Man who is born of woman, is few of days and full of trouble.
He comes forth like a flower and fades away. Like a shadow
Job 14:1-2
I would like to attempt to describe the history of man from the beggining of time and the decisions and mistakes and consequences that were made, into a short dream like play to illustrate what happened by reducing it to its simplest and most meaningfull form.
This is my artistic interpretation of those scriptures and events.
God created the universe, and all that is in it to be inhabited, he did not create them in vain. Isaiah 45:18
He spoke the word, and the word became vibrations of light, matter, and energy that created all that we see when we look up into the heavens and see the milky way, the galaxies and the stars, but God knew that first its inhabitants would go through a trial and have to learn and become experienced by making mistakes and regretting them, seeking forgiveness and by doing so learning the power of forgiviness and when it is acceptable and righteous to no longer forgive but to punish
This is unfortunate but is somehow required of beings of free will to learn the difference between good and evil and why it is necessary to choose the good.
For this reason, God did not form the universe complete and filled with life, but mostly empty as we now observe. The heavens at night are breathtaking, the stars shine as bright as the angels because they probably are the angels in their still and resting forms. The galaxies are the breath of God swirling and spreading like the vapor of breath in the cold still air.
Yet there is no life on the planets except ours, and everything appears desolate, cold, and dead. God created them for our wonder and amazement so that we could behold his power, but they are incomplete and uninhabited until truth and light has prevailed and we become the sons of light and take our places and responsibilities amongst the stars.
In the beginning, God created division. The book of Genesis is the book of division. When God created the earth he separated everything so that there would be division and a difference between everything, so that every aspect of life and reality could be tested, tried and experienced in a spectrum of light and varying environments so that we could experience the difference between hot and cold, good and bad.
So he divided the light from the dark, the waters in the sky from the waters on the earth, and the water on the earth from the dry land beneath.
The very first life he created was grass and the tree with its seed in its fruit.
In many ways all of his other creations are meant to be no different than a tree they are just a more complex version of trees that are supposed to also bear fruit.
He then created the fish and the flying reptile and the birds of the air and commanded them to multiply and fill the earth, but he did not give them dominion of the earth.
A garden is placed in Eden, and here is the coming expectation of man, here is where all of the angels and animals will come to witness God take from the dust of the earth and put his spirit into it to form a man like his Image with his goodness and character and to be the administrator over all the earth.
With silent reverence, all watched just as they watched when Jesus was born, but there were some watching that had evil brewing in their hearts at this scene.
A dragon who lives in the sea of the sky and a flying serpent were prideful and jealous of this man that would have dominion over them, after all, they were the eldest and created first. “How is the dominion and inheritance of the earth not rightfully ours and instead is being given to a this lesser creature, a simple-minded man, a gardener haah
He gets everything that is good without earning it,
even to eat the fruit of the trees while we can only eat of the grass.”
First they pretended to be his friend and made him feel as though he could trust them, but then they began to manipulate him by expressing how wonderfull it is to have a mate, and then pointing out that Adam did not have one and how strange that was, perhaps God wanted him to be alone.
So the man became sorrowful and downtrodden.
God knowing his creation, already knew what to do and did one last final division he seperated man from himself, he took the feminine side of Adam and formed a woman with it so that individualy they would be the opposite and incomplete, but when they found each other and joined together they would compliment each other to form a whole, and become one again.
Not at all dismayed, possibly even part of their plan, the dragon and serpent continue with their schemes
“Look how he doesn’t even make Eve understand the importance of not eating from the tree. Come let us find out what she knows.”
Did God say to “you” do not eat from the tree?
Eve replied, “God said we may eat from all of the trees, but from the tree in the middle of the garden Not only can not eat from it, but we can not even touch it or we will die.”
But God did not tell Eve not to touch it. She added to the word of God and distorted it.
Adam had not explained to Eve that the word of God is not to be added to or changed in any way, and by not explaining to her the word of God and its meaning and nature he allowed the serpent a weakness to exploit.
So as he climbs up the tree the serpent says to Eve why would God say that you would die, he did not say that to you but to Adam and he did not mean to death he would die, but only that in the day you eat from it your eyes will be opened and you will be like gods and no longer men, your ignorance would die because you will know of the choice of good and evil just as God does.
Eve ponders this new information and possibility and because the fruit does not look like something that would kill her and because she is younger and less experienced then Adam she to would like to be wise perhaps she can be of more use to him.
