When we say The First Family, it refers to the President of one country or nation. But the first family was originated from God when He first created Adam from the dust, and God saw it was not satisfactory for a man to be alone of all the creations God created were very good except for man. And God allowed Adam to fall into a deep sleep, and he got from his rib a woman and named her Eve to become a helpmate for Adam. God blessed them with three children Cain, Abel, and Seth.
God’s plan for a family was good and perfect but destroyed by the disobedience of Eve and Adam about God’s will regard the entrusted creations to them mainly about the tree of life and the tree of knowledge at the middle of the Garden of Eden not to eat their fruits. God clearly instructed them to eat everything except the tree of life and the tree of knowledge. But Satan tempted Eve by deceiving her that when she eats the fruit, she will become like God (Genesis 3:1-7) Eve is tempted in three things. First, The lust of the eyes. Genesis 3:6 {And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat} Secondly, The lust of the flesh. {that the tree was good for food} Lastly, about the pride of life, {and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit} this was the beginning that God’s goodness and a perfect plan were destroyed by not obeying the instructions of God.
Many questioned this text by asking this question, “Who sinned first, Adam or Eve? This question gave us the right answer. It was not Eve God directly gave the command not to eat the fruit of knowledge between right and wrong. {Gen 2:16 And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: Genesis 2:17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.} In this passage, before God, created the woman, He already instructed Adam not to eat the fruit of the tree of knowledge he will surely die. What kind of death will be the punishment to Adam and Eve? It was physical and spiritual death. It ended up their lives were shortened. Then in Genesis Chapter 3, Adam was with Eve during the temptation. Eve gave Adam the fruit and did not rebuke or tell his wife about the consequence of eating the tree of knowledge. God gave Adam the responsibility and accountability to take care of and protect His wife from living a sinful life. Adam might prevent Eve from being tempted by Satan, and we should not reap the consequences now about sin. Dr. Joseph Tan, in his book, the Christian Family, after sin entered the world, Satan began to attack marriage. His all-out effort was to try to crush relationships because he knew it was the foundation of right human relations. By destroying relationships at their prime level, which is the home, Satan hoped to devastate society.
From the records of the book of Genesis, we observed that after the fall, Satan systematically tried to corrupt God’s design for marriage and family by:
1. Polygamy-Genesis 4:19,23
2. Sexual thoughts and words-Genesis 9:22
3. Adultery-Genesis 16:1-3
4. Homosexuality-Genesis 19:4-22
5. Fornication and rape-Genesis 34:1-2
6. Incest-Genesis 38:13-18
7. Prostitution-Genesis 38:24
8. Seduction-Genesis 39:7-12
It is imperative to understand how the fallen nature, the curse on the physical world, and the attack hell’s agents are determined to destroy the first family and the coming generations of families.
Contributor/Article by: Armando D. Fermin
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