Abraham and Sarah Lied To King Abimelech


And so it came to pass that Abraham [previously Abram] and Sarah packed up and did some travelling.  They dwelled for a while between Kadesh and Shur and then journeyed to Gerar. 

They decided to settle down in Gerar for a while.

When they got there they lied to the king of Gerar ... Abimelech.  As with the Egyptian Pharaoh they again said that Sarah was Abraham's sister, and not his wife.  Abraham was scared that he would be killed because of Sarah.

Then one night God appeared before Abimelech in a dream, and He said to Abimelech: 'You are going to die if you marry this woman.  She is already married.'

Abimelech was scared and he asked The Lord if  He would destroy an innocent nation because of her.  He told The Lord that Abraham and Sarah told him that Sarah was only Abraham's sister, that he, Abimelech no way could have known what the truth was.  And he felt deeply relieved that he didn't have intercourse with her.

The Lord answered him that He knew what was going on, and that was the reason why God is warning him now, before anything got worse.  God then ordered him to give Sarah back to Abraham the prophet, ... or else he would die.  Sarah was important to God, because of the important child that He had planned for her.

The next morning Abimelech gathered his men and told them the story and they were as much afraid as he was. 

Abimelech called Abraham and asked him why he told such a terrible lie.  And Abraham told him that he did it because he was afraid for his life, if anybody would know that he was Sarah's husband and not her brother. 

Abimelech then decided to get rid of them as soon as possible.  So he took sheep, oxen and servants and gave them to Abraham, as well as Sarah.  He invited Abraham and Sarah to live anywhere on his land that they wish to.  He also gave Abraham a 1000 pieces of silver to keep Sarah quiet about what happened.
God rewarded Abimelech by healing him and his wife, and his slaves ... so that they could have children again. God had closed up all the wombs of the house of Abimelech ... because of Sarah the wife of Abraham. 

Abraham and Sarah went to live in the plains of Gerar.



Source: The Bible: Genesis 20

Lot And His Daughters


Abram [now called Abraham ... as The Lord renamed him, because he was going to be the father of God's nation] got up the morning of the Great Burning of Sodom and Gomorrah and went to a place where he stood in the Presence of The Lord.  

As he looked towards the far horizon, towards Sodom and Gomorrah, there was burning smoke as far as he could see ... as if it was a coal oven.

When The Lord burned everything He thought of Abraham, and He saved Lot, who was family of Abraham.

When Lot and his family hurried away from Sodom, the angel commanded them not to look back, as they were not allowed to see the Wrath of God.  He warned them that they would die if they see it.  Lot's wife couldn't resist and she turned around and looked back ... she immediately turned into a salt pillar.

Lot waited in Zoar for everything to quiet down after the hell that God had unleashed on Sodom and Gomorrah, and then he and his daughters fled to live in the mountains.  He didn't want to take a chance on The Lord's Wrath ... and Zoar was too close for comfort to the then non-existing Sodom and Gomorrah.   No, it was safer in the mountains.

They found a suitable cave and decided to live there.

As time goes by, the two daughters saw that their chances were getting slim to find husbands on a mountain in a desert where only three people lived.


Then one night the eldest said the her younger sister: 'We're going nowhere and we need to have children.  I say we must make father drunk and have intercourse with him.  We can then at least secure that we will get pregnant.'

They agreed and that night they made Lot so drunk that he didn't know that he was having intercourse with his eldest daughter.  The next day she arranged with the younger sister that it was her turn.

That night they did the same thing to Lot ... this time it was the younger daughter.

And so did the daughters of Lot got pregnant by their father.

The eldest called her son Moab and he became the father of the Moabites.  The youngest called her son Ben-ammi and he became the father of the Ammons.


Source: The Bible: Genesis 19


Sodom and Gomorrah Burned. Lot Was Saved



It was the day before the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah.  Two angels came to Sodom and they came upon Lot, where he sat at the gate.  

When Lot saw the strangers approaching, he stood up to meet them.  When they reached him, he bowed down and then greeted them: 'Welcome, my lords!  Please come to my house and then you can sleep and eat there, and you can wash your feet.  You can then resume your journey tomorrow.'  

They politely declined and said they don't mind to sleep on the plains, but Lot insisted.  So they went with him.

He prepared a meal for them and they ate.  But before they could turn in for the night, men came from the city of Sodom to Lot's house and shouted at him: 'Where are the men that came to you tonight?!  Bring them to us, we want to have intercourse with them!'

