The Gospel in Genesis: From Fig Leaves to Faith (Truth for All Time) by Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Author:Martyn Lloyd-Jones [Lloyd-Jones, Martyn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781846251375
Amazon: 1846251370
Publisher: Day One Publications
Published: 2010-02-27T00:00:00+00:00

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THE CHERUBIM AND THE FLAMING SWORD

And the Lord God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever: Therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken. So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.

GENESIS 3:22–24

We have seen that the Bible always speaks to us about the precise condition in which we find ourselves and that it has a great message that covers the whole of life. And so, without entering into the details of what is happening in the world today, the Bible speaks about them in a profound manner that nothing else can approach.

Nothing, I sometimes think, so proves the truth of the biblical teaching as the way in which men and women refuse to consider it. You would think that a time of crisis and turmoil and confusion in the world would drive them to the Bible, but it does not. They turn in every other direction; they consider every other possible solution. And there is only one explanation for that attitude, the one the Bible itself gives us. Scripture tells us that men and women are spiritually blind and that to the extent that they do see at all, they see only in a human and materialistic sense. They are blind to the really vital issues, to the unseen powers and forces, and these are, after all, the most important realities. The tragedy of men and women in general is that they only see the visible—they do not see the invisible. Therefore at the present hour they do not see the real cause of their troubles. They think in terms of certain individuals who have done this or that, what they should not have done and what should be done and so on. And they get excited about all that. But these are merely symptoms. It is what cannot be seen by the visible eye, what lies behind all this, that really accounts for all that takes place in the world.

Now the Bible is interested in all that. The Bible is a very old book; it has been in this world for such a long time and has seen many a crisis come and go. The Bible was here during the Second World War. It was here in the First World War. It was here, exactly as it is now, in the time of the Napoleonic Wars when people got so excited and thought that the world had never been in such a situation as it was then. The world is always saying that. Every generation tends to repeat it. But the Bible, as it were, looks through all

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