Something died to be able to cover up Adam and Eve’s shame. But what we do know is that blood was shed. So, God found an animal, and it was killed. Even though they were being kicked out of the garden of Eden, it was obvious that God still wanted a relationship with them. They gathered fig leaves and they tried to cover themselves because they knew that God would come down in the cool of the day.īut God in in his love and his mercy showed them the only way they could now approach him. But once a knowledge of sin came, they felt the need to cover themselves.

Before they fell there was no need for a covering, the scripture clearly tells us that they were both naked and felt no shame. Of course, we know how that ended, Adam and Eve chose to eat of the fruit God said not to eat of, and they got kicked out of the garden. God came down every day in the cool of the evening and while Adam and Eve understood and knew the Shekinah glory of God, they didn’t need faith in regard to their relationship with God. But they didn’t need faith to approach God. In the beginning, it was Adam and Eve in the garden with God. They didn’t need faith in the garden of Eden. Now, Adam and Eve, in the purest sense, were not people of faith. In order to understand the impact of this story in our life, we have to go to the book of Genesis. Now, Cain and Abel were born into a fallen race just like you and me. Hebrews 11:4 “By faith Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, through which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts and through it he being dead still speaks.” Abel’s brother Cain proudly came on his own terms. The Old Testament story of Cain and Abel shows us some amazing things if we are willing to look at it closely.

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