During our current isolation because of the COVID-19 virus, congregations are not able to meet physically, but they are supporting each other electronically.
For Seder 3, Kyle Kettering gave a sermon linking Gen 3:22 and John 19:5. When he expelled Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden, God said,
"Then the Lord God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of us in knowing good and evil."
Kyle noted that it is possible to render the verb "was" rather than "has become" in Gen 3:22, which emphasizes all the things that Adam and Eve were losing--immortality, close fellowship with God in the Garden, moral clarity, the fertility of the earth....
A midrash pictures God moaning when Adam and Eve choose to eat the forbidden fruit.
Kyle then linked Gen 3:22 with Pontius Pilate's unwittingly prophetic statement in John 19:5, when he presented Jesus to the crowd on the day of his crucifixion:
“Behold the man!”
As the apostle Paul taught, Jesus is the second Adam, the one who regains what the first Adam lost, the one who has defeated death (1 Cor 15:20-26).
Pilate's pronouncement has also been associated with a messianic prophecy in Zechariah 6. Kyle adds an important link to this scripture chain.
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