The Tulsa star. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1913-1921, 1918-12-21

can readily see that the breath Of life
that God breaihed into father Adam
was not a soul but that breath united
with other elements constituted him
(Adam) living soul, (Gen. 2:7, and
lei him have dominion over the fish
Of the sea and over the fowls of the
air and over the cattle and over all
the earth and over every creeping
thing that creepeth upon the earth,
(Gen. 1920. Take notice, friends,
that Adams commission TO rule was
moi to be exercised over man. When
man was perfect he had perfect con
troll over all the animals. Such will
again be the case when man reaches
perfection.
II was about the close of the sixth
day and the beginning of the 9TH
that God created Adam and Eve and
placed them in the Garden of Eden
in perfectly happy and rested from
His work. God rested i'm the sense
that He did not employ His power to
overthrow sin and uplfl mankind
but rested the matter in the hands of
Jesus to be accomplished through
His sacrifice for sin.
II was practically six days of 1000
years each from the beginning of the
ordering Of carlhs affairs for mans
habiiatiOn to the time when he was
created. We can imagine the great
JOY and the keen interest of the
Heavenly Host in Witnessing the
grand climax Of the creative week
the happy pair in the image and
likeness of their Creator and with
powers of procrealion. This pair
was recognized by Jehovah as being
created for His glory USiah l3:0.
The envy and jealousy of one of the
high ranking Angels Uucifer) was
aroused because Of the creation Of
this pair. and pride and selfish ambi.
ton lead him to bctray his trust and
attempt to capture them for himself.
The first thing he did was TO mis-
represent Gods character and poiSen
their minds against His righteous
law which warned Father Adam that
in the day he ate certain fruit in that
day he would surely die, Gen. 2:17
day he would surely die, OGen. PAID
beg to say thai Adam died in The
very day that ne Sinned. While he
lived $50 years he did not live one
full day because a day with the Lord
is 1000 years e. Peter 3:S). The Devil
told a lie in order to complete hi
deception; telling Mother Eve thai
she would not surely die (Gen 3:l-5)
All persons who believe that man is
more alive in hell Of fire or in {
heaven of bliss after death are under
the binding influence of Saian'S frs
old lie, "Thou shall not surely die
God tells us that the wages of sin i
death and He desires us TO under
stand that when we die we are deaC
and the dnly hope for life after dealt
is through the resurrection of tn
dead Ono. 5:25-2S).
With what astonishmeni the Hol,
Angels must have looked upon tina
phase of Gods plan which pcrmilte,
our first parents to fall into sin AM
diSfavor with their creator and not
that all this was brought about b.
one of the high ranking angels. Lu
cifer). God could have prevented al
of this but for wise purposes He per
miltcd the pride and selfiShnesS O
Lucifcr TO 60 to seed in the apparen
= capture of the first pair. While Go
looked on with apparently inabilit
to cope with the situation this serve
as a test of the loyalty of The Hol
angels. Would they yet remain loya
to God who apparently had los
control of affairs? or would the
decide TO follow the example of IL
70 cifer (now Satan) in his rebellio
against God?
r The angels fully believed the
! could reform man and bring hiI
back into harmony with God. JehC
10 yah knew they could not but in ol
r der that they might convince then
= selves of thai fact they were permit
L ed to have the oversight of man fC
!, more than 1000 years that the
might reform him if they could. 81
l tan induced the angels to try
c scheme without consulting God as
i the wisdom of the plan. He, Satal
k suggested that the angels, moi havin
+ had the death sentence passed upo
k them, marry the daughters of me
c and produce race having life eve
c lasting (Gcn. 6:2). The whoI
@ scheme ended in a miserable failur
' and instead of man being reformc
) no became worse. SO much so that Ill