THE ROOT OF THE VANITIES AND THE GOSPEL OF LIFE

[Genesis 3:19]

In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for dust you are, and to dust you shall return.” [NKJV]

You will have to work hard and sweat to make the soil produce anything, until you go back to the soil from which you were formed. You were made from soil, and you will become soil again.” [GNT]

By the sweat of your brow you will eat your bread, until you return to the ground— because out of it were you taken. For dust you are, and to dust you shall return.” [BSB]

The “Vanities of life” have these 6 points to say from the top bible verse above:

●▪︎ Under the curse, man's face had to produce sweat before the ground would produce food for the man, and yet both the food and the man shall return to the ground from they were taken from.

●▪︎ Basically, the tree of knowledge of good and evil told man he was naked, but it was God who told man he was dust: Adam neither knew he was naked nor knew he was dust before the serpent got through the woman. The One who told the man he was dust told him more truth but also did him more damage by that truth and revelation than the one who told the man he was naked: For by telling the man he was naked, it only shortened his glory; while by telling the man he was dust, it shortened his life and death arose.

These are vanity to man:

●▪︎ By sweat of his face, the man shall eat bread; but because no amount of sweat of his face would guarantee him the right to eat of the tree of life, the man will still return to the dust in death and mortality at the end of his days no matter how much he had eaten: For it’s not in how much food eaten, but in how much days (time) left.

●▪︎Man had to sweat to eat food, and then had to eat food to sweat again, etc.

●▪︎Man was taken out of dust to struggle all the days of his life, only to return to the dust again from where he's taken.

●▪︎The ground was cursed for man's sake, and yet the man shall return to the ground that was cursed for man's sake; implying the man shall again be partaker of the cursed ground.
The “Gospel of life” have these 3 points to say from the top bible verse above:
*a* The “Gospel of the Returning of Man:” There is a “Returning” which means a “Restoration.” Return is better than U-turn: for Return means “Restoration” while U-turn means “Repentance.”

*b* The “Gospel of the Returning of Man:” The man was to return to the ground where he was taken from, but did you know He or what made the man to be taken from there the first place would still be there to take the man again from there the second time? That urge, that strong desire or that Person who delighted to take the man from the dust would even come down stronger and go into that dust to take the man again from the dust in what is called Resurrection from the dead. There shall be a “Re-Taking of the man again from the dust/death, after the man is returned to the dust where he was taken from the first time. As it is written,

[Isaiah 26:19 TS2009] - Let your dead live, together with My Dead Body, let them arise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in dust; for your dew is a dew of light, and let the earth give birth to the departed spirits.

Again, it is written,

[1 Corinthians 15:20-22] — "But now Christ has come back from the dead. He is the very first Person of those who have died to come back to life. Since a man brought death, a Man also brought life back from death. As everyone dies because of Adam, so also everyone will be made alive because of Christ."

*c* The “Gospel of the Son of God better than the Tree of life:” The man was prevented from reaching and eating of the tree of life so that this Word of God about his returning to dust in the top bible verse above would be fulfilled; but in returning to dust Something and Someone greater than the tree of life, giving eternal life better than the tree of life, came to him in dust to take him from the dust forever and give him the eternal life he could not access by the tree of life. This is called, “Salvation of Adam.”

This is even better and easier, for he did not have to struggle to reach the tree of life and then to get its fruit, so that coming to where the tree of life stands would be necessary; rather he can now have or receive everlasting life by faith wherever he is and no matter the distance apart, just by believing in the Son of God, Jesus Christ. As it is written,

[John 3:16 MKJV] - For God so loved the world that He gave His only-begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.

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