It is clearly evident to every truly regenerate child of God in Christ that we are witnessing as I type this, the wholesale unraveling, not only of western civilization, but far more importantly, the unraveling of professing western Christendom.
Every last pillar of generally Christian cultural, societal influence and normativity is collapsing before our eyes.
This week we will see that all of it, from bottom to top, is the inevitable result of the perversion and or disregard for the forever settled in heaven Word of the one true and living God. It always is.
In the opening chapters of the scriptures, we find God creating all things from nothing, man in His own image and likeness and woman for and from the man.
We find Him inaugurating a simple righteous environment and moral economy for the man and his wife.
To concisely paraphrase:
“I’m putting you in charge of all this as stewards of my authority. You may eat what you want, go where you want and enjoy each other sexually which will result in your procreation and proliferation.
My one prohibition is that you may not eat from the tree that is in the middle of this garden and if you ever do, you will die.”
Clear and simple.
We all know the story, but let’s take a quick closer look at what happens next.