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In the Garden
Sin's curse and its cure are found in the garden | 6

Revelation's Seven Trumpets | 3

SHINE Family Bible Camp | 4
Banana Carob Smoothie | 13
 Here where we live in Missouri, summer is in full force! The days are
long, the temperature is hot, and the humidity is high. My family is enjoying
time in the garden, and my young children are learning what tomatoes and
squash and cucumbers look like on the vine. The dark days of winter are long
gone, and for me, this is a powerful reminder of God's promise to rescue us
from the darkness of sin and bring us to a better place, to a heavenly home
with an "eternal summer" where the miracle of life never ends!
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 The garden reveals sin's curse and its cure.
Tim Rumsey
G od is love” (1 John 4:8). Ac-
cording to the Bible, there
is no more basic truth than this.
But most people, even many Chris-
tians, don’t believe it. Not really. It’s
not that they don’t want to, they
just haven’t ever seen, for them-
selves, Who the God of the Bible
is, and what He promises to do for
them. Too often, Christians see the
God of the Bible as little different
than the other gods worshipped in
the world, and their picture of Him
reflects more fear, apprehension,
and distrust, than love. For other
Christians, their understanding
of God’s character is shaped and
influenced by our culture’s abuse
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and misuse of the word love. The
result? A view of God that strips
Him of nearly all His divine quali-
ties and replaces them with a wa-
tered down and superficial “love.”
Who is God, and what
does it really mean that He is
love? The answer may surprise
you. And it’s found in two gar-
dens—the Garden of Eden and
the Garden of Gethsemane.
How did God create humanity?
The Bible says that “God cre-
ated man in his own image, in
the image of God created he him”
(Genesis 1:26,27). What this im-
age refers to is revealed in the rela-
tionship between Jesus Christ and
God the Father. The Bible says that
Christ is “the express image of his
person” (Hebrews 1:3). The two
words "express image" are a trans-
lation of the Greek word charaktēr,
from which we get the English
character. When God created hu-
manity to reflect His image, He
intended us to have His character.
What is God’s character like?
Just a few verses after stating that
Jesus Christ is the “express im-
age” of the Father, the Bible reveals
that God “hast loved righteous-
ness and hated iniquity” (Hebrews
1:9). There are many people who
profess to love righteousness, but
exhibit little or no hatred of sin.
This is not the character of God.
Likewise, there are others that
profess to hate sin, and who mili-
tantly fight against injustice in this
world, but who also fail to exhibit
genuine love. This, too, is not God’s
character. God’s character is a per-
fect balance between loving what
is right, and hating what is sinful.
And like any good parent, God’s
purpose has always been to in-
still these two basic aspects of His
character in His human children.
What was possible for humanity
before sin?
When God created Adam and
Eve, He placed them in the Gar-
den of Eden. In the center of this
magnificent paradise stood the tree
of life and the tree of the knowl-
edge of good and evil. Speaking to
Adam, God “commanded the man,
saying, Of every tree of the gar-
den thou mayest freely eat: But of
the tree of the knowledge of good
and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for
in the day that thou eatest thereof
thou shalt surely die” (Genesis
2:16,17). God commanded Adam
to obey for one simple reason—
because Adam was able to obey.
Consider this fascinating ob-
servation from the book Steps to
Christ: “It was possible for Adam,
before the fall, to form a righteous
character by obedience to God’s
law.”1 Adam was created with the
ability to choose obedience, and
through this choice to form a righ-
teous character. At creation, God
placed obedience and righteous-
ness in the realm of human choice.
But even in Eden’s perfect,
sin-free environment, God did
not expect Adam to form a righ-
teous character alone, by his own
power. As a symbol and reminder
of where this righteousness came
from, God clothed Adam and Eve
with a robe of light. “This sinless
pair wore no artificial garments.
They were clothed with a cover-
ing of light and glory, such as the
angels wear.”2 And what did this
covering of light represent? “The
garment that…covered them…
represented the righteousness of
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Christ.”3 They were the first hu-
mans to experience the promise of
Isaiah 61:10, “I will greatly rejoice
in the Lord, my soul shall be joy-
ful in my God; for he hath clothed
me with the garments of salva-
tion, he hath covered me with the
robe of righteousness.” As long as
Adam and Eve remembered that
their ability to obey and choose
righteousness came from God,
they were safe from temptation.
What changed when Adam sinned?
One day, Adam and Eve chose
to trust their own wisdom and
power. They ate the fruit from
the forbidden tree of knowledge
of good and evil, and plunged
humanity into judgment and
condemnation. “[B]y one man’s
offence death reigned…[and]
judgment came upon all men to
condemnation…[and] many were
made sinners” (Hebrews 5:17-19).
Now servants to sin, Adam and
Eve could no longer obey God’s
law or form a righteous charac-
ter. As Romans 6:20 states, “For
when ye were the servants of sin,
ye were free from righteousness.”
As a result of sin, humanity imme-
diately lost the freedom of choice
that God had given at creation.
How did God respond to sin?
