Harold Camping is still amongst us and playing the role of concerned, loving, paternal minister to this audience. These days, he records short daily sermons about safer topics than date predictions, but they, too, are full of marlarkey. Mr. Camping is still serving nauseating junk food.
Tonight, Family Radio's President and Chief Faker was talking to his audience about Eve's deception in the Garden. It is so highly ironic to hear him go on and on about Eve falling for the serpent's lie and how she fell for it because it was what she wanted to hear. Now let me think. [thinking...thinking...] Who else was deceived by a devilishly wicked lie in our day? Oh, right. It was Camping's own loyal supporters. It's like he resides in some parallel universe in which his message night after night for years never hawked a fraudulent date prediction from his Biblical Timeline of the History of the World. And, by the way, a date prediction that seriously impacted many lives in the most destructive ways. Whole families were devasted by his evil scam. Many children of the Family Radio cult were permanently scarred from their long, drawn out ordeal. At the very least, this master of deception should be hiding out somewhere in a deceiver's protection program in full disguise, not preaching over the airwaves.
According to Harold Camping, Family Radio's "real" C.E.O. (Corrupt, Egomaniacal Oddball), Eve also lied when she told the serpent that she was commanded to not touch the forbidden tree.
Ge 3:2-3 And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden:
But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.
And how does the faker know this? He knows this from reading Genesis 2:15 where we read that Adam was to tend the Garden. According to Camping's theory, since Adam was to dress and keep the land, he must have been permitted to touch the forbidden tree. Therefore, Eve lied. A biblically sound conclusion? Or another wild, progressive revelation-type leap? You be the judge.
Ge 2:15 And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.
And here is the Lord's instructions to the man, Adam, in the following verses:
Ge 2:16 ¶ And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:
17 But 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.
What could have possibly motivated Eve to make up a fib about a command to not touch the tree? I find the idea completely absurd. The serpent had simply asked a question about the tree and Eve answered. Even if she was already deceived at this point, how could a lie concerning the Lord's commandment serve her in any way? But she was not yet deceived.
Ge 3:1 ¶ Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made.
Up to this point, Eve was obedient. The proverbial stage was set and the curtain was about to be raised on the first recorded sin, but the serpent still had to make his case in order to deceive Eve:
Ge 3:1 .... And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
Ge 3:4 And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:
5 For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.
NOW Eve was deceived:
Ge3:6 ¶ And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat,
Eve had absolutely no reason whatsoever to lie to the serpent by stating that the tree was not to be touched. The tree was part of the Garden that Adam and Eve were required to dress and keep. If they were not to eat of the tree, it makes perfect sense that they were also not to touch it. Eve's statement simply added to the facts pertaining to the commandment given to Adam, which was, in all likelihood, passed down to Eve. Nowhere do we read that charges were brought against Eve for lying to the serpent, and God would have told us if she did.
Let's look at the commandment like true Bereans instead of programmed robots :
Ge 2:15 And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.
to dress <05647> (8800) it and to keep <08104> (8800) it.
First of all, it was the Garden, generally, that the man was to dress and keep. "Dress" is translated from the same Hebrew word as "till" in Genesis 2:5 and 3:23:
Ge 3:23 Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till <05647> (8800) the ground from whence he was taken.
The Hebrew word "till" from the Hebrew word ‘abad in Genesis 3:23 does not convey literal touching, but rather serving:
Nu 18:6 And I, behold, I have taken your brethren the Levites from among the children of Israel: to you they are given as a gift for the LORD, to do <05647> (8800) the service of the tabernacle of the congregation.
Jos 24:16 And the people answered and said, God forbid that we should forsake the LORD, to serve <05647> (8800) other gods;
Adam was to dress or till the ground of Eden, but he was sent forth from there to also execute, or serve the land from whence he was taken. Adam was also to "keep" the land given to him. As for "keeping" the land, Adam was to observe it, as we keep all of God's commandments.
De 8:11 Beware that thou forget not the LORD thy God, in not keeping <08104> (8800) his commandments, and his judgments, and his statutes, which I command thee this day:
De 24:8 Take heed in the plague of leprosy, that thou observe <08104> (8800) diligently, and do according to all that the priests the Levites shall teach you: as I commanded them, so ye shall observe to do.
As I see it, Adam's instructions to serve the Garden which represented God's creation meant that he was to serve the Lord and obey His commandments. There is nothing in the commandment given to Adam to till, dress or keep the ground that should make us follow Harold's reasoning that Eve lied in addition to disobediently eating of the tree's fruit.
The beat goes on, the beat goes on. Drums keep pounding a rhythm to the brain.
La de da de de. La de da de da.
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