Lot went outside to speak to the men.  After locking the door behind him, he turned to the men and said" 'No, friends, don't do this wrong thing.  I have 2 daughters that are still virgins.  Take them and do with them what you want ... but leave the men alone.  They are under the safety of my roof.'

But the men of Sodom was having none of it and shouted out: 'No, get out of the way!' 'This man wants to tell us to do ... we will do him more harm than what we're going to do to the 2 men!'

So they started to push Lot back to open the door.  The 2 men inside quickly grabbed Lot and pulled him inside.  They locked the door behind Lot and then smite the men outside with blindness so that they wouldn't find the door.  The men eventually gave up and went away.

After it quieted down the 2 men turned to Lot and spoke to him: 'Who else is with you that you want to save? ... Whomever you want to save, take them out of this place as quickly as you can!  This place has instigated the Wrath of God, because of the lawlessness of the people.  We were sent by God to destroy this place.'

Lot went out and spoke to his 2 would-be sons in law and urged them to go with him.  They thought he was joking and only shrugged him off.

And then the dawn broke.

Lot thought he still had time when the angels forcefully guided him, his wife and their 2 daughters out of the city, because Lot had found mercy in the eyes of The Lord.  The angels urged Lot to run to the hills, to get as far away from Sodom and Gomorrah as he can.  Lot spoke to them and asked to go to a little town that he knew about to be safe there with his family.  His wish was granted and so did Lot come to the town of Zoar, and the angels spared the town.

Lot reached Zoar as the sun started to climb into morning.

When He was sure that Lot was save, The Lord striked down at the thorn in His side.

The Lord rained upon Sodom and Gomorrah brimstone and fire straight out of heaven.  

He burned everything.  There was nothing left of the two cities or anything alive, even on the plains around the cities ... not even a plant.

The smoke of the burning earth was seen from wide and far ... and Sodom and Gomorrah was wiped from the face of the earth.



Source: The Bible: Genesis 19


Sarai Gave Her Slave To Abram. Hagar Flee From Sarai


Sarai and Abram tried to have a child, but they weren't successful and Sarai was beginning to feel desperate.

So she came to Abram and said to him: 'The Lord hasn't blessed me with a child.  Sleep with my slave, Hagar, and maybe you will then have a child that I can call my own.'  Abram also thought it was the best thing to do.

Abram was already living for 10 years in Canaan, when Sarai gave her slave to her husband and Abram slept with Hagar and made her pregnant.

Hagar despised her mistress when she found out that she was carrying Abram's child.

Sarai couldn't miss the repulsion that Hagar had for her and spoke to Abram about it.  He replied that Hagar was her slave and therefore can Sarai do with her as she sees fits.  So Sarai started to treat Hagar very badly.  She treated Hagar so badly that Hagar fled from her into the desert.

There the Angel of The Lord met up with her, by a fountain on the path to Sur, and asked her: 'Hagar, slave of Sarai, where did you come from and where are you going?' So, she told the whole story to the Angel and the Angel replied: 'Go back to your mistress and be obedient to her.'

The Angel of The Lord furthermore said to her: 'I will multiply your seed exceedingly, that it shall not be numbered for multitude ... and you will have a son whom you must call Ismael, because The Lord heard your suffering.  

And Ismael will be a wild man.  His hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him ... and he will live in hate of his blood relatives.

Hagar then called the Name of The Lord and said: 'You are the God that saw me, and here I saw Him who saw me.'

The fountain was between Kadesh and Bered.

So the fountain was named Beer-lahai-roi.  It was situated between Kadesh and Bered.

And so did Hagar brought a son into the world for Abram, and he was 86 years old when Ismael was born.



Source: The Bible: Genesis 16




God Made A Bond With Abram


God came to Abram in a dream and said to him: 'Don't be afraid Abram, I am your Shield and I am going to give you big rewards.' Abram replied: 'What will you give me, Lord?  I don't have children to inherit from me.  All that I have will go to Eliezer of Damascus, because I will die childless.  You didn't give me descendants and a slave out of my house will inherit my fortune.  The Lord however replied: 'No, Abram, a slave will not be your heir ... you will have a heir from your own seed.'  

Then The Lord made Abram go outside and made him look up at the sky. 'Look at the sky and count the stars, Abram.  That is how much your descendants is going to be.'
Abram believed God and he was peaceful.  And God found it good that Abram believed in Him and was following His words blindly.  He then made a bond with Abram: 'I'm The Lord thy God that brought you out of Ur of Chaldees to give you all this land, as far as you can see, as far as you can walk.' Abram then asked The Lord: 'How am I going to know, Lord, that I am going to inherit this land?'

