Adam and Eve Banished from Garden – Lesson 29 2025
Continuing in Chapter 3 of Genesis, Adam and Eve were banished from the Garden of Eden as punishment for their sin against God. After the consequences of their disobedience were stated by God, Adam gave his wife a name.
And Adam called his wife’s name Eve because she was the mother of all living. Genesis 3:20 KJV
Everything changed after Man’s Fall into sin, God drove Adam and Eve away from the Tree of Life and out of the Garden of Eden, never to return. God then placed a guard at the Garden.
22 And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever: 23 Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken. 24 So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life. Genesis 3:22-24 KJV
Romans 5:12 KJV tells us 12 Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned.
Adam must have been childless at the moment he chose to sin. Any child born before Adam’s sin would not have inherited Adam’s sinful nature.
If Adam and Eve were allowed to continue to eat from the Tree of Life, they would have lived forever under sin and could not ever stand before our totally Holy God. Mankind in a sinful state cannot stand before God without being destroyed. God is described as a consuming fire.
This is the last historical mention of the Garden of Eden and the two trees; the Tree of The Knowledge of Good and Evil and The Tree of Life. There is no reason to assume the Garden or the trees still exist. Over time, the Garden would have degenerated and the trees died, since decay and death to all of creation began with Man’s Fall. There would have been no further need for cherubim to guard the entrance seeing that the trees no longer existed.
Let’s now make a comparison between Adam and Christ. The main elements in the story of the Fall included a tree, a curse, thorns, sweat and death. It is easy to see the parallel with the life of Christ.
Before His death, Jesus sweat great drops of blood in the Garden of Gethsemane. Once arrested a crown of thorns was put on His head. Christ died upon Calvary’s tree becoming a curse for us. He experienced death for our behalf taking upon Himself the penalty of sin that Adam brought into the world. He broke the curse of Adam by dying as the perfect sacrifice.
Though Adam and Eve’s time in the Garden of Eden was short-lived, all is not lost. God offers us true life in Him.
9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. 2 Peter 3:9 KJV
10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up. 2 Peter 3:10 KJV
God will one day bring judgment. We must be ready. We must turn from being the gods of our own lives and instead trust in the one, true God. By His grace, through faith in Jesus Christ, we can be saved. Choose life in Jesus Christ today!