts of those who would call upon Him in the future. He wouldn’t abandon Adam’s family. He would rectify His union with man by placing  a new heart in him at the moment of his salvation. Ezekiel called it a responsive and tender heart and it would be found within us.

• And I will give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit in you. I will take out your stony, stubborn heart and give you a tender, responsive heart (Ezekiel 36: 26 NLT)

This betrayal of Adam was a foreshadow of the time and the days of Jesus. One who walked with Him in the garden, listened and discussed the beatitudes, saw Lazarus raised from the dead, and so many other things like walking on water. Jesus loved the fellowship with His disciples and having know Adam/Judas, He already knew of the upcoming betrayal, but it didn’t stop His Passion.

• “But here at this table, sitting among us as a friend, is the man who will betray me. For the Son of Man must die. But what sorrow awaits the one who betrays him (Luke 22: 21-22 NLT).” 

That sorrow that led Judas to taking his own life, must’ve been something similar to the realization of what Adam experienced after his fall in the garden. Everything he had known was now different. God sacrificed an animal to make clothes for the couple. And the world would sacrifice that same God 4000 thousand years later. His name was and is Jesus, the First and the Last.

Godspeed, The Journeyman

Ps. So as the sun sets on this 17th day of May 2026, the Rededication of America has been completed. Let us take time to not remake the mistakes of our past, but yield to our God and His plans for our Awesome Nation! God bless you and God bless the U. S. Of A.! 

Impressions from the Mall

John 14: 27 KJV “Peace I leave with you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.”