Have you ever been looking for something and you focused your search so minutely, in one small area, that when you finally backed, up and took a wider perspective, you finally found what you had been searching for? Sometimes we need to back up and take a long range look. What we see here on earth is deceptive. For one we can only see things as they are, which is after the fall of Adam. Everything we know about life and everything we perceive is filtered through the effects of sin. We don’t know nor can we see what life could have been like on earth if there was no original sin. Secondly we have been trained to look at a small area in our immediate surrounding when truly we are here for such a short time. Understand, I am a Dave Ramsey fan, pay off your debt, baby steps, live like no one else so that you can live like no one else, plan for retirement, but we are going to spend a lot more time when we are not here rather than when we are here. In other words we are eternal beings.

The Bible tells us Adam lived 930 years and then he died. Some speculate that he lived 40 years before the fall, and that the total years could be 970 years. No matter, God said that in the day you eat (of the tree) you will die. If one thousand years is as a day and a day as one thousand years, Adam died in one day. But that was not God’s plan; Adam was to live far longer than one day.

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