Matthew 24:9

“Then they will deliver you up to tribulation and put you to death, and you will be hated by all nations for my name’s sake.

Picking up where we left off yesterday, Eve suffered the consequences of her participation without her sin being named and now that we are the bride of Christ, we will suffer the consequences without our sins being named.

It is not what we have done in the arena of sin that the world hates us, they actually applaud sin. They hate us because we are with Christ. It is guilt by association. They condemned Him without cause and they are condemning us without cause.

Jesus warned us of this. What is that going to look like?

Does it matter? 

We have a promise we cling to with undying faith. In the end we will be with Him in eternity.

Matthew 16:3

And in the morning, ‘It will be stormy today, for the sky is red and threatening.’ You know how to interpret the appearance of the sky, but you cannot interpret the signs of the times.

This life is not a weather forecast and lets face it their forecasts are wrong more often than right.

What are the signs of the times telling us now?

Joel 2:1-3 English Standard Version

The Day of the Lord

1 Blow a trumpet in Zion; sound an alarm on my holy mountain! Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble, for the day of the Lord is coming; it is near,
2 a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and thick darkness! Like blackness there is spread upon the mountains a great and powerful people; their like has never been before, nor will be again after them through the years of all generations.

3 Fire devours before them, and behind them a flame burns. The land is like the garden of Eden before them, but behind them a desolate wilderness, and nothing escapes them.

If this is what we are hoping for, then we have a forecast for tomorrow that is no better than the weatherman.

The Spirit does not tell us what to do tomorrow, He tells us what to do today.

Exodus 17:14

Then the Lord said to Moses, “Write this as a memorial in a book and recite it in the ears of Joshua, that I will utterly blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven.”

God told Moses what to write with purpose. This is called messaging. If God had not told Moses to write the first five books of the bible we would not have them. They would have been lost to posterity but for the meticulous work of scribes who made parchments that tell us exactly what message God sent to use about a time before written history.

God spoke to us through the prophets and Moses was just the first and most important because no one was alive at the time of Moses that had a remembrance of all that happened. There were no witnesses.

I left off yesterday with a question. This is what happens when messages don’t answer all the answers we have. Why didn’t God name Eve’s sin?

We might begin by asking who she was at that time. She was the first wife, a wife to Adam.

1 Corinthians 15:45

Thus it is written, “The first man Adam became a living being”; the last Adam became a life-giving spirit.

Man became spiritually dead because of the first Adam and the last Adam restores us to new life. Jesus Christ is the last Adam. Since Eve’s identity was the wife of the first Adam, is it possible that the message sent to us about Eve’s participation in the fall is a reflection of the bride of Jesus Christ in participation in this restoration?

Why wasn’t Eve’s sin called out by God as it was for Adam?

Ephesians 1:4

even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love

Philippians 2:15

that you may be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and twisted generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world,

Colossians 1:22

he has now reconciled in his body of flesh by his death, in order to present you holy and blameless and above reproach before him,

But Eve suffered the consequences for her participation. What does that say about us?