Thank God we were kicked out!

The man called his wife's name Eve, because she was the mother of all living. And the LORD God made for Adam and for his wife garments of skins and clothed them. Then the LORD God said, "Behold, the man has become like one of us in knowing good and evil. Now, lest he reach out his hand and take also of the tree of life and eat, and live forever--" therefore the LORD God sent him out from the garden of Eden to work the ground from which he was taken. He drove out the man, and at the east of the garden of Eden he placed the cherubim and a flaming sword that turned every way to guard the way to the tree of life. Genesis 3:20-24
We finish this tragic chapter with God's act of kicking the man and woman out of Eden. Humankind was no longer fit to exist among the perfection all around them. The innocent heart necessary was corrupted with sin and a flawed creature was now given the ability to "know good and evil." Why did God do this? He did it, at least in part, because the gift of living forever in the flesh would have unleashed devils uncounted upon this world. It would be like having Satan multiplied twice over, with the potential to multiply forever! Just look at our world today. If we are able, within our own short lifetimes, to cause such enormous damage and perpetrate such tremendous amounts and depths of evil in this world, imagine the literal hell on earth we would all live in if we were somehow immortal in our flesh! That possibility makes me grateful we were excluded from the Tree of Life.

Your Joyfully Loquacious Expositor
LEE