Imagine that you are sitting in
the doctor’s office, holding hands
with your spouse and waiting for
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the doctor to share your biopsy
report. Opening his mouth, the
doctor says, “I’m sorry, but the test
came back positive. You have can-
cer.” The doctor has three options
to choose from, and these options
are essentially the same as the
ones God has in dealing with sin.
In Option A, the doctor wads
up the biopsy report and throws
it into the trashcan. “Don’t worry
about that,” he says, “just ignore the
test results! You don’t want to live
in fear, do you?” We may laugh or
cringe, but many people view God’s
response to sin this way. “Don’t
worry about the law of God,” they
insist, “just ignore it! You don’t
want to live in legalism, do you?” In
this scenario, the doctor and God
would both be guilty of malpractice.
In Option B, the doctor reaches
under his desk, pulls out a hand-
gun, and points it at you. “I’m
sorry," he says, "but the cancer
must be destroyed.” With that,
he pulls the trigger. Again, we
cringe, but many people view
God this way, as a stern judge ea-
ger to destroy the guilty sinner. In
this scenario, the doctor and God
would both be guilty of murder.
There is, however, a final option,
one that any good doctor will pur-
sue. In Option C, the doctor smiles
and says, “Don’t be afraid. It might
take some time, and it might hurt,
 As long as Adam and Eve remembered that their
ability to obey and choose righteousness came
from God, they were safe from temptation.
but I am going to do everything I
can to cure your disease.” And this
is exactly what God promises to do
with sin. “For this is my covenant
unto them, when I shall take away
their sins” (Romans 11:27). As
with fighting cancer, the process
takes time and is difficult, for sin
is not merely a legal problem. It
is a disease of the heart and mind
that must be cured. As a sign of His
promise to take away their sin, God
gave Adam and Eve “coats of skins”
(Genesis 3:21). This visual symbol,
given on the day they sinned, rep-
resented a very real spiritual real-
ity. A Substitute had been found to
pay the penalty of their sin, and to
eventually cure the disease itself.
What is the penalty for sin?
The penalty for sin is death the
same day that one becomes guilty of
sin, for God had warned Adam that
“in the day that thou eatest” from
the tree of the knowledge of good
and evil, “thou shalt surely die”
(Genesis 2:17). But Adam didn’t
die that day, or the next. He didn’t
die that week, or later that month.
In fact, Adam lived nearly 1,000
years—930, to be exact. So did
God lie? Did He change His mind?
Or had God merely threatened
Adam to scare him into obedience?
The answer is found 4,000 years
later in another garden, with an-
other Man. When Jesus entered
the Garden of Gethsemane hours
before His death, He turned to
His disciples and said, “My soul
is exceeding sorrowful, even unto
death” (Matthew 26:38). He was
quoting from Isaiah 53, a passage
that describes the suffering of the
Savior: "Therefore will I divide
him a portion with the great, and
he shall divide the spoil with the
strong; because he hath poured out
his soul unto death: and he was num-
bered with the transgressors; and he
bare the sin of many, and made
intercession for the transgressors"
(Isaiah 53:12, emphasis added).
According to this prophecy,
the soul of the Messiah would be
“poured out” at the very moment
when the guilt of the world’s sins
was laid upon Him. It was at this
moment, as Christ entered the
dark shadows of Gethsemane,
that He became, in the full-
est sense, the world’s sin-bearer.
Jesus had been earnestly
conversing with His disciples
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 and instructing them; but as He
neared Gethsemane, He became
strangely silent. He had often
visited this spot for meditation
and prayer; but never with a
heart so full of sorrow as upon
this night of His last agony…He
seemed to be shut out from the
light of God’s sustaining pres-
ence. Now He was numbered
with the transgressors. The guilt
of fallen humanity He must
bear. Upon Him who knew no
sin must be laid the iniquity of
us all.4
How quickly did Christ die after
accepting the guilt of sin?
Night had fallen when Jesus
entered Gethsemane, for it was al-
ready dark when the disciple Judas
left the upper room some time be-
fore (John 13:30). Today, we would
call this Thursday evening, but in
the Bible, the new day begins at
sunset, not midnight.5 Therefore,
it was actually in the early hours of
the sixth day, or Friday, when Jesus
entered Gethsemane and accepted
the guilt of every sin. On that same
day, less than twenty-four hours
later, Jesus died (Mark 15:34-37).
However, the effect of sin’s guilt
on the Son of God was even more
immediate than His death on the
cross. As Jesus lay on the ground in
Gethsemane, He wrestled with the
decision to accept and pay the pen-
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alty of sin. Sweating “great drops
of blood” (Luke 22:44), He finally
breathed the prayer of submission,
“Not as I will, but as thou wilt”
(Matthew 26:39). The book The De-
sire of Ages provides this amazing
description of what happened next.
“Having made the decision, He fell
dying to the ground from which He
had partially risen.”6 Christ would
have died right then, right there,
mere moments after accepting
the guilt of human sin. However,
a light shone forth amid the
stormy darkness of the crisis
hour, and the mighty angel who
stands in God’s presence, occu-
pying the position from which
Satan fell, came to the side of
Christ. The angel came not to
take the cup from Christ’ hand,
but to strengthen Him to drink
it, with the assurance of the Fa-
ther’s love.7
The angel strengthened Jesus
just enough so that He could
live a few more hours, suf-
fer longer, and die on the cross.
