[God's Providence] 4. Why was Adam kicked out?

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4. Why was Adam kicked out?

Last time, we saw that Adam was created as a spirit. This time, we will discuss why Adam was cast out.

Adam ate the fruit of good and evil and as a result was cast out of the world of God. But why did God have to drive him out?

God was concerned that by eating from the tree of life, Adam would live forever. (Genesis 3:22)
So, why is this a problem?
Because he ate from the tree of knowledge of good and evil, Adam got to know good and evil.
This does not simply mean that he learned what is good and what is evil.
The good in the knowledge of good and evil symbolizes God and the evil symbolizes the Devil.
Adam came to know the Devil as well as he knew God after eating the fruit.
In other words, he became close to the Devil as well.
As a result, Adam could be controlled by the Devil.
This meant he was in the same position as the Devil's spy in the world of God.
Therefore, God, fearing that he would live forever in that state after eating from the tree of life, forced him out of the Garden of Eden.

And fearing that Adam would enter the Garden of Eden again, God kept both him and Eve from coming back with Cherubim and a flaming sword. (Genesis 3:24)
The Cherubim are God's closest associates; they are four archangels wearing masks of four creatures. (Revelation 4:6)
Adam was able to reenter the third heaven.
So, we can see that when Adam was driven out, he did not have a body of flesh.

Banished from God's world, Adam and Eve belonged to the Devil.
Likewise, those who have sinned belong to the Devil. (1 John 3:8)
Using God's fleshly conditions, the Devil made Adam and Eve live on earth.
The Devil claimed that this world and mankind created by God are his own. (Luke 4:5-7)
To this, Jesus called the Devil a liar. (John 8:44)
But unless man obeys God, God cannot prevent man from being controlled by the Devil.
In His endeavor to save mankind, God is still working to destroy the Devil. (John 5:17)

This time, we have seen that God drove out Adam because He worried about Adam eating from the tree of life. Next time, let's look at the salvation of mankind.

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