Exodus 17:14

Then the Lord said to Moses, “Write this as a memorial in a book and recite it in the ears of Joshua, that I will utterly blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven.”

God told Moses what to write with purpose. This is called messaging. If God had not told Moses to write the first five books of the bible we would not have them. They would have been lost to posterity but for the meticulous work of scribes who made parchments that tell us exactly what message God sent to use about a time before written history.

God spoke to us through the prophets and Moses was just the first and most important because no one was alive at the time of Moses that had a remembrance of all that happened. There were no witnesses.

I left off yesterday with a question. This is what happens when messages don’t answer all the answers we have. Why didn’t God name Eve’s sin?

We might begin by asking who she was at that time. She was the first wife, a wife to Adam.

1 Corinthians 15:45

Thus it is written, “The first man Adam became a living being”; the last Adam became a life-giving spirit.

Man became spiritually dead because of the first Adam and the last Adam restores us to new life. Jesus Christ is the last Adam. Since Eve’s identity was the wife of the first Adam, is it possible that the message sent to us about Eve’s participation in the fall is a reflection of the bride of Jesus Christ in participation in this restoration?

Why wasn’t Eve’s sin called out by God as it was for Adam?

Ephesians 1:4

even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love

Philippians 2:15

that you may be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and twisted generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world,

Colossians 1:22

he has now reconciled in his body of flesh by his death, in order to present you holy and blameless and above reproach before him,

But Eve suffered the consequences for her participation. What does that say about us?

Genesis 2:25

And the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed.

I have been trying to wrap my head around sin and sin offerings and it seems to me that the order of events is important. I could be wrong, but here I am again, looking at the order of events. We all have read the events surrounding original sin. We know that God has already told Adam not to eat of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, verse 2:17.

Genesis 3:9

But the Lord God called to the man and said to him, “Where are you?”

God called out to Adam, not Eve. Eve ate first but God did not call out to Eve,

Genesis 3:11

He said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten of the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?”

I am not interested in Adam’s and Eve’s lame excuses, only in God’s communication at this point.

Genesis 3:14

The Lord God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this, cursed are you above all livestock and above all beasts of the field; on your belly you shall go, and dust you shall eat all the days of your life.

Thus the consequences of sin begin and the first one to suffer the consequences for their part in all this is the serpent, that snake in the grass, Satan.

Genesis 3:16

To the woman he said, “I will surely multiply your pain in childbearing; in pain you shall bring forth children. Your desire shall be contrary to your husband, but he shall rule over you.”

Now it is Eve’s turn but God does not name her sin as He did with Satan, just the consequences.

Genesis 3:17

And to Adam he said, “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten of the tree of which I commanded you, ‘You shall not eat of it,’ cursed is the ground because of you; in pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life;

God names Adam’s sin. Why didn’t God name Eve’s sin?