<TITLE>17. Par 62-65</TITLE>L-62 Let's turn our camera for the closing moments now, a moment. Let's go back to Eden again. I can see little Eve standing there. I was standing not long ago down... went off of Mars Hill down there in Athens, and I was watching a--a picture there that some Grecian artist had painted of the creation; it was a indebtiment to Christianity. There stood Eve, the horriblest looking beast you ever seen. Oh, my. I never seen such a looking person as--as Eve. And there was Adam with hairs out of his nose, way out like that, and looked like some kind of a prehistoric giant. No such a thing as that. Anybody would do that has got a diluted mind, a perverted mind. They don't know God.

L-63 Eve was the most beautiful woman that was ever on the earth. She was God's perfect thought of a woman. And Adam was the most perfect man that lived. When he was made manifest in Christ proved it. There he stood... I can see Adam, great, big, manly shoulders, his big muscles in his legs, his shaggy hair hanging around his neck. I can see Eve, beautiful, her blond hair hanging down her back, and her eyes as blue as the skies, and sparkled like the stars. She didn't have to use any Max Factors to make her pretty. No, sir, no, sir. Sin what did that. But look, brother, she's made in God's image; she's made after a image of man, after God had created her, beautiful, never to die, never to get old, never to wrinkle, the sparkle to never go out of the eyes. She was to be beautiful forever.

L-64 Neither would Adam's shoulders ever shag, or hair turn gray, or any deterioration to him, walking perfect with friendship, and fellowship with the Father. What a beautiful picture.
Then when sin entered in, and God seen that they had sinned, He... Before that He could even pass judgment, He had to go kill an innocent lamb, or beast, and throw the skins back there to cover up, to make a substitutionary death, provided for the worshipper to come to Him. And Adam and Eve standing in His Presence...
I can see little Eve with them beautiful eyes now, after sin had set in, tears filled them, and they run down her cheek. I can see Adam with those strong eyes, as he looked across the evening, and the soft winds a blowing where he had to make the beast to obey him, and the winds and the waves to obey him, everything else had to obey him. He had full rulership over everything here on earth. He realized he'd lost his fellowship with God. Tears, to show him that he was mortal now, dripped off at his face, and run down over his bosom, and dripped off on Eve's head. I can see her look up and said, "Adam, I'm the cause of it, dear."

L-65 Now, Adam was not deceived. No, sir. Adam was not deceived. Adam knowed just exactly what he was doing, but Eve was deceived. And Adam did not go out because he had transgressed; he had not. He was dec... He wasn't deceived. He didn't go out because being deceived; he went out because he loved his wife so well, he went with her: A very beautiful type of Jesus Christ, knowing no sin, but went to hell and took our place to redeem His wife, the Church.
Don't get mistaken in that now, mixed up. See? Adam was not deceived, Timothy 3. He was not deceived, but Eve, being deceived was in the transgression. That's right. Adam went with her to be with her. And Christ came down from heaven, the Immortal God, and was made flesh and dwelled among us here, to be one of us, to die as a sinner at Calvary, to redeem us back to fellowship with God again, a beautiful story. He didn't have to do it, but He did it because of His love for the Church and lost humanity.


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