✨ Those Who Walk With Jesus — Part 20 ✨ Exploring What Adam and Eve Lost… The Fulness

✨ Those Who Walk With Jesus — Part 20 ✨
Exploring What Adam and Eve Lost… The Fulness

📝 Their Message (Summary)
In Eden, Adam and Eve enjoyed intimacy with God—they walked with Him in the cool of the day. When they partook of the fruit, that intimacy was lost. The fulness of His presence was barred. This is spiritual death. And their story is our story.

Joseph Smith taught that salvation is not possible in ignorance, for knowledge is the power of salvation. Adam and Eve’s fall shows us that restoration requires revelation, angels, and finally, Christ Himself. First the ministering of angels (Aaronic), then the Son (Terrestrial), and finally, the Father (Celestial). Step by step, God invites us to regain the fulness that was lost.

The Cherubim and flaming sword are not arbitrary symbols—they represent barriers, sentinels, and fiery transformation. To pass them, we must yield a broken heart and a contrite spirit, experience the baptism of fire and the Holy Ghost, and receive both calling and election.

The story is also symbolic: Adam as spirit, Eve as body, and the two together as the soul. The fall is not merely about disobedience—it’s about learning to subject the body to the spirit, and the spirit to God. To “awake and arise” is to reunite what was divided and to be born again.

At the center of all this stands the Tree of Life. Nephi’s vision reveals its meaning: the Son of God, the Lamb, the very love of God “most desirable above all things” and “most joyous to the soul.” To return to God’s presence is to partake of this Tree.

🔥 My Reflection
This post shakes me deeply. Too often I’ve thought of Adam and Eve as a story of punishment. But here, it is reframed as my story. I, too, have lost the fulness of God’s presence. I, too, must learn obedience, sacrifice, consecration. I, too, must face the flaming sword of surrender, letting my old self die so a new self can be born.

The thought that ordinances are invitations, not endpoints, is sobering. How often have I admired the wrapping and missed the gift inside? The reminder that the true endowment is knowledge—light, truth, intimacy with God—pierces me.

Most of all, I see the invitation: to move beyond religion as form, and enter into the fulness of the Father’s presence through Christ. That’s the restoration I most need.

🕊️ The Invitation
Ask yourself: Have I discovered my nakedness yet? Am I still making my own coverings, or have I received the covering God has prepared?

Pray:
“Father, show me the way back to You. Help me hear Your voice, receive Your angels, pass through fire, and partake of the Tree of Life. Restore to me the fulness that was lost.”

Then live in obedience and sacrifice. Expect angels. Expect revelation. Expect to see His face.

🔗 Walking with Jesus — A Family’s Story
This is part of a series sharing the six-year testimony of a family walking daily with Jesus.

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