I’m not sure if we truly, fully understand what happened, when Adam and Eve disobeyed God in the Garden of Eden. We all spiritually died, because all mankind was inside of Adam. We had to leave the presence of God, and we gave away the territory that God had given us. His sons and daughters we were kings without a domain.
This made me think of the story of Esau and Jacob, when Esau was so hungry, that without thinking, he gave up his birthright for something to eat. We lost the expanded kingdom God set up and planned for His heirs (us) to rule, by disobeying a command He had given us; not to eat from a specific tree.
Can I just ask this question, were we that hungry? I didn’t find it anywhere in the Bible, where it said they were hungry, it said, “When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was desirable to make one wise, she took from its fruit and ate (Genesis 3:6a, New American Standard Bible)”.
The tree in the middle of the garden didn’t just all of sudden grow food on it and look good for eating. It was the dark information that was spoken to her concerning the tree. They were already like God, they had the keys and authority over all the Earth and because of some contrary words spoken; we lost our position over Earth.
Now here we are, still kings, but now, with nothing to rule, and instead of dominating all of the works of God’s hands as He commanded us, we now would become servant to the one we obeyed. Now look at us naked and trying to hide from His presence, the very thing we need in order to live. God truly had us in mind when He set up Earth, His extension of Heaven. He GAVE us everything we needed. Every living creature was at our disposal, fish were already here, fowls of the air, a mist from the earth watered — everything.
He planted a garden for mankind to live and supplied to us every tree that was good to look at and to eat from. He separated the waters and caused them to divide according to His purpose. After all the creating was done, He said to His children, manage everything I have given you; it’s all good, be productive and multiply!
God’s created plan for us was to be managers of His expanded territory. He as King would rule from the invisible; Heaven, through us mankind; the visible, by way of the Holy Spirit; invisible inside our hearts, living on the visible; Earth.
Our assignment was and still is; was to make His extended seen place, look just like His Headquarters; unseen place. And by that I mean, heaven and earth was to function in the same way, under one Ruler, that of the King. And, although we are his heirs, we violated His command and no longer had a place to rule!