Since I've been in fellowship with my Father about love, I've begun to see things in a different light. I used to be almost angry about Adam's transgressions in the Garden of Eden. I wondered how someone set in the midst of all this glory could do such a foolish thing. But, then the Father began to reveal some things to me about this first Adam. In 1 Timothy 2:14 (Amplified), we find out that it wasn't Adam who was deceived but the woman who was deceived and deluded and fell into transgression. Here the Word speaks of this first Adam as having entered into transgression almost knowingly.
This man Adam was a sinless son of the Most High. Until this time he was as sinless as the last Adam (Jesus). Why would this man do such a thing? Then, I began to see. He was created to be just like his Father, and his Father is Love. When he was created first, it was in the Spirit. Genesis 1:27 (Amplified) says, "So God created man in His own image, in the image and likeness of God He created him; male and female He created them." Only later did God form him a body to contact the sense realm. Genesis 2:7 (Amplified) says "Then the Lord God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath or Spirit of life, and man became a living being."
Until this time Adam only knew how to walk in the spirit. He had never encountered the appetites of a flesh and blood body. He had never dealt with the carnal mind of a man, but only the mind of God. Now he had to deal with things he could see, touch, smell, hear and feel. He had never know emotions on this kind of scale and was trying out a brand new set of skills in his life. Adam must have been like a new baby as he began to make sense of the things that flooded his mind. Now the trick was to determine which of these new skills were reliable for him to trust.
I remember when I first got born again. I had walked all my life in the senses and didn't know what part of my spirit I could trust as reliable (I'm still finding out). Here was a man (Adam) in the very same boat, only backwards.
Remember that this man was just like God. He had the same capacity to love as the One who created him. When satan tempted them in the Garden, the Word said she was deceived; he was not. I don't know what kind of transformation took place when this happened, but it must have been one that Adam could either see or feel when it happened. There must have been a sense of loss like we feel at the death of a loved one. At any rate, they were now separated from God and things were different.
If Adam wasn't deceived, then he must have done this thing willingly. Here was the object of his love and companionship that had now been taken from him. His great love for his wife was too much for Adam to bear and he had to find a way to get her back. Had he gone to the Father with this problem, God would have found a way to make things right. But, Adam had been given authority over all the earth and everything in it.
Either he didn't know "what was now been made known to us," like the Word says in Hebrews 9:22(Amplified) that "without the shedding of blood there is no release from sin and it's guilt nor the remission of the due and merited punishment for sin," or Adam had tried to become the redeemer of his beloved wife on his own. He knew that he had lost her and must have her back. I'm certain that if he known about the blood, then he would have died in her place, but Adam didn't. All he knew was he must not lose Eve.
Here was a love so great that even after Adam had thought it over, he was still willing to forfeit everything the Father had given him for this woman. Now that the transgression was finally complete, now that he had given up everything for her, now they became the same again. They were united in death and separation from God and united in their love that would give up everything.
This great love was what caused the man to transgress. Adam wasn't deceived into believing the lie. He just loved his wife so much that he transgressed too. Unlike the last Adam (Jesus) who would pay the ultimate price with His blood, Adam paid for unity with his wife with the lives of all humanity.
I don't know how this man must have felt when he saw the change come over Eve, but the one thing I know is that his love must have been great for him to do what he did. I wonder how many times over the past millenium we have made such compromises in our lives. How many times have we given up the things of God for a wife, or for a husband of for someone we were afraid of losing.
When I think of what Adam was faced with and how all of the new found emotions played on his mind, I have much more compassion for him than I ever did before.
It was God's love in Adam that made the decision, but it wasn't God wisdom. " Wisdom is the principal thing therefore, get wisdom, and with all your getting, get understanding," Proverbs 4:8.
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