THE FALL OF MAN!!!!!

Genesis chapter 2




Today we are walking in: The Fall Of Man!!!!




Today we look to the word-FALL- H5307 naphal--to fall, be cast down, fail








The Torah testifies...............






Numbers 14:29




Your carcases shall fall H5307 in this wilderness; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, which have murmured against me,












The prophets proclaim..................






Isaiah 10:4




Without me they shall bow down under the prisoners, and they shall fall H5307 under the slain. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.











The writings bear witness...........................






1​ ​Chronicles 21:13




And David said unto Gad, I am in a great strait: let me fall H5307 now into the hand of the LORD; for very great are his mercies: but let me not fall H5307 into the hand of man.




The Fall of Man




Men and women were created, therefore, with perfectly complementary designs. When did we start departing from Yah’s original purpose?




The third chapter of Genesis explains the source of the conflict and strife between men and women. In chapter two, we read that Yah instructed the man, Adam, that he could eat from any tree in the Garden except the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil; if he did, he would die (Genesis 2:17). When Eve was created, Adam passed this instruction along to her. The events that followed turned men and women away from Yah’s perfect design. HaSatan, in the form of a serpent, tempted Eve to eat from the tree, saying that if she did, she would not die but would “be like Yah, knowing good and evil” (Genesis 3:5). Eve succumbed to the temptation, Adam agreed, and they both ate of the fruit of the tree.




Men and women lost their perfectly balanced relationship.




By an act of their wills, Adam and Eve rejected Yah’s plans and pursued their own desires. They had been designed to live in Yah’s purposes and under His loving rule. Yet they wanted a purpose for which they were not created. They thought that they could be like Yah Himself. They weren’t satisfied with their position and roles. Yet their rejection of Yah’s purposes only brought them heartache, because they were not meant to live independently from Yah and the purposes for which He has created them. This scripture describes their predicament: “Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools” (Romans 1:22).




Results of the Fall




The first result of the Fall was that humanity’s fellowship with Yah was broken. Remember that man was created to receive Yah’s love. Yet Adam and Eve’s sin and rebellion separated them from Yah. Yah still loved them, but they no longer had the same open channel to Yah with which to receive His love.




Second, Adam and Eve experienced death, just like Yah had said they would. They did not immediately experience physical death; yet the remarkable spirit that Yah had placed within them, the spirit that distinguished them as made in His image, suffered a death. While they still retained elements of their creation in Yah’s image, they no longer perfectly reflected the nature and character of their Creator. They also were destined to die physically at some point.




Third, Adam and Eve suffered the loss of their perfectly balanced relationship.




To the woman [Yah] said, “I will greatly increase your pains in childbearing; with pain you will give birth to children. Your desire will be for your husband,and he will rule over you.” To Adam he said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat of it,’ cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat of it all the days of your life. It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat the plants of the field. By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return.” (Genesis 3:16-19)




Was the Woman Cursed?




We have learned that when purpose is unknown or is rejected, abuse is inevitable. The devaluing of women by men is not a natural consequence of Yah’s original design. Some people claim that this is so, and they use it as a justification for putting women down. Rather, it came about as a result of humanity’s rebellion against Yah and rejection of His purposes. Man and woman cannot function in true harmony and effectiveness outside of Yah’s purposes.




After Adam and Eve rebelled, Yah made some specific statements to the woman. I want to strongly emphasize that these statements were not curses. I was brought up to believe that Yah cursed Eve. The teachings in the church insinuated that this is what Yah did. However, this was not the case. Yah was telling Eve the natural consequences of rejecting His purposes.




The Bible does not say that Yah cursed the man or the woman. Yah said, “Cursed is the ground” (Genesis 3:17). In other words, He said to Adam, “It is the earth that is really going to feel the impact of your disobedience. Because of this, you will have to struggle to survive in it.” Moreover, He did not curse the woman by making her a child-bearer. He didn’t say, “Just for that, now you’re going to have children and it’s going to hurt.” Adam and Eve were always meant to have children. Eve already had the ability to bear children so that humanity could reproduce after its kind. That ability was established before sin came into the picture. So bearing children is not a curse. Rather, when you bear a child, you are fulfilling a part of Yah’s purpose for humanity. However, Yah told Eve that, because of sin, she was now going to experience pain in childbearing. If there hadn’t been a Fall, a woman could have had as many children as she wanted without any pain. Yah made it clear that pain-not the ability to have the child- was the product of the Fall.




Many women today consider child-bearing and childrearing to be a burden because they do not receive enough support in this from their husbands. Moreover, when a woman is a single parent, the burden becomes even greater. The Scripture says in Genesis 1:28, “Yah blessed them and said to them, ‘Be fruitful’”. Both female and male were supposed to be fruitful. That meant that any babies Eve would bear would belong to both of them. Yah said to them, in effect, “Don’t just concern yourselves with having dominion over the earth together; you have to bring up the children together, too.” Part of the result of the Fall may be that too much of this responsibility has fallen to the woman, while the man has been preoccupied with “taking dominion.” Sometimes women, also, can be more concerned with involvement in the world than raising their children.




