Watching in March at a point of really getting to know God may He give me the power and grace to tarry in his presence from Kenya you are an impartation sir soon I will meet you
Dear God plz forgive me for taking you for granted 🙏 and help my spritual life as well as the children you call my own , to always be testy of things that gladens you 🙏 Aaamen 🙏
My prayer is that may the heavens keep u for the our generation your life is changing lives Listening to u it’s a benefit and a triumph in both the spirit and the natural
Prophet Elijah of our time.pls Come to South Africa again and again
For those who can’t understand, let me break this sermon into literature:
Scripture presents a real sequence of days in Eden, so time in the sense of succession was present. What was absent was death and decay. Adam’s life was sustained by God’s provision, especially access to the tree of life, so his pre-fall lifespan is theologically indefinite rather than measured against death.
Hebrew: yom means day, a period of light, a 24-hour day, or a general time. Genesis 1 marks creation by evenings and mornings (Genesis 1:5, 8, 13, 19, 23, 31). This shows real succession. Greek categories used later in Scripture: chronos means sequential or measurable time, kairos means fitting or appointed time. Eden clearly has sequence, which corresponds to chronos.
Adam’s nature • Hebrew: nephesh chayyah means living being or living soul (Genesis 2:7). The term nephesh refers to a living person, not a ghostly essence. Adam is embodied and earthly. • Hebrew: nishmat chayyim means breath of life, which God breathed into Adam (Genesis 2:7). Life is God-given and dependent.
2) What the narrative shows about time in Eden A. Real days exist in the pre-fall world • The repeated refrain “and there was evening and there was morning” for the six days confirms a world with succession and rhythm (Genesis 1). • The garden assignments, to “work” and “keep” it, use Hebrew abad and shamar (Genesis 2:15). Work requires sequence and process, which presuppose time. • God walks “in the cool of the day” after the fall narrative begins (Genesis 3:8). The Hebrew idiom ruach hayyom points to a time of day. Eden had daily cycles.
B. Sabbath shapes time theologically • God sanctifies the seventh day (Genesis 2:1–3). The text does not repeat “evening and morning” for day seven, which many readers take as a literary signal that God’s rest sets the pattern for covenantal time. Whether or not one sees this as an “open” seventh day, the point is that time in Eden was sacredly ordered around God’s rest.
C. Conclusion from A and B • Eden is not timeless in the sense of no sequence. It is time without death, and time ordered by God’s presence and blessing.
3) What the narrative shows about death and corruption A. The warning establishes the counterfactual of death • “In the day you eat from it you shall surely die” (Genesis 2:17). The grammar mot tamut signals certainty of death upon disobedience. This means death is the penalty that would invade human life only through sin. Until then, Adam is not under death.
B. The tree of life confirms conditional immortality • After sin God says, “Lest he reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever” (Genesis 3:22), then God blocks access. The logic is simple. Continued access would sustain unending life. Removal of access introduces mortality. That makes pre-fall “immortality” a gift mediated by God’s provision, not an inborn divinity.
C. New Testament clarity about corruption and immortality • Paul contrasts corruption and incorruption, mortality and immortality, in 1 Corinthians 15:42–54. He calls the present body a psychikos sōma (natural body) and the resurrection body a pneumatikos sōma (spiritual body). Adam’s original body is natural and good, yet not glorified. It is deathless before sin only because death has not entered the human condition. • Romans 5:12 explains that death entered through sin and spread to all. This matches Genesis 2–3.
D. Conclusion from A to C • Adam’s pre-fall condition is best described as incorruption and deathlessness by grace. He is not timeless, he is deathless. He does not age toward death, although he lives within a sequence of days.
4) Addressing the phrase “timeless reality” A. What “timeless” would mean of God • God’s eternity means that God is not bound by created succession. Psalm 90:4 and 2 Peter 3:8 say that a thousand years are as a day to the Lord. This is about God’s relation to time, not creaturely experience.
B. What “timeless” cannot mean of Adam • Since Eden has evenings and mornings, tasks to perform, and a sanctified seventh day, Adam experiences sequence. Therefore, “timeless reality” cannot mean absence of succession for Adam. • A better phrase is “pre-mortem incorruption within sacred time.” Adam’s days pass, yet they do not bring him closer to death, because death has not entered.
C. Why believers sometimes speak this way • People use “timeless” loosely to mean untouched by decay. That loose sense is acceptable if defined carefully. Biblically precise language prefers incorruption and deathlessness rather than metaphysical timelessness.
5) Why Adam’s pre-fall age is unknown and functionally irrelevant A. Unknown • Genesis does not count Adam’s years until after the fall. The genealogy that gives ages begins in Genesis 5, after expulsion.
B. Functionally irrelevant • Age matters when mortality is operative. If life is sustained indefinitely by God’s provision, the number of elapsed days does not approach death. Genesis 3:22 makes this point by linking forever life to the tree.
C. After the fall • Once barred from the tree of life and placed under the sentence of death, Adam’s age begins to matter in relation to mortality. Hence Genesis 5 provides the ages and death notices, “and he died.”
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