Israelite Idolatry ca 800 BC Israelite Idolatry ca
Israelite Idolatry ca. 800 BC
Israelite Idolatry ca. 800 BC You shall not plant any tree as an Asherah beside the altar of the LORD your God that you shall make. Deut. 16: 21 Nevertheless, they did not depart from the sins of the house of Jeroboam, which he made Israel to sin, but walked in them; and the Asherah also remained in Samaria. 2 Kings 13: 6 And they abandoned all the commandments of the LORD their God, and made for themselves metal images of two calves; and they made an Asherah and worshiped all the host of heaven and served Baal. 2 Kings 17: 6
Israelite Idolatry ca. 800 BC
Israelite Idolatry ca. 800 BC
Israelite Idolatry ca. 800 BC
Israelite Idolatry ca. 800 BC
Adam: God will Win in the End Roadmap of the Bible Creation-------------------------------------New Creation Adam Noah Abraham Moses David Jesus You are here: Genesis 2: 15 -17; Genesis 3
What was the Tree Test? Two Paths: Obedience Pleasant path Of wisdom Disobedience Hard path of painful experience
Paradise Lost • Exile from Eden (Compare: Israel’s exile) • Creation is cursed
Paradise Lost “Her rash hand in evil hour Forth reaching to the fruit, she plucked, she ate: Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat, Sighing through all her works, gave signs of woe That all was lost. ” -Milton, Paradise Lost
Paradise Lost • Exile from Eden (Compare: Israel’s exile) • Creation is cursed • Satan’s coup d'état
Proto Gospel -- Genesis 3: 15 ff • Genesis 3: 15 is Scripture’s first promise of redemption. • Adam and Eve both believe. • Pharaoh is Satan’s minion.
Proto Gospel
Progenies at War • “Seed” is purposely ambiguous. • War between the two seeds.
Progenies at War Seed of the Serpent Cain <---MURDER Enoch Irad Mehujael Methushael Lamech <---MURDER (3 sons) POLYGAMY Seed of the Woman Seth <--- call on YHWH Enosh Kenan Mahalalel Jared Enoch <---walked w/ God Methuselah Lamech <---“Rest? ”
Progenies at War • “Seed” is purposely ambiguous. • War between the two seeds. • The two seeds in the New Testament.
Further Reading: James Hamilton, “The Skull-Crushing Seed of the Woman”
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