Adam's Conversation with God - From my Book - 9-11 - A 9-1-1 God's Emergency Call to America

 Chapter XXII

 

9/11 and Adam's Conversations with God

 

In Genesis 3: 9-11, the Lord called Adam and asked him where he was. Adam replied that he had heard he was walking in the Garden and was afraid because of his nakedness; that's why he hid. God answered him and told him that he was naked, that if he had eaten from the tree, he had forbidden him to eat.

When the Lord God made the earth and the heavens, there was not yet a bush of the field on earth, nor had any grass sprouted because the Lord God had not yet caused it to rain, nor was there man to cultivate it. Then, however, spring came out of the earth that irrigated the entire surface of the ground. And the Lord God formed the man of the ground dust and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and the man became a living being.

The Lord God planted a garden east of Eden and put the man he had formed there. Genesis 2:9-11 says that the Lord God had caused all kinds of beautiful trees to grow, which bore excellent and delicious fruits, and in the middle of the Garden, he made the tree of life grow and the tree of the knowledge of the good and evil. A river from Eden watered the Garden; from there, it was divided into four smaller rivers. The first was called Pisón, covering the entire region of Hávila, where there was gold.

As time went by, the man God had created and formed from the dust of the earth and planted in the Garden, Adam was called, disobeyed God. Then, the Lord God expelled him from the Garden of Eden to work the land he had been made from. After removing him, he placed the cherubim in the east of the Garden of Eden and a fiery sword that moved everywhere to guard the path that leads to the Tree of Life.

Then Adam exclaimed: O my Lord, who would give me that it was like in the past when you created the Heaven and the earth in the beginning! When the Lord said: "Let there be light," - And that light, which you called "Day," was the first day, and the light of that first day, my Lord, spread in a thousand colors over the abyss, and there was a waste of light and splendor! It was then, my Lord, that every time you created something, like an echo, those words began to resound over the universe: "And God saw that it was good." And as you saw, my Lord, that the light was good, you separated it from the dense darkness that you called "Night."

Oh, how I wish, my God, it was as when you said: "Let there be a firmament amid the waters and that it separates some waters from others! Then, oh my Lord, you called that firmament Heaven, and that sunset burst into a watercolor of many brilliant colors. So, it was evening and dawn, being the second day. 

Your sight, my Lord, because I began to feel a horrible fear and shame believing, in my ignorance, that you would kill me for having disobeyed you. But no, my God, how pleasant was my surprise that you made us, my wife and me, tunics of skins and dressed us! You knew, my Lord, that we had been trapped. Like the little butterfly that is flying and is attracted by the bulb's incandescent light, she falls to the ground, charred when it flutters around it. So likewise, my Lord, that fatal insinuation brought terrible evil to us.

            You kicked me out of the Garden where I had been formed with the mud and where you had put me to work it. Then, you placed cherubim with a fire sword so that I do not enter and eat from the tree of life in the middle of the Garden. But I will see you in this flesh, my Lord and God. Because you, my Lord, promised when you sentenced the serpent and told her that you would put enmity between her and the woman, between her seed and hers. So that her seed would crush her head, but the serpent would bite her heel.

O Lord and my God, you caused a deep sleep to fall on me, and I slept; and when waking up, oh my God and my Lord! I found the most beautiful of all the creatures you had formed at my side: my wife, partner, and companion.

            We enjoyed our beautiful and brand-new creation as we walked into the Garden! We walked through the beautiful orchard where you had placed us, my Lord, without being ashamed of our nakedness! We had fun contemplating that splendid creation just released! We were ecstatic, Lord, observing the swift flight of the vulture and the eagle, flying next to the doves and the lion next to the sheep! And we talked to you, my Lord, and you, oh my Lord, directed us in everything and taught us all the mysteries of your creation. Nothing was hidden from us.

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            My Lord, I had felt bad about myself for a long time. Something strange was happening to my wife. I began to feel ashamed of our nakedness, and we made aprons to cover ourselves.

            One day, my Lord, let that day turn into darkness, and you, oh my God, do not remind it nor shine on it the light of the sun! Instead, cover it with darkness; the shadows extend over it, and there is a total eclipse on that day!

