Prophetic Poetry: Dear Adam + Eve, What Was it Like?

Oct 26

Adam and Eve, scholars believe, went through a period in their lives that was characterized by a deep depression.

They had walked with God in the Garden of Eden, knew Him intimately, and tasted a life of perfection. They lived without sin, without evil, and with no decay nor destruction. With deception and their choice of betrayal and self over God, they were cast away from the presence of God with a chasm too far to cross on their own.

Can you imagine the stark contrast between the life in which God created for them and the life marred by sin in which they chose? It was nearly 930 years of that life away from God.

Yet still, I believe that Adam and Eve had such a supernatural experience of God, that they knew His promise was true. Father God, in the midst of Adam and Eve’s betrayal and falling into the serpent’s deception, proclaimed— for the FIRST TIME— the εὐαγγέλιον (euangelion // the Gospel // the Good News // Redemption).

Genesis 3:15 says, “I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.” This is known as the protoevangelium—the first Gospel.

I believe that Adam and Eve must have heard God’s Word— from God Himself— and that, by faith, they believed in the promised offspring— their Savior to come— to redeem.

FAITH LIKE ENOCH

I think about what Adam must have told his children and their children. What kind of questions would they ask him? What sort of conversations did Adam have with his descendants?

There was a descendant of Adam named Enoch, whom I can only imagine asked this question: “What was it like? What is God like?” Adam, emerging from depression and catching the passion within his child, taught Enoch the truth, he shared about what it was like, and Enoch began— humanity again, walking with God. He began to know what God was like, because He knew God. Enoch knew God so much so that it pleased God that Enoch would never taste death, God evaded the curse of death to bring Enoch into His presence yet again. That is the kind of relationship I want with the Lord— to know Him and to please Him like Enoch did.

Genesis 5:24

“And Enoch walked with God; and he was not, for God took him.”

Hebrews 11:5-6
By faith Enoch was taken away so that he did not see death, "and was not found, because God had taken him"; for before he was taken he had this testimony, that he pleased God. But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.

I believe Enoch’s relationship with God stemmed by asking Adam and Eve what it was like to be in His presence… and when he heard what it was like, when he heard Who God is, He yearned for Him, He searched for Him, and He found Him. He found Redemption.

Dear adam and eve, what was it like?

A Poem By Rachel Lynn Lawrence

Dear Adam and Eve,

What was it like

To be cast away from beauty

To lose the privilege of only experiencing everlasting

To dwell in increasing darkness

To feel turmoil in your soul?

What was it like

To name states that should

Never

Have

Existed?

To name:

Depression

Anxiety

Lack

Loneliness

Poverty

Stupor

Strife

Envy

Bitterness

Despair

Doubt

SIN?

What was it like

To feel the unimaginable

To lose the One who loves

To choose the lesser portion

To feel the sting of a lie

To betray

…and then…

To regret?

What was it like

To reminisce in

What

Was—

Remembering:

Indulging in His goodness

Seeing the face of His

Walking alongside the One

Experiencing no lack

Working diligently with and for

Being embraced and nurtured

Gazing upon Love

What was it like

To know intimately the One who

Always and

Will forever

Exist—

To know:

The Great I Am

The Way

The Truth

The Life

The Prince of Peace

The Father

The Creator

The Shepherd

The Almighty One

The Lord of Lords

YAHWEH

What was is like

To realize

What will yet come to be—

As you cling to the promise of:

Grace

Forgiveness

Love

Restoration

New Life

Hope

Future

Freedom

Your Savior–

—Who always is and

—Who always will be

What was it like

To return to your source

To again gaze upon His face

To be embraced in intimacy

To never run again

To indulge in His goodness

To worship and love

To be redeemed and reconciled—

—-Forevermore—

Thank you, Jesus,

that we can know what redemption is like!

“What was it like

To return to your source

To again gaze upon His face

To be embraced in intimacy

To never run again

To indulge in His goodness

To worship and love

To be redeemed and reconciled—

—Forevermore—”