This death came at a time when God had rested from His work as revealed in GENESIS 2:2 saying, “And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had done; and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done.” This was a place of testation to God whether He would continue at rest when His lovely work (man) is dead or He would redeem it at whatever cost. Surely God had to leave His rest because man had fallen, and JOHN 3:16 says, “For God so greatly loved and dearly prized the world (man) that He [even] gave up His only begotten Son, so that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.” There is need to lay emphasis that the death with which man died was not in itself destruction because there was a possibility of redemption and this was done through Jesus Christ when He died on the cross for mankind. Jesus further explains the above aspect in JOHN 10:10 saying, “The thief comes only in order to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have and enjoy life, and have it in abundance to the full, till it overflows.” This of essence implies that much as man fell in the Garden of Eden and died, man’s destruction is not yet but shall be at the end of the age. Jesus explained this end (destruction) in MATTHEW 10:28 saying, “And do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul;
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