The Lord describes the man’s fate after the fall into sin.

Genesis 3:17-19

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“Then to Adam He said, “Because you have heeded the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree of which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat of it’” Genesis 3:17a.

Adam’s fate was the consequence of heeding his wife and eating the forbidden fruit. God had personally instructed Adam not to eat from a specific tree. Adam, however, disobeyed God and followed his wife. As followers of Jesus Christ, we should prioritize the word of God through the Gospel of Jesus Christ over anyone else, even a wife. Likewise, ministers of the Gospel should prioritize the Gospel of Christ over the wishes of the congregation and over any entity that gives people their thoughts, feelings, beliefs, words, and actions.

“Cursed is the ground for your sake; In toil you shall eat of it all the days of your life. Both thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you, and you shall eat the herb of the field. Genesis 3:17b-18 

When we observe the nearby yards, the open fields, and the farmlands, we notice many thorns, bristles, weeds, and so on. These are all consequences of Adam’s sin. On this earth where thistles and thorns abound, we consume what sprouts amid the difficult land, like sorting the wheat from the chaff or the husks from the cob. It requires a lot of sweat and toil to put bread on the table. In the Garden of Eden, the land was so beautiful, pure, and clean that there was no need to sort out the good from the bad or the valuable from the worthless.

God desires us to perceive with spiritual eyes and understand that our spirit and soul have been tainted by sin’s thorns and thistles. Nowadays, the curse of sin is embedded in human nature, and we labor arduously to sow the seed of the Gospel of Christ. Jesus gave us the parable of the sower in Matthew 23:1-13

“In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; For dust you are, and to dust you shall return.” Genesis 3:19 

As we interpret this verse spiritually, Jesus Christ identified Himself as the Bread of Life and instructed us to prioritize the nourishment of our souls over the satisfaction of our appetites. “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.’” Matthew 4:4 “And Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life. He who comes to Me shall never hunger, and he who believes in Me shall never thirst.” John 6:35 Finding that spiritual nourishment today requires hard work, as the Gospel of Christ has been abandoned by the churches, the government lawmakers have ignored the values of the Bible in their policies, the schools have excluded the teachings of the Bible from the classrooms, and the Bread of Life is hardly present in any sector of society.

In today’s world, under the rule of the government of the beast, we know how hard it is to nourish ourselves with the Bread of Life and it will be that way until our last breath. The global culture embraces the entity that gives them their feelings, thoughts, words and actions, as it animates the image of the beast to speak and live through them. They abhor the Bread of Life and make it very hard for us to feed our spirit and soul with the gospel of Christ. This anti-Christian global culture will persist until the end of this world’s system. All over the world, people adopt the global culture and oppose the Bread of Life, while they are groomed to the mark of the beast by their words and actions.

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“….to you who do not hold to her teaching and have not learned Satan’s so-called deep secrets,“
‘I will not impose any other burden on you, except to hold on to what you have until I come.’”
“I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have, so that no one will take your crown.”
Revelation 2:24-25, 3:1