Genesis 3:23-24. Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken. So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.
"O, what a fall was there, my countrymen, Then I, and you, and all of us fell down;" while sin triumphed over us; yet even the fall by Adam’s sin was not without the promise of a gracious recovery through the last Adam, the Lord from heaven. Well does Dr. Watts set forth the contrast between the fall of the angels and the fall of man, -
"Down headlong from their native skies The rebel angels fell,
And thunderbolts of flaming wrath Pursued them deep to hell."
"Down from the top of earthly bliss Rebellious man was hurl’d;
And Jesus stoop’d beneath the grave To reach a sinking world."
He took not on him the nature of angels; but he took our nature, and died in our stead. May we trust to his death to bring us life, and thereby be saved from the consequences of the fall!
Genesis 3:23-24. Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken. So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.
"O, what a fall was there, my countrymen, Then I, and you, and all of us fell down;" while sin triumphed over us; yet even the fall by Adam’s sin was not without the promise of a gracious recovery through the last Adam, the Lord from heaven. Well does Dr. Watts set forth the contrast between the fall of the angels and the fall of man, -
"Down headlong from their native skies The rebel angels fell,
And thunderbolts of flaming wrath Pursued them deep to hell."
"Down from the top of earthly bliss Rebellious man was hurl’d;
And Jesus stoop’d beneath the grave To reach a sinking world."
He took not on him the nature of angels; but he took our nature, and died in our stead. May we trust to his death to bring us life, and thereby be saved from the consequences of the fall!