In the Garden of Eden, God
warned Adam and Eve that the
penalty of sin was death that same
day. Yet when they did sin, the Son
of God stepped in between them
and sin’s penalty, and became the
“Lamb slain from the foundation
of the world” (Revelation 13:8).
 Thousands of years later, as that
Lamb entered the Garden of Geth-
semane, the guilt of sin was fully
placed upon Him, and He suffered
the penalty—death that same day.
What changed for humanity
when Jesus Christ died?
When Adam sinned, “death
reigned…[and] judgment came
upon all men to condemnation...
[and] many were made sinners”
(Romans 5:17-19). This certainly is
true, but it is only half the gospel.
The other half of the gospel—the
gloriously amazing half—is con-
tained in the ellipses. The truth
revealed in the other half of the
gospel explains what Jesus Christ
has made possible for humanity.
Let’s read all of Romans 5:17.
“For if by one man’s offence death
reigned by one; much more they
which receive abundance of grace
and of the gift of righteousness shall
reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.”
God’s gift to humanity is righteous-
ness through Jesus Christ! What
about the next verse? Here is what
all of Romans 5:18 says. “Therefore
as by the offence of one judgment
came upon all men to condemna-
tion; even so by the righteousness of
one the free gift came upon all men
unto justification of life.” How many
hours later...Jesus died.
people have received “justifica-
tion of life”? All men. What does
this mean? It doesn’t mean that all
people will be saved. God respects
our freedom of choice too much
to force us into heaven. But it does
mean that Jesus Christ has pur-
chased back the human will from
the power of Satan. And, through
the promise of a Savior, He im-
mediately gave back the power
of choice to humanity, mere mo-
ments after Adam and Eve sinned.8
Far too many Christians believe
only the first half of the gospel—the
half that says we are condemned to
death and doomed to continue sin-
ning until we get to heaven. “I was
born a sinner,” they say, “and there-
fore it’s impossible to obey God.
Why even try?” Sadly, these Chris-
tians focus on sin rather than on
the Savior! God promises that a life
of loving obedience to Him is pos-
sible! Consider this amazing prom-
ise: “Neither yield ye your members
as instruments of unrighteous-
ness unto sin: but yield yourselves
unto God, as those that are alive
from the dead, and your mem-
bers as instruments of righteous-
ness unto God” (Romans 6:13).
The Bible concludes with a
wonderful promise of what is pos-
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sible for humanity through the
power of Jesus Christ. “Blessed are
they that do his commandments,
that they may have right to the tree
of life, and may enter in through
the gates into the city” (Revela-
tion 22:14). Notice that obedience
to God’s commandments comes
first, then the reward of immor-
tality and access to the tree of life.
God does not change, and the re-
quirements for eternal life now
and in the future are the same
as they were for Adam and Eve.
The condition of eternal life
is now just what it always has
been,—just what it was in Para-
dise before the fall of our first
parents,—perfect obedience to
the law of God, perfect righ-
teousness.9
The power of choice, lost in
Eden, was regained in Geth-
semane. God’s character—placed
originally in mankind at cre-
ation, then lost through sin—
can be reformed in men and
women today. Truly, God is love!
1 E.G. White, Steps to Christ, p. 62.
2 E.G. White, The Story of Redemption, p. 21.
3 E.G. White, Experiences in Australia, p. 150.
4 E.G. White, The Desire of Ages, p. 685
(emphasis added).
5 See Genesis 1:5,8,13,19,23,31 and Psalm
55:17.
6 E.G. White, The Desire of Ages, p. 693.
7 Ibid.
8 Evidence for this is seen in Genesis 4:7,
where God urges Cain to resist evil and
choose obedience. If it was impossible
for humanity to resist temptation after
Adam’s sin, God would not have urged
Cain to choose the right.
9 E.G. White, Steps to Christ, p. 62.

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 Banana Carob Smoothie
Prep: 5 mins | Total: 5 mins | Yield: 1 to 2 servings
Ingredients
1/4 cup raw almonds
3 frozen bananas, cut into 1” to 2” chunks
1/3 cup vanilla almond milk, vanilla soy milk, or canned coconut milk
1 teaspoon Teeccino Vanilla Nut Naturally Caffeine-Free Herbal Coffee (optional)
2 tablespoons carob powder
1/8 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon vanilla

Instructions
Place almonds, milk, carob powder, Teeccino (optional), salt, vanilla, and
approximately 1 1/2 frozen bananas in blender. (A heavy-duty blender works
best for this recipe; other blenders may not get the mixture smooth enough.)
Blend until bananas are mostly blended. Add remaining banana and blend
until fairly smooth. Mixture will be thick; I find it blends best by alternating
between cycle 1 and cycle 9 on my blender. Do not overblend or mixture will
lose its frostiness. Serve immediately.
Notes
1. Don’t skip the step of freezing bananas – this step is essential for a rich,
creamy, sweet smoothie. And definitely don’t add ice cubes – it doesn’t work.
2. For a sweeter smoothie, add 1 tablespoon pure maple syrup.
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