
Gen 2:17
Excerpt: After six of those exhaustive days, that seventh-day sabbath will then end the Lord’s work of recreation, the reformation of man into the likeness of God. So, in conformity to this dimension, David defines God’s time —and both Paul and Peter affirmed it— to be a day for a thousand years. Even the record of Adam’s death validates this expanded resolution, it says… “ 17 But of the of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.” —Gen 2: 17 The shock here is that before Adam fell, he accordingly had no death, and this negated his need for Christ to be the manna from heaven, the meat to sustain or regain life without death. So all must come to grips with this new Bible theme: By the consumption of the forbidden fruit, Adam ushered in a new time paradigm, a new parabolic day…