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God made a man and when He saw that this man was lonely by himself, He also made a woman to be a companion and comforter to the man. He called the man Adam. The woman was named Eve by her husband.
A beautiful garden called Eden was prepared by God as a home for Adam and Eve. In that garden God placed two very special trees. One tree was the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. the other tree was the tree of life. To eat from the first tree made one to know what was good and what was evil. To eat from the second tree would mean that one would never die.
Many years before God created the world, God had made thousands of heavenly beings who served and worshipped Him in Heaven. These heavenly creatures are known to us as angels. There was perfect order amongst these great hosts. The captains in charge of them were chief angels, which were called archangels.
Some time during those bygone ages one of the chief angels whose name was Lucifer became proud and rebellious. He won a large number of the angles to his side and together they began an underhand struggle to seize the power of the throne which belonged to God alone. The outcome of this was that God punished Lucifer and the angles who had rebelled by casting them out of heaven. God prepared a place of punishment for them. This place of punishment is a terrible lake of fire in a place called hell.
As a result of his downfall, Lucifer, who is the devil, hated God and sought a way to "pay Him back" by attempting to destroy God's beautiful work of creation. He came into the garden in the form of a serpent and guile deceived Eve into eating of the fruit of the tree of knowledge. Eve gave the fruit to Adam who also ate it.
God punished them by commanding them to leave the garden. He did this because He knew they would be tempted to eat of the fruit of the tree of life and thus live forever in their sins. And God would never be able to have fellowship with the man whom he had created for fellowship with Himself.
The sorrow of Adam and Eve when driven by God out of their beautiful home, was very great, however, promised them that He would send a man child who would deliver them from the curse of sin.
For many thousands of years this promise was told and retold from father to son. Generation after generation waited for the coming of the Son who would take their sin away and make them free from the judgment of sin... Every time when the people became discouraged by waiting, God sent His messengers, the prophets, to encourage them to have faith and to hope and wait a little longer.
During the time of the Roman Empire's rule over the world over twenty hundred years ago, God fulfilled His promise. The promised man child was called JESUS, which means Saviour. God had said that this babe who was to be born of Mary, a virgin, was the promised and waited Saviour of the world. The angel of the Lord visited Mary and prepared her for the babe's arrival. The angel told her that it would be a miracle birth for the baby had no earthly father. Mary was not married at the time of the baby's conception, nor had she had any sexual relationship with any man. This was no ordinary child, for He was God's very own Son, who had been with God from the foundation of the world and had been willing to take on the form of man, and to be born as a babe.
Jesus lived for 33 years in the land of Israel. He showed the people the love of God by loving them. He healed the sick. The blind were made to see, the deaf heard, the lame walked and the dumb spoke. He cast the evil spirits out of those who were possessed by them, raised to life some who were dead and did many other wonderful miracles. People loved him and many believed in Him and followed Him but the religious rulers were jealous of His great power over the people and the sought to kill Him.
One day they seized Him in the early hours of the morning, brought Him before the religious and political rulers, and after an unfair trial with false witnesses testifying against Him, condemned him to death by crucifixion, which was the Roman method of execution for their worst criminals.
They rejoiced at their great victory, but not for long. For, three days after His death, Jesus Christ the Saviour, arose from the dead. came out of the grave and showed Himself for forty days to His friends and disciples who later bore witness of this to others. After this He was taken up into heaven, where He is today.
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