The Lord in return instructed Abram to fetch Him a young heifer, a young she goat, a young ram, a young turtle dove and a young pigeon.  Abram did as he was told and brought all the animals to The Lord.  Abram then cut them all in halves, except for the birds, and lay the halves down next to each other.
He waited the whole day for The Lord, chasing away the buzzards.  When the sun eventually went down, a deep sleep came over Abram.  Then The Lord promised Abram: 'Be assured that your descendants will be strangers in a foreign land that doesn't belong to them.  There they will be slaves and there they will be opressed for 400 years. And I will judge the opressing nation after that time, for making your descendants slaves and your descendants shall have great fortune as a reward.'  He then went on to promise Abram great health and a peaceful death, eventually. And, finally, The Lord told Abram that his fourth generation would go back to finally deal with the Amorites.

And when the sun went down again, a smoking oven and a torch suddenly went through the pieces of meat.

And the bond between The Lord and Abram was sealed.


Source: The Bible: Genesis 15

Abram Safes Lot And Meet Melchizedek Whom Was The Priest Of God


Then a war happened.

Offense Army:  King Amraphel  of Shinar - King Arioch of Ellasar - King Chedor-Laomer of  Elam and Tideal

Defense Army:  King Bera of Sodom - King Birsha of Gomorrah - King Shinab of Admah - King Shemeber of Zeboiim - King Zoar of Bela

The war happened in the Valley of Siddim, the Salt Sea. 

The two armies confronted each other there, because the Kings of the Offense Army was the rulers of the Defense Army's kings as well for 12 years, and the kings of the Defense Army rebelled.  The kings of Sodom and Gomorrah however lost the battle.  The survivors fled into the hills to save their own lifes.  

The kings of the Offense Army then took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their fictuals with them.  They even took Lot and his goods with them.

But an escapee immediately went to Abram the Hebrew to tell him that Lot was taken prisoner.  Abram was dwelling in the plain of Mamre, whom was brother to Eshcol and Aner.  They were all allies to Abram.  When Abram heard that Lot was kidnapped, he immediately got together a posse and he went after the looters. He called upon his 318 slaves to take up their arms and to immediately pursue the enemy.

Abram caught up with them late that night by a place called Dan.  Abram's men then quietly surrounded the camp and then they attacked and slayed the sleeping men.  Abram and his men then pursued survivors up to a place called Goba, north of Damascus.  After finishing off the enemy, Abram returned victorious with all the stolen goods as well as Lot with his family and goods ... and with the people that was taken as slaves. The king of Sodom went out to greet him as a hero in the valley of Shaveh ... and Melchizedek, king of Salem, brought Abram bread and wine.

Melchizedek was the priest of the most high God.  He blessed Abram and said to him: 'May Abram be blessed by The Almighty God, Possessor of heaven and earth.  Praise to The Lord for delivering the enemy into Abram's hands.'  

Abram gave Melchizedek a 10th of everything he came back with.  The king of Sodom turned to Abram and offered him all the goods, he only wanted the people.  Abram declined the offer and told him that he, Abram would not even take a thread from the king, because he wasn't going to allow the king to take any credit whatsoever for his, Abram's success when it comes ... but Abram insisted on a fair share for his friends ... Aner, Eschol and Mamre.


He then thanked the king for feeding his men and he was on his way.


Source: The Bible: Genesis 14


The Calling Of Abram. Abram And Sarai Lied To Pharaoh


Terah was 70 years old when he had three sons ... Abram, Nahor and Haran. 

Haran then had a son called Lot.  Haran died young and Abram and Nahor took his wifes as their own to take care of their brother's family.

Sarai then became Abram's wife and Milcah became Nahor's wife.

Terah was so heartbroken by the death of his son that he took the whole family and moved them to Haran, a dwelling in Canaan, and they lived there until Terah died.

And The Lord called on Abram to move away from his home in Haran ... and to go to a land that The Lord would show him.

And The Lord made a bond with Abram: 'And I will make you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great.  I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse those who curse you.'

So Abram departed from Haran, as The Lord told him to, and he was 75 years old.

He took his wife Sarai, his brother's son Lot and all their possessions, as well as all their slaves, and went to Canaan ... the land that God chose for him.

They travelled through the land of Canaan, until they reached a place called Sichem, and they settled in the plain of Moreh.

Then God appear to Abram and said to him: 'I give all of this land to your bloodline.'  Abram immediately built an altar to honor the appearance of God.

