Adam and Eve Go Into Hiding

 

Adam and Eve Go into Hiding

Genesis 3:9-10 But the Lord God called to the man, “Where are you?” He answered, “I heard you in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid.” (NIV)

 

               God created a world that was perfect within six days. The creation of man completed that work and God was very pleased. The sun, moon and stars hung in the sky the way that He designed them, so that gravity would preserve the hold as He intended. The trees, plants and flowers never withered, but served as beauty and food for God’s living creatures. The beast of the field, air and sea where domestic in their behavior towards one another, so that no creature was the predator and another the prey. Then there was man, who was designed in the image of God, and was to be the guardians of the land that God had made. They were created a little lower than the angels, but intelligent enough to govern all of God’s creation for man’s intellect was incomparable to the other creatures God had made. Unfortunately, man listened to the lies of the enemy and creation was never the same.

 

               Prior to the fall of man, Adam and Eve had dominion over a pain free world. There was no such thing as heartache, misery, suffering and grief. Sin had been limited to just the devil and his angels. Man was free from the curse that was attached to sin for he had been made perfect in the image of God. Genesis 1:26-27 Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.” So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. (NIV) Because man was without sin, there was no need for clothes. Adam and Eve could walk around freely without any sense of shame. They didn’t know the feelings of embarrassment, awkwardness or humiliation, as we would know it, should we walk around in our birthday suits publicly. You couldn’t even get past the cops without being arrested for indecent exposure if you were to do so today. Adam and Eve were blessed beyond measure and yet, they did not realize that the devil was about to give them the biggest lie of all times.

 

               God had created all types of animals, but the serpent was the most intelligent of them all. Jesus also referred to the serpent as having intelligence when teaching the disciples. Matthew 10:16 Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst wolves; be ye therefore wise as serpents and harmless as doves. (KJV) This lets us know that the snake is no dumb creature and was that way from the very beginning. Genesis 3:1 Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made…. (NIV) Snakes have the capability to calculate moves with regards to attacking their prey and are able to learn to adapt to their environment, especially younger snakes. So this may be the reason that the devil chose to utilize this particular reptilian creature over all the other animals that God created. The Bible refers to the devil as a serpent due to his cunning ways by which he still deceives the masses today. Revelation 12:9 The great dragon was hurled down – that ancient serpent called the devil, or Satan, who leads the whole world astray, and his angels with him. (NIV)

               The Bible does not go in-depth as to how the devil managed to get the cooperation of the serpent to enter its body, in order to be used as a deceiving vessel towards Eve, but it does let us know that God obviously felt that it had enough sense to reject the devil’s scheme; therefore, the snake was cursed. Genesis 3:14 So the Lord God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this, “Cursed are you above all the livestock and all the wild animals! You will crawl on your belly and you will eat dust all the days of your life.” (NIV) The serpent paid a huge cost for his part in the deception of man.

               Adam and Eve were told that they were never to eat from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. They were warned that if they should eat of it, they would die. Genesis 2:16-17 And the Lord God commanded the man, “You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat of it you will surely die.” (NIV) Unfortunately, they did not heed the warning. Therefore, they succumbed to sin, and immediately went into hiding, due to their newly experienced sense of shame. Nevertheless, they could not hide from Jehovah El Roi because He sees all. Genesis 3:8-10 ⁽⁸⁾Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from the Lord God among the trees of the garden. ⁽⁹⁾But the Lord God called to the man, “Where are you?” ⁽¹⁰⁾He answered, “I heard you in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid.” (NIV)

               There was no need for Adam and Eve to think that they could hide from Jehovah El Roi. He was the One who created them; therefore, He already knew what they looked like and there was nowhere in the universe that they could possibly hide from His sight. Jeremiah 23:23-24 “Am I only a God nearby,” declares the Lord, “and not a God far away? Can anyone hide in secret places so that I cannot see him?” declares the Lord. “Do not I fill heaven and earth?” declares the Lord. (NIV) Nevertheless, they tried anyway, but was unsuccessful.

               Adam and Eve found out that they could not hide from Jehovah El Roi and neither can anyone else. He is an all-seeing God. He knows that thoughts and plans of man even before they are put into motion. Jeremiah 16:17 My eyes are on all their ways; they are not hidden from me, nor is their sin concealed from my eyes. (NIV) Jehovah El Roi is always aware of His creation rather it be good or bad. This is why it never pays to think that we can do evil and get away with it because Jehovah El Roi sees and therefore, will reward accordingly. Matthew 16:27 For the Son of Man is going to come in his Father’s glory with his angels, and then he will reward each person according to what he has done. (NIV) Let us make sure that we live in accordance to Jehovah El Roi’s will at all times for He watches us both day and night.