As she reaches out to take a fruit from the tree, the dragon and serpent smile and revel in their accomplishment, in a mere moment they will have succeeded in their goal which was to show to God the inferiority of man and they will do so by getting man to kill himself by eating the fruit that God told him would kill him.
They became the first murderers even though they thought they were clever enough and deceitful enough to have hidden their murder in this act of man killing himself.
Eve takes fruit from the tree and admires its appearance it seems to shine with many star like drops in it and has the appearance of time itself around it, but as she takes a bite blood begins to drip from the fruit like juice because this fruit was not like other fruit, this fruit had men itself in it in the form of seeds because this tree was meant to grow men as fruit. You see, God had made everything perfect
There was no birth no death no excrement nothing vile or that would defile, everything ate grass and fruit and had no waste and future generations were to be born as fruit from this tree, but by eating from it Eve had infected it with sin and because of this, the tree could no longer function as the bearer of future generations as God had intended, from now on women would be the tree and in pain they would bear children, and in sin they would polinate their seed to grow a child and their womb would become a mobile flower.
After eve ate of the fruit her eyes were indeed opened and she did see and understand more then she had before. Suddenly the whole world before her was no longer simple and easy but rather complicated and filled with choices and decisions and with these choices came voices so many voices pulling her this way and that until she felt overwhelmed with it all and thats when she finally realized, her connection with was God severed she was instantly filled with anxiety and doubt she felt immediate panic and loneliness, in fear she fled to Adam he would know what to do, it was only a mistake the serpent tricked her yes that’s it It’s the serpents fault, when she finds Adam not far from her she immediately begins weeping and her tone is such as to let him know that something dire has happened and that she fears for her life
As she tells Adam the events and shows Him the fruit still in her hand, his heart drops he knows what has transpired.
Only a short while ago his heart was filled with joy and a sense of purpose and belonging that was unshakable because the living God who had created everything was his friend and had made him a mate to spend his life with.
He could think of nothing that would add to his happiness
he was in every way possible full.
But now everything has changed, now what God has told him not to do Eve has done and she will die, there is no way around it because God can not lie.
Even if Adam were to beg for her life and even though God loved Adam enough to grant him his request, allowing Eve to live would have made what he said a lie when he said in the day that you eat from it you will die.
He feels the loss of Eve even before this event takes place, and immediately, his mind goes back to how he felt before God made Eve.
He was complete in the love of God yet alone when God was not in his presence, and seeing the other creatures with their mates being affectionate made his loneliness all the worse.
In this moment of remembering his loneliness and despair he made a decision, one that would change the coarse of mankind and he knew it would, but he did not understand to what extent and how far reaching the consequences would be.
He decided to join Eve in her fate and to eat also from the fruit. He would rather die with her than be alone again without his other half. In a way, he knew that the Love of God would triumph no matter how this turned out, but he knew that either way, death would be required of it. So he took the fruit from her hand and looked in her eyes as he also took a bite
Eve gasped at seeing Adam do this. Her knees grew weak as she began to fall like water being poured out on the ground.
A vision began to play before his eyes, the tree of life vanished from sight and Eve transformed into the tree of the knowledge of good and evil with its large spreading branches and beautiful green leaves that began to wither away and dry out until all the leaves had fallen off.
The branches began to crack and splinter until even they began to fall to the ground. All that was left was the trunk and two branches that formed the shape of a T.
Lightning flashed and thunder cracked and a great storm appeared out of nowhere causing a darkness to cover the garden, suddenly the tree now held a man suspended from his hands by the branches writhing in pain and a crown of thorns on his head, and as Adam tried to see who the man was he fell back in shock when the face appeared as both his own and the fathers.
Blood begins to drip down the tree from a wound in his chest and the nails in his hands and feet, holding him firmly to the trunk.
The blood drips upon a golden box at the base of the tree,
It has the appearance of both a throne with two angels on either side and an altar with handles in the base.
As the blood drips and slowly covers the mercy seat, the storm begins to calm the lightning slows its flashes until the sun begins to shine, the blood ceases to flow when the two angels on either side of the throne become alive and fly up to him to remove the nails out of his hands and feet and gently place him on his throne that used to be an altar.
They remove the crown of thorns, and on his head, they place a golden crown as the angels bow down and praise him for redeeming the world by giving up his life to pay the debt of death from sin.
A trickle of water begins to flow from the base of the throne that turns into a a stream and then a river that brings the garden springs back to life and the tree of life grows from a vine that shoots out from the back of throne and grows and covers the trunk where the tree of sin stood.