They then tavelled further until they reached a place between Beth-El and Hai where Abram built another altar for God.

They then travelled further east from Bet-El until they've reached a place called the Southlands, but famine was all over the country.

So Abram travelled further until they've reached Egypt.

Before they entered Egypt Abram turned to Sarai and asked her to tell the Egyptians that she was his sister.

He explained that they would kill him without thinking twice if they witness her beauty and they knew he was her husband.

Sarai agreed and it wasn't long before her beauty was on everybody's lips.  It even reached the court of the Pharaoh.

She was invited to the palace to stay there.  The Pharaoh treated Abram also well for her sake.  He gave Abram sheep, oxen, servants and camels.

This arrangement didn't sit well with The Lord.  So He plaqued the Pharaoh and his house because Sarai was living with them.

Pharao then called Abram and got the truth out of him.

 The Pharaoh was very angry when he found out how they schemed the whole thing.  Fear of God's Wrath won the battle and he ordered Abram, with his family and possessions out of Egypt.


And so went Abram and his family south, back to Beth-El where he had built the altar for God.

And Abram and Lot were rich.  They had so much possessions, including cattle and servants, that tension was beginning to built between the two camps.

So Abram compromised with Lot ... if Lot took the left side of the land, Abram would take the right side, and vice versa.  Lot agreed and he chose the luscious plains of Jordan, and Abram dwelled in Canaan.

He eventually travelled to Hebron and dwelled there in the plain of Mamre, where he built another altar for The Lord... and God gave him all the land as far as he can walk. 





Source: The Bible: Genesis 12



The Tower Of Babel


At that time, all the people spoke only one language, and understood each other perfectly.  They all, as a group, journeyed from the east until they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they dwelled there.  They spoke to each other and decided that it was the perfect place to built a city of stone ... with a tower ... a tower so high that it might reach into heaven.  They wanted to make a name for themselves [like a nation] so that they won't be scattered around the world.

The Lord heard about the venture and came down to Earth to see what they were doing. He was astonished for a moment at their plans and what they had thought and figured out already.  'Oh no, they don't!' He thought 'There will be nothing that can stop them now, because they all work as a singular organism in one universal language.   Let Us go down and confuse them with multiple languages so that they would not understand each other, and put a stop to this.'

So the Lord scattered them across the whole earth and stopped the building of Babel by making it impossible for them to understand each other.

It was called Babel because it was the place where The Lord confused the one language of the earth with multiple languages.

The Golden Bloodline continued with Shem, the son of Noah:

1.  Shem was 100 years old when Arphaxad was born [two years after The Flood].  Shem was 500 years old when he died.

2.  Arphaxad was 35 years old when Salah was born.  Arphaxad was 403 years old when he died.

3.  Salah was 30 years old when Eber was born.  Salah was 403 years old when he died.

4.  Eber was 34 years old when  Peleg was born.  Eber was 430 years old when he died.

5.  Peleg was 30 years old when Reu was born.  Peleg was 209 years old when he died.

6.  Reu was 32 years old when Serug was born.  Reu was 207 years old when he died.

7.  Serug was 30 years old when Nahor was born.  Serug was 200 years old when he died.


8.  Nahor was 29 years old when Terah was born.  Nahor was 190 years old when he died.

9.  Terah was 70 years old when he had three sons ... Abram, Nahor and Haran. Terah died when he was 205 years old.

Haran then had a son called Lot.  Haran died young and Abram and Nahor took his wifes as their own to take care of their brother's family.

The family move from Ur to Harad

Sarai then became Abram's wife and Milcah became Nahor's wife.

Terah was so heartbroken by the death of his son that he took the whole family and moved them from Ur to Haran, a dwelling in Canaan, and they lived there until Terah died.




Source: The Bible: Genesis 11



Noah And The Ark. The Flood


The Lord gave Noah detailed specifications on how to build the Ark.  

He then instructed Noah to bring pairs of all the animals into the Ark [male and female] ... and to make sure that there was enough food for all life on the Ark.

And the time came that the Ark was ready.  

Noah and his family started to move all their things into the Ark, and the animals came, two by two, to fill their space in the Ark.  

The Lord notified Noah, while the animals were busy finding their way into the Ark, that the seventh day from that moment would be the day that man would know His Wrath. 

When The Lord was sure that everybody was in the Ark, He shut the door close to the Ark, from the outside.

