• Genesis 1:26 Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”
• Genesis 2:18 Then the Lord God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.”

sequence

noun

• the following of one thing after another; succession.
• order of succession:
  Synonyms: arrangement
• a continuous or connected series:
• something that follows; a subsequent event; result; consequence.

Note closely the root word sequence in the word consequence.

God created us with purpose and in that we can see the order of one thing after the other, succession. Without going into any further detail allow me to parse succession and discover the word success. God set life in order and arranged it in a continuous series of connected events.

The subsequent events were known to Him and this first book of the bible is only the beginning of that long list of events that still have not come to His successful conclusion. But it will because He is God.

First God created a stage for this act to be played out. He set the scene.

Secondly He created the actors and gave them a role to play.

Third God enters as the director. Stage directions are given, what to do and how to act, including the one and only thing that is forbidden to be done on stage.

Now the villain of our story appears, the spoiler, the antithesis of the play. Note closely the use of anti meaning the opposite of the thesis, God’s script for this play.

The actors go off script and are ejected from the play, consequences are revealed.

Act two of our play begins with the offspring of our ejected actors. They make sacrifices to appease the director. Abel’s sacrifice pleases the director. Cain’s does not.

At this point the director engages the actor with directions.

Cain kills the Abel and is banished yet again. Consequences abound.

What is missing in this play up to this point? To be continued tomorrow.