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took from its fruit and ate; and she gave also to her husband with her, and
he ate.

Some have concluded that this account is nothing other than a fantastic tale.
Mention of talking beasts, and fruit with miraculous powers has led them to
conclude that it is merely a fictional account that early man devised to explain the
presence of evil in this world. The Spirit of Christ testifies differently. What is
described here actually occurred, and the events are not only historical, but they
serve as a spiritual parable. To understand the parable, we must look at the
context of the entire creation account.
In Genesis chapter one we read the account of Yahweh creating the earth.
Genesis chapter one recounts the six days of creation in which God created the
earth, culminating in His creation of man on the sixth day. God then gave the
man and his wife a command. It was the first command given to man, and is
therefore filled with prophetic importance and tremendous significance.

Genesis 1:26-28
Then God said, "Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our
likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the
sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping
thing that creeps on the earth." God created man in His own image, in the
image of God He created him; male and female He created them. God
blessed them; and God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the
earth, and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of
the sky and over every living thing that moves on the earth."

It has always been the practice of God to reveal, and hide, truth through
means of parables. Christ declared that He did not speak anything to the people
during His ministry without the use of parables. Christ did not speak the first
parable during His life as a man on earth, however. We are told that Christ spoke
the creation into existence.

John 1:1-3
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word
was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things came into being
through Him, and apart from Him nothing came into being that has come
into being.

Hebrews 11:3
By faith we understand that the ages were prepared by the word of God, so
that what is seen was not made out of things which are visible.

Jesus Christ, Yahshua the Messiah, is called “the Word of God.” We are told
that He spoke the creation into being. He has always spoken through means of
parables, and the creation story and the fall of man, though historical, is one
great parable. The first commandment God gave to mankind was to subdue the