Noah was 600 years 2 months and 17 days old when all the fountains welled up from the deepness of the earth to overrun the earth.  It was the day that the windows of heaven were opened.  It rained storms for 40 days and 40 nights non-stop ... and everything on the earth drowned ... all the animals, birds and all of humankind. There was nothing alive except for those in the Ark.  And the water covered the earth for 150 days.

The Lord then thought of Noah and all the living things that were in the Ark. 

He made a wind that passed over the whole of the earth so that the water declined, as well as the fountains that had fed the drowning waters. 

The windows to Heaven closed and the rain stopped.

The water then slowly evaporated and disappeared slowly from the face of the earth, until the Ark rested on Mount Ararat.

Noah first sent out a raven and then a dove.

There was great joy on the Ark ... the day that the big ship found ground!  Noah then waited another 40 days before he opened a window and sent a dove out.  But the dove couldn't find a foothold.  So he flew back to the Ark.  Noah waited another 7 days and then he sent out another dove. And that evening the dove returned with an olive branch in his beack.  Noah waited again for 7 days before he send the dove out again.  This time the dove didn't come back.

In the year 601, on the first day of the first month, was Earth dry from all the water.  And Noah opened the latch of the Ark for the first time to walk out on the deck and he could see that the land was dry.

The Lord came to Noah and spoke with him. He told Noah to open the Ark so that the living things could go out and breed and multiply on the face of the earth. Then Noah went out with his wife, his sons and their wifes and with all the animals that was on the Ark.

The first thing that Noah did was to build an altar for God, and gave Him offerings from pure animals to show his gratitude that The Lord had spared their lifes.

And when The Lord smelled the sweet savour of the offerings He said in His heart: 'I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake ... for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth.  Neither will I again smite any more every living thing, as I have done.  While the earth remains, seed time and harvests, cold and heat, summer and winter and the day and night shall not cease.'

The Lord then blessed Noah and his sons and said to them: 'Be fruitful and multiply, and replenish the earth.  And you will be master over every living thing and they will be meat for you to eat ... but not the blood. The life that flows in the blood is Mine.'

He then made a bond with Noah that He will not drown the earth again, ever.  The rainbow would be His sign so that man can remember the bond between God and himself.

So, Noah started to be a husband and he planted a vineyard.  The time then came for him to make the wine.  He got drunk from the wine and passed out naked in his tent.

His son Ham, the father of Canaan, came into the tent and saw his drunken naked father and immediately went to his two brothers to snicker about his father's state.  Shem and Japheth immediately went and covered their father in a garment without looking at his nakedness.

When Noah woke up from his sleep he knew what his son had done to him and he cursed Ham and his bloodline to be servants to his brothers.

Noah lived another 350 years after the flood.



Source: The Bible: Genesis 7



The Sons Of God. Only Noah Found Grace In God's Eyes


And so life went on.  Men began to travel to faraway places, found wives and settled into family lives with children.  Some of them had beautiful daughters.

Since it was the end of His perfect dream, The Lord decided to grant access to His sons to live on Earth.  

When they saw the beautiful daughters of man, they took them and married them, as many as they wanted to.

From these marriages they had exceptional children that excels on all levels in life ... and the children became giants and mighty men that gave them the status of gods in the eyes of man.

And The Lord made it clear that His Spirit will not always walk with man, because man was also flesh, and his days will be no more than 120 years.

The Lord then saw that the world has fallen into great wickedness and that there was only evil in the heart of man ... and it grieved The Lord that He made Adam. 

He then became very angry and He said: 'I will destroy man whom I created from the face of the earth; I will destroy both man [male and female], and all the animals and the birds and everything that lives, for I repent that I ever made them.'

But Noah found grace in the heart of The Lord.  Noah was a just man with a perfect bloodline, and Noah walked with God.

Noah had three sons at that time.  They were Shem, Ham and Japheth.

The earth was corrupt and filled with violence in the eyes of God.

And God said to Noah: 'Because the flesh had corrupted the earth and the earth is filled with violence I will destroy everything that lives.  Noah, you must build an ark according to this specifications that I give you.  I am going to spare you.' and then God gave Noah detailed specifications on how to build the Ark.



Source: The Bible: Genesis 6


Cain and Abel


Adam and Eve found a little place east of Eden and started to settle in.  They slowly, as they learn with their newfound ability to think, began to put a life together for themselves.  Adam went out in the day to find food for him and Eve, and Eve waited the whole day for him ... keeping herself busy with things around and in their habitat, trying to make their shelter more homely.

