PAGE 28 BEAUTY AND THE BEAST(BROKEN COVENANT)

THE TREE OF THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOOD AND EVIL IS A DEATH TRAP.  IT PROMISES THE SALVATION OF MAN BY MAN BUT IS A LIE AND ONLY LEADS TO DEATH AND DESTRUCTION.  IT PROMISES LIBERTY FROM GOD AND INDEPENDENCE BUT ONLY LEADS TO ENSLAVEMENT BY SATAN AND HIS DEMONS.  IT PROMISES THAT MAN CAN ACHIEVE THE STATUS OF GOD, BUT IN REALITY, MAN MOVES DOWN TO THE SAME LEVEL AS THE ANIMALS.  IT LOOKS ENTICING AND BEAUTIFUL ON THE OUTSIDE, BUT IS A CHARADE.  EVE IS NOT STRONG IN GOD'S WORD AND IS TEMPTED AND DECEIVED:  SHE EATS THE FRUIT AND THEN GIVES THE FRUIT TO ADAM TO EAT.  ADAM IS WITH HER AND SEES HER TAKE THE FORBIDDEN FRUIT AND KNOWINGLY EATS IT HIMSELF.  THE SCRIPTURE SAYS:

"WHEN THE WOMAN SAW THAT THE FRUIT OF THE TREE WAS GOOD FOR FOOD AND PLEASING TO THE EYE, AND ALSO DESIRABLE FOR GAINING WISDOM, SHE TOOK SOME AND ATE IT.  SHE ALSO GAVE SOME TO HER HUSBAND, WHO WAS WITH HER, AND HE ATE IT." GEN 3: 6,7

BY EATING THIS FRUIT,  ADAM BROKE HIS COVENANT, A BINDING LEGAL AGREEMENT,  WITH GOD.  YAHWEH ELOHIM MADE THE COVENANT WITH ADAM WHO WAS THE LEGAL REPRESENTATIVE FOR THE HUMAN RACE.  HOSEA 6:7 SAYS:

"LIKE ADAM, THEY HAVE BROKEN THE COVENANT--THEY WERE UNFAITHFUL TO ME  THERE."

THE APOSTLE PAUL SAYS THAT BY BREAKING THE COVENANT:

1. ALL HUMANKIND BECOMES AND ENEMY OF GOD "FOR IF, WHEN WE WERE GOD'S ENEMIES" ROM 5:10

2. HUMAN SIN AND DEATH ENTERS THE WORLD  "THEREFORE, JUST AS SIN ENTERED THE WORLD THROUGH ONE MAN, AND DEATH THROUGH SIN, AND IN THIS WAY DEATH TO ALL MEN, BECAUSE ALL SINNED." ROM 5:12

3. ALL MANKIND WAS JUDGED AND CONDEMNED  "THE JUDGMENT FOLLOWED ONE SIN AND BROUGHT CONDEMNATION." ROM 5:16

4. DEATH REIGNS  "FOR IF, BY THE TRESPASS OF THE ONE MAN, DEATH REIGNED THROUGH THAT ONE MAN..." ROM  5:17

5. ALL MANKIND IS MADE TO BE OR APPOINTED TO BE SINNERS  "FOR JUST AS THROUGH THE DISOBEDIENCE OF THE ONE MAN THE MANY WERE MADE SINNERS..." ROM 5:19