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The Curse

 I love how the Bible ends the same way it begins. In the beginning a perfect God put perfect people in a perfect earth, where they could have perfect fellowship all the time. In the future there will be a restored earth. We commonly think of living up in heaven for eternity, but that heaven is temporary. 

 

One day God will move heaven to earth, and all believers will have glorified bodies. There we will be perfect people in a perfect world, where we can enjoy perfect fellowship all the time. 

 

In between all this perfection we see sin and the curse. Adam and Eve sinned, messing up the perfect situation. In Genesis 3:17 we read these words: “cursed is the ground because of you.” In Revelation 22:3 says, “And there shall be no more curse.”

 

Everything bad that has ever happened is because of the curse. Every tear you have ever cried, every disease you have ever endured, every tragedy you have ever faced—it all stems from the curse. The wages of sin truly is death. 

 

So as Christians we relish this good news that one day the curse of Adam will be broken by the cross of Jesus, where in our eternal state we will live forever as Adam and Eve once did. 

 

But some might wonder, “Will we be able to mess it up?” Absolutely not! In 1 Thessalonians 4:17, Paul said we will “ever be with the Lord.” Jesus Himself said in Luke 20:36 that those in heaven “cannot die anymore.” Revelation 21:4 says the former things—like crying and dying—have passed away.

 

Because of the glorified bodies we read of in 1 Corinthians 15, we will not have the capacity to sin. Adam and Eve were created uncorrupted, but they were not incorruptible. In eternity we will be uncorrupted and incorruptible. The ability to sin will be forever off the table. 

 

If you think back to when the world began,

It was God in a Garden where He made the first man;

It was heaven on earth, life without end,

But that all changed when they decided to sin.

 

Now all that we know is man’s corruption,

Sickness, disease, death, and destruction.

We dream of a place where those things cease;

Of health and wealth, of rest and peace.

 

Fast forward to the future when earth is restored—

God will make things like they were before.

The planet will be like it was before sin,

And nothing unclean will corrupt it again. 

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