DRAMA OF THE AGESFLY THROUGH HISTORY WITH THE ANCIENT BOOK

7. A SHADOW PICTURE

The fig-leaf garments were a symbol of the efforts of Man to save himself. It just could

not be done.

Now God showed an object lesson about sin to the fallen pair. Animals were killed and the skins fashioned into coats for Adam

and Eve.

Tradition tells us it was sheep that were used.

Now God certainly did not have to kill an animal to make clothing, but this was a

lesson for our first parents that SIN brings DEATH and the innocent would suffer for the

guilty.

Now Adam and Eve were required to go out of their garden home and make their home

in the earth.

They could not remain in Eden because they might eat of the Tree of Life and thus

become immortal sinners.

This seemed cruel, but it was in mercy that God ordained that the lives of sinners

would end.

Dust thou art and to dust thou shalt return.

If Jesus had not pledged to redeem man, that

grave would have had no hope in it.

But 'the Lamb, slain from the foundation of the world', would conquer the grave and all

would come forth some day.

Those who accepted the Salvation, offered at such

great cost, would live eternally with their Lord.

Those that refused all attempts to redeem them, would finally perish eternally.

The Wages of Sin is Death! 

Adam and Eve were taught to show their faith in the promised Redeemer by

offering a Lamb as a burnt offering.

The Lamb was not a gift from man to God. No, no, far from that!

It was to show that they had

faith in the GIFT God had

promised to make to

redeem them.

It was, in a small way, to show they understood that their sin required a terrible

redemption price.

A price only the Creator could pay.

DRAMA OF THE AGESContinues:

8. RELIGION OF REBELLION