Adam is amazed at this vision but does not understand it
He is a creature of time and is not capable of understanding that God is a spirit outside of time because he created time.
God knew that Adam would make the choice he made to give up and sacrifice his life and partake of sin to be with Eve. Just as he knew that the dragon and serpent would become prideful and deceive Eve in order to kill man. But he allowed it to happen so that he could come down in the form of a man and give his life for Adam’s and redeem him by proving his love for him because just as Jesus said
“Greater love has no one than this:
to lay down one’s life for his friends.”
When Adam awakes from his vision, he finds Eve frantically attempting to cover up her new body parts with leaves. What are you doing he asks. Look down she replied. Adam instantly felt naked and shame and joined Eve in attempting to cover this new symbol of their sin.
Right at this moment of trying to hide the evidence, they hear footsteps and then a familure voice call out “Adam where are you” they both rush to hide behind the trees, and peering out from behind they see the face of God and the veiled disappointment in his eyes as he asks them what happened even though he already knew.
Of course, instead of admiting their sin and facing the consequences for it, they tried to blame shift the cause onto each other. Adam says it’s your fault God you made me the woman and she made me eat of it. Eve says it’s the snakes fault because he tricked me. Of coarse the blame stops at the snake but it doesn’t make their case any better.
So they are all three given punishments, and the ground is cursed because they corrupted the word and command of God and ate the fruit. God makes for them clothes from animal skin because man can not make or do anything that will cover and take away sin only a sacrifice will do that.
He then sends them out of the Garden to keep them from eating from the tree of life and being stuck in their sin forever. He told Adam that in the day he ate from the tree, he would surely die, and this must be fulfilled, but to understand how, we have to take a fresh new look at the scripture.
In the beginning, on the first day when God began to plant life on the earth, he said, “Let there be light.” Genesis 1:3. This first light, in my opinion, was more of a blue ultraviolet like light than the red to white light of our sun, which was created later on the fourth day in verse 14.
This first light was the light of the Son of God Yeshua/Jesus the one who would be born as both God and man and just as Adam symbolically did, he would give up his life and die for us on that tree to pay the price that is required of all who sin. Which is death.
This first light was either the center of our solar system, and the sun revolved around it, which caused the “days” as in the period of time it took one side of the earth to be toward this light to be longer than the 24 hour period of the sun. Or this light after Adam and Eve sinned was moved far out into the galaxy so that one day would equal a thousand years as it says in 2 Peter 3:8 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
Adam lived 930 years and during this 1000 years of the Light of the Lords day not being present on the earth. Man fell into complete chaos and wickedness and the serpent and dragon continued their schemes of trying to destroy man by either polluting his bloodline with the seed of fallen angels that created giants, or by killing him off by war and creating serpent and dragon cults that drank human blood and worshiped fertility idols and gods because of the cursed ground that no longer produced food like it did when the Light of the Lord shined upon it. These are the same cults that later in the Bible people found the remains of their ruins and made idols so that gods of the ruins could inhabit the idols known as baals and then demanded that they sacrificed their children to them by fire and by knife.
606 years after Adam had died the world was filled with nothing but violent men and evil hearts that believed themselves to be gods because they had all become giants both in ego and stature and built massive stone structures and temples that we can still find today. They even manipulated their dna to create abominations. All flesh had corrupted it’s way accept for Noah who was perfect in his generations. For 120 years Noah warned them that God would judge the world and destroy them with a flood, but they didn’t believe him. On the 17 day of the second month the windows of heaven were opened and the waters that God had divided in the heavens came crashing down to earth and flooded all the earth, killing everyone and everything accept Noah and his family
This may seem harsh or hard to understand for some but what must be kept in perspective is that if he had not done this the inevitable outcome would have been that evil and its plans would have succeeded in circumventing God’s plans for salvation through his son who would just as Noah did warn evil men of the coming judgment of God but instead of being saved as Noah was he would be put to death on a cross made from a tree. So that evil and all of the people and powers who stand behind it can be shown for what they truly are. They are not gods but murderers of the innocent, and their punishment will be an eternity of flame and separation from God and his light.
His name is Jesus, and he showed the true darkness and intentions of their hearts by letting them put him to death on that cross. He then proved that he is the Son of God when he conquered death and rose from the grave the very same day that Noah’s ark rested on the mountainside. One day very soon he will return once more but this time he will not be the kind and gentle person of the Gospels but will reap the earth of what fruit of his remains and will flood the earth with fire and punish the seed of the serpent once and for all.
The End.
The Tree To The Cross 