"As the result of our first parents' eating of the forbidden fruit, over all the earth hung the gloom of the divine decree, "In the day that thou eatest thereof dying thou shalt die." (Gen. 2:17)
--The marks of death and decay were soon seen in the falling leaves and withered flowers.
--There was no escaping the decree, "The wages of sin is death." (Romans 6:23)
Before man was placed on trial,
---the love of the Father and the Son for him was so great that Christ pledged His own life as a ransom if man should be overcome by the temptations of Satan.
Christ was "the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.'' (Rev. 13:8) This wonderful truth was made known to our first parents in the words spoken by the Lord to Satan, "It (the seed of the woman) shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise His heel."
Stephen Haskell
--The marks of death and decay were soon seen in the falling leaves and withered flowers. --There was no escaping the decree, "The wages of sin is death." (Romans 6:23)
Before man was placed on trial,
---the love of the Father and the Son for him was so great that Christ pledged His own life as a ransom if man should be overcome by the temptations of Satan.
Christ was "the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.'' (Rev. 13:8) This wonderful truth was made known to our first parents in the words spoken by the Lord to Satan, "It (the seed of the woman) shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise His heel."
Stephen Haskell