Adam and Eve had two sons : Cain and Abel. Cain, the eldest, toiled in the earth.  Abel, his brother, was a keeper of sheep.

Then the time came to pass when they made offerings to God.

Cain brought of the fuit of the ground to offer to The Lord, and Abel brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof.

The Lord respected Abel and his offering, but He didn't respect Cain and his offering, because The Lord knew that Cain was not trite and true in his heart.

This made Cain very angry and he confronted his brother Abel in the field.  Cain got so angry that he killed his brother, and he just walked away.

It wasn't much later when The Lord spoke to Cain and He asked Cain where Abel was.

Cain answered back that he didn't know and asked The Lord if he was his brother's keeper.

In return God cursed Cain to a live like a vagabond in caves and so ... Cain was cursed to live alone and away from his family.

Cain accepted his fate, but was worried that he would be killed.  The Lord then put a mark on Cain and commanded that whomever slay Cain will be punished seventhfold.


So, Cain left and went to live in a land called Nod.  There he met his wife and she gave him a son.  They called him Enoch. Cain then built a city and called it after his son Enoch.

Meanwhile Adam and Eve had a third son and they called him Seth, for Eve said: 'God gave me another son for the death of my son Abel.'

Follow The Golden Bloodline Thread that follows up to the story of Noah And The Ark. This bloodline was absolutely pure in the Eyes of God:

1.  Adam was 130 year old when Seth was born.  Adam was 930 years old when he died.

2.  Seth was 105 years old when Enos was born.  Seth was 912 years old when he died.

3.  Enos was 90 years old when Cainan was born.  Enos was 905 years old when he died.

4.  Cainan was 70 years old when Mahalaheel was born.  Cainan was 910 years old when he died.

5.  Mahalaheel was 65 years old when Jared was born.  Mahalaheel was 895 years old when he died.

6.  Jared was 162 years old when Enoch was born.  Jared was 962 years old when he died.

7.  Enoch was 65 years old when Methuselah was born.  Enoch was 365 years old when God came to fetch him. [He never died because he walked with God].

8.  Methuselah was 187 years old when Lamech was born.  Methuselah was 969 years old when he died.

9.  Lamech was 182 years old when Noah was born.  Lamech was 777 years old when he died.

10.  Noah was 500 years old when his sons Shem, Ham and Japheth was born. Noah was 950 years old when he died.



Source: The Bible: Genesis 5



The Lord Cursed Adam, Eve And The Snake

   
The Lord was so angry when He realized what happened. He turned to the snake and then He cursed the snake to forever sail on his belly ... he will always live in the dust.

He then cursed the snake and Eve with an enemy bond between them.  They, as a species, will kill each other off until the end of time.

He turned His attention to Eve and cursed womanhood with giving painful birth to a child ... and that Adam would rule over her and that she will only desire Adam for the rest of her days.

The Lord then turned His attention to Adam.  He informed Adam that the good days was over.  Adam would put food on the table by the sweat of his brow for the rest of his life.  Nothing would come easy for him ever again.  If he wanted something he would have to work for it and make it himself  ... and when Adam dies, he would return to dust, because he was made from dust.

The Lord then made coats of skin and clothed them.

The Lord thought about what happened and He then came to the conclusion that He would have to send Adam and Eve out of the Garden of Eden.  He banned them for Paradise and He placed, at the east side of the garden, angels and a flaming sword, which turned every way.  He had put them there to protect the Tree of Life.

Source: The Bible: Genesis 3


Adam and Eve Ate Of The Forbidden Fruit


As Adam gave the first human step, his weak legs started to fold under him, like a newborn baby.  The Lord caught him before he fell and held him steady on his feet until he could stand by himself.  As he grew stronger he started to give little steps, while looking wonderly about.  He looked down at his own body, studying everything about himself and then he looked up questionly at the Lord.  There was nothing in his mind.  The Lord smiled at him while speaking in a soothing voice ... telling Adam why he is living, giving him command of the whole planet; of everything alive.

As The Lord gave Adam the tour of Earth, gliding across the surface, Adam gave every animal a name, and every bird, and every fish.  They finished their tour and were finally back in the Garden of Eden.  The pride nearly burst in His Heart as He just stood there, watching Adam.

The pure innocence of Adam made only that The Lord loved him even more.



So The Lord left Adam in the Garden of Eden and returned to Heaven, because He had some business to tend to.

After sorting out the war between two universes, a rebellion by a group of angels, the fight between His sons, He returned to Eden to take a breather.  Adam was walking around, speaking to the animals.

