[Genesis 3:8]

And they heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden. [NKJV]

Then the man and his wife heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the breeze of the day, and they hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden. [BSB]

GARDEN OF GOD DOES NOT HIDE PRESENCE OF GOD

Adam and Eve both knew and heard the walking steps or strides of the Lord God Himself, because God Himself walked through the Garden to the extent that mankind then knew God's walking steps just by the sound or voice of God's strides. However, it had to be so cool and quiet for them to really hear and discern the sound of Someone as God walking and approaching.

A cool breeze was fanning the day, but the Lord God was walking instead of moving like breeze. He could come like a mighty rushing wind or even come stealthily, but He came in the garden with walking strides that were loud enough to notify mankind of His Coming.

That notification was the pre-warning sound of the coming of the Lord to do Righteous Judgment. We all are hearing the voice or the sound of the Lord's Coming today, though He's not coming as walking steps in the cool of the day but, as signs of the end times, noises of wars, evils excalating, tribulations, fears and unusual unnatural events and things happening in increasing measures, etc, even though the gospel is being preached in greater measures than ever preached before. In that day of Adam and Eve, the day was cool as they heard the voice of the Lord's coming; but in our days, the days are not cool but full of evil and troubles.

Nevertheless, though they were pre-warned of His coming, they were not doing things to prepare for His coming or to come to Him; instead they did things to hide from His Presence or wished He wouldn't come by then. Mankind began to hide or run from the presence or exposing Light of God, preferring the secret place of the dark or shadows of the trees of the Garden instead of the Shadow of the Almighty God. That's the condemnation and the fall:

[John 3:19‭-‬21 NKJV] — And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. For everyone practicing evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed. But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be clearly seen, that they have been done in God.”

Just know this, Adam and Eve began to keep themselves out of the Presence (Light) of God before God kept them out of the Garden of God. You cannot be hiding from the Presence of God and still continue to abide in the Garden or Paradise of God, for the Garden of God must truly be filled with the Light and Presence of God. How would you not want the master of the house in his house but want to continue staying in his house without his presence there?

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