            That tragic day, my Lord, my wife and I felt your footsteps during the afternoon breeze, and you were walking in the Garden. We ran at full speed to hide from your presence among the trees in the orchard, and we heard your voice asking us where we were. So, I was afraid and hid. You asked who had told me I was naked, if I had eaten from the tree, you had forbidden me to eat.

And I, my Lord, full of guilt and fear, answered you: "It is that the woman you gave me as a companion offered me the fruit you had ordered not to eat, and I ate it. That is why I am ashamed of my nakedness, my Lord, and feel a fear that corrodes my whole existence.

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Do you remember, my Lord, the one who was the seal of perfection, full of wisdom and finished in beauty, and who was in the Garden before me? The one clothed with every precious stone: carnelian, topaz, jasper, chrysolite, beryllium, and onyx; of sapphire, carbuncle, emerald, and gold? That the beauties of drums and flutes were prepared for him on the day of his creation? That great Cherub, protector you had placed on your holy mountain and walked amid the stones of fire? Perfect in all his ways from the day he was created until iniquity was found in him? With his commerce advance, he was full of violence and sin, and because of his splendor, his wisdom was corrupted. The one who wanted to climb up to Heaven and sit at your right hand, the same that you, O Lord, threw to the ground? 

One day, while toiling in the Garden with the things that you, oh my Lord, had told me to care for and cultivate, he, using a snake, the most cunning of all the animals that you, oh my Lord, had created, deceived, my wife. Insinuating her, my Lord, that if she ate from the tree, you had forbidden me to eat, we would be like gods knowing good and evil.

My wife, ecstatic in contemplating that beautiful tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, saw that the tree was delicious, attracted the eye, and was perfect for attaining wisdom. Oh, my Lord God, she ate of its fruit, and later, oh, my Lord, she offered it to me and forgetting your commandment, and you, my Lord, I ate it too!

            We had everything we needed to live happily, my Lord, but we thought something was missing. You, my Lord, had given us everything in the Garden for our well-being except the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. "You shall not eat of it," was the sentence, and, Lord, we did not eat of it until … Oh, my Lord! Until that suggestion came as stealthy as the very movements of that cunning and abominable snake.

            "Is it true that God told you not to eat from any tree in the Garden? He asked my wife, and she was so innocent and naive! She replied that we could eat from all the trees, but as for the tree in the middle of the Garden, God had told us not to eat or touch it because otherwise, we would die.

            With that question to my wife, that snake had planted her doubt, her ambivalence, and she added that we couldn't even touch him.

        Woe to those who call good evil and bad good! Woe to me, my God and my Lord, that believing I had conquered the truth when I woke up, I did not find myself transformed into a god, but in both of us, our eyes opened and found that we were naked! Woe to me, my Lord, that by eating from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, I began, on my own, to decide what was good for me and what was not good for me without considering your counsel, your wisdom and knowledge, my Lord and my Savior!

          Woe to me, my Lord, that suddenly I began to realize that we were naked and to feel a significant discomfort that did not leave me alone! I hid, Lord, because I could not bear your gaze. That is why I hid from your sight, my Lord, because I began to feel a horrible fear and shame believing, in my ignorance, that you would kill me for having disobeyed you. But no, my God, how pleasant was my surprise that you made us, my wife and me, tunics of skins and dressed us! You knew, my Lord, that we had been trapped. Like the little butterfly that is flying and is attracted by the bulb's incandescent light, she falls to the ground, charred when it flutters around it. So likewise, my Lord, that fatal insinuation brought terrible evil to us.

            You kicked me out of the Garden where I had been formed with the mud and where you had put me to work it. Then, you placed cherubim with a fire sword so that I do not enter and eat from the tree of life in the middle of the Garden. But I know I will see you, my Lord and God, in this flesh. Because you, my Lord, promised when you sentenced the serpent and told her that you would put enmity between her and the woman, between her seed and hers. So that her seed would crush her head, but the serpent would bite her heel.

O, my Lord, I saw how that sentence came to fruition in a vision. I saw a man called Jesus, the seed of the woman, crushing the serpent's head, as you had said, in a cross so that she would no longer deceive us if we follow you and our neighbor, too.