The Lord called Adam and he immediately came.  He was so glad to see his Father.  They spoke of things of what happened to Adam while The Lord was in Heaven.

The Lord then suddenly realized how lonely Adam must be, while He is away.  He immediately decided to make a mate for Adam.  He brought a deep sleep over Adam and then took one of his ribs from his body.  The Lord created Eve around the rib of Adam.  He then brought her to life by breathing into her nose.

The first thing that Adam saw, when he opened his eyes, was the face of Eve.

He slowly stood up while looking wondrously at the beautiful creature before him.  He could feel that she was made from him.  He felt the bond.

They smiled at each other as they gazed into each other's eyes.  The Lord then interrupted them to get their attention.  They then slowly made their way to the center of Eden.

When they reached the center, they saw two trees standing away from all the other trees.  The Lord then explained to them that they can eat anything they wish, except from the two trees.

The one tree was The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, and the other one was The Tree of Eternal Life.  He warned them that they would die if they eat from the fruits of the two trees, and they promised Him that they would stay away.

What He didn't tell them was that He brought the two godly trees from Heaven and that it was not created with the rest of nature on Earth. He brought the trees down to Eden for Himself. It was His trees.  He decided that there was no need for His innocent children to know more about the two trees.

As the days go by everything fell into a perfect pattern ...  The Lord ran the Kingdom with an Iron Fist with regular visits to Adam and Eve.  Adam and Eve played  ... the whole day long, every day.

On the days of The Lord's visits, they would ran to Him with delighted pleasure and keep Him company in utter adoration.

He always felt so relaxed when He returned to Heaven.  Even His Patience with the idiotic situations in His Kingdom had improved.  Live was good!

But a pair of jealous eyes had been watching Him, since the day that He left Heaven to create His retreat.

The jealous eyes saw the two creatures that He created in His Image, living on a beautiful planet that He created for them.

They were unlike any of the other life forms He had created before.  They were beautiful to look upon, and delightful to speak to.  They were perfect!

The jealous eyes could take the innocent perfection not one second more. He also wanted part of the beautiful planet and everything on it.  The Lord had no right to keep it all to Himself!

The Jealous One immediately knew how he was going to get a foothold on Earth.  He was going to corrupt the children of The Lord, behind His back. 

So he waited patiently for the right moment.  He waited until Eve wandered off to pluck an apple from a tree.  He looked around and the only living thing available, to communicate through,  was a snake that was sleeping curled-up in the apple tree.

The Jealous One was not taking any chances in his true form. Anyhow, he had to protect his identity. There was no need to get caught up in The Lord's Wrath if he can avoid it.

He immediately took possession of the snake's body and greeted Eve.  Eve stared wondrously at the speaking snake for a moment, and then greeted him back.

It was easy to convince the innocent Eve to eat from the restricted trees, because she couldn't think far enough to realize that it was a setup.  She trusted the snake's words blindingly, like a child.

Eve stood in front of the trees, deciding which of the delicious looking fruits would she first taste.  She reached out and first pluck a fruit from the The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil.

She brought it to her mouth and bite a chunk out of it.

As the sweet nectar finds it's way down her throat, everything around her changed immediately, but her eyes didn't know yet what she was seeing.

She called to Adam, and when he came she offered the fruit to him.  With the same innocent trust he too took a bite out of it.  He too saw that everything was different.


And then they became aware of the difference between their bodies, and they felt their nakedness.

Covering themselves in leaves, they found the darkest corner they could get and hid in the shadows, because they knew that they were going to have to explain it to The Lord. 


The same day the Lord came down to visit.  He found it strange when He couldn't see them.  After a while He called their names.

Slowly they emerged from the shadow and dread clamped around The Lord's Heart when He saw that they're wearing leaves.  And they stammered the whole story of the deceit of the snake,

The Lord knew it was the end of His perfect dream.

They were suppose to remain as innocent children forever ... living for Him in the Garden.

Now they are innocent children with enough godly knowledge to destroy everything around them in their blindness to what everything really means.

He would have to prevent them from eating again from the tree and thus gain more knowledge, or worse, eat from the Tree of Eternal Life.  They would then live forever ... as His Broken Image.  He would have to put a lock-down on the Garden for ever.


An angel stood guard over Eden.

And so their fate was sealed ... He would have to let them go.  Killing them was not an option.  He loved them.  They will have to be banished from Eden.

He dressed them tenderly in animal skins, and with heartbreaking sorrow He sent them away from the Garden of Eden to go and fend for themselves in the bitter world of godly knowledge.






