The scene wasn’t anything like it’s often portrayed. The dust didn’t just swirl around and suddenly become a living man. In the vision, I saw God form the man’s body out of the ground and hold it up in front of Him. He had it by the shoulders and it was finished, but it was just hanging there, grayish and lifeless. Then I saw Him breathe His life into that body and say: Man be in our image and after our likeness: “and…have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth” (Genesis 1:26).
The instant those words were spoken, the body came alive. Suddenly, there stood a living, breathing man made in the perfect image of Jesus. The man hadn’t heard the words that had been used to create him. He hadn’t heard anything yet. So God spoke again and said: “[Be BLESSED!] Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth” (verse 28, "New King James Version").
With that, I received the revelation: The first sound that ever struck a human eardrum was God’s BLESSING! The first thing man ever heard was God saying, “Be BLESSED!” Why? Because THE BLESSING is the perfect will of God forever for all mankind.
God didn’t say anything at Creation about the curse. There’s no mention of it at all in those verses because it wasn’t His idea. He didn’t create it and it was not part of His plan.
The curse came on this earth through sin, and what empowered it was Adam’s authority. When Adam surrendered that authority to the devil, the devil did with it what he always does. He perverted what God created, and the curse was the result.
It happened because of Adam’s choice though, not God’s. God told him not to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, but Adam chose to disobey. He knew exactly what was going on when that serpent showed up in the Garden of Eden and started lying to his wife. Unlike her, he wasn’t deceived.
What’s more, he was standing right there the whole time and could have intervened. He could have said, “No, sweetheart, don’t eat that! God told us not to, and we want to obey Him.” He could have used his God-given authority, instead of surrendering it, and said, “Devil, get out of my garden!”
Even after he sinned, Adam could have changed the outcome of the situation. He could have repented and received God’s mercy. God gave him the opportunity. (He always does. That’s His way.) But rather than falling on his face, taking responsibility and asking for forgiveness, when God asked him what he’d done, Adam blamed his wife.
BVOV : 7