Dominion and Desire instead of Dominion




Yah not only told the woman that her pain in childbearing would be increased, but He also said, “Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you” (Genesis 3:16). This is a change from their former relationship. This statement emphasizes the fact that the male and female were originally created to rule together. They were designed to function together equally. Yah had said to them, “Fill the earth and subdue it” (Genesis 1:28). Both of them were supposed to be rulers- and that is still His plan.




After the Fall, both the man and the woman would still rule, but their relationship would become distorted. First, Yah said to Eve that, because of sin, “Your desire shall be for your husband” (v. 16). Once a woman gets married, she has a desire, a longing, for her husband. Sometimes this desire can become controlling. Most of the time this desires hidden, but it’s there. Yah also told Eve that the man would develop an attitude of rulership over her. He would feel as if he had to dominate her. This was not part of Yah’s plan; however, because of sin, the man’s twisted perception of life would cause him to want to dominate the woman, and because sin, the woman would continually desire to do anything to keep him.




Most women would not like to admit that they have this desire. However, many marriage counselors can confirm that it exists. They have counseled women who are being abused by men, and they have wondered how these women take it. For example, a man comes home in the middle of the night and beats his wife half dead. He wets the bedclothes because he’s been drinking and can’t control his bladder. He goes out for three nights in a row, high as a kite, and then comes back home and demands to be fed. His wife allows him to treat her in this manner. She cooks his meals, washes his clothes, and has the bedspread cleaned. Why does she do this? It is this desire.




Women have a tremendous ability to allow things.




Women have a tremendous ability to allow things. This isn’t entirely a result of the Fall; rather, it is actually a reflection of their creation in Yah’s image. The Bible says that Yah is long-suffering. This means that He allows things for a long time; He is patient with people, waiting for them to change their behavior. He permits things to go on for a long time.




While many women have a limit to their tolerance of abusive behavior, a woman’s tendency is still this longing for her husband, this desire to please him at all costs. At the same time, the man tends to feel as if he has the right to lord it over her. “He will rule over you” (Genesis 3:16). Again, this was not Yah’s plan in creation. Yah never said that the man in the male was to dominate the man in the female. He said that man- as male and female- was to dominate earth. The Fall, however, caused the man to have a misplaced and distorted understanding of dominion, so that now the man wants to dominate the woman.




Humanity’s Redeemer




Is Yah’s purpose for women and men lost forever?




Is humanity doomed to live in the effects of the Fall? Has Yah’s purpose been lost forever? No. His purpose has never changed. His original design still stands. At the very hour of humanity’s rejection of Yah’s purpose, Yah promised a Redeemer who would save men and women from their fallen state and all its ramifications (Genesis 3:15). The Redeemer would restore the relationship and partnership of males and females. Yahusha Hamachiach is that Redeemer, and because of Him, men and women can return to Yah’s original design for them. Purpose, peace, and potential can return to humanity.




The last two teachings have been an overview of Yah’s purpose for women and men in creation and what happened to derail that purpose. The teachings that follow will help women (and men) apply these purposes in practical ways. They will present the woman’s purposes and design and how she relates to the male and his purposes and design.




A return to Yah’s plan, however, means a return to Yah himself. It means coming back to Yah through the Redeemer, yielding your life to Him, and asking Him to fill you with His Ruach Hackodesh so that you will be able to live in His original plan for you. When you do this, Yah will do an amazing thing. He will cause the human spirit within you, which is dead as a result of the Fall- to come alive again, so that you will be able to reflect His character and His ways. As you return to Yah and continually yield your spirit to Yah’s Spirit, you will be able to fulfill the purposes for which you were created.




Principles




Women and men were created equal and different.


Everything was designed by Yah to fulfill its purpose.


Females and males are different because of their design.


Different does not mean inferior or superior.


The purposes of women and men determine their individual nature and needs.


The female and male were both given dominion over the earth, yet they each execute this purpose according to their unique purposes and designs.


To try to be someone other than what you were created to be is to miss Yah’s best for you.


When we try to change Yah’s purposes for ourselves or others, we are attempting the impossible, for Yah’s purposes cannot be altered.


Adam and Eve rejected Yah’s purposes by an act of their wills.


Because of the Fall, man experienced broken fellowship with Yah, spiritual and physical death, and the loss of the perfectly balanced relationship between males and females.


Yah did not curse the female or the male as a result of the Fall; He cursed the earth. Adam and Eve experienced the natural consequences of rejecting Yah and His purposes.


Child-bearing is not a curse.


As a result of the Fall, the woman has a desire to please her husband and the man has a desire to dominate her.


Yahusha Hamachiach, the Redeemer, saved humanity from its fallen state and restored the relationship and partnership between males and females.