Source: The Bible:  Genesis 1


In The Beginning: The Creation


It was a hectic day ..... AGAIN!

As if listening daily to the bickering of the family and the bickering of the angels were not enough!  .... NOOOO! ...  there WILL be hundreds of problems in the Kingdom [home to all universes] that WILL demand His immediate attention!  After all, He IS the Master of the Kingdom.   And He suddenly felt tired.  He suddenly yearned for a place where He can rest His weary head ... He needed a getaway from it all!  

The more He thought about it, the more it made sense.  Why not?!  He can, from time to time, go to this place for periods of time to refresh His mind and soul.  It was immediately decided. He was going to build the perfect retreat ... a place that is home away from home!

He immediately called a conference to inform everybody that He would be away for a while and He wishes to be alone.  Nobody seemed to have a problem with that.

He first scanned the Kingdom for the right place. His eye suddenly caught a dead universe with nine planets, clustering in the far corner of the Kingdom.  He was, upon closer inspection, delighted to see that the watery third planet was perfect for His plans.  The planet was a solid landmass completely covered in water.

So, without any further to-do He teleported to the planet, gliding over the water as He inspected the planet from close.

The first thing He needed was light in the choking blackness.

He raised His hands, and as a terrible thunder rumbled through the universe, hundreds of lightning bolts cracked from His fingers and streaked through the space until it reached the specific point that He had calculated.

Upon connecting on the designated point, the lightning streaks started to fuse together until it was one big ball of white brightness. He looked on as the lightning bolts started to melt, because of the force of the fusion, until they were a bright silvery liquid.  He looked on as the liquid started to set into a solid mass as it cooled off, and a big white light shone gently upon His eyes.  

He called the ball the Moon.  He decided that it was not enough light. So, shooking His hand towards the sky, millions of individual lightning bolts streaked into the black sky only to be compressed into small balls by His voice command.  He called them Stars and the moment in time the Night.

Satisfied with the perfection of the sky bodies, He glided to the other side of the planet.  Calculating the time of the earth rotation, on a twenty four hour timetable that He designed specifically for Earth,  He pinpointed  a specific place in the black space, raised His hands and the thunder shook the universe once again.  

This time millions of fiery lightning bolts streaked through space to a specified destination.   It started to melt because of the force of the fusion until it was a living burning entity.  He called it the Sun as the newly borne sunrays warmed His skin.  He called the moment in time Day.  He looked upon His work and He thought it was good.

Next on the list was to divide the land from the water.  As He glided over the water He inspected the landmass below the water and planned the rising of the land.  After being satisfied on how He was going to divide the landmass, He started bringing the landmass up by commanding the land to tear and rise.  His voice bellowed around the earth and it sounded like terrible thunder and screaming as the landmass ripped apart at the dividing seams, while rising above the water.  When the pieces of landmass reached the calculated height, the Lord stopped rising the land and watched while the water fell back from the land.  He looked upon His work and He thought it was good.

He then created mist around the globe and within the mist He created, by voice command, the grass, trees, plants and flowers.  As the mist lifted He inspected the freshly borne surface of Earth ... a beautiful sight to see.  He looked upon His work and He thought it was good.

Then came the animals, birds and fish.  He commanded the dirt from the surface of the land to form into desired forms.  When He was satisfied that all were perfectly put together He breathed into the wind, and the wind carried His breath into every form on the planet.

And the surface of the Earth came alive with all the life forms.  He look upon His work and He thought it was good.

The sun broke friendly over the horizon, on the morning of the sixth day.  He felt pure happiness in His heart as He glided over the surface of Earth, enjoying the spectacular live picture that He had created. 

It's just what He needed, and with a smile He gently landed on a piece of earth.  Yes, He thought, this place is perfect to create Paradise, and then the Lord created the Garden of Eden.  

There were all kinds of fruit trees, with beautiful flower tresses everywhere and soft grass covered the ground ... and the gentle sound of water fountains filled the air.  It was a place where the Lion and the Lamb lay together.

And then it was time! It was time to make His companion.

With tender hands He started to sculpt the dirt from the earth into a sculpture of Himself.  Taking His time and not missing a detail He finished it and stood back to inspect His handwork.  The sandy sculpture stood upright on its feet ... waiting.  The Lord then bent into the face of the sculpture and breathed into the sandy nose.  

He stepped back and watched as the sandy sculpture turned into flesh and bone ... in His Image.  

He watched as Man drew his first breath.




Source: The